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This is unhelpful. People should be expected to read past headlines. The paper's abstract takes 30 seconds to read.

I can't help but think this tech war will be a positive for most of us. Both China and the US seem to think they need a rival, and if they want to do it over chips I think it can only spur on innovation in open source hardware.

I've tried something like what you're describing. Most years I'd start with a week or two of solving problems that don't involve any code at all.

For example, a day one teaser (these are 12 year olds) I liked to give was an 8 by 8 grid on the floor. They would get in groups and devise a way to move from a start to an end location. Then they would enact it, first me receiving their directions and later other students. I would of course take their directions a literally as possible, with them frequently getting exasperated ("that's not what I meant!").

We'd go from that to generalizing some rules and formulating steps. Once they had working rules, I'd add obstacles or change the start and end locations.

My goal with these was to develop the skill of seeing discrete, reusable steps, and how they mirror each other between problems. Learning loops and conditionals without ever writing coding, for example. Seeing the need for variables as storage, etc...

Interesting, because as a former CS teacher I regularly did this. We'd go through some material and then I'd demonstrate it being used in different contexts, sometimes writing code that wouldn't work and sometimes writing poor code (while loops that should be for loops, inconsistent variable names, etc...) and the kids dug pulling it apart. It's much easier to critique than to create when you're beginning coding.

On that note I've been giving a lot of thought lately on how to develop curriculum which does a better job of teaching coding skills without necessarily needing code. Design thinking, but at a smaller scale, and later translatable to beginner level problem solving. Where kids get hung up is they often don't have a toolkit for this type of thinking, and building that up, while still making it interesting, is a challenge.

You're allowed bots, so why can't we archive it and make it more easily searchable? Those programming channels with QA style threaded answers would be great to log and make searchable. Is it against Discord's ToS or something?

What does racism have to do with something that is so obviously an economic based power struggle? Preventing Chinese researchers is not racist. There seems to be no problems allowing any other Asians in. It's a uniquely China issue, and for good reason given the extent of the IP theft and threats against US interests.

It's a huge benefit to the crowds at street level, and keeps the city cooler overall because all that concrete is not being turned into a heated surface. They're not generally there to shade the buildings, but the people and roads.

The silence could have come from embarrassment at later recognition of what he'd done.

I just ran "a criminal" 8 times and got only white men.

The first point is interesting to me. Choosing not to defend the 2nd amendment while defending the first. Thank for the info.

In the past the ACLU has defended hate groups right to freedom of speech. Do you have evidence that they'd do something to the contrary?

I don't think US camps are anti-science as much they are against a small subset of science which disagrees with their religious beliefs. There are no anti-relativity or anti-magnetism groups as far as I know.

In China there are plenty of anti-vaxxers as well as a large number who would balk at anything implying being gay is biologically normal. They can't really form groups for this sort of thing, obviously, so you don't hear about it as much.

Most Chinese have probably never given a thought as to whether they are pro science or not. That seems to be more an American preoccupation. My Chinese relatives have all sorts if unscientific beliefs based around food and folk superstitions, and they are highly educated.

I'd wager that without hfts liquidity would be just fine. Maybe smaller stocks wouldn't become the battleground for hft algos, but aside from that they're mostly penny skimming vultures that create the illusion of liquidity as they hop in and out of stuff at fractions of a second.

I'm in my 40s and haven't had one, but I've also never really figured out what I want my life to be like. In truth the question was always more what do I want to do right now? What you want life to be like will continually change, and to me, it seems like those who don't accept that end up disappointed.

I'm currently in a transition period, seeing if changing course from my present occupation is possible. I did the same in my 20s and 30s without difficulty, though it gets harder as you age. If I can good, but if I can't, then it's still ok. Make the best of what's available and enjoy what you have.

Life is a long series of decisions and then you're dead. What you do doesn't really matter, even if the pressing weight of it right now says otherwise. Make life choices that won't pigeonhole you and be open to opportunities you may not expect.

There are so many cities (I'd say it's the majority in the world), with mixed use zoning which work wonderfully. Lower floors are offices or businesses and upper floors are apartments. Why is this so difficult?

Great quote, thanks for sharing.

There's also an increased distance between those doing the actual work and those making decisions about how it should be done. Bureaucratic depth keeps any real change from taking place, instead leaving those on the ground level to try and work within a set growing rules. Any attempt to affect change has to be filtered through so many levels and takes so long.

As a longtime teacher, I don't think there are any solutions that can effectively reform existing educational institutions. I also don't think there are any solutions which can affect change which won't leave some group(s) disadvantaged.

One thing I'd like to see is a return to schools and districts which are allowed to operate with more autonomy and with budgets not tied to a local tax base, or federal money tied to test scores. I'd also like to see ways teachers and administrators can effectively remove repeat offenders from classes. Teachers are unable to create effective learning environments when they have no way maintain order, which seems to be the case in many schools. Let poor parenting blowback on the parents and maybe you'll get parents to take some responsibility.

All that said, I don't know if it'll change much. The culture in America doesn't respect the value of education, nor educators in the way it used to. Teach in Asia, Africa and even Europe and you'll see a palpable difference in the way people view education. As a teacher you're able to improve your craft as opposed to surviving day to day.

I think this is a good coping mechanism, though I disagree that you should always follow your heart. We are often not mature or knowledgeable enough, and our heart makes dumb, impulsive decisions which can hurt us and the ones we love. Our practical, rational side is there to temper that part of us.

Cultivate wisdom so that you can live a good life and die without regrets is better to me than following your heart.

You have the choice to ignore the hi. Seems like a non-issue.

These are great. Reminds me of some of the puzzles from hackthissite.org.

Do you mind me asking what you did after you left teaching?

Not OP, but I've known/taught autistic kids who would seem to fall under that umbrella.

Does the issue here lie in not focusing on a singular thing, or allowing yourself to get stressed about the things you're expected to do? If you're constantly worrying about your todo list then maybe you should look at why that is, instead.

- Is your list too long?

- Should you even make a list?

- Is the stress based on your own, possibly unhealthy, expectations.

I think op is making a rust joke more than anything else.

Strong in China. I haven't seen them much elsewhere.

Could you be more specific what is difficult about local development? I've used it locally and had little difficulty.

Overconsumption certainly is, and that's tied to population.

I've been teaching CS at the high school level for 15 years and the biggest pain point has been breaking kids out of the way they've been taught to approach learning. Since everything is so test focused, what they learn in most subjects is to get a decent grade they need to read, regurgitate and expand using a predefined set of keywords. Test questions are predictable and formulaic.

Then they get to CS where anything code based requires them to tackle a novel situation and to actually think things through logically, and they panic. They're not used to breaking down larger problems into sensible parts or taking those and creating new solutions. Basically, they don't understand how to iterate on their design and slowly suss out an answer. I usually spend the first months teaching Python and showing them the process of problem solving with code, walking through my thinking each time and how I'd use my resources to find what I need.

The only subject which comes close is math, and it's far more obvious what methods to apply and the steps are better defined.

Can concur, I hate it. Well, most of it. Exercise yes, but the rest seems lazy or overly nit picky.

The internet brought everyone and their opinion to the table. It used to be that debate was done within smaller circles, and the wayward elements within those were tolerated to a larger degree, but the rest, the outsiders, were never let in.

Now anyone can weigh in on anything that is presented online. You are no longer debating amongst your "clan" but amongst all clans, many of which won't really understand where you're coming from and will invariably disagree.