HardlyCurious

Probably because it creates problems. You need math teachers who speak that language for one. Then you divide the student body, probably along racial lines for the most part, which isn't a good thing. And then lastly, it will only hinder the language development of the ESL group which will come back to bite them later in life.

The effects of preschool have been studied and showed no benefits after grade 3. Not sure about the year round portion of it, but it seems to me this is a narrative born from intuition and not from evidence.

Capping housing prices will cause less houses to be built, which is the opposite of your stated goal.

Look, if you want more housing we have to let developers build more housing. Many areas in the country put in restrictions like limiting the height of new buildings because it's 'nice' not to have the views of the sky by blocked by a new building.

Well nice costs something, and in this case it's housing scarcity.

Yes, there are solutions or work arounds for these issues. It just makes commuting on a bike inconvenient for many people.

Electric bikes are great, but other than price, it starts to blur between having an electric motorcycle. Especially after you need to don appropriate gear for the commute to stay dry / comfortable. And the motorcycle would have greater range and more use cases.

And at the end of the day, while riding a bike to work is great and I would encourage everyone to try it if they can, do you really think it works without a backup plan? Even people I know who have taking bike commuting pretty seriously didn't do it literally every single day.

I lived very close to my work for a period and tried bike commuting. I don't disagree with the benefits of doing it, but it's not very realistic for most people in most places.

I was having a hard time NOT getting sweaty on my ride into work because humidity is the highest in the morning. And when I wasnt sweating I was getting rained on, or my hands were freezing, or I got chain grease on my pants.

Would you volunteer to have twice the dreadful commute for the benefit of your partner, or do you see yourself being the beneficiary of this configuration?

This is really the selling point of mass transit for me.

But I have a problem. I'm an introvert and I get fatigued by constant human interaction. I also get fatigued by constant distractions. I really benefit from having some breathing space where I can zone out.

Saying it out load makes it sound reckless and inconsistent, doesn't driving require constant attention? But no, somehow I can zone out drive and drive to my destination completely subconsciously, at least if it's a route I know we'll, like on a commute.

I'm 39 now and I have never caused an accident for what that anecdotle evidence means.

My commutes are my decompress time. I can't do anything during them, and if I could, I wouldn't benefit the same way.

Why?

If that is your standard for being a 'car country'. What is your standard for being a 'public transport country' or 'train country'?

This talking point gets repeated a lot, and it is really disingenuous.

What you are saying has absolutely nothing to do with legitimate medical doctors being deplatformed because they have an off script opinion of how society should respond to covid.

It has nothing to do with kicking trump off Twitter.

What you are saying has nothing to do with any of the 'moderation' that anyone is actually complaining about.

It could even be to throw us off, make it look less insidery.

There is no suspects last I knew. We don't know if the perps were 'it's own citizen'.

They are just trying to hire less programmers, because programmers are expensive. They will have even more business / system analysts than before. And they will still have to have programmers to piece stuff together and debug systems. They just think if they could have less programmers they would save money.

Do you think 1.5x people get paid 50% more than a 1x typically? If a 1.5x got paid 50% more for doing 50% more work, do you consider that disproportionate?

If your problem is that you are unjustifiably negative, then maybe chanting positive things to yourself will help.

I think the problem facing most people is having standards they see others meet that they do not.

"I should be married by now" might be a dumb standard, but if most people you know meet it, maybe it isn't the standard that is an issue, right.

In this case, repeating positive statements aren't likely to work, because they won't change the standard or the fact that you aren't meeting it.

It isn't a choice for most men to just surround themselves with compassionate people.

It's hard to find them for one, and often you won't really know until you have gotten to know them a bit. And this assumes they are even interested in exploring a friendship with you.

It's a shitty situation, and it seems all too common for men.

The usual knee jerk response is to blame the men for being unable to communicate effectively.

I think the sad truth is that not everyone is cared about equally, and sometimes it is everyone else's fault.

But it isn't like you can get mad about it. That is just going to push people away and make them bitter toward you.

They limit the blast radius to the scope of systems that either directly or indirectly call the microservice, which is commonly the same blast radius as a monolith that was replaced by the microservices.

Is it less pointless to keep him in jail for the rest of his life?

Perhaps we should coin the phase 'embedded microservices'.

Do your low income neighbors work on their cars at their houses? Have they been busted for doing it while you haven't?

My previous comment wasn't worded the best.

At the end of the day, I think the pretentiousness comes from superiority signalling. When a vegan talks about how eating meat is wrong the implication is that they feel morally superior to those who eat meat. And when someone rejects things generally, as opposed to just liking their own things, it implies that those things they reject aren't worth consideration, and hence anyone who does has some inferior judgement or taste.

The statement "I would never listen to disco music" implies there is something wrong with doing so, and hence something wrong with those who choose to. "I would never listen to disco music" is a pretentious statement.

Rejection of the mainstream / establishment properties is the pretense.

It isn't that you like something, it's that you don't want to be associated to some other things. And you don't want to be associated to those other things because of some pretense about what associating to those things means.

If I would drop a word from 'conspiracy theory' in this case it would be theory, not conspiracy.

Any methodology that requires discipline to work is a bad methodology. Trying hard ALWAYS works. That is how work got done before agile existed.

The goal is to find a methodology that brings ease. So you can stop putting effort into the organization and meta work and instead put more effort into the work that actually brings value.

Given what we learned from the Snowden leaks, I would be willing to believe that any PR in apples favor is awarded by the govt for exchange of their cooperation relating to providing the govt data / access they request.

I don't trust any corporation to actually side against the govt.

And then their avatars could have cloth masks, you know, just for show, like why TV anchors wore them.

We need sanctions. You can't expect corporations to wage international campaigns for human rights, nor do we want that corporations to exercise such power.

We need govt action.

Getting banned from China shouldn't be looked at as something a business can't consider. If so, it gives tremendous leverage to China to control western corporations.

What we need is govt sanctions against china before this goes any further. Take china off the table so companies don't have to make these hard choices that impact their competitiveness.

How random do you think outcomes are?

Is a minority from a ghetto just lucky if they get admitted to Harvard? When we see a stereotypical white guy get admitted to Harvard, we would assume they are privileged. Are the people who break out of overty doing it on their own, ala boot straps style, or are they the product of an unlikely serious of events which gave them the edge they needed?