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Comment Re:Tests Vertical Videos For Mobile? (Score 1) 33

My one wish in life is to go back in time and find the first engineer that enabled 9:16 recordings and cut his fucking hands off. Then write in my own error prompt, forcing end users to turn the phone horizontally. Then release an open license schematic for exactly the kind of single hand swing arm that eases the transition to landscape, and with custom triggers like 'start recording' or 'open media player'

Comment Re:High school teacher perspective (Score 4, Interesting) 241

The book "Punished by Rewards" by Alfie Kohn addresses this issue. Kohn argues that when we emphasize external rewards like grades and test scores, we often undermine students' intrinsic motivation to learn and create consequences like cheating.

The educational system has made the reward (the grade or score) more important than the actual learning:

* The grade becomes the goal rather than a measurement of learning
* Students learn to value performance over mastery
* The extrinsic reward (grade) crowds out intrinsic motivation to understand the material

Kohn would view cheating as a predictable outcome of reward-based educational approaches. When schools emphasize test performance, rankings, and grades, they inadvertently teach students that the number matters more than the knowledge. Students rationally respond to these incentives by finding the easiest path to the reward - through cheating.
This doesn't excuse cheating, but it helps explain why reward-focused systems tend to produce it. Restructuring educational approaches to emphasize curiosity, meaningful engagement with material, and learning for understanding rather than for performance metrics could happen, but that would take... effort. Too hard basket? Heh

Comment Dating apps (Score 1) 249

If reports are accurate for the first users of these, you could easily set filters, and go on plenty of dates with people in your 'range' so to speak. Similar life goals, interests.

Even if we count the numbers slide into male dominated ratio, it used to be far more efficient than going outside. Now its full of rampant scams, and frustration tactics to keep you paying, because if it worked you'd remove the app.

At this point I'd prefer drafting a plan for a government run dating app, as the private sector can't be trusted with this business model. The government would recoup the costs with more taxpayers being born in the future, and in the immediate with more people buying a house by combining incomes.

Comment Re:how many? (Score 1) 93

Difficulty: Carbon capture can't be "invested" in, because it will never create a product that can be sold.

I used to think so too until I heard about Biochar. Its a soil amendment that was also called 'terra preta' and was used in the low fertility Amazonian soil to actually be able to farm. Creation of it requires pyrolization of any carbon source and it will stay put in the ground, unlike a tree that can be burned or consumed by termites.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3F...

Comment Re:Think Different (Score 1) 107

The assumption is "girls aren't interested" is about as true as saying "boys don't cry".

I'd agree with most of what you said excepting this. Boys are told repeadtely over many years that feelings are a weakness, a sickness. To show emotion of any kind, other than unyielding stoicism, is met with hostility and ostracism, where you'll be compared to the opposite sex as a negative.

That will never compared to general disinterest. Otherwise you'd have to explain the lack of male nurses along the same lines.

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