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If he really wanted to keep out illegal immigrants he'd do what Japan or China do. Require verification of legal residence from everyone for job, schools, etc. No fences/walls needed.

Or he could ask someone to develop an app where people could report people who are working without proper docs and fine the workplace and schools for violations. It could even be incentivized and non false positives get rewards of some sort --tax credit, whatever. False positives get demerits, etc.

That said, if employers are not willing to pay citizens a minimum wage of $15, then we will need a way to allow cheap unskilled imported labor to work on farms etc. Set up a system where you allow seasonal work visas. If you overstay, you are out 5 years. If you want to stay past a season extend your visa by exposing someone overstaying their visa so you get self policing. However, since this creates underemployed citizens, tax the employers who employ imported labor to underwrite citizen unemployment benefits.
It frees you from expensive complexities arising from tunneling and private address space. You don't need the network engineering and service costs to bring your private 10.x overlay network to your various datacenters[1] behind different ISPs, you don't have to fight with addressing conflicts when talking to other people using rfc1918 space or debug situations where 1918 addresses are ambiguous, etc. It's cheaper, safer and simpler to integrate with other organizations because you only have to configure your firewall rule instead of trying to mash together incompatible rfc1918 internal networks and overlay technologies in addition to the fw. Your security posture is better and cheaper to maintain because your simpler network is easier to reason about.

[1] meaning your network locations, not your private datacenter (necessarily)
There are two groups in my experience. That's indeed one and probably the biggest group, but there are also parents who feel for one reason or another that school will not provide as good an environment as they can provide themselves.
How diverse is a block of students with an age variance of 12 months, with little exposure outside of that band?

As an aside, before charter schools the only way to legally homeschool in California was through declaring one's home a private school. Beyond that, it's nothing like any institutional private school I ever attended.
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I don't want to disrespect you personally, but why should I trust Uber? Today it's locked down, tomorrow it's not. Is there anything protecting me?
YAPTA is a nice acronym, thanks!
Any sane and unbiased person can freely read what is written here and draw their own conclusions. I never called you any names. Everyone here is free to see that you wrote some unnecessarily inflammatory and condescending comments yourself. Bring your negativity elsewhere, like I said, it's possible that you can disagree with someone without insulting them.
Also, why isn't there an option to delete previous trip data?

If Uber was really serious about user privacy, this would be a no brainer feature to offer.
I noticed this in the past two weeks - as a result, if I use Uber, I toggle it on, and afterwards I turn it off. This is pretty crappy, I don't need an app punishing my battery by default just so they can collect more data.

It really makes me think twice about sticking with Uber.
I don't live in San Jose but my city's on its way there so thanks ;)

We're all edge cases in the world as a whole.
I'm sorry but I strongly disagree. There is a CLEAR distinction between who is here legally and who is here illegally. In fact we have specific laws that define precisely the difference. I don't feel sorry for people that have come here illegally, afterall they broke the law as their first action to get here. I think a big problem is that we've gone so long kicking the can down the road that people (esp in California) have become used to this status quo where we turn a blind eye. Now that Trump has come in and promised to actually enforce our already existing laws, the left has exploded in anger thinking "how could he?!". I have followed this election closely and I have yet to hear a single thing that leads me to think he is going to deport legal citizens of any background whatsoever or that he'll discriminate against them. It's simply untrue. DJT loves America more than any President in our modern time and our country will grow strong under his leadership.
Valgrind's leak checker is far more complicated than a simple malloc replacement. It's a virtual machine that runs the program being debugged.
I have the same sentiments. And that's why I send my kids to public school and vigorously support the right for private/home schools.
What do you prefer instead? I feel like I've gotten used to working with this kind of thing, though some part of me doesn't like it.
In switzerland we dont even have a good bunch of these products, chocolate and candies from them are way to boring for the average consumption and well some of the other products are used by some. I think its funny that nestle is basically one of the biggest income sources even thought most people in the country where it comes from avoid it anyway because of the usually low quality.
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> I would love to know why

Sorry for late response. The entire blurb on Amazon gives off a mildly pseudo-science vibe, but it is mild enough that I was willing to forgive it. But this I could not overlook:

"[...] how the hearts of two people in love (or in scientific terms `quantum entanglement') truly beat as one"

Just no. I don't know quantum mechanics, but I know enough to say that can't possibly be anywhere near right, or even vaguely plausible.
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Indeed parents have a duty to their children. Clearly this cannot and should not mean that they're allowed to treat their children however they want or that they're allowed to educate them on what and how they want. There can be a space for them to make decisions but the rights of the children always have to take precedence.

It's only natural for the government to step in and determine exactly what this means. Allowing the government to do this without limits is problematic, so you balance that out with rights assigned to parents.

It's not an easy question to determine where the line should be drawn but I don't think it's really all that totalitarian to prohibit home schooling. It ensures that children are educated, that they socialize with other children, get confronted with different points of view and gives them the freedom and ability to safely explore the world and themselves in an environment where there parents have much less influence over their lives. It should not be forgotten that not all parents are included to provide that without force.
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Your experience is atypical.

http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/oii/nonpublic/statisti...

Under "Parents’ Most Important Reasons for Homeschooling Their Children", "A desire to provide religious instruction" comes in fourth, and "A desire to provide moral instruction" comes in fifth.
I am 100% sure you never did the math. I worked for a small roaster in switzerland importing only organic coffee. Price per cup was about the half.
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> I don't want to be alarmist, but this this is symptomatic of something that's a little bit terrifying. This reminds me of essays I've read about the development of nuclear weapons.

You are being alarmist. This isn't AI like Terminator, this is AI like Deep Blue.

General AI, the thing you're worried about, is either emergent or not going to be developed for image recognition. If it's emergent, it's basically inevitable and, if not, there's nothing to worry about here.
Yes but since all of this fear-mongering is contrived by the liberal safe-space culture that has bred groups like this and not based in reality, we won't need to do any of that.
"Peers" as defined in public schooling means "people within plus or minus 12 months of your age, and with virtually the same experiences and knowledge". That's hardly "diverse", and moreover is hardly reflective of the kind of people you interact with in real life as an adult. Homeschooled kids regularly interact with adults and children much older and much younger than themselves, gain a far greater range of experience, and are far more effective adults.

I have a hard time imagining what you mean by "pushing them farther than parents think they should be pushed". Homeschooled students far exceed public schooled students in academics. I guess you are referring to the condom-on-banana stuff and the lectures on white privilege, right? In what other areas are public schools actually considered to be "pushing the boundaries"?
Then you are using the wrong coffe, your machine is badly configured (most are), was never really cleaned internally (most arent) or are just way to used to the artificial taste.
Personally, I've never seen a well adjusted person who was home schooled -- or admittedly one that I knew. I say this as someone who had multiple friends who were home schooled. There's always something a little bit "off" about them socially. And it's not in a terribly detrimental way, there just seems to be a noticeable latency between them picking up social cues and appropriately reacting to those cues (if they do at all!)

There's also the issue, at least in the U.S., where homeschooling is really kind of a code word for "religious, non-secular" schooling. Anything from evolution to certain history is skimped over and treated in a "just learn this for the test, but don't believe it" kind of fashion, which is extremely unfair and unfortunate for the child in those situations.

The biggest issue I really have with homeschooling, tied into the previous paragraph, is that you end up getting absurdly unqualified people teaching their kids (and sometimes other people kids!) subjects they have absolutely no clue about! For a group of people that tends to be extremely vocal about teaching "organically" and not by the book I've never seen any other population so reliant on textbooks when it comes to a variety of subjects. The kids basically lose out on what would be a "pseudo-professional" in what ever subject they're studying, who would able to guide them through certain areas of the subject the text book may not gracefully cover or maybe even not cover at all! Instead you get a stay at home mom, dad, or some kind of combination thereof that didn't bother to study the subject they're trying to teach _and_ went to a public school themselves on top of it all.

All these posts seem to be far fetched rationalizations when it comes to homeschooling. There's nothing stopping you from teaching your kids things you want them to learn, beyond what schooling will give them. But it's been plainly obvious to me personally that homeschooling doesn't really give you anything extra, or circumvent problems with the education system, it just takes away from what you would have gotten while claiming it's doing the exact opposite.
Having rotated through public, private and home-schooling I'd say that you weren't missing much. I can obviously only speak from my experience and anecdotes from peers.

The transition from a respectful homeschooled peer group to an institutional Catholic school could best be described as social whiplash. My college peers that were fully educated at home had a much more "pleasant" transition to institutional education as young adults, and were often indistinguishable from other undergrads.
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Counterpoint - except for one, the homeschooling parents I've met either have a strong scientific background or work in a CS related field. It's mostly out of frustration with the education their kids are getting. FWIW, they're all mid/upper middle class.
This was brilliant to me at first blush. After thinking about it, though, wouldn't the image have to be a higher resolution to compensate for the blurring of the chromatic aberration? When you process out the blur to extract the color information, you'll have less resolution left over. I'm guessing that would offset the gains on using a single channel. Ultimately for "full color", at a specific resolution, you need a specific number of bits of information, regardless if it's encoded in three color channels, or a single channel.
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You still would want to grind it at home. After grinding it starts loosing taste, not relevant how you package it except you make single use packages.
What is the profit margin? It seems very large.
Sorry to disrupt your narrative but a theoretical action by Trump is worse than what's already happened under Obama?

http://www.theatlantic.com/amp/article/477921/
The fact that nobody's used a nuclear weapon offensively since WWII doesn't mean nuclear proliferation is fine.

Similarly, the proliferation of extremely powerful information is obviously dangerous, regardless of whether it is causing active harm currently.
op here.. True, there is a fraction of Homeschoolers who are very pro a particular religion.

There are others who Homeschool, in part, to avoid religion or discrimination in public schools.

I have noticed quite a few Homeschool sites promote very pro-Christian materials, whereas we are very secular, pro science/evolution.

There are quite a few reasons for Homeschooling, so its a diverse bunch - some are very pro-education, perhaps focusing on Science/Math or reading the classics. Some are "un-schoolers" who like to have almost no structure.

Some are fundamentalists in the sense you mention, many aren't.
The top comment in this tread says: "Why can't businesses get free services off the fat of VC capital?"

Perhaps an explanation of Zenefits' business model is in order. The explanation of it's software being free is and has always been that they don't make money from the software but from the brokerage fees from insurance which is sold through the software.

Think of it like Expedia, they doesn't charge you for flight search and booking software. They make money as a "broker" for the sell of flights. Without any data, I can't nor could a government entity, say whether or not Zenefits is "dumping" using VC money. Zenefits have had their missteps and have paid for them. This case though feels like pure protectionism of existing players.

Again, I'm saying that absent the data. Maybe, this seems unlikely, running the business actually does take more money than could potentially be made from brokerage fees. A reasonable measure, in my mind, could be a look at their average(mean) customer lifetime value. All new customers are going to be negative (cost of acquisition being fairly high for a sales driven company) but over time it should recover unless the average customer churns quickly. VC dollars _should_ reasonably be spent on increasing up front spend in order to acquire customers more quickly. If Zenefits have increased that spending so dramatically that the average customer isn't profitable then perhaps it should count as dumping.
You need to get someone who is good at writing to proofread it and clean it up. Your target audience for this piece is educated administrators, and those mistakes will stand out like dog's balls. They're friction points that should be smoothed out so that they don't distract from your message.

Re: Math/Maths, 'math' is American English, 'maths' is British English. Maybe it's bled through from American textbooks - perhaps go by whatever is on the cover of your son's textbook? Australian English can supposedly use either form, but generally it's considered to be British English, and you should stick to one or the other when you write (ie: don't mix and match).

I perhaps came across more hostile than I intended. It just struck me as notable the difference between the intent of the article and the way it was presented.

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EDIT: I've hit my comment limit, but wanted to respond to your comment with:

On the mixed audience - just remember that your primary audience is Victorian education administrators - they're the ones whose opinions you want to change. Write for your audience in the way that has least friction.

When you mix'n'match British/American English (like realise/realize), you will annoy someone in each camp. If you pick one style and stick to it, it's more coherent and the message content flows more easily. It doesn't make what you say more convincing, but it does reduce potential sticking points that might distract a reader's attention.

Good luck with your efforts. :)
The "socialization" argument is tired. There are ample opportunities for social activities outside of school, and the end game social environment for kids is not to be sectioned off into groups of 30 by age in forced proximity.
Well, to me it's a problem. Here is an example of the kind of thing that is already happening: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20161130/09293036157/brook...

To me, if 1 is getting caught, it makes me question how many are not getting caught. Or are getting caught and let off the hook because the people around them won't hold them accountable.

If we continue to allow this, we're just going to expand the amount of abuse. And yes I know Uber is tracking location not access to your phone's mic.
Hmm... I'm not sure you can compare the social experience of college to that of public school, particularly if you are an introvert. Public school is notoriously brutal for introverted kids.
Yep, I think you've read that point the other way around to how I meant it :)
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Oh, absolutely - don't get me wrong. The quality of the content has never been higher (if we exclude The Wire and The Sopranos). It's the format that's the issue here - there's no way I'll sit in front of the TV at a specific, network-dictated time, so unless your content is available as stream (in non-US countries), I will find other ways to get it.

Concerning YouTube content: For me it's a lot of about in-depth reviews of niche products. In my free time I work in audio and music production and being able to see a compressor, synth or DAW techniques explained in a series of long, well produced videos is something that simply wasn't available some years ago.
> The amount I've grown socially in the last couple of years of college really makes me annoyed at myself for missed time.

My experience with homeschooling was very different: I escaped a pattern of bullying for a few critical years, spent those years with much saner social experiences among other homeschoolers and adults, and came back a much more confident teenager. Equally, learning learn on my own has worked out very, very well for me.

All in all, I think the main thing about homeschooling is it increases the variance of results. Yes, some kids do worse than they might otherwise have, but other kids do significantly better precisely because it ends up being a very individual experience. What is clear is homeschooling is very different, and different for every kid, and it's good for society to have a diversity of experiences.
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All of our data is actually hidden inside a mountain carved to look like Travis's head, a la Mt. Richmore from the hit 90s movie Richie Rich. There are many layers of security, including a voice recognition algorithm that only responds to Ryan Graves singing Never Gonna Give You Up.

But in all seriousness, I'd imagine the execs need to go through the same process an engineer would.
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Parents may or may not make the best choices for their children; there are no guarantees there. When talking about government, though, it is guaranteed to make poor choices, and self-serving ones to boot.

What defense do free citizens have against the ambitions of a government, when they don't have the right to pull their children out of its clutches?
>substance was known good.

Salvia?
Doesn't a farmer feed the water back into the well, in a manner of speaking?
Uber employee here. We were told the reason to track up to 5 mins after the trip is for fraud, ex if a driver doesn't end the trip when she is supposed to. and to figure out where the pick up spots for each address are. A large building may have multiple points where people get picked up or dropped off and knowing those points would be very useful for the drivers and riders.

And just as a side note, take it with a few grains of salt but I know it's not easy to just trust a company with such personal information, and certainly I wouldn't either, but Uber as a company is very ethical and takes the responsibility that we are entrusted with very seriously.

There are a lot of things we do for our customers that isn't reported by the news, but we always try to do the right thing. Ex. When we had a few outages earlier this year, we made sure that the drivers who were active at the time were "made whole" by paying them for the time we were down.

Yes, there were issues a few years ago with statements and actions that were done, but the Uber today and the employees that work here now take a lot of pride in what they do. I would never have worked here if I didn't feel Uber was an ethical company. And neither would my coworkers. There are thousands of engineers now working here and we would be the first ones who would stand up to management if we felt that something nefarious or even careless was being done with user's personal information. Many of the company values revolve around "toe stepping" and "principled confrontation" and this means even against our own management.

So I know it's not easy to believe, and it's easy for me to say since I work here, but nothing nefarious is going on. If there was, we the engineers would be against it completely.