Readit Newshellerve commented on Zig breaking change – Initial Writergate github.com/ziglang/zig/pu... · Posted by u/Retro_Dev
As a data point: I can honestly say I’ve never heard of Gamergate before this comment, and I am a 31-year-old white male. I did read a book on Watergate when I was in my teens, though.
Well, it couldn’t just go on forever at the same rate…
People just have access to more and better information. But the education system still sucks, especially in many of the more underfunded public schools
https://nypost.com/2014/01/12/no-space-no-books-no-leader-no...
Because givem their resources they have mass classes and a lowest common denominator approach
https://fensteroneducation.home.blog/2019/09/05/battling-tea...
https://www.nytimes.com/1990/05/30/us/the-highly-gifted-chil...
Whereas research shows a lot could be better:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom%27s_2_sigma_problem
https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/a-better-wa...
And across the world in many places it’s even worse access to education
I wrote about this back in 2014: https://magarshak.com/blog/?p=158
I bought the domain https://teaching.app and have been building a software solution to try to fix it for kids across the country. It requires multiple moving parts, but based on the above insights including by John Mightor and Bloom. That website goes into much more detail about what needs to be done.
PS: gotta love the massive wave of silent downvotes. Why? Not enough substance? Not enough effort spent solving a problem or documenting it? Something you don’t like? Speak up! Ahh nevermind.
I think the downvotes are coming in because you are carrying out a fundamentally different argument.
The article argues that people used to be more intellecutally capable when they were younger and it diminished with age.
You are arguing that each generation used to be more intellectually capable than the one before, and that that is diminishing.
I’m not trying to accuse you of anything, but it seems like you didn’t actually read the article you were commenting on. Is that possible?
Oh no, they built tons of cheap affordable housing. How terrible of them!
I’d be interested to hear the viewpoints of Sicilians on this one
I recommend visiting the Ecomuseo in Palermo [1] if you ever have the chance. They examine, among other things, the lasting impact of the subpar building of now mostly crumbling structures by the Mafia that still litter the cities of Sicily.
Yes, the mafia built housing, but it’s not the kind of social housing we might hope for—it’s mostly slum-like. Of course, the city of Palermo is also EXTREMELY densely populated—I read something like the fourth-most densely populated city in Europe in a magazine once, but can’t source that now, so take it with a grain of salt.
Nota bene: I’m not Italian myself; my wife’s family has their roots in Sicily.
[1] https://www.marememoriaviva.it/ (website only (?) in Italian)
How much less than 1000 (my German is pretty rusty)? e.g. 900 vs 1100 is not really statistically different, and doesn't suggest a systemic problem. Especially given the heavy focus on shipping for the US rail network versus passengers in the EU. Tracks in the US that are used for passengers are maintained better than shipping-only tracks, for sure.
2 per week, i.e. roughly 100.
hellerve commented on Thank you to our maintainers github.blog/2022-06-24-th... · Posted by u/johnny_reilly
What is the $10M ARR business that has donated $500K to open source? I will do my best to give them even more applause.
You might want to check out the sibling thread.
hellerve commented on Thank you to our maintainers github.blog/2022-06-24-th... · Posted by u/johnny_reilly
> just a PR move
This is an uncharitable interpretation of this initiative. What makes you think so?
It might be a little glib, but that’s the main incentive I see here, especially since they’re exclusively using their own system, Github Sponsors, to direct the money. It makes sense, but if it was truly only about the maintainers, wouldn’t it be better to get the money to them through whatever means they choose to implement?
But you’re right: in the end trying to find out what their actual motives are is purely speculation, and I shouldn’t have phrased it as if it were a fact.
hellerve commented on Thank you to our maintainers github.blog/2022-06-24-th... · Posted by u/johnny_reilly
This is the part where I can take a page out of your book and laugh at the paltry sum of your donations in comparison to what you earn..
Or..
I can say "thank you for your supporting open source" and skip all the stuff about acting like a sanctimonious jerk on HN for magic points.
Right now, you're being that guy in a lot of these comments.
It seems like you are pretty angry at me trying to get the notion across that this is good, but they could do better. That’s okay, I can deal with that.
But I want to make one thing clear: I’m not doing this for HN karma. I haven’t commented on here in years, and this article prompted a reaction. Trying to somehow shoehorn that into "you’re only doing this for points” is invalidating that in a way that I find troubling, because, really, how can I prove you wrong? I might just have an opinion on something and wanted to engage with a community about it, or I might not. Only I can tell (and you, apparently).
EDIT: Correction. I submitted two comments 2 months ago that I forgot about, the comments before that are from 2019.
hellerve commented on Thank you to our maintainers github.blog/2022-06-24-th... · Posted by u/johnny_reilly
hellerve commented on Thank you to our maintainers github.blog/2022-06-24-th... · Posted by u/johnny_reilly
So how much have you donated to projects?
I donate about $2,000/year to projects personally, not counting my time, and work for an OSS company.
Is that enough to be allowed to have an opinion?