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by jkestner 4y ago
If x is powerful because they’re smart and work hard, I can become powerful because I’m smart and work hard. If x is powerful because they were born rich and got lucky, I… don’t have much control over whether I become powerful.
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by jkestner 4y ago
This reminds me of a speculative/satirical social productivity suite I prototyped with a friend in school, including a 30-minute game where you race to check off tasks against a friend, and send taunting photos every time you did.
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by jkestner 4y ago
I feel you on the challenges. I had the same culture shock going to high school, even though it was only a smallish Catholic school. Learning how to work within a system is a critical skill! On math, my early elementary teacher and my fathe
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by jkestner 4y ago
My mother's also a longtime Montessori teacher, and yeah, there’s a lot of variety. Montessori is not a protected trademark. Look for AMI-certified for a school that has to meet some standards. I attended Montessori from 2-14, but have
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The Framework is the most exciting laptop I've ever broken(pluralistic.net)
6 points by jkestner 4y ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 4y ago
Zeos! I remember wanting their sleek notebook after seeing a bronzed ad in Byte. Of course, sleek was like, under 2" thick. I didn't have a parental example with technology, but at least they bought computers and let me play with
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by jkestner 4y ago
This was a whole genre on classic Macs, too. https://happymacs.wordpress.com/2015/06/16/the-eyes-have-it-...
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by jkestner 4y ago
Lol, that’s a weird childhood dream, which I also had. Ever since I saw a flight simulator running on an SGI Indigo, and I started speccing out an “affordable” O2. That was some good 90s industrial design. I just replaced my 2009 cheese gra
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by jkestner 4y ago
“Stay out of frivolous conversations with other captives. For example, discussions about government politics, street politics and prison politics only lead to arguments. Instead, focus on topics that sharpen others, like spirituality, histo
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by jkestner 4y ago
I don't know if Lula committed corruption, but he apparently wasn't more corrupt than the judge who tried him, who became Bolsonaro's Minister of Justice. All the charges were dismissed eventually because of court bias. http
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Adobe Steals Your Color(pluralistic.net)
9 points by jkestner 4y ago|3 comments
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by jkestner 4y ago
As a nerd, I recognize the statistic unlikelihood of a camera making a difference in my security, so it’s easy to choose just not to get cameras. “I watch nothing happen over and over again….The worry begets more worry, all because the came
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by jkestner 4y ago
Buying lottery tickets instead of a camera also has a slightly higher than zero probability of a positive outcome. I wouldn’t doubt that a webcam (real or dummy) deters crime. I’ve looked hard for statistics on arrest rates for home propert
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I Turned My Home into a Fortress of Surveillance(theatlantic.com)
1 points by jkestner 4y ago|0 comments
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by jkestner 4y ago
Right - there was no way that the giants would partner together unless they could create their own wedges. It seems that there will be a baseline standard that allows end users to use their hardware on any one of the platforms, but each pla
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by jkestner 4y ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/30/us/police-killings-underc... Or direct to the data, if that's what you want: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0
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by jkestner 4y ago
I'm generally very happy with their use of my contributions as well, with the exception of advocating the Supreme Court to require Maine to fund vouchers to private religious schools.
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by jkestner 4y ago
Unfortunately, this case isn't about whether the police did something wrong, but about the principle of qualified immunity that the Supreme Court created, and has now become de facto law. The best outcome we're likely to get is th
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by jkestner 4y ago
I know people who donate to the police retirement fund or whatever, in order to get the bumper sticker that proclaims that to any cop who pulls them over.
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by jkestner 4y ago
aka https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Hanoi_Rat_Massacre
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by jkestner 4y ago
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson has a city on Mercury that stays at twilight on the terminator, but being on a rotating planet, it has to keep moving on a massive track. Until it doesn't.
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by jkestner 4y ago
This is a neat project from a design/engineering viewpoint, but it seems it's addressing the 'problem' of "houses look hard to make; how can it look like something I can do?" Same reason I'm skeptical of 3
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by jkestner 4y ago
Agreed, thanks OP for the prompt, for myself. My father was really stingy with money and wouldn’t gift me anything. All my friends drove cars in high school. I didn’t feel jealous (rides everywhere!) but it felt good when I earned my first
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by jkestner 4y ago
This is fantastic, and I hope it can be a sustainable practice whether it's them or other larger companies. Transparency is positive when they're the little guy with a nerd audience, but most companies depend on information asymme
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by jkestner 4y ago
1Blocker is worth paying for, if you’re on iOS.
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by jkestner 4y ago
Must be the peak. That's when the first "true wireless earbuds" came out.
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by jkestner 4y ago
Repeat of the car market? I'm going to make a bunch of money off the old computers collecting dust here, and Apple's going to have to unlock support for new OSes on them, making all its money on services.
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by jkestner 4y ago
This influenced our thinking: https://jalopnik.com/parents-just-buy-the-damn-minivan-15975... The Sienna is great for kids and I've managed to fit 4x8 sheets in it.
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by jkestner 4y ago
I’d love it if Serif got in the CAD game, but they’ve got their hands full finishing that last 20% on their design apps. I use only Designer and Photo now, but there’s always a couple of features I miss, like gradient mesh or duotone.
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by jkestner 4y ago
You're comparing a threat that sounds cool and scary and is practically non-existent to a mundane abuse of privacy that happens every day.

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