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by neap24 7y ago
It’s possible that they are the odd ones out without “screen skills”. I’m actually betting that kids who spend most of their time away from screens will have some weird, competitive advantage in a future economy.
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by neap24 7y ago
I’ve been thinking this for a while, but always thought the problem wasn’t overestimation of food needs, but rather aversion to making more frequent grocery trips (pushing people to “stock up”.
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by neap24 7y ago
I don’t think it’s unrealistic at all. My wife and I have always lived on one income. Before we had kids, we used the other to pay off our college debt very quickly and build as much savings/retirement as possible. It also taught us to
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by neap24 7y ago
I'm not sure that just any community would be a substitute for church. Most churches are not groups in the sense that you're describing above. Yes, most congregations share a common theology, but the people in the group are often
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by neap24 8y ago
This essay spends a bit of time trying to figure out whether we should discuss how "harmful" video games are vs. "how virtuous" they make us. The "opportunity cost" approach my parents had seems much more effe
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by neap24 8y ago
There's only one way to find out.
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by neap24 8y ago
They do not. In fact, in my city, one-story houses with less than 2000 sq. ft. sometimes sell at a premium.
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by neap24 8y ago
Totally agree. I just ordered an e-bike a few days ago because a lightweight, flexible vehicle that can travel with ease in a bike lane or on a sidewalk is much more appealing to me than investing in another car and everything that comes a
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by neap24 8y ago
Indeed, many do advocate that paying for the roads you drive on through tolls would be a much better system. I don't think it's unreasonable to not want to subsidize certain fields of study with public money. In the past, when a
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by neap24 8y ago
I mostly agree. Although, it is often the "unreasonable, specific beliefs" that bind a social group together despite their differences. If that core belief or two is strong enough, you will force yourself to interact with people
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by neap24 8y ago
It's interesting that the charts everyone uses for share of household wealth are from the 1970s until today. If you take it back a bit further, to the 30s/40s (or even further to 1916) the share of the lowest and middle classes i
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by neap24 8y ago
I've always been curious about that. Is a parent company + subsidiaries immune from anti-trust laws in the US? I mean, I'm sure Alphabet still shares Google search data across its subsidiaries--which is the real monopoly power co
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by neap24 8y ago
So, let me get this straight. Bay Area creates legislation like building codes, permitting, increased minimum wage etc. that makes it very expensive to open and run a restaurant. That is probably reflected in the food prices, which makes su
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by neap24 8y ago
Meg McArdle recently wrote a piece with some pretty convincing evidence that this is just factually untrue on a per capita basis. https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2018-02-05/think-car...
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by neap24 8y ago
Letting your lawn grow more wild/naturally is catching on in some cities in the US whether through conviction or just apathy. But ironically, as you mention, many places have local laws or HOA rules preventing this on a large scale.
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by neap24 8y ago
It is pretty difficult for Netflix or Amazon to have recommendations that appeal to me because their datasets are limited to their specific domains. In reality, my tastes and interests pull from such a wide range of fields. One year, I deci
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by neap24 9y ago
Allowing a kid to experience consequences necessitates open dialogue with them about issues they may encounter. Sadly, many parents choose to monitor rather than discuss because it's easier. Many kids will still run into the things yo
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by neap24 9y ago
True, but given the technical age we live in, I think supply costs are rapidly diminishing. I also happen to think that "school supplies" are vastly overrated (having taught in Teach For America in an underserved school myself).
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by neap24 9y ago
I'm not convinced about the underpaid teachers argument (I have been a teacher for 10 years). If you actually adjust the salary for number of days worked, most teachers do quite well. For me a "second job" is something I deci
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by neap24 9y ago
Having toured a Goodwill facility once, I was pretty impressed with the process for dealing with "garbage". They seem to have a fantastic process for squeezing every bit of value out of it before sending it to the landfill. Obvi
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by neap24 9y ago
I had the most bizarre issue with my 2017 MacBook Pro keyboard: the left shift key stopped working intermittently. Thinking it was a piece of dust, I took off the key cover and tried to clean it out. Nothing worked. I finally made a Geniu
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by neap24 9y ago
If you haven't done a two-column high school geometry proof in a while, this might seem a little strange. I'm a geometry teacher and created this mostly for my students to practice stringing together math statements in a logical o
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by neap24 9y ago
For now, there is one correct solution. So it's dependent on the teacher to pin any statements/reasons to ensure there's only one possible answer. I have some ideas for making it more flexible in the future, but haven't
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Show HN: Proof Companion – Geometry proof practice for students(proofcompanion.com)
64 points by neap24 9y ago|10 comments
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by neap24 9y ago
I don't understand. Why isn't it standard practice to just issue a set of "personal days" without regard to "sickness", "leisure", or "mental sanity"? My company switched to this a couple o
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by neap24 9y ago
It always helps appearances if an employee's "side project" can, in some small way, be incorporated into their job. I've had ideas for web apps before that I've developed as internal company tools just to justify my
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by neap24 9y ago
Phasing out Federally subsidized flood insurance would be a start. Giving people an incentive to NOT buy in a flood plane or likely disaster zone seems like a good idea. The only downside (according to the article) is that coastal cities wo
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by neap24 9y ago
I get the joke, but in all seriousness we probably need both types of people in the world. Some who take immediate action and others who prepare the way for more informed action.
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by neap24 10y ago
Great journalism by the students. What I fear just as much as unaccredited "diploma mill" universities are the accredited ones that hand out education degrees just as easily. It seems like anyone can pay for an education masters
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by neap24 10y ago
I agree that access to information online has lowered the price that people are willing to pay for textbooks (digital or physical). But I still think there's a market for a textbook that essentially organizes all the relevant informat

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