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I think their "free basics" is geared towards people who already have internet. They are not exactly going to remote villages and electrifying them.

Imagine how hard it would be for Indian startups when you need a 'license' from Facebook to deploy your app to your target market. The poor will have free facebook, but they won't have tech jobs. I've seen thousands of really poor guys being alleviated out of poverty due to Indian tech businesses which could grow because competition was fair. Tomorrow when launching an app means getting a license from facebook, it would be much harder!!

And it is a fair argument to make that other big boys will jump in to give some competition to facebook's "zero rating" but what about the small guys??
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If you're being serious, one of the most viewed Youtube channels is "Epic Rap Battles of History" which did exactly that.
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Facebook is already stealing hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars worth of revenue from content creators like video makers whose videos are stolen and posted on fb's walled garden for the benefit of facebook and content pirates. i guess fb is hoping to capitalize on this trend, steal all online content in the name of providing it for the masses, and put all that ad money into its coffers. that would be longer term game with "free basics".

Captive market which you can sell ads to and force content creators and their thieves to post it all to facebook.
I agree on that, and I actually buy almost only e-books - I only buy the print version when I find a keeper (which is pretty rare).
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If we are going to be correct about this then let's actually be correct and not just say bcrypt is the only bet. You want a system that manages work rate. Off the top of my head that also includes scrypt and pbkdf2.
"The world these children will inhabit as adults will be a familiar one, a world that has been part and parcel of their childhood."

The adult world does not live up to this ideal - at all.
In general, you're correct. The problem is differentiating useful knowledge from trivia. Knowing pop culture references is useful from a social participation standpoint. Knowing the top 10 songs for each week of the past decade, not so useful except as a party trick. Or, less trivia more general knowledge, for most of us it doesn't pay to know the ins and outs of every world conflict. They're beyond our control (mostly), so knowledge past a certain point only really helps create a sense of despair and helplessness. There's no reason to remain glued to those news feeds after a time because they'll only keep you from living your life.

However, when it comes to skills like reading, math, logic, athletics, creative, or production type things, you can only know too much if there's a set of skills you can't use or your breadth is so great you're mediocre or worse at most of them.
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4,066 undergrad in 2001 got a bio engenearing degree. +1,558 masters.

http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/biomedic...

22,000 total jobs 2014 (http://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/biomedic...)

There does seem to be steady growth in the field. But supply is definitely outstripping demand.
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Thank you for posting this. I have been looking for a detailed personal account of teaching a toddler to read for a while. My son is two and a half and like this author, I have been trying to find out how to teach him to read. A couple weeks ago I posted my own reflections on what I have been doing here: http://hmcscreening.blogspot.com/2015/12/on-teaching-reading...

I found it amazing how difficult it is to find scientific studies on how to teach reading, in my post above I kind of go into how the US government funded a large review of all the data in the late 1990s.

I think the most important thing is to just read to your child every day. My son also knew the alphabet before the age of two, but I think this is no different than teaching a child "dog" or "square" or "ball", they are all abstracts to a degree. Also, learning the sounds of each letter was pretty easy too. The hard part that we are against right now is putting it all together: I can't consistently get him to sound out a simple word, even though individually he knows what each letter does.

There have been some comments wondering about issues of myopia if one has their child read. There is not a lot of conclusive evidence of what causes myopia, but recently there was a good paper published in JAMA where they randomized schools (this was in China), to enforce a certain amount of outdoor time every day. Those kids who were in the outdoor groups had statistically less myopia.
I don't think myopia is something to be trivialised. As a shy teenager I hated wearing glasses. Contacts aren't for everyone, and if by permanent fix you mean LASIK then well, you're braver than me.
I actually agree with what you've written, but I downvoted you because I hate reading comments that say things like "I will probably get some downvotes". If you think you're going to be downvoted, ask yourself why and consider rewriting it in such a way that people won't downvote you.

For example, in your comment here, to make it less downvotable you could say:

* What do you like about the redesign? There must be something positive you can say, even if it's just "it definitely looks more visually appealing" or "I understand that you were trying to improve usability by putting more information on the same side".

* Do you have any evidence that supports your counter-argument? If not, you're just two people with opinions, and since you're not a well-known authority on usability it's just noise.

* What would you suggest doing to fix the problems you've said here while also fixing the problems that the OP identified? Or do you not agree that those problems are really problems?
Best of luck. Keep talking to him as he grows up - I think the biggest problem in my own childhood was not knowing how many options I had. If that approach is going well by age 4/5/11 I'd urge you to at least consider/talk about carrying on with that rather than sending him to school - I realise it's a huge commitment but I think I'd've been a lot happier that way (and my parents were apparently close to doing it but didn't feel up to it).
I wish Apple would fully commit to tiling. We now have a situation where you can make an app full screen, if it supports it. Or you can have two apps side-by-side, if both apps support that. You can't go 'almost' full-screen - as in 'full-screen, but leave me the menubar' without something like Spectacle. I'm not even sure if keyboard shortcuts are available for split-screen, or if you can split two windows from the same app. But some apps support that themselves, of course. Shouldn't screen/window/tab management be a solved problem by now, rather than a bunch of disconnected hacks that sometimes work, but are touted as revolutionary features in the marketing material?
Nice PR misdirection, Tim.

Apple is the kind of company that will skimp on updating base storage to 32GB on their €650 smartphone because it might reduce their margins by 0.001% (number pulled out of my behind but you get the idea).

It certainly IS because it's cheaper.
Self-driving cars can optimize limited road infrastructure. Of course, this means ALL cars would have to be in on it, but that isn't infeasible for 10 or 20 years from now.

So I kind of agree with parent. Doing something today might be outdated given tomorrow's technology enabling better solutions. But that is always a risk in infrastructure investment.
It's sad but I find your fervor trying to shame others to think like you because your ideas seem noble quite disgusting too. "Let's all rush and make cultural and social experiments because some guys want to feel good and we should be ashamed of ourselves if our instinct of cultural/ethnic conservation tells us to oppose radical change of our societies". I already know what happened when too many muslims crossed the border in your country and you don't have any right to impose me to do the same in my country.
> I find your comment overly dismissive...

That's a fair point. I think inserting painting here is slightly off base, but I'll take it.

What I have an issue with is that people make this seem like magic and that the sushi trade/business/culinary art has such amazing properties that we should just throw up our hands and say "Well, it's magic and it couldn't possibly be that anything they do is up for debate".

In the end, it's food. I think we should say "fuck that" to being beaten over some sushi as much as we should say "fuck that" to insane working hours and poor working conditions for chefs in other cuisine. It seems to me that some people suggest that sushi just wouldn't stay the same without the exact culture the masters have built around it. I think that's completely wrong.

To give this more perspective, I don't think we would accept people being beaten for making mistakes while painting, and the idea of not being able to practice painting because you're not allowed to do more than clean brushes for three years seems fairly ridiculous to me. I think there's a place for challenging that culture and saying there should be a better way.

> That being said, I'm not a fan of sushi either and I find most of the fuss people make about it quite superficial (much like people make a fuss about yoga). Yet I'd still assume that it a form of art is at its core and that lot of masters do practice it as an art.

I'm actually a very recent fan of sushi. I like it because it's like a foody snack and I can have some sushi next to me while I'm coding and just eat as I go. I'm sure the restaurants I go to are crap to real sushi-lovers, though. Especially since I'm fairly certain no one is getting beat in the kitchen, or having to wash rice for three years.
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The Justine Sacco story has an interesting follow up here:

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Interestingly, when you get proficient at reading, you stop deconstructing words. That is, you can do if you want/need to, e.g. to double-check if that weird pattern you see is a real word at all, but it's not generally what you do - instead, most of the reading is image patter-matching. That's why yuor brian will autocrroect "strom" to "storm" when you're reaidng fast.
I think network operators around the world are receptive to ‘zero-​rating’ certain websites (which is all Free Basics really is) whereas making free data available with a usage cap or speed cap would be something new. Facebook is not actually providing access or building infrastructure (under this program), they are teaming up with ISPs.
What?

The base storage is low to get you to buy the upgrade. Cost is irrelevant.
I always felt as a child that I had so much curiosity and ability to learn but that I never had anyone around me who saw this. I would have loved to have a parent like this.
Yes it does. If the article is correct, the 16nm BitFury chips will be sold to interested parties, so new mining capacity won't be dominated by a single company, thereby ensuring newly mined BitCoins can be distributed throughout the network.

If your concerns were about something other than distribution, please clarify.
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It is more like market-embedded trait, than actual censorship. I was much surprised, how music landscape of the US is much less diverse than that of the UK.
I must say, I don't think the author made his point very well here. That stuff all looks like crap to me. That's ok, it just means it's still early days.
Ok, fair enough. Let's suppose I did that and I already have a hundred+ signups (which I do) but I want to accelerate the growth.. how do I go about that? Also for the benefit of others, where do you find the people to get feedback (in case my case they were members of another site I built many years ago), but lets assume a total newbie with zero list, how does she start?

Yes, guest blogging is another good idea! I find it a bit difficult to contact blog owners but it is indeed on of the top ideas. I will try that. What else is there to do?

Thanks for sharing your ideas! :)
"We are outsourcing because people outsourced in the past to the point that we can no longer do things properly here."

The only way to fix a trend gone wrong is to reverse the trend, not to compound it.
Huh? Yes, the more skills the better. Your post doesn't exactly read as an attack on that assumption, but as a criticism on the method of teaching.

I agree, both the learning experience and the acquired skills matter. What's often overlooked is that every child develops at their own pace, and the skills progression taught in schools is based on both normative ideals and descriptive "modal" pace. Offering a child new material that they "should not be learning yet" is not a crime, nor an offense to the child, nor a criticism on other parenting methods (or other children, for that matter).

Not to mention that skills development doesn't occur across a single line. As an example, a child of a friend of mine is now almost two years old, and still vocalizes at most two syllables. Yet she's able to comprehend (and execute) very complicated sentences and commands, in two languages. Still, she's now officially labeled a "deficient" child, with all the counselling and monitoring that that entails...
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Total nonsense. They pay a lot. It's the Insurance company who covers the losses.
I had no idea. It makes sense, though.
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But there are things you could be learning instead of "how to read" - relationships between things, for example, would probably be more useful. You start with hotter / colder; bigger smaller; and move onto "meat eating" / "plant eating" - look at the big claws, look at where the eyes are.
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>"The design of the site makes a huge difference. Which is why libertarians are just wrong, there is no "free market", every game has rules. You hear that libertarians? I am waiting for you on this thread!! :-P"

Oh, we hear you. We, or at least I, am just not quite able to parse what you're saying.

Are you implying that Youtube is supposed to enforce some sort of "free-market" on the comments? Or are you baiting for some sort of "mob shouting" reply that you reference in your post? Do care to elaborate, as we Libertarians (and anarcho-capitalists), are listening.
And neither is unfixable, it will however impact cost and that's why I think that Tim Cook is not entirely honest here. You can get all this done locally, the skills are there. But those skills are expensive because the same skill level person in the US has a different pay than the person in China. Eventually that advantage will erode and then the locusts will move to the next available third world economy (likely India, or maybe even Africa).
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Running a tweaked client like this seems really risky. Bitcoin is a consensus protocol. If clients disagree about which blocks are valid, you lose consensus. You're allowing attackers to inject controversial blocks that fork the history, resulting in double-spending or DOS attacks on you.
Exactly what I was thinking, and wouldn't it be a PR master stroke to start the repatriation of the US's manufacturing sector?
> All things being equal

Pretty big assumption there.
The experience on the Transformer Prime was pretty bad as well, for those who don't know.

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I've read this too, I guess I'm still a little sceptical based on my own sample of one. When I was a child I spent loads of time outside, but also loads of time on the computer. I guess the computer won.
I also don't understand how they separated out "doing close work" from "being indoors". You'd need a control group of kids who spent a lot of time indoors WITHOUT doing much close work. So what would they be doing instead? Even if you're not reading, surely all indoor activities involve somewhat close work. Watching TV or playing console games might not have met the researcher's definition of close work, but they still involve focusing ones eyes at a point closer than infinity.
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It's not just you. This is my take on it: However nerve-racking the launch and first stage recovery were, this wasn't a sports event, and cannot support that kind of hyper-enthusiastic presentation style without looking staged and histrionic. Sports presentations like that work because there are lots of fans cheering wildly in the background, and sports might be unique in their license to evoke extreme enthusiasm without being seen as bizarre.

I'm sure some people are less bothered by it than we are, though.
Do you have any actual suggestions to force them to integrate better? We are no longer in a world where most of these people will be consuming their host countries mass media, and they will certainly set up their own school system, so as far as I can see there is no way of getting them to integrate.
Some alternatives. Permacoin(http://cs.umd.edu/~amiller/permacoin.pdf) has mostly the same security properties, but effectiveily non-outsorceable, and work done is useful. We made the first open-source implementation of that https://github.com/ScorexProject/Scorex-Lagonaki/tree/master... .

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> Why would I teach my children to read already?

To start the "compound interest" benefits as early as possible?
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“That is total political crap,” Cook fired back. He said he’d “love to bring it home” but doesn’t because “it would cost me 40%... and I don’t think that’s a reasonable thing to do. This is a tax code, Charlie, that was made for the industrial age, not the digital age. It’s backwards. It’s awful for America. It should have been fixed many years ago. It’s past time to get it done.”
I'm a little insulted by the fact that Cook thinks it's up to him to decide whether or not his company should be paying taxes. Obviously they've found a loophole, but his phrasing suggests he's doing it for the greater good. Maybe if Apple and similar huge companies actually paid those 40% (I doubt it's that high a percentage) to government, public school could get more funding, etc. and the US wouldn't need as much philanthropy.
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> If you think you're going to be downvoted, ask yourself why and consider rewriting it in such a way that people won't downvote you.

I don't think intentionally trying to write in a way that doesn't provoke downvotes is helpful to a healthy discussion.

The post in question was direct, that's it.

While it is fair to suggest that the parent post highlight the positives, I don't think it is necessary always. Especially in light of 45 hearts on the medium post in support of the word. I'd say your last two points were addressed in the post as well...
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Where, we can find specific features/advantages/disadvantages of each with research findings.
I always see Prometheus/SoundCloud developers on here or elsewhere promoting their free product. What benefit do they get if not financial? (modest fame, self-satisfaction that their product's being used etc)
Lets look at two extremes.

->India without net neutrality: Everyone has free Facebook. "Free basics" didn't help in advancing electrification of the country but it did provide free facebook/wikipedia to everyone. So 30% of the country is still in dark. But 50% of the rest of India doesn't pay for internet and it thinks there is no need to because that is ALL the internet has to offer. A young founder launches a new education app to teach reading/writing to poor villagers. But she first needs to get a 'license' from facebook. Facebook doesn't think it is a good idea for its users to 'waste' time on other services instead of watching ads on FB, so it declines. Startups don't receive as much funding because of the 'licensing' issues and there aren't as many Indian tech companies as there could've been. News is censored by Facebook and Facebook can now influence Indian politics. 100,000 fewer jobs were created because the Indian tech scene didn't take off.

->India with net neutrality: 50% of the country cannot pay for internet. They still don't have access to internet. They use other forms of communication to get their daily, unfiltered news. The startup scene in India is growing at its natural pace and the culture has become more innovative. In another 10-15 everyone will have internet. 100's of thousands of poor were lifted out of poverty due to tech jobs in India.

One is a short term 'fix' which ruins the future. Another is a little bit harder but provides for a better future.
"Home: The place we return to. A place of privacy, security, identity and belonging."

My problem with all of these services is that in order for them to be effective and provide the features they're offering, you're essentially giving up some of your privacy and potentially weakening your security by filling your home with sensors broadcasting their inputs to a 3rd party. Sure - maybe you'll get a push notification if somebody breaks into your house. But you're also creating a new vector of attack to your home - a camera and microphone, capable of broadcasting "to the cloud" to a startup's servers that are hopefully designed in a way to safeguard, from both internal and external prying, the very-private data they'll amass.

No connected system is impenetrable. And given the very public governmental pressure to have access to any and all information from technology firms, I'm not sure the benefits of these products outweigh the costs.
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It will fall the day that we're able to link the comments and accounts across multiple sites/services together to actual individuals. The "shaming" mentioned will continue for the culprits, just like it did for the victims, into their real-life.

I am actually torn about this. On the one hand, I understand and value that anonymity (at least, superficially) is big part of what makes the internet great. But on the other hand, I can't help but believe that we'll be in a completely better society if people didn't have a space to vent their rage in some sort of wide-reaching, public arena. Leaving their only recourse for dealing with such rage to be actual manifested "rage/hate/racism/sexism/other-ism", which is pretty darn easy to point out concretely, and to ostracize.
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What about the third and fourth and fifth alternatives that are never talked about? Why must India choose between Free Basics or nothing?
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