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I agree totally agree. This is the same org that told us Bush was right about WMDs, whose reporters didn't know what a CDO was when the financial collapse happened, and spent three…

Where are the numbers? What is the speed up? The effort that goes into these posts without addressing the basics always boggles my mind.

It's a nice feel good story that gets funding. It's not replacing teachers, mentors and schools anytime soon.

Wikipedia and Khan Academy.

People not just children need supervision and guidance when it comes to information going into their heads. It is why whichever culture you pick across the globe, "education" invol…

For a family of 5 that sounds like a pretty good deal.

True. Good to remember the American Internet is not the Internet. It's fascinating how this debate plays out in other countries with a certain class of citizenry that don't have th…

Do you use the bandwidth? Just curious what you do with it.

Yup they are just doing what big corps do at this stage of their lives - empire defense.

Stone age tools as Chomsky calls them. The problem with simple to use tools, is the simplicity masks two key facts from the user - whether aptitude for the tool exists & amount of …

Camille Paglia is a someone worth paying attention too on the changing roles of men and women, on what we loose and what we gain - https://www.c-span.org/video/?425137-2/camille-pa…

You should talk to a experienced shrink or a psychologist about what the best outcomes for her might be. Sounds like she is dealing with what they would call traumatic attachment. …

Public perception has nothing to do with it. The Russians and Chinese don't care about public perception. Why aren't all their rockets using nuclear propulsion? This is very expens…

This stuff has been studied for a long time and is still being studied - https://www.nasa.gov/topics/technology/features/ntrees.html So I don't know what you are raving about.

Complete BS. This is what happens when you have top class PR at your disposal to define the narrative. Microsoft is responsible for their shit software getting exploited first and …

Thanks for link. Didn't know this was possible. Also will try your wrapper approach.

Superficial as in all I want is the two numbers to be printed out at the end. Why do I have to go look at flame charts and timelines? Boggles the mind. If you look at the documenta…

I found this talk with Niall Ferguson and Samantha Power pretty fascinating about the US - China power balance changing. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8yghOc-lMIM Just one mindblow…

Ya but that's like a get out jail free card. I have been through their stuff. It's very superficial. JavaScript has all kinds of implementation dependent mechanics when it comes to…

Yup I would agree from what I have seen end up happening at schools that are given tech but don't have the long term resources to utilize it right. Ideally you pay attention to the…

What's the best way to benchmark perf optimizations in JavaScript. I see lot of articles like this with no time and memory usage stats. I would like to hear an answer from someone …

Did I say stop using them? Distribute risk. Use multiple accounts. Don't handle all work/financial stuff on a single account. Keep work and personal accounts separate. Reduce the n…

Good time to remind folks that gmail, facebook, whatsapp, amazon etc aren't going to be able to protect their data forever at the levels they currently are capable off. A couple of…

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