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by csa 5y ago
> Even in the United States the conditions for a startup ecosystem to thrive are localized mostly to California, both financially and culturally. I largely agree with this, and I (mostly) love California for many of these traits. That sa
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by csa 5y ago
> If it is 9/10 of a penny, then it is $0.001 per gallon. Fueling a 20 gallon tank is $0.02. … and some people will drive down the block for those 2 cents, even though they may not realize that it’s only 2 cents. It’s just “cheaper”
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by csa 5y ago
Thank you for sharing. This sounds like a nightmare. Bay Area schooling is yet another thing that makes Bay Area living less tolerable.
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by csa 5y ago
This is correct. I have seen this most with larger projects, and usually the student was encouraged to seek outside expertise (just like one would do in real life). The only catch was that the assistance from the outside sources needed to
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by csa 5y ago
Yep. When in doubt, a simple question like “why did you choose this topic?” or “what was the hardest part of this project?” will usually make clear the driving force behind the project. Some younger kids will just blatantly admit that their
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by csa 5y ago
> When I was a kid I never got help from my parents on these projects, and hated the kids who "won" because their parent helped. These can be two different things: 1. Constructive help from parents has (at least) two components
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by csa 5y ago
This is priceless. Thank you!
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by csa 5y ago
> The people who try to figure out the exact rules of everything they do tend to be less effective than people who figure out a strategy that works and simply execute. I agree with this idea in general, but I think it’s prudent sometimes
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by csa 5y ago
This article strikes me as a bit of orientalism used to pimp a personal finance blog, but I guess it strikes a chord with some folks. To be specific: 1. These aren’t philosophies, they are words. The ideas behind these words exist in other
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by csa 5y ago
> Unsurprisingly this gets more challenging the higher you get with only a 2% chance of moving from O6 to O7. This sounds very stark, but it doesn’t tell the whole story. 1. O6 to O7 is colonel to general (or captain to admiral in the na
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by csa 5y ago
This happened. To be fair, many of the players on their team were willing to take their own medicine. I think most of them were alright, but as in any group, it just took a few folks to fuck it up for the whole team. Once a fight broke out
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by csa 5y ago
I played ultimate with my nationally competitive college club team. We frequently had to call for someone to ref (an option then) when we played the ECU (p)Irates. They frequently pushed the limits of rules honor system. They seemed to be p
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by csa 5y ago
Fwiw, I find your views interesting, and I want to read more. Maybe this isn’t the right part of the thread to ask, but I wonder if the difference in Finland versus the US is that the concept of what a “good education” looks like is largely
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by csa 5y ago
> I know that others have similar feelings. Being called gifted and special messes with your psyche almost like being called inferior. This is not a direct problem of gifted programs or gifted kids — it’s a problem of unreasonable expect
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by csa 5y ago
> So, you had a teacher spend one-on-one time with you. In Finnish, does “self-directed” imply more time with a teacher? In American English, it almost always means less… sometimes zero. Source: Me. I was a self-directed learner through
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by csa 5y ago
> That essentially means it's literally 10x cheaper to take a two-way ticket to France, have a doctor prescribe it there, buy 3 months worth of treatment and come back to the US. I wonder how Americans can tolerate this situation. I
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by csa 5y ago
I lived in Japan for 8 years (not in Tokyo), and this sort of stuff was very rare and often newsworthy. I imagine it does happen, but more often than not at urban school, at schools that are less academically oriented (e.g., construction hi
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by csa 5y ago
Serious question… do you think Hisahito is the crown prince? While possible, I bet the don’t on Hisahto becoming emperor.
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by csa 5y ago
> It is amazing and absurd that the supposed patrilineal links to the sun god remain today The current emperor is (it seems) the last one in the patrilineal lineage. I expect strangeness when succession becomes a legit topic. Will adopti
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by csa 5y ago
Upvotes have limited utility for an account that stands a good chance of being deleted.
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by csa 5y ago
> The US would concentrate on high performers, often to the detriment of their peers. This is, at best, half true. The high performers might get the most attention from certain teachers (esp. in middle class and upper middle class school
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by csa 5y ago
Do you have names for these folks? I’m guessing Chiyonofuji (popularized sumo in the 80s) and Hakuho (current Yokozuna and most yusho of all time)… two of the greatest Yokozuna of all time. If so, calling these “shenanigans” is overstating
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by csa 5y ago
I don’t know if there are casinos, card rooms, and/or home game poker scene in NL. If so, how do professional and semi-professional poker players carry their cash? Carrying $20k+ to a good home game is not uncommon in California.
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by csa 5y ago
Ask for “out the door price”. It makes it an apples to apples comparison. For my last car, 30 minutes of phone calls to the “online sales manager” pretty much zeroed in on the lowest price I would get in my area, and this matched the KBB fo
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by csa 5y ago
Agreed. This problem is easily solvable with increased pay, but this is tough to pull off in the Japanese corporate system.
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by csa 5y ago
My very liberal friend thought the same thing… so he just got one written in Russian. The reactions are pretty hilarious.
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by csa 5y ago
The main reason, imho, is because the tests are generally bad, and the folks in charge aren’t quite sure what to do about it. There is quite a bit of stuff that one can learn in a class that might not show up on a test. A few examples: 1. C
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by csa 5y ago
Fwiw, I was commenting on the use of “apropos” versus “appropriate”. I will let you look up those words, but apropos is frequently misused on HN.
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by csa 5y ago
> That at the moment this should 500 seems thoroughly apropos. Thoroughly with reference to…
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by csa 5y ago
I’ve heard lots of stories like this from folks who married into Filipino families. The general idea I get is that the money of the extended family is considered accessible (at least to some extent) by the entire pool. This seems especially

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