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AssemblyAI is quite good, pretty cheap and easy with robust SDK support.

https://www.assemblyai.com/

I've been coaching First Lego League for years and this is one of the best online resources around for kids to learn robotics. Highly recommend.

Nut allergy info that was collected by the school (teacher, admin, nurse, whoever) is part of the student records and would be protected information under FERPA.

The original error was the network command, but the slower response and lengthy outage was partially due to the physical security they put in place to prevent malicious activity. Any event like this has multiple root causes.

I'm so sorry to hear that. I'd love to learn more, please reach out if you're comfortable sharing your experience in confidence.

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What an example to choose the same week that Paul is out defending Antonio Garcia Martinez's sexism on Twitter.

In Chicago especially (where the study was based and where I live), police fairly clearly have an overuse of force in general. They have paid enormous sums over many years in lawsuits for wrongful use of force. There is plenty of research to show that when confronted with complex problems police will respond with force when other tactics may have been better for all (such as cited in this book - https://www.npr.org/2019/01/02/681606995/punishment-without-... )

Terraform prints out the number of resources changed and at least requires a "yes" to proceed. Not quite as onerous as described but at least prevents some type of fat-fingering. Basically all changes with Terraform are risky as they usually involved bringing up and down infrastructure.

   Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # google_compute_instance.vm_instance will be created
  + resource "google_compute_instance" "vm_instance" {
  + ... <more>
 
   Plan: 2 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.

   Do you want to perform these actions?
    Terraform will perform the actions described above.
    Only 'yes' will be accepted to approve.

   Enter a value: yes

Thank you for documenting and sharing your experience. Nobody should have to go through that yet it happens every day, over and over.

Visa press release: https://usa.visa.com/visa-everywhere/blog/bdp/2019/06/13/vis...

"Visa announces intent to join the Libra Association"

That auto dialog referred to the “offline_access” scope. At the time, most app access tokens would expire unless they specifically requested that the user give permission to access at any time.

It did not expand the permissions of what could be accessed.

That scope was retired in 2012 https://developers.facebook.com/docs/roadmap/completed-chang...

I think you'd have to count the American Civil War as a conflict caused at least in part by the industrial revolution, which would dramatically increase the toll it took in North America.

I'm CTO of an edtech company and I'm quite excited to see this list- outside of specialist VCs like Reach and Learn Capital, the typical level of understanding of these nuances by investors is shallow. This will up the game.

However there is one glaring absence: I don't see a recommendation to show provable academic results. You could follow all of these snd still have an ineffective product that doesn't actually advance student learning. Hopefully that will change as schools demand more data driven results from their vendors.

I use my Oculus Rift basically every day. I prefer it to tv or other entertainment. I thought it would fade but there are new apps released all the time and I love the feeling of being transported to another world.

I would say about 50% gaming (I'm a fan of puzzle games personally) but the other half is entertainment- 360 videos and immersive education experiences from Vrideo, Jaunt, and several standalone apps are phenomenal and I can't get over the fun of "being there".

I can't wait for the market to grow and additional content to come out.

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The dual currency is how it works in Cuba- one currency for locals that buys mostly food, and another for imports, which is mostly "luxuries".

Needless to say, it distorts all kinds of incentives and the black market thrives anyway.

The paper does address exactly that point. The longbow required sustained central support over many years which prevented rebellious nobles from quickly adopting it:

"These features of longbow technology had two important implications for those interested in adopting it. First, centralized efforts were necessary to create a culture of archery. As shown above, these efforts in England consisted of laws supporting bow ownership and practice, restrictions on competing leisure activ- ities, subsidies for bows, and festivals and tournaments focused on archery skills. Because of this, the longbow could be adopted only by, or with the permission and support of, a nation’s ruler, who alone wielded the authority and resources required to undertake such e orts. Indeed, given the nature of longbow technology, to have even attempted to adopt the longbow without his ruler’s permission, a noble, for example, would have needed to successfully hide the fact that he was continuously training large numbers of archers for years—a highly improbable proposition. Second, conditional on a nation’s ruler adopting longbow technology, a usurper noble with an eye on the Crown, or a prince interested in independence for his territory, could lead an effective rebellion against his ruler by supplying the inexpensive weapon to large numbers of citizens, whose ruler-sponsored training and practice with the bow had made them proficient archers. Thus, to be willing to develop longbow use in his country, a ruler had to be confident that his efforts would not be turned against him."

There is a lot of junk in the various app stores (just as there is on the Internet generally) but the overall quality and quantity of incredible educational apps is growing- quickly.

When used effectively, we have seen students using iPads double their learning outcomes in a single school year. The issue is that the evaluation sustems are in their infancy- the review sites cited in the article are pretty useless because they rarely go more than skin deep.

My company, eSpark, evaluates and curates the best tablet apps for use in schools, and we apply rigorous review to make sure they work. I've been really impressed by how much the ecosystem has changed in the last few years and can't wait for more classrooms to catch up.

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"Another question is if the market is ready for a $50B+ IPO. The current IPO record holder, Alibaba, was valued at $25B."

He misunderstood the reference; Alibaba raised $25b in their ipo but was valued much higher ($231b). There's plenty of room for a company worth 70b to ipo.

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Thanks for posting, Paul.