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New comment by windhover in "Looking for app to confirm daily attendance of individuals at various locations"

windhover — Wed, 12 Jun 2024 16:50:07 +0000

Indeed. Thanks

New comment by windhover in "Looking for app to confirm daily attendance of individuals at various locations"

windhover — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:47:06 +0000

Thanks. Geolocation is not ideal. I'm just looking for a date tracker and a push of a radio button.

Looking for app to confirm daily attendance of individuals at various locations

windhover — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 22:15:49 +0000

Looking for a phone app where 20-30 year old students can confirm daily attendance at an external jobsite. We have about 50 students doing their externships, and they need to confirm their attendance every day. I'm looking for two clicks of a button, nothing complicated.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40652261

Points: 1

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New comment by windhover in "Mathematical Metaphysics (2015) [pdf]"

windhover — Fri, 06 Jul 2018 11:59:55 +0000

"the mysterious Platonic bridge between the mathematical and the physical" (31).

This bridge between mathematics and physics can be well explained in the thought of Thomas Aquinas. Mathematical objects have a a foundation in extramental reality, but their notions are completed by an act of the mind. Physical objects have an immediate foundation in reality (e.g. 'stone' in this stone), and mathematical objects have a remote foundation in reality (e.g. 'line' in a 'stone' of this stone). Mathematical objects are "mental elaborations remotely based on real quantity but proximately on the mind's constructive activity" (Maurer, 55).

See Armand Maurer, "Thomists and Thomas Aquinas on the Foundation of Mathematics," Review of Metaphysics 47 (1993): 43-61.

New comment by windhover in "Ask HN: Locked out of Google services with no recourse or explanation"

windhover — Sat, 30 Jun 2018 00:45:11 +0000

Once you're back in the gmail account, just add a forwarding to another account.

New comment by windhover in "Higher Education Is Drowning in BS"

windhover — Thu, 11 Jan 2018 14:50:56 +0000

A must read on higher education.

New comment by windhover in "The opioid epidemic: How Congress and drug company lobbyists neutralized the DEA"

windhover — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 13:42:47 +0000

This article describes a most shocking case of insider pharmaceutical lobbying directly resulting in more sales of opioid, which directly result in deaths.

New comment by windhover in "Requiring Students to Take Algebra Is Not a 'Civil Rights' Issue"

windhover — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 07:53:44 +0000

I'd like to see more research on common core. The article suggests the urge to drop algebra in CA originates from that.

Requiring Students to Take Algebra Is Not a 'Civil Rights' Issue

windhover — Wed, 26 Jul 2017 07:05:55 +0000

Article URL: http://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/07/927625-no-california-requiring-students-take-algebra-not-civil-rights-issue-allowing-skip/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14854161

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by windhover in "The Akrasia Effect: Why We Don’t Follow Through on What We Set Out to Do"

windhover — Fri, 15 Jan 2016 00:14:35 +0000

Aristotle introduced akrasia to explain why we make bad decisions in a moment of weakness even though we know better. The point though is not to just stick to commitments (and thereby have enkrateia, self-control), but to be virtuous (arete) and not worry about out-of-control desires in the first place.

New comment by windhover in "The Triumph of Stupidity (1933)"

windhover — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 17:32:02 +0000

Heinrich Himmler, Joseph Goebbels, and Hermann Göring, and the other leaders of the National Socialist party were horribly brutal, but they were not stupid. They were some of the brightest in the most well-educated country in the world. The same goes with French influenced Marxists such as Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge. Bertrand Russell is right on many points, but he's terribly wrong to think the enemies of civilization are stupid. Read Machiavelli.