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by istjohn 6y ago
I'm so glad you asked! It seems that the US self-storage market can be roughly segmented into two groups: UHaul Self-Storage and everyone else. UHaul is up to double the cost of their budget competitors like Public Storage. I'm bu
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by istjohn 6y ago
I considered filing a complaint with the police department, but I'm skeptical anything would have come of it. Ideally, I would have done it regardless. It's true that the root problem will not be addressed if people don't pur
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by istjohn 6y ago
The thing is, SR is the world's "ultimate fighting technique" in school . Outside of school and language learning there are more caveats. It's not always obvious which facts are worth memorizing, and sometimes we&
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by istjohn 6y ago
I think we've all found ourselves looking up a command line option for that one bash utility for the upteenth time. Throw it in a flash card and never look it up again. The same with text editor shortcuts, API's, etc. My shop teac
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by istjohn 6y ago
Do you ever find yourself going back to something you used to know well, only to find that you're now a bit rusty? In theory, spaced repetition would allow you to keep that knowledge from getting stale. I think you'll find you lea
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by istjohn 6y ago
The point of Anki is that you will never forget an ever growing library of information if you maintain the habit.
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by istjohn 6y ago
This is NOT what Anki is for. It's called space repetition for a reason. The whole raison d'etre of spaced repetition is that you can memorize information in a fraction of the time by reviewing the information at progressively inc
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by istjohn 6y ago
One of those links are not like the others. I was not prepared for the first story to be about self-immolating taxi drivers.
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by istjohn 6y ago
This calls to mind an incident from a couple years ago in Columbus, Ohio. After a negligent lane-changing sedan spun my car 360 degrees and into the rail guard, the responding police officer ordered a tow truck for me without my knowledge.
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by istjohn 6y ago
No, I don't want child porn on my feed, in my library, or in my Google results. Illegal material aside, if someone posts something on Twitter that really disturbs me, I can block them. Twitter could create custom filters and let people
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by istjohn 6y ago
> I wouldnt call this concept reduction of free speech, when in fact all it takes away is the liberty to insult someone in certain ways. But that's plainly a curtailment of speech. A rose by any other name, etc., etc. Perhaps the re
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by istjohn 6y ago
Twitter isn't obligated to allow anyone to use their platform, but as a user, I don't want Twitter to curate what ideas and speakers I'm exposed to, in the same way that I don't want my local library to ban certain boo
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by istjohn 6y ago
Section 230 doesn't require a platform to be neutral. This is a common, but false, idea. Section 230 says: “No provider or user of an interactive computer service, a platform, shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any informa
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by istjohn 6y ago
Do you mind translating that into English? Edit: I gather the translation is something like: For all x, predicate P is true of x. x is true. Therefore, predicate P is true of x.
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by istjohn 6y ago
On the contrary, breaking them up will only strengthen our technology ecosystem, allowing innovation to continue. If we don't break them up, the next disruptive tech giant will be founded overseas.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Or heavily tax private schools and eliminate the local housing development vetoes that allow wealthy enclaves to form and persist. Without housing reform, public schools in wealthy areas become pseudo private schools. Optionally, also manda
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by istjohn 6y ago
Yes, housing reform is needed also to prevent affluent enclaves from maintaining exclusive neighborhoods.
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by istjohn 6y ago
> I am sure that the outcome is based on what the student puts into it. I strongly disagree with the idea that the outcome of child education depends on "what the student puts into it." A quality education shapes a child, insti
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by istjohn 6y ago
We still have a robust ecosystem of quality journalism in the US. There is bias, there are mistakes made, and there is false information masquerading as news that can mislead media consumers if they are not careful. But we are still very fa
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by istjohn 6y ago
Yes, which is why Russian propaganda is more concerned about muddying the waters than constructing any particular narrative.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Since we're being pedantic, "Nazi" is always capitalized.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Thanks for putting this out there. As an amateur developer who has picked up just enough linux skills to get by over the years, this looks like a great way to fill in some of the gaps in my knowledge without getting too deep in the weeds.
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by istjohn 6y ago
But it's a false choice.
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by istjohn 6y ago
Hidden under the counterintuitive headline is this tidbit: most Americans, especially Black Americans are not very confident police will treat them with courtesy and respect.
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by istjohn 6y ago
>...we end up in the vicious cycle of poverty , crime, imprisonment, broken families and even more kids going through the same thing. Poverty. That's the root issue. But it's cheaper to blame the poverty on bad additudes a
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by istjohn 6y ago
Yes, safety is important. George Floyd should have been able to feel safe. Breonna Taylor should have been safe in her bed. Who's violence are we talking about here? What does high crime neighborhoods have to do with police not killing
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by istjohn 6y ago
But you don't have to read far to get to this bit: > Fewer than one in five Black Americans feel very confident that the police in their area would treat them with courtesy and respect. While similar to the 24% of Asian Americans s
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by istjohn 6y ago
Public philanthropy by billionaires of what for them is actually a miniscule portion of their wealth is suspect. But this is not that. I can't speak for Mr. Kaufman, but I imagine he shares this information publicly not to brag, but to
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by istjohn 6y ago
After experiencing the UX disaster that is AMP, I'd just prefer Google stop throwing its weight around "innovating" on the core web standards and stick to what it's good at: giving me what I ask for in the search bar. No
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by istjohn 6y ago
I wanted to write a snarky response to this and went to look for some ad hominem seasoning for my zinger on www.jefftk.com. But I got played. It's hard to hold malice against someone who donates over 50% of their income every year [0].

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