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“It sort of forces everyone into one slow lane,” he said. “The ones who are capable are never going to be able to move fast enough.” -TFA

We don’t need slow/fast lanes but we need less bs in schools and to push STEM and particularly the Math as much as we did in the cold-war era to complete with China/Russia.

I do empathize with those who had math problems, I did too but had to use EdX and MIT OLL to teach myself Precalc/Calc/Linear Algebra.

There is all the education you need through graduate level math and stats available for free on the internet.

Edit: Khan academy and professor Leonard are also great resources!

The Johnson & Johnson vaccine does not use mRNA and it is currently available in the United States.

There were adult women under the age of 50 who had some medical problems with it but, it is much better than getting COVID. If the mRNA vaccine are the obstacle in getting vaccinated I’d go with the J&J.

(Note: I am not a medical doctor and this is not medical advice)

Most states have eviction moratoriums until 6/30 right now due to the pandemic.

While it might not make sense to give children smartphones, they will find a way to see what they want.

This is preferable to sheltering them until they go to college where it is all on display for obvious reasons.

One of my fondest childhood memories was figuring out how to get past the high school’s filtering software so we could get hotornot/MySpace/deviant art available.

Just remembered hotornot, kinda crowd sourced child/teen body-image shaming but it did help everyone develop a thick skin unlike today when parents try and micromanage their kids lives.

Yes I think this is more a play for Facebook mindshare with parents.

It’s totally possible that pedophiles and abuses are using tiktok and Instagram to groom children, but most of the time it’s someone that the child knows that actually does the abuse:

“ A common myth is that child sexual abuse is perpetrated by strangers and pedophiles. But most people who sexually abuse children are our friends, partners, family members, and community members. About 93 percent of children who are victims of sexual abuse know their abuseriii. Less than 10 percent of sexually abused children are abused by a stranger.” https://www.ywca.org/wp-content/uploads/WWV-CSA-Fact-Sheet-F...

So I’d not freak out too much if your kid searches for something really weird, because we all did that as kids.

COVID freaked out the stock market last year. Then it rebounded due to tech companies bring such a large part of the index. Residential real estate did great dispute COVID in some markets.

It doesn’t matter when it comes down, next year or 4 years from now. The market will come down for stocks and cryptocurrencies.

These are not sound investments for retail investors and it will cause many people that could have been using their money to increase financial stability and fund their retirement and/or emergency savings accounts to lose that property.

It speaks to the incompetence of our society in handling money that only 39% of Americans could afford to pay for an unexpected $1000 expense. https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bankrate.com/banking/saving...

WA/TX/FL do not have an income tax and still pay more to the Federal Government than they receive.

IMO the SALT deduction is a horrible thing and allows state governments to become way too bloated.

Why should people in states that do not have an income tax have to effectively subsidize the SALT tax deduction?

Maybe it will make ca/ny think twice about having such high tax rates…

CRT teaching and COVID-lockdown related psychosis is going to lead to more adolescent health crises e.g. Columbines than we can imagine.

This is going to cause issues with a whole generation of kids until we realize the damage it’s done and ban it.

That is without employer subsidy or tax credits?

We can purchase insurance from state (ACA state) or federal exchange (non-Aca state), and also from the companies themselves. The cost will be either $0-1500+ Per month per person, yeah it varies a bit. Many employers will charge about $50-150 per month and subsidize the rest.

There are also high deductible plans that they are paying though, but they usually have a $3000-6000+ deductible per person, these are not good if you want to have kids or have a family history of chronic illness.

In my opinion the whole system is a huge inconsistent mess though. They will literally send you bills for hundreds of dollars (got a $350 therapist bill a few months ago) and I had to call them up an very politely tell them that yes I do have insurance with the credit card history to prove I’ve been paying the premiums, and to very politely fuck off.

The bill went away.

Exactly. I find it this ironic it is the same phrase that Bush used, and now the left has taken it over too https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_are_either_with_us,_or_a....

Really this whole controversy is asking for their political views to be the only ones discussed at work, what happens when someone from a more conservative background or country voices their views?

IMO really don’t want to talk politics at work it will just lead to problems. Also SJW is not a protected class.

I'd make SF and all the large costal cities look like this https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Hong_Kon.... That is enough density to have a condo cost 100k instead of 500k. Sure there will be a decent amount of taxes and HOA fees, but that would turn housing into a utility rather than a government subsidy for the middle class. Also you could wire fibre to each unit and solve the internet speed problem for these NIMBYified cities.

This is the real problem IMO. We need more dense condos like Chicago, where the median condo price is 268k versus other large cities where it is almost double that.

This is just people being taking advantage of their housing...investment/tax shelter/savings plan that is bidding the price up.

Look at something like this zero red flags that I can see for $219k that is much cheaper than in most other large cities, housing doesn't have to be this expensive. https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1706-W-Huron-St-60622/unit...

Early 2000s Toyota Camry, with <100,000 miles. I’m hoping it will be the last internal combustion vehicle that I own.

This app wants you to sign in and change the color scheme before using. This is not good UX, it should be more like https://www.firecalc.com/ where you just type some numbers and hit "go". Not everything needs a google/fb/clever login.

Well based on this article I sure wouldn’t want to work at Vice, sounds like a toxic nightmare.

Basecamp on the other hand sounds great, having introduced a 10% profit sharing and removing a bunch of superfluous programs.

You can fight your culture war once you’re done working for the day, just do your damn job. That applies to both left and right IMO.

Finding other ways to exercise can be difficult when it is cold and rainy out. I'm a month past having my 2nd dose of Moderna vaccine, covid is not really an issue anymore apart from people still being afraid of it/antivaxxers.

Being overweight/obese will kill more people than COVID, and will still be killing people when COVID is eradicated.

But the government is not doing a ban of HFCS by executive order.

This is much better than it was before, but Visible is $25 w/ party pay and includes unlimited everything, although tethering is capped at 10mbit.

For some people prison is 3 meals a day and a place to sleep, paid with your tax dollars.

The death penalty should not be abolished because to some criminals in society the threat of force is the only thing they respect.

Yes Microsoft does have an incentive to make a POSIX dev env available on their OS and also make the experience of using it not suck.

I'm curious as to why they didn't just purchase https://x410.dev/ and integrate that into WSLv2 as it has hidpi support already too. Also If Microsoft is able to get GPU compute working with native performance I would absolutely switch back from M1 mac.

Have you tried reaching out to therapists individually to sell them on the apps utility? That might be a better marketing strategy as they would be getting users for you directly.

Having it as a way to facilitate meetings in a specific therapy niche maybe where clients don’t want to/can’t drive to their meetings.

Google owns 8.8.8.8.

32” 4k on a m1 mini at a scaled resolution of 2560x1440 looks great.

If you don’t want to see homeless and/or needles go to most of the east side including Bellevue.

Median home sale price is 1.15MM though so a little more expensive.

GitHub pages and GitHub. Super minimal, don’t need to install anything, and easy to export the whole repo.

Why is this dismissed as poor reasoning? The only part that I might take issue with is the 8hrs/day as this might be a bit much depending on the project.