I have phases too, right now going through a strong wave. I’m desperately resisting the urge to buy a really nice hyuga kaya table board. I decided to gift it to myself if I ever reach one dan, hopefully that would incentivize staying motivated.
And the best part is that the next generation will have it even worse. They’ll have 75% Social security payments, little chance of building net worth through home purchases and a lifetime of $10/hr jobs.
I'm skeptical online education will have any significant impact at an elementary school level, especially when you consider the cost effectiveness of such a strategy. If were talking about video lectures (especially live) you need to figure out how to hook up reliable internet into these schools. Most of the internet access projects are just enough to get wikipedia loaded. And not to mention the cost of the hardware itself, a tablet per student isn't even feasible in western public schools.
Maybe I'm confused, but how does a so called "illegal immigrant" child go through 18 years of education only to get thrown under the bus later. Either give them complete amnesty or check their passport when they enter grade school.
f we assume a modest 1:4 US to world ratio and a difference of 4.1% as explained by the firefox switch, then the entire US firefox userbase is about 1% of the world. Google won't be sweating.
Bill Gates treating the world like a computer optimization problem. First profile the world (program) and construct suitable benchmarks. Figure out some reasonable goals and test if your various health care and education programs affect the benchmark results.