socrates1998

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by socrates1998 7y ago
Homeschooling is mostly awful. Parents don't have the time or skill to teach students properly. You don't really propose anything that can help, you just say everything is "trash". If a man meets one asshole, then that&#
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by socrates1998 7y ago
Don't use public schools? What do you propose instead? What should teenagers do instead of learn how to read, write and do math?
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by socrates1998 7y ago
Sadly, it's insanely common to have advanced degrees plagiarized. I worked as a high school teacher and the number of co-workers who phoned it in for advanced degrees just to get the pay increase was insane. I can't think of one p
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by socrates1998 7y ago
I honestly haven't read more than three articles since most of their content went behind a paywall when I used to read one or two a day. I wasn't aware that the publisher got to choose if they wanted to put up a paywall or not.
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by socrates1998 7y ago
>Esports diehards spent $5.00 each last year on esports, according to NewZoo, with mid-level fans generally spending half of that. Ouch. That's nothing.
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by socrates1998 7y ago
I remember this, but I wasn't sure if it was real or not. It seems like Yeltsin really did want to abandon communism after he visited a grocery store. Crazy. Cool article.
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by socrates1998 7y ago
Jesus, you would think a billion dollar company would give a shit about it's customers.
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by socrates1998 7y ago
What's really interesting is to the common Japanese person, their are two threats, China and the Japanese military itself. Clearly, they worry about China, but they really worry about how the Japanese military answered to no one in the
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by socrates1998 7y ago
Kind of interesting, but it feels like Girard makes things more complicated than they need to be. The observation that people want "to be things" not "own things", is very true. People want status. Status has been import
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by socrates1998 7y ago
I lived in Japan in my 20's for several years and I loved my tiny studio in the middle of the city. It was perfect for me. I lived in Tokyo not have a roomy house, but to be in the middle of the action. The closer I lived to the center
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by socrates1998 7y ago
This is just all so weird. If google is such a bad company, then quit working for them. It's not really a protest, it's a tactic to wrestle control over the company and win social points with their "victory". They want t
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by socrates1998 7y ago
I never said it was doing worse once. And it absolutely does snowball. A student who is a poor reader in grade school often falls further and further behind. And grades are not "bell curved" shape. That's ridiculous. Do you k
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by socrates1998 7y ago
>average they would do better the next year because of reversion to the mean. I don't think it works like that. Students who do poorly often do WORSE the next year. They tend to get more and more behind and eventually just drop out.
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by socrates1998 7y ago
It's great to see this. The only issue I have is how replicable this formula is. I think you can apply a couple of programs and concepts on a large scale to whole communities, but this is a very expensive school with a lot of resources
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by socrates1998 7y ago
Wow, good to know. I won't be going anywhere near a 787.
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by socrates1998 8y ago
Snapchat is hands down the number one used app by the teenagers I teach. Then instagram.
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by socrates1998 8y ago
Anecdotally, I work with teenagers and none of them have a Facebook pages. It's viewed as a place for old people and parents. For me personally, it's almost impossible to deal with. Way too many political posts from my friends and
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by socrates1998 8y ago
It's hard for me to understand because after I was about 19 years old, I learned to not trust people who tell me everything I want to hear.
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by socrates1998 8y ago
The Cash App is very popular with working class people, which is a huge audience with Rogan. It's always in the top five finance apps. But, yeah, some of the shit he has advertised is off the wall.
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by socrates1998 8y ago
It's not surprising that she lied to everyone. Lots of people lie all the time. It's amazing that people BELIEVE her. I just don't get why people are convinced by these pathological liars whose only skill is confidence? Con-m
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by socrates1998 8y ago
I love podcasts. As a self-employed person who needs some light distraction but can't walk to a water cooler and just kill some time, they are perfect. I tried going back to the radio yesterday for a moment and almost threw up with the
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by socrates1998 8y ago
Not a great article, but it certainly does illustrate the idea that we are helped to a certain extent. It's hard to measure one's success accurately. A $15k loan paid back almost immediately is really nothing in the grand scheme o
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by socrates1998 8y ago
Yup, very true for small businesses. I get almost 100% of my clients through client referrals (I own a test prep company). While I am not rich, my businesses is growing really well and I feel confident that we will reach my goals for the co
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by socrates1998 8y ago
While this company is doing some pretty shady shit, it's actually not worse than what traditional electric companies do. Talk about corruption and dishonest practices. In Florida, FPL, the electric provider for half of Florida, complai
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by socrates1998 8y ago
There a multitude of easy fixes for this. I believe in London if you drive into the center, you have to pay a road fee or something like that. Seems to me that this would fix the issue. Also, I think that self-driving cars will have people
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by socrates1998 8y ago
What the hell is wrong with you? Children don't know what they are doing. That's why they aren't allowed to gamble among a multitude of other things that their developing brains can't handle.
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by socrates1998 8y ago
Sure, they are some people who are okay with being alone and would be okay with living on a desert island without other people around, but I think these are much fewer people than most people think. Even people who claim to hate other peopl
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by socrates1998 8y ago
My unscientific guess is that the mutation allowed for greater group dependence and cohesion. This article and Harari's book sort of dance around this, but I think it's some type of emotional gene that we are emotionally hard wire
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by socrates1998 8y ago
I should have clarified that when I say unstructured, I meant without any screens. Basically, you tell the kid they can do whatever they want without screens. Be creative, play a sport, walk around, read a book, go explore.... whatever, as
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by socrates1998 8y ago
Yup. Parents think that they are helping their kid by doing everything for them, but really ,they are hurting them. It should be a gradual process of teaching a kid how to be independent and have independent skills from the time they are to

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