This was my coping mechanism for dyslexia! I follow along in my head and on the page at the same time, and when they don't match, I know there's a problem.
PS: Also read very fast, as previously stated; same comprehension level as you.
I have exactly the same thing: I normally read very quickly. I can still recite the entire first chapter of "The Hobbit", which I read in 5th grade, from memory, or the Edward Gorey poem "The Wuggley Ump", which I read in 7th as a dramatic reading exercise on cold reading text.
250 pages in 1.5-2 hours, depending on grade level.
I can speed-read as well, but I tend to get that number down to about 15 minutes. I don't enjoy speed reading, since it tends to blow my book budget, and I miss things -- but as I said, I don't normally speed read, unless I'm getting dropped into a meeting in place of someone else, and they are likely to try to "pull one over on the substitute person" (then I enjoy it immensely, but not for the reading itself).
Please don't lump people who read quickly with those who speed-read. It's not my fault your teachers taught you "whole word reading" in school.
Of course they need to make better decisions. But.. what if they're not capable of doing that?
Taking someone's decision right from them is called alternately "prison" and "involuntary long term commitment to a psychiatric facility".
Obviously the people making *THAT* decision should think long and hard, and should, of course, be put in power by having their election campaigns funded by private mental institutions and prisons, who want the state paying them to house inmates... right?
When Amazon goes to reclaim the property to begin building, they'll be reviled for taking the shelter away...
Instead of calling them "homeless", just reclassify them as "an invasive species". Problem solved!
Worst case, they are already in an Amazon warehouse; turn the robots back on, and drop-ship them to everyone who has bought on Amazon recently, but who was too cheap to pay for "Prime"...
People are not homeless because they are poor. They are homeless because they are mentally ill, usually combined with alcohol and drug abuse.
The trope that all drug abusers are abusing because they are simply uncared for mentally ill persons is really pretty bogus.
Having worked with chronically mentally ill persons, the primary self-medication is alcohol, because it's socially acceptable for drunks to talk to themselves or people who aren't there. Not all alcoholics, nor are most other drug users, such as heroin junkies and meth heads, self-medicating mentally ill persons, they are persons who have a substance abuse problem.
When you blame all drug abuse on mental illness, you are doing a disservice to the mentally ill, just as when you blame untreated mental illness on an uncaring society, rather than on the supreme court decisions regarding involuntary treatment of the mentally ill brought by the NY ACLU and amicus curie'd by the Church of Scientology.
We need to address both poverty and homelessness, but they are two very different issues.
That's something on which we can definitely agree.
It was an anecdote about an incident that was not isolated. It's rather common.
You seem to assume that she was having the perfect day, with nothing clouding her abilities.
OK, I'll cop to that. You're right: she could have been high on weed, or something similar, making her unable to do simple math.
Your desire to overlook common courtesies when witnessing someone having difficulty and leaping to the conclusion of "they're fucked in the head" speaks more of you than the hapless person in your story.
And now, you are projecting your own bias. I in fact did tell her what the change would be, after she looked upset, and told her to "just type the amount into the cash register".
But you are right to call her "hapless"; she was definitely "unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, out of luck, ill-starred, ill-fated, jinxed, cursed, doomed" by having had to learn via Common Core methods.
And yes, if you can not do simple math, you *are* "fucked in the head". The only question is "who did the fucking?". Genetics is one option, drug use is another, but in this context, we were clearly discussing "improper teaching methodology".
If that was the case I'd tar your entire generation as feckless muppets based on your wonderfully-illuminating condemnation of an entire generation based on one person.
You mean like "werepants" did, in the post to which I was replying, since the only way to describe the word "change" in the context of werepants' post is as a delta from a past status quo, thus implying a generational difficulty with new ways of teaching being based on generational bias, rather than rational argument.
Which is, of course, why I chose a different definition of the word for my interpretation, and reflected werepants' generation bias back at them, and provided an example where that bias was, in fact, justified.
sure, because that's a new problem. I've seen this for decades. Most people can't do math in their head, and most cashiers today didn't learn common core, which, as established above, started around 2009. I would posit that common core might make it easier for people to do simple math in their head.
Save the complex paper techniques for people who really need to do hard math.
You realize that for an 18 year old cashier, that would mean 6.5 years ago at the shortest, which would have made her 11.5 years old at the time, which would have put her in 6th grade at the time "it really caught on", according to you, right?
If you're adding 387932874 and 387236154 for the purposes of determining the hue of a pixel that will be onscreen for 1/60 second, does it really matter if you forgot to carry a number down near 10^4?
YES!
It damn well does!
Plus I need it at a bazillion frames a second, even though the refresh clock on my monitor is 120Hz, and it's impossible to display all but 120 of those frames!
I know whining about common core is a popular pastime among people who have an irrational fear of change,[...]
Actually, most of the Millennials who learned math via Common Core have an irrational fear of change.
For example, I tried to give this young woman at Panda Express 12 dollars and 12 cents, because the bill was 6 dollars and 87 cents, so that I could get a $5 bill and one quarter back from the transaction so I wouldn't have to carry around so many separate bills or extra coins, and she looked apoplectic.
No danger of fire or permanent bricking, either. 50 C is far lower than the flashpoint of anything but an accelerant, and drain or disconnect the battery, and the problem goes away, just like before.
Sure, this sounds like a nasty bug but how did someone go about discovering it? Is this some tinfoil hat theory that setting the date to 1970 keeps the NSA from snooping your calls?
It was mostly discovered because it's trivially obvious that any method of setting the date on the iPhone is functionally equivalent to any other method of setting the date, and that as such, you can exploit the bug from any time set method that the device supports.
We even discussed this in several forums already, and the fix is to update to 9.3.1, since they are only exploiting a bug that already existed. Further, it still only exists on 64 bit iPhones (32 bit iPhones are "safe"), and it can also be exploited by emulating a cell tower, instead of emulating a WiFi hot spot that the iPhone already trusts, since all cell phones pretty much trust the time stamp sent by cell towers.
Not at all ironically, you have to asymptotically approach the time, as well, since NTP has built in protections against a large time drift in the first place; the cell tower attack technically doesn't use NTP, and so would not have this "problem".
There was a two and a half year cliff. We are just on our way into that now. Yes, this does mean a reduction in so-called "Cadillac Plans", orwise known as "Good health insurance.
In addition, in states like New York and California, which set up exchanges, have their own sunset coming on the federal subsidy; this was the big argument between Red States, like Alabama, who refused to set up exchanges of their own, and the federal government last year when those sunsets started to kick in, and the question was whether the sunset provisions applied in those states, or whether the fed, if it wanted people to have the subsidy, would have to continue paying all of it themselves, rather than the states having to pick up the bill.
Ironically, it was tied to creating a state exchange, so there are good legal arguments why the fed would have to carry the load they willingly shouldered when they picked up for the lack of state exchanges.
The jury is still out on who is going to foot the extra Medicaid costs, but the bill is definitely coming due for the unions, and they are seriously unhappy.
I expect that if this keeps up for any significant period of time, since it's on the order of 22% of Verizon employees, if we are to believe the 40,000 employee numbers, that we will be seeing Verizon call centers opening up in the Philippines to take advantage of the recently fast-tracked TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) agreement.
"May you live in interesting times..." applies, I think.
The article suggests that schools learn from this: it won't happen.
This is a highly qualified person running a science club. But he does not have a Masters in Education, and therefore he is not qualified to be a teacher in most of the United States, because the teachers unions closely control entry into the field through an artificial barrier of credentials that have nothing to do with whether or not this guy is a good teacher, or the student are learning.
This is also primarily why this situation is being handled as a "club", rather than as an education program.
Schools can't learn from this because they do not accept volunteer help from extremely qualified individuals.
Do you know who was not allowed to fill in for a high school computer science teacher?
Vinton Fucking Cerf.
IBM used to run a program where they would give a year sabbatical to any employee to volunteer to teach in a K-12 school for a year. IBM shut this program down. They didn't want to shut this program down, but it turns out that the research scientists at IBM's TJ Watson and Almaden Centers, and the regular scientists and engineers elsewhere -- no longer met the credentialing requirements which would be required to allow them to teach in public schools.
The program lingered on for a bout two years, but it was mostly the same people who had been in it before, and who were teaching in Private and Parochial schools, rather than in public schools.
Public education in the United States is a fucking joke these days.
Why are there laws and regulations preventing certain people form seeking employment based on past convictions?
Certain types of criminal behaviour are motivated by incurable mental illnesses.
For example, pedophiliac child molestation or other criminal behaviour based on sexual gratification.
These people are generally safe to release into society if they do not have unsupervised contact with their preferred targets; on the other hand, they will never be cured until we figure out exactly what part of their brain is broken, drill a hole in their head, and *cut it out of them surgically*.
Since that's unlikely to happen any time soon, and they will remain mentally ill -- and we have established at the supreme court level that people have a right to refuse treatment for mental illness, even if we discovered a cure tomorrow, and those people will remain mentally ill despite the availability of a cure -- we restrict their ability to interact with society in ways which would encourage recidivism, rather than simply throwing away the key or imposing the death penalty.
This is the same reason you are unlikely to hire someone with a gambling addiction and a prior embezzlement conviction to be a bank teller: HIPAA protects them from disclosure of their underlying untreated/untreatable medical problem, but there is no such protection from disclosure of an historical criminal record from them acting out antisocially based on that problem.
Note: There is some argument in the literature that all criminal behaviour is a form of illness; I personally don't believe that: I believe that there are some people who are simply assholes; however, since neither is generally fixable, our options are permanent incarceration, or release + restrictions on their right of free association in situations likely to result in recidivism.
You don't hire an alcoholic to tend bar, you don't hire a gambling addict to work in a casino, you don't hire a rapist to work in a women's shelter, you don't hire Jeffrey Dahmer to work in a fast food restaurant next to a mortuary.
No, it shows exactly the opposite. That laws can be ignored,...
Exactly. How many billions are they worth? I think they should have to pay it before the end of the week, or take them offline until it's paid.
And if it IS paid?
Put them back online, because they've paid the government its pound of flesh, and therefore everything is all hunky-dory.
Because this isn't really about protecting the public against deceptive trade practices, it's about revenue collection based on allegations of deceptive trade practices, and it really doesn't matter if the trade practices were even deceptive in the first place, does it, since the important part is the revenue collection.
More gold leaf for city hall! Hell! Fine them again! More gold leaf for *every* city hall, not just San Francisco!
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That is why it is best no to have this kind of cure. All it does is mess up the actuary tables for Social Security.
This is a good point.
Because it is our reason for existing to make actuaries happy because...
OK, I can't hold out any longer: FUCK THEM.
"Oh my holy hell, you sank my business model!"
"And?"
"But it's MY business model!"
"And?"
"But .. but .. but ..."
"And?"
Not really caring about some "bro" and his business model.
That makes plenty of sense to burn 10 gallons of kerosene to get a loaf of bread.
OK this did not start out as a pun, but...
Do we really think that anyone who wants a "hoverboard" gives a flying F*ck about safety?
(The pun is in the "flying" part)
It's a trade-off, and some people: the trade is worth it.
"You can go live on Mars if you never plan on coming back; deeply troubling".
"Uh... yeah... when's boarding again?"
LOL.
This was my coping mechanism for dyslexia! I follow along in my head and on the page at the same time, and when they don't match, I know there's a problem.
PS: Also read very fast, as previously stated; same comprehension level as you.
THANK YOU!
I have exactly the same thing: I normally read very quickly. I can still recite the entire first chapter of "The Hobbit", which I read in 5th grade, from memory, or the Edward Gorey poem "The Wuggley Ump", which I read in 7th as a dramatic reading exercise on cold reading text.
250 pages in 1.5-2 hours, depending on grade level.
I can speed-read as well, but I tend to get that number down to about 15 minutes. I don't enjoy speed reading, since it tends to blow my book budget, and I miss things -- but as I said, I don't normally speed read, unless I'm getting dropped into a meeting in place of someone else, and they are likely to try to "pull one over on the substitute person" (then I enjoy it immensely, but not for the reading itself).
Please don't lump people who read quickly with those who speed-read. It's not my fault your teachers taught you "whole word reading" in school.
How the heck would using Rust instead have prevented these kinds of incidents from happening?
Software that can't successfully accept network connections is hard to remotely exploit.
Of course they need to make better decisions. But.. what if they're not capable of doing that?
Taking someone's decision right from them is called alternately "prison" and "involuntary long term commitment to a psychiatric facility".
Obviously the people making *THAT* decision should think long and hard, and should, of course, be put in power by having their election campaigns funded by private mental institutions and prisons, who want the state paying them to house inmates... right?
The homeless must legally be allowed to be somewhere! It cheaper to house them than to jail or hospitalize them. Some 40% or so are VETS
I hear Detroit is practically empty...
When Amazon goes to reclaim the property to begin building, they'll be reviled for taking the shelter away...
Instead of calling them "homeless", just reclassify them as "an invasive species". Problem solved!
Worst case, they are already in an Amazon warehouse; turn the robots back on, and drop-ship them to everyone who has bought on Amazon recently, but who was too cheap to pay for "Prime"...
People are not homeless because they are poor. They are homeless because they are mentally ill, usually combined with alcohol and drug abuse.
The trope that all drug abusers are abusing because they are simply uncared for mentally ill persons is really pretty bogus.
Having worked with chronically mentally ill persons, the primary self-medication is alcohol, because it's socially acceptable for drunks to talk to themselves or people who aren't there. Not all alcoholics, nor are most other drug users, such as heroin junkies and meth heads, self-medicating mentally ill persons, they are persons who have a substance abuse problem.
When you blame all drug abuse on mental illness, you are doing a disservice to the mentally ill, just as when you blame untreated mental illness on an uncaring society, rather than on the supreme court decisions regarding involuntary treatment of the mentally ill brought by the NY ACLU and amicus curie'd by the Church of Scientology.
We need to address both poverty and homelessness, but they are two very different issues.
That's something on which we can definitely agree.
Why don't you come up with a better way to visualize the mental process this is illustrating?
Hunh.
I was not aware that all kids were visual learners, as your statement seems to assume, since you want them to visualize the result.
However, men tend to have brain structures that are, on average, more visually oriented than the brain structures in women.
Perhaps this method of teaching, to only visual learnes, explains the dearth of women in STEM...
"extensions that Google somehow magically detects that they violate the policy will be removed from the Chrome Web Store"
OK, FTFY... all better!
One person does not a generation make.
It was an anecdote about an incident that was not isolated. It's rather common.
You seem to assume that she was having the perfect day, with nothing clouding her abilities.
OK, I'll cop to that. You're right: she could have been high on weed, or something similar, making her unable to do simple math.
Your desire to overlook common courtesies when witnessing someone having difficulty and leaping to the conclusion of "they're fucked in the head" speaks more of you than the hapless person in your story.
And now, you are projecting your own bias. I in fact did tell her what the change would be, after she looked upset, and told her to "just type the amount into the cash register".
But you are right to call her "hapless"; she was definitely "unfortunate, unlucky, luckless, out of luck, ill-starred, ill-fated, jinxed, cursed, doomed" by having had to learn via Common Core methods.
And yes, if you can not do simple math, you *are* "fucked in the head". The only question is "who did the fucking?". Genetics is one option, drug use is another, but in this context, we were clearly discussing "improper teaching methodology".
If that was the case I'd tar your entire generation as feckless muppets based on your wonderfully-illuminating condemnation of an entire generation based on one person.
You mean like "werepants" did, in the post to which I was replying, since the only way to describe the word "change" in the context of werepants' post is as a delta from a past status quo, thus implying a generational difficulty with new ways of teaching being based on generational bias, rather than rational argument.
Which is, of course, why I chose a different definition of the word for my interpretation, and reflected werepants' generation bias back at them, and provided an example where that bias was, in fact, justified.
sure, because that's a new problem. I've seen this for decades. Most people can't do math in their head, and most cashiers today didn't learn common core, which, as established above, started around 2009. I would posit that common core might make it easier for people to do simple math in their head.
Save the complex paper techniques for people who really need to do hard math.
You realize that for an 18 year old cashier, that would mean 6.5 years ago at the shortest, which would have made her 11.5 years old at the time, which would have put her in 6th grade at the time "it really caught on", according to you, right?
So yes, she was taught "Common Core" methods.
pretty sure people didn't switch to be "more efficient", wasn't the idea to save paper ?
Yes, it was to save paper.
That stuff doesn't grow on trees...
If you're adding 387932874 and 387236154 for the purposes of determining the hue of a pixel that will be onscreen for 1/60 second, does it really matter if you forgot to carry a number down near 10^4?
YES!
It damn well does!
Plus I need it at a bazillion frames a second, even though the refresh clock on my monitor is 120Hz, and it's impossible to display all but 120 of those frames!
Also, I want a pony!
I know whining about common core is a popular pastime among people who have an irrational fear of change,[...]
Actually, most of the Millennials who learned math via Common Core have an irrational fear of change.
For example, I tried to give this young woman at Panda Express 12 dollars and 12 cents, because the bill was 6 dollars and 87 cents, so that I could get a $5 bill and one quarter back from the transaction so I wouldn't have to carry around so many separate bills or extra coins, and she looked apoplectic.
I thought she was going to cry.
She simply could not cope with the change...
Because she could not do simple math in her head.
Also...
No danger of fire or permanent bricking, either. 50 C is far lower than the flashpoint of anything but an accelerant, and drain or disconnect the battery, and the problem goes away, just like before.
Sure, this sounds like a nasty bug but how did someone go about discovering it? Is this some tinfoil hat theory that setting the date to 1970 keeps the NSA from snooping your calls?
It was mostly discovered because it's trivially obvious that any method of setting the date on the iPhone is functionally equivalent to any other method of setting the date, and that as such, you can exploit the bug from any time set method that the device supports.
We even discussed this in several forums already, and the fix is to update to 9.3.1, since they are only exploiting a bug that already existed. Further, it still only exists on 64 bit iPhones (32 bit iPhones are "safe"), and it can also be exploited by emulating a cell tower, instead of emulating a WiFi hot spot that the iPhone already trusts, since all cell phones pretty much trust the time stamp sent by cell towers.
Not at all ironically, you have to asymptotically approach the time, as well, since NTP has built in protections against a large time drift in the first place; the cell tower attack technically doesn't use NTP, and so would not have this "problem".
Pretty much, this is a "nothing to see here".
Slow news day before income tax day, anyone?
http://www.weeklystandard.com/...
There was a two and a half year cliff. We are just on our way into that now. Yes, this does mean a reduction in so-called "Cadillac Plans", orwise known as "Good health insurance.
In addition, in states like New York and California, which set up exchanges, have their own sunset coming on the federal subsidy; this was the big argument between Red States, like Alabama, who refused to set up exchanges of their own, and the federal government last year when those sunsets started to kick in, and the question was whether the sunset provisions applied in those states, or whether the fed, if it wanted people to have the subsidy, would have to continue paying all of it themselves, rather than the states having to pick up the bill.
Ironically, it was tied to creating a state exchange, so there are good legal arguments why the fed would have to carry the load they willingly shouldered when they picked up for the lack of state exchanges.
The jury is still out on who is going to foot the extra Medicaid costs, but the bill is definitely coming due for the unions, and they are seriously unhappy.
I expect that if this keeps up for any significant period of time, since it's on the order of 22% of Verizon employees, if we are to believe the 40,000 employee numbers, that we will be seeing Verizon call centers opening up in the Philippines to take advantage of the recently fast-tracked TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership) agreement.
"May you live in interesting times..." applies, I think.
open the damn pod bay doors when I want it to?
No.
H + 1 = I
A + 1 = B
L + 1 = M
Thought everyone knew that...
The article suggests that schools learn from this: it won't happen.
This is a highly qualified person running a science club. But he does not have a Masters in Education, and therefore he is not qualified to be a teacher in most of the United States, because the teachers unions closely control entry into the field through an artificial barrier of credentials that have nothing to do with whether or not this guy is a good teacher, or the student are learning.
This is also primarily why this situation is being handled as a "club", rather than as an education program.
Schools can't learn from this because they do not accept volunteer help from extremely qualified individuals.
Do you know who was not allowed to fill in for a high school computer science teacher?
Vinton Fucking Cerf.
IBM used to run a program where they would give a year sabbatical to any employee to volunteer to teach in a K-12 school for a year. IBM shut this program down. They didn't want to shut this program down, but it turns out that the research scientists at IBM's TJ Watson and Almaden Centers, and the regular scientists and engineers elsewhere -- no longer met the credentialing requirements which would be required to allow them to teach in public schools.
The program lingered on for a bout two years, but it was mostly the same people who had been in it before, and who were teaching in Private and Parochial schools, rather than in public schools.
Public education in the United States is a fucking joke these days.
No. Contrary to popular consensus, there are smart people in the government.
However, the smart people in the government are on that same watchlist...
Who gets sued for misleading advertising?
Kevin Trudeau, for one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Why are there laws and regulations preventing certain people form seeking employment based on past convictions?
Certain types of criminal behaviour are motivated by incurable mental illnesses.
For example, pedophiliac child molestation or other criminal behaviour based on sexual gratification.
These people are generally safe to release into society if they do not have unsupervised contact with their preferred targets; on the other hand, they will never be cured until we figure out exactly what part of their brain is broken, drill a hole in their head, and *cut it out of them surgically*.
Since that's unlikely to happen any time soon, and they will remain mentally ill -- and we have established at the supreme court level that people have a right to refuse treatment for mental illness, even if we discovered a cure tomorrow, and those people will remain mentally ill despite the availability of a cure -- we restrict their ability to interact with society in ways which would encourage recidivism, rather than simply throwing away the key or imposing the death penalty.
This is the same reason you are unlikely to hire someone with a gambling addiction and a prior embezzlement conviction to be a bank teller: HIPAA protects them from disclosure of their underlying untreated/untreatable medical problem, but there is no such protection from disclosure of an historical criminal record from them acting out antisocially based on that problem.
Note: There is some argument in the literature that all criminal behaviour is a form of illness; I personally don't believe that: I believe that there are some people who are simply assholes; however, since neither is generally fixable, our options are permanent incarceration, or release + restrictions on their right of free association in situations likely to result in recidivism.
You don't hire an alcoholic to tend bar, you don't hire a gambling addict to work in a casino, you don't hire a rapist to work in a women's shelter, you don't hire Jeffrey Dahmer to work in a fast food restaurant next to a mortuary.
Sometimes: common sense *is* a factor.
No, it shows exactly the opposite. That laws can be ignored, ...
Exactly. How many billions are they worth? I think they should have to pay it before the end of the week, or take them offline until it's paid.
And if it IS paid?
Put them back online, because they've paid the government its pound of flesh, and therefore everything is all hunky-dory.
Because this isn't really about protecting the public against deceptive trade practices, it's about revenue collection based on allegations of deceptive trade practices, and it really doesn't matter if the trade practices were even deceptive in the first place, does it, since the important part is the revenue collection.
More gold leaf for city hall! Hell! Fine them again! More gold leaf for *every* city hall, not just San Francisco!