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by bamfly 3y ago
Sorry, didn't realize you're not in the US (the article's about US scores, so I made some assumptions—my bad, as they say). I'm not aware, and can find no evidence with a couple searches, of limits on annual count of iss
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by bamfly 3y ago
I shouldn't need to point this out, but this is plainly nonsense. Do you not see how people might not mind paying for e.g. a public park even if they don't personally use it, but might object to paying the exact same amount of m
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by bamfly 3y ago
Teacher quota? Wut? This off-the-wall shit is part of why people leave teaching. Being constantly criticized by people living in a fictional world, and blamed for tons of things that are simply made-up or that you had no say in, gets old. T
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by bamfly 3y ago
It's better than other Electron programs (a low bar, since most of those perform shockingly poorly) but eats way more system resources and performs noticeably worse than Sublime Text, on my machine.
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by bamfly 3y ago
For older grades, lots of states let you teach with a degree in the relevant content area—have a math degree? You can teach math. Some may require a graduate degree, but others, a bachelor's is enough. Might need to take a couple class
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by bamfly 3y ago
It varies company to company in the US. Ditto video on vs video off being the norm. I've seen companies that dealt with a ton of business travel before WFH got big, prefer actual dial-in-on-a-phone conference calls for meetings, even
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by bamfly 3y ago
Ah, I see. Yeah, credential inflation's a whole thing . The GI Bill and its consequences et c. et c. Effectively paying a giant tax to make it somewhat easier for companies to filter workers, to little other benefit. ... Well, it does
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by bamfly 3y ago
Those holding bachelor's don't have higher median wages than those without, in your area? That's wild. Yikes. $60k's not so bad to start. IIRC it's still like $38-42k here—in a city and its 'burbs, not rural di
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by bamfly 3y ago
They needed money, probably? Same reason 95% of jobs are ever accepted by anyone.
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by bamfly 3y ago
I like the office better, actually. Quite a bit better. ... I just don't like it enough to make it worth 5ish hours of fighting rush-hour traffic [edit: per week], right after getting the kids where they need to be (for the morning hal
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by bamfly 3y ago
Cool. In my city, there's a gas station chain that pays better (total comp) after a year than teaching with 10 years of experience (without a graduate degree). The gas stations don't require any degree at all, either. I hear they&
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by bamfly 3y ago
1) I don't think anyone was ready to give teachers a raise/bonus—I expect they'd especially have been concerned that teachers might get used to being paid almost as much as they'd be worth in private industry, and resi
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by bamfly 3y ago
It's the difference between paying to have a public school system, and paying to send people's kids wherever they like. It's not necessarily hypocrisy to be OK with the former (wanting to live in a society that has public sch
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by bamfly 3y ago
It's not false that teaching has seen terrible attrition since 2020, and I know personally of several early-in-the-pandemic "go back, in-person only" efforts that were scrubbed because the number of teachers who were ready
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by bamfly 3y ago
Some whole states have (due to state laws) very weak teacher's unions that can barely do anything to protect teachers when they should be protected, and that hardly have any say in anything. I think if it were at all possible to sp
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by bamfly 3y ago
Most of what causes low performance in schools is beyond the ability of schools to address. It's why we keep trying reforms and they don't do much—and when they appear to, it usually turns out, in the long run, to have been dumb l
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by bamfly 3y ago
> I mean that any school that is turning out a school population where less than 20% of the students can read and write at grade level should spend 0% of their time talking about pronouns, cultural or social issues of any kind. About hal
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by bamfly 3y ago
> You're taking it as a given that people perceive education to not be a demanding career, and I find that incredibly absurd. It's comically wrong. People choosing education for that reason are in for a rude awakening. Many of
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by bamfly 3y ago
I guess we have this kind of anti-union, anti-teacher propaganda to thank for anyone still choosing to major in education (such enrollment has been declining for some time, with good reason). An easy-street gravy train with no accountabil
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by bamfly 3y ago
> (2) incentivizes schools to improve The largest factor in good v bad schools is already selection bias. Turning up the temperature on that (if you will) is not gonna help a thing, except the people itching like a goddamn meth addict at
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by bamfly 3y ago
Ones regarded as "classics" are a great filter. And there are so many at this point that you're unlikely to need many others. Like, you don't need 300 picture books [EDIT: Full disclosure, we probably do have 300 pictu
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by bamfly 3y ago
Yeah, I don't get the "eh, it's not that big a deal" reaction. That it was a game controller? OK, not necessarily a big deal. Hopefully they'd take two of them just in case, even with a high-quality game controller,
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by bamfly 3y ago
> You realize this is anecdotal and not statistical evidence of the larger population of Reddit users, right? I mean, yeah, I thought I made that clear in my post. I see words to that effect, certainly. And I was responding to your anecd
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Email works because despite it's decentralized nature, it's functionally transparent to the user and you aren't constantly forced to acknowledge that nature. You are forced to, every time you have to write the bit afte
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by bamfly 3y ago
Works for email. There are only a few big hosts and some larger-but-not-huge number of mid-sized ones, sure, but they all play nicely with one another. Like if you could post on Twitter from your Facebook account. Of course, I doubt we coul
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by bamfly 3y ago
Not all ads are sales ads. This is especially true for huge industries with a few major players and strong industry associations & lobbying groups. Double-especially true for such industries that also have a serious negative-externality
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by bamfly 3y ago
> Maybe I'm in a reverse sub-bubble, but outside of the tech circles complaining, the protest still seems to be "what protest?" My wife noticed day-1 of the protests (I know because she asked me for the TL;DR of WTF is hap
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by bamfly 3y ago
I've worked a couple times on platforms obscure and closed enough that there basically weren't any tools. Not much specific to them, anyway, beyond the very bare bones, just whatever you could cobble together with standard CLI p
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by bamfly 3y ago
Seems to me if it doesn't help, then the ads weren't doing anything anyway, so they're doing fossil fuel companies a favor by saving them money that they were wasting.
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by bamfly 3y ago
> I would also point out that if someone has purchased life insurance, they have explicitly made a decision about the cost of a life when they choose the amount of insurance they are willing to take on. This doesn't follow. It'

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