mejin
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Comment · 9 years ago
It's probably very hard to prove fraud when no one uses an id
Comment · 9 years ago
Imo, one solution would be for high schools to encourage students to work for 3 years doing unskilled labor until they make enough money to pay for 3 years of college. Then for the 4th year they can get a part time job in their field and maybe extend their degree one more year. In the end they will be entering the professional workforce a few years later, but that isn't so bad and may help them mature.
Comment · 9 years ago
Yes, that works. (I can start using this more). As a suggestion maybe you should add the writing direction to the top options. I would not have thought to check the right click menu for anything other than cut/copy/paste, spell check and other less important things.
Comment · 9 years ago
What I would like to do it write in both a RTL language and a LTR language: (second line is a translation of the first)
Hello, world!
שלום, עולם!
However, the exclamation mark in the second line does not come at the end of the sentence.
This is not good: https://image.ibb.co/b5dC7b/Screenshot_20171102_083647.png This is good https://image.ibb.co/kAdjLw/Screenshot_20171102_083825.png
Changing the interface language didn't seem to help: https://image.ibb.co/k2gtDG/Screenshot_20171102_084103.png
Comment · 9 years ago
Any intentions on adding support for right to left languages? This is the only reason why I have a Windows 7 virtual machine with Office 13 installed. I am looking for alternatives.
Comment · 9 years ago
I've been a bit busy but here it is. (BTW: is there a way to get HN to notify you when someone comments?) I will be talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8pjd1QEA0c Student Debt.
1:11 Student debt is bad because they will sue you in court. : Well of course they will. Its not like they can take away your car if you stop paying your debt.
3:30 Why did student loans increase so much? States slashed funding for higher institutions causing colleges to increase tuition. : Or maybe because more people are eligible for student loans. Having the government back student loans is linked to the increase in tuition according to this: https://www.newyorkfed.org/medialibrary/media/research/staff...
5:16 Students at for profit schools account for 31% of student loans having just 13% of the students. : Does anyone expect a private company meant for people with few options to be cheeper than ivy league schools that offer on average $40,000 of aid per student? I don't have sources but I would imagine that the 13% most expensive car sales would account for around 31% of car sales.
9:00 Looks at one specific program at itt and says that it has an 8% employment rate and 25% didn't graduate: There is / was (I don't know if it is over yet) a lawsuit against itt and the plaintiff claims that the employment rate was around 50% http://www.ajc.com/news/education/lawsuit-claims-itt-tech-ex... . Also, what do you expect from a college that excepts anyone who can pay? If they graduated everyone than their credibility would be worse than it already is. Any place that accepts anyone will have a low success rate (eg. Hollywood and start ups)
And the most annoying point about his videos is that he doesn't propose a solution. It feels like making a video about how chemo is so bad and painful but then doesn't mention any alternative. In this analogy John Oliver would like to ban or severely limit chemo.
Comment · 9 years ago
What's so bad about this is it I'm using someone else's computer in a different country I can rarely stay on the English version. For example, in incognito, even after changing to the English Google, if I go to any other Google site (ex. trends) not only do I get the local language version, but on mobile there is no way to change the language.
Comment · 9 years ago
Based on other comments in HN it appears that a large amount of key documents have been "lost". I've never checked the source, but many threads about the files mention that.
Comment · 9 years ago
I like it that no matter where I live I can wake up at 6, stores open by 9, and lunch is at 12. Imagine every time traveling having to ask the locals what time things happen. Also, I don't think any politician will allow their state to be the state that doesn't have the same time as other countries in the same longitude
Comment · 9 years ago
I don't remember any off hand but later I will rewatch an episode and list the problems. In the meantime you could search YouTube for "John Oliver rebuttal"
Comment · 9 years ago
I don't know enough about this subject to say if anything is wrong, but on every politicial subject that I knew about he was extremely misleading.
See: Gell-Mann Amnesia effect
Comment · 9 years ago
Thank you for the response. I was unaware of the firewall concept. That does make what Sinclair is doing hypocritical, assuming that they claim to have a firewall (which the media should strive for).
Comment · 9 years ago
Sinclair owns those companies. How is that any different than, let's say cnn, telling it's reporters what they can report on? I think it's bad that 6 corporations own 90% of the media, but until this changes don't expect the owners of those corporations to not inject their (left or right) bias to those stations.