What have been working for me is some Social Sciences or Humanities courses on Coursera.
Readit Newstropicaljacket commented on Napflix – Siesta Video Platform napflix.tv/... · Posted by u/colinprince
Are they scamming Westerners? (TFA wasn't clear). They'd have to be pretty fluent in idomatic English to do that.
Do the 5-10 messages I get each week "Hi! This is Irene. Are you going to the party?" come from trafficed people?
"Many of the victims are well-educated, sometimes coming from professional jobs or with graduate or even post-graduate degrees, computer-literate and multi-lingual." (from the report)
tropicaljacket commented on A Journey Through Spain’s Islamic History smithsonianmag.com/travel... · Posted by u/Thevet
Why would it be symmetric? This is like if North American natives had successfully expelled the Europeans after some amount of time, and then saying that the natives were meaner to the Europeans than vice versa. Wouldn’t expulsion be justified from the North American native’s perspective?
Note that there was about 9 centuries between the Umayyad conquest of Iberia (8th century) and the explulsion of Moriscos (17th century). So the analogy with North American natives would be something like - if somehow the Native Americans win political/military control in the 23th century (9 centuries after the arrival of the Europeans) and then decide that all non-native Americans will have to leave the country to wherever their ancestors came from - do you feel that would be justified?
tropicaljacket commented on Archive of the Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, 1945-46 library.stanford.edu/blog... · Posted by u/drdee
Other interesting parts.
> Everyone in the court was issued with headphones to allow them to hear the charges being read in their native language, but the accused showed little interest.
They were probably already resigned to the idea that they would be executed and thought there was little point in trying to pay attention and defend themselves. Most of them wished they were already dead.
> The British Government wanted to shoot the leaders once they were caught and formally identified - but the Soviet Union and US favoured a legal process.
It's ironic how the British wanted to resort to such uncivilized methods as summary execution without trial, while the Soviet preferred a legal path.
Why is it ironic? Maybe you think too highly of the British empire?
In English, there's an archaic "larboard" meaning "port side". My understanding is that this word was intentionally banished due to confusion originating from the sound being so similar to "starboard".
this is mentioned in the linked article
As a parent who used Scratch with their kids... it all started out great and then veered into being an unregulated social media network lacking any ability to create a space where they could build and learn to code in private. It wasn't long before they were doing it only for the likes and, without constant supervision, trying to figure out how to join various groups and challenges simply for the attention they would receive.
I really like the idea of Scratch, but I feel like parents and teachers who use it in the classroom should have a way to create for their kids accounts that are not part of the community aspects of the tool. Kids don't need to be doing anything online for "likes" at the age of 8 or 9.
Yeah.. another thing is there is a lot of published games in Scratch (from other users), many are very tempting to play/try out and often the Scratch session just turns into playing those games without educational/learning activity. Anyone figured out how to avoid this?
My kid has learnt a lot both programatically and online social skills thanks to Scratch.mit.edu. Thanks from Spain!
can you explain more about social skills? And how old is your child?
Folks here who used scratch with their kids, what is the next step after scratch? How did you introduce a language/platform to your kid? I have introduced python and my kid is able to pick it up, but am unable to come up with projects that sustain interest. It feels dry without UI and one shouldn't be doing web dev with python too. So what is the progression for python and kids?
After scratch, we tried this:
- https://www.codemonkey.com/ (mix of block programming and python) . Step by step guidance. A lot of kid-oriented UI/fun stuff.
- https://codecombat.com/ (python or JS). Still have levels, hint etc but the solution is less straightforward (sometimes I'm even stuck trying to help my kid!)
- If your kid is advanced enough, try https://open.kattis.com/
One common problem that kids encountered that's not straightforward is debugging simple coding issue (e.g. missing colon, mixing variable names, etc.) Even with great guidance from the platform, it's very common for kids to run into this and the compiler error is not helpful. A parent/teacher with programmer experience is needed to unblock.
> Seventeen of our teammates are impacted today.
guys maybe they were impacted in a good way tho?
Maybe your question is a joke but I assume "impacted" means laid off in this context.
Kind of like when people say someone "passed away" to mean they died
Yellen and the FDIC is in a tough spot. This is the important line, "Any losses to the Deposit Insurance Fund to support uninsured depositors will be recovered by a special assessment on banks, as required by law."
Thus, on one hand, I'm glad they're doing this, as it should help prevent wider bank runs, and it ensures that banks are the ones that are actually paying for it.
At the same time, this is yet another example of changing the rules in the middle of the game. Yellen has just broadcast that FDIC insurance is essentially unlimited, as long as you can threaten wider disruption to the economy.
I understand part of this is human nature but I really wish we could plan for these entirely foreseeable events ahead of time so that it's not just cases of "selective justice" with regards to who gets bailed out.
How does this "special assessment on banks" work? Does the FDIC charge all US banks to cover the missing amount? How are the charges distributed? And what law is this?
Also if this option was available, why did they just bring it up now?