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by baldfat 9y ago
I work with 3 to 5 year old children, all bellow the poverty line, working with STEM and early literacy learning. This was a great article just due to the frustration I see of my students literacy programs we spend thousands of dollars on.
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by baldfat 9y ago
> get job offers That right there might be the big negative to companies sending people to conferences. OR you find out that you work at a bad place. When I worked in Student Life Department my Universtiy never sent anyone to the Nationa
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by baldfat 9y ago
So if you kids are good I am fine that your regret it, but if you publish it so your kids can see it I am pissed. I work with kids. I see neglected kids everyday. I see abused kids everyday. I don't have much sympathy when kids are neg
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by baldfat 9y ago
Here this will make you feel okay about the kids ruining things. This is the best song ever about parenting https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LrZ01A6Q_M
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by baldfat 9y ago
When people tell me they are having their first kid I send them this song. "You Ruined Everything" by Jonathan Coulton https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LrZ01A6Q_M My favorite title in life is being a dad. I loved
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by baldfat 9y ago
The privatization of public school is taking down the Teacher Unions and making rich people richer. There is no data to suggest that Charter Schools perform as well if not better than non-Privatized Public Schools AKA Charter Schools.
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by baldfat 9y ago
Well, sure number show more Hispanic and African descent (From 13% to 15%, but the student population has changed much more than the teacher population. 51% of students are Caucasian now but only 15% of teachers are minorities so the ratios
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by baldfat 9y ago
West Virginia (My wife is from there) has a higher cost of living and 2/3 of the income than where we live in Eastern PA.
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by baldfat 9y ago
Sadly it is against the US Constitution. Personally, Common Core standards for all states was a great idea that we will never see again in our lifetime. I do want all local taxes and property tax to be removed from Educational funding and a
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by baldfat 9y ago
> But that ignores federal funding, which is specifically targeted to the highest poverty districts. Federal Funding is very low and has shrunk to 10% of funding for education. With education dollars it comes with designations and paper
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by baldfat 9y ago
My city the segergation is increased through Private and Charter Schools. One charter school has 93% Latino population. Another Private School near me has over 90% Caucasian population. It really is frustarting to see the US fall further be
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by baldfat 9y ago
Still the Federal Prosecutors are just as aggressive as before this event. We had the Supreme Court having to get involved in the Virginia Governor case where he and his wife were prosecuted. He set up meetings for a donor and those meeting
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by baldfat 9y ago
> What makes you think ... I follow the money that is spent on education in China by the child's parents. We don't even come close in the US. http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2017-10/30/content_
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by baldfat 9y ago
> In my observation, most Chinese parents are very busy and do not spend much time reading with their kids. Grandparents and Tiger Moms don't read to their kids? Grandparents lived with their grandchildren in China as a whole. My wi
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by baldfat 9y ago
I don't see it that way. I think AMP was a wake up call to other websites and everyone starting prioritizing speed and responsiveness. Early 2000s we had crappy Flash Websites that took a minute to load. I refused to build websites wit
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by baldfat 9y ago
Pragmatic Solution: Make 4 year extensions for copyright to cost $1,000,000 per item. Increase the fee to account for inflation. Micky Mouse and Sherlock Holmes (2nd Half) will stay locked up but the 99.9% of the other works are freed. It i
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by baldfat 9y ago
Well Dr. Who and Hitchhicker's Guide to the Galaxy are absurd but fun. Lost and Heroes both past season 2 are painful.
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by baldfat 9y ago
I guess some people have no problem with obvious plot holes and other are extremely bothered by them. Don't ask me about the last three Star Wars movies.
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by baldfat 9y ago
Intel's biggest threat is not AMD but ARM.
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by baldfat 9y ago
> It is effectively a monopoly in the desktop and server market But it couldn't be better timing for ARM. AMD isn't the competition (Though this helps them a little bit) it really is all about ARM and it is going to get a lot m
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by baldfat 9y ago
That is the only thing people are hold on for this not happening. The politics of this merger is the only thing possibly stopping this.
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by baldfat 9y ago
460!!!! I made a mistake :(
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by baldfat 9y ago
Once someone goes to the $70 GPU the argument starts to fall off. Sure the sub $50 cards are only worth it for someone that just wants another monitor (BUT buy a display port card and monitors)The value to performance of these $50 cards is
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by baldfat 9y ago
This isn't a mobile chip and with 100 watts thermal solution would be challenging in anything but a desktop enclosure. We need to wait and see if there is a mobile version coming and also the benchmarks. Is the watts worth it?
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by baldfat 9y ago
R Studio
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by baldfat 9y ago
Friendly note there are good electron apps.
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by baldfat 9y ago
I preferred Joy Division, early Talking Heads, EARLY B-52 and Ramones over anything of the Sex Pistols. They just were famous for being jerks.
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by baldfat 9y ago
Wow the Sex Pistols a corporate created punk band aka the Nsync of punk. I have no idea why anyone even cares about this band besides the horror and evilness which is Sid Vicious (Edit I said Johnny Rotten but Im not far off). "The Se
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by baldfat 9y ago
Well I think it makes a short answer NVIDIA doesn't let their proprietary CUDA technology work on non-NVIDIA devices.
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by baldfat 9y ago
On average in USA poor inner city school receive 15% less. That's the actual numbers. Some states have a more fair funding system and than there is PA. BUT if you look at the bottom states in Education, Miss, WV, and VA they allocate l

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