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Beijing and Tokyo aren't that far apart.
I think it may surprise people (Americans and Canadians, anyway) more how tall Australia is than how wide is is.
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Yes! That's because they're surprised it's so far east. (Though it's still 4 hours of timezones west of California, it's just summer time changes it to 3 or 5 most of the year.)
See also the "Santiago is east of Boston" one above!
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Only a few of the really-far-out Aleutian Islands, though. Berlin is safely south of the southern tip of the panhandle.
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I would have expected Perth to be west of Beijing. I think the thing that surprises people is that Australia and New Zealand are further *east* than they expect... but they're not *that* far east.
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A few bits of geography that might surprise you:
1. Rome is further north than NYC
2. Portland, OR is north of Montréal
3. Boston is west of Santiago, Chile
4. Havana is north of Hong Kong
5. Seattle is south of Paris
6. Cairns is closer to the equator than Jamaica or Antigua
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My impression is that the daycare situation is another side effect of the Bay Area's housing crisis; high housing costs affect availability of staff, and high land costs affect ability to meet California regulations for outdoor play area space.
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Have 1 kid born earlier this year. Hoping to leave the Bay Area within a year or two to be closer to family (Philadelphia), location depending more on my wife's job than mine. Entirely possible we won't have any daycare until we move, given multi-year wait lists here.
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My current apartment *and* my previous apartment both had multiple switches that control nothing. (Well, *maybe* it was just one for the previous apartment, but it's multiple in this one?)
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Choose an area around where you live, and set a goal of walking at least once down every block within that area? (Exclude high-traffic streets if you want.)
When you finish, expand the area?
(Now my walks need to be 6 kilometers to get to blocks I haven't been to yet.)
I think my phone got up to about 170... and then I just stopped getting push notifications from @Twitter on it.
I'm also not sure how much systemic redesign we should do around the threat model of "incompetently corrupt president". Seems like other threat models are worth considering, and we probably need bigger changes to address them.
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I think the argument on the other side is that our justice system should be designed so that errors are predominantly being too lenient rather than too severe, and thus we should accept letting some guilty people off as the price to pay to avoid imprisoning unjustly.
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I was surprised to discover (while trying to reduce the number of things we had to carry back when visiting my in-laws) than import of seafood into the United States is basically unrestricted.
(I did manage to not have to bring the dried vegetables.)
There seems to be evidence that young children transmit the disease less, so I think it's not clear you'd have been the biggest risk factor.
Nonetheless, not going seems like the right call.