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The business model is driving these poor choices.

This article addresses the business model which I believe would make room for better site experiences.

https://stratechery.com/2017/the-local-news-business-model/


Overall the site looks nice and functions well.

The ticker a the top is hard to use as I could not see that you could scroll.

I like the concept of the 101 section, could use some more info.


Awesome thanks for the feedback. I’ll feed some more content for the 101s :) id appreciate any interesting posts or links anyone recommends explaining crypto currency and block chain in plan English



I wonder if this going to morph into the new platform. Eventually they would allow third party access like kik.


The following ur throws an error http://www.textingbase.com/careers


The idea of boosting national pride might be the end goal in mind. They don't need commercial success. If they want to convey the idea to the nation that we can design and build on par and maybe even better than the rest of the world. Just feeling good about yourself has benefits.


Not even that: technological independence is the goal. Some national security system may come to depend on a specific chip — which Intel will discontinue, what then? Also, the government may simply want to hide the amount of CPUs it utilizes. Impossible with foreign suppliers.


Like sending a man on the moon, right? But that one was kinda cool, maybe this one might be, too? Anyway, don't we all agree that microprocessor space could use more diversity?


Not sure by your statement if you have children or not. But I just finished enrolling my children in a private school instead of the local public school. I really don't care if they are black or white I want my children to go to a school where the parents value education as much as I do.


I have mixed race children and do whatever it takes to make sure that they are in schools that made up of mostly white, Asian, or Indian (India) students. Black and Hispanic students have shown no signs of valuing education and the schools usually plagued with violence. I'm not alone in this thinking; every single Asian family I know does the same.


>Black and Hispanic students have shown no signs of valuing education and the schools usually plagued with violence.

ALL of them? Almost certainly not. You're just being plain, old fashioned racist. You also sound ignorant and naive to claim to have never met a black or Hispanic student who shows a single sign of valuing education.

Do you live in the Bay Area? If so, take a trip over to San Jose and visit some of the high schools schools there with predominantly white & asian students (there are only a few). They're not garden parties. They're rough schools with gangs and drugs.


It doesn't have to be all of them. Just a few are enough to disturb the learning environment.


Just a few what? Black students? Disruptive students? Disruptive black students?


I don't think you two actually disagree. You want to send your kids to a place where the parents value education, and you're using ethnicity as an easy indirect way of measuring this. A lamentably reasonable strategy.


No, they definitely do. LoveLinux is basing his/her decision on racial bias, the other guy is not.


What decision? He simple stated, accurately, a fact. How can a fact be racially biased?

White and Asian neighborhoods generally generate higher property taxes than black neighborhoods. Schools are largely funded by property taxes. Therefore it should come as no surprise that White and Asian schools are on average better.


His causality is off, way off. That's really the main issue. Both parents here have the same motivation, admirable enough, but one chooses to subscribe to an unreliable predictor for his decision making.

A predictor that is toes a really fine line between statistical reliability and outright bigotry.

In any case, we know that socioeconomic status is a far better predictor of educational success than race. There is a Hugh correlation between race and SES but it's far from causal. I think the main objection here is that he seems to claim it is.


Motivation is not the same as delivering results.

I might have the same high motivation to be an awesome games programmer, but that still doesn't mean I will be as good as Carmack.

I don't fault LoveLinux for his viewpoints, as they are based on his observation; and he is trying to make the best decision for his kids... I think if what he/she had said, was said by Bill Cosby or George Lopez, we would be applauding their honesty...


Yes, insiders to a group generally get more leeway to make broad declarations about the state of the group that outsiders aren't qualified to make.


Tragically it's an excellent predictor, but his rationale for believing it so and subsequent gross generalisation is extraordinarily ignorant.


Their technique differs, but their motivation is the same. They both just want to be good parents.


I thought hacking was about taking things that are purposed for one thing and re-making/re-programming it to do what you want it to do.

If people feel that Apple has created a walled garden they should get one and show us their vision on how it should operate.

The hardware is second to none, you want a camera put one in it's possible. Don't like the operating system figure out how to change it.

But don't just sit back and complain, that's easy.

I want one just so I can watch my 4 year old use it. The other she got a hold of my touch and was tapping away at it, found some app that simulates a brook, so when you touch it it ripples. So she decides to try and blow on it and see if it did anything. I thought that was amazing.

For me I will happily play in Apples garden, pay the fees live with the limitations, because it not only just works it works well.

If something better comes along I will change.


I think this would be a useful tool to examine climate data.


Funny, we seem to be thinking along the same general lines.


It seems of late everyone is trying to improve on something that is obviously working. ie. Craigslist

Love it or hate it, it's working for them.

Why not examine why it is working so well and take some lessons, and build better products?


If you have nothing to say, say it anyway.


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