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by brimble 5y ago
There's paying, and then there's "paying... and a donor". They absolutely kick out the former if they feel like it, or, in lesser cases, simply fail to invite them back. The latter, I dunno, maybe not.
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by brimble 5y ago
Public schools are also bound to serve special needs kids, which is incredibly expensive. Private schools don't have the same responsibility (even if they're under any similar legal obligation, they can and surely do try to mini
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by brimble 5y ago
For kids who are behind, they solve this by throwing a lot more personnel at the problem, to the point that some kids have one-on-one assistants/tutors follow them around all day. Good luck getting budgets increased enough to do the
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by brimble 5y ago
The very worst schools in my city pay significantly better than the ones out in the "good" districts. They can do that because they get a ton of extra funding from the state and (I think) feds. I think the only schools that pay be
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by brimble 5y ago
Cool. Again, I find the drone war more than a little worrisome, so we're probably more-or-less on the same "side" here, but drones have not, as far as I know, been used for this sort of "destroy an entire large area kind
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by brimble 5y ago
1) Not drones. 2) I assume you brought up drones in particular because the drone war has raged, as you wrote, "all over" the Middle East, which is part of what's alarming about it. Iraq and maybe Syria have experienced US-led
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by brimble 5y ago
> Didn't the USA carpet bomb many places in the Middle East with drones? The drone war's been horrible, but "carpet bomb" means a specific thing, so, no, the USA did not do that [EDIT] To be clear, this isn't ped
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by brimble 5y ago
Everyone in Russia is going to be hurting from this. Most of them don't really deserve it, but you can't bring an entire economy to its knees without harming everyone . It'd be kinda weird to single out chess masters to save
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by brimble 5y ago
Sitting here mid-career, I suppose (maybe farther along than that—we'll see how the whole age discrimination thing works out in a couple years), I'm now convinced that the problem is doing the same thing week. After week. After we
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by brimble 5y ago
I doubt even 10% of the code I've written over the last 15ish years is still in use, anywhere. I doubt more than a quarter of it ever had an overall positive effect—monetary or otherwise—large enough to justify the cost of writing it.
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by brimble 5y ago
Go get one of your annual free credit reports and read it carefully.
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by brimble 5y ago
We have what's supposed to be a pretty good one of those. It's a gross, annoying extra thing to clean and hits entirely wrong for me, so I can't use it anyway. My wife says it's OK. But considering what I see get on it (
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by brimble 5y ago
There's still plenty of room for them to convert this apparent impending loss into a partial success by gaining control of the territory they care most about, which is (likely) the South (to relieve Crimea's currently tenuous &amp
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by brimble 5y ago
It's definitely more a "college level" term in the US, but very much undergrad , if that makes sense. Good chance someone who even minored in certain social science fields will know it (decent odds they'll have employed
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by brimble 5y ago
The more realistic "creative use of borders" I anticipate is citing historic claims of (mostly) Poland to carve off a big chunk of Ukraine in the West into a new state, and put it under explicit or implied ("just try and see
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by brimble 5y ago
> It seems like Putin went on tilt. It's hard to fathom any rational justification for this. At least destabilizing Ukraine is necessary to prevent near-term, rapid decline for the Russian Federation. Ukraine's energy product
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by brimble 5y ago
It's basic vocabulary in poli-sci or international relations studies or circles. Less obscure (in the context of those fields) than much of the engineering, math, and computer nerd jargon that gets thrown around on here regularly. Like
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by brimble 5y ago
Existing Medicare funding comes (mostly) from payroll taxes, not income tax, and the two work very differently. It'd be more informative to look at who's funding healthcare now, including the private portions. I doubt very much th
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by brimble 5y ago
The changes made when games go F2P tend to change the product you paid for in significant ways, often in ways that some players will think ruin it. There's a reason I haven't played TF2 in years, and it's not because I'm
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by brimble 5y ago
I'm in the camp that uses Docker almost entirely as a cross-platform (cross-distro, at the very least), very clean (i.e. everything ends up in one place and the location of all data & config is very well documented and easily confi
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by brimble 5y ago
Modern militaries that don't like taking tons of unnecessary losses on the ground are in love with controlling the air. It's not like there's a wide variety of proven strategies and countries just pick one that they're &
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by brimble 5y ago
People's response times go to shit as they get older. Games without some kind of affordances for that (or just difficulty settings) are much, much harder for older folks than they were intended to be.
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by brimble 5y ago
The old version looked more like it was from 2003 than this—but in a good way. It wasn't afraid of making things visually distinct. This one's the modern "consistency over usability" style that's currently in fashio
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by brimble 5y ago
I've had to use a tool very similar to this (but maybe broader in scope and more capable) in a business context. I can absolutely confirm that the entire thing is a solution in search of a problem. Meetings, presentations, collaboratio
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by brimble 5y ago
It's limited by how many people have VR rigs in the first place, and by the other things people might do instead if they've already decided they're going to play a multiplayer game on a computer or console, that aren't
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by brimble 5y ago
Read the implementation of Hooks (in the React codebase) if you want a big LOL. They're a slower, partial re-implementation of objects with bizarre custom syntax. In a language that's already so heavily OO that the functions are o
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by brimble 5y ago
They make it a huge pain to buy the damn game and actually get it working for your kid's account (yes, that's another step or two) if you don't already have accounts. And their account management pages make Teams look well-
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by brimble 5y ago
This one really hurts scanability, which was exceptionally good with the old design. I don't care what they do to the stuff around the content, but this redesign has made the content itself harder to use, which makes it a bad redesig
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by brimble 5y ago
The site simply told me it refused to work without microphone access. Maybe it depends on the browser.
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by brimble 5y ago
Tried "Create Room" to see what was up. Denied microphone permission because I just wanted to look around and it doesn't need it for that—there won't even be anyone else in the room, right? Even if there were, I wouldn&#

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