Why isn't their mascot the Bobcats?

the_new_me · 1 month

This post freaked me out! My last name is Goldthwaite. When I went to the site I thought it had somehow gotten my name from my system and had used it to modify the page. I thought there was some new glaring security hole that it was exploiting. Then I noticed that it was a highschool in Goldthwaite Texas. I new about town. All Goldthwaite's know about the town.

By the way, Bobcat spells his name Goldthwait without the e on the end.

arcadeninjasan · 1 month

A note on guaranteed student loans that some people seem to be unaware of. I worked with a bank that specialized in student loans. They're called guaranteed student loans for a reason. If the student can't pay, the federal government pays the loan off.

This created a great business model for the bank. As long as they did their paperwork correctly they could loan money and collect the interest with zero risk. Any non-performing loans were basically sold to the feds at full value. You had to do the paperwork correctly though because the actual default rate was over 50%.

The reason the government removed the ability to bankrupt out of a student loan was because so many people were doing it as a strategy. It was costing the government billions. Rather than eliminate the program, they just made it so that paying the loan off was the ONLY way to get rid of it.

arcadeninjasan · 1 month

The answer to the high tuition is to increase competition. Education, the transfer of knowledge, should be getting cheaper instead of more expensive. The internet and availability of cheap personal computers has made the cost of sharing knowledge almost zero. Look at the Khan Academe as an example. You can learn almost any subject (that doesn't involve hands on experience like a doctor) for free. The videos are clear and they're coming up with very innovative ways to track student proficiency. They could offer quality four year degrees in many subjects for little to no cost. Why don't they do it? They're not allowed. They're not certified. Its the same reason your local community college can't offer four year degrees. The government doesn't allow it. They've granted a monopoly to the universities and the political powers don't want anything to threaten it.

If you created a simple uniform school certification system that and companies and organizations could qualify for that would guarantee proficiency and be recognized as valid, you'd create a huge number of small innovative companies that would do a better job of teaching for far less cost.

As a personal example, I enrolled in the Stanford online beginning AI class. It was supposed to be the same class and lectures as the students were getting and it was open to everyone.

The class format was a lecture followed by a quiz. I found that the lecture didn't cover enough information to answer many of the quizzes. The information was in the book but the book didn't follow the class lectures. During the class on probabilities I found myself constantly going over to the Khan Academe videos to learn the subject so that I could answer the questions on the Stanford quiz.

It's great that Stanford is offering the class. My intent isn't to criticize them. They're heading in the right direction. It's just that the contrast between what Stanford was offering and what was available on Khan was huge. This small group of volunteers were offering a much better learning system than Stanford. That's the kind of innovation that we need to fix our educational system.

The answer to high tuition is simple. I WANT MY KHAN ACADEME DEGREE!

merry-v · 3 months

I'm not getting this question right either. They're asking which of the 5 nodes are expandable. Here's what seems to be the answer to me;

Timisoara can expand to Lugoj it can't expand back because duplicates have been eliminated

Rimnicu can expand to Pitesti or Craiova It can't expand back to Sibiu because it has already been explored.

Fargaras can expand to Bucarest

Zerind and Oradea cannot expand to any nodes that are not already in the explored frontier.

Based on that, it looks to me like nodes T,R & F are the only ones that can be expanded without duplicates.

That doesn't seem to be the correct answer so I don't know what it is.

empyreandreams · 4 months

As long as you have 1/3 of the GDP funneled through 500 odd elected representatives your going to have corruption. If you think you won't then you probably think you can win the drug war.

If you want to fix the problem then return the money to the states. There will always be corruption but at least it's the individual states that will have the problem not the entire country.

Eustis · 4 months

I thought it would be cool to put those on my truck along with a set of truck nuts. I like to offend the easily offended.

DrRichardCranium · 4 months

In a thousand yeares $400 trillion will buy you four cups of coffee at Galaxybucks.

Frank_Jesus · 5 months

Good clue. yOu mastOrbate. I'll be able to remember it now.

AngelOfLight · 5 months

America doesn't practice conservative capitalism. It's more Militarism and Corporatism. If what you're really saying is that liberal socialism works better than the combination of corporatism and militarism then I agree with you.

We get the high taxes of socialism but instead of government services, we get to bomb other counties. Not a good tradeoff in my opinion.

AngelOfLight · 5 months

I just had this discussion with my kids over the weekend. They were saying that the family on my side are really stupid because they're strong Mormon believers. This is what I told them;

"Imagine that you grow up in a family where everyone believes the same thing. You're taught that it's the truth. Once a month you have a "fast and testimony" meeting a church where people are encouraged to get up in front of the congregation and "bear their testimony". You do it yourself before you even start kindergarten. Everyone you know, everyone you look up to, all your friends all believe the same thing."

"It's only a very small percentage that leave after that kind of upbringing. What makes you think you would be one of them?"

Even after I left the Church completely part of me worried that it might be true. It took years before I could look at it and say to myself, wow that's a bunch of bunk.

It's easy to criticize religious people and think they're just stupid. Some are but most are not. I think that on reddit, the bad apples get a lot more attention than the truly religious who actually live what Christ taught. I don't think the bad ones are the majority. They're just more vocal and drown out the good ones.

I'm glad that this post came up. Maybe you people criticizing the religious should take a closer look at your own beliefs. There are probably quite a few that you don't really have any good evidence for. For example, what political party do you support and why? What evidence do you have that you're right? Do you believe it because that's the way you were raised or have you really examined the subject logically?

malogos · 5 months

It's easy to keep customers happy if there are never any problems with the product you're selling. What really defines a company is how they stand behind their products when there's a problem. Apple excels at this. They've been known to give their customers a new computer if they're unable to fix the old one in a reasonable amount of time.

Samsung doesn't care how many times you send the product for repair. They'll do the same thing every time and FU Mr customer if you don't like it.

System76 seems like the kind of company that only cares about making the initial sale. I avoid those kinds of companies like the plague!

malogos · 5 months

Amazing. You got to the front page. I had a similar story about my crappy Samsung Nexus S phone that i sent in three times for service and they failed to fix it link here. I gave the phone away in an attempt to get the word out and only got six responses.

Congratulations and thanks for the warning about yet another crappy company!

hwuffe · 6 months

I'm glad you were able to get it fixed. I wonder what's up with the triangle burned into the screen. I never saw a triangle that could have been burned in. When it would lock up on me, the bottom buttons would stay on but the screen would be blank.

Let me know if you're able to get the screen replaced. In any case, thanks for letting me now how it turned out. I'm glad someone is finally able to get some use out of that %&*$ phone.

impulsebuyerdude · 6 months

Compare that with Samsung. I sent my Nexus S in for repair three different times for a random lockup problem. They never fixed it. I finally gave it away because I was tired of dealing with Samsung's support.

arazumien · 6 months

Jack

hwuffe · 8 months

I guess I should have said that. It's an AT&T phone. It's not unlocked. I got it for $200 with a two year contract. It cost me $200 when I canceled the contract.

hwuffe · 8 months

No. I was going to choose the winner sometime next week. Let's say next Thursday the 17th. I've only gotten about 10 emails so the odds of getting it are pretty good. I'm a little bummed though. I was trying to get the word out that Samsung doesn't do a good job of standing behind their products. I'm not doing a very good job of accomplishing it.

Oh well. I'm sure someone will be happy to get the phone.

hwuffe · 8 months

I actually tried that. The boss stood by the first rep and said that repair was the ONLY option. She actually put extra emphasis on ONLY.

hwuffe · 8 months

I added the continental US only to the original post but if you win it, I'll ship it to you via whatever method is cheapest. I didn't think of that. I guess I'm one of those stupid Americans that doesn't know the rest of the world exists. :P

tkwelge · 8 months

About 20% of that is military spending. Take that out and we move below Canada. And that doesn't include a lot of supplementary military spending. Subtract that out and the number goes lower. Take out the cost of the War on Drugs and the budget for the TSA and other non-socialist government spending and it moves even lower.

We may spend more and probably waste more than the socialist countries but we're not as socialist.

rslashuser · 9 months

Cool! That belongs in the movie Idiocracy!

hwuffe

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