daddyofive

8 years agodiscuss

Excuse me? What is so uncivil about my comment? I would point out the flaws of my own country just as quickly as I would those of Thailand. The culture of Thailand is a burden to its people, as well as its economic and education situation. To brush aside my comment is to condemn the good people of Thailand because without broaching the elephant in the room, nothing will change. Please take your fake social justice elsewhere, especially far away from your moderation duties.

daddyofive

8 years agodiscuss

People who want to go to Thailand are ignorant — it’s a red flag you can use to spot naive people. Thailand sucks. It’s filled with crime and people there are very petty. Usually it takes Americans several years of living there to realize this. Anyway, I also think it’s dumb when people attribute their happiness to one thing or another. A featured tweet said that “crafting things with my hands is key to my happiness.” That’s so sad to read because as long as you are searching for specific remedies to unhappiness, and therefore as long as you are attributing progress to one arbitrary construct like “crafting” with your “hands,” you are unhappy. People who say they found happiness in X are always actually still in the middle of massive unhappiness. Their special activity almost always lapses after a while.

daddyofive

8 years agodiscuss

What a wonderful article. I think that there are two sides to this coin: the nature of the debt and the nature of the repayment. Even the smallest and most well mannered debt is a problem if there is no path to repayment. And even large, nasty debt is ok as long as the people borrowing have done their homework and have a solid plan to repay. So this article did a great job of profiling the debt but it didn’t go into enough detail about the borrowers. If interest rates have been so low, and the borrowers have been somewhat lucid, even this large debt can be paid off without any crisis?

daddyofive

8 years agodiscuss

can anyone do a brain dump on the ML part of the chip?

daddyofive

8 years agodiscuss

Apple is probably accused most of doing this through software. I would be surprised to see Apple keep old devices fast and secure.

daddyofive

8 years agodiscuss

Helicopter parenting basically augments the kids decision making. The parent guides them through everything. When the consequences are real, even permanent sometimes, and the it’s up to the kids to do the right thing, and they know it, and they’ve been educated properly on it, then you get a person who is healthy. They develop risk assessment and management and use it in their adult life where, surprise, you have to make essentially life or death decisions every day. You can rack up 30k on your credit card in a single swipe and, for a lot of people, that would be a kind of death. Almost every decision we make has irreversible consequences. The earlier kids learn to deal with that, the better. As long as they are educated and prepared in some way.

daddyofive

8 years agodiscuss

People from my parents generation are ignorant about the body. My dad treated his body like a rented car and he died for it. I’m pretty sure that anybody with any level of biological education and sensibility will not be troubled too much by this problem.

daddyofive

8 years agodiscuss

I knew a girl from a bad part of la. She was Latino. One time she complained to me how the cops harass her friends when they walk around the neighborhood. I asked her what kind of clothes her friends wear, and she obviously replied that they wear saggy pants and black hoodies and so on. I said that if I were in their situation, I would dress in clothes that are impossible to get you mistaken for a drug dealer or a gang banger — simple jeans and a tucked in shirt with a collar. That would be my plan if I were in their situation and I wanted the cops to stop. She just scrunched her eyebrows and said that “we don’t have to change they way we dress!” Well you don’t have to go to college or start your own business or wear any clothes at all but unfortunately you are subject to the economy and the world and you can’t have a nice life and never do anything at all to deliberately secure that end. Sorry.

daddyofive

8 years agodiscuss

At 16, she could have chosen to do a million things that would have messed up her life. Kids can choose to hurt themselves in many ways. We can’t “not allow” kids to do jumps on their dirt bikes or venture into danger in other ways. Once they are given freedom from constant adult supervision, they have to act in self interest. You think that being 16 somehow absolves them from the responsibility of surviving. That’s ridiculous and unnatural.

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