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- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 days ago:
That is not the case, exam evaluates learning outcome. If the student satisfies the learning outcome in the end, I don’t care how they did it.
I am only here to help the student acheive as much learning outcome as they can and in the end, assigning a score that reflect how much they have acheived.
That is the important part: in the end, it is only a letter, but that letter should reflect real skill. Yet I don’t want student to waste their precious time when they can achieve the required outcome without doing homework and/or attending classes.
- Comment on If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you? 6 days ago:
I personally feel it is exactly the sprit of community is designed for, no? This community explicitly welcome potentially stupid question in the hope that good discussions can arise from it.
I agree that this question is indeed werid and perhaps even deserves to be called “stupid question”, but I feel this is what this community is welcoming, no?
- Comment on If you found out your cousin was a billionaire (non-famous) and the CEO of a Fortune 500 company, how would you react? Would you be mad he didn’t tell you? 6 days ago:
Sorry, but why? Are they breaking any rules?
- Comment on How do wealthy people know if the people they meet are wealthy or not? 1 week ago:
poorer people generally tend to be less attractive than rich people due to lack of access to cosmetic care.
Sorry, but why is every single rich old person I see on TV literally looks like goul. .
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 1 week ago:
Elon is both building the “apocalypse-proof” (they are not) truck and the apocalypse (he really is)
- Comment on “It feels like Squid Game”: China’s workers scramble to keep up in the AI race— Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and automation fuel widespread AI anxiety. 1 week ago:
I should specify I am referring to mainland China. Hong Kong has a different health care systems, and the health care is usually considered reasonably affordable for residents (could be because people in Hong Kong are more wealthy than most of mainland China)
- Comment on “It feels like Squid Game”: China’s workers scramble to keep up in the AI race— Employees are rushing to learn new tools as layoffs and automation fuel widespread AI anxiety. 1 week ago:
No they don’t. They have state provided health care, supplemented with private options.
But they are not universal in the sense that (1) not the entire population is covered (2) health care is not close to free for most people.
There is literally a hit movie couple years ago about the difficulty to obtain affordable prescription drugs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Survive
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
I feel if everything they said is true, then this is a reasonable solution. But from my many Youtube scammer video experience, like people have already mentioned, most scammers use standard remote access software, not some bespoke APK.
- Comment on Why do people hate AI so much? 1 week ago:
I feel this reply is somewhat misguided and reiterate with most of the AI propaganda talking point.
“It is not AI, it is capitalism": It is really AI in capitalism, which is the reality we life in right now. If you take anything and put it in an utopia with a bunch of constraint, then of course it will be great. But that simply is not the world we are living in.
People hate cars, because it is a inefficient, polluting, and unsafe way to travel. But what if cars are all running on renewable energy, is super small, and never collide with pedestrian or cyclist.
Some people hate meat eating because it is inefficient and forces animal to live in inhuman conditions. But what if we can make animal photosynthesis and make them live happy, free, and full lives. Then no one will be against meat eating, but again, that is not our world right now.
Just because there is an alternative utopia where AI is perfect that doesn’t mean it is right now, and its flaws causes the hatred on the internet.
Now, most AI center are polluting, consume large amount of energy, and those AI that people mostly uses are built with stolen knowledge. Finally, society should optimize for the well-being of the people, and artist are people, AI are not. All the AI people use nowadays funnels the money to the richest few, while majority of the population, even AI experts, don’t have the means to train useful AI model as of now.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 1 week ago:
I have options to go to another country, but I choose to stay in the U.S. It certainly is not an easy decision to make, admittedly, my wife is in the U.S. makes U.S. much more attractive.
Yet, here are some aspect I have considered: - EU have repeatedly trying to push chat control, and U.K. already have strict age verification law for porn (and possibly VPN). U.S. is heading there, but at least my state has not have any of these ridiculous moves. - US is a top funder of scientific research. Now even China is taking over EU and UK, but I am certainly not going to China any time soon. There is way too much politics in Chinese academia, as far as I know. - I think education is a human right, and U.S. education is way more expensive than it should be. I don’t want to defend it. But I believe U.S. has better educations thanks to the libral art system, where student have much more chance to interact and learn from professors compare to many top UK schools. - In general, even account for the out of pocket maximum for healthcare, many U.S. job still pays more than their U.K. counterpart. This means saving money in the U.S. and later move to a lower income country is easier than saving money in a lower income country and later move to the U.S. That is working in the U.S. now gives me more liberty to move later in my career, if U.S. eventually collapse.
- Comment on Historic Chat Control Vote in the EU Parliament: MEPs Vote to End Untargeted Mass Scanning of Private Chats 2 weeks ago:
Why have we been talking about EU chat control for years. How many time have this been voted on? and can people just keep popping up chat control if the previous one fail?
- Comment on LemmyNSFW and Saidit are dead. Which Platform is next? 4 weeks ago:
I think lemmynsfw is one of tge largest lemmy instance.
- Comment on Double standards 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, I have seen the animal bleed out once, and it is hard to watch.
A small and young lamb is all tied up laying on the ground with the carotid severed. It is clearly in fear and tries very hard to get away. That struggle lasted for a long time until it eventually is exhausted and died.
I am not sure if this is how halal and kosher meat are produced though.