tropicaljacket

What have been working for me is some Social Sciences or Humanities courses on Coursera.

"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)

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?

Why is it ironic? Maybe you think too highly of the British empire?

this is mentioned in the linked article

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?

can you explain more about social skills? And how old is your child?

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.

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

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?

but that doesn't increase with more deposits, right?

I understand the sentiment, but in this current system, that counts as contributing because eventually it can be exchanged into something that you consume (e.g. food, housing, healthcare). Even if there were no money and everything works with barters, you'd still have to offer something that other people need. Unless somehow you could survive without requiring food etc from someone else, then they won't force you to "contribute to the system"

The problem is this is very prone to confirmation bias, where you would see and likely find 'evidences' to prove your prior guess of what the authors actually wanted to say.

> Although the Colombian court filing indicates that ... its responses were fact-checked

The problem is that the fact-checkers themselves can make mistakes and chatGPT is very good at making text that looks correct, even to experts. See the Meta StackOverflow post on banning ChatGPT answers for example