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I don't see anywhere where it says _where_ it will be released. I assume SideQuest?

I'm honestly surprised that the Northshore school district doesn't have a lawsuit on its hands from the WA teachers' union. Requiring teachers to do something they aren't trained for, aren't qualified for, and aren't contractually required to do seems like a pretty good recipe for a lawsuit. Not to mention any privacy issues when/if online teaching requires video recordings of the teacher to be posted online.

I know a few people in the school systems here in Washington, and from what I can gather, there would be riots in the streets if this was required state wide.

I think two key points as to your question of _why_ he wrote it like that. First, it is not a novel that he planned out and then sat down and wrote. It's an amalgamation of disparate stories that Christopher cobbled together into a single book because that was the only way they could sell it to the publishers. It's also the quasi-religious tome of the Tolkien world, so rather than comparing the readability to a Stephen King novel, compare it to something like the Bible or the Torah.

All that said, it took me several reads before I felt like I really 'got' it. The hardest part for me was grasping the long timelines since most of it is a story of the elves and they are immortal. You might be following the same character arc for thousands of years. All that struggle was worth it though, because when you reread LOTR _after_ reading The Silmarillion, you pick out things in LOTR that you didn't even know were there before.

Can anyone recommend a web-based, privacy respecting alternative to Google Docs/Sheets? It's the one part of Google products I haven't found a good replacement for.

This 'knip' idea is exactly what my town needs to implement. We're a small town with a small population of folks who actually live there, but our two main roads connect the freeway and large towns south of us. From about 3-7pm, the town is just one giant thoroughfare.

One or two knips would solve the entire issue.

In 30s of looking at the front page, I have no idea what your product is. That's too long for me to be in the dark.

We still own a CD-i and Faces of Evil. I never could beat it just due to how awful the controls were. There were a few other games we had for the CD-i that were legitimately enjoyable. The Wacky World of Miniature Golf and Mystic Midway: Rest in Pieces were both fun games.

Every once in a while when I'm visiting home, we'll break it out for a round of mini golf!

If Recaptcha gets the ax due to CCPA, the internet will be better off for it.

I've used both Apple Support over the phone for set up/software issues and Apple Genius Bar for hardware issues. Nothing but good things to say about them. In general, a very pleasant experience.

I just bought a new vehicle a few months back and my number 1 requirement was that it be a vehicle and not a computer on wheels. I have no power windows, no power locks, no backup camera, no lane assist, or any of that junk. The most advanced piece of electronics on the dash is a CD player and an aux in.

It is shocking how much more attention I pay to what I'm doing and even how much more I enjoy driving when I don't have to futz about with a bunch of annoying technology.

I have no plans to ever purchase a car with a built in operating system/screen. The benefits don't outweigh being annoyed by your own car.

Also a West Virginian, my favorite is when our entire supreme court were impeached at the same time: https://www.npr.org/2018/08/08/636761241/west-virginia-house...

I mean you could also just use any one of the other 500 different ESPs that don't require you to host your own mail server and who have different cost structures than MailChimp, but ok!

Looking at AirTable's Privacy Policy, it does not appear that they have any interest in protecting privacy. They have a line in their "How We Share Your Data" section, that reads:

* With others for any legitimate business purpose, provided the information is aggregated and anonymized.

So...you're selling it.

Wow, so there you go. Strike #2!

That first gif is a todo list, which is NOT a spreadsheet.

> I agree with you that it could be better, but so many other startups do a lot worse that looking down on someone that is not perfect, hurts the cause of "fixing shitty landing pages" rather than helps.

So you agree that it sucks, but it isn't the worst landing page, so it gets a pass? I'm not on some crusade to fix shitty landing pages. I'm actively looking for a replacement for an application I use in my day-to-day life. The onus is on Coda to explain to me clearly and in 3s if their application meets those needs. I'm simply pointing out that their landing page has failed to do that FOR ME.

> I feel like at least have a slight idea what it's about.

But is a slight idea enough to make a purchase decision? I deduced that it's some sort of application that combines a table and text. But that could look and function 100 different ways. There's 4 or 5 animated gifs all doing something completely different, and none of those is typing text into something that looks like a spreadsheet. So I'm left wondering, does it have a spreadsheet capability? Without digging further or watching product tour videos, I have no idea.

I've been looking for an alternative to Google Docs/Sheets/Slides/etc for a while and I've seen these couple of suggestions come up a few times. Each time I look at them, I find their websites to be incomprehensible to what their product actually _is_. The worst of them is Coda. Looking at their landing page, I have NO idea what Coda is or does. None of the other alternatives seem to do what I want easily. I want to type in a URL, edit a spreadsheet, and close my browser. I'm sure one of these alternatives does exactly that, but it isn't obvious from their home pages that that is the case.

Classic startup landing page design where they forget to explain what their product is to potential users/clients.

Or have fewer cows in the first place by eating less meat.

I would love to see a full list that goes back the last 5 or so years.

Why do you WANT to work more?

You are in the enviable position of being able to work for just 10 hours per week to support your quality of life. Perhaps you could pick a new hobby and dedicate your free time to becoming a master woodworker? Perhaps you could find a cause you care about and volunteer your free time to helping in some capacity? Perhaps you want to learn to paint or travel or meet new people or, hell, just sit in the park and feed the ducks.

Or if you really do want to do more income generating work, what do you want to work ON? Just saying "I should work more" isn't going to cut it.

> It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about? - Henry David Thoreau

I really dislike CSS. I find of the 3 main web 'languages' it is the most difficult to do well. I really hate the 'C' in CSS. I've found that using scoped CSS cuts down on a LOT of the things in CSS that bug me the most. Like changing the style of a particular div and now all the p tags inside of it auto-magically changed as well!? So if you are using React, Vue, etc. I recommend finding some approach to scoping your CSS to your components so as to avoid as much of the cascade as possible.

As for layout, spend half a day learning about flexbox (https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/). It's much simpler than CSS grid and it'll do 90% of what you need as far as layouts go. If you have a particular section of your page that needs to be laid out in a grid, then you could try out CSS grid in that limited section. I think it is a nightmare for overall page layout.

No, your personal definition doesn't matter. If you buy/scrape a list of email addresses, and send to ANY of those addresses, that's spam. I work for an email marketing software company. That's the definition used in the industry. >0 unrequested emails is spam.

If you've never spoken to this person before, you have no business relationship with them, and they have not opted in to receive mail from you, you are an email spammer. You can mince words if you have to to sleep easy at night, but this behavior is wrong.

The author of the article did something shady and you are defending him.

Your personal definition isn't what matters here. This is spam. See wikipedia for this definition:

"Email spam, also known as junk email, is unsolicited messages sent in bulk by email"

Agreed, the first thing I thought was 'Where did he get a list of 30,000 email addresses?' Buying lists is technically illegal in the US. Sure, the chances of you being hauled in are slim to none, but it's still slimy as hell.

This guy built a side hustle nefariously.

My reply to your replies:

None of my statements say anything about what a person "deserves" or doesn't deserve. That's an emotion that bears no weight in the rational discussion of whether or not you can objectively afford a purchase.

* Gruel is perfectly acceptable for basic survival. It WILL keep you alive. You mentioned chicken, rice, and beans in your OP. That's a far shot away from gruel.

* 'House' is interchangeable with either of those other terms. Bringing it up was silly. I live in an apartment, I would still call it the house temperature. If your apartment complex has pipes that freeze, that's their issue to address, not yours. It isn't your responsibility to pay a higher heating bill to keep their pipes from freezing.

* Exercise - Again, not a matter of whether someone "deserves" recreation or not. It's an objective, rational statement of whether or not a person without an emergency fund can afford a gym membership. I do have a small emergency fund and I still think that gym memberships are too expensive to consider.

* Computers/laptops/phones/GAME CONSOLES(?!)/movies/books - Again, not a matter of whether someone "deserves" recreation or not. It's an objective, rational statement of whether or not a person without an emergency fund can afford these things.

None of these statements are making any claims to what people deserve, because in truth, the world doesn't owe any of us anything. There is nothing in this world that any of us deserve just because we really want it. Stop thinking about what you deserve and think rationally about your money. What can you AFFORD? If you have debt and/or you have no savings, the correct answer to that question is, nothing outside of what it takes to survive and get back and forth to work. When you are out of debt and have an emergency fund, then sure, go crazy and buy some hot sauce to go along with your chicken, rice, and beans.

I'm horrified that anyone shares anything about their child, unborn or otherwise, on a social media platform. Shouldn't that child have the right to choose for themselves if they want literally their entire lives archived by advertisers?

Yes, she shouldn't have posted about her pregnancy on social media sites.

*Edit to add - There are a lot of other ways to share with friends and family about her pregnancy that aren't social media.

I also read it as a direct response to the mother who put out the tweet and it seems pretty appropriate to me? What part of the parent comment is inaccurate?

You aren't alone. I had the same thoughts. Why would she share that type of information on a social networking site to begin with?

It's terrible what happened to her and her family, but this post basically reads "I put my foot in a fire. Fire, why did you burn my foot?"

I'm from the US, but spent 2 years teaching English in South Korea. I interacted with very few adult Koreans who weren't teachers, so I can't speak to the 'overworked, stressed Korean businessman' stereotype. However, schooling for kids there is a lot different from schooling here. If you think your American kid is overworked and is given too much homework, it doesn't hold a candle to what Korean kids are put through.

From the age of 7 or 8, they are doing full days at school and at least 1 after school hagwon (private academy). That ramps up as they get older. By 10 or 11, they are doing full 9am-9pm days. Middle and high school kids are more like 9am-9pm in class and I've had kids tell me that they go home and study until 2 or 3am, regularly. I routinely had kids breakdown and cry.

After a while I realized that in a small way I was helping contribute to the continuation of this lifestyle and I soured on the whole teaching English in Korea thing and moved back to the States. I loved Korea on the whole and would go back in a heartbeat, but not as a teacher.

That lock screen really chaps my jimmies. Either tell me what you want to tell me or shove off.