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by efa 7y ago
I'm not sure what you mean by increased access. The public school system has very limited funds and personnel. There are some schools with no dedicated reading specialist for example (ever fewer have occupational therapist or autism sp
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by efa 7y ago
Ugh. Google of course has to continue to own every bit of information on the web. Them deciding what is misinformeation is also scary.
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by efa 7y ago
Yes, I'd like to know where you are getting that the actual rates are increasing. My wife and I (parent's of a daughter with autism) laugh how every year they claim the numbers increase - 1/100, then 1/50, etc. These are
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by efa 8y ago
That first one annoys the hell out of me.
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by efa 8y ago
Fellow Texan. We have a 16 yr old girl on the spectrum. Not sure how old your daughter is. The public schools are required to provide service (even before starting school) once your daughter has been officially diagnosed and it's recor
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by efa 8y ago
As a novice, it seems extremely difficult to define what's too big. Her argument is that Amazon owns the platform where the deals are done and thus has an inherent advantage that undermines fair competition. Any established company has
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by efa 8y ago
Yeah, I was very surprised to see this is a normal public school. I'm not sure how that works with this school having a different schedule and teachers having different hours and perks (interesting from the union point of view). But I&
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by efa 8y ago
I don't understand the down voting of comments like this. Is there something controversial here?
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by efa 8y ago
Yeah, how cheesy that the US (the US!) post office used a Vegas statue instead of the one on Ellis Island. What were they thinking!?
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by efa 8y ago
Grocery store bags used to all be paper back in my day! Then someone demanded they be replaced with plastic.
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by efa 8y ago
Exactly. In the 50s the average home size was 950 sq ft. In the 2000s 2,320 sq ft.
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by efa 8y ago
If a teacher wants to afford a house they can move to any of the 90% of the states where its doable. I live in San Antonio, where teacher starting salary is $50k and you can easily buy a house for $100k.
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by efa 8y ago
But couldn't you substitute teacher with any other job. It's not about teacher pay. It's the price of housing has skyrocketed compared to average salaries in general.
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by efa 9y ago
Yeah, lets not talk about icky things like people not being responsible.
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by efa 9y ago
Oh man that's my dream. Something heavy that's not hot. I get hot very easily but I love the feeling of weight. I'm not understanding what you are using. You get the weight and little heat?
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by efa 9y ago
Yeah, showing me the image at full resolution when I "Open image in new tab".
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by efa 9y ago
Agree. My young son was recently in a car accident. As part of the agreement with the insurance company he got some compensation. But this is in the form of an annuity with yearly payments when he turns 18. This protects him from parents lo
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by efa 9y ago
I don't know all the tax implications around huge salaries like these, but every time I read one of these stories I always wonder why they don't just stick their money in t-bills or CDs. Something completely risk free that will ge
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by efa 9y ago
The news.
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by efa 9y ago
Well I'm not sure about corrupting their morality or sensibilities, but strong violence or scary movies can certainly affect a small child more than an adult. My son would have nightmares for days after seeing something too scary for h
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by efa 9y ago
I 100% agree. I even catch myself thinking I didn't know what I was doing when looking at code I wrote years before. I'll jump into rewriting it and discover it was written that way for a reason. I've learned to trust my fo
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by efa 9y ago
That's just what I was thinking. I was reminded that when watching a commercial for a company that solved the earth shattering problem of getting contact lenses. So many companies doing such trivial (well maybe not trivial but not huge
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by efa 9y ago
Resist the Right-Wing Machine!!
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by efa 9y ago
What!? Do you realize what the foundation does with the money? They aren't spending the money on vacation homes for Bill & Melinda. They are spending on eradicating malaria and stuff like that. You know, good things for the world.
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by efa 9y ago
Well, they give the money away. So either way he's giving the money away to groups he thinks will do good work with it.
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by efa 9y ago
Okay, left you 50k inheritance to do whatever you want with it.
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by efa 9y ago
I don't understand what you mean by this. Say a grandparent left a grandchild 50k for college. It's the grandchild's money. The grandchild could choose to invest in college or the market. This may not be a common scenario but
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by efa 9y ago
If your parents were going to pay for your college you could do this.
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by efa 9y ago
Aren't most of these large marine animals in captivity rescues? Like you said, isn't it better than leaving them in the wild to die? Why not make the law so they can only have them for rehabilitation purposes and then release them
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by efa 9y ago
Blackfish is one side of the argument with no counter argument. Don't make that your only education on the subject.

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