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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Because it’s the mayor (and city council) who appoints and may suspend the chief of police in Marion (see Marion City Code 1-301).[0] And they have that authority per Kansas Statutes 14-201 (evidently it is a “city of the second class”).[1]
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Small robots, Raspberry Pi, small drones: those are the things I’ve seen at high school level. The terrifying part is that the great majority of my 9th graders are not very experienced with actual computers (laptops included). Their knowled
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
That’s not right. The suit is against the United States, not the TSA. The Federal Tort Claims Act waives the United States’ sovereign immunity in certain limited cases. One of those is if an intentional tort is committed by “investigative o
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Fellow Southerner detected!
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Sorry, I forgot we’re supposed to be 100% wet-bulb literal and never silly on HN. :(
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> You can practically feel the diabetes when you drink sweet tea in the south. That’s the South I know and love. I salute you.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I don’t know but it’s one of my favorite rituals, when northerners come down here and innocently order tea and then gag at first sip.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I am going to second all of the complaints about the use of “learning styles.” That has a very specific meaning in education. And there is a word for what the article is talking about: metacognition. Pretending that he has debunked a myth j
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Yeah, well, it’s also excruciatingly hot down here. 98 degrees and 100% humidity makes you want to do nothing but sit on your ass with a tall glass o’ iced tea (that’s sweet tea for y’all in the north).
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
And criminal law and procedure doesn’t care about precedent as much as it cares about finality. Which is really backwards.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Sounds like the school I teach at. Also sounds like you’re doing something right with your son. Tip o’ the cap.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Pacer physically hurts to use. They should have to pay us for having to use it.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Honestly, the first thing I thought when I heard the story was “sounds like a lawsuit.”
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I feel like Howard Oakley ( https://eclecticlight.co/ ) has written about issues with iCloud products but I’m sleepy and don’t feel like digging through search results.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Yeah. So, if you were actually consistent in this stance, I don’t see how you could participate in really any piece of the modern economy. But I suspect you’re not consistent in this stance. I suspect it just bothers you more in this domai
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Why would awareness be necessary for language evolution? Was it necessary for human evolution?
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> we think that an etymological analysis is needed to shed light on why the word is used in some ways today I doubt this very much. Words are used the ways they are today because people, at some time, adopted that use. That’s it. That’s
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I mean, that’s about as facile a claim as can be made. Sounds great in theory but in reality people working in print media don’t exactly have an expanding field full of opportunities for work.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Nah, that’s just not how language tends to evolve, except perhaps for specialized vocabularies that are created to denote specific, technical things for the purpose of agreement among those involved.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
The critique of dictionaries made by “teams” of people, as against a single person, is odd. Like the writer expects lexicography to be just an art form where word lovers can explore and display their idiolects or something. If a dictionary
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
On the contrary, they have identical per capita influence: 0. At least as far as I understand how newspapers, magazines, etc. work. Blog writers? Sure.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I mean… in hindsight, you could say that about almost everything, as soon as some way is found to exploit it. I hope you don’t disagree with the idea of that once a vulnerability is disclosed, the manufacturers/developers should fix it
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
That’s a shame. The writers of articles usually are not the writers of headlines. Yet you implicate the writer in the deception of the copywriter.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Come on, now. People are entitled to have any opinion at all. Even exceptionally ridiculous ones.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> I find these clauses at odds with one another in that the Failure to Report clause created a tangible duty upon the provider, which, were I a judge, would satisfy me that the provider was, in fact, deputized. Absolutely not. That secti
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
It might’ve served the greater good of bringing home to parents that their kids are, in fact, old enough to be sexual beings and suppression of their sexuality just isn’t possible anymore. Maybe that would lead to fewer cases of kids like t
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I had a different objective: get my MAT (Master of Arts in Teaching), get certified in my state and get a job at a secondary school. They were threatening to throw a monkey-wrench at me. It wasn’t worth the trouble. Had I been a history gra
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
> it would be monumentally ignorant to act like the Catholic Church is somehow still beholden I guess it’s a good thing I didn’t do that, then.
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
I thought that this was such an obvious point that I would not have to make it, but it just goes to show that whatever HN’s comment policies may be about civility and substance, they don’t seem to require a quite basic application of the Pr
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by dmvdoug 3y ago
Me: “Here’s my experience so far.” You: “Your statistical methods are flawed. Me: “???”

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