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by tharne 5y ago
Kids roaming around on bikes was the norm in the U.S. for a long time. It started changing sometime in the mid-nineties and has been getting progressively worse since then. There are some glimmers of sanity emerging though, but it's ve
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by tharne 5y ago
The rational answer is that you absolutely can send your children to play in the park. Why don't people do this then? In the U.S. in most states, leaving children unattended even close to home for any amount of time is considered a for
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by tharne 5y ago
> If that happened (UK) here I don't know how everyone would get to school? I guess the answer is get in a car? That's what happens here in the U.S. Part of the reason we have sky-high childhood obesity.
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In a lot of U.S. states now, the age is as high as 12. The U.S. has gone absolutely insane in the name of protecting children. And, if you dare question the wisdom of any of these policies, you're typically met with something like, &qu
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by tharne 5y ago
> It's just a straight fact though that suburban design is not sustainable both economically and ecologically. I've never disputed this fact. It's true, the American suburban model is not sustainable. However, the urban li
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> I don't think you understand how much it costs to maintain the infrastructure to your house. I sure do understand it, but I also understand that when it comes to comparing the environmental impact of upper middle class urbanites a
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by tharne 5y ago
> Ruralia and Suburbia are not financially or environmentally sustainable, not as modern society. That's fine, but cities like New York are not sustainable either. Ditto for commercial air travel, so the entire conversation is unpro
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by tharne 5y ago
> So, sure, everybody would like more space, more privacy, etc, but the way the world actually works is that you have to make tradeoffs. That's the beauty of technology though. I really don't have to make these tradeoffs anymor
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> If anything, I would say that my views are the opposite -- homogenization creates a lack of differentiation around skill and aptitude based on questionable science If that were true, you'd expect countries like South Korea, Japan,
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> The MIT article literally says "diversity" is one of their goals. Seems like you're arguing against yourself. Except no one goes to MIT because it's "diverse", whatever that even means anymore. They go the
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by tharne 5y ago
> Doesn't most of Europe also rely on standardized testing for university admissions? They sure do. So does India. In fact, a lot of other countries rely on testing a whole lot more than the U.S. which has interviews, essays, sports
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> this is part of why I live in Europe where university students in general are seen as an investment by the state and not so much a business to be optimised In this specific case, though, I don't think these two things are in confl
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> So much for that common, popular notion that standardized tests do not predict anything of value. To be fair, I don't think the debate was ever about the quality or predictive value of the tests. There is a small, but well-organiz
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> I think the “Macs are owned longer than PCs” is under-appreciated. I don't like Macs these days, but this is 100% true. In my experience, people who buy macs keep them significantly longer, so comparing simply the price tag of Mac
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by tharne 5y ago
I really hope American businesses don't bring this headline to its logical conclusion... "37% of jobs in the United States can be performed entirely at home...by people in India or Eastern Europe for much less money"
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> With QMK firmware tap-hold, and one finger each hand chording, one opens up a quadratic expansion of expressibility, all near home row. I'm a happy qmk enthusiast. My point was that the overwhelming majority of people will stick w
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by tharne 5y ago
This is really good advice. The amount of business critical processes out there running on excel spreadsheets is enormous. A small amount of automation of these using VBA can be a game changer in a lot of places.
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Where are you looking? I ask because ageism is definitely real in the industry, but it's not nearly as bad once you get away from SV and the the startup world. You may have better luck looking at traditional industries like banking&#x2
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How so?
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> The answer is always that popularity doesn't correlate with merit. Exactly. If we used popularity and usage rates as the measure of merit, we'd have to conclude that the highest quality restaurant in the world is MacDonald&#x
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> If Lisp is do efficient for development, why are there essentially no commercial products that use it? Same reason most of us use QWERTY keyboards instead of one the many better layouts available. After a long enough time as the domina
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by tharne 5y ago
> When there are no real infrastructural/environmental limitations for population growth in sight, “our region doesn’t want to grow” paints a picture of some residents placing their own emotional attachment to how things used to be
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Technology Alliance Says It Is Closer to Killing Off Passwords(wsj.com)
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> It's not an easy learning curve gaslighting to you to a dead end. This is a really good way of describing a certain type of technology. I'm stealing this line.
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> What works for us is to do the simplest thing that works, then iterate. The older I get, the more often I'm reminded that this un-sexy approach is really the best way to go. When I was younger, I always thought the old guys pushin
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> I agree with you that R is full of weird warts, but let's not forget that there are areas where its value is still obvious. For sure. As much frustration as I had with R, at the time it was an enormous improvement over the stuf
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by tharne 5y ago
The EU is in a rough spot sovereignty-wise. They're dependent on the U.S. for security and the Russians (or possibly now also the U.S.) for energy.
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I'm always surprised there isn't more coverage of this. We love to focus on how polarized the court is, but a surprising number of decisions are unanimous or near unanimous.
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R is a truly terrible language with a handful of bright spots, such as it's visualization libraries. The boost you get from the slightly better expressiveness of R over something like Julia or Python is not worth the headaches you&#x27
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by tharne 5y ago
> And tech is the next menu item that they will gobble up. Will? I'd say that's already in progress.

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