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by mikeryan 4y ago
There was some bad science that pushed teachers (really administrators) away from teaching phonics as part of the reading curriculum. I have a daughter in third grade who struggled a little with reading (horrible timing too COVID hit at the
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by mikeryan 4y ago
* Photoshop-designed websites definitely peaked in the early 2000s* It lasted longer than that. Sketch wasn’t launched until 2010 and it probably took a good five years (at least) for people to switch to that
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by mikeryan 4y ago
In theory yes? But 5G deployment is still catching up to LTE so It’s still going to be dependent on how saturated the bandwidth is. I’ve found that in some crowded situations (conferences and the ilk) switching to LTE actually performs b
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Totally pedantic here but he didn’t have to destroy the stamps value - he just had to transfer that value without “giving it away”.
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by mikeryan 4y ago
San Francisco has had a relatively low, and consistent violent crime rate for about 20 years. Conversely it’s also had a consistently higher property crime rate.
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Because the bulk of NPRs funding comes from the dues of member stations most of which are non-profits and receive funding from a myriad of sources. Hard to say what percent of their funding comes from some governmental source but it’s all i
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Yeah I could see how he thought that at the time - or, at least, wanted to send Elon off with wind in his sails. …but this was not correct.
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Is it though? I grew up in the Bay Area listening to “Live 105” the local Alt-Rock station. It doesn’t even exist anymore. There’s maybe one station on the dial that caters to a demographic younger then 40. I’m not sure radio is still rel
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by mikeryan 4y ago
So one thing I’ve noticed with Canadian companies, much more so then US based one’s is that they have a much higher reliance on contractors. Many “full-time” employees at the companies I’ve worked with (generally the tech side of cable cos
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by mikeryan 4y ago
HLS was a significant improvement over other options for live (rtmp) and adaptive bitrate solutions. I mean it could be delivered via HTTP and was was built off of open standards for the manifest files. (HLS just breaks down mp4 files into
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by mikeryan 4y ago
There is zero practical distinction between taking your eyes off the road to see which button you're pushing vs taking your eyes of the road to see which part of the screen you're touching. There is, in fact, one large differenc
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by mikeryan 4y ago
So properly justifying text for a print layout is hard. For example on the right page, the sentence that starts with “Marcos wondered”. You start to see how in the first line it’s fairly widely spaced but the second line starts to look lik
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by mikeryan 4y ago
You need to re-read those articles. They don't say banks "don't lend depositor funds" At least the first couple on that page explain that banks don't "need" depositor money to lend and in fact they genera
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by mikeryan 4y ago
I don't know where that 10x number is from but they can loan more then they take in by taking out lower interest rate loans from central banks. Thats what "The Fed" is. But they're going to use depositor funds first beca
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by mikeryan 4y ago
they don't rely on investing cash deposits on long-term illiquid instruments Where do the banks get the money for the mortgages from those from? Is a central bank giving them loans for to cover the mortgage outlay? Because if they&#
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Take a look at Use hooks libraries for examples of code that you may want to have portability with (this is they typescript one because its the one I've used) One of the simplest examples is "useToggle" which just sets a stat
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by mikeryan 4y ago
This is the complaint from Plutos perspective. They are likely using client side ad insertion to serve targeted ads. There’s a separate VAST ad manifest which likely goes with the m3u8 url that has all the ad load and beacon data. This do
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Just watch network traffic for m3u8 files. The actual URL is likely pulled in from a config when the app starts.
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Just a note. The NLRB rules on Labor Law ie Union Rules. This is pretty narrow in that you can’t be asked to waive rights that the NLRB covers which are primarily around your rights to organize and the rules that govern those processes. N
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by mikeryan 4y ago
However, there is literally a point where this becomes fraud and as a publicly traded company Tesla has to be aware of where that line is drawn. I mean heck just look at what happened to Nikola. https://www.npr.org/2022&#x2
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by mikeryan 4y ago
I had a friend who needed help once and was talking to my stepfather about it who had a successful business. His thing was if a friend needs help and you can afford it then do it - and it’s not a loan. Making it a loan makes it a bad busine
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by mikeryan 4y ago
An AXS wireless derailleur for my mountain bike. A $600 outlay to get rid of a cable doesn’t make too much sense on its face, but I wasn’t prepared for how much it improved shifting performance.
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by mikeryan 4y ago
This keeps coming up and I'm wondering what's Waymo's goal? Is it to be licensed self-driving product? If that's the case and any manufacturer could just license Waymo's tech I'd think that relying on Telsa to
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by mikeryan 4y ago
They also have by far the best charging network This isn't a defensible position though for Tesla. New charging networks are coming online at a furious rate. I'm not sure maintaining their own network makes sense unless everythi
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by mikeryan 4y ago
It's the timing. For the sake of the argument here I'll give Salesforce the benefit of the doubt that this is the "Smart" thing to do. If Salesforce does a reduction in force when the economy is strong it get spun by Wal
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by mikeryan 4y ago
The frustrating part of bad economic times is that bloated companies use it as an opportunity to clean house while projecting a positive signal to Wall Street. This move probably would have been just as needed two years ago but would have t
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by mikeryan 4y ago
I listened into the Twitter Space with Elon and some of his more bullish investors. There were three main pints that had them making Tesla more than a common car company. 1. Solar and Battery Tech 2. Entry into commercial trucking. 3. B
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Ultimately WHAT instance you choose doesn't really matter as long as you trust the admin. Trust the admin? Trust them how? Why? Doesn’t all of Mastodon abide by the same rules?
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by mikeryan 4y ago
Mastodon is not an “open garden” and can easily, if not more easily, be as arbitrarily administered as any of the social media platforms you’ve mentioned. Each servers admin can and have cut off access to other nodes. See what’s happening
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by mikeryan 4y ago
No it’s not. It’s specious to think that just adding supply to the desirable metro areas like San Francisco, New York or Seattle would be enough to make housing affordable to teachers and lower paying jobs. You’d just get more unaffordable

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