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Social Media Messed Up Our Kids. Now It Is Making Us Ungovernable

noemamag.com
73 points·by caldarons·vor 2 Jahren·81 comments

The Race for US Technical Talent: Can the DoD and Dib Compete?

cset.georgetown.edu
1 points·by caldarons·vor 2 Jahren·0 comments

AI Is Like Water

nfx.com
2 points·by caldarons·vor 2 Jahren·0 comments

What Would America Look Like If It Lost Wwiii?

bloomberg.com
15 points·by caldarons·vor 2 Jahren·19 comments

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caldarons
·letzten Monat·discuss
This is great work, thank you!

One feature I would love is to get notified via email when new papers are added (or periodically, once a week/daily).
caldarons
·letzten Monat·discuss
this feels like it would be true only in scandinavian country, switzerland or luxembourg
caldarons
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
Never thought I would read about Pescara on HN! What a small world! :)
caldarons
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
At least in the UK graduates from prestigious universities can get good jobs. Where I'm from (Italy) even that is seen as crazy
caldarons
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
As someone who went to a high school (Italy) where in the first two years each student had a laptop they could use in the classroom, I agree that having a computer per student is a bad idea.

In my experience, what ended up happening was that pupils who already knew their way around a computer didn't really get any extra benefit from using cmputers in the classroom and those who didn't like using computers hated it even more when forced to write out an assignment on a keyboard as supposed to handwriting.

Most importantly though, they were a HUGE distraction. Any time the lesson got boring because the teacher wasn't good or just not good at getting the kids engaged in the lesson (which happened quite often sadly, but that is another discussion) we would all just start playing on the computers. Some kids came to school just to play videogames and barely learned anything.

Now, some of these issues (like bad professors, smart kids getting bored because of slow pace of lessons) have always been present in every school all over the world but I do think that having tech in the classroom just makes things worse, as now even those who would have normally followed the lesson are tempted to just turn on their computer and pretend to take notes when really they are playing Candy crush. It's bad enough being a teenager and being bombarded with stimuli from your phone and social media, having that kind of distraction at school just makes things even worse.

So yeah, I think tech in school is one of those things that sounds great but usually just back-fires in spectacular ways (imho).
caldarons
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
maybe we should start thinking of payment infrastructure as a core public service if we move away from cash? Just like there is an official entity that can "print" cash, we should start doing the same with digital payments (I believe the EU is doing somethig similar). That way you don't have a duopoly taking a cut of every transaction.
caldarons
·vor 2 Jahren·discuss
I would also add Brave search. It returns decent results and has a very nice way of displaying reddit posts relevant to the search (saves you from having to type reddit at the end of the query :) )
caldarons
·vor 3 Jahren·discuss
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1156943/what-is-the...