Eeko

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by Eeko 15y ago
Yeah. It's super ironic to read all the "these socialist solutions of small nations can't scale for big US". And then from the other side "this silly anarchistic free-trade capitalistic solution can't scale for mighty China." I thought Euro
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by Eeko 15y ago
> The U.S. population is dwarfed by that of China yet very few people would argue China is more innovative than the U.S. Not yet. Apparently the province of Shanghai has already surpassed the Finnish educational success with their 23 mi
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Ask HN: Hiring abroad?
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by Eeko 15y ago
Smartphone-proliferation requires a strong network capable of moving bytes in much larger scale than currently feasible or economical in most 3rd world networks. Hell, many 1st world countries struggle with growing data. The OS of the phone
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by Eeko 15y ago
Very true. None of my pals who chose software really came in for the money. Though I know a few lawyers and MDs who claim to be in purely for the cash. I don't know should we even wish for that kind of culture (comes with financial prestige
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by Eeko 15y ago
Where are your classmates of Dev. Studies and Philosophy right now? They all did CSE in their spare time?
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by Eeko 15y ago
> But for Eton school it's worked since 1440, for Oxford since > 1096, Cambridge since 1284 - but eventually it will break down. Universities pretty much had the monopoly for highly specialized knowledge until very recently. The co
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by Eeko 15y ago
> Half a mil so that when you apply for a job at $MEGA-CORP or in government the hirer says "Oh you went to %SCHOOL%, same as me" welcome to our management fast-track program, followed by promotion and VP-dom. Do companies really work t
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by Eeko 15y ago
All true. That is to say, that the average standards around the world are not that great either. Higher education could be better, but it is far from worst of what I've seen.
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by Eeko 15y ago
"You seem to mainly address universities, which were out of scope for this article. OECD PISA is measuring 15-year-old students. There is a huge difference in the level of teaching at compulsory schools and universities in Finland." Actua
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by Eeko 15y ago
Within the article the definition of creationism in the context is clearly defined in the first paragraph: "A new Gallup poll, released Dec. 17, reveals that 40 percent of Americans still believe that humans were created by God within the
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by Eeko 15y ago
Sure about that? There is a nice graph at http://www.peoplemov.in/ . Don't know about their sources, but Finland and Singapore seem to have around the same amount of emigration/capita (6.2 - 6.3%). Granted, Finns go more to United States
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by Eeko 15y ago
So far the results have been fair. But Finland especially is somewhat prone for brain-drain. All that stuff is paid with hefty, progressive taxation which hurts the most skilled and salaried the most. Combining all the mandatory expenses, t
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by Eeko 15y ago
> It is thus not likely to be the schools. It is more likely to be culture or (more controversially) genetics. But finns are less smart than say, Asia, most of Europe and North Korea :( ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IQ_and_the_Wealth_o
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by Eeko 15y ago
Well, the PISA testing started at 2000 and the current Finnish system was established back in the 1970's. Finland has always been pretty much at the top of the class with PISA studies. The fame came mostly as a shock for the nation, as we h