Grades don’t indicate the quality of your education anyway, they indicate your performance in a class. If someone else does poorly and that benefits your grade, the quality of your education hasn’t changed, only your grade.

Eh, not revisionist, just overly simplified. Prohibition massively increased their power and relevance.

The second would be a net benefit on the rest of the class, no?

How are you harming the other people in the class? I’m assuming here that you’re being reasonably discrete, have the volume off (or have ear buds in), etc. You not paying attention doesn’t really harm anyone else.

Reading the textbook before class helps me pay attention to things I missed in the reading, and rereading it after class helps me recall stuff I ignored in my lecture notes. I have never found value in reviewing lectures, and my test scores were pretty good.

I don’t know about you, but I rarely referred to my notes later. The lectures frequently corresponded to the textbook, so I’d review the textbook again in light of what the lecture covered.

For me, handwritten notes were much more effective than digital notes because I rarely actually used the notes and taking notes was more to keep my attention on the speaker than actually recording the lecture.

Everyone works differently of course, I’m just pointing out that my experience was close to what the studies measured.

In most of the classrooms I’ve been to, there’s like one outlet for every 10 people. That’s not a reliable option, especially if you pack classes back to back like I did.

Your review process is making the difference here. Handwriting vs computer notes is looking at the difference without reviewing the notes afterward.

Handwriting sucking is irrelevant. You don’t need to read it afterward to get the benefits the study is talking about. The point of handwriting is that you need to process and summarize the information.

If you review the information later, the difference between the two will be negligible.

I personally almost never review lecture notes and instead go to the textbook. Professors can make mistakes, books are usually more accurate, but a lecture is more interactive so both have value. But I definitely prefer the text over my notes regardless.

Why wouldn’t it? If you’re not bothering others, you should be free to piss your money away.

If you’re going back and fixing it, you’re getting that absorption the article is referring to. If you’re not referring to your notes ever again, handwriting is better because it forces that absorption to happen (i.e. you need to summarize). If you want all of the content, just watch the recording.

Yup, and that’s how the US got the Mafia. We banned alcohol, but people wanted to drink, so the Mafia made that happen.

All a ban does is hurt law abiding citizens and businesses.

Yes, it goes through the government and is technically a tax, my point is that it’s not funding the government.

The point isn’t to be an effective way to redistribute money, the point is to ensure the winners earned it as much as possible. When someone “succeeds” entirely because of their parents’ wealth, we run into the same issues as we had under kings where those at the top feel like they “deserve” to be there without actually earning it. If rich people decide to donate it all to causes they support instead of having it be redistributed, that’s totally fine, because the point isn’t to help the poor, it’s to prevent generational wealth from determining winners and losers.

I rag on those too.

Our “coding challenges” aren’t all that hard, they’re similar to what you’d do on the job.

For example, we use React on the FE and Python on the BE, and here’s what we do in the first round:

• FE - basic React state use - store input from an input tag, and render in a label
• BE - write a SQL statement to join two simple tables to query something; just a SQL playground, no Python needed

And here’s what the more in depth second round looks like:

• FE junior - array functions (lots of examples with tests) or moving data between multiple components
• BE junior - simple web server (or fake one, just need a function that takes opaque data) with somewhat complex logic; we’re looking for code style (do they separate controller logic from service layer logic?)
• FE/BE senior - structure an app from scratch given very limited requirements; the point is to see what questions they ask to clarify requirements

For BE, we let them use whatever language they want, because Python is simple enough that they can learn on the job. That’s actually why we picked it, our BE requirements are simple enough that the language doesn’t matter, so we went with something familiar to ease hiring (performance-sensitive code is written natively and wrapped).

The first round is designed to take 5 min and we allot 20 min, the second round is designed to take 20 min and we allot an hour. They are asked follow up questions about changes they would’ve made if they had more time, and getting the right answer is secondary to any explanations they make. We’ve hired people who failed the challenge, provided the code was clean and the expansion was reasonable.

We’re not looking for rockstars who nail some complex challenge, we’re looking for competent professionals who can write decent code under pressure, because we will have sev 1 prod bugs and we want people who can diagnose and fix them while feeling confident enough in their fixes to make the call on whether it can go to prod that day. The challenges merely confirm what they’ve given as answers to the questions (most of which are way more complex than needed, we just want to gauge breadth of knowledge).

Yet we keep getting applicants who are surprised that we ask them to do basic coding in a technical interview. Some can’t even write syntactically correct code in a language they picked…

No, you qualify for a given primary as of a specific date, so you can only participate in one. This is more due to the local Republican party policy than law, so YMMV in other states.

I’m usually registered Libertarian, and they’re primary system is way different (need to attend a convention), so the net result is that I don’t particular in any partisan primaries (and also don’t get the door to door signature spam). I’m registered this way not because I agree with the party (the national LP is basically “GOP light”, and the local one is largely irrelevant), but because they’re the largest third party and I want to help the stats.

Which is worse, the free VPNs or the UK government?

Exactly.

I certainly agree with agencies having some amount of open access to their data, but only for things that are actually relevant. For example, the IRS should be able to check Social Security benefits to verify tax reports, but it shouldn’t see details like where their checks are being sent.

If an agency needs access to data, they should specify exactly what they need and the source agency should provide an API to only get that into.

The libertarian wing was never really very libertarian, they mostly didn’t care much about weed and wanted to actually cut spending (or at least claimed to).

Look at Mike Lee (unfortunately my Senator) he calls himself a “libertarian” because he says no a lot, but he also toes the party line when it natters and hasn’t championed any social issues I’d call “libertarian.” I changed my registration to Republican just so I could vote against this clown twice in one election.

They’re “doing business” there by serving ads to their citizens, that’s the legal basis for suing them. Whether that goes anywhere depends on the laws governing the business and any leverage UK has (say, going after advertising who do business with the company and in the UK).

Yup. We’re hiring, but the candidate pool is a minefield of utter trash, so it takes a while to hire despite having hundreds of applicants. We don’t expect much beyond basic competency, but apparently that’s too much to ask sometimes.