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whisperingmoon85 karma

Apply the economic rule of diminishing returns: there's no good sense studying 16 hours a day, because after a certain number of hours of studying, the quality of that studying is substantially diminished. Hours 1-6 might be really great, but hours 7-11 are more like 3 high-quality hours, and hours 12-16 are essentially worse than useless, because they exhaust you and frustrate you.

whisperingmoon61 karma

What would you say typifies an internet troll? I guess there's still some long-standing remnants of silliness as demonstrated by /r/KenM and other weirdos, but by and large "trolling" nowadays is a long game of doing ___ to trigger the libs.

Posting racist shit for a laugh might not make you a racist point blank, but it does demonstrate you think upsetting people troubled by racism is funny.

whisperingmoon56 karma

This is absolutely thrilling. Congratulations to all on this auspicious day!

My question is this:

  • Worldwide, we have a massive population of people under 30, mostly in the developing world, with limited access to conventional higher education (and often in states where freedom of speech and access to information is limited.) What can we do to use the internet to support and develop the intellectual resources of this huge population?

whisperingmoon50 karma

Unfortunately, given its themes about corruption, racism, police, etc., I think social media would have been a terrible burden for this show. Every episode or mention would have given way to 10,000 angry commenters from all sides of the political spectrum-- making it impossible to engage with online without running into enormous drama.

whisperingmoon48 karma

Who gave this 19th century tavern worker internet access?