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vc9999··on Dutch rules will soon prevent schoolchildren from having a phone in classroom
There's supposed to be a computer in front of every kid since grade one. Schools are instead banning the little computers kids smuggle in [A computer to use in the school as a means of education is not the same of letting kids use a cellphone in class]

- Hypocrisy. Smartphone bans are pushed by people who use them all the time themselves. [Because they are adults not kids]

- This is the same thing as with corporations locking down employees' computers. It's a policy designed for the worst behaving kids to the detriment of the best behaving ones. Poor use of time and poor self-control become expected and even the best kids will slide towards these low expectations. [employees are not kids, also employees are not in school they are in a job]

- Totalitarian policies like this get passed only because teens and tweens are disenfranchised. Democratic government trying to enforce similar population-wide ban wouldn't last long. [Totalitarian policies? This has to be a joke]

- It's not about games or social media. Those are actually tolerated far better than apps like Socratic, which are treated like criminal level of cheating. This is technophobia all the way through. [Of course. It's not about games and social media, it's a about kids not using a cell phone while in the classroom]

vc9999··on Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
That's basically what happened, just google São Paulo street art.
vc9999··on Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
Finally someone who is not spitting things they have no clue about
vc9999··on Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
Luckily this is just an article explaining one side of the law, and it's from 2001. Obviously, there are advertisements, but not on large billboards across the city. Sometimes, I feel like this site is no different from a Twitter thread. There are so many uninformed people making comments about things they have no clue about.
vc9999··on Sao Paulo: A city with no outdoor advertisements (2013)
The article and photos are from 2011....
vc9999··on Brazilian researchers find plastic rocks on remote island
Really? I thought nature was manufacturing plastic rocks
vc9999··on Palm-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model
For now increasing data size has been enough to show better results. We don't when diminishing returns will be significant.
vc9999··on How an early oil industry study became key in climate lawsuits
That's not the point
vc9999··on For some with ADHD, the low rumble of brown noise quiets the brain
Maybe that's why i enjoy electronic music
vc9999··on Crazy crypto mining story from 2013
If you continue to mine you would be a billionaire today? Maybe the lesson here is just don't give up. Nice story anyway.
vc9999··on [dead]
1 billion trillion schemkels
vc9999··on The Milken Way - “The scarce resource in our society is not money but people.”
Money has no intrinsic value
vc9999··on Energy Compensation and Adiposity in Humans
That simply not true at all

https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/adult/causes.html#:~:text=People...

vc9999··on U.S. Senate Vote in Favor of Amendment That Threatens Crypto Industry
I think we need to ban Christmas lights too, after all we all have to endure the consequences of people using electricy for stupid things like creating a decentralized financial system without the government stealing everyone

I guess we need a government to regulate all these things, the same way they did with the victorious war on drugs.

At least you don't have a meth store at every street corner, right, what a win

vc9999··on U.S. Senate Vote in Favor of Amendment That Threatens Crypto Industry
You do understand that nobody forces anyone to gamble or speculate with cryptocurrencies, right?
vc9999··on Stockfish 14
Speed runs are 3min game, or even less.

It's much hard to cheat in 3minutes games. The chess engine takes somes time to think about the next move