howlgram · HackerTrans

With legalization comes regulation, which is extremely beneficial, so it's better than just decriminalization. Like other commenter posted, the law shouldn't be the stigma-ruler we use to measure things. And I'll further that by saying that education and information is more important than stigma.

howlgram

8 年前議論

I think there are different plateaus, for money there'll will be a point where it stops being as important as quality of social life, or quality of the work you do to earn it. However if you clear these plateaus I think you go back to money being the big factor.

howlgram

8 年前議論

I'd put it more like

M(1/T)+QT

howlgram

8 年前議論

the shooter has assumed the responsibility of wielding that power, so the context doesn't absolve them

howlgram

8 年前議論

if you are going to judge by their intent then the intent of the prank caller was most likely to give someone a scare, the intent of someone that pulls the trigger is to kill another person

howlgram

8 年前議論

it would be veeeeryyy upsetting if this comment gave someone any ideas

howlgram

8 年前議論

> as well as citizens of other countries where capitalism has advanced to similar extremes, seem to view things with a sense of "personal responsibility" rather than collective or communal responsibility.

that's wrong, what you are referring to is "individualism vs collectivism", there's definitely very developed countries who favor collectivism, the perfect example is Japan.

howlgram

8 年前議論

source pls?

howlgram

8 年前議論

>by killing opponents

Gaddafi's rise to power was a bloodless Coup [1], from the little understanding that I have, he was beloved by many Libyans, you should question where these "militias" that took him down came from, his dying words were 'What did I do to you?' [2], and you should question for what reasons should he be considered "tyrannical". Should you look at Libya today, it is ran by territorial gangs, which is antithetical to the idea that they rid themselves of a great evil. Finally I haven't fully educated myself on this, but it's very interesting, just reading the "Background" part of the Libyan Civil War wiki article makes you wonder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libyan_Civil_War_(2011)#Backgr...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1969_Libyan_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat

[2] https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/oct/23/gaddafi-last-w...

howlgram

8 年前議論

I am lead to believe that it's true since they seem to be struggling to fit things like a headphone jack in already pretty big phones.

howlgram

8 年前議論

>But my experience was...to trade people towards being academics...

Very interesting

>if you didn’t do any then you might be punished (eg made to wait a year before returning) even if you do ok in exams.

These are the rules I do not understand and find counterproductive, but your uni seems much more lax.

>you should find some harder classes

I have done this already.

>although they mightn’t be much help

Thanks for trying to help, but you are right, nothing would change, I am almost done with Uni so I'm about to put it behind, but I feel entitled to criticizing how inefficient it is, when a math class has 3 tests during the course of 4 months and they can be passed by studying for 4 days before each test without attending class, then it feels too silly and wasteful to me, but I have no choice but to put up with it.

howlgram

8 年前議論

I feel like your reply is almost condescending, a "you will know this once you're old enough" kind of argument.

It's funny you mention teachers being bored because perhaps the problem is that teaching is done wrong, it's funny you also mention "maybe you should do an online U, or skip Uni and just read some texts", because that's exactly what I would do if wasn't so risky to trust that someone out there will take a chance hiring me without going through the systematic gatekeeping, with online Us there's an issue of finding reputable ones (at least georgia tech has an online MS program now, might give that a try at some point).

Here's the huge difference between grinding at work and grinding at school, at work you get paid for it, at school you are being made to grind because someone else thinks that's the best way for you to learn, it feels infantile, teachers should only be there to answer and clarify questions, and the material should all be written. Also there's a difference between grinding because you know it helps you develop the skills you need/desire, let alone money, and grinding because some jackass doesn't know how to teach and assess knowledge.

It's also not about being in the zone every day, people can be "in the zone" perhaps a few hours per day, being generous, there's a whole discussion to be had about productivity in knowledge workers in relation to hours spent working in a day, there's a point where more hours doesn't correlate with more productivity, but anyway, I guess if I'm going to sum up my reply shortly it'd be something like:

Not all work is equally exhausting, not all grinds are equally tedious, and not all grind is pointless tedium, busywork teaches obedience not knowledge.

I can recognize grinding is helpful, but I strongly believe university falls on the "extremely inefficient grind" end, and I feel entitled to criticizing it when it's supposed to be in service of the students.

howlgram

8 年前議論

It's so funny but it's so true. I do feel it takes a similar degree of ad hoc research though, if you have the ability to learn how to program an app with certain degree of complexity then I believe you have the capacity to search, find and judge information pertinent to fitness and diet. Of course, it's not as easy as googling "how to be fit" and clicking on the first 5 articles.

howlgram

8 年前議論

I just want to mention that Gaddafi brought a lot of development to Libya and his death did nothing for his people. It's easy to say "oh he was a dictator and dictators are bad" but it's not so simple.

howlgram

8 年前議論

Completing assignments and tasks that are not about learning, as they are about compliance. Examples: attending class (big one), repetitive assignments, pointless assignments where learning is minimal but tedium is maximized.

howlgram

8 年前議論

I am tempted to say "Ah, how mislead you are, when did you last go to university?", but perhaps there's really different universities from what I see as the norm, who knows, I'd feel you either experienced a stranger university, or you don't remember it well enough.

Anecdotal: I am constantly on the verge of failing classes because to me it's really difficult to attend class, and because many points are assigned to the busywork that is attending class, I lose them, at this point it's a ritual where the (often really bad) teachers pretend to impart knowledge for two hours just to earn their wage. I easily perform way above other classmates when it comes to big projects and tests, of course I have to make up for my grade, but it's bullshit that I am "on the verge of failing" when I demonstrate great understanding and knowledge of the class material. Why is this bullshit? Because I am paying to be taught pertinent information, not to be put on trial for how much busy work I can put up with. But this can be explained because universities are not primarily interested in benefiting the students, their primary interest is on working as a gatekeeper for employers who (the majority) care a great deal about obedience above smart work.

There's extremely few professors good enough to truly warrant 2 hours of focus per class, yet many of them feel literally offended if students don't show up for class, it's a crooked system.

> In most schools you don't even have to show up or do much frankly, you can just 'write the final' if you think you're a genius.

my experience has been the absolute contrary.

howlgram

8 年前議論

reminder that getting a professional trainer and a nutritionist is a luxury, you can easily learn how to diet and exercise off the internet the way that people learn programming

howlgram

8 年前議論

it's probably much more difficult to reduce the size of the phone than to extend the screen. Think about specs such as battery life and processing power, smaller phone would have really tough competition, apps and mobile OS hoard all the fancy specs that come with bigger phones, there's very little room left for phones with less capacity.

howlgram

8 年前議論

Yes! There is crazy amounts of dilly dallying with these analogies and there are implied points of logic that are not to belong in the actual technical concept, especially when teachers make it a point to say "these should be separated into a superclass/subclass/attribute but these shouldn't, and it should be specific to this extent and not to the extent that you thought was fitting", while talking about cars and car parts or animals and animal parts and species etc and, there is no actual logic behind their arbitrary separation of concepts that makes sense in their mind, it could be implemented in multiple ways that work, but only the one that they thought made sense to them is correct and students get punished for not thinking like the teacher even if they did something right, this leads to the students wondering if the concepts are just too difficult and going over their head when it's not their fault at all.

howlgram

8 年前議論

Yes thank you, people seem to forget that the reason why STEM gets a higher paycheck is because there's less people willing to go for it, both female and male, the paycheck is not a prize you get for being male, it's a prize you get for the sacrifice you make. Look at it this way: no one is complaining about the lack of girls in the blue collar industry.

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