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by wisty 1y ago
Or it means that if the government needs to call in levies, it would be good if the volunteers could show up with appropriate weapons. Ironically an automatic rifle (think an AK) could be what they're talking about, while pistols (bein
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The US. There are vague rights in the constitution. It could be a disaster for the courts to interpret them too literally (Is literally any weapon OK in the 2nd? Does free speech include a mob boss ordering a hit?) and constitutions are rea
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Yep you have dB for a ratio, and dB SPL as a physical unit. Just as the article says. And yeah, the issue is when people forget to use physical units, like if they say it's 30 degrees outside amd not saying C F or K or latitude. The hi
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I think it's actually less flat, with more affordances (though not quite skeuomorphic). Basically "oops we made it too flat, let's make those buttons big and colourful so people can see them again". It's a step forw
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It sounds like an oblique reference to that time they temporarily suspended one of the of the most valuable members of the community, apparently for having the audacity to suggest that their powers to suspend members of the community seemed
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This doesn't explain "Theory of the firm" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_the_firm . Employees shouldn't theoretically exist - everything should just be subcontracted, but for some reason f
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So the schools are doing their job properly, instead of relying on upper-middle-class native English speaking parents to do all the work. It is impressive. I think it's partly because political conservatives are more often right when i
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Since pacifying some kids is easier than challenging them, the logic is they they're in the ZPD since it takes less effort to get them engaged.
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Teaching theory uses a continental philosophical approach. It commonly cites Vygotsky. Did I originally say it in a way that is hard to follow? Though you cut the first quotation short which makes me think you're trying to disagree wit
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I think you're being charitable here, I suspect a lot of people with PhDs in education who cited Mind and Society in their thesis haven't even read it, let alone technical reports. And if you read what I said, I wasn't having
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Teacher here. The problem with the continental philosophical approach of teacher theory is that often teachers can even agree on what things like the ZPD is. Some teachers will use the ZPD to defend giving students work that is challenging.
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So, like, learning to figure out what someone said, or say what they want in another language. Sounds a bit similar to translation. Saying it doesn't transfer can be claimed about anything. Talking 1:1 with a tutor isn't talking 1
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I'd just assume they picked whatever definitions they needed to make Tesla exempt.
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I think you're mistaken? The grammar translation method is seem as obsolete, but Duo isn't that. You don't learn rules formally (e.g. memorise explicit and formal rules on how to conjugate a verb in the past continuous tense,
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Tools can either increase or decrease employment. Imagine if a tool made content writers 10x as productive. You might hire more, not less, because they are now better value! You might eventually realise you spent too much, but this will com
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> it teaches you how to think Is there evidence for this? I'm pretty sure people already know how to think. And IIRC tests of critical thinking (not subject specific) to college seniors and freshmen there's not convincing evid
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by wisty 2y ago
I'm not saying Trump isn't a hypocrite, but is it slightly possible that some of what he says is actually what he intends to do, as I said in my comment. He's dumb, sure. He's out of his depth. He's greedy. But he a
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by wisty 2y ago
Maybe Trump genuienly wants to disrupt neoliberalism? Now, a lot of people on the left use "neoliberalism" in the same way people on the right use "woke", or (Eu) football fans use the word "offside" i.e. it me
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Impartiality is a process to get closer to the truth. If something is contested, then seek statements from both sides. Trust that eventually the audience will figure it out, and things will eventually no longer be contested (beyond some &qu
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So .... kind of like iPython notebooks but for building a system?
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It's on educators. It started well before tech. They want kids to do homework, so they give a few free marks for doing it. Kids cheat and ignore anything not marked because that's how people respond to incentives. Then the lecture
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So imaginary friends is a new phenomenon? Anna Seward (18th century poet) wrote about them.
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I think it's a reductionist word game to reduce everything to a single dimension ("freedom") and then say "I think my policy is better, and since everything can reduce to a single variable it means there is more freedom&
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This argument is immensely popular. It looks a bit like a warmed over Rousseau - just shake off the chains of the old fashioned education system, give kids one on one guidance for 10 years with a great mentor, and they'll do pretty wel
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The speed of light is 1c and is a fundamental constant. Humans choose to express it in metres and seconds. A meter is huge if you compare it to the Planck length. Humans are pretty big creatures compared to fundamental particles, so we have
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I think it's a bit out of context. I think they are referring to Mary Beard, who is a classicist / historian who said her Latin wasn't that good, but may have been exaggerating because she was IIRC arguing against gatekeeping
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Memory safety isn't so corporate, AFAIK. I think it's just a current programmer fad, like pearl's dwim, python's "pythonic", JavaScript having 5 different libraries for every conceivable one-line function, Hask
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I don't think it's a silver bullet, but reading source material is often quite informative. Did he say anything else was important? I'd have to read the source material. Why did he say you should read the source material? Did
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How many good mainland Chinese animated films can anyone name? How many animated films do a good job weaving in Chinese traditional folklore themes? How many mainland Chinese films have a twist that ends with a suggestion that the youth of
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Ah, nice point.

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