emerod

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by emerod 8y ago
This is a very clear articulation of my professional experience as well. I feel like I have to drop out of "aesthetic perfection" mode in order to just do what I can to help someone else; and and that is what they will actually pa
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by emerod 9y ago
The [older, lower capacity] Pop Icon, by the way, is free right now with airtime. https://shop.tracfone.com/shop/en/tracfonestore/phones/tf-al...
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by emerod 9y ago
You can get one online from Tracfone for $10, but then you have to pay shipping. https://shop.tracfone.com/shop/en/tracfonestore/phones/tf-al...
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by emerod 9y ago
Perhaps from one of these sites: http://www.bnf.fr/fr/la_bnf/anx_dep/a.collections_sonores_en... https://www.bnfcollection.com/
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by emerod 9y ago
What you're describing sounds like the Apple, Google, or Facebook ecosystem. How is it different from any of those?
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by emerod 10y ago
This is not a 'strawman', this is the actual content of every substantive criticism I received in 12 years of homeschooling my child. Because we followed a structured curriculum and she excelled in verbal ability, they had no othe
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by emerod 10y ago
This highlights why compulsory public schooling was so long in being established. It follows the trajectory of the US transitioning from an agricultural economy to an industrial economy, and children were actually expected to participate in
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by emerod 10y ago
It would be more honest if this mission were made explicit--to serve as a holding place for children without daytime caretakers. Then, one of its primary objectives would be to pragmatically assess which children were capable of self-care,
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by emerod 10y ago
Whether teachers have noble motivations is completely irrelevant to whether the institutions perform their function well. All it means is that the teachers are working for institutions that take advantage of them.
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by emerod 10y ago
The literacy rate cannot function as a measure of the success of public education in the US. Rather, it is a measure of how useless the US public education system is, because it accomplishes little more than maintaining a basic level of lit
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by emerod 10y ago
>>I think you're mistakenly assuming the point of public school is to educate. I think it exists more so the proles have somewhere to dump their kids when they're working. The "education" happens to be incidental.
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by emerod 10y ago
I had a similar experience in grammar school. I was the only qualified advanced student in English, so I spent class time sitting in the hallway going through the advanced reading exercises by myself.
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by emerod 10y ago
I agree, it's an anecdotal rationalization, as is yours. Yet, it's also true that creators actively frustrate efficient use of distribution platforms in support of their bad business models.
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by emerod 10y ago
This is no different from the situation during the US Prohibition era. Pragmatically speaking, the threat of punishment did not cause sufficient change in social behavior or attitudes. The ideal model of using law to manipulate society fail
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by emerod 10y ago
If transfer of ownership does not actually occur when a digital product is "purchased", then how can one argue that ownership is lost when a digital product is "stolen"? In both cases, what is happening involves licensed
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by emerod 10y ago
To the extent that this advice about prison applies to business, it applies in an organization where pathological behavior is glorified as "leadership" and everyone else feels like a wage-slave who is being manipulated. In that en
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by emerod 10y ago
I don't even understand why some college students still lug around tons of worthless paper textbooks.
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by emerod 10y ago
Nothing has changed in the last 20 years in terms of the economic model for the textbook publishing industry. The strategy is still about how to create artificial demand with useless features and how to create artificial scarcity with exclu
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by emerod 11y ago
How about a prepaid Android phone for $10? So, technically it is subsidized, but there is no contract to sign.
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by emerod 12y ago
The notion of implicit involvement is a PR strategy for legitimizing a government. If a majority of the population do not feel implicitly involved, they will not care if the government is overthrown.
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by emerod 12y ago
I have found that reacting to news in "real time" (for example, as it is fed to me through TV or Facebook) leads to a loss of perspective. The purported urgency of the story overwhelms its broader significance. Discovering news it
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by emerod 12y ago
The so-called "civic duty to vote" is really a civic duty to support whatever is done by the representatives chosen by the plurality of voters. As a task supposedly necessary to maintain democratic society, it is lacking in any pe
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by emerod 12y ago
Like a love shack, but using electronics.
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by emerod 12y ago
Precisely. They needed to ditch the old Neighborhood Hobby Shop Full of Expert Geeks marketing strategy in order to be competitive in the mass consumer market. Radio Shack was always targeting the mass market. It would have required a huge
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by emerod 12y ago
It sounds like what some Radio Shack stores tried to be, and maybe what Radio Shack marketed itself as in the 1960s.
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by emerod 12y ago
No, Best Buy is more like RadioShack as it was becoming when it was self-destructing 15 years ago. Fry's (which ironically took over an Incredible Universe location where I live) represents what RadioShack would have naturally turned i
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by emerod 12y ago
Yes, the hobbyist was not so much the ideal customer as the ideal held by the typical customer. I am also a former RadioShack employee (twice over, from the '80s and the '90s) and although I enjoyed meeting hobbyists, they were ne
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by emerod 12y ago
I have struggled with the same issues. Most work involves fitting into a social hierarchy and being rewarded by managers for preserving the appearance of tribal unity. I finally had to leave corporate life for good. I discovered that what I
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by emerod 12y ago
In contrast to the states promoting zipper merging, Indiana recently redesigned some interchanges to effectively eliminate the single merge point. They added extra lanes so that one "preferred" lane (the one that formerly backed u
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by emerod 12y ago
One useful economic definition of middle class is obtained by applying Frederick Strobel's distinction between those who are labor-dependent those who are capital-enhanced. The middle class are the ones who fluctuate between the two ca

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