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by larkost 3y ago
I suspect that there is a lot of (not really) grey area here. My impression is that many homeschoolers wind up working with other people, so at least some of the time they have other people's kids in their home. It would be fairly easy
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by larkost 3y ago
You have all the options you can afford. But... 1. You should not have the option of skipping out on the taxes you pay for the general school system. So no rebates. 2. Your fellow taxpayers should not have to subsidize your decisions in you
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by larkost 3y ago
I sympathize with the underlying thought, but I think that it is worth using this as a model of when we should use the tool of socialism and when we should use the tool of capitalism... what should be the balance? In this case the fundament
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by larkost 3y ago
This example is pretty bad AppleScript. A much better way of writing this exact behavior is: tell the first window of the application "Safari" close the first tab end tell Of course a real script would do things like
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by larkost 3y ago
I can assure you, we are not that old. For works created in 1978 or later (which is the case for these) work-for-hire pieces like this get 95 years of copyright protection: https://www.copyright.gov/help/faq/faq-du
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by larkost 3y ago
My kids go to a school where the majority of the kids are somewhere around poverty level (easy to be under there in Silicon Valley if you are not an engineer in tech). I absolutely believe the administrators when they say that the meals som
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by larkost 3y ago
I don't think that evolve is the right word here. It is not that cancers generally will develop to the point where this is no longer useful in humans. In a single human it is possible that some collection of cancer cells mutates in a w
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by larkost 3y ago
The argument is that it is U.S. companies that are insanely competitive at making high-fructose corn syrup, and that the EU has largely banned it as a shield to European companies making other sweeteners (e.g.: sugar). I would argue that th
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by larkost 3y ago
I think it is a little more nuanced. The case in this article is pretty bad, and I am certainly inclined to call it both a bad, and an inappropriate influence. But that is mostly because of how they are trying to disguise it as not being fr
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by larkost 3y ago
No, please don't generalize like that. It is not clear which "original poster" you mean, but all of the ones in this chain seem to be arguing that there is waste, but that there is no evidence that the government is not inher
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by larkost 3y ago
As a parent (no longer of toddlers... but I had them), I have to disagree with this somewhat. In my experience even the best of parents, with the best of kids, sometimes has them go off the rails when they hear "no". Certainly the
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by larkost 3y ago
My SO works in accounting, and they really do run without guardrails. And yes there are a ton of different software packages that people can buy for various uses (and do). The main problem here is that Excel is so very flexible, and everyth
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by larkost 3y ago
The same reason as the Dragon was initially funded: options. The thinking is that only having one option is more risky than having two, and spending the extra money on the two programs is justified both by the enhancements that competition
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by larkost 3y ago
I believe that iCloud is hosted in a number of cloud vendors, and on Apple's own servers as well. It is both a large (read: rambling as well as big) endeavor, and one they keep flexible so they have a good negotiating position to keep
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by larkost 3y ago
Apple has a large AI group, including both the Siri team and the one designing the Inference hardware in the A/M series processors (the "Neural Engine"). And you can bet that there are a lot of AI people working in the heavil
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by larkost 3y ago
I think the disconnect is that in Europe employment contracts spell out a lot. In the U.S. they are really don't cover a lot about how you work. The common phrase in the U.S. is "additional tasks and duties as required", whic
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by larkost 3y ago
I don't think this is correct. It is a little hard to tease out perfectly (e.g.: school computers having gone to chrome books in a big way might not be the statistic you want), but globally Windows marketshare has gone from 90% a decad
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by larkost 3y ago
The real problem that still is not fixed is that `datetime.date.now()` and others do not do the right thing and encode the system timezone. Rather they record a time without timezone. I have seen this cause so many problems because people a
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by larkost 3y ago
While I think that that the setup around SpaceX is better than etc format we have done before, I don't think it is much less of a "cathedral" model. Really the only changes in that model are that now there is a second "c
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by larkost 3y ago
I am not sure that this is a net improvement: either you are lying to your friends, or you are lying to the business/on your taxes.
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by larkost 3y ago
This is a really good statement, but I think you are missing some nuance on one statement: The "Free Market" does do a far better job of rapidly and semi-accurately allocating resources and labor than central planning. In theory
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by larkost 3y ago
Maybe, if there is some specific protein that you want the lungs to build that they are not already doing (or not in the quantity needed). But mostly this is going to help out for genetic diseases where it is either a protein that needs to
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by larkost 3y ago
And these require a lipid shielding, so fats. That is not going to last long in the air at all, making these probably bad aerosol-sized weapons.
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by larkost 3y ago
Arguably cyanobacteria beat us to the punch a bit less than 2.5 billion years ago in the Great Oxidation Event, when they killed off much/most of the other life by producing a lot of oxygen: https://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by larkost 3y ago
From what I understand gluten intolerance (including Celiac disease) is not at all like allergies where even a small amount of cross contamination can be harmful (or even deadly). Gluten intolerance really needs a solid amount (which many f
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by larkost 3y ago
How do you suppose that universities have pushed industry out of research? The reality is that industry has bay-and-large decided it only wants to do the development part of R&D, and leave the research to someone else. Universities have
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by larkost 3y ago
I think they are mostly talking about the ones that carry water much (all?) of the year in the central valley, rather than the ones in L.A. proper. So I don't think skaters will have much to complain about.
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by larkost 4y ago
Apple did not have any head start, when they entered the market there were already smartphones on the market (e.g.; BlackBerry and Palm Treo). Apple just brought out a significantly better product, and it took years for a good response to c
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by larkost 4y ago
The assets do not have to increase in value, the face value on them is enough (if what I am reading is right), but that is if you hold the bonds until maturity. SVB's problem was that suddenly they could not wait for maturity their dep
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by larkost 4y ago
I have found that it works better for me not have unlimited hearts. I make my mistakes, and in I am not ready on a level then I have to repeat it. And either way I then do practice rounds to fill my hearts back up to full (I try to always l

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