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Well, in a post-truth apartheid, separating kids from their parents in concentration camps is A-okay and discrimination isn't discrimination even when it's obvious. Red means go and green means stop. What the court is reinforcing is: there are N >= 2 sets of rules: one for most people, probably one for the very poor, and one for the very rich. You can rape an unconscious girl behind a dumpster, and only serve six months if you're very rich. Or be famous and connected like Jimmy Savile, and then you can rape disabled children and never be punished for it.

I know a retired couple, my grandparents' best friends, who were both high school teachers. They traveled every year and somehow managed to keep from burning out. If teachers had to work the entire year, the burn-out rate would be 99%/year.

This is very an ignorant, biased and misleading article.

1) Not every educator is a teacher. Teachers are paid the most and have the best organized labor representation, while substitute teachers and T-A's are lucky if they get enough hours to qualify for benefits.

2) Not everyone lives in a rich area of a big city. Smaller communities typically don't have the tax base to pay livable wages. Cost of living maybe less, but the absolute buying power of educators in rural area is next to nil.

Also, here's some anecdotal personal data-points:

- My half sister and her husband are special ed. T-A's. They're on food stamps.

- Talk to elderly homeless, saner people. You'd be surprised how many were teachers or in the education.

"Democratic" is a duplicitous, ambiguous word:

- to the people, it means a government that is less corrupt and more accountable to do the people's work; a semi-meritocracy.

- in diplomatic circles, it means whatever Americans and their rich owner-class want. There aren't very many democratic countries allowed; they're usually small and don't have a resource curse.

Not to be confused with SugarCRM, which also goes by Sugar sometimes.

Why not TFAT or TexFAT?

FAQ:

1. Saving money then and now. It's paid for itself every year, even with maintenance. In general, I'd rather be considerably poorer than a stressed, servile servant to the 1%. My motto is: it's easier to not spend a dollar that it is to make it.

2. Early water-cooled VW Vanagon / Type 2 (T3) Westfalia. It's currently having a no out-of-pocket warranty engine swap. Also, it will need some bodywork and a paint job at some point, but it's alright otherwise. Doing over again with a larger budget, I would get a GMC Savannah or an early 90's Westfalia just before the move to the Eurovan, and one that has a GoWesty 2.3L motor and EMS. In general, I maybe biased, but a compact van has been more stealthy, convenient and practical than monstrous RV's I see all about.

3a. Shower: Gym and I also have lots of Dr Bronners.

3b. Toilet: Gyms or whatever is open nearby. For rare real emergencies, also carry biobags and empty bottles that can be disposed-of in trash. I think the improper disposal of biowaste is one of the greatest sources of community conflict because people with under-treated mental illnesses or lacking personal hygiene are rarely/never proactively assigned social workers to potty train them / make biowaste disposal bags available to prevent gross situations. (perhaps it's viewed like drug needle exchange programs "any help enables")

3c. Laundry: Coin-op laundry. I haven't been very far from civilization in a while, so haven't had to use a bucket and clothesline in a long time.

4a. Silicon Valley.

4b: Legal: There were prohibitions in the past and still exist in many areas, but not in the locations I'm usually at. The Ninth Circuit ruled regarding California, and the majority of cities don't want to risk big lawsuits by harassing people because there are many pro-bono lawyers helping vehicle dwellers/homeless maintain their rights and dignity. Instead, they're pushing mostly poor people as a group, in subtle ways, further to the margins and further into desperation by passing ordinances based on vehicle height, parking time-of-day and requiring parking permits.

4c: Climate:

Summer: It gets hot inside for a couple of months, so it's good to find shaded or garage parking.

Winter: It's relatively mild weather here, but I have a -40 sleeping bag if it gets too cold. I suggest anyone with electronics they'd like to keep working sleep with them to prevent condensation corrosion and Li-ion low capacity issues.

4d: Social: No one wants an old, fugly, ADD on the spectrum. Trust me. Invisibility is best.

4e: Deliveries: It's a pain when a vendor wants to deliver to a physical address (think food, large mail items or prescriptions). There are workarounds.

This jives with what I've seen from blancolirio, MentourPilot and others sources. The pilots should've had memory items to disable automation control of trim for the duration of the flight rather than all electric control of trim (including yoke-mounted switches), because aerodynamic forces were too large and altitude was too low to manually spin the trim wheels. I do hope Ralph Nader sues the pants off Boeing for murdering his goddaughter through negligent homicide. The FAA is also culpable for failing to oversee self-certification properly and getting too cozy (regulatory capture) with Boeing. As a consequent, equipment models including the whole line of 737 NG (-600 to -900; 2010 Ducommun structural parts scandal), 787 Dreamliner failures and 737 Max 8 and 9 are models I would not step foot on without a gun to my head.

AMA: I've lived in cars and now a VW for almost a decade.

(Disclaimer: The nick is an ironic attempt at humor, not trolling.)

Ahhh... I remember LOGO on Apple ][e's Apple donated to the elementary school I attended.

Random Q: Why was that light on Apple's keyboard invariably uncomfortably hot?

More-so than the compiler, it depends on the design goals that are implemented in width and speed of the processor's registers, SIMD vector and conventional integer units. For x86, one could readily guess un/signed ints (32 & 64-bit) would be fast; un/signed 8/16-bit math is unlikely to be as fast. That hypothesis is backed-up by this article's data.

0. Generously use black_box

1. a large sample size

2. a single thread

3. high-precision monotonic timestamps on an unloaded system

4. mean/std dev from more than several runs

In general, in a multi-core/massively-concurrent&&parallel world, copying small, immutable data-structures is preferred. The big reason is cache hits and minimizing contention for cache lines. If you have small data structures at different addresses (that map to different cache lines), then the memory subsystem isn't stepping all over itself with RAR/WAR/RAW hazards because the copies of data structure became essentially independent of each other after the copy finished and wrote-back to L2/L3.

There's many techniques and practices of creating trust and more resilient election processes:

0. international independent observers following the entire chains-of-custody of votes and the tallying process

1. vote as did the Greeks or Googlers' for their lunch: place a physical token in the particular container for a given candidate, and then weigh them and measure their volume. There's no hanging chads or ambiguity.

2. place non-partisan, professionals with integrity in-charge of and with elections

3. seek a wide pool of volunteers, and randomly assign them

4. randomized double/triple/quad verify chain-of-custody at key activity steps to reduce chances of many types of impropriety

5. transparency: lots of public live video streams of election process areas as it's occurring

Life is short. You can't take money with you. Do what you want to be doing now, not later. Scrimp and live cheaply > hating a stressful life of luxury/debt/peonage/agony.

The whole notion of IQ seems like a mostly masterful plan to project and instill insecurity in as many future adults as possible:

0. Make the "dumb"/ADD/poor kids feel inferior. Paradoxically, a percentage of people who were told they would never amount to anything often are driven to prove others wrong, and over-achieve later on. Props to them.

1. Make the "smart" kids feel on-the-spot and ashamed that they're embarrassing the "dumb" kids. Also, pulling kids out of class to make them arrange triangles with a timer (IQ "tests"), dropping them into music lessons like trained monkeys and skipping grades because they are expected to be omnipotently-capable might be a bit stressful.

Maybe it would help if there were more striations of progress levels, or with technological assistance, more custom individual edu plans (IEPs) that could maximize each child's progress acceleration vector... do away with collective punishment of outliers by making classes stick to the mean average. Also, if teachers got more involved (maybe with social workers and other support resources) to make sure each student is safe, fed, treated humanely at home and has their needs met so they can learn, that would be awesome.

In the early 80's, my parents pulled me out of California's public schools when the state/county ditched phonics for some unproven nonsense, to a private school that was founded on proven teaching methods (name of the school was Challenger). When I reentered a different public school district in grade 3, I was ahead of other students by around 2 grade-levels. In retrospect, the private school was far superior to the public school system, even in an upper-middle class area because the public schools experiment/ed arbitrarily with curriculum in unproven ways on a large scale and didn't seem to be held accountable at a large-scale for playing with children's futures. Instead, individual teachers are micromanaged with outcomes of BS standardized tests. And also, US public schools were further ruined by NCLBA of 2001, and now the head of Navient is in charge of the DOEd. sigh

Bottom line: Find a Waldorf forest school that instills curiosity, excellence and basic subjects using proven methods, because US schools are rearranging the deckchairs while the band is playing... glurg, glurg, glurg.