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by brockers 11y ago
Neither is teacher salary. You are spot on in your factor rankings and it make me absolutely crazy every time people try to turn student failure into a teacher pay issue.
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by brockers 11y ago
Nationally speaking money spent per student is at an all-time high ($11,749 according to figures from Figures in the Statistical Abstract of the United States.) Yet we are getting worse and worse results. Private schools, on average, spen
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by brockers 11y ago
But couldn't this same argument be applied to students at private, parochial, and specialized programs like Montessori schools? All of these are types of self selection. Additionally your argument even per-supposes non-incidental soci
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by brockers 11y ago
Almost all states have a required test to prove grade level equivalency for all students. As education is mandatory for "school age" children; these tests not only prove capability but that the parents are actually doing the lega
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by brockers 11y ago
Because such a system is not reasonably doable with a student to teacher ratio of 28-1
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by brockers 11y ago
I thought this was an Onion headline at first.
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by brockers 11y ago
I fear the graphene will fall by the wayside due to legal and social pressure. News sources have already pointed out that it is significantly more dangerous, if inhaled, than asbestos; another material this is insanely useful for a number
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by brockers 11y ago
systemd anyone?
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by brockers 11y ago
I remember reading Krugman's article on CEO pay and just shaking my head. The reality is that he is an economic writer and not an economist any longer. I'm sure there are plenty here who will disagree but I think Krugman long ag
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by brockers 12y ago
Funny how something that hits so close to the truth is more scary than funny.
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by brockers 12y ago
What I got out of the post was what happens to a person who spends a decade trying to make money instead of building value. I'm not trying to make a judgment call but the emptiness of it almost hurt to read.
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by brockers 12y ago
Now if they can just do the same thing with annotations...
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by brockers 12y ago
Thank you! It is amazing how many people confuse good packaging with pretty packaging.
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by brockers 12y ago
...and the congregation said AMEN!
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by brockers 12y ago
France had true democracy in the late 18th century. It became a popularity contest to send political enemies to the guillotine. Democracy isn't the same thing as liberty and unfortunately people have started to believe freedom == demo
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by brockers 12y ago
The best part of the whole article was the line: >> "If you say something’s hard, and everyone starts screaming at you—sometimes literally—that it’s easy, then it’s really hard.
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by brockers 12y ago
Another Apple ad on Hacker News? I wish we have a filter for "things that only apply to Apple users."
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by brockers 12y ago
There are 20 year old binary formats that we cannot recover because we have lost their decoders. There are 4000 year old texts we have been able to decipher because text is so many orders of magnitude easier to decode. There are anthropol
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by brockers 12y ago
>> Note that nobody else has built competing projects, and he didn't force any distribution to use them. This is simply not true. Both systems were effectively pushed down everybody's throats because RedHat (through Fedora)
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by brockers 12y ago
Honestly, I wonder how many people here are going to worry about apt file signature verification while simultaneously running "bundle install" with a gemfile containing 50 sources including random github HEADs.
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by brockers 12y ago
The location of the package isn't what makes it safe (i.e. cross-site vulnerabilities and such) but that the package signature matches the published signature from the author. Then it doesn't matter where you download the package.
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by brockers 12y ago
It is really annoying when these HN links are to Mac only applications.
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by brockers 12y ago
Why?
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Linux Kernel Names(en.wikipedia.org)
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by brockers 13y ago
Maybe, but regardless I would prefer he finish "spilling the beans" before he turns himself in. Information is still being released (a slow release is really the only way to keep the issue front and center) and I would hate for t
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by brockers 13y ago
...or grisbi?
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by brockers 13y ago
...or kmymoney?
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by brockers 13y ago
> No, its flat. A flat tax is not progressive. The point of a progressive tax system is that the marginal impact is greater at higher income levels. Marginal impact is greater. Using the numbers I listed above your marginal tax rate at
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by brockers 13y ago
The author is a little confused about the history of Libertarian thought on this issue. A minimum basic income (MBI) is NOT a social progressive concept first thought up by western social democrats but was originally a fundamental tenant o
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by brockers 13y ago
Supply and demand is a economic model that exists in ALL economies that have finite resources and free exchange. The only ways to overcome supply and demand in the long run (as even the law of gravity can be overcome in the short run), is

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