You mean militarize it against people you don't like but what about when it's turned back on you. Once an agency is weaponized and it neutralizes all foes, you can't just turn the machine off, you have to keep feeding it until it turns on you. Btw, it's already been militarized:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy
Koreader has a lot of options but IMO the UI is perhaps the worst I've ever used. Also has giant use case gaps that will never be fixed like the fact it can't handle vertical Japanese writing.
Just like the fantasy that these companies that outsource are earning giant profits, when a look at their 10-Ks shows pretty average profit margins for a business that wants to stay in business.
HN crowd doesn't think twice about people who try to run DOOM on a stack of pennies, but are ready to give up before trying to get algebra to run on someone with less working memory. It's weird how different the attitude is.
Have you ever been a teacher? Even a teaching assistant?
I have. Some people are dumb.
You try teaching these people (anecdotally they're less than 1% of the population, with no obvious markers, so you have to actually find one first) and then come back and tell me how it's like "getting algebra to run on someone with less working memory". If I wanted to continue that analogy, I might say that the task is like getting algebra to run on someone whose brain has a power supply that randomly shorts out and spends half its time browned out.
Because some people out there are just not easy to teach.
I'm not sure I understand your comment, this is exactly what I spent hundreds of hours of my life trying to do. Was I unclear that my entire educational career was being the person who got through to students that traditional education was giving up on?
I disagree - we have excellent tooling avaliable to cram and compile code into smallest CPUs, but our teaching methods are still the same as they were in 1800's
I think this reveals a lot of ignorance on the huge amounts of different teaching methodologies and techniques that have risen and fallen over the last 100 years.
Maybe. There's a non-zero chance that when younger millenials come to power, they will hunt down oil company insiders and force them to flee to Argentina.
Will they? Like when the hippies came to power it was all flowers and rainbows. Those in power are rarely the ones who started out as political radicals, at least on the conservative side.
Hippies were never a thing. They might even have been a psy op along the lines of MKUltra. And conservatives are losing their ability to control and discipline their younger generations even more so than the liberal side, and many of them hate corporations as vehemently as anybody.
I think the idea of "There's nothing you can do for me given the current social-political reality" too often gets conflated with "This is all I want my life to be". And even if the person has truly given up on society, I don't think society should ever give up on the person.
