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by jshaqaw 6y ago
Are you kidding? Every teacher I know has had to radically reinvent their classrooms for fully remote learning on the fly with minimal support and are working around the clock to do so.
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I'm writing from NYC. My wife is the Principal of a school here. Schools are being given almost no support or guidance at any level from local to federal. Educational administrators are being told to open schools ensuring student an
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Plenty of adults work at schools. I understand the frustration. I cry for the lost year here in my kids’ lives. But I’m also not thrilled to sacrifice teachers and other educational workers on a bonfire. Will you personally volunteer to spe
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Keeping schools closed is horrific for my children. That said all of these brave warriors demanding schools reopen from behind the keyboards of their socially distanced houses should have to spend a day to two a week working in the schools
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I hope it works out. I was excited to get my kids interested in programming like I was in the early 80s. What I discovered was some combo of my kids are their own people and not my clones, but I think more importantly, the bar for computer
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I’ll probably get downvoted to Hades here but I finally upgraded my mid 2012 retina MacBook Pro to the latest model and I quite like the touch bar. Yes I know pure keyboard commands are more efficient but at this point in life my available
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I’m sure there is truth in that. I also find that life responsibilities may also account for some of that. At 21 I could have a few drinks at night and then just be sluggish the next day. Now between kids and career those downkey recovery d
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Basic is still the sweet spot for kids to move past Scratch but aren’t quite ready for the complexity of a Python.
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I live in NYC. The number one reason people I know leave is affordability vs the suburbs or next tier cities. I know a handful of people who aren't/weren't cut out for life in the Big Apple. The vast majority would stay if
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And if prices in NYC fall 40% then there will be a stampede of people moving back pushing things back up until an equilibrium is reached.
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One of the stranger spinoffs was the world of quantitative finance. Many of the physicists whose careers were killed when the SSC was cancelled found their way to Wall Street where their data analysis skills were put to use. Whether this wa
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If you were managing the conversion of an entire elementary and junior high school to remote learning on the fly in the midst of a pandemic while you and your spouse had said pandemic while overseeing the mental health of your children whi
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Very minor. Aside from loss of smell for a month my wife and I had no significant symptoms. I felt pretty exhausted but those weeks in NYC were so crazy that it’s hard to say what was Covid and what was ambient stress. My kids had positive
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Loss of smell was mainly how I suspected I had a Covid - later confirmed with an antibody test. Stay safe people.
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I agree. Many of their practices are predatory.
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Still here 24 years later. Not everyone leaves but yes you do see waves. A lot of people come for their 20s and then bail to go back where they came from to settle down. Then ten years later another wave leaves for the suburbs when their li
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I might feel this way if I was childless. As a parent, the idea of a collapsing civilization is catastrophically depressing.
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I get the world is more interconnected than ever before. Still, in my 45 years this is the first pandemic. I think people expecting one every year or two will find they are waiting a very long time.
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NYC always has its share of people done and ready to be recycled to the suburbs. Someone has to clear out and make room for new blood. This is pulling forward some of that demand. None of the people I know leaving weren’t on the fence alre
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Ugh I’ve been holding out on my 2012 retina MacBook Pro and was just about to upgrade to the 16 inch MacBook Pro. Now I guess I need to limp along another year to see what comes next rather than pay 3500 big ones to end up orphaned.
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by jshaqaw 6y ago
Particularly in blue states the public unions have massive power because they can turnout voting blocs in generally low turnout primaries. Since a Democrat is 99 percent likely to win, the primaries is where the power is.
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I lost my sense of smell for about a mo th which was my primary Covid symptom. I think I am now back at least 75% after two months (I was in the early wave of NYC).
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For years I’ve seen a concostent bug where I can’t go to the Mail window until I force quit and reopen mail a bunch. Frustrating.
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This will probably turn out to be capex made as effectively as when Apple bought Beats.
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NYC which is where I am now and where I want to be forever but I’ll probably spend a bit more time in the Adirondaks than I do now.
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My family has already had Covid-19. We wear masks to not be jerks and make others fearful or uncomfortable because we can’t be bothered to put a simple article of clothing on.
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I don’t live in SF but for all the angst ridden articles about it, the Bay Area seems to have been the most fertile source of business wealth creation in history. That can’t be purely accidental. I suppose coders can sort of live anywhere
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I find a difference (dare I say flaw) with Zoom type communication for unstructured team conversations is that without physical cues and without the ability to break into quick subconversations, chats among say 9 people are more likely to b
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Are author’s now on the enemies list of the great and good? For every Stephen King there are 10,000 authors trying to eke out a few dollars from something which took them years of hard work. I hardly think the authors of the world are the
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It’s your club but that seems like a strange policy. Being aware of proposed legislation is the first step for citizens either supporting or opposing it. It’s not helpful for deliberative democracy to only see actions after the fact once em

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