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by cloudwizard 8y ago
stock LEGO in sets is around 10 cents per piece. technics are more expensive. Looking at Ebay, it looks like 30-50 cents on average. You are looking at $200K to $400K for the 1M Technics pieces. They said the motors cost $70K. Say up t
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by cloudwizard 8y ago
My experience with Microsoft was different. Back in the day, I installed IIS server ( MS official web server) and it wiped my system. I called customer support and they said that I needed to reinstall to fix it. I re-installed everything
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by cloudwizard 8y ago
Correct link to pwabuilder is https://www.pwabuilder.com/
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by cloudwizard 8y ago
Some people consider their children their first priority. Why the US education system is failing above average children is a different argument. I send both my kids to private school and consider it a necessity.
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by cloudwizard 9y ago
The speed of construction is due to prefab wood. Prefab concrete would be just as fast or faster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwvmru5JmXk It has nothing to do with wood. Wood could be easier on the environment though.
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by cloudwizard 9y ago
I would pay double if the app produced was a progressive web app.
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by cloudwizard 9y ago
If you are commuting on Caltrain in SF, it is way easier to take the citibikes. Only a relatively short distance in SOMA and way faster. When I went south to the tech campuses, I brought my own bike on the train. There are a few bikers th
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by cloudwizard 9y ago
Any chance that you will support wildcard domain names?
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by cloudwizard 9y ago
In US HS, the grades are going up but the world rankings are dropping. Our kids are not being prepared to be competitive. https://qz.com/1032183/no-wonder-young-americans-feel-so-imp... https://www.usatoday
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by cloudwizard 9y ago
I was CTO at 2 startups during the first Internet boom. I was getting resumes from janitors that were offering to be trained. I had to hire most of the teams from Canada.
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by cloudwizard 9y ago
My story about United was when I was flying from Vancouver to SFO. For some reason, we could not land at SFO so we ended up in Oakland. I said fine. Let me off and I will catch a cab. They said that the plane was too big for Oakland. We
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
You are only talking about recent history. Historically, the vast majority of humanity lived in abject poverty. I expect the vast majority of new jobs to be low skilled, low pay jobs like cleaning the robots. or gig economy where people a
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
Cognitive elite or financial elite. The rich get to send their kids to private schools. Smart poor kids get locked into mediocre public schools with reducing standards. Rich parents pass on their wealth at a lower tax rate. Being smart is
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
It does accelerate inequality. The answer is to make sure we are all equal. To solve this problem, we should not allow the special Nike sports camps because I do not make as much as a basketball player as an NBA player. We need to equaliz
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
For some, the problem is the class is too slow. The slow classes are CREATING the problem kids.
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
The problem is the entire class is geared to the slower kids. Since the faster kids learn the entire year's work in the first month or prior to the beginning of the year, the only thing they learn is how to deal with slower kids or am
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
Those are very high paying jobs. It is very unlikely that the displaced workers will make anywhere close to that.
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
I agree with almost everything except advertising on FB and Twitter. I have worked at several startups that had ZERO return on thousands of advertising on FB. Our Google ads cost more but had an actual return. There is a reason that they
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
In the US, it is the same. I had no idea how my son was doing other than his teacher was lying to me. At the beginning of the year, it is impossible to do better than the middle. Not sure if the reasoning was so the children can show impr
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-academy-pay-20... Many small cities do not have police academies. They just hire the graduates from other cities. This is similar to the problem of apprentices leavin
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
Then they would need to get some hot actresses to present the awards. Sort of like the Oscar tech awards.
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
No, were at one of the top rated elementary public schools in the Bay Area. We still could not get a math team out of a school of hundreds even when I offered to pay for it. My son had to compete at Nationals by himself.
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by cloudwizard 10y ago
My problem is that schools standards are so low that my son was not learning anything there. He spent his days reading his way through the fiction section of the school library while the teachers focussed on the kids that were behind. If h
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by cloudwizard 11y ago
It seems to require twitter to login. I suppose I don't care if they spam my twitter but still it is annoying.
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by cloudwizard 11y ago
Parents replacing school education works. My son went through 5 yrs of public education and learned almost nothing. He learned in after school classes, at home, etc. The problem was that public schools are focussed on underperforming kids
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by cloudwizard 11y ago
American education is not designed to maximize student performance. As soon as a child meets the minimum, they are ignored. All the effort goes into improving the performance of the underperforming kids. no child left behind = no child do
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by cloudwizard 11y ago
Start with reducing the costs of basic needs. Shelter - micro apts, container based Lots of regulations make this problematic in short term. Food - Basic nutritious food should be cheaper. Currently, cheap food is not nutritious or that ch
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by cloudwizard 12y ago
Or just because someone felt like it. It is probably not enough money to waste a lot time thinking about it.
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by cloudwizard 12y ago
Any python dev environments?
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by cloudwizard 12y ago
I am annoyed when people ask me for a twitter id to register. My twitter accounts are just for testing. I think there is a use for twitter as a generator for random number seeds

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