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> I find that amazing that the TelCos would even contemplate charging their customers and at the same time using them as products. What are you going to do? Go to a TelCo that doesn't? It's a gamble, but considering the limited
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The bog standard basics presumably relate to more advanced areas, for the purposes of your argument. Otherwise the taxi driver would be unemployed, and out of luck, regardless. Nonetheless, I've yet to be convinced of the necessity of
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> Harmful? Really? In my charity work I regularly interact with people whose education has been harmful to them. They failed, and from that failure gained the impression that they were stupid, and/or unable to learn specific subject
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> Your idealistic answer seems to argue for changing the relevant topics. That's fine. That's an argument against the curriculum, not testing. All testing does is measure whether the curriculum is actually being taught. A relev
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> So you are arguing that we as a society need to lower our general education standards? Is this not the exact opposite of what we need to be doing? Math in particular is so important whether dealing with personal finances or simply thin
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> For the people who don't need to realize that a 20% discount on $37.50 is $30, why bother sending them to school past 6th grade at all? Now that I see your argument more fully, it seems less like an argument against testing and mo
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> Since you seem to think the test covers too many topics, perhaps you can read it tell us concretely which ones should be removed? I think you've somewhat missed the point, though I'm happy enough to play that game. My questio
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> You have to ask, "is this stuff that a graduate of the system should be able to do?" Uhm, I don't feel like I do? Or at least insofar as I do, that set feels like it should be really small, because: Which graduate? The
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
I'd imagine that Google has acquired a right, rather than a duty, to serve advertising through their partnership agreement and in trade has given partners a right to some of the money from that. Certainly I wouldn't impose a duty
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> What would you do? Pay content creators who don't participate and are on monetised accounts as if the Red views had been seeing adverts, show adverts to everyone else. I'd extract money from the red customers for the no adver
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> That is a systemic problem, one which we don't have a good solution for. Change the jury system/procedure to something better designed to generate trustworthy outputs. It seems simple enough in concept and there are many impr
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The Dean can of course want whatever she likes, without contradiction or with hardly matters since our wants are not rational. But the chance of getting it seems unlikely to lie with preaching to parents that they should let their children
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
It seems a bit rich for the Dean of an educational institution that demanded, during her tenure and after, the sort of qualifications and CVs that encourage this behaviour to protest it. If you don't want it around, stop providing the
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
The price that she quoted him was $15. It's not clear that that was $15 an hour, or whether it was $15 for the entire job (regardless of how long it might take.) Considering that the writer questioned whether she thought it would only
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
People are going to try their luck in negotiations. That's what they do. "Would $15 be fair to you for this category?" Counter-offer with something that you think reflects the value you're going to provide. Will she take
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I don't care about portable. How often do I want to use a computer to make something somewhere that's not the office or at home? Never, in my experience. "Well, you can hook it up like it's a desktop." The laptop ma
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
It's not that simple. Good communication is not about treating everyone the same. "What do you think?" Nine times out of ten, on non-trivial issues, I think that we shouldn't be making this decision here and now. The fac
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One of the huge limitations for text based interfaces is the same as the elephant in the room for people starting programming, especially when they start dealing with others libraries/modules: It's not easily discoverable if you d
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I do, it's a very small expenditure of time and effort even if the probability of my vote making a difference is very small considering we live in a two party system with... conveniently... set electoral boundaries.
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While some may not share this feeling, to me there's a constant sensation of pressure from not having enough space; from being too closed in with too many people. You go somewhere where there's a single building you own, in the mi
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
To be fair, that seems to be much of how it functions in richer countries as well. It's not as bad if you're well educated, have other strengths and a bit of money laid up. But if you're a minimum wage factory operative or wa
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You have to actually do something to impose the correct incentives if you want entities to act in a particular manner. I'm not convinced that in the absence of CSR these incentives would have been imposed - which seems to be the lynch
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> How do you get ideas for your side projects or any thing interested? Speaking just for myself here: It's a combination of curiosity and naivety. You know that kiddy question where someone's going "But WHY do it that way?
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
It's a good thing they don't have a GPS in your pocket already, or they'd be wasting a lot of money on getting that data.
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There are laws making it illegal to collect data on open land(arstechnica.com)
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Your fingertips give you feedback about the pressure you're applying, but they don't give you feedback about the desired outcome of the task. If you're drawing then you get feedback immediately - that line was darker or light
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Use of pressure to control the behaviour of the tool there has: A) immediate graduated feedback (perhaps a learning point for pressure sensitive interfaces here?) B) is something that you have to learn to do well (an awful lot of people nev
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> Just imagine if you had to conduct the search for applicants with a 10x larger pool of candidates. The sheer work involved is sure to cause problems of their own nature. You can reduce the size of the pool of applications that you cons
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> It is highly correlated with successful application. Almost axiomatically so if you make it a hiring criteria. The real question is whether it's correlated with good KPIs, (and the secondary question of whether your KPIs express y
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by 6d0debc071 11y ago
People's feelings aren't necessarily reasonable. If you grow up almost exclusively in an environment where failure can snowball fairly easily, which school is, and everyone tells you it's really important not to fail in that

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