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This is a teenager 2 years ago

Do you have a source for the claim "Low IQ is associated with worse life outcomes"? I've never seen one.

In fact it is EQ - emotional intelligence - and not IQ that predicts positive life outcomes most strongly.

As I understand it, USA is one of the highest funded education systems in the world. Funding for education even outpaces USA's um.. robust defense spending.

The trick is to look into total funding - beyond federal funding and into state funding.

I strongly agree that education in the internet age needs to evolve. I would love to see an education system centered around critical and entrepreneurial thinking, financial literacy, Cognitive Behavioral thinking tools. If you give kids something worthwhile they'll use it and come back for more.

https://www.pgpf.org/budget-basics/how-is-k-12-education-fun...

I know several very high productivity - as in ultra-productive, super human level with the compensation to match - people that use timers. Everything they want to follow up on they toss into a phone timer. When it goes off they deal with it. Whether that's putting it into a formal calendar whatever. Pretty no-muss no-fuss solution.

The Reddits 2 years ago

I've tried multiple times to use discord, and the fundamental blocker for me seems to be in it's name. Every one feels just like a private slack channel for a company I don't work for. Discordant.

To say that product is going to replace twitter is -imo- just wrong.

    Greg: I'm good, anyway, cuz, uh, my, so, I was just talkin' to my mom, and she said, apparently, he'll leave me five million anyway, so I'm golden, baby.

    Connor: You can't do anything with five, Greg. Five's a nightmare.

    Greg: Is it?

    Connor: Oh, yeah. Can't retire. Not worth it to work. Oh, yes, five will drive you un poco loco, my fine feathered friend.

    Tom: The poorest rich person in America. The world's tallest dwarf.


    Connor: The weakest strong man at the circus.
-- Succession

I was just a kid just outside of the DC metro area in the country. I remember my dad and I had to stop the car on the side of the highway because the air was so dense with cicadas and the wipers weren't up to the task.

The noise when getting out and standing in that cloud was difficult to describe. It was so loud, all blended together and harmonized into this weird tone that you felt almost like a colored liquid. Completely surreal.

One of my favorite memories with my dad, looking back.

You could run a central line in the street, then connect to it like sewer and pull heat off of it that way.

It would be interesting to check the average public water temp as well, as long as the delta is closer than outdoor ambient air it would be more efficient than heat pumps. You could potentially treat public water like some GCHP use water wells.

Truthfully, if electricity is getting that expensive in your area, your very first move should be to put some solar panels on your roof not buying a new car.

Not always an option for all people but that's what I'd be doing in that situation.

Shoutout to the time I was looking at job listings on my cellphone, which then immediately popped up on my work computer in front of my coworkers. I didn't even know there _was_ a sync feature, it got turned on automatically after an update. Fun.

No sync please.

Good story.

I for one do not believe in Unit Tests and try to get LLM tooling to write them for me as much as possible.

Integration Tests however, (which I would argue is what this story is actually praising) are _critical components of professional software. Cypress has been my constant companion and better half these last few years.

Cool.

Typically land next to the shore is expensive and riddled with people who want to keep it clear of industry. People are loathe to allow even wind turbines on their precious horizon.... How close to the shoreline do these things need to be?

Also, an aside. Waste brine saturation seems to be a laypersons idea of a severe problem, when in actuality it really isn't. See Australia's desalination plants (Perth, Adelaide, others) and their outflows. 100+ Billion gallons a year with no big issues.