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by tchaffee 6y ago
That is shitty. Not a surprise they handed out $500 million to compensate for that.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I did insist. I don't remember the details anymore because it was a couple of years ago. I would have taken them to small claims court over it if I had been in the US but I was overseas long term. Either way, they have lost a customer
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by tchaffee 6y ago
My current Dell XPS had the pretty common battery swelling problem but within months of purchase. On previous models they replaced it for free but they stopped doing that. So add a possible battery replacement to their list price if you sti
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by tchaffee 6y ago
They lost a $500 million class action lawsuit. I'll try to be open minded but my time is valuable so can you provide a stronger heuristic than the settlement?
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I don't love Google but the fact that Apple has been caught doing shitty stuff like slowing down older phones and having to pay out a $500 million settlement when they were caught is enough reason for me to stay away.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Is it? Would it even show up in sewage if it only weakly infected one or two people? I thought only a percentage of Coronavirus infections result in the virus ending up in the feces. And the tests are that sensitive? Do you have a source?
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> in theory this coronavirus could have spread very weakly for months up to a year The evidence from the study does not support that theory: "All samples from January 2018 to December 2019 came out to be negative for the presence o
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by tchaffee 6y ago
In my original comment: > Per the study, sewage includes rainwater from open drains. There are even more details in the study.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I don't think so unless you make a lot of assumptions. That it was a variation that is just as contagious. That it was a variation that could cause as severe symptoms. That it even came from humans. All samples from January 2018 to Dec
820.
by tchaffee 6y ago
Taxes in Brazil are very low except for taxes on imports. It's not anti-capitalist within its own economy. The startup scene in Brazil is thriving.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Brazil has massive investments coming in from foreign investors on a steady basis because of the capitalism and innovation.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
That study is outdated, artificially recreates some of the educational data, and does not address two keys points I made that you skipped over: 1. If you are always behind other countries in education it of course will not offer as much of
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> Are there any people trading on companies trading their profitability for moral righteousness? Blackrock controls about $6 trillion in investments. They announced a move to socially responsible investing over two years ago. And it&#x27
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by tchaffee 6y ago
It is far more transparent than the companies that donate literally hundreds of millions of dollars in total to political campaigns.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Then I'm very confused by what you originally wrote: > Large parts of Africa and almost all of Latin America are more highly educated now than 1970s Europe and poorer than it. Brazil's economic growth has been between 5% and 10
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Maybe I'm missing something, but that doesn't make any sense. Isn't economic migration the act of declaring that your education is worth more in different country?
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> It seems somewhat self evident that the people who are homeschooling their kids have some % that do so because they see the school system as a failure Sure, I'll go with that. So we've got some percentage of 3% who see the sc
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by tchaffee 6y ago
That's a fun and useful definition, so thanks for that. I think it's worth clarifying that I did not compare video games to cryptography. I compared programmers brainstorming about education to junior programmers brainstorming abo
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by tchaffee 6y ago
There is a game to memorize the fretboard. As it turned out, memorizing the fretboard, while somewhat useful, was not what helped me see music on the fretboard. My guitar teacher is responsible for that insight by insisting I focus on the r
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I didn't miss that point. I explained why a video game or any kind of simulation is never going to be better for many subjects. No matter how easy video games become to create, they are often not the best teaching tool at hand.
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by tchaffee 6y ago
If your ideas are so effective, why can't you compete you against the many private schools already in existence?
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I can see now where you are getting your idea but that's a quantitative measure only which does not consider quality of education. The reason that 1970s Europe was better educated than Brazil or Latin America today is because of the su
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> Large parts of Africa and almost all of Latin America are more highly educated now than 1970s Europe Source please? I have been working in Brazil for the past few years and the education level here is nowhere near 1970s Europe. Not eve
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> Most people will just home school their kids. Wrong and by a huge factor which is why I asked for sources. This source [1] says 3% of children in the US are home schooled. This source [2] says about 3.5%. Even you could give a source t
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Based on what criteria? Which countries? When was it better and by how much? Also worth mentioning that everyone is the best armchair quarterback in the world. If you've got new perspectives that are so effective, start your own school
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> FWIW the specific mistake you're making is thinking about this in a way that overemphasizes the context of the school system. I am? I have spent literally thousands of hours volunteering for a free online education platform that o
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Hot takes from people with no experience in the field are only interesting to other people who have no experience in the field. It seems developers are particularly prone to this hubris. I don't find many doctors writing about the futu
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by tchaffee 6y ago
> Blacklist to denylist is a very recent thing. Believe me, I've been watching this happen over the past few weeks. It is not. That's exactly why I suggested you do a search and prove yourself wrong. Just as one of many example
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by tchaffee 6y ago
Again, I'm not changing the language. It's using one word instead of another. Big companies have already replaced "blacklist" with "denylist" long ago, and you are going to see more and more of this as time goe
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by tchaffee 6y ago
I was responding to your very general claim that "the connotation of master in the context of source control..." Here is the bitkeeper documentation[1] saying "we are then going to modify the file on both the master and slave

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