Donald Abrams

Basically, fixing education, even just the small step of national standards, could potentially lower property values for upper middle & lower upper classes

The Two-Board Knot: Zoning, Schools, and Inequality - American Affairs Journal Old Town Road traces a choppy, swerving path that marks the southern edge of Trumbull, Connecticut. It is shaded by maples and oaks that frame the sensible New England homes of an affluent suburb. Acr...

It really depends on the state and sometimes even the school or teacher... the USA at a federal level has so little control on what happens in schools (mostly just free/reduced meals, language learning, & disability conditional grants)

One explanation: americanaffairsjournal.org/2017/11/two-...

OMG, pistols are the worst. In US military generally only officers, medics, and spec ops train with them. Pistols are both less useful and more dangerous than rifles.

But in Iraq the locals were scared shitless of pistols because that's what Saddam's police killed em with (shrugged at rifles)

Oh man my current browser doesn't pass acid2 anymore...

Oh man, what kind of app would you want to last 100 years? But in terms of what kind of UX is likely to still exist in 100 years, I'd stick to text and audio (though current web audio standards are rough). If there are still pixels behind glass I'll be sad.

we can sneak around town / hunting working folks down / I hear they got a great benefit plan

join ICE boy ain’t it nice / join ICE take my advice

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* For non-Americans or the wealthy. Otherwise the debt is crippling.

And if you want a great romance (from 2013): The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Nice and easy palate cleanser: The Teller of Small Fortunes by Julie Leone

@scalzi.com I was not expecting the Dog King and I love it. It makes me think you could write a solid Orville episode!

maybe jeeves?

At some level we all die bigots...

I like to play the game "what will I be a bigot about at 80" (and I think its using tech to play out likely scenarios, both sexual and otherwise)

Immortality is gonna be rough on humanz

Graphic showing a 9 m wide track for metros can move as many people as a 175 m road for cars.

To carry 50,000 people per hour in each direction, a city needs a 175m wide road for cars.

Even if those cars are electric.

And then there’s all the parking.

OR a city can move A LOT MORE people in a lot less space, with A LOT LESS public money, emissions, pollution, noise etc.

Choices.

Simple.

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For everyone who's now suddenly nostalgic for The Sound:

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So apparently we are within the last 60 days of dial-up AOL being a thing.

help.aol.com/articles/dia...

ht @mat.tl

I believe AI image generation is only locally accurate (thus the wrong number of fingers thing). So long names are inevitably changed (or wrong in the middle) and there's a strangle interaction between state boundaries and labels where the more common appear (also why small states aren't labeled)

if one goes out of tune, just skip that string, hah

who has enough fingers for that?

‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’

This is not caused primarily by "screen time".

It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.

www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

6 year old parties are the wurst

GOOD NEWS! For the FIRST time ever, and after MORE THAN 30 YEARS of HIV vaccine clinical trials, researchers have developed a vaccine that has SUCCESSFULLY generated TIER 2 broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) against HIV and BLOCKS viral infection in vaccinated PEOPLE. Let’s talk about that! 🧪🧵⬇️

There's other things like automatic feature flagging (per branch), branch conflict warnings, live metric pull-ins, entropy introduction warnings, and live code linking, but this feature could add more participants and start new communities!

You asked what could make a language more collaborative if we were thinking from ground zero -- giving up raw readability for the ability to support labeling and comments in multiple languages was my answer

function and variable labels can be in any UTF language, but in most langs the stdlib & keywords are exclusively English

Learning to program requires English, especially professionally. The docs for OCaml being in French is a large factor in why they used it for teaching code to high schoolers!

I lived in Paris during COVID and went running every day during lockdown; as soon as it ended and cars were back you could actually feel the smog when running
My partner actually stopped running because it was so much harder on both lungs and dealing with traffic/commuting

I'd make sure it wasn't English Required®️, so room for translations of labels/comments (and associated VC issues) and symbolic stdlib

Maybe also some kind of label agnosticism could enable it? But likely have to give up human readable source code.

I miss Baltimore where the gender neutral "yo(s)" was the norm

The US is one of the only countries you can market drugs to consumers in.

Also, every new i.e. "specialty" drug is launched with marketing around how you can get your insurance to approve. Insurers don't want to pay and make hoops for pretty much every new drug

This is how they need to explain reintroducing wolves