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Although no attendance records for the period survive, most biographers agree that Shakespeare was probably educated at the King's New School in Stratford,[19][20][21] a free school chartered in 1553,[22] about a quarter-mile (400 m) from his home. Grammar schools varied in quality during the Elizabethan era, but grammar school curricula were largely similar: the basic Latin text was standardised by royal decree,[23][24] and the school would have provided an intensive education in grammar based upon Latin classical authors.[25]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shakespeare#Early_life

> > And so it's not clear to me whether universities as we recognize them will continue to exist if we continue to view them as a jobs programs.

> They could not. And that's a good thing. Humanities are a mess just for the reason that they take tuition and time from students and leave them hanging out to dray, after they graduate with no direct job prospects (i.e. a way to make a living).

Why is that a good thing? Just because the humanities don't funnel into jobs the way STEM does doesn't mean that they should cease to exist. Every book you've read, movie you've watched, song you've listened to, play you've seen, etc. has been a direct result of our journey through the humanities, and I'm positive nobody thinks those forms of entertainment should just "cease to exist". It's the same thing for countless other fields of study universities offer. The problem is not that these fields don't have the ROI of STEM, it's that the cost of education is way too fucking high.

Very long thread about How Darpa Works that was on HN a couple months ago, for those interested - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23670246

> Does anyone think they should forbid Fox News articles from being shared?

I mean...yeah

> This system isn't "fair", but the outcome is effectively the same as our current setup. With the most notable difference being that, at least this system is transparent and acknowledges that X% of incoming students paid for their post.

With the current setup, there are consequences to trying to pay your way in if you're caught. What's the point of removing those consequences?

AirBNB did not invent short-term rentals.

I believe it's "Google One" - https://one.google.com/about/support

What does that even mean? Of course Epic's actions being the catalyst is relevant. It's the whole reason this is even happening. Are you trying to imply that Epic's actions are irrelevant, but "Apple just plain not liking Epic" is? When you make a claim that Apple is doing this just because they don't like Epic, you have the burden of proof for that claim, and you can't just flip that around with "where’s the part where Apple didn’t decide they don’t like Epic".

Facebook has been remote for most of the year and will continue to be remote until next summer, so this is clearly not the case here since this decision is coming now.

That's ridiculous. The expectation of affordable housing, and being unable to move to some random town in South Dakota, comes down to the personal responsibility of "choosing to be poorer"?

Sure, if you treat and account for engineering like a cost center. The reason big tech companies are so successful are precisely because they treat engineering like a profit center. Though sales may be the organization actually bringing in revenue, without a product, they wouldn’t have anything.

This is very cool, and I really look forward to the future of the project. Have you thought about formalizing your API spec as an RFC? I generally think that the future of data is to allow complete access to all of your data on user programmatically, and this looks like an amazing tool that would help organizations accomplish exactly that. For example, a user story could be "I want to access then delete all of my comments on Facebook", or "I want to build an application that lets users view their data on Facebook as if it were an Excel spreadsheet".

Have you talked to mom-and-pops about this pricing model? Though "2.9% + $0.30 per transaction" isn't difficult to understand, if they've never heard of Stripe, it is difficult to understand _why_ that's what they're being charged. It might be easier to digest if given a flat monthly fee based on usage (e.g. $X for 100 units, $2X for 500 units, whatever)

Exactly how I feel. This is one of the reasons I'm not a huge fan of R, either

I would hope any monitor I buy lasts longer than 3 years.

Okay, but it is Neuralink’s responsibility to say everything they do. If the only thing OP can find is that they guarantee a “limited attack surface”, that’s frankly not acceptable for a device in your brain.

Here's the link to the original article - https://tidbits.com/2020/08/17/the-case-of-the-top-secret-ip...

It is silly. Your example isn't even about a wealth tax, it's about an inheritance tax. Sweden has a 30% Capital Gains tax (likely the vehicle for any form of future wealth tax) and seems to be doing much better than the US.

You seem to have forgotten about Android. The solution to anti-trust cases is not a blanket “break them up. In this case, requiring Apple to allow third-party App Stores is going to be the key issue. The lawyers will likely take heavy inspiration from Microsoft’s antitrust suit from the early 00s

This is akin to saying the Fair Labor Standards Act was a "bad law" because it ended child labor, which I'm sure also caused a temporary "net loss of jobs, economic activity, and civic engagement"

What SCM has sequential commit IDs, rather than hashes?

I think it was common knowledge but unconfirmed, if that makes sense - no rep had actively referred to it as a coup before despite it clearly being one

There are also huge swathes of the world where nobody has credit cards or bank accounts. This isn't an argument for Bitcoin as much as it is for physical currency

Who is the one backing those paper bills? This brings back centralized banking, which is what most folks in favor of replacing fiat currency with Bitcoin are working away from

There is a difference between "funding a Roadster" and "designing and fully understanding the physics and mechanics of the Roadster".

They already had the Roadster, Musk just funded it.

Because there's a difference between having "a head for physics and numbers" and "working with physics and numbers for your career". Fundamentally, he is a CEO, who's job is not to work on any of the underlying technology. His job grow the company.

Most of the achievements people ascribe to him aren't even his. Musk bought the company then gave himself the title of 'founder'. He's a businessman, not a scientist

They're just doing what they've been told is best for them by Bolsonaro, the same way the largely-impoverished American South votes for Trump. (I assume it's a similar voting block in the UK for Johnson but I haven't looked it up)

Does Amazon provide company phones or just install an MDM profile on your personal phone? I have TikTok installed on my phone, and if my employer said I had to remove it to access my work email, I'd ask them to buy me a work phone. It seems a bit ridiculous that they'd want to control what apps you download on your personal device without providing an alternative.