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by nouveaux 5y ago
Just checked out your startup and it looks interesting. I glanced through the different brands but didn't see anything related to public schools. Are you guys doing anything on that front? In your opinion, what are the challenges to mo
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> since our kids (one of whom likely has ADHD That's interesting. My impression is that kids with ADHD would function better in a Montessori setting compared to a traditional education. Where do you plan to send your kids?
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Are you reading Maria Montessori's book, The Absorbent Mind? If not, I highly recommend going straight to the source. There is a bit of a cult like mentality around the whole Montessori Method, which is odd to me. However, I do think M
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There are bad Montessori schools and it sounds like the school you attended wasn't very good. It sucks that you never got the most from it.
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Montessori originally designed her education for mentally disabled children[0]. One key aspect of her philosophy is to "let the child lead" and work with them at their own pace. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x
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"What counts as 'standard' is wildly different around the world." I would give GP the benefit of the doubt here as he's referring to a more "traditional" education when compared to something like Montessor
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I strongly believe for some kids, acceleration to Universities is the best thing. For some, it ends up poorly. It really is kid dependent. Can you elaborate on your experience? What's MIT like as a 13 year old? Did you ever live in the
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There are lots of stories of kids failing socially when they are not with kids with similar emotional intelligence. I know people who have skipped only two grades who are brilliant, but socially off. It is likely to depend on the child and
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I've seen similar stories from nypost. I believe they broke the story but I haven't seen anything from WSJ. Can you post the WSJ articles on the story?
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I don't know enough about the Hunter Biden Laptop story to know what's true and what's not, but your WSJ link is the opinion section. Can you link to a WSJ article not from the opinion section?
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Its likely that you and HN are different from the majority. Web is the de-facto targets for the vast majority of development. The vast majority of users use apps on the web with a few exception. I'm pretty sure most people I know use m
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> confusing documentation comes from its extreme flexibility which makes a steep learning curve, but once you get your mind around it, it becomes a powerful tool for pretty much anything I have not used Hugo and I have no idea how powerf
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Sheesh being down voted on hacker news for a technical response. If my technical response is wrong, please let me know.
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The benefit of putting a game key in a public place is to make porting the key easier. So yea, sharing a wallet would be possible. This is definitely not something corporations want. Back in the day, you can borrow your friends game after t
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I completely agree. I'm just sharing my experience. I wish web apps were better so we don't have to download so many apps.
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"The UX for the user would be, for most non-game apps, identical." In theory, this is true. In practice, it's just hit or miss. I think it's just hard to maintain web across all the different platform and screen sizes. I
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A game key could be considered a non-fungible token so this already works on a blockchain. Instead of recording a game key, you record the wallet public key. If you need more privacy, you can use Zero knowledge proofs[0]. [0] https:/&
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You can charge a small porting fee to compensate for this. In practice, I think this actually hurts the established guys. A big reason I prefer to buy on Steam is because the majority of my library is in Steam. A PC gaming library also has
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by nouveaux 5y ago
"earned any trust at any point during the response to COVID?" Free vaccines[0], free test kits[1], deployed troops to help hospitals [2], FDA fast tracked vaccine [3], food assistance [4], PPP saved a ton of businesses. "Trus
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"It's not the 30% but Apple's attitude of controlling their turf like the mafia under pretended moral superiority." Do you feel the same way with all large consumer corporations or just Apple? Another words, how is Apple
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Distrust is why Covid response broke in US. With distrust, everyone is going to just do what they want. Society becomes dysfunctional. Healthy skepticism is good approach to institutions.
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How often do you adjust the color temperature and lumens of your light bulbs to optimize for circadian rhythm? I can see why you're so physically fit if you're going around to all your light switches and making these adjustments a
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Without knowing your home, it's hard to say. I think the biggest benefit right now is sun rise alarm lights and circadian rhythm lights. This should have a noticeable benefit for everyone. The hardest part is figuring out what to do wi
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How do you do motion detection and presence in your setup? How do you make sure the lights doesn't turn off if you're just sitting in the room?
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"Historically and mostly today, a wood stove is a cast iron container you fill with wood mostly to heat a house. There have been innovations in shape, airflow etc to make them more efficient but they generally haven't used an elec
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+1 to adaptive lighting. Also if you need a wake up/sunrise light: https://community.home-assistant.io/t/wake-up-light-alarm-wi...
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>I witnessed "smart" houses when my parents' blinders died in "down" position and had no manual override... or when the electricity was down and they couldn't start their wood stove because it needs electric
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Home Assistant is the Linux Desktop of consumer applications. Tons of power under the hood and it is not designed with the end user in mind. Home Assistant has accomplished something literally no one else has, including Google, Amazon and A
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"toggle every existing switch from your phone" Home automation is not intuitive. It turns out that toggling every existing switch from your phone is not an ideal goal. Pulling out your phone to use your home automation gets annoyi
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Thanks. This is very informative. I think growing collectible markets will always be susceptible to shill auctions.

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