True, but how true is that for everything else that's taught. How many more students do you think would start to understand math concepts if they had a little programming (ie, applied maths) under their belts?

Even though I got a 5 on the AP Calc test in high school I never understood f(x) = notation. I never understood why that even existed, and why not just use y = . It wasn't until a few weeks into Intro to CS in University, after I had done a few programming assignments, when the professor short handed a function on the white board as f(x) { } did it click for me. All of a sudden, years of confusion melted away. A lot of those pre-calc, algebra, trig (maybe not geometry), and logic skills will sink in a lot better if students had something to apply them to besides paper assignments.

I think that CS should be taught in middle school in place of pre-algebra and algebra, and then condense algebra and algebra 2 into one course.

And don't try to teach it like the kids are theoretical mathematicians. You are not going to be teaching actual Computer Science, but some programming fundamentals. Yes some freakin' geniuses were able to figure out computation science back in the late 19th century, without computers, but those were freakin' geniuses. Your high school and middle school kids are not that. They have actual computers, make use of them. Show them some end results instead of some foundational theories.

My introductory CS class in university was doing an experiment where they were trying to introduce computer science while teaching minimal programming. The book was very boring. I couldn't get through a single page without falling asleep. The multiple naps-per-reading assignment made the reading assignments very long. When we went to sell the book back at the end of the semester we couldn't because the CS department realized that their experiment had failed. Two semesters later, I was trying to fall asleep and couldn't. I pulled out this book with the purpose of getting me to fall asleep and it didn't. Now that I had some programming experience under my belt I found the book to be fascinating, and very informative. I could see why the professors thought it was a good way to learn the basics without them being tied to a specific language. I suspect most people need some practice with some end products, before they are able to "get" most of why the theoretical stuff even matters.

So long as the President has veto power he's more powerful than 2/3rd's of the legislatures. The president effectively makes up more than half of the legislative vote.

What's interesting is how to some people that's all that matters? When talking with my parents, they can't forget that one anecdotal experience from years ago out weighs everything else. Just this last New Years my dad was railing against a government project that he deemed wasteful from the 1980's. So since there was something wasteful from 40 years ago, all government is wasted spending in his mind.

So the summary mentions India being overwhelmed, what about other places? We all know that infections will go up when restrictions are loosened. But the goal of the restrictions isn't to prevent everyone from getting Covid-19, they are designed to space them out. So long as hospitals aren't overwhelmed it's okay for infection counts to be increasing.

Hopefully multiple days, if not more than a week. Get rid of all of this election day news crap.

A lot of Trump supporters felt connected to Trump because he was a grumpy old man, and being grumpy and old themselves the connection was natural. All of Trumps incoherent rambling? Feels natural to them. So to split the voting block who will automatically connect with and therefore vote for the candidate who is the grumpy old man, either both sides run an old man, or neither side runs an old man.

He does have absolute authority after all.

By naming the product Teams, it limits people to think that the product is only for use between team members, and don't think to try to use it for scenarios which are not between team members. The name will be what holds Teams back.

As much as I like crime prevention, there's a line that gets crossed. Crimes should happen before there is punishment.

Humans are worse at counting than computers are. That was the entire motivation behind computers in the first place.

What safe guards? Just because you vote in person doesn't mean that anyone is going to count your vote.

It is/was.