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811.
by brimble 5y ago
On the one hand, yeah, that's a bit much to insist on that being the whole thing. On the other hand, good (or even just competent) authors usually put things in the book for a reason , usually for a narrative, character development, o
812.
by brimble 5y ago
Shoes that link to fitness trackers already exist. A quick Google reveals shoes with integrated bluetooth speakers, and shoes for the blind (not sure what those do, but I gather it does involve electronics).
813.
by brimble 5y ago
Club soda got me off them (this is before fizzy water became a trendy drink). Turns out my craving was mostly for the carbonation bite, not the sugar. Seltzer water didn't work. The missing minerals make it taste super weird to my pala
814.
by brimble 5y ago
The Mars backup plan seems kinda dumb to me because Mars is worse as is than all but the very worst post-apocalyptic Earth scenarios. Just build bunkers here and staff them in shifts. Much cheaper. Your remaining threats for which Mars wo
815.
by brimble 5y ago
I hear you. I'd have already bought two more if buying the first (post-Microsoft-acquisition—family has two from before that already) copy hadn't been been such a pain in the ass. My alternative isn't switching to the non-Jav
816.
by brimble 5y ago
Yup. My observation (having not had to take College Algebra myself, but knowing people who did) is that it's a class to make sure people who fell off the math train back at operations on fractions or factoring or whatever, don't g
817.
by brimble 5y ago
I'm torn because on the one hand I don't know how someone who hadn't already been programming for years, or at least been a big computer nerd and tinkerer, could have gotten through even the relatively weak CS program that
818.
by brimble 5y ago
Most or all of the major trust chains that underpin it are compromised, would be my guess.
819.
by brimble 5y ago
Multiplication tables memorized in school usually stop at 12x12. They're super useful for doing the exact thing you demonstrated, in your head, very fast, using some tricks to turn the problem into smaller problems (with memorized answ
820.
by brimble 5y ago
giphy and a couple similar sites are the ones I hate. It's so goddamn hard to get ahold of a gif that's actually a gif, these days. Why does gif search take me to a site that makes it nearly impossible to see a gif? And then doesn
821.
by brimble 5y ago
Wrangling MS accounts for Minecraft is weirdly hellish. I don't know if they're trying to get people to stop using the Java edition, or what. It feels like they don't want your money.
822.
by brimble 5y ago
There definitely is a correlation between constituent family income and school "quality", sure, but the actual experience is still overall better (will tend to be, anyway—please take any of these generalities as statistical in
823.
by brimble 5y ago
> This holds within, but not across, markets, obviously. $450k in one market is an excellent school district, while in California it's not. If your budget is $450k, you will land in a better neighborhood with better schools in a che
824.
by brimble 5y ago
I do not know if it's the case for this particular approach, but it's often the case that very effective reforms that don't require increasing teacher head-count do rely on having very good teachers and admin. Which means
825.
by brimble 5y ago
I'd ask, because I've spent many hours over the last ~6-7 years trying to find a way to save on housing costs (and, ideally, get closer to any sort of natural environment that's inviting rather than dull and off-putting—I
826.
by brimble 5y ago
My main concern's dragnet spying and user-targeted (not content-targeted) ads but I do think it'd be nice to get rid of (nearly) all ads, too—it's just that if I can only pick eliminate all ads or eliminate all spying, I&#x27
827.
by brimble 5y ago
> The unsaid foundation of this obvious bit of snobbery is that only a handful of coastal US cities are suitable for families. Not obvious snobbery. Lower density means greater distance to and fewer options for child care and other impor
828.
by brimble 5y ago
How is clicking an ad better than advice from someone who should know? Maybe this is just a weak example but an ad that's like "do shoes hurt your feet for some reason? Maybe it's this! Buy our shoe to fix it!" seems a h
829.
by brimble 5y ago
Low-cost areas are almost all not places you want to live with a family, if you have a choice. They almost all have poor services for families and mediocre to bad public schools. Unless you can afford to have one parent not work and that
830.
by brimble 5y ago
I'm definitely not loving watching the bottom edge of "upper-middle" receed away from me, just as I was approaching it.
831.
by brimble 5y ago
OK, but how's it different from the current world?
832.
by brimble 5y ago
Call a shoe store and ask? Google (in a world in which it didn't have ads)? Ask a podiatrist?
833.
by brimble 5y ago
I don't get the "well technically advertising can be good" argument in its favor, yet it's the most common one I see on this site. If 5% is good (I'm being very generous) and "seeks to inform individuals
834.
by brimble 5y ago
> There's no reason I can't tell a 9 year old about valencies and that kind of thing, so why does school wait with it? Not enough staff (teachers) to differentiate instruction that finely. A lot of stuff sounds like a great ide
835.
by brimble 5y ago
The challenge in public education reform is doing anything interesting/useful without doubling teacher headcount and increasing salaries (at the very least, to increase supply without decreasing quality). All sorts of approaches are
836.
by brimble 5y ago
It's a statistical play. Sometimes it gets you through a light that would have caught you, or ahead of a wreck or obstruction, or past some knot of cars. Sometimes it doesn't.
837.
by brimble 5y ago
I found driving as a speeder easier than trying to keep close to the speed limit (I haven't done more than about 5 over on purpose in many years, mind you, except on a handful of technically-55-but-you'll-be-a-hazard-if-you-do
838.
by brimble 5y ago
After thinking about this a bit, I don't think the minimalism is the problem. I think the main problem is that it looks both cheap and "low". TVs are "low" and having one so prominent makes the room look low-class.
839.
by brimble 5y ago
Again, I am sure enthusiasts exist. The original statement was: > Do you not have curtains or a couch? And what I'm skeptical of, specifically, is that the average woman has any idea what kind of cloth is on their couch, or shopped
840.
by brimble 5y ago
Of course enthusiasts exist, I'm just skeptical that women knowing the names of fabric on their furniture is at all common under a certain SES level , at least. I've seen women care about and know the names of fabric in curtains,

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