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The use of the word teacher had me confused, as I'd normally assume a classroom setting for teaching student relationships.

I know what these kids go through. I was that kid myself. I know I was very aware that I wasn't "normal". You're correct that in the age range 4-7 a child wouldn't know to give the "expected" answer. It won't be much longer though until that child can use his/her intelligence to work out the expected response. At my school, it wasn't socially acceptable to show intelligence so maybe I learnt to hide it earlier than most.

I don't know my IQ. I've had to take tests a few times as an adult for work and every time I land "most likely somewhere in the top 0.1%" according to the psychologists. I don't really feel it matters if my tests show 145 or 160. A large school with 800 kids is only going to have a single child in that range.

You can either move that child up some years, or you can give them a customised workload. A child that is 180 IQ is very different from a child that's 145 but the approach of attempting to find them an appropiate workload would be a good start.

Came from a working class rural background. I was in gifted streams but they finished when I was 12. My high school was more focused on keeping troubled students in line than helping gifted ones. Finished school and got a trade. Never felt happy.

At age 30, started comp sci at uni. Best decision I ever made. It fixed the "mistakes" I made in my life choices

I've been previously diagnosed with a major depressive episode by a psychiatrist. The psychologist I used to see told me I had very black and white thinking and that I need to work on seeing more areas as grey.

I'm one data sample but I fit your description to a tee.

That answer to the America question is just a student being obnoxious and attempting to show off. They should have enough awareness to know the correct response.

In most cases why would you bother trying to accurately gauge a student over 145? A student with an IQ of 145+ has very different educational needs compared to a 100 IQ student. Do you need to know if it's 145 verse 155?

I used to term to mean I sought medical help and wasn't self-diagnosed. There is a lot of self-diagnosis on the internet, especially in relation to conditions like this or psychological ones.

Mine wasn't related to a schedule. I had medication-induced insomnia and it was a complete inability to sleep. I would feel incredibly tired but my mind was wide away. I'd lay in bed but whatever makes you fall asleep just wouldn't happen. In the first week, I slept [0,0,2,0,2,0,2] hours.

How do you personally find the balance between blue light keeping you awake verse mental stimulation keeping you awake? I don't do any math or coding in the ~2 hours before bed, as a general rule.

I had medically diagnosed insomnia for a period. If your insomnia is anything like mine then you'd have a decent idea about if you're going to sleep that night or not. If it's 1am and I'm still wide awake then I'm not getting quality sleep that night. What do you have to lose by going to your PC at that time and working for 6 hours before work? You're going to be tired tomorrow anyway any attempting to sleep for another 5 hours isn't going to help.

No, it's the one who hire the graduates. It's literally what I wrote.

The old system makes the man rich who can hire the right people with the "right" people skills.

The new system makes the man rich who can hire the right math graduates.

It seems like we've got the same system as always. The rich get richer.

Or even put through a system to dissipate heat and reused

In Australia, our entry to universities is dependent largely on a grade resulting from our schooling. The grade is based on two parts: in school assignments/tests and a large end of school exam block. The thing is that the assignment/test part scales based on how well the average student from your school/class went on the final exam.

Wealthy students get the best grades since their parents send them to expensive schools designed to maximise this system. They then get into the "best" universities.

I was taught to avoid inline CSS, like the CSS used to apply these filters. Was I taught wrong or does this site use less than ideal practices?

"This video is not available in your country" - I live in Australia and I have no idea why this is occurring for a video like this.

I wasn't aware of the methods used in the US. Here in Australia, we have phonics at my daughters' school and she's coming along really well. My 6.5-year-old daughter is able to read basically anything I put in front of her by sounding through words.

From your perspective, you're only asking her once so it's no big deal. From her perspective, she's had 10 guys try it today and it happens often when she's shopping.

How did you take "rule out meeting a partner and having a family" from what I said? Dating in 2019 is really easy when I have free time I can line up multiple dates per week without having to resort to harassing every attractive woman I pass at the grocery store.

Maybe in the Middle East but not here. I'd say it's similar to how African American men are portrayed as being forward, i.e. hollering at women and being forward about hitting on women. It could even be related to socioeconomic status as a lot of the men I'm describing would be in lower socioeconomic brackets.

I know how to flirt, the issue is a lot of women don't want guys flirting with them constantly. In another reply, I mentioned how the demographics of my city have a lot of men from a middle eastern background. Their culture is much more forward and the women I know in my life complain about getting constantly hit on.

This isn't an issue of me being socially incompetent, it's about me trying to be a decent human and not annoy women who are constantly being annoyed. Likewise, I don't want to hit on women in a workplace setting because I feel that people should be able to come to work without being made to feel uncomfortable. Some women may like it but some will feel uncomfortable and it's the latter group I'm being respectful towards.

My policies mean I probably sleep with fewer women than I could but dating in 2019 is already stupidly easy.

The problem is in the asking. If I see an attractive woman shopping and go speak to her it may be the 10th time she's been stopped in this one trip.

There is so many aspects to this, it's impossible to reasonably discuss it on an online forum. My perspective is living in a major western city that has a lot of culturally middle eastern people living here. The culture is very forward compared to western white culture. Women I know complain about it all the time. A woman living in an area without this culture may wish more men would hit on her.

The issue is that, as a single man, how do I know which of the 30 women I bump into during a day are open to being hit on and which will feel annoyed? Some may prefer to be hit on but I'm going to annoy a lot of women in the process. Far easier to use an opt in dating app

Is anyone surprised? It's easy to be upset over this but most readers here live relatively privileged lives. The poor farmer lighting a fire is doing his best to improve his life by clearing more land.

I don't know to improve the situation but I feel like we also need to have empathy and understanding.

I think it might be different if your boss is telling you to design an advertisement to target 4-8 year olds with junk food ads.

I suspect there is a lot of cognitive dissonance involved. I remember having dinner with a developer who worked on pokie machines. He fully believed that there was nothing wrong with the machines and that people just needed to have self control. This is someone who's job involved programming the highly addictive things.

By attaching a price to it, did people assume it was higher quality?

Math is a description of our reality. If we discovered something that math couldn't explain we'd expand math to explain it.

Lots of very rich men who were balding now have hair. Treatments are out there but I think they must be very expensive. See Elon Musk

When are companies going to learn that data is very much a burden that cannot ever be guaranteed to be "secure"? I really want governments to legislate heavy penalties for data breaches to help solve this.

I'm assuming you're privileged enough to have never been an enlisted soldier in a military? This isn't hordes of men clamouring to "oppress" someone. Often people are conscripted or come from such a poor background that enlistment helps their life significantly.

After the first 6 months in the military, you'll have been broken enough to have lost a lot of sense of individuality and are willing to just blindly follow orders. After your initial training, you're likely dumped into an established unit where you are at the very bottom of the totem pole. Until about 20 years ago in western militaries, you'd experience physical violence on the first day of your first posting into a "real" unit just to show you your place. I'm assuming this still happens in China. If there are soldiers in those trucks it is very likely they haven't been told a single thing about their mission.

It's very easy to live your comfortable life and talk about how evil the individual soldiers are but in reality, the troops holding the rifles on the ground are simply a tool of those higher.

I spent a lot of years keeping my money in the bank as I was always hearing news about "the next big crash is coming". I finally took the step this year to move my money into index funds and it has been going great. Last I checked I had seen nearly 20% growth in 7 months. The trade war is just making things appear so horrible but I also don't want to miss out on years of growth again.