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Comment · 7 years ago
Assuming this child is 15 or older and not developmentally delayed, a parent should absolutely not be intervening for the difference between an A or an A-

This is how you get kids with parents who go to job interviews with them. I actually had to teach a kid I went to undergrad with how to grocery shop because "I never had to do it myself"

Kids need to learn how to be their own advocates.

Comment · 7 years ago
You mean no one's lining up to get low pay and frequent parental abuse? You don't say.
Comment · 7 years ago
>She told me of an email she received that said "X is trying to get into Princeton - an A- isn't going to get her in. What extra credit can she do to make this an A?".

Get off your kids ass, for starters, lady

Comment · 7 years ago
For comparison, you can easily pay $500/oz on the east coast.
Comment · 7 years ago
I remember reading that the average player spends $80 on DLC for Fortnite — so there are a lot of people out there spending well over that to bring up the average from all those $0 players.
Comment · 7 years ago
Fortnite makes over a million dollars a day... ON iOS ALONE.

They've built a money machine.

Comment · 7 years ago
Unless Apple drags their feet with PWA implementation a native iOS app might not be needed?
Comment · 7 years ago
It's easier to do with GA
Comment · 7 years ago
Facebook has sold all the private messages that you've shared with your wife.
Comment · 7 years ago
I guess you could start your own private subreddit and invite all your friends?

Though of course, I'd imagine all your friends would tell you to fuck right off.

Comment · 7 years ago
I'd say it's about the value of low-cost alternatives from an industry (medical devices) that very often disregards cost entirely.

I understand the precision and expertise that goes into medical devices, and they've saved millions of lives (mine included) — but in countries where $6,000 means something might as well not exist, they need something in-between precision manufacturing or nothing at all.

Comment · 8 years ago
Feels real to me generally — actors are usually easy to spot, and these would be surprisingly good actors.

The police are not going to do anything in my experience.

I literally caught someone in the act of stealing a package and the police specifically told me to do nothing and file a report. I submitted clear video of a face and apparently this was a known thief to others in the neighborhood, so I even gave them the person's name. They're still stealing packages 6 months later. The police tell me there are warrants pending.

Comment · 8 years ago
Right, that has happened to me before. I've just returned the item in that case. It seems less likely to happen if the item is fulfilled by Amazon.
Comment · 8 years ago
I'm at the point now where I've gone from trusting a review consensus to seeking an individual reviewer on a product that seems thorough and reliable.

My favorite example might be trying to find outdoor solar-powered lights. Mountains of garbage, with a lot of sellers just re-branding the same garbage. The silver-lining is that there are power-reviewers out there doing complete tear-downs and reviewing wiring/soldering quality. These people are the true heroes.

Comment · 8 years ago
Less than the extent that Americans do? absolutely. In many ways they're obsessed with it. Look how much the gambling industry makes there.

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