afriday11

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by afriday11 3y ago
My sister worked at Summit Shasta in Daily City (south of SF) as a teacher and then administrator. I can say that the school itself was quite a success, with a lot of local, low income students getting into Berkley, Carnegie Mellon, etc. No
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by afriday11 3y ago
Congrats @ykhli! Excited to check it out.
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by afriday11 8y ago
Personal cars spend most of their time parked on the side of the road using up valuable real-estate. Transportation services like Uber or taxis use the road to move people around and don't take up as much space as personal cars. Public
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by afriday11 8y ago
Can we just ban cars in SF while we are at it? People drive them with a vengeance, clutter up the streets while they are in parking mode, and are a general eyesore.
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by afriday11 10y ago
I don't see this program going through. The government there (any everywhere) is constantly trying crazy schemes like this with little results to show. Instead of worrying about what China is doing, those of us in the US should be worr
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by afriday11 10y ago
If you are into AI, Crystal Society was a great 2016 release. You can read it for free online: http://crystal.raelifin.com/society/Prologue
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by afriday11 10y ago
I went from no Mandarin skills, to managing teams in the language over a few years. Here are 3 things I learned along the way about language learning: 1. Pick a method and stick with it - at any given time I was doing flash cards to practic
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Ask HN: Can a teddy bear teach kids to code?
7 points by afriday11 12y ago|3 comments
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by afriday11 12y ago
From the 1920-2014, technology progressed and made many jobs irrelevant, just as improvements in robotics have put a lot of people out of work. So if technology puts people out of work, then our unemployment should have increased since the
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by afriday11 13y ago
Any idea when it will be?
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by afriday11 13y ago
I'll take a look.