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by mmarq 5y ago
The CEO of BioNTech, when he was 10, wasn't considered good enough to attend a Gymnasium.
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by mmarq 5y ago
> So what happens when you dumb down the only decent public high school for students to aim for? Changing the admission criteria of a highschool is not akin to burning libraries. > So what happens when you dumb down the only decent pu
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Caltech requires good grades as criteria for admission. Caltech graduates have a disproportionately high percentage of Nobel prizes. Caltech requires 10-year-old kids to write essays? Again, are we talking about enrolling 10-year-old k
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Each child, like each adult, has different motivations in life. Not all children are equally motivated for schoolwork. Ok, but you haven't answered my question > No. You need to look at confounding variables, not just race. It
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by mmarq 5y ago
> If we do not take advantage of the more capable students because of equity, what will the future of the country be without people who can do the sorts of things that require highly capable individuals? > No iphones, electric cars,
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Did you read the article? Yes, selective admissions filter out “bad” students including the type of students who don’t care about school who hold back students who do care What do we do about these 10 year olds? We assume they are not
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by mmarq 5y ago
It does depend on what we mean by read and write. I don't mean just recognizing letters and being able to reproduce them. An adult should be able to read and understand an article from a decent newspaper (say the Financial Times), and
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by mmarq 5y ago
I don't know anything about this particular Lowell High School, but selective admissions at the high school level achieve excellency by filtering out "bad" students, which are usually students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
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by mmarq 5y ago
The point of school is not to produce geniuses, but to take a mass of illiterates and turn them into semi-literate persons, also giving them time to mature as human beings before they are allowed into university or work. If an 18 year old p
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by mmarq 5y ago
In the UK you don’t pay taxes on the first 12500£ you earn in a tax year. This is the income tax allowance. For each 2£ you earn above 100K, your income tax allowance is reduced by 1£. At 125K, your allowance reaches 0. The result is that b
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by mmarq 5y ago
A half decent flat in London costs in excess of 2000£ per month. Where “decent” means you don’t deal with pests, walls are not made of paper and your neighbour going to the toilet doesn’t cause the whole building to shake. Universal healthc
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by mmarq 5y ago
The average IT guy is still more productive and less replaceable than somebody with a degree in literature doing unpaid internships in coffee shops. But for some reason the former used to enjoy less social recognition, at least in continent
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by mmarq 5y ago
In the UK you pay 60% on anything between 100K and 125K, then it goes back to 40%. Above 150K it goes to 45%. This is only the income tax. National insurance would be 2% at those income levels.
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by mmarq 5y ago
Principal engineers practically didn’t exist in the UK until a few years ago. Even now, a principal engineer would unlikely get any further promotions and pay rises, while an engineering manager could potentially become the CTO.
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by mmarq 5y ago
Depending on what we mean by en mass, because Europe is not the third world. But I think it would have an impact on the European market(s) for software developers (as in increased scarcity, higher salaries, ecc…)
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by mmarq 5y ago
I don’t, I can’t manipulate the public perceptions of professions. In Europe software developers don’t enjoy the same social standing of high-school teachers, so a rational 20 year old will prefer to be a high school teacher than a software
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by mmarq 5y ago
You may disagree, but “nonsense” sounds a bit excessive. An Italian or Spanish software developer earning 30K euros per annum would likely go to the US if they were offered an American salary. Many of those who went to the UK or to Germany
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by mmarq 5y ago
> Also most of souther europe doesn't have the get rich quick mentality. They live by "dolce vita" - the good life. Nobody is gonna be bending over backwards here to become a millionaire anytime soon. They happily live wit
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by mmarq 5y ago
Instead I would argue that if the Americans opened their borders, a huge fraction of European tech workers/professionals will relocate there. I'd say that, as middle-class persons, they wouldn't subject themselves to the tort
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by mmarq 5y ago
Software development and other tech jobs were low-status professions in Europe (the UK being a partial exception) up until a few years ago. Once a friend told me some thing like "it is not fair that you make more money than I do, I hav
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by mmarq 5y ago
My company (listed in the LSE) started measuring WFH productivity as soon as Covid started. The unstated objective was to demonstrate WFH reduced productivity, to have an argument to force everybody to go back to the office once the pandemi