I never minded studying, but always hated writing essays, even though pretty good at it.

How do we train people to think, and validate that they learned, when they can outsource it to a computer?

The author alludes to oral exams, though they have a whole host of other issues.

Losing your sanity is much worse than losing your money.

If cherry growing doesn’t pay without government subsidies, it’s not a viable business.

Few enough people do it to have a serious impact on revenue.

2meta4me

The YouTube engineers working on advertising are tasked with maximizing revenue, not making the user experience better.

It’s a de-facto monopoly and the only way to get better user experience is through adblock.

Combines the conservative hatred of secular public education with the entitled boomer hatred of the young.

While taking the day off to play golf, he tells us we don’t deserve a day off if it honors anyone non-white.

Yahoo!

If you want the phone to work reliably anywhere besides home/school/work, you need a real cellular carrier.

If you’re a shut-in, WiFi only is fine.

Read the news, dude.

Alumina ore was smelted/refined to isolate the pure metal.

Using the preexisting naming convention that ore->metal goes a->um, the discoverer of the element named it Aluminum.

Later, British chemists got mad that their US naming standard was different from their own standard.

Why do we keep electing sellout Democrats who won’t even do their jobs? We haven’t even had a real primary in 17 years.

They didn’t copy the gods, they just said it’s the same guy under a different name and we worship them too.

It’s like foreign fans of a domestic TV show.

The cruelty is the point.

They require ID for pickup at locations that experience a lot of theft.

Cost of remaking stolen orders has to exceed staff cost of checking IDs.

PHEV Pacificas are great

Repost, no.

They should grow organically on nicer instances.

I try to unsubscribe ML communities when I find a decent alternative anywhere else.

Wouldn’t want any 60 years olds creeping on 54s.

Blurry photo and ad pop up nagging me to install google adware.