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Comment Yes (Score 1) 81

Do away with homework, bring back study hall/add it to all grades, and give students the option to put on noise-canceling headphones and work independently. And give them access to optional practice material.
So basically have them do the same things they would do for homework, but mostly during school hours. Students that need even more practice still have the option of practicing outside of school.

Comment Re:How long... (Score 1) 33

They suffer from getting surprised by things a hearing person would hear coming long before ...

Arguable, some deaf people have enhanced other senses, and I am frequently surprised by things I should have heard...

Or get an extreme example: neighbours are looking strange at them, because they are loud in bed, and do not notice themselves.

Some deaf people can feel when they are making sounds. But either way, any suffering from that is not caused by being born deaf, it is caused by a social stigma about being loud in bed.

A guy shouting at you: "damn idiot, can you not move out of the way, are you deaf??!!"

Not having to hear such a person seems like a benefit to me.

Comment Re:How long... (Score 1) 33

somebody born deaf will never be able to enjoy Beethoven's Ode to Joy

There are ways to enjoy music other than hearing it. Beethoven is an ironic example since he went deaf (though I don't know enough about him to know if Ode to Joy was composed before or after that).
But, I understand your overall point. However, there are aspects to life that a deaf person experiences, that hearing people do not. To by default choose to deny your child the chance to experience life THAT way, assumes that hearing life is the best life. Many deaf people would argue against that.
I don't know what the right choice is, nor what choice I would make for my child in that position.

Comment Re:A false analogy (Score 1) 93

What's faster, fixes with a few select people working on them or fixes with anyone in the world able to work on them?

If a person isn't going to follow the rules of not exploiting vulnerabilities, they also aren't going to follow the rule of not breaking into closed code to find vulnerabilities.

Comment For the record, (Score 3, Informative) 62

this just means you can't purchase, borrow, or download new content for those devices through Amazon. And this was already the case for all the Kindles that don't have wifi, since they killed the "download & transfer via USB" option last year.

I'm sure the thought is that people will buy new Kindles - and I'm sure many people will, especially with the confusing way this news is being shared. But pre-2012 Kindles still work, just with no reason to buy books from Amazon. Seems stupid to me to turn away all the people that want to keep buying books but don't want to buy a new Kindle (and really there's several reasons to not, some of which might be accessibility issues for some people; for example they replaced the text-to-speech feature with a pitiful, cumbersome screen reader after they bought Audible), but I guess they're counting on people not being able to figure out they can keep using them.

Comment Re:Also Facebook and Palantir (Score 1) 54

That's interesting - I also know someone that gravitates towards and shares AI slop daily, that has mental disabilities. Worst part is, lately if we tell him it's AI (because he'll share stuff like "10 unexplained videos" and directly ask what we think it is, or ask why something happened in a video, or how something was done) he gets defensive, saying things like "not everything is AI!" He can't understand that because he's engaging with AI slop, the algorithm shows him more AI slop, so his feed is all AI slop now.

Comment Re:Technopeasants Won't Care What it Sends to Goog (Score 1) 46

I'm sure there are many reasons people pay for MS Office when Google Docs is free.

Personally, I wanted a real-time cloud backup system, so I chose OneDrive, which costs about the same as other cloud backup systems

But you said "People will always choose the free versions".

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