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by hc-taway 6y ago
Limit's higher for families. You still have to file, though.
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Been looking for a country where I can seek permanent residence status (and maybe, later, citizenship) with my family without having to give up my 1099 (contractor) US remote job and find something local (no, I'm not trying to dodge
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by hc-taway 6y ago
I mean, yeah, that's fair. School admin is one of those things you had some thoughts about as a kid, and later learn you weren't only entirely right about them, but it's much worse than you thought , rather than one of tho
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by hc-taway 6y ago
It is entirely possible the school didn't communicate well, but be aware it's typical for a parent with a grievance to report not having received messages that have been presented to them several times via several different chan
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> I've heard of horrifying schools in middle-of-nowhere towns that will never get his kind of attention. The fact that practically all rural public schools are bad is what keeps us from living the remote-work dream of moving out to
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by hc-taway 6y ago
This is pretty much spot on. A common pithy complaint about US schools is that they're funded by property taxes, so it must be all that extra money the nice suburban schools get that makes them successful. Unfortunately, that's co
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> The American school is striking in its emphasis on externally managed curricula, state-wide tests, etc. It feels like the teachers are competent but nobody trusts them. One of the most important things to understand how America works,
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by hc-taway 6y ago
I'd say that one gets in for having photos with "2019-2020", so clearly still being updated, but for feeling so very much like it's from 1999. Choosing to lead with an unremarkable aerial photography shot, and something
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Could you expand on this? I can't figure out what you're getting at.
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Given the call for a die roll, I think the intent was an exercise in attempting to describe a culture in terms of the rolled class, not actually selecting the one(s) best for HN. Either just for fun, or as an attempt to claim that the whole
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by hc-taway 6y ago
The parts I read that I could directly relate to from my own upbringing (a mix of Middle and mid-to-upper Prole, between the two sides of my family, with my own strong coating of Middle and accidentally-adopted Upper-Middle thinly painted o
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by hc-taway 6y ago
The Preppy Handbook and maybe Class (I can't recall for sure) cover North versus South prep (upper-middle class) differences and if you're at least aware of Albion's Seed it's hard not to see it as Puritans/Quak
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> this was another one of the sections where I had trouble figuring out where Fussell was and wasn't joking Judging from how many apparently-jokey parts where I was in a position to judge their accuracy were entirely accurate , I&#
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Most of the people who'd comprise a traditional "intelligentsia", Fussell'd probably put in (by class, but interestingly, not so much by income) the upper-middle (artists, professors, literary figures, editors of "c
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by hc-taway 6y ago
The saddest part of the book is his "Class X" concept. Didn't really work out like he hoped. Just became another flavor of upper-middle or middle (which you regard at is probably depends on how much you dislike them, I'd
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by hc-taway 6y ago
"Agile" and related are terrible more often than not, in my experience, but they can be very good. I've seen a lot of different pathologies in them, but one quick diagnostic tool I'd suggest: Can the team decide they d
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by hc-taway 6y ago
Cypher's pretty much the only thing about Neo4j that I found to be both pleasant-to-use and... well, any good, really. Love seeing it borrowed by other graphDBs. I'm far from being a SQL hater, but being able to bounce into Cypher
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by hc-taway 6y ago
> ½ X ½: oof. You can sorta do it, like "add ½ a half time", but the concept is an impediment that isn't helping anymore. On the contrary, continuing to conceptualize fractional multiplication exactly as your "1/
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by hc-taway 6y ago
That the output is (or can be, with the right settings, anyway) very reasonable looking JS that would be easy to navigate and work on for anyone who'd been working on the same project in TS is a huge selling point. It's a nearly-i
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by hc-taway 6y ago
It's the US, so of course "free healthcare" still leaves you with lots of large bills if you actually use any healthcare. Usually one pays for "gap coverage" insurance, running low-hundreds of dollars per person (co