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by lhorie 5y ago
We bought the Intensive Practice series[0], and paced study time at a couple of pages a day (which takes about 20-30 mins), semi-supervised (i.e. kids mostly work on their own, but if they don't understand something, we help clarify).
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by lhorie 5y ago
Curious to see comments quipping that some of the math problems geared towards young kids are too hard. I'd recommend taking a look at Singapore Math[0] to get an idea of what kids in those age ranges are actually capable of doing, p
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by lhorie 5y ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound defeatist, I meant "we're too late" in the sense that the damages are already here, so now we're not merely talking about just the cost of prevention anymore, but also about the cost of
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by lhorie 5y ago
Indeed. One commenter below mentioned family getting evacuated in anticipation. Also worth noting this event is still ongoing, so the "at least 120" number is likely lowballing.
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by lhorie 5y ago
https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-how-climate-change-affect... is a decent place to start looking
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by lhorie 5y ago
No, to say that climate change is a factor, you just need a non-zero correlation between climate change and any of these events (i.e. even if it only causes a 0.1% increase in weather variability and that contributes to an increase of onl
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by lhorie 5y ago
Yeah, I take issue with the idea that carbon offsets alone will magically fix everything. In Toronto, there was a mandate a few years ago for all houses to disconnect downspouts from the sewer system (so that rainwater is absorbed into the
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by lhorie 5y ago
It's not purely associated w/ it, the article says as much: > Many factors contribute to flooding, but a warming atmosphere caused by climate change makes extreme rainfall more likely To make an argument that climate change isn
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by lhorie 5y ago
Just goes to show that the idea of climate change affecting everywhere equally (and thus meekly) is the biggest blind spot of climate change deniers. More than ever, I keep reading about how hyperlocal water systems are, and IMHO it shouldn
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by lhorie 5y ago
IANAL but my understanding is that there are specific criteria for what is admissible and what isn't. For example, there are very specific heuristics for determining whether something is hearsay. What I'm saying is that there shou
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by lhorie 5y ago
On a more basic level, how is the context of the conversation less relevant than the exact wording of any given uttered sentence? IMHO, if a judge hears "well he told me to lie so I did", the whole interrogation ought to be thrown
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by lhorie 5y ago
> There has been bad weather before humans walked this planet according to scientists, and dry vegetation also. Oh sure, but climate change deniers also like to say temperature changes have existed since the dawn of time (while convenien
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by lhorie 5y ago
FTA: > This fire is going to continue to grow -- the extremely dry vegetation and weather are not in our favor," said Joe Hessel, an incident commander for the Oregon Department of Forestry. So clearly they acknowledge that the weat
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by lhorie 5y ago
Ah, I understand now. My understanding is that with zig and go, one does not DRY deferring, it's just a part of the idiom trade-offs between verbosity and explicitness. So if bar, baz, quux aren't intrinsically related as a unit a
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by lhorie 5y ago
How so? You can mock any of bar/baz/quux however you want using the patterns/techniques above. Am I misunderstanding something?
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by lhorie 5y ago
There are several options Poor man's: func make_foo_with_mock_bar() *Foo { return &Foo { bar: make_mock_bar(), baz: make_baz(), quux: make_quux(), } } Explicit injection: func
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by lhorie 5y ago
But that's because you're doing continuation passing style. You could do this instead: func make_foo() *Foo { return &Foo { bar: make_bar(), baz: make_baz(), quux: make_quux(), } }
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by lhorie 5y ago
Not all interviewers care about side projects, but among interviewers that look at them, I think there are two very distinct groups: 1) the ones that use the existence of a non-trivial side project as a proxy signal for motivation and exper
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by lhorie 5y ago
It's interesting hearing others' experiences on this. Among my circles, my friends would sometimes comment on how weird it was to come to terms with the fact they were no longer dirt poor college students and how now they had disp
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by lhorie 5y ago
The way I interpret it is that wording an agreement in terms of "we can delete whatever for whatever reason" doesn't specify in advance exactly what is fair game and what isn't. This is similar to Rossmann's complai
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by lhorie 5y ago
You don't even need a doomsday scenario. The Landless Workers Movement[0] has existed in Brazil for decades and it basically consists of large groups of people forcefully occupying private land. It ain't pretty when it gets violen
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by lhorie 5y ago
So many doomsday takes here. For me, this is the important tidbit: > Although both the business-as-usual and comprehensive technology scenarios point to the coming end of economic growth in around 10 years, only the BAU2 scenario “shows
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by lhorie 5y ago
Think of it this way: say you need to buy milk. Why would you go to my store instead of wherever you normally go? Just seeing my store sign once one week ago isn't going to compel you to drive in when you need milk again next week, eve
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by lhorie 5y ago
I may not know much about recruitment, but the one thing I know is that it requires cultivating relationships with employers, since they're the clients (this goes for pretty much any B2B endeavor, really). The three approaches I see mo
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by lhorie 5y ago
There's programming bootcamps that basically take a fraction of the graduate's income for a few years instead of charging tuition. But since they optimize for quick employability, and not necessarily a more depth/breadth orie
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by lhorie 5y ago
I dunno, I don't so much care how close to a book a regime looks. There are also people that criticize American's flavor of democracy, for example. At the end of the day, regardless of what books say, there's only fuzzy real
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by lhorie 5y ago
IMHO, it matters precisely because if we don't ascribe preconceptions of right vs wrong (particularly when that tends to be married to US-vs-China narratives), neither of the efforts seems like illogical courses of action, nor all that
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by lhorie 5y ago
I'd think in terms of how much it costs to hire these people and what Fidelity's profit-per-employee rate is, as that should in theory give an idea of a lower bound for how much they expect to earn from crypto. One would expect tr
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by lhorie 5y ago
My understanding is that you can largely think about crypto in a similar way you think about regular currencies and economics: staking rewards are similar to governments printing money via bonds or whatever, there's an internal inflati
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by lhorie 5y ago
It's really not my intention to turn this into a political flame wars, but isn't there stuff in the works by the Biden administration now to clamp down on industry hegemonies (e.g. "big tech") in the name of healthy comp

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