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by david38 5y ago
I talk to a lot of parents. Most are quite open with their tactics.
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by david38 5y ago
The analogy is correct because we’re talking about people. Parents are the primary educators. When they aren’t educating, or need to educate on too many other things, academics suffer. This is news to nobody. It would be highly suspiciou
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by david38 5y ago
My mother was an orphan at 15 in Honduras. When she had me, she shared a 400 square foot house with six of her sisters. Look up the crime stats for Honduras and try again. Also, looking at the very worst situations is not a valid argument.
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by david38 5y ago
IQ also fluctuates a lot, but yes, she is a lot like me (reads, thinks math/science is interesting, etc). She bought only one prep book, for $35, with her own money. I guarantee the very poorest can get that one book, even from the li
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by david38 5y ago
Thank you. You absolutely validate my own observations. I went to college. My parents did, as did my extended family on one side. I saw both sides and chose this one. I picked a town where my children would be surrounded by an environmen
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by david38 5y ago
This is hubris. I can think of many adults that know nothing of Calc and do very in life and work. Knowing basic accounting, being able to fix things around the house, being pleasant to work with, etc are far more important.
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by david38 5y ago
You don’t. I’ve never been asked a O() that requires calculus. The vast majority is just understanding if it’s log(n), n, nlog(n), n^2, etc. Discrete, sure, but Calc? Not for most.
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by david38 5y ago
I live in a very rich town, like super rich. I work in tech so am rich by the standards of general population, but by the standards of Silicon Valley. My child did very well on the ACT. All she did was buy a $35 practice book, which almos
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by david38 5y ago
Operative word being “today”. This is why education teaches you that values and morals change and that judging the past by today’s lens is a poor way to judge. It also teaches you that what people call psychopathic is mostly just a differe
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by david38 5y ago
I have never known a woman to describe IUDs as anything like this.
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by david38 5y ago
Almost by definition a “human right” is debated because it’s based on time and culture. It used to mean the right to be alive, then freedom from slavery was added, then access to food. Shelter isn’t even an established right, what makes yo
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by david38 5y ago
Most preppers live in a fantasy. It’s mostly an excuse to buy toys. If you’re really interested in being able to handle situations, join the ultra-light crowd. They mostly beat preppers at their own game. It’s harder, less toys, etc, but
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by david38 5y ago
Ehhh, I run a high performance database system in Kubernetes and it works great. It’s distributed, uses EBS volumes. That’s about as opposite of stateless as it gets.
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by david38 5y ago
They don’t. That would be a wildly stupid thing to do. They sell at multiple markets.
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by david38 5y ago
It’s not. Most of them make very little money. They sell their goods at multiple farmers markets. I know many and they all complain about that rich assholes that do this thinking the food is just going to get thrown away.
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by david38 5y ago
This is a good way to piss off hard working people who don’t make much. You clearly don’t know anything about how they operate. You do know the vendors go to multiple farmers markets, right? You’re not saving anything from waste. Unless y
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by david38 5y ago
This is how new ideas evolve. What “market place”? How many editors are regularly sold? Lucky for you, this project costs you nothing and takes up no space.
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by david38 5y ago
What a terrible filter. The chances the interview is in a different location is quite high.
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by david38 5y ago
There is a consequence for bad behavior. Ghosting is a consequence of (usually) guys taking rejection badly. Calling her a whore for not sleeping with him, fat/ugly for refusing a date, threatening to show up her door, assault her, e
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by david38 5y ago
Spoken like someone who has never done so. Do as you say and you’ll find yourself the target of a gang retaliation. You plan on packing automatic weapons? You going to kill ten people? Even if you do it in self defense, you’ll get killed
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by david38 5y ago
If you didn’t pay for it, you can only have zero expectations, simple as that. You can provide something for free, not make any promises that it will be free with upgrades in perpetuity, and one day decide to stop. It’s as simple as that.
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by david38 5y ago
Unfortunately they’ve turned into drug stalls in many places. I would happily pay a higher tax for clean public restrooms.
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by david38 5y ago
Trivial. DoorDash has been caught doing this. Add this to TOS. If DoorDash persists, remove them from all searches until they prove they have fixed the issue and pay a penalty for bad behavior.
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by david38 5y ago
Yea, I don’t see YC as any kind of moral filter despite it appears to have that kind of halo.
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by david38 5y ago
It’s not. People who work hard don’t like when others are doing little and getting paid. It makes them question why THEY are the suckers doing the hard work.
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by david38 5y ago
Eh. Gas is not “objectively bad” unless you want to also say cars are “objectively bad”. How many people die every year from from short or long term effects of gas stoves? Compare that to cars. Every kitchen I’ve ever been in with a gas
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by david38 5y ago
If someone is leaving on good terms, you can always have a contract where you can contact them later for some set contractor rate.
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by david38 5y ago
If your contract required three months notice, it also required the same notice on their part, no? Otherwise why would you sign it such a contract?
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by david38 5y ago
The most complex systems in the world are software. The automation behind software is staggering, absolutely mind-blowing. The amount of lives that depend on software in one way or another - from traffic lights to medical equipment would
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by david38 5y ago
You might be right. It takes time to rewrite software. But damn, those machine cost a pretty penny to run. Still, I would love to have one.

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