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by thelock85 3y ago
Recently met two ATCs and got some interesting perspective: new ATCs are trained on COVID levels of air traffic. So as things ramp back up (still not at pre-COVID levels across the board) there are a myriad of issues. The fact that flights
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by thelock85 3y ago
It took roughly a century to go from constitutional amendment to legislative enforcement for equal treatment under the law. In 2023, for political points, state and local leaders are banning critical race theory in schools (even though it’s
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by thelock85 4y ago
> which implies it was a random homeless person any other sources supporting this notion? it sounds reckless which is understandable from an emotional point of view, but nonetheless demeaning for homeless people and unproductive for just
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Ask HN: Will LLMs reduce authenticity of HN commentary?
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by thelock85 4y ago
This is smart for the times and perhaps useless in the future. I wonder what is the level of support amongst parents and teens in Utah.
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by thelock85 4y ago
$100M and $29B are completely different things, too. Edit: not to mention, donating $100M for first rights to pay your own billions for a potentially-emerging for profit is a morally dubious agreement wrt nonprofit management
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by thelock85 4y ago
Raheem.ai is building the PATCH network as an alternative dispatch system for community crisis responders to show up instead of having to call the police for non-criminal situations. They started with trying to build better complaint system
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by thelock85 4y ago
It’s a bandaid solution for the UK to maintain growth sans environmental consequences. Maybe that’s okay if North Africans own the means of production and transmission giving them the ability to turn those consequences into opportunities el
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by thelock85 4y ago
Appreciate the enthusiasm and I’m all for trying. Still don’t think it’s pragmatic. > don’t give the teachers the test questions beforehand This is already the case, except for all of the practice questions that students are drilled over
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by thelock85 4y ago
I’m simply pointing out that it’s not obvious how to implement teachers proctoring other classrooms’ exams in order to prevent the home room teacher from giving out answers for financial benefit. It’s not pragmatic when principals, guidance
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by thelock85 4y ago
I’m not sure how this is obvious when there is a teacher shortage almost everywhere. I’d be willing to bet that more often than not students’ exam proctor is not their everyday teacher. Also while this is a solution to the symptom of perver
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by thelock85 4y ago
> And half said “no” A “thin majority” said yes per the article. Disclaimer: I haven’t seen the actual poll numbers. If he was trying to make some comedic social commentary, he should’ve aimed at the poll question itself. Our society is
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by thelock85 4y ago
I had a conversation about 10 years ago with a high-ranking DoEd official in Obama’s administration who was gushing over 2 sigma as a strategic framing for public education. Now this person is a very influential funder in edtech and ed refo
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by thelock85 4y ago
I think this is a valid concern for pro, semi-pro, collegiate and competitive recreational players. Not so sure for the millions of other players who play with crappy, uneven, knotted, too rough/smooth “ordinary” balls everyday. Of cou
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by thelock85 4y ago
The defensive changes are a bit over-stated in my opinion. Sure there is no hand checking, arm barring or really hard fouls (that are not flagrant) but there is zone defense. So when you get by your defender, there can easily be 2-3 guys al
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by thelock85 4y ago
Berlin Wall.
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by thelock85 4y ago
For this exact reason, I feel like education systems and curriculum providers (teachers are just point of contact from a requirements perspective) should develop much more complex essay prompts and invite students to use AI tools in craftin
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by thelock85 4y ago
As a 30+ year rap fan, I’d wager that the vast majority of published rap music does not center around these things. You might consider quitting mass media which shoves this type of rap into every production. Or you could dive into hip-hop t
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by thelock85 4y ago
Do the majority of MacBook Air users or customers need them? Though it feels wasteful (making assumptions about the use-cases) I’m guessing grade school kids need them for the same reasons or non-reasons as mostly everyone else. That these
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by thelock85 4y ago
At the price point and unique function, the first thing I compared these to are Yeezys, Balenciaga sneakers, and rare Jordan colorways. I think if that if the sneaker status culture accepts these (not saying they will) then the company will
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by thelock85 4y ago
I’m not qualified to say one way or the other what the majority thinks since I haven’t travelled the country talking football. But I was certainly surprised that it’s not a forgone conclusion, especially for young people who think other sta
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by thelock85 4y ago
Just spent a month in Rio and a friend brought this up when we were discussing Pele’s legacy (right when he was rumored to be in hospice). I also learned that a lot of Brazilians (at least in Rio) are bigger fans of their local/favorit
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by thelock85 4y ago
That’s fair. I guess I would think of Twitter echo chambers —full of bots & coordinated algorithm manipulators— as fringe in comparison to what most liberal-minded people I know care about. The predictable response online isn’t as preva
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by thelock85 4y ago
Extending your comparison, do you believe the conservative activists and organizers of the 50s and 60s knew of the FBI’s campaign against MLK and others, but were perfectly okay because it served their political interests? Because it seems
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by thelock85 4y ago
I haven’t read everything but from what has been summarized by Weiss, Taibbi, et al, they just seem like primary documentation to things that were reported on at the time. I guess who exactly took which position around various decisions is
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by thelock85 4y ago
> unintrusive live chat that I chose to enable. After living in South America for a stint, I have an entirely new appreciation for WhatsApp for desktop and sites that include one-click integration.
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by thelock85 4y ago
I don't agree but I think it's fair to say standardized tests are a very mediocre solution for measuring students' capacity for academic work at any institution that requires them, and few universities have the resources to d
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by thelock85 4y ago
> The normalization of the hating of the other sex. Or the other political half. Or an entire race. Or an entire class. If federal, state and local legislation or exclusive constitutional rights qualify as normalization, then we've
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by thelock85 4y ago
Amazing how a sitting president can have an opponent 3.75 years before the next cycle, unless you mean Pelosi and Schumer similar to how Obama had McConnell. Of course Trump had a lot of opposition within various levels of government but th
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by thelock85 4y ago
I grew up in Texas smoking briskets and practicing at targets in family cookouts. Now I’m plant-based living in California and my three guns are collecting dust in my mom’s closet. To each their own, but I don’t see how culturally or logica

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