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Comment Re:Huge unaddressed problems (Score 1) 357

Remember: the people buying these things will also be less likely to have home solar panels and home chargers, so they'll be at the mercy of charge stations and (likely being at the low-end of the economic ladder) they'll' likely have less free time to sit at some charger station, so a car whose battery only supports a hundred miles or so will be completely impractical.

If you drive an EV locally, you don't need a charger at home. Plugging into a normal wall outlet is enough. We drive ours about 40 miles on weekdays and leave it plugged in when it isn't being driven. Even with the cold winters we get, we have only needed to use a public charger twice.

Comment Re:the goal of banning (Score 2) 260

the goal of banning is reducing fraction of people who will read the book.

For every non-conformist book club of 10 people you report there is a disappearance of 1000 people who would have read the uncensored book

Media, as usual, focuses on 1% of population because it's interesting and entertaining for people.

I am all for quality entertainment, but do not let the light reading cloud your judgment about reality.

Do you have actual data showing this? I know when Texas banned a book on the Alamo it actually made me aware of the book and I ended up purchasing it. I never would have done so if it weren't for the effort to ban it. My story is also anecdotal, but I'm curious if you have anything to backup your statement.

Comment Re:Yeah, that's what I thought. (Score 1) 65

It is meaningful/real-world in the sense it helps them pass coding interviews.

It my entire 10+ year professional career, I have never once used a linked list, never once written a recursive routine or had to solve a problem using dynamic programming, and have rarely used structures like stacks and queues. I don't even think I've bothered with dictionaries/maps. Yet if you go by the standards of what employers are demanding candidates demonstrate during coding interviews, these things should be all over the place.

What I meant by "real-world" was not real to the programming world, but projects that connect to other fields of study. For example, in my intro programming classes, one of the projects we do is a verb conjugator. Most of the students create one to conjugate Spanish verbs, but some choose other languages. It's a simple program (ignoring irregular verbs), but useful for those who are taking a language class. In my AP class, their final project is to create a program that does something good for their local or global community. Kids have made tutoring programs for younger students, a U.S. history chatbot, and custom programs to help local non-profits. This is the type of thing that helps them connect CS to the real-world.

Comment Re:Yeah, that's what I thought. (Score 3, Interesting) 65

There isn't necessarily anything in the APCS curriculum that is cultural insensitive, but the way it is taught can sometimes turn off girls. In my doctoral dissertation, I interviewed teachers of AP Computer Science who had a higher-than average number of girls in their classes. One of the key things all of these teachers did was teach the course with a focus on connecting computer science to the real world. A stereotypical boy doesn't care about connecting programming to anything and is fine just programming for the sake of programming. A stereotypical girl can enjoy programming just as much, but is more prone to latch on to it if it is something real-world/meaningful instead of another Towers of Hanoi-type program. This isn't teaching to be culturally sensitive, it is also just good teaching in general. A lot of CS teachers just teach the way they were taught, and that isn't always the best approach to take.

Comment Re:Wrong in every way (Score 1) 151

The APCSA course can be made engaging. The standards are pretty broad and even the section you talked about was never tested. It was removed a few years ago. While I didn't use APCSA as an intro course, I used GridWorld back in the day for some engaging projects and I most recently started having the students work on longer-term projects to fulfill a social need. One group made a chatbot to answer questions about U.S. history. Another group made an online game to teach math to elementary students. While using Java helps the students pass the exam because the exam uses Java syntax, you aren't required to use it. It just gives the students an edge on the exam. The point I'm trying to make is that you can make any course interesting. It's obviously easier if you are building a course from scratch, but any good teacher can make a course interesting.

Comment Re:Closing gender gaps selectively (Score 2) 529

There is

Citation? Seriously, I dare you to campaign for it. I dare you. I bet you won't. Because if you do, you'll be labeled a "Mens rights activist", or MRA for short. And you'll have everybody attacking you for being a misogynist. Prove me wrong. I dare you. After all, if things are as you say, you have nothing to fear for campaigning for the courts to treat men and women equally in custody battles.

First Google result: https://www.verywellfamily.com... There are plenty of men's-advocacy groups when it comes to custody battles.

Comment Re:About time... (Score 4, Informative) 145

...them teachers switched to something like WhatsApp.

Didn't see the sarcasm tag so I'm assuming that's serious. Teachers cannot use private messaging services like WhatsApp, at least in the US. All communication with students has to be archived as it should be accessible to parents via the Freedom of Information App. It also protects teachers from unfounded accusations by students.

Comment Re:Parents need to as well (Score 1) 166

The Watergate story was broken using anonymous sources

You ignore the fact, driven home by every account of the Watergate story involving the journalists Woodward & Berstein - their editor, Ben Bradley, spent WEEKS reminding them they needed to get second or in some cases third sources for everything their "anonymous source" told them in the parking garage.

Are you saying that isn't going on today? Most stories I read involve multiple sources. Can you point to some instances that only relied on a single source?

Comment Re:Parents need to as well (Score 3, Interesting) 166

Anonymous sources aren't always a reason to distrust a story. The Watergate story was broken using anonymous sources and that's just one example of a high-profile story that was anonymously sourced. It is good to treat anonymously-sourced stories with some skepticism, though. FiveThirtyEight had a great article over the summer that gave some tips on when to trust an anonymously-sourced article and when to be more skeptical.

Comment Re:Why So Long? (Score 4, Informative) 174

What you signed up for two weeks ago was to give up your right to sue Equifax and agreed to binding arbitration. That is all. They were not planning to do anything with respect to credit freeze. Even now they want four months of damage control and get as many people to give up the rights as possible.

I didn't sign up for their credit check service on that shady Equifax Security 2017 website. I actually signed up for a credit freeze and I did so with the other two agencies as well. I used the site below. Equifax Security Freeze

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