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by sparrc 4y ago
Schools also have oversight, accountability, hiring background checks, and almost everyone interacting with the children will have gone through years of education and training. Roblox (and basically all social networks/games for that m
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by sparrc 4y ago
I agree with the principle of this blogpost, though IMHO this was covered better and with better examples here: https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2017/03/dont-obsess-over-code... I also think the title of "
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by sparrc 4y ago
OK, so by "neutral money" you mean still USD or EUR currencies but in cash/check/money order form? Are you saying there needs to be a government-run payment processor? Because to me this term sounds like cryptocurrency,
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by sparrc 4y ago
Remember what? That "neutral money" is good for people who want to buy and sell images of rape and sex with minors?
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by sparrc 4y ago
I don't find this thesis to be true at all, at least from the perspective of someone living in the Seattle area, where we recently: - Hugely expanded the light-rail system and should have a major east-side extension opening within 2 ye
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by sparrc 4y ago
I'm guessing you don't have kids
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by sparrc 4y ago
How are parents are less busy now? Pretty sure they're busier than ever as it's nearly impossible to survive on a single income.
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by sparrc 4y ago
> Children need to encounter risks and overcome fears on the playground”, said Ellen Sandseter, a professor of psychology at Queen Maud University in Norway. “I think monkey bars and tall slides are great. I agree but as far as I can tel
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by sparrc 4y ago
I imagine some aspects of a "lower-energy" world would be OK for most people, such as simply less selection of stuff to buy, similar really to how things have been for the past year or two. Other parts not so much. I'd guess
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by sparrc 4y ago
The title of the article is a bit misleading since it seems to imply (to me at least) that Dimon is blaming the Fed for doing something unreasonable. But in the article he actually says that the Fed (and other central banks) have to do this
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by sparrc 4y ago
What school in CA was giving multiple choice assignments in a CS class? What you describe in France is exactly how my classes in the US were (at UW Seattle) ~15 years ago.
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by sparrc 4y ago
I'm a bit naive on this space so forgive if this is an ignorant question; Can anyone explain how any of these companies (Bolt, Fast, 1o) are doing anything different than "checkout with paypal"? What exactly is wrong with pay
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by sparrc 4y ago
For what it's worth, the FAANG companies generally don't have DBA roles as far as I'm aware. It's generally expected to be part of the software engineering role. I'm not saying this is correct or better, just saying
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by sparrc 4y ago
The exception for "foreign students" seems like clearly an invitation to game the system.
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by sparrc 5y ago
100% agreed. I could also buy a test prep book on amazon plus get a few others from the school and public libraries for a grand total of $15 spent on test prep. That's a lot cheaper than dedicating my working summer to smarmy volunteer
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by sparrc 5y ago
Fair enough, but from the looks of that bike it doesn't really look like it'd be comfortable much more than a few kilometers either. There are push scooters with inflatable tires (I've seen them here in the US) but not sure h
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by sparrc 5y ago
Seems like it's bordering on push-scooter levels of top speed and stability...what's the benefit of such a small bike compared to a scooter?
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by sparrc 5y ago
I'm 33 (so a millenial) and feel the same way. I find infinite scroll in social media pretty boring after less than a minute.
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by sparrc 5y ago
Some counterpoints: - Ethanol effectively helps spread carbon emissions across a larger area. It significantly cleans the air around large cities, I guess at the expense of more emissions in rural areas? But then again I'd guess most o
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by sparrc 5y ago
A few counterpoints: - LEGO still makes bins of fairly generic pieces that can be built into all sorts of things: https://smile.amazon.com/LEGO-Classic-Medium-Creative-Brick/... - My daughter has a few LEGO duplo sets.
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by sparrc 5y ago
Personally I know examples of both, but again just anecdotal.
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by sparrc 5y ago
Genuinely interested...Why does that bother you? I think it's well-known that Amazon doesn't provide in-house meals and haircuts and kombucha like many of the SV companies. Personally it's something I appreciate because it ma
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by sparrc 5y ago
(I work at AWS) I personally know multiple people who have been on the PIP before and are still here and happy. No idea the percent of people who accomplish this though.
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by sparrc 5y ago
FWIW, some things that you think of as necessarily dairy-forward have just become that way through modern culture. Pizza, for example, used to commonly have no cheese, and still is somewhat common without cheese in Italy (Pizza Marinara fro
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by sparrc 5y ago
What's your point? Besides the textbook use of "whataboutism"
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by sparrc 5y ago
To be fair, the "global war on terror" is trying to tackle a problem that can easily move itself and spread to countries that often have barely functioning or extremely corrupt governments.
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by sparrc 5y ago
> domestic terror? go watch the fucking videos. those people actually got inside and just milled around. there was no plot, no mission. Depends which videos you decide to watch. After the capitol was breached the people who just walked i
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by sparrc 5y ago
I certainly agree that UW should expand it's CS program even more. FWIW, they are doing it but probably not quickly enough: - https://housedemocrats.wa.gov/hansen/2018/02/26/house-budget... - https
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by sparrc 5y ago
Do you actually believe that most of the people in the US live in mobile homes? My house was built in 1916 and will easily last another 100+ years. Almost all the houses in my neighborhood were built around the same time and are still stand
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by sparrc 5y ago
I feel the author sort of invalidates his own argument with this sentence (also he forgot to mention commercial space travel): > "What about all the cool new stuff?" you might ask. What about the recent breakthroughs in mRNA te

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