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by timst4 2y ago
This is one fast coup! Congrats, Putin! You won
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by timst4 2y ago
This is the war on Science. Next comes the war on Education. The obliteration of democracy comes next. If you imagine Trump gives up this level of power without bloodshed in the streets you are deluding yourself.
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by timst4 2y ago
And Facebook and X are not advocacy organizations vehemently pushing an agenda? The fact that there is an organization looking to speak for teenagers and their rights to privacy in the face of the aggressiveness of FAANG lobbying should be
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by timst4 2y ago
Elections have consequences
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by timst4 2y ago
I see the Disrupt movement has matured. Too bad the plan all along was to stick someone else with the externalities.
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by timst4 2y ago
OLWEUS most likely
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by timst4 2y ago
The future iterations of this are purely terrifying. This is so elegantly demonstrated by the Oscar Nominated short film “Please Hold” from 2022. Picked up by mistake by a roving police drone, a young man is incarcerated autonomously and ha
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by timst4 2y ago
The fact that Tiktok wholesale bought the user base for musical.ly, largely preteen children, and converted them to an entirely different app meant to addict them and harvest their data seems pretty unconscionable.
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by timst4 2y ago
So as someone who teaches robotics to middle school Students, FIRST lego is still the best program for kids. If you would like to learn CAD, EE, 3D printing, and microcontrollers, then certainly go the battle bots route. However, this will
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Ask HN: How are you preparing for the effects of climate change?
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by timst4 3y ago
Chief Seattle had it right all along it seems[0]. We should have been aggressive about considering the impact of technology on the next seven generations. It’s not too late to start of course, but it is too late to avoid dire planetary chan
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by timst4 3y ago
As if anyone had a choice about climate change. Cigarettes, oxy, sugar, and carbon are all alike in that their detrimental effects were hidden, downplayed, or denied for decades. Now, here we are with a destroyed ecosystem and rampant addic
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by timst4 3y ago
This is one of the most flawed arguments that get made. I’ve been to many places in North America and Europe. Everywhere you go, direct sunlight above 65F is nearly unbearable. Air temperature is one thing, but we are super heating the enti
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by timst4 4y ago
Middle School educator here. I can assure you that your daughters will not be alone when it comes to a moratorium on social media. However, the girls they may very well want to be friends with may be very much into social media and group ch
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by timst4 4y ago
Catan or DND has a similar competitive yet low stakes vibe. Here’s my secret: I host a night about once every two months and I bake soft pretzel bites with varying dipping sauces. People know I’m going to bake pretzels and this familiarity
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by timst4 4y ago
This is a great project by CMU; however, it is designed for high school students specifically. An analogue to this would be Code.org. It is not related to their undergraduate CS curriculum which is rather rigorous.
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by timst4 4y ago
Cool. They’ll bounce back fast after this mass extinction that’s happening right now. That is, unless humans succeed in terraforming Earth into a Mars clone. Then all life is screwed.
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by timst4 4y ago
The slow moving disaster that is the Colorado River is a particularly American disaster. The manifest destiny mindset coming to an abrupt end. In the book Cadillac Desert Marc Reisner asserts that this could be the albatross that contribute
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by timst4 4y ago
Certainly you are right. If all the golf courses are closed and agriculture is transitioned to more stable locales, the Southwest would have a fighting chance. However, when you take into account human nature, especially American human natu
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by timst4 4y ago
Anthropogenic warming is increasing at a non-linear rate. If you are not preparing practically, financially, and emotionally for this fact, you are being myopic. I still hold out hope for fusion-based geo-engineering or radical innovation
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by timst4 4y ago
Ah, sad to hear it. As much as he was shackled to the 60s, some of his more recent work [0] was fascinating. For someone who fell backwards into fame, he was devoted to his art until the end. Peace to you, Croz [0] https://youtub
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by timst4 4y ago
I used to work on a coffee plantation of about 1000 trees in Kona. The owners ran a very lean operation. Coffee doesn’t require much maintenance outside of picking season. They had one farm manager and a handful of WWOOFers (work trade volu
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by timst4 4y ago
They need to develop strong boundaries against predatory tech. FAANG et al are narcissistic and uncaring towards an entire global generation of children. You teach them to stay away from strangers? Teach them to stay away from harmful techn
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by timst4 4y ago
I strongly recommend this [0] lecture by Abraham Maslow on the nature of purpose. TLDR: Puepose is the defining motivation behind self-actualization. [0]: https://www.esalen.org/podcasts/abraham-maslows-1966-lecture...
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by timst4 4y ago
Buy an EV3 kit (maybe at a reduced cost) and flash micropython onto the brick.
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by timst4 4y ago
Hummingbird robotics kits are great for creative or STEAM projects
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by timst4 4y ago
I enjoyed seeing that Al Franken was the writer of this. Platinum level satire it is.
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by timst4 4y ago
I agree full-heartedly as a dutiful member of Citizens Climate Lobby. However, if we can’t pass this legislation with a Democratic political stack in place, then when?
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by timst4 4y ago
This is already off. I would add a week or more to the prediction. We are in the middle of a cold snap but I haven’t seen it affect foliage that much.
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by timst4 4y ago
Yes. I am your age and feel similarly about YouTube. However, I teach young people and they have zero boundaries with technology. Worse is that their cognition has evolved with technology such as YouTube, at its core. Turning off YT would

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