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FDA site on Xylitol and dogs: https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/paws-xylitol-... Merck Vet Manual: https://www.merckvetmanual.com/toxicology/food-hazards/xylit...
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Your advice is useful in a social context - friends and colleagues are all in different life circumstances. The Fed and other central banks can see aggregate asset values, productivity, and spending in the economy. Lots of money is being s
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At least in the US, health care costs in old age are unpredictable and nonlinear. Long term care - where in an assisted living facility - or in home nursing can get expensive to the point of depleting savings of even reasonably wealthy pe
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Narcissism is easy to spot among a lot of the "elite"...
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As a shareholder, I was hoping this was finally the quarter where Zuckerberg gave up on the Metaverse... Its just a giant money pit.
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3y ago
Would the 25% raise be composed primarily of salary or stock?
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3y ago
You can look back on the livestream here to see the collision and collapse. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83a7h3kkgPg
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Why are there waste blades - this isn't the razor-and-blade model for wind energy is it?
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3y ago
My local favorite on the list of batshit crazy solutions to mitigate climate change effects is to build a giant dam underneath the Golden Gate Bridge by flattening the Marin Headlands.
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Fair comment and distinction between IEPs, medical support and over prescribing. I'm all for helping people get to a healthy baseline in their life with medical support and medication as necessary. IEPs are necessary and benefical to
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You're correct - thanks for the clarification. IEP means individualized plan - not all kids with IEPs get extra time.
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College Board has a thorough set of pages on testing accommodations here: https://accommodations.collegeboard.org/ Guidelines for ADHD: https://accommodations.collegeboard.org/request-accommodatio...
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Many kids have an IEP - an individualized education plan. https://www2.ed.gov/parents/needs/speced/iepguide/index.html They get extra time allocation to take tests - 50% more in most cases. The numbers
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An extended family member is going to take the digital SAT next week. - The digital test is now adaptive: https://blog.collegeboard.org/what-digital-sat-adaptive-test... - I'm curious how this year's test will pe
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Learning has changed dramatically. There are incredible YouTube channels on every subject. Open courses are offered by top Universities for free. What hasn't changed is credentialism. Because knowledge is free, everyone can claim
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The cost of insurance is outrageous because settlements in medical malpractice lawsuits are outrageous. Tort reform is necessary to control medical costs - it is opposed by Democrats in the US. Trial lawyers are an important and generous
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This is a great, impactful donation. Without any cynicism, I am curious what sort of negotiation and terms go into a donation of such size. As all the founders here can attest, taking money requires agreeing to a complex array of terms. Fo
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Excellent product localization. I'm truly surprised the pork/bacon craze of the past few decades in the US did not produce pork&bacon coffee. I feel like the beanie wearing SF/Portland/Seattle hipsters let us all dow
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Yes - I agree - intrusive interviews are a terrible idea. My comment is an observation about how some people might arrive at such ideas.
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I don't know about you or your story. I hope you're doing well. I've learned that the majority of people just don't want to hear anything negative or anything that makes them feel sad. If I want to have social, casual
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The author appears young. I would give them the benefit of the doubt. It has been my experience that people who have lived a fortunate, trauma free life cannot really understand the trauma experienced by others. They might appear to unde
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Shelter, food and health are social issues that should be addressed much earlier in the pipeline. Well before a student applies to college. For example in 2022, 63% of black children are born in single parent homes vs 16% of asian children
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Racist policies against Asians in California have pretty deep history. Yet Asians do well in California schools. "The California Alien Land Law of 1913 (also known as the Webb–Haney Act) prohibited "aliens ineligible for citizensh
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Excellent, free test prep is available online. School districts will give you free chromebooks. They will give you free internet access points. Education is free and freely available. "Maximize your score with free Official Digital S
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To create wealth, you must identify and educate the most capable students. The only way to pay for a large and generous welfare state is to educate the most capable to the highest level of ability. The tech industry was built by highly amb
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Is there a published list of safety tests that are to be conducted?
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Perhaps it should be something else - there should be an upper limit to the size of companies. The problem is that successful companies converge towards regulatory capture to maintain their advantage - this includes buying up all competitor
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What powers Hawaii at night?
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Very few comedic geniuses can tell jokes that get the whole audience to laugh, including the target and then it slowly dawns on you that you may have been the target all along - because the joke and supposed target that you laughed at revea
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I wonder what sort of proper insurance backstops are in place. E.g. https://www.thehartford.com/management-liability-insurance/d... "The Who, What & Why of Directors & Officers Insurance The Hartford has
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