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2020-3030 commented on · Posted by u/nickthegreek

brandensilva · 8 months ago

I would guess this extends beyond immigrants at this point given all the data they have mined from the government

2020-3030 · 8 months ago

The last line of the article says, "The ultimate concern is a panopticon of a single federal database with everything that the government knows about every single person in this country,” Venzke says. “What we are seeing is likely the first step in creating that centralized dossier on everyone in this country.”

The article also mentions how DOGE is integrating voting records from PA and FL.

Americans should reject this, but any administration will be tempted to keep it once such systems are made.

2020-3030 commented on My daughter was a creative genius, and then we bought her an iPhone medium.com/modern-parent/... · Posted by u/Macuyiko

betwixthewires · 5 years ago

I've thought about schooling quite a lot, and I've come to the conclusion that a kid maybe needs 5 years of full time schooling to become proficient in reading, mathematics, civics and their government structure, and a high school level understanding of sciences. The rest of it is just government funded daycare. And that's what school is supposed to be for, right? To make a literate population capable of measuring and counting and abstractly understanding the world around them. So why does it take 13 years?

Kids are curious. Kids learn. They want to learn. You don't have to force them to do it.

2020-3030 · 5 years ago

Would you want to elaborate about the calculations/estimates and share any top readings you've found?

In many cases, the purpose of education depends on socioeconomic class or what you, your parents, and/or your social groups decide to take for yourselves.

Nearly everybody promotes widespread basic literacy for social cohesion and basic employment functionality, but higher skills are more of a battle ground. Many people do not want others to progress past the basics for a variety of reasons. One is a fear of "overproduction of elites", another is fear of competition from fully developed people with nice critical thinking skills (cue up George Carlin and his comments on critical thinking).

I'm interested in all time estimates for educational programs, know about Finland's general time frames for youth education, don't know about other national norms, and am happy to hear any suggested readings or other ideas.

2020-3030 commented on How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?... · Posted by u/tchalla

thisisit · 7 years ago

> But really, 90% of the time I just have to sleep more.

I agree to this but I think the bigger problem is - How much more is actually "more"? Do you any literature about how to actually find your sleep length time?

2020-3030 · 7 years ago

Test out what happens to you when you alter sleep habits. How much uninterrupted sleep do you prefer and when? What are the effects of naps during the day on metrics you care about? Keep the traditional sleep log, and track your other related behaviors & habits like eating/nutrition, exercise, etc. National averages are useful, but nothing beats learning how our own bodies function in various situations.

Here is one example paper https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28545315 and while it isn't a direct example of how to find your own ideal sleep patterns, it does highlight the relationship between sleep and body weight in the study population and it again mentions the 6-8 hour recommended minimum sleep period. This source might be better https://www.sleepfoundation.org/excessivesleepiness/content/...

2020-3030 commented on The Path to Biological Numeracy book.bionumbers.org/... · Posted by u/yarapavan

mncharity · 7 years ago

You might like the top section 'remembering the sizes of things' of my wasn't-intended-to-be-public slowwwlllyyy-loading page http://www.clarifyscience.info/part/Atoms .

It's basically chunked powers-of-ten, so two 1000x frames ("micro view" um->mm, and "nano view" nm->mm) get you down to 'atoms look like sand'. It seems to provide useful scaffolding - a place to hang some flavors of rough-quantitative knowledge. It seems to at least sometimes work nicely with bionumbers "how big is a X" searches, as "N um"-like answers permit "oh, so it's about this (tactile kinesthetic) big - so it's bigger than Y and smaller than Z and about the same size as W - hmm, so I wonder how many X's there are in a mumble - new search: 'how man X in a mumble'". But that's purely anecdotal, and from very limited experience.

2020-3030 · 7 years ago

Thanks for mentioning your site and have you seen http://scaleofuniverse.com/ ? I sometimes use that site as a lecture tool when a larger context of time and space is useful.

2020-3030 commented on Book review: Head First Statistics vs. The Manga Guide to Statistics blog.asymptotic.co.uk/200... · Posted by u/domedefelice

SomeHacker44 · 7 years ago

I wish high school would put statistics in the primary math curriculum, even over (pre) calculus. I feel a solid understanding of statistics and their occasional counter intuitive nature, and especially how to properly interpret things and significance measures would be enormously valuable to citizens of this modern information age.

2020-3030 · 7 years ago

This is one reason it is not included. Cue up the John Taylor Gatto reading list.

2020-3030 commented on Privatizing Poverty thebaffler.com/salvos/pri... · Posted by u/axiomdata316

dsfyu404ed · 7 years ago

>If not, I don't see how this would be a problem. If your income is X times higher than mine, you will be fined X times more. Given your income, you can afford it, but it is still a deterrent (I, on the other hand, would go back to square "minus one" if I had to pay the same amount as you).

The way this is likely to work in reality if that you go to square minus one if you get fined and I go to square minus one if I get fined. So we've gained nothing except screwing more people and making the state more dependent on revenue from fines. Fines never go down, only up. An income based system would mean we all get screwed.

I have no problem with income based fines on paper. I have zero faith in their ability to be used properly in the US. Better to just lower fines across the board. It's not like the threat of a fine is what's keeping the vast majority of people from driving at triple digit speeds or littering.

2020-3030 · 7 years ago

Yes, deliberate abuse of the laws would be the main problem and nobody could be trusted to run such a lucrative fine program. It would just be another excuse to treat people like piggy banks and to rob them as often as possible.

2020-3030 commented on Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) setosa.io/ev/markov-chain... · Posted by u/aogl

xenihn · 7 years ago

I'd also never seen it and find it very useful.

2020-3030 · 7 years ago

Confirms what I expected - not new in the world, but new to many/most people.

2020-3030 commented on Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014) setosa.io/ev/markov-chain... · Posted by u/aogl

lewis500 · 7 years ago

keeps getting posted and going to the top, almost like HN is a memoryless process... :)

glad yall are still enjoying it.

2020-3030 · 7 years ago

There is definitely memory, but HN also has new members. If repeat topics move up to a top location, this probably reflects the number of people who hadn't yet seen the topic. "Not new, but new to you."

2020-3030 commented on Apple Removes Infowars from Podcast Directory wsj.com/articles/apple-re... · Posted by u/uptown

mistermann · 7 years ago

> but that people agree it's at least an attempt at a structured argument based on actual facts

This is far easier said than done. Just for starters, which "people" get to decide, and that's not even getting into the messy details at analyzing any arguments or facts.

2020-3030 · 7 years ago

We know who gets to decide - the owners of the communications platform and those who influence them. If Apple wanted to be more inclusive in the decision making, they could choose to do so.

2020-3030 commented on A Major Industry-Funded Alcohol Study Was Compromised undark.org/article/mach15... · Posted by u/YeGoblynQueenne

amelius · 7 years ago

I've heard that grapes are among the worst kinds of fruit you can eat when it comes to pesticides.

http://time.com/5234787/dirty-dozen-pesticides/

2020-3030 · 7 years ago

It would be good to have pesticide and hazardous chemical amounts per serving listed along with the other ingredients. What an eye opener that would be. I wonder what it would take to accomplish this given that contamination happens throughout production and distribution.