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Not at all. I don’t have expertise in this topic so I’m not in a position to make a point (your take is very low IQ btw). The economist Thomas Sowell argued that government policies like affirmative action misplaced students and turned them into academic failures whereas they could have succeeded at a different college. He has written a few books about the topic as well as his own journey through the US education system.
A testable hypothesis could be that socioeconomic status has become an increasingly strong predictor of GPA disparity over time and that it interacts more strongly with race and/or gender over time. The interaction means that the effect of socioeconomic status is amplified by race/gender-based policies. This model assumes all schools are inflating their grades at the same rate but this assumption can be relaxed. It assumes that affirmative action policies are more widespread at public colleges and that private colleges are more selective in who they admit (this could also be modeled for individual colleges if AA policy could somehow be quantified).
More meritocratic policies should be better at placing students into institutions that are better matched to their ability. For example, a state college that has to admit the top 10% from each high school in a state would be more likely to misplace students than a private college that is free to pick from the top 10% of students across the whole state and, due to their parents higher income, probably also went to better high schools. Students who fall behind also reduce the quality of the education received by other students, thereby exacerbating the GPA underperformance while increasing the cost of education.
My life improved significantly when I removed access to "information on demand" from my phone. I have uninstalled / disabled all browsers and app stores using ADB, retaining only the essential apps (maps, communications, wallets, etc.).
A phone is an experience blocker; people primarily use theirs to distract themselves from uncomfortable emotions like boredom and loneliness. Life becomes much better when you stop self-medicating and instead learn to sit with these feelings.
I have dedicated environments for dedicated tasks. I can only access the internet via my PC. For good measure, I made it a standing desk.
Personally I have had enough internet for one lifetime, so I try and stay in the real world as much as possible...!
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Hello. I'm checking in on you guys after a little sabatical. Hope all is well.
Seems like I didn't miss much... Bitcoin is very boring, after all. As good money should be.
I remain fully allocated. I sold some sats for an electric bike half a year ago, but that's about it.
Observations:
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Surprised (and suspicious) at how deranged the filter debate has become.
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Pleased that SN is still going strong.
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Lightning remains the most interesting project / ecosystem in Bitcoin. Nothing else (Ordinals, BitVM, Taproot Assets, Ark, etc.) has gained traction. Lesson in that.
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Podcasters shilling doomed treasury companies has been extremely funny.
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So-called libertarians sucking Trump's cock over the SBR has been even funnier.
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After the ruling of Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, which invalidated segregated-schooling laws, school segregation took de facto form. School segregation declined rapidly during the late 1960s and early 1970s as the government became strict on schools' plans to combat segregation more effectively as a result of Green v. County School Board of New Kent County.[2] Voluntary segregation by income appears to have increased since 1990.[excerpt from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_segregation_in_the_United_States]
"Limited evidence on school economic segregation makes documenting trends
difficult, but students appear to be more segregated by income across
schools and districts today than in 1990"
[Reardon & Owens (2014) https://sci-hub.st/10.1146/annurev-soc-071913-043152]
Yes, but governments are the biggest criminals that want to know how much money they can steal from you when you become an enemy of the state. Right now, "drug dealers" and "CSAM" perverts are the enemy, but in the 1940's, Japanese people in the US and Jewish people in Germany were the enemies. Tools like graphene are important to protect people from government criminals who make identity a crime.
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You could have multiple nodes running in different locations and connect to them remotely while you're travelling. But yeah, it's irritating if bitcoin core or lightning crashes while you're away and you can't physically access it to troubleshoot.
I'm not sure how best to deal with this securely. Also not sure how vulnerable self-hosted nodes are to DDOS attacks. Is this why people prefer to host their nodes on a server?
When i close my eyes i still see #FF00EB ;D
Simple solution: Host your own full bitcoin node(s) and lightning node(s).
It costs a few hundred USD up front with minimal monthly maintenance fees. What's needed is an investment of time which can be leveraged using education.
Once you have your own node you too can engage in punitive forms of censorship by disconnecting peers and closing channels with nodes that you don't like.
For example, nodes that use kitsch colors (#ff00eb ewww) or include non-ASCII characters in their alias ;D
I was a Flight Instructor for several years... I also went from Airline Pilot to Bitcoiner which is something I'm going to post about soon.
I would... answer any questions if you had any or I could help in any way
Thank you for creating such excellent and accessible educational content for bitcoin!
The youtube comments section on your latest video is bombarded by scam bots and is totally unusable, unlike stacker news :)
Any plans to do a BTC session on how to use stacker news, lnurl-auth in a more/less private way?
One day, when we are all dust, Bitcoin will still be here.
Cranking out blocks every 10 minutes.
Validating transactions, destroying and creating UTXOs.
That is a thing of beauty, of elegance.
One day the world will figure that out and it will be astounded… and in my opinion it will be so obvious.
Bitcoin will survive us all and it will be beautiful.
One day, eventually, we will all use Bitcoin.
It is the digital capital network of our civilization.
Make of that what you will.