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My HS rolled out iPads to all students my Sophmore year of HS 4 years ago.

It was well known the average GPA dropped by a sizable amount (mine personally by nearly .5). There wasn't a good way for the school to lock down games, and it was really hard to self regulate. The technology side of Canvas worked pretty well once teachers knew how to use it, but the fact that so many games could be played just distracted the hell out of everyone, and the teachers knew this. Without a way to lock down device gaming, I don't think they're a good idea in a school environment unless you antipate and actively try to curb gaming, but this can be hard and will make the teacher seem like the bad guy, which is never a good thing.

You're essentially asking about the difference between active and passive existential nihilism. Or in non-philosophical terms, asking who is resigned to their existence and who actively searches to find meaning in it.

Active nihilism is much more beneficial and relates to stoicism. It holds that you must find your meaning, which is really what everyone does anyway, whether through a super natural being or friends, family, or one's life work (read Man's Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl. The best book I've ever read that relates these ideas as a holocust survivor).

Quoting the unemployment rate at 4.9% is disingenuous at it doesn't look at the participation rate, which has dropped 3% in the past 10 years (aka 10 million people). This unemployment rate also doesn't look at individual regions like the rust belt, which won Trump the election. There's a sizable group that did vote him in on his social positions, which is the common 40% of voters (the battle for an election isn't concerned with the 'base' which is about 80% of the voters, being 40% left and 40% right, it worries about the 20% in the middle, and those middle voters were the rust belt that swayed the election). So although you can say a many Trump voters wanted his social politics, he won because of his economics.

And I understand the selection of the narratives the author used. Like I've said, I live in a small Midwest town.

> Is there a fair way of denigrating Trump supporters?

Yes, by realizing that he won because of his economics, not his social positions. The rust belt votes of economic issues, which allowed him to win. The poor in the area lean to whoever will help them not be poor, or at least say they'll try. Clinton embodied the status quo, Trump was change. They might not have liked him, and in fact a sizable majority do not, but realizing it was a pick of the lesser of two equals hopefully restores some sympathy for the other side, which is sorely needed today.

The solutions. The solutions are not black and white. Believe it or not, some on the right actually agree with the left on many social issues, but the problem becomes how to realistically solve them. Fixing things costs money, and many on the right (or the rust belt who voted right this election) would rather try and fix their economic problems now then solve global warming which doesn't have a clear solution and might not even be possible as China and other large manufactung nations don't oblige by the same standards as we do (thus why in many Chinese cities people have a very hard time breathing).

Note that these aren't necessarily my views, but I live in the Midwest, I hear what a lot of classic Republicans are about and why people voted for Trump.

I'm currently doing research with students from South Korea, this surprised no one. They actually have a saying about "Keeping in touch with a cousin's cousin if they work at Samsung." In SK you're considered well off/rich if you or any family works there because it's the main tech business. After Choi Soon-sil the government is seen as corrupt through and through, in glad they're doing something about it, as most of the population (95%) disapprove.

I've been watching 3Blue1Brown a lot recently, and he's been linked to many times here too. His work is absolutely amazing, and he even wrote a python library to make the animations!

Everything, including art, follows supply and demand. Value is the point where they meet. Salaries of social works and EMTs are where the supply of those positions meet the need for those positions in any certain area.

Art has a defined supply and demand, where the supply is high and demand is low (probably due to the fact you can buy copies of famous masterpieces for very cheap).

That's about how it goes, at least in high school and college age people: Snapchat all the time, twitter when bored, insta scrolling all the time, post every few days or week, and Facebook for the big things.

Personally I get on Facebook twice per year, once on my birthday and once before summer to tell the world where I'm working.

That's about how it goes, then every once in awhile a new app will come up like house party recently, and everyone will jump on for a month or so then go back.

This tool is actually what I was looking for in terms of VPS usage. I knew there had to be some type of self hosting easily deploy-able platform. Thanks for sharing!

Whatever you're looking to donate to, Charity Navigator[0] is a good place to look for highly rated charities. If they have a good rating, they're probably good.

Also if anyone is looking to donate to a charity that gives 100%, aka a pass-through charity, I started one for my friend and his family last year[1], as they have an unknown genetic disease which has symptoms related to ALS, Muscular Distrophy, and several other symptoms.

[0] https://www.charitynavigator.org/

[1] https://thessf.org

I worked with some college students from South Korea, and they were very surprised that hardly anyone smokes on campus, mainly people from outside the country. Although it's decreased in the US, I wonder if the cig companies have coped by pivoting into the global market and pushing hard that way.

Also, I'm betting that alcohol consumption isn't down overall in teens, they're just smart and would never say they've had a drink or drink at any point. Speaking from very recent personal experience.

This isn't necessarily true. The US dollar is actually increasing in value as people want their money to be safe. If Trump does bring back American jobs, meaning less jobs in Asia, the dollar buy will continue, depressing Asia and strengthening the US for now.

But you're right, the OP definitely needs to tread lightly with property and the contracts. The devil is always in the details.

> "Data is as secure as the weakest link in the chain."

This can't be emphasized enough. Their main point is they have no good way to fully implement a secure PGP implementation, and the threat models PGP protects against only works if it's implemented correctly.

It's a tough problem, and unfortunately PGP itself is not in a state to address it. It's too complicated, and not user friendly. At my job this past summer I tried to implement PGP within our red team in an easy, scalable way so when we proved we could do it, we could roll it out to blue team and eventually to non-IT people to make our organization more secure. The project failed, because there was no easy to use, scalable client that met our needs at the time.

When the Thunderbird of PGP comes out, then I'll look into it again, in the mean time I'll hobble along using keybase and signal for secure communications, imperfectly protecting myself from the actors it's meant to protect against.

Many people, including myself, don't like cities. Being from Indiana, everyone I know that lives here wants to be here. Cities are crowded, dirty, and far more dangerous than the country and many small towns. The coasts are already overcrowded, they don't need more people.

A 15 year old Egyptian kid made a new OS in asm who wants to study medicine.

Sounds like he needs to go to SV, I think he'd fit right in.

At what point did Wikileaks ever scan their releases for personal information? This is completely false. They never have, nor is it feasible to, they just don't have the manpower to do so. That's a major argument against Wikileaks, that it has released names of ops, contacts, and soldiers in the past, far before this election.

What people don't seem to understand is they don't have the manpower or time to go through everything they receive. The bad comes with the good, which is why there are legitimate arguments either way.

I don't see why they're doing this now, what caused this?

Also, I hope this doesn't put downward pressure on BTC. There is already mounting pressure as the world invests in dollars considering widespread conservative political movement across the globe, and no one quite knows what's going to happen. As the dollar goes up, I'd think that would have another negative effect on BTC.

I see BTC crashing very soon, but in the meantime, I'm waiting cautiously.

This is correct, Linux works much. After for PCIe passthrough in VMs, both Virtualbox and VMware.

Very glad it's now on Windows though! Time to tinker once again.

It seems people sometimes forget China is still an extremely authoritarian state. 2 of my good friends moved here from China a few years ago, they never want to go back, there's very little freedom.

I often wonder if laws like these will pressure people not directly affected to do something about it. Then I remember how so much of history was caused by people doing nothing, and I suspect that will continue to happen into the future.

Long term, I don't see China giving up control of anything, only getting tighter restrictions. I just hope this doesn't result in too big a war in the future.

Although he's missing references to the studies he mentioned, the point was animals that eat mosquitos would be fine without them, as they also eat other insects. Spiders come to mind.

So why are they paying the 'proverbial plane ticket' in this case? I think that's what the OP is saying here.

The NYT article doesn't really bring anything to the conversation that the original source doesn't, seems having 2 different submissions would split the conversation and kill both threads.

Fundamentally, governments don't need to tax currency movement. If they implemented a flat income tax only, or even better a flat consumption tax, it could survive off a single tax and not need to worry about income or movement.

Sunrise is the only calendar app that has ever worked for me. I tried others like Google and the integrated outlook calendar, this is sad news.

Is it impossible to have apps that don't go either Microsoft or google? I don't want to be locked in an ecosystem.

Only the 98% of web traffic that goes through the US.

Although really the other 2% wouldn't be hard to get considering the power they have.

It's funny that one of the largest flag theory sites, sovereign man, refers to zerohedge almost exclusively for political and financial theories. I thought they were actually run by the same person(s) for a time.

When I came across zerohedge about 2 years ago, it looked like they were bearish all the time, and right less than half the time. I think people see what's right and don't pay attention to when it's wrong.

American Imperialism at its finest. "Since we're the best country in the world, you couldn't have possibly become rich without us, and therefore you must pay to leave us!"

It's happened four times, of which the first went to the House to decide, and the 1876 and 1888 were in a time of widespread corruption, but nonetheless it's still very rare, especially in the modern day, and I wouldn't expect it to happen again in our lifetimes.

I was ready to go at the time it opened (1 pm), and I actually read a bit of the disclaimer before I put in my information.

At finished at 1:02, and was put on the waiting list. Needless to say I was a bit angry I was less than a minute away.