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by jaawn 11y ago
I don't think the assumption that long hours and little vacation maximize profits should be taken for granted, especially in a longer-term time frame. I've seen quite a lot of information in the past few years that shows that (es
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by jaawn 11y ago
The data-driven management you're describing is based on the significant assumption that you are able to gather accurate data, and interpret that data accurately. For example, if you are making a management decision based on how much t
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by jaawn 11y ago
It would be nice if more managers agreed with the "what works for you" mindset, instead of "what works for the manager."
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by jaawn 11y ago
Luckily, the easy mental arithmetic is a main benefit of the metric system. I really doubt people would create "new inch" tapes. They would probably hang on to existing measuring tape for personal projects though.
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by jaawn 11y ago
While I think the rounding would work with lumber, I definitely don't think it would work with things like car engines. For such precisely-measured components, converting to a metric measurement with the correct significant figures sh
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by jaawn 11y ago
Any manufacturing component which cannot easily be adjusted to a slightly different measurement is poorly designed, in my opinion. I would expect that much of these tools could be tweaked to produce things in metric measurements. If not,
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by jaawn 11y ago
I think it might not be as bad as we imagine. All speedometers I've seen show both miles-per-hour and kilometers-per-hour, all thermostats I've seen have an option for switching to Celsius, all scales I've owned can display
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by jaawn 11y ago
I couldn't find info on SSD yields, do you know where to find it? I found that HDD factories generally target 97+% yield. So, if SSD yields are much lower, you bring up a good point.
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by jaawn 11y ago
Actually, being the originator of the words in question, I do agree that you are "putting them in my mouth." At the very least, you seem to be inferring a lot of things which I did not imply or intend to imply. The previous comme
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by jaawn 11y ago
I agree with most of this, which is why I stated in other comments that probably the best solution is a mixture of home-schooling and traditional public schooling environments.
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by jaawn 11y ago
What it has to do with the consumer market is that they have the ability to manufacture a drive in the same form factor as the consumer space, at a large enough scale to offer it for sale. That has a lot of implications for the capabilit
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by jaawn 11y ago
If it costs $100 to make an HDD, how are they selling 1TB drives for ~$50, and 3TB drives for ~$85? I sincerely doubt drive manufacturers are working with such terrible (i.e. negative ) margins in the consumer space...
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by jaawn 11y ago
I don't see much justification for the "consumer tolerance" argument. It seems like most people are holding off on SSD purchases, or choosing lower capacities because they think the drives are too expensive.
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by jaawn 11y ago
Every piece of storage news I've seen for the past year or two reinforces my opinion that there is a great deal of price-fixing happening in the consumer storage market. The price trend of 2TB HDDs, for example, just does not make sen
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by jaawn 11y ago
It wasn't my claim that home-schooled students have difficulty acquiring social skills in general, it was that they miss out on a specific set of social skills, namely dealing with people who are different from them, whom they do not l
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by jaawn 11y ago
Those types of things will definitely help, but it is a constant concern which is why I considered it difficult. A summer camp or community program which attracts all kinds of kids would be ideal, but it is a relatively short period of time
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by jaawn 11y ago
This was a good find, thanks. However, one of the findings supports my case: "Public charter schools are much more likely than regular public schools to be racially unbalanced. Whereas 30 percent of regular public school students atten
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by jaawn 11y ago
It may not always teach you how to interact well with them, but it at can improve those interactions, and it at least provides exposure to those situations so you can be prepared for them later and relate to others who have been in simila
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by jaawn 11y ago
I agree that the same issue, to different extents, applies to all non-public schools. I don't think the issue arises from being "at home" necessarily, I think it stems from the natural bias introduced by choosing activities&
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by jaawn 11y ago
I have done this in several other comments/replies on this post, so I chose to omit that here to reduce redundancy.
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by jaawn 11y ago
I think our society is not this unfree provided you are willing to fight. Several government agencies have the power through fear to do something like this when they deem it necessary, and a very small dev team with no resources or company
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by jaawn 11y ago
Simply "being social" is not what I'm referring to. Of course home-schooled children can still be social and have social skills. There is a specific subset of these skills which I am arguing that represent more of a challen
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by jaawn 11y ago
I don't see how it is different. A "higher level of abstraction" means progressively higher-level versions of source code. Binary->machine/assembly code->C++ code for example. Each step involves reverse engineeri
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by jaawn 11y ago
Where did you find data about the social stratification of public schools? I just attempted to find this information and found nothing... Also, I don't think public school is the only way to get this exposure, but creating it elsewh
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by jaawn 11y ago
I don't think a similar socializing experience = homogenization. I have been encouraged by a lot of my teachers throughout my life to "dream" and be curious. I have attended 3 elementary schools, 1 middle school, 3 high sc
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by jaawn 11y ago
I don't believe this is true. I attended a total of 7 different schools in 4 different cities in 2 different states during my primary/secondary education. Only one of these schools was notably non-diverse. I was very often expo
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by jaawn 11y ago
This is exactly the point I was trying to make. It is technically possible to recreate this exposure outside of school, but very difficult.
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by jaawn 11y ago
I have a feeling that the public schools in the 2nd century Roman Empire were significantly different from modern public schools, especially in the United States.
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by jaawn 11y ago
I think a more likely scenario might be that control of the project was seized, and the final release and statements were not from the developers, or they were issued by the developers under duress. It seems more like an agency wanted to s
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by jaawn 11y ago
All of these points go against both my personal experience and the results of research I've seen on these topics. I encourage you to find and post evidence for these claims.

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