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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
Well then, you'll be ok with having Spanish as the official language the because the majority of American citizens in my area speak Spanish. Or would you prefer German, because for more generations my family has spoken German while b
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
Of course it's cheaper and easier to deliver services in one language, but the United States is not a monolingual nation, nor has it ever been in its history. It would be a disservice to significant populations to assume otherwise.
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
>And personally, I'm for having English be the national language of America (as a bilingual American myself), but this executive order does not make that so. What would be the benefit or reason for this? I am also a multilingual per
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
What the government potentially offers more paths to opportunity and success though, in that they do the research and then spin it out into the public sector to commercialize. So things that might not even get off the ground in the public s
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
This is fair, but I feel like HN is often an echo chamber of people who have a common experience that I'm not sure is representative of industry or society writ large.
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
Then consider yourself really lucky because I ended up in the hospital back in 2010 from the stress. Yes I hear there are lovely places with fat salaries, massages, and free lunches, but that's not the majority of software development
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
I met Joel Prichard several times as a kid… grew up in a poor neighborhood in the 1980s where we played Pickleball on the playground and in PE class… when I first started hearing about this new craze (from friends in the Midwest!), I absolu
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
>the reality is that if there is some code in production that has been working unchanged for the last two years, you're wasting your time refactoring it. So much this. I recall watching people early in their careers who wanted to ma
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
I spent about a 12 year period of my career doing triage and app performance work. What struck me was how often the core problems were architectural. Either the design was bad from the beginning, or the requirements had changed so dramatica
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
>the US would avoid flood damage if they just built apartment buildings. What do you mean by this?
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
>I recommend beekeeping. Go on a course somewhere, learn a little, get a hive, make mistakes, learn, scale, profit. Oooof, I don't... maybe you know the secret, but being an amateur beekeeper and watching what the pros do, it looks
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
>The remarkable thing is that Americans don’t understand their own civilization... some supposed connection between the Constitution and some Indian tribe. The Iroquois Confederacy. Irony.
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
Schools are a state and local matter. So just because you might be frustrated with the government in your area ain't my effing problem. To chastise all public schools is a false narrative.
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
>Unfortunately, most educators simply don't seem to care much about high performing students If you really believe this, then sue your school district. In my area, there was a district where parents believed high performers were not
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
>There are elementary school classrooms where ~1/4 students don't speak English. This really gets my hackles up, because my kids grew up in schools with a 50% Spanish speaking population and my partner is a dual-language teache
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
You are ignoring the externalities. We end up with an ignorant society that ultimately harms all of us. I hate to use a movie trope here, but we're barely a step above Idiocracy when it comes to the ability of the average American to f
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
Which is why so many districts are pushing for no mobile devices during the school day.
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
Great, I'm sure you'll have no problem using the services of a self-taught doctor, lawyer, or engineer then. After all, why would they need to be taught by a professional? Go spend some time in a classroom and get a fucking clue h
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
I'm typing this on a ten year old iMac - i7 processor, 32 gb of ram... paid a premium when I bought it, but still a whole lot of horsepower. Wish Apple would provide releases for their current OS rather than just support for previous i
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
They gotta take the fun out of everything, don't they?
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
Just to augment what you are saying... all potatoes aren't created equally either... size, starches, variety, organic... there are places around North America where certain kinds of potatoes are grown that are completely unsuitable for
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
I'm not completely sure the author is making the case they intend... growing up, my uncle spent decades in the fry business - if you ate a french fry in a QSR anywhere west of the Mississippi anywhere from the mid-1980s through the ear
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
This is a key point: historically, Burger King, McDonalds, Wendy's, etc often sourced their fries out of the same factory, but to different standards. Think starches, batters, fry dimensions, even type of potato in some cases. These co
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
There's a parallel here with a lot of other industries... back 10+ years ago, companies like Lamb Weston had a lot of actual farmers in the management ranks, IE: people who grew up working in the fields. The shift started sometime afte
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
>Employers dont like instability, period. They want continuous, headache-free production. Unions can cause instability. (Whether it's justified or not is a separate matter.) So... Which is an interesting perspective in its own way,
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
The WSJ is such a shallow shell of its former self that no, I don’t trust it as far as I can throw a paper airplane made out of it. Somewhere along the line (and I have my hypothesis as many do…) our news sources stopped being objective, st
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
Probably historical... it wasn't that many years ago that the Red Delicious was the go-to and it wasn't the mealy, thick-skinned apple of today. If you've got hundreds or even thousands of acres planted, it's a once a ge
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
But they are consistent and reliable, for now. I know if I go to the store and I've got the option of 6 different types of apples (I live in WA, we've got apple choices...) I know cosmic crips (grown barely an hour drive from wher
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
Just a side note here... it's shocking to drive through the orchards of Washington and Oregon and see how much fruit never gets harvested because there's no commercial market for it. Acres and acres of fruit left on the trees unti
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by poulsbohemian 2y ago
This is the way... there's research already at WSU for when the Cosmic Crip runs its course and the world is ready for the next apple with the same basic characteristics.

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