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by zanny 8y ago
I'd argue that expansive view should be coming way, way earlier than high school. How about before you beat the curiosity and sense of wonder out of 5-8 year olds with times tables, memorizing the dates presidents were born, and repeat
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by zanny 8y ago
Because private industry would not build schools for those students in depressed and poor neighborhoods, even at the guarantee of the general fund of the school that was there, because most schools in the US are operating at a substantial l
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by zanny 8y ago
This is approaching the problem backwards. You don't want to spread people further out with token green spaces in between miles of concrete. If for no other reason than those areas are way less effective at being "green space&quot
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by zanny 8y ago
Car ownership is innately expensive. Between regular maintenance, the cost of fuel, insurance, inspections, and the aggregated costs of getting a replacement every ~10-20 years you are easily spending several thousand dollars a year in vehi
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by zanny 8y ago
Why would you build a school in what sounds to be an industrial zone?
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by zanny 8y ago
There are some hugely perverse incentives in western society where you aren't guaranteed shelter, food, and medicine while the world is overflowing with extravagance and wealth. This isn't making your poor comfortable, its about h
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by zanny 8y ago
Collectively bargain with your coworkers to work 8-4 instead of 9-5 then. Nothing at all prevents workplaces from independently adopting their own biannual shift scheduling savings time if they want to. That argument against sane time that
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by zanny 8y ago
The problem is more that game creation requires radically differentiated skills. Even something "simple" like a Sim City clone would need a sprite artist, someone capable of implementing a 2d renderer, someone to write the AI logi
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not just a space optimization but a locality optimization. Segregated neighborhoods from 50 years ago are still likely to be largely minority and gated communities adjacent still largely white. A tremendous amount of the demand that goe
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by zanny 8y ago
If you don't exist in a society with preposterously gross amounts of wealth inequality in the modern age your children won't need to roll the genetic lottery of luck to be your kids to live a life without suffering and misery. Peo
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by zanny 8y ago
Thats the thing though, generations didn't serve in Afghanistan or Iraq. Even if you counted the some ~3 million service members engaged in those wars over their duration of the ~70 million Americans between 25 and 45 as all being in
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by zanny 8y ago
One, what AMD laptop? Two, I'd be interested to know if AMD bans board manufacturers from including TB or if they just don't do it because their heuristics say users don't care or want it. I'd imagine now with the rise o
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not just whether the API is available but whether its practical to use. I'm not sure which browsers recognize or support fingerprint readers, though all the implementations seem to support usb u2f. Feels like a total failure to lau
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by zanny 8y ago
There are pretty serviceable native GTK and Qt Matrix clients nowadays.
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by zanny 8y ago
I agree with the OP on multiple tab bars being problematic. What I think their designs are missing is grouping related tabs on the singular tab bar with dividers or colors. One thing I hate about modern design, and this is on github etc, is
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by zanny 8y ago
Theres usually some value in design trends, but the OP's github revamp where you can't tell non-interactive text from buttons is painful. The whole point of a button is to indicate interactivity, if your idea of an interactive con
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by zanny 8y ago
Theres also peertube, but with dtube particularly there are two major problems: 1) Steem in general is a mess. Its controlled by the parent company, you cannot mine it - the only way to generate it is on their content platforms. Its only
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by zanny 8y ago
The accessibility and availability of screens to glue childrens faces to is totally novel and modern. There used to only be "saturday morning cartoons" because the singular TV in the house was dedicated to content the entire famil
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by zanny 8y ago
That "child" is 21 this year.
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by zanny 8y ago
Facebook et al go out of their way to silo its users into small cliques of influence. On Youtube if you watch gaming videos you get ads for gaming, get recommended gaming, and aren't going to see ads for makeup or power tools. Any open
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by zanny 8y ago
Its not even just about individual actor child predators. Its a parents responsibility to protect their child from harm - that used to just mean making sure they don't get hit by a car or burn their hand on the stove, but nowadays it m
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by zanny 8y ago
It means whatever Google wants it to mean, because they operate Youtube however they want. Almost nothing Google / Youtube / etc do is based on legal mandate or requirement, its all their own arbitrary decisions they think will ma
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by zanny 8y ago
There is no financial incentive for Google to do this, so they won't. Googles job is making money for shareholders, not making the world a better place. It would be nice if governments were both interested in the greater good and tech
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by zanny 8y ago
If Youtubes ad revenue were negligible to the value proposition of the platform they would not be profitable and they would not give away the service for free. > I just don't see how you get 24/7, 4k streaming without it being
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by zanny 8y ago
Its less that nobody at Youtube tried to solve the problem but more that it was never a business priority in the interests of the bottom line to solve this problem in a nuanced way. For Youtube, these kinds of comments threaten to alienate
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by zanny 8y ago
You said "what we want" and one of the important things to remember when having a discussion about macrosocial policy like reducing drug abuse or homelessness is that it is exceedingly rare for everyone to be in agreement. When co
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by zanny 8y ago
The substance abusers don't want less of it, thats why they do it to begin with. Address the causes that lead people into homelessness and addiction and you end up with less of it. That isn't conjecture, its fact, proven by dozens
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by zanny 8y ago
Immediately after Chrome released Google was having it bundled with every freeware program under the sun and bribed every major PC vendor to start including it as the default browser in new consumer Windows PCs being sold. Mozilla never had
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by zanny 8y ago
I don't know what bubble you are living in where 100k is an entry salary (besides the crazy high cost of living sf / NY metro areas) but in 90% of the US outside tech hotspots entry level programming jobs are as low as half as muc
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by zanny 8y ago
I don't think its so much credential based gatekeeping that gives professions bargaining power. You don't have to look any further than game development vs financial services development. The former get exploited to the point of l

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