ktizo

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by ktizo 14y ago
Whereas, I think they should get more. Much more. I want state schools to have money. I want state teachers to be rich. They are doing a much more useful job than almost any of us here.
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by ktizo 14y ago
The objection I'd make is that unless non-white Danes are a small fraction They are a small fraction.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Talk about irresponsibility, I go away for five minutes and just look at the mess you've made. So can educational intervention actually prevent criminality, gluttony and craziness? Well maybe, if you include civics, temperance and some form
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by ktizo 14y ago
There are apparently ~120 million people employed in the US and under 8 million of them are both unionised and in the public sector. So they are doing pretty well if they are causing so much trouble, considering there really isn't all that
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by ktizo 14y ago
I like one idea I heard, which is that the pentagram is a symbol of freemasonry because originally it was used by actual stone masons to provide a golden mean for cathedral construction. But without extremely good evidence, this is nothing
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by ktizo 14y ago
You do know that a completely free market in education would mean the government getting out of the business of education altogether, including any support for universal education as even just giving vouchers to poor students would violate
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by ktizo 14y ago
I also thought it was a fairly fucking stupid thing to say, but perhaps saying bluntly that it is a fucking stupid thing to say is also a fucking stupid thing to say, given that people often react quite badly to being told that what they ar
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by ktizo 14y ago
Bleeding edge technology, or a cutting edge that slips. I like to get version > 3.0 of things, or buy the best of the last generation of technology, or high quality second hand, if I am using it for actual work.
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by ktizo 14y ago
In terms of intellect, I'd think that the returns to society from state schooling are greatest from educating the bottom 95%, as the geniuses tend to be more auto-didactic anyway and usually need more in the way of social support and access
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by ktizo 14y ago
To replace the word cissexual with the word normal in that sentence would have changed the meaning of the sentence, so the two words are not synonymous in that context. Also, the author is a man who started out physically as a woman. He is
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by ktizo 14y ago
This line from the article is brilliant - Everyone who's ever written code knows that the compiler doesn't care about your intent; extend that to your interactions with other people, and you might find yourself behaving more fairly.
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by ktizo 14y ago
The main "education problem" in the US is cost, and this has little to do with the quality of the students. I partly agree with you there, the administration costs are atrocious. However, as a percentage of GDP you are low down the list o
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by ktizo 14y ago
why should i care that the content i create is accessible to all? Lots of reasons, depending on what you are doing. You don't have to though, and if you don't care then the advice on that site isn't for you. But that doesn't mean it isn't
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by ktizo 14y ago
I see, so you think the education problem in america is down to people who aren't descended from europeans dragging the side down. You know, you could make exactly the same argument with income if you like and then argue that the figures wo
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by ktizo 14y ago
pay and benefits increases they want which you've conveniently left out. Read all of it, is only ten items. Increased salaries was eighth on that list.
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by ktizo 14y ago
Hang on. I know that I am just a hobby economist and that whether I am right or wrong, I have no direct experience of the internals of what was going on, beyond having some family and friends working in those areas. Ericd on the other hand
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by ktizo 14y ago
If you go to Germany you can see gigawatts of solar, they had a recent 22 GW peak, even though the largest single installation is only 91 MW - http://www.secondpagemedia.com/jadblog/2012/05/germany-nets-...
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by ktizo 14y ago
Ok, the underlying idea seems to be that it is highly beneficial to have segregated schools based on ability. However, if we look at the global ratings for education, this does not seem to be the case, otherwise countries such as Denmark an
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by ktizo 14y ago
Unionism isn't responsible for the high quality of schooling in Finland, that is largely down to focusing on an egalitarian school system. Excellence was the rather nice consequence of doing this, rather than being the stated aim. The point
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by ktizo 14y ago
Here's an article about the extent of mortgages and securitisation fraud, which the FBI characterised as an epidemic. http://rwer.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/mortgage-and-securitiza...
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by ktizo 14y ago
It is my general view that it's crazy to spend 2-3x as much as normal on a kid who will never achieve anything beyond bagger at Walmart. So how do you know in advance that a given kid will never achieve anything?
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by ktizo 14y ago
They might be very different. But given that only 11% of workers are unionised, I fail to see how they can hold a lot of blame for the collapse of the US economy, which seems largely driven by a horrendous Total Debt/GDP ratio, massive regu
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by ktizo 14y ago
Go look at the education system and standards in Finland, then see if you still hold that view. Also, your use of the word retard as an epithet in this context probably means that your views on education policy should be treated with the ut
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by ktizo 14y ago
Look at what is going on in Chicago right now with the teachers union. They don't give a shit about our kids. Here are some of the demands of the Chicago teachers union: Smaller class sizes. More playgrounds, recess time and physical e
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by ktizo 14y ago
Union membership in the US is very very low and accounts for ~7% of the private workforce and only ~11% overall. Finland, for comparison, has ~70% union membership, and also tops the rankings for education, among other things. Convincing lo
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by ktizo 14y ago
Don't worry. I don't think you mean well.
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by ktizo 14y ago
I didn't mean the getting old bit. Is just moving the foreseeable goalposts.
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by ktizo 14y ago
No, I'm not suggesting diverting funds to McDonalds and raising the minimum wage wouldn't do that anyway as that isn't how the economics of it works. After this I may want to buy a gallon of vodka, but if I do so I do not consider the wages
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by ktizo 14y ago
So the guy who produced the video is Egyptian? And is apparently facebook friends with the Metropolitan Seraphim of Glastonbury http://www.policymic.com/articles/14762/nakoula-basseley-nak... When there is a situation this awful, why does
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by ktizo 14y ago
If I spend twice as much at McDonalds, I'm spending less money somewhere else. But if that doubling in money spent is solely due to wage increases on the service side, then those people are going to spend it somewhere else, probably somew

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