>Separating San Jose and San Francisco obscures how much the Bay Area is dominating this data
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Have you ever tried to commute to San Jose/Cupertino/Sunnyvale from, say, Walnut Creek, Pleasant hill, Richmond, etc..??
While they are all still in the greater SV orbit - commuting between many of the greater SV cities is a fucking nightmare.
BART, Caltrin, LightRails, Freeways, buses, etc -- are all disconnected and fucking suck.
I have turned down multiple positions in the south bay due to commuting and housing cost issues.
And if you don't think I know what I am talking about, my family is 5th generation San Franciscan, with family in Saratoga since 1959. I lived in San Jose an commuted to San Francisco from San Jose for over a decade - and lived all over.
My best commute ever was a bike+bus commute from Alameda Island to SF for almost a decade.
Worst commute was from Alameda to Sunnyvale.
The biggest problem with SV is transit first, housing second.
So to treat San Jose and San Francisco as if they were different freaking states, is to me, fair play.
I can't disagree -- I couldn't imagine working in Beverly Hills and having to make it to group therapy at noon on a Wednesday in Agoura Hills.
But I think it's asinine to think of San Francisco and San Jose as two markets in this context. To me, the top five (four) markets are no surprise.
I'd love to hear stories about the next five and the next five after that. It's far more interesting to understand how code and technology are being advanced by those outside the mainstream.
I have three children - and all are intelligent, beautiful well adjusted kids. 5, 7, and 15.
One thing I made a point of as each was born - I maintained as much physica contact with each immediately after birth. I didnt allow them to leave or be examined without me there, touching them.
I did it not for the posted reasons, but just beacuse it felt right to me.
ALso - I would hum and sing to them a tune while they were still in the womb.
As soon as they came out, I held them and sang and hummed the same tune to them. It immediately calmed them - with my first, she immediately relaxed and stopped crying whil the nurse took her vitals, measurements and pricked her heel.
> I did it not for the posted reasons, but just beacuse it felt right to me.
It probably felt right because it's natural. Newborns pretty much stayed with their mothers 24/7 for all of human history. This is true for chimps ( our closest ancestors ) and even our common ancestor. It's only recently with the push to get women into the workforce where women were encouraged to separate from their newborns so that they could go back to work.
> As soon as they came out, I held them and sang and hummed the same tune to them. It immediately calmed them - with my first, she immediately relaxed and stopped crying whil the nurse took her vitals, measurements and pricked her heel.
The mother's voice also helps premature babies develop. The fetus probably has gotten accustomed to the mother's voice in the womb and associates it with comfort and safety. Perhaps it's an evolutionary relic since many newborn animals are drawn to their mother's voice and vice versa.
Human babies also learn the pre-constructs for the languages being spoken around them while still in the womb, so no reason they can't learn other repeated noises.
Not sure how much it is related, but I learned how touch has a powerfully lasting impact when I read about babies from an underfunded Hungarian orphanage having lots of health problems later in life because of how little they were touched.
Seems very probable that an underfunded orphanage will have other areas like healthcare, sanitation and nutrition lacking as well. Was there something specific about what you read that related to touch?
Years of neglect is quite a bit broader than just touch. I would expect years of neglect in early childhood to have a long lasting effect on the mental development of kids.
Reading, too. My wife and I read to our two boys when she was pregnant with them and they loved book time almost immediately, even though they slept through it for the first month or two.
Fast forward and we have one 4 and one 7 years old and they are obsessed with reading and would do it every waking hour if we'd let them.
Here's another magical experience. No one will believe it, but it's true, so here goes.
We too would read, sing and hum to my son in-womb. While doing so, we'd occasionally hear a loud click, the source of which we couldn't determine. But after he was born, we found out. He would press his tongue hard against the roof of his mouth then release it with a suction "pop". Was he trying to communicate back to us from the womb? We like to think so!
Are fetal tongues strong enough to induce cavitation? Are fetal mouths strong enough not to be shredded by cavitation bubbles collapsing? AFAIK cavitation kills a ship's screw sooner or later.
Cavitation can develop with wide range of energies. In this case, I'm suggesting energy level sufficient to create an audible sonic click, but not high enough to rip infant's head off.
But seriously - they are laying the foundations of the platform of mobility that will be built upon to do many things - yet like most things, military comes first.
I posted the following to /r/ but it was removed... (hmmm)
There was a statement that was made that China has been seeking to build the largest face recognition db... (obv FB has that embedded not only in their name, but their userbase -- and what China wants to do is compete with FB on this front for their own means...)
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TikTok is a face recognition harvesting platform WITH sentiment!
Hear me out.
So TikTok is literally focused (on multiple levels) of the users face being in a very contrived space and detail - its largely wide with younger ppl... however
TLDs serve as a classification structure for various aspects of human interest, knowledge, creativity and commerce...
Where should the canonical for TLDs come from?
Should a particular interest have its own TLD, regardless of topic - how to measure when to provide a TLD -- is it scale of interested people? is it ideologically based?
As such, should there be a .dem and a .gop? if so, then should them be a .socialist? .nazi? .zionist? etc?
Some of the current TLDs are silly, to me, but what is the barrier to entry and what is the criteria for approval?
And most importantly, WHO APPROVES? Like literally - the names of the people who actually make TLDs happen?
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