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This actually captured my intended point, which was expressed poorly and hastily. It's not my intention to twist or neglect the good intentions of the OP in designing an app for his kids, merely pointing out that some of the language read more sinister.

<Kids also love tactility, and the more your 2D app can feel like a real physical object the better.>

All of a sudden, this delightful article about a dad creating a toy for his kids now reads like a big-tobacco eyes-only internal memo: How to hook a kid on a screen when they should be interacting with real world physical objects.

> The problem is the mixing and matching of state management.

This. But IMHO the right solution is to make the back-end stateless and manage all client state on the client. Each request authenticates itself, and (if you're ReSTful about it) the back-end is simply a database connector/augmenter.

In this paradigm, the SPA is basically a desktop app that retrieves data from a server, built to run within a framework, which happens to be a web browser.

In case you're jumping to conclusions, know that I'm a late-comer to the SPA party, having resisted from its inception until about a year ago, for all the obvious reasons, including those bemoaned by the OP.

Why did I relent? SPA frameworks like React now handle pretty much all the heavy lifting for you. OP, you should check out React Router, which can render this post's examples irrelevant. I'm surprised that in 2022, someone writing to the web UI layer would bother to create code to manage the address bar when there are a thousand ways to not have to.

There are no other articles by SV Gossip but this. While I don't dispute the content, it does feel like a very targeted hit.

I am starting to allow that the skeptic in me might be wrong, and I'm just missing something that others can see when it comes to the crypto frenzy.

There are real irrefutable problems lurking in the technology as it exists now, but let's assume that those can be worked out. What I want to know is, does Braintrust really plan to hand over governance to its participants? How is that a good sell to the VCs? Because I assume that they don't in fact plan to hand over governance to the market participants, in which case the coins seem fairly useless. Convince me I'm wrong.

Why 666?

In 2017, at a big-data ad tech company, we used to use nginx as an API gateway. Our experience with the tool was difficult enough that I'd strongly caution you to execute a deep-dive POC before committing to it. Our main problem at the time was the combination of scant documentation and poor technical support: we encountered many little issues with config file syntax that took way too long to solve: it took multiple days to figure out things that on the surface one might expect to resolve within an hour or two. And not everything was possible without turning to third party modules or writing our own plug-ins. Much can change in four years, however, so maybe they've ironed out some of those kinks. But talking about the tool of those days, I'd say plan on hiring an nginx expert to support it.

On the other hand, it's flipping fast, practically invisible.

People might do good things or bad things, but people aren't good or bad. They're just people. Actions can be good or bad. It's fair to completely condemn the action, not the person. Since you can't get inside someone's head to know their motives, it's dishonest - or at best deluded - to totally condemn anyone. You can't fix a css problem by debugging the server code.

Is this "regulatory arbitrage?"

Funniest thing about this is that is-even requires as a dependency another node package written by the same author, called "is-odd." the is-even code just returns !is-odd. The "is-odd" package actually contains the logic for determining if a number is odd or even.

> Of course most "paleo" nutritionists are scammers pushing cookbooks and dubious nutritional supplements.

You're right: most of the protein in the diets of our paleolithic ancestors came from insects and leftover carrion from the kills of more optimized carnivores. I've never seen these recommended in a Paleo diet.

I'd not call it a characterization but a fact. I was initially thinking of Western(ized) society, although a moment's reflection suggests to me that it's nearly all current human society. For starters, (nearly?) every nation offers free public education. Westernized nations offer food assistance or some form of welfare for low- or no-income families. There are countless other programs at just at this "systemic," nation-state level; then consider that the world abounds with private and religious charities, which although they mostly hail from wealthier nations, dispense educational and life support to children (and adults) around the world. A myriad of privately-sponsored orphanages in India. Whatever the Gates foundation is doing this week in Africa. Privately sponsored open-to-the-community schools and day cares in Harlem. The list is endless.

This was written by a non-parent.