touringcomplete

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I was in the Gifted and Talented Education (GATE) program in California. All I noticed was being pulled out of class for IQ tests. There were no IEPs, no extra homework, no special classes, nothing. The only thing I noticed was the music department of an elementary school tried to get me to play piano like some trained monkey but that didn’t work out very well. Also, being bused around 3 hrs (!) a day to a poor magnet school with gangs whom inherently hate smart white kids when there’s an elementary school a block from your house because of race quotas makes anyone resent affirmative action.

I went to a private school for K-3 so was way ahead of public school by at least 2 grades, and was bored 4-7. Oh and then my parents wouldn’t allow me to participate in grade skips or an internship at IBM Research Bernal Road. fml. I had the same cookie-cutter education as everyone else.

https://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/gt

Comment · 8 years ago

It’s SJW collective punishment mentality. Because something can be used for terrorism, like cars, ban all cars.

Comment · 8 years ago

It was the invention of the automobile that made it possible to stop marrying cousins.

Comment · 8 years ago

Server-side??? Apple requires apps use the Apple WebKit framework only for web content, which runs only on the client-side. The point of Puffin is to run Flash and other desktop crapware websites that don’t work on Mobile Safari (Apple WebKit) properly.

Puffin isn’t a native or local web browser; it’s an optimized, virtual, remote browser viewer. If they sell it as a “Citrix for the web,” they might have a shot.

Comment · 8 years ago

I partially agree.

Davis, CA is extremely walkable but it’s not exactly Stanford/Palo Alto.

Stanford/Palo Alto is sort of walkable, but ridiculously economically-productive.

Amsterdam, SF and Manhattan are very walkable and very productive.

LA is not walkable yet very productive.

Comment · 8 years ago

$99/(1-.3) = $141.43

$99 your cut used to cover the program fee

$42.42 Apple’s cut

The ratio of the two is almost exactly 70:30