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In early Science teaching in the USA, say K-8 Fahrenheit is probably the focus. Starting in High school its more of a mix of F/C/K, and once at the college / university level it'll be pretty much exclusively C/K for science.

For a general consumption science article targeting an American audience it makes sense that Fahrenheit is used, because American's are used to it and its convenient for human temperatures. (More precision per degree, 0-100 is a common temperature range, mostly human comfortable).

Of course clearly including Celcius alongside Fahrenheit would make a lot of sense, I agree its strange that both were not included.

This is just such an amusingly colossal mess, a fitting epilogue to 2020.

I disagree on this point. Most of my colleagues at work tend to agree that the shift to WFH has been very negative, regardless of type/size of home.

Presence or non-presence of kids in said home definitely is a factor, but I have heard unhappiness expressed by both parents and non-parents.

The biggest factor is that the lack of an office simply reduces the effectiveness of social communication. People still talk, but the talking is simply not as effective nor, importantly as fulfilling as the in-person chatter is in the office environment.

I don't find this argument particularly convincing.

Am I drinking "sparkling wine" or "champagne"? Honestly, why should I care, I just care about how much I like the product and how much it costs.

I'm for regulation around areas about product safety, but this seems to not be what's going on here.

I disagree about Chapel's cost. A 5 cost Chapel would lead to extraordinarily unbalanced games where a good starting hand basically sets you up to win.

Having the cost be 2 means that everyone gets access to it in the first two hands with out there being much swingy-ness in terms of the initial shuffle.

Maybe an argument could be made for 3 or 4 in the sense that everyone would still have access to it, but 5 just seems too high.

My initial reaction agrees that does sound quite high.

However, I wonder what the alternative strategy costs for rural broadband are. My guess is that laying a lot of cable to remote locations could possibly be even higher than the $1376.52 per customer cost? It seems like something like Satelite internet connections could be less to set up, but it's not clear to me the cost of the equipment, installations and upkeep are in that case?

Also 1376 / 12 months averages out to only about $110 per month per customer for just one year. Which honestly doesn't sound too bad.

Smart+cellular phones, I think clearly fit the category of life changing and world changing. World societies have been greatly improved by wireless access, everywhere.

Strongly disagree. Using the law in this strong arm manner stiffles innovation.

Yes, the current Oculus / Facebook situation sucks.

However, blanket statements like "Hardware requiring an online account to work must be outlawed." Would ban very legitimate products such as Amazon's physical buttons for restocking supplies.

Sure the Dash buttons are discontinued, but there's definitely an interesting area of products that might be developed in the coming years for other products in this wide domain.

While your personal anecdote may vary, my personal anecdote does seem to indicate that tech is a pretty meritocracy directed industry. Maybe this is a Silicon Valley / CA trait given thing like non-compete clauses being non-enforceable.

A motorcycle can't carry my family from place to place, or store my emergency goods, carseats, sporting equipment, etc.

I don't know, I see self-driving cars being tested on roads all the time, and they generally seem like they're making a lot of progress every year.

Honestly, suburban lifestyle is relaxed, enjoyable, and affordable. It's pretty easy to see the appeal in it.

Most people living in suburban areas do not drive for hours every day. In the time it takes me to cross Boston on public transit, I can drive between two suburban metropolitan areas and have access to a huge variety of people, places, and activites.

I'm more willing to spend money on iOS than other platforms, because of how Apple manages the platform. Forcing Apple to change their platform away from the reasons why people like it is absurd.

Apple does not have the largest market share by OS, Android does. Other app stores and sideloading are already very widely available.

I don't think there's really a problem with a couple 100ms of latency for web services. However, what often happens, is that "modern" websites take many seconds to actually do simple operations which is clearly horrible design.

I'll happily pick something that is harder to break, even if that means it's harder to repair. Other people may have other priorities, and that's okay. That doesn't make one choice better than the other.

Totally agree. Schools act as a social hub for kids K-12. Most kids spend a great deal of time socializing, in, around, and in activities related to their school.

That sounds like bad regulations and bureaucracy more than credential-ism, but I agree that is horrifying.

A blanket pay bump for "Master's" degrees written into the code? Clearly that's going to be gamed.

If any auditing actually went into the source and value of the credentials then they could be appropriately valued or ignored, depending on the case.

I bought a $1000 device because Apple gets to decide what can run on it. I like iOS, and I like that Apple provides a great user experience on the device.

I was not in any way coerced into buying said device, and there are a plethora of other options for substitute devices had I wanted more control of what runs on the device, which I do not.

There are plenty of competitors to Facetime, available across multiple different platforms. Google and Facebook for example enjoy pushing their messaging and video messaging ecosystems across multiple devices.

There's nothing unique about Facetime, except it's Apple exclusive.

The lack of ability to install other App Stores reduces fragmentation and potentially improves the overall user experience of the product.

If I wanted choice in App Stores I would buy an Android phone. I don't care about choice of App Stores and I prefer the consistency of a single, consistent, secure source of Apps. Therefore, I bought an iOS device.

If your phone is an extension of your person, and you don't like how that extension works, then replace that extension with a different one. There are plenty of phones on the market.

Modern (5e) D&D even explicitly encourages this with it's skill system. DMs are encouraged to just pick a stat (or even let their players pick a stat) that feels like it's applicable to the situation, then then add that to their roll.

It seems like a lot of consumers would, and do choose 2) by choosing to buy into Apple's ecosystem.

Apple users bought into the ecosystem. It's not the only ecosystem in town, it's not even the biggest ecosystem in town. Consumers can choose the platform they want to buy into.

I buy an iPhone, knowing what App Store I'm getting. I don't see the issue, I chose to buy into this ecosystem.

This is a great baseline for the units answer.

Not really, one of the greatest things about mosh is it's ability to restore connections, even if you put your host to sleep, have a network outage, switch from wired to wireless, and the like. The connection just comes back like magic.

Agree completely, WFH generally drops impromptu collaboration and productivity in every office I've worked in.

What does 30x slower mean? Is this a benchmarking issue? Firefox UX responsiveness? Website responsiveness?

Personally, I've never had a problem with my daily firefox usage, perf is basically indistinguishable from other major browsers like Chrome and Edge.

Honestly, I think both foreign language training, and physical fitness ARE useful for keeping one's mind plasticity up and in turn having valuable downstream effects.

The goal for university courses shouldn't be strictly specific skill training, but also requirements that force people outside their comfort zones, encouraging them to think it new ways and adapt their problem solving faculties to new domains.