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by esaym 7y ago
>but unfortunately for society as a whole it's a step in the wrong direction. It makes the quality of your education wholly dependent on your parents, which pretty much just accelerates the cycle. I'm still trying to figure out
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by esaym 7y ago
>At that point they should have expelled you- That is an interesting point. "Get rid of the bad so the good can flourish". Which is opposite of the "equity" doctrine so popular over the last year. I don't know wh
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by esaym 7y ago
Wow talk about nostalgia! Mrs. Sale was the elementary principal in the 1990's. She was nice, though I never got sent to her office in elementary school. My trouble years started after 5th grade. In 5th grade my teacher was Mr. Davis.
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by esaym 7y ago
>You don't know the opposite though. I've seen good and bad products from both public and non-public. So I don't know what you mean by opposite. The worst case was my own friend's brother whose mother pulled him out o
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by esaym 7y ago
Brazosport (in the mid 1990's) had very good scores on the standardized tests. But that was literally all they taught. And this was the TAAS test which had very little content in it.
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by esaym 7y ago
>Our it could have earlier identified you as 'at-risk', and led to more positive interventions in your education. I've honestly thought about that a lot. You know, "what if someone took me under their wing and showed
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by esaym 7y ago
>Finally, it's bizarre to me that in a first-world country, smart and rich parents have decided the education system is so broken, it needs to be worked around instead of engaging with it Most homeschooling programs in the USA are (
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by esaym 7y ago
>Public school is important precisely because it is public. It gets the kid out to realize society exists and to deal with it as it exists. Perhaps your public school was better than mine, but what I was conditioned into socially while i
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by esaym 7y ago
I'm wondering the same. There's another company that does the same[0] and probably several more. I know I've read reports of police departments getting more lucrative access into private facebook posts. Perhaps it is the same
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by esaym 7y ago
I can tell you right now (as someone that actually went to the mentioned Brazosport school) that if they had more stricter rules and monitoring "in my day", I probably wouldn't be here right now (as in being part of the HN co
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by esaym 7y ago
Ah Clute, Texas. Howdy from Brazosport class of 2002! This is the second article mentioning this area on HN I've seen in the last 3 years or so. The first one mentioned Brazosport as the dropout capital of the entire USA. So I doubt an
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by esaym 7y ago
I thought about that as well. I tried it three different times all with the same results.
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by esaym 7y ago
Interestingly, since "recovery" is mentioned several times, I decided to test myself. I took a copy of a jpeg image, compressed it different times with either gzip or bzip2, then with a hexeditor modified one byte. The recovery in
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by esaym 7y ago
>Is that safe? Reminds me of a story a step dad told me... He was in Europe while in the military.I guess sometime in the 60's. It was late at night and him and his buddy were in one of those "tiny European" cars and not s
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by esaym 7y ago
Good night I just wasted so much time...
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Inclusivity and Political Statements(2019.pycon-au.org)
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New Braunfels becomes second-fastest growing city in the U.S.(expressnews.com)
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by esaym 7y ago
>Blame wealthy corporations. The formation of ultra large corporations who pay people in highly unequal ways A corporation can only do one thing, and that is give you money. So I'm not sure it is that simple. Personally, I really wo
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by esaym 7y ago
I recently moved and got internet with Spectrum. A 200/10 service yet my upload speeds were rarely above 5mbit. This was a business account with some web and dev servers behind it. I didn't even try to call customer service... Wit
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by esaym 7y ago
>Why can't a doctor see an anomaly and decide not to chase it down based on the same reasoning that they use to not scan for it Mostly it is just how the medical industry works. A previous co-worker of mine had a wife that ran a sma
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by esaym 7y ago
Related: The "AnemicDomainModel" https://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/AnemicDomainModel.html In other words, there should be another layer in-between your DAO (data access object, ORM, etc) and controller. The
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by esaym 7y ago
It has been sprayed over entire villages in South America to kill all cocaine plants in the area for decades. I'm not aware of any higher cancer rates of these villagers vs the regular populous. I'm not actually sure where all the
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by esaym 7y ago
Basically in this situation, even though the nose of the plane is uncontrollably pointing down, to get it to rise again requires that you momentarily push the nose down even further to allow the trim control to unjam and start working again
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Easy Piano Tuner for Android(easypianotuner.com)
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Sch_cake: Smart Queue Management [pdf](taht.net)
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by esaym 8y ago
A little bit different with Japan as they were banned from making aircraft after WWII for years....
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by esaym 8y ago
Interesting. I've got several friends and family that "sell" Usborne books. I always figured it was just some MLM scam and always just told them no thank you when they tried to give me a catalog or a link to their really-long
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by esaym 8y ago
And I think in the 1970's it was Jimmy Carter that demanded all cars get 40mpg by 1990 so...
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Places Where Most Adults Live with Parents(magnifymoney.com)
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by esaym 8y ago
I came to say just this. Back in 1999 I was so excited when tech magazines were giving out the specs of the up and coming new video format. I never got a true DVD player back then, but used a Playstation 2. The first time I rented a DVD fro

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