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by davemp 3y ago
The truly disruptive students will likely receive no meaningful education regardless.
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> For many decades, carpenters have been educated about table saw safety. But what finally stopped thousands of fingers getting chopped off every year was the introduction of the SawStop, and similar technologies. Afaik the technology is
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> It isn't the parent's money! It’s as much theirs at it is any other citizen’s. > entitled parents siphoning from the system Very loaded choice of words. Parents who feel entitled to what? A quality education for their chil
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> Why not make public schools better? Because you can’t feasibly make public schools better. There are too many entrenched players and layers of bureaucracy. > If you want to 'choose' to indoctrinate your kids into your part
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Take a survey of public school board budgets if you want to see a waste taxpayer resources. There is already all the duplication of effort and wasteful initiatives you could ask for.
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That article seems incredibly hand wavy and useless. > Suppose Erasmus Darwin had a genius-level IQ of 150. Not really a strong basis for an argument if you ask me.
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I had a freak >200 game once when I will usually be happy with like 120. All at the same place so I doubt they changed their maintenance routines just that one. I imagine the oil/wax makes more of a difference if you’re an amateur w
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by davemp 3y ago
If you're looking for a perfect solution to pretty much any problem involving humans, I have bad news for you.
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No, but actual liability does.
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This is a problem traditionally solved by the professional engineering licensing system. Most engineering curriculum in the USA involve an Engineering Ethics course that goes over such issues. We're quite far from implementing such a s
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by davemp 3y ago
I’m planning to build up an RSS feed or two to stay up to date with the niches I go to reddit for and supplementing with discord when I want to read general comments. I’m actually somewhat excited because the quality of most subreddits has
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by davemp 3y ago
> Not even if it had a better UI and better mod tools. It’s still theft, even if the aesthetics were clean. Except reddit is mostly just a link aggregator and host of other stolen content.
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Can’t really blame the guy. If I had banked $X00k-XM in my early thirties I wouldn’t be doing jobs I didn’t want to do either.
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Ideally you would have a an air tight house with a mix of interior and exterior insulation based on your min/max temperature deltas and their dew points to keep the sheathing from being too cold
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The teacher union seems to be mostly ineffective based on what I've seen/heard in my county. My county literally hires teaching contractors at a significantly higher rate than union teachers because it is such an unattractive job.
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by davemp 3y ago
Very true. Throwing up your hands once you realize that corporations tend to be amoral profit maximizers is not helpful. Expecting corps (even non-profits) to behave altruistically is naive, so we have to take real steps to ensure their sur
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by davemp 3y ago
So I'd basically have to hope posts from people I'm interested in filter their way onto the server I start on and sort of crawl around until I find communities I'd actually want to participate in? How does the cross pollinati
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by davemp 3y ago
What’s the best way to get started on mastodon? I looked into a bit after it released, but all of the weird manifestos on home servers kept me from making an account.
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by davemp 3y ago
I think there is an apprehension to use descriptive titles for whatever lame reason (I think it was to avoid status signals originally). What's wrong with administrator, clerk, etc?
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> I don't think preventing kids from accessing social media entirely is viable or reasonable. One solution to this is to have a public computer in the house that the children can use. As they age and become more responsible you can
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by davemp 3y ago
> if you just need to build a simple internal app or a script to automate something for a small business, you can just test it and make sure it does what you expect. So you end up with the oracle problem? A small business will still feel
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by davemp 3y ago
> More, odds are high that if they had made this as not a sequel, it would not be selling as well. Probably. I’m not sure by how much though, there really aren’t many original games getting made with similar budgets. The story/dialo
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by davemp 3y ago
> . . . people with ADD have a different reaction Do you have any sources for this? I’ve heard this repeated a couple of times but have never encountered a good source.
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by davemp 3y ago
While I agree with most of the article, I have some reservations though: > I’m tired of people dumping on Windows, that most popular operating system, because it’s not what we choose to use . . . Criticism can be constructive and the net
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by davemp 3y ago
The classic IQ nerd bait is hard to resist. I’m just flagging these type of posts now. Rarely is there meaningful discussion about the article.
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The iPhone/iPad will also have 2-5x the lifespan of foldables too from what I’ve heard. Neat devices but not really pragmatic.
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I've noticed a trend with these types of articles. The story is something like "Running X Business is Expensive", but when I look into it I usually see a couple themes. - The business is not owner operated - Key competencies
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This assumes internal performance evaluation is functional/unexploitable in these orgs.
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Person adept at exploiting one human process (interviews) is good at exploiting another human process (performance reviews / promotions). Calling it “risk taking” seems overly reductive.
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Yeah I was going with sqft —> US houses.

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