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by SiVal 6y ago
At the elementary level, and in English, I've never seen anything that came close to the original Singapore Math [1]. There's your one-stop shop. (US Edition since you're in Utah. US Ed converts spelling to US and some of t
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I'm an atheist and secular homeschooler, and I'd like to encourage you not to worry about working with religious homeschoolers. They can give you good answers to your questions, and if you get some religious content in your readin
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do you think our government is better than theirs? Can't answer specifically without knowing who "ours" and "theirs" are, but I can answer generically. Governments that hold elections where more than one genuinely
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I agree. Hardware switches should also be put on computer cameras, microphones, network cards, etc. There will still be vulnerabilities, but most of us use locks on our house and car doors even though thieves can (and do) break the windows.
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You're not likely to have much evidence to show of a civilization a billion years ago if all you have is excess carbon dioxide that might be due to any number of natural phenomena: forest fires due to overgrowth followed by drought, as
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The problem people are complaining about in the comments is the tendency of many science journals lately to use their articles as undercover delivery vehicles for political messages in the guise of investigating something else. If I had no
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Yes, and it should apply to all online systems as they grow into the millions of users, because not surprisingly, network effects are pervasive on the network. So not just communications but commerce such as Amazon should be forced to trans
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A better approach than frozen mini-nets is just to require any company above a certain number of users to open its protocol like email. You could then get your access to the system via any ISP, and you would be the one who decided what opin
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This won't be a detailed answer but a principle: have as much control over each user as you like up to a certain scale followed by gradually decreasing per-user control if you keep gaining users. The company can choose whether to stay
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The problem is in concentration of power: gov't and companies. When you have independent printing presses in every town, gov't should let them print (and refuse to print) whatever they like. If one org buys up all the newspapers a
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In California, it's very expensive and difficult. You can homeschool your own children subject to oversight and regulation, but if you want to offer schooling to children who aren't your own, the regulatory burden increases so muc
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I thought the JPEG people were supposed to have JPEG XL [1] out by now, and it was supposed to be the open standard for JPEG's next generation. Anyone know what's happening there? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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Ask HN: WWDC news on improved iOS support for Web apps?
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What kind of dev? Web dev or embedded dev? Shouldn't make any difference at all whether you go with Intel Mac, ARM Mac, Windows, or Linux, except for your personal preferences regarding which OS, tools, and (maybe) the platform you wil
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by SiVal 6y ago
The importance of real browser choice on iOS is not just "philosophical". It's not about bookmarks. It's about control of the web itself. All major parts of the web now allow users to freely choose their browser with one
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I agree with this (linked) statement by the CEO, but I think it's too narrow. (Probably needs to be for CEO's purposes, but I'll expand it for more of us.) The problem is that Big Tech derives its enormous power from the netw
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"Sometimes students don't fit in"? Is that really your description of what a kid who wants to be a good student in a bad neighborhood often suffers at the hands of his classmates? The claim that good schools are good because
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There's not really a lot of debate about what makes for good schools There is plenty of debate about what makes for good schools. Many school districts are large enough to include neighborhoods on "both sides of the tracks&quo
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by SiVal 6y ago
I like Preppies. I don't know where to get them for $4 (open to suggestions), but I often want to try exotic inks with some pigment or sparkle or acrylic or acid (iron gall ink) or whatever that risks damaging a fountain pen. I'm
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You could also use a Noodler's "bulletproof" ink on cheap paper. The cheap paper will have lots of exposed cellulose, and the bulletproof ink is designed to react to and bond with cellulose. A lefty will smear Noodler's
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According to an African-American prof of history at Berkeley, the "marketplace of ideas" in his department has become a totalitarian command economy: http://web.archive.org/web/20200611111027/https:/
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This sounds as though it could be a nice replacement for the Dark Sky API that Apple is going to lock us out of. The ClimaCell API docs say the weather API offers forecasts for 1) realtime, 2) hourly, 3) nowcast, 4) daily The free-tier pric
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It sounds as though your friend urgently needs to investigate service opportunities for her dad. Sometimes when people discover how unexpectedly useful they are to others, it's like a psychological vitamin that was missing.
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I agree that at least ultimately Congress and/or the courts need to consider the larger issue. Trump isn't demanding a retraction of a single comment, because the fact check itself isn't the problem. It's a symptom. It&#
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No, Twitter has no bias against "mainstream political ideas". Their San Francisco urban chic politics are the very definition of today's "mainstream". Looking back over history, have mainstream political ideas alway
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The big problem that needs to be addressed is network effects. When the feature that matters most to users is the presence of other users, the result is a platform that can do all kinds of harm. The power and money in Big Tech result from p
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Ask an allergist. It's a common problem.
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I'm responding to "You can't start with the technology and try to figure out how you're gonna sell it", not saying iPad is bad. I was referring to the remarkable history of iPad, which was designed to have certain f
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And yet, iPad.
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I find the combination of 1) C++, 2) a goal of "Code that is simple and easy to read, understand, and write", and 3) a non-goal of backwards compatibility, to be strange. The reason C++ is the federal tax code of programming langu

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