What is true of the most informative, insightful, and interesting posts on hacker news, but is also true of the laziest most worthless posts? They're both flagged, to keep you from seeing them.
As somebody who had to code in Pascal (in this millennia) I just... I'm not sure I can get passed that to enjoy the game. I think this is the moment where I realize that I'm a coding language bigot.
I want weather, upcoming local events, and product recalls. I look forward to some future app called "Useful information" where people select which topics they want to be kept abreast of. Sort of like what Google News looked like it might become until it stopped innovating.
Movie: 2 hours passive absorption. Must know how to speak the language. Creators have full control of the narrative.
Book: 8 hours intellectually engaged. Must know how to read. Creators have control of the narrative, but not the pacing at which it is consumed.
Video game: 30 hours actively participating. Must have skills specific to the medium, which often vary by genre. Creators have to allow for disruption and variation of the narrative, often in ways they cannot predict.
It's not that games can't be art in the modernist sense (where the intention is to either convey an idea or evoke an emotion). It's just that video games are a less accessible and more complex (and therefore harder to get right) medium. Want to do something only an interactive medium can do? Games are a good choice. Want to tell a story? Games are then an objectively inferior choice.
How to get your kids to do the right thing, convince them that it's the right thing to do. Child too young / stupid to understand moral or ethical questions? Try not to fuck them up too much while you hope they grow out of it.
That's what all these things boil down to. I get that a huge part of good parenting is not letting the, "Why don't you understand?!" frustration get to you. All this advice comes from a place of not wanting parents to beat their kids. The experts should perhaps realize that their own conescending, obviously taken too far advice only serves to make parents not trust them. Of course seeing that would require that they understand the human psychology they insist underlies their advice.
When they standardized what the Pico8's specs would be, I thought it was too underpowered for a whole slew of ideas, but since then I've been consistently proven wrong. Really impressive.
Bingo. Also, let's not forget that Apple has a history of not releasing the first of something, but waiting until the market is there, and then releasing a much more user friendly product that redefines the market and grows it. They're not a tech first company so much as a UX first company.
Seems so familiar to the anti school choice movement in the states. Arguing that poor kids must be forced to go to substandard public schools, under the guise of protecting the kids, while really wanting to treat education as a guaranteed money source for political actors and the teachers' union.
I take issue with the standard of repeating Russian funded organizations talking points as being labeled as propaganda. If that's the case, then aren't American news outlets that push US government talking points also propaganda? Why only blacklist one?
So how is this different from say SNL perpetuating the false notion that Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house? Call it satire and you're free to propagandize all you want. Only after the anointed candidate of the power lost, must we examine the means by which propaganda (specifically that we find unfavorable) is disseminated. Fake news is the crop you reap when you show mass censorship. Trying to double down on the censorship will only hasten your irrelevance.
No. No they aren't. The number of pregnancies is declining, but the pregnancies that result in a child who lives more than two years has never been higher.
Free money for everybody! Cool now to go buy some groceries... hey where's the food? Oh I guess the farmer realized they didn't have to work any more either... it's almost like money isn't some magical thing that automatically has value, but merely serves as a medium of exchanging value, something this author completely misses.
You know that's not true. Come on, have you seen the community here? I've done so before with things like this and it hasn't mattered. Besides, a nothing but ideology link like this (and the above comment the demonstrates a self deluded echo chamber mentality) provide no basis for any real conversation because there's nothing there to discuss. Don't feel bad though, I couldn't give a shit about some online news aggregator karma score. I just couldn't let this article sit on the front page without a clear denouncement for being what it is.
The issue is there are so many of these "proof of concepts" that cannot be scaled for one reason or another. I'm vary wary of stories like this because they happen so frequently and often fizzle.
I'm saying that the solution to this problem won't come from creating fake work to trick people into thinking that they're productive members of society.
And honestly everyone should be having fewer kids, but the well off already are. Turns out that evolutionary and economic forces of selection don't favor people reproducing beyond their means. People can mistake this emergent property for a planned eugenics program and blame the messenger whenever somebody speaks the truth, but better to realize that wanting all human life to have some intrinsic market value does not make it so and plan accordingly.
So no more dishwasher machines, forget self driving cars, bring back elevator operators, and have more laws like requiring gas station attendants in New Jersey... What a horrible notion that impeding progress to give people pointless work, which makes things less convenient and efficient, is somehow a fix. The population has gone from 1 to near 7 billion people in just over a hundred years. Economic incentives against just having more unskilled labor is not a flaw that needs fixing, it's or economic and environmental necessities coming into alignment, telling us that having 4+ kids is a bad idea in a world as overpopulated as this, and instead to have smaller families with more resources put into educating the one or two kids we do have
Queue the political debate over whether this is a failure to provide secondary education to our citizens, or an artificial inflation in its cost by attempting to do so.
I find that Kafka loses his zeal when the uncertainty of an unformed epistemology is removed. It's in the circular questioning of subjectivity and post modernism that his work takes hold. Move beyond that and what was once existential horror in his writing becomes trivial nuisance.
But... but... John Oliver wouldn't lie to me! Seriously though, the only difference between the lines the Democrats tell and the Republicans tell is that the media bothers to point out when the Republicans lie.