thelock85

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by thelock85 4mo ago
I recently bought a book, Letters of Medieval Jewish Traders, curated from these fragments.
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by thelock85 5mo ago
Bill Russell. Won 9 championships as a Boston Celtic under legendary coach Red Auerbach, and alongside Hall of Famers like Bob Cousy. Then became the coach and starting center for 3 more years and won two more championships.
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by thelock85 5mo ago
It’s because there are tons of laws and regulations regarding minors in school, and administration tends to be homegrown (initial expertise in teaching) rather than explicitly developed to navigate the social, political and legal landscape.
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by thelock85 5mo ago
I lifted or paraphrased the terms from the benefits that the author ascribes to kinship society; not sure how that’s buzzword-y unless you are referring to “individualist, capitalist” which seems like a pretty fair description of broadly he
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by thelock85 5mo ago
It’s interesting how this is framed as a “bad deal” (being apart of a kinship society) without taking time to breakdown the cost of being on your own in Ghanaian society, especially when healthcare, credit harm and other emergencies are bro
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by thelock85 7mo ago
I think the path to the values you allude to includes affirming when flawed leaders take a stance. Else it’s a race to the whataboutism bottom where we all, when forced to grapple with the consequences of our self-interests, choose ignoranc
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by thelock85 7mo ago
Seems like you need this when you don't have agency to go find your preferred online group(s) which might be tied to larger personal challenges in healthy communication and productive conflict. I don't know how tech solves that pr
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by thelock85 7mo ago
Thanks for the food for thought.
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by thelock85 7mo ago
Citizens United, a few decades of subpar K-12 education and social media mis/disinformation have made this a tall task… not impossible, but a truly gargantuan challenge.
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by thelock85 7mo ago
The top post is about property damage not flying over. This comment is in response to the idea that drone delivery is a democratically expressed need or want. I think it’s a corporate need advancing capital over labor in the name of conveni
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by thelock85 7mo ago
The presence and operation of drones on one’s personal property appears more corporatist in nature than democratic.
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by thelock85 8mo ago
I’m a bit confused by your reply. Pretty sure the rulers of the Dahomey kingdom weren’t trading with people of the “Americas” but with Europeans, before and after its abolishment across Western Europe. In the book Fistful of Shells, histori
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by thelock85 9mo ago
Or the taxpayers foot the bill for keeping the inmate in prison while private interests (including but not limited to private prisons and select contractors) take additional profit off the unpaid labor instead of passing savings to the cons
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by thelock85 10mo ago
I thought about that too, but I don’t think your resources matter much once you’re in the penal system except to bribe or pay for protection. Honestly I’m not sure how it would pan out but it does appear that the power to abuse is directly
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by thelock85 10mo ago
I agree with you on the ideal of equality. Practically speaking, even the option to be home bound if you have a home, apartment, or willing caretaker could be a serious blow to the prison industrial complex, and the incentive structures t
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by thelock85 10mo ago
I have a slightly different take that everything was really broken right before, but Covid and its response brought everything to bear. I see this play out a lot in ed reform politics where leaders conveniently compact decades of prior fail
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by thelock85 11mo ago
This. Schools are not employers that can implement take it or leave it policies. You need coordination and agreement between school leadership, district leadership, staff, and most critically parents to put your foot down on anything while
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by thelock85 1y ago
My great-grandmother’s home, those of her neighbors, and their church was bulldozed for the US75/I45 rebuild/connection in Dallas in the 1950s. They were given the choice of new public housing built nearby in an industrial area (a
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by thelock85 1y ago
I have been doing a lot of solo tinkering around this very idea —contextualizing learning for every middle school through college student according to their career and personal interests. Props for this team for actual piloting with real st
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by thelock85 1y ago
If you reduce the choice to public funding vs wealthy alumni stewardship, and there seems to be no meaningful pathway to circumventing the current assault on public funding, then why should you alienate your wealthy alumni? Obviously the si
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by thelock85 1y ago
You could replace “research” with nearly any term not undergirded by a direct profit motive (eg civics, politics, education, community health, urban planning). Or maybe it’s just (and you may be saying this) that one can only dedicate thems
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Ask HN: How should I spend 10 weeks delving into AI?
4 points by thelock85 1y ago|3 comments
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by thelock85 1y ago
I recently tried a version of this landscape analysis within a space I understand very well (CA college access nonprofits) and was shocked at how few organizations were named, let alone described in detail. Even worse, the scope and reach o
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by thelock85 1y ago
This is somewhat akin to the U.S. government's SBIR grant program. Phase I (generally $250-500K for a year)to develop and pilot novel tech. Phase II ($1M) to develop scalable tech. And Phase III to go-to-market. (I'm being intenti
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by thelock85 2y ago
In some respects, I agree. But they aren’t touching much that voters do care about and that’s where the overwhelming majority of spending comes from. Every valid path to actually reducing debt pisses off most of the electorate. It’s “chasin
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by thelock85 2y ago
So the problem is the reason to assume goodwill from the people tasked with fixing it?
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by thelock85 2y ago
No, not equally. Let’s assume the decision to investigate an inappropriate number of test animals dying (per internal complaints) is completely political. That investigation is just one of many by the inspector… perhaps the others are in mo
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by thelock85 2y ago
I don’t use TikTok but the “down” page mentioned you can still login to download data. What’s the cost and scope of providing that feature without US cloud providers?
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by thelock85 2y ago
A few weeks ago while giving a talk to some business school students, I was shocked to find most of the students and children of the faculty were homeschooled for K-12. This was a Baptist-affiliated university. I really had no clue this was
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by thelock85 2y ago
Agreed. I’m just thinking about NFL players who have crazy wardrobe leeway in and out of games, but somehow adhere to the minutiae of game time uniform codes. Not because of the insane attention they put into their craft, but because of cle

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