qstyk
Joined 16 years ago
Joined 16 years ago
"The Antifa creep is a human being. Much as I despise what he says and does, much as I’m sure I’d hate him personally if I knew him, I shouldn’t gloat over his suffering. I should be bothered by it. I should remember that somewhere somebody probably loves this kid, and would be crushed if he was killed. If I don’t care about those things, if I reduce people to their politics, how am I better than he is?"
I try to make it a point to put my laptop through regular charge and discharge cycles, as result. As much as I love this 21:9 monitor, keeping it perpetually connected is definitely not the way to go.
House on fire, can only save one... Dog or Friend - Friend (time spent deciding, 0 seconds) Dog or Family - Family (time spent deciding, 0 seconds) Dog or Total stranger - Total stranger (time spent deciding, 0 seconds)
The pervasive whining being addressed in the article is spot on and was recently addressed in another HN posting: http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/11/24/the-yale-problem-begi...
There is a large segment of society that assumes that any alternate point of view, irrespective of how it's presented, must be an attack against them. This is akin to chastising someone warning people not to pick up the active business-end of an arc-welder.
One family comes to mind, where I have to question both their ability and motivation behind homeschooling, but that's out 100+ homeschool families we know. Even so, they're the parents, so it's their call.
That said, the success is largely based on the parents' motivation. If they're out to provide a better customized, faith-based, talent-specific, or special-needs accommodating learning environment, that's radically different than doing it to brag about what a great parent a person is, due to the extra hardship.
Beyond that, not everyone is qualified to do it, as it takes a certain skillset, education level, preparedness, and patience level that isn't ubiquitious. Some of that can be accomdated through homeschool enrichment classes, co-ops, and the aforementioned online learning.
Apple caved to pressure from the Chinese government to block distribution of flyers during protests by changing it to 10 minutes only.