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Where have all the kindergartners gone?(hechingerreport.org)
67 points by jawns 6y ago|219 comments
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by jawns 6y ago
It reminds me a little bit of "Gödel, Escher, Bach" in terms of its playfulness.
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by jawns 6y ago
Have you considered some sort of conditional pledging system? That was part of the original allure of Kickstarter: participants agreed to contribute money -- but they only had to pay it if the total pledged amount reached a certain threshol
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by jawns 6y ago
Americans' religious affiliations and degree of religious adherence tend to follow a generational step-down pattern. For instance, in my grandparents' day, both religious affiliation and religious adherence were relatively high.
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Online experiment identifies whether you're a dogmatic thinker(shaungallagher.pressbin.com)
2 points by jawns 6y ago|0 comments
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by jawns 6y ago
> my main point is that you shouldn't sue schools, because you're just taking (your own) money away from students I respectfully disagree. The ability to sue public institutions -- schools, police departments, cities, etc. --
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The Hacker News history of “[Blank] is dead, long live [Blank]”(hn.algolia.com)
1 points by jawns 6y ago|0 comments
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by jawns 6y ago
I think you can simultaneously support schools being better funded through legitimate avenues while rejecting the notion that underfunded schools should be able to sell students' private information to make money. This is not the only
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by jawns 6y ago
I think there's a lot of room for improvement for both law enforcement and CPS, but I agree with the comment you responded to. This seems more like it should be a social services intervention rather than a quasi-criminal investigation
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by jawns 6y ago
There were multiple reasons why it was not considered an acceptable option, but one of it had to do with the fact that if we limited comments only to paid subscribers, then what happens when a paid subscriber breaks the rules and gets banne
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by jawns 6y ago
I used to handle comment moderation for a metro newspaper, and I was floored by the amount of time and effort people put into posting racist diatribes. We had some who must've been script kiddies, because they started automating their
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by jawns 6y ago
The way you describe it, switching to a new credit card is a slightly easier way to get rid of a recurring charge than going through the proper channels and calling to cancel a subscription, and people who do so are just being lazy. But in
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by jawns 6y ago
I do accordion + beatbox covers of pop songs. Here's a cover of "I Believe I Can Fly" that I did with my kids: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqLWMZDjeQ0 And here's a little snippet of Ariana Grande&#x2
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by jawns 6y ago
I switched at 30, and already it felt like I would never catch up to my same-age peers, who alrady had close to 10 years of experience under their belt. In some respects, that has been true, especially with regard to pure technical abiliti
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by jawns 6y ago
I don't think it's necessarily energy so much as lack of other obligations, like having dependents you have to care for outside of normal business hours. I see this not only among 20-something unmarried workers with no children bu
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by jawns 6y ago
The study talks about how more young people are residing with their parents because of economic difficulty, but I'm not sure that's necessarily a major factor in the decline. Many people become sexually active before they move ou
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by jawns 6y ago
This article doesn't appear to have been written by a native English speaker, so it feels like reading a Google Translate version of a news article. But if you're curious about the technology, here's a 2019 paper that details
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by jawns 6y ago
I think the law envisions a case where you owe money to someone, and the due date for repayment is already in the past. So, if I borrow $1,000 from you and am supposed to pay it back next month, and then the due date arrives, and I accident
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by jawns 6y ago
Do you foresee any interplay behind a tool like Rich and terminal emulators like iTerm2, which provides some pretty sophisticated triggers based on terminal output? Or do you see them as two fundamentally different things with little overl
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by jawns 6y ago
> They antagonize officers who can't do anything about it The officers can't do anything about it because it's not illegal to film police officers in public while carrying out their official duties. It's a constitu
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by jawns 6y ago
It feels like a de-escalation tactic? This is pretty classic passive-aggressive behavior. And aggressive behavior, whether in the form of overt aggression or passive-aggressive tactics, does not contribute to de-escalation. Recording polic
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by jawns 6y ago
Can you propose some other legitimate purpose for their actions? I don't regularly see police officers playing music on their cell phones during the course of their official duties, nor do I see any reason why they should. Edit: To re
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by jawns 6y ago
> It sounds like Smith was fined more than he aimed to save. That might be true in absolute terms, but saving the money at the time likely enabled him to grow his wealth faster, putting him in a better position now, even accounting for
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Study: Depolarizing American voters via false attitude feedback(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by jawns 6y ago|0 comments
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The Seditionists Need a Path Back to Society(theatlantic.com)
2 points by jawns 6y ago|1 comments
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by jawns 6y ago
You are mistaken that the IOR represents the annual expenses/income of the church, or even a large part of it. The IOR is a bank that provides financial services to Catholic institutions, such as religious communities and Vatican offic
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by jawns 6y ago
Have you ever looked at the annual budget of a church? I'm a member of a typical Catholic parish in the U.S., and every year the pastor includes the budget in a letter he sends to every registered parishioner, for transparency. There
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by jawns 6y ago
I agree, either there's something else going on or he's entirely genuine about the mission -- in which case it's unlikely to thrive. While this business model can work in some industries, in this particular heavily regulated
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by jawns 6y ago
This is really cool, but it's clear that the person requesting the SQL has to know whether the generated SQL is correct for it to be of use. If I'm a non-technical user and I ask a plain-language question and the generated SQL is
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by jawns 6y ago
As a college student (nearly 20 years ago) I built a tool for our student newspaper that caught frequent violations of the Associated Press style guide. Later, working as a newsroom copy editor, I was shocked at how few tools there were ava

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