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Schools also have oversight, accountability, hiring background checks, and almost everyone interacting with the children will have gone through years of education and training.

Roblox (and basically all social networks/games for that matter) are pretty much the wild west when it comes to moderation and protection of minors.

I agree with the principle of this blogpost, though IMHO this was covered better and with better examples here: https://lbrito1.github.io/blog/2017/03/dont-obsess-over-code...

I also think the title of "don't obsess" covers the intent better. In other words, it's perfectly OK to write DRY code, but don't obsess over making all code DRY all the time at the expense of readability.

OK, so by "neutral money" you mean still USD or EUR currencies but in cash/check/money order form? Are you saying there needs to be a government-run payment processor?

Because to me this term sounds like cryptocurrency, whose boosters constantly talk about how they are beyond governments or any regulation at all.

Remember what? That "neutral money" is good for people who want to buy and sell images of rape and sex with minors?

I don't find this thesis to be true at all, at least from the perspective of someone living in the Seattle area, where we recently:

- Hugely expanded the light-rail system and should have a major east-side extension opening within 2 years.

- Tore down an above-ground waterfront highway and replaced it with a tunnel underneath downtown Seattle.

- Currently reconstructing the waterfront to connect to the historic pike place market.

- At least one major new ferry terminal in the region in the last few years.

- Major expansion of the bike-lane network to where it's now easy to bike pretty much anywhere downtown, largely on protected bike lanes.

As far as I can see the only issue really is funding that pushes the timelines out on further expansions. The federal government seems to give peanuts for major transportation projects so the state/city/county pretty much has to fund it all themselves.

I'm guessing you don't have kids

How are parents are less busy now? Pretty sure they're busier than ever as it's nearly impossible to survive on a single income.

> Children need to encounter risks and overcome fears on the playground”, said Ellen Sandseter, a professor of psychology at Queen Maud University in Norway. “I think monkey bars and tall slides are great.

I agree but as far as I can tell everyone agrees with this. Every playground near me has monkey bars and tall slides. They're safer than these photos but you could certainly still get hurt on them.

Are there places banning monkey bars and slides?

I imagine some aspects of a "lower-energy" world would be OK for most people, such as simply less selection of stuff to buy, similar really to how things have been for the past year or two.

Other parts not so much. I'd guess very few people in the US had air conditioning in the 1950s. It might be OK to go without AC in northern countries and states but most of the world is going to want AC as soon as they can afford it.

Other high-energy lifestyle are easy air travel and wide selection of food year-round. I don't think people are going to willingly return to 1950s levels of air travel affordability or food availability.

The title of the article is a bit misleading since it seems to imply (to me at least) that Dimon is blaming the Fed for doing something unreasonable. But in the article he actually says that the Fed (and other central banks) have to do this as the current best course of action:

> Central banks “don’t have a choice because there’s too much liquidity in the system,” Dimon said, referring to the tightening actions. “They have to remove some of the liquidity to stop the speculation, reduce home prices and stuff like that.”

edit: also OP left "and Ukraine war" out of the title...

What school in CA was giving multiple choice assignments in a CS class?

What you describe in France is exactly how my classes in the US were (at UW Seattle) ~15 years ago.

I'm a bit naive on this space so forgive if this is an ignorant question;

Can anyone explain how any of these companies (Bolt, Fast, 1o) are doing anything different than "checkout with paypal"? What exactly is wrong with paypal that would make a merchant want to use Bolt instead?

For what it's worth, the FAANG companies generally don't have DBA roles as far as I'm aware. It's generally expected to be part of the software engineering role.

I'm not saying this is correct or better, just saying that's the way it is and it does set a precedent and model for other companies.

The exception for "foreign students" seems like clearly an invitation to game the system.

100% agreed. I could also buy a test prep book on amazon plus get a few others from the school and public libraries for a grand total of $15 spent on test prep.

That's a lot cheaper than dedicating my working summer to smarmy volunteer/extra-curricular projects.

Fair enough, but from the looks of that bike it doesn't really look like it'd be comfortable much more than a few kilometers either.

There are push scooters with inflatable tires (I've seen them here in the US) but not sure how much that affects the weight and portability.

Seems like it's bordering on push-scooter levels of top speed and stability...what's the benefit of such a small bike compared to a scooter?

I'm 33 (so a millenial) and feel the same way. I find infinite scroll in social media pretty boring after less than a minute.

Some counterpoints:

- Ethanol effectively helps spread carbon emissions across a larger area. It significantly cleans the air around large cities, I guess at the expense of more emissions in rural areas? But then again I'd guess most of those rural areas are not super concerned about carbon emissions and are very supportive of corn subsidies.

- Of the three goals of adding ethanol to gasoline, it seems like 2 of 3 of them are completely successful: "The policy was intended to reduce emissions, support farmers, and cut U.S. dependence on energy imports."

A few counterpoints:

- LEGO still makes bins of fairly generic pieces that can be built into all sorts of things: https://smile.amazon.com/LEGO-Classic-Medium-Creative-Brick/...

- My daughter has a few LEGO duplo sets. One for example had instructions for building a Minnie Mouse house, but we only did that once. Now all the sets are taken apart and mixed together and she pretty much builds whatever she wants, mixing and building with pieces from 4-5 different duplo sets together.

- It's super easy to buy bins of used legos online, especially in local parenting communities. I see people exchanging bins of LEGO pieces all the time and usually it's just bins of pieces, no instructions or defined sets or plans at all.

Personally I know examples of both, but again just anecdotal.

Genuinely interested...Why does that bother you?

I think it's well-known that Amazon doesn't provide in-house meals and haircuts and kombucha like many of the SV companies. Personally it's something I appreciate because it makes the area around the office a bit more lively with more foot traffic and private businesses catering to the office workers.

(I work at AWS) I personally know multiple people who have been on the PIP before and are still here and happy. No idea the percent of people who accomplish this though.

FWIW, some things that you think of as necessarily dairy-forward have just become that way through modern culture. Pizza, for example, used to commonly have no cheese, and still is somewhat common without cheese in Italy (Pizza Marinara from Naples, for example).

I'm no huge advocate of vegan "cheese" and "meatloaf", but vegan pizza can be perfectly normal and traditional.

What's your point? Besides the textbook use of "whataboutism"

To be fair, the "global war on terror" is trying to tackle a problem that can easily move itself and spread to countries that often have barely functioning or extremely corrupt governments.

> domestic terror? go watch the fucking videos. those people actually got inside and just milled around. there was no plot, no mission.

Depends which videos you decide to watch. After the capitol was breached the people who just walked in were pretty tame (these people are also only being charged with very minor crimes and serving around 60 days in jail, for example: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/11/04/capi...).

At the beginning of the riots the people actually storming barriers and assaulting police officers were definitely not just "milling around".

> isnt it established fact the fbi had agents actively provoking the mob? known persons on video involved, not being prosecuted?

no? sources?

> id hate for the the congresspeople to be beholden to the people they work - especially the ones that diaagree with them.

So your argument is that the best way to keep congresspeople (sic) accountable is to trespass, disrupt standard government procedures, and assault police officers?

I certainly agree that UW should expand it's CS program even more. FWIW, they are doing it but probably not quickly enough:

- https://housedemocrats.wa.gov/hansen/2018/02/26/house-budget...

- https://www.cs.washington.edu/supportcse/building

I'd have to disagree on the "slight discount" argument. UW charges $12,000 per year for residents. This is 3.2x cheaper than non-resident tuition ($39,000). IMO $12,000 is still a very good value for what you get.

Do you actually believe that most of the people in the US live in mobile homes?

My house was built in 1916 and will easily last another 100+ years. Almost all the houses in my neighborhood were built around the same time and are still standing in good condition. Yes it's a wood house and yes wood houses can last a long time.

I feel the author sort of invalidates his own argument with this sentence (also he forgot to mention commercial space travel):

> "What about all the cool new stuff?" you might ask. What about the recent breakthroughs in mRNA technology? What about CRISPR, and AI, and solar energy, and battery technology, and electric vehicles, and (sure) crypto, and (yes!) smartphones?

His defense of his thesis after this sentence doesn't make that much sense to me. Sure some things have "stagnated". Skyscrapers aren't really getting any taller, but why do we need even taller skyscrapers? Haven't we maybe simply reached the physical limits of gravity?

As for institutions, if we already have CMU and Stanford and MIT, why do we need more top-tier private universities? It seems to me we're seeing pubic universities become more prestigious and influential, which IMO is largely a positive development (UW, Cal, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, etc).