wolfgke

> I've believed since college that math is the worst taught of all academic subjects. I never had a math professor that engaged the class, and practical applications were never mentioned.

Nearly all math textbooks and lectures mention practical applications. The problem rather seems to be that you have/had a different understanding of "practical" than your math professor.

Make exams that are harder to cheat. For example:

- oral exams via video call

- written exams where students are distributed over a larger area (e.g. the university rents a warehouse for the examination time) so that the COVID-19 spreading risk is nevertheless kept very small.

> (but is still available in 16-bit (“real mode”) and 32-bit (“protected mode”) for compatibility).

There exists both 16 bit protected mode (available since the 80286) and 32 bit protected mode (available since the 80386).

Indeed - but then the person asking should better look in the systems/browser settings; this has nothing to do with the website.

> Can you add an indicator so that people will know to scroll down for rules and stuff.

It's called a "scrollbar" and shown in the browser.

> I do think one core aspect of the practice of mathematics has been in increasing human understanding of it, not merely compute things with symbols.

The road towards better (in the sense that they can be "more trusted") computer-checked proofs of the four-color theorem has also lead to a better (human) understanding of the four-color theorem.

> Hobby Lobby refused to pay for any health insurance plan that covered contraception because they believed them to be abortifacients and contrary to the christian values of the corporation.

This is rather an argument why not the employer, but the employee should pay for the health coverage. As they say in Germany:

"Wer zahlt, schafft an."

("who pays, commands", where the verb "anschaffen" (which I translate with "command" here) has the undertone of "giving sexual orders to a prostitute that she has to follow")

> Straight couples can get married without any plans to have a child. Why is is different for gay couples?

This is rather an argument for a change in taxation laws instead of gay marriage.

> A pitfall of this mentality, at least in my experience, is that people I hurt are usually much better judges of whether I hurt them than I am.

But these people are very biased judges.

> This is not the usual "Google kills product", it's the type of thing that HN loves to say they would be happy to pay for ("Just give me something that does A B C and doesn't show me ads and I would be happy to pay for it!!!", well I guess until you are actually asked to pay for it).

Google still collects data.

As far as I am aware, a usual term of art is also "shared source" (this term was in particular used by Microsoft in the past).