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by geomark 6y ago
Yep. And I also was able to see first hand some of the issues my kid frequently told me about when they were doing in-person classes at school, like how much classroom time was wasted due to behaviors by the same kids day after day. It make
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by geomark 6y ago
Or with your tween kid sitting next to you.
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by geomark 6y ago
You guessed wrong. I was the owner of my business, and I'm glad I did not have 80 direct reports.
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by geomark 6y ago
Near term availability of a vaccine seems like wishful thinking. The data is noisy, but some of it indicates antibodies to the virus are short lived. That would implicate the usefulness of a vaccine. And that's if one can be developed,
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by geomark 6y ago
Yeah. Eliminate middle management and just have the C-levels do all the hiring, work assignments, perfomance reviews, pay raises... you know, all that worthless stuff that middle managers do.
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by geomark 6y ago
Right. An S-curve starts out looking exponential. Then begins looking rather linear in the vicinity of the inflection point. And later bends over. If you are in the midst of it then it might be hard to predict the shape of the curve.
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by geomark 6y ago
So Canadian universties don't admit homeschoolers since there are no high school grades?
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by geomark 6y ago
"The company is a means to an end (power over others..." Cops
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by geomark 6y ago
Just to toss in my two cents, Linkedin has been of no use career-wise for me. But it has helped me find some people in a niche whom I failed to find through a lot of Googling and forum trolling. So a net positive for me.
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by geomark 6y ago
Those numbers seem to be vastly more than reported numbers of police killings. Whom are you quoting? Because I like to keep track of who makes such exaggerated claims.
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by geomark 6y ago
"... this case is about importing counterfeit products from China..." Seems like a stretch to call the parts counterfeit. He imported refurbished displays that were original Apple displays with broken glass that had been replaced
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by geomark 6y ago
Not sure whom to attribute this quote to, but "Most of the world's problems are caused by two types of people: those who don't have enough, and those who never have enough."
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by geomark 6y ago
This is also my understanding and why I don't agree with people who consider the press a protected class that can refuse to comply when the police delcare an unlawful assembly and order everyone to leave. That doesn't mean the pol
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by geomark 6y ago
In practice, a lot of working things out involves petty graft. That's another thing that has surprised me, how efficient that is. They have lots of regulations on paper, but everybody knows how inefficient it is when simple things get
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by geomark 6y ago
Yep. I'm one of them. The biggest surprise for me about living abroad is how much better life can be under a military dictatorship; it's actually kind of weird. There are some downsides when it comes to free speech. But as a non-c
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by geomark 6y ago
I'm an American expat, and even I don't want to visit the US anymore.
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by geomark 6y ago
Very true. I had several bosses who really fought for me, both for promotions to positions that a non-degreed person never held, and for approval of educational reimbursement. Although regarding the latter, it was a defense contractor and t
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by geomark 6y ago
Lots of anecdotes here. So I will add mine. I did a 2 year technical diploma program and went to work as an electronics technician. I was good, got promoted fast, started fixing a lot of mistakes the degreed engineers were making. I got pre
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by geomark 6y ago
"It also hasn't had its funding turned off and on." That one's a killer. I was once a project manager at an aerospace company developing a new processor chipset for space applications. Our government customer would run o
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by geomark 6y ago
Same with me. My kid is in an international school. The school offered an insultingly small refund that made a lot of parents angry. Not me personally, because I understand that their largest cost by far is teachers, and that cost does not
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by geomark 6y ago
Same. And in my area we were advised to cover our cars if they were parked outside as there could be minor paint damage from droplets from the spraying.
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by geomark 6y ago
I was wondering about that. And also about other languages, because I see Thai speakers using TTS on their Android phones and it seems to work really well in terms of speed and accuracy.
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by geomark 6y ago
There is a somewhat related argument that kids who grow up bilingual also get a harder brain workout that initially slows their language learning due to having to parse two languages but later gives them an advantage. I think maybe, but see
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by geomark 6y ago
There some people who assert that it is in fact the Finnish language that gives them an advantage in early schooling, that the language is much more regular and easier to learn that it gives school children something like a 2 year advantage
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by geomark 6y ago
Thailand is definitely not an island. Borders with Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia and Malaysia. And significant population at 69 million. Yet it is "winning" (according to https://www.endcoronavirus.org/countries ), with
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by geomark 6y ago
I also drew an elephant. It said it was a funny horse. Sad drawing skills.
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by geomark 6y ago
That seems to be true, that teaching something solidifies one's understanding. Trouble is when top students are always teaching things that are well below their capability, rather than pushing onwards and upwards to more challenging le
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by geomark 6y ago
This. My son recently discovered Saitama, aka One Punch Man. Now he is crazy about doing the One Punch Man workout - 100 situps, pushups, pullups, etc, etc and running 10km per day. He has actually achieved the 100 situps milestone, still a
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by geomark 6y ago
Is it a regional thing? Because I grew up in Southern California and lived there many years. Also lived in Arizona and northern California for a few years. Always shoes in the house everywhere I went and everyone I knew.
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by geomark 6y ago
Yeah, shaming is counterproductive. But I have to disagree with one of your points: changing social norms. Changing social norms can be have huge benefits. Very timely example is that social norms are likely a major reason so many Asian cou

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