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by nradov 6mo ago
I'm not stating that I believe the official statements about reasons for the war, just that a naval blockade wouldn't have been effective in achieving them.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Nah. Seeing how China reneged on the "one country, two systems" promise and wrecked Hong Kong has turned the Taiwanese people more firmly against reunification. Iran would be attacking other nearby states regardless of whether the
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by nradov 6mo ago
That may be good enough for consumer facing systems. Rewrites seldom go well for enterprise systems of record because the code embodies a lot of undocumented but critical requirements. If you start vibe coding from a clean slate then all of
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by nradov 6mo ago
There was never any shortage. Your company wasn't good at recruiting, or moved too slowly, or had a bad reputation, or was making low offers.
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by nradov 6mo ago
Enterprise methodologies like Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) are explicitly designed around managing that friction. Developers may complain about the additional toil and process overhead it imposes on them, but for the organization as a whol
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by nradov 6mo ago
Whether it's bullshit or not, does that even matter? Meta's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, has majority voting rights. This is not a secret. Everyone who considers working for or investing in Meta is aware that hiring and firing decisions
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by nradov 7mo ago
No, of course not. How silly. As an employee who's been laid off a couple times I greatly prefer an economy where it's easy to find a job.
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by nradov 7mo ago
No one forced those people to take on a $1000 monthly car loan payment.
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by nradov 7mo ago
Nah, only the dullards need a lot of repetition. I've seen brighter kids pick those subjects up extremely quickly.
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by nradov 7mo ago
So does robotics, wood shop, metal shop, pottery, etc. This interest that some people have in forcing students to learn cursive seems so bizarre and anachronistic.
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by nradov 7mo ago
Oh how I hated having to learn cursive when I was in school. What an utter waste of limited instructional time that could have been better spent on mathematics or science or touch typing or creative writing or literally any other subject.
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by nradov 7mo ago
I don't understand your comment. Charter schools are public schools. Are you confusing charter schools with private schools? Charter schools generally can't pick and choose students the way private schools do.
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by nradov 7mo ago
Much of the homework assigned at my local public high school is repetitive busy work. I'm not surprised that students don't care. And some of it is a completely worthless waste of time, like literally making little arts and crafts
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by nradov 7mo ago
In an era of declining birth rates and thus fewer students graduating from high school, of course the third-tier private colleges are going to lower their admission standards in order to survive. In the long run this won't work because
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by nradov 7mo ago
It's crazy to pay income taxes to the federal government and then have the Department of Education turn around and grant that money back to the several states so they can use it to fund public school districts. A lot of those tax dolla
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by nradov 7mo ago
Privatize what? I'm not promoting privatization in this thread. You're still not making any sense.
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by nradov 7mo ago
Buddy you've really lost the plot here. Privatization or lack thereof has nothing to do with mismanagement of employee retirement benefits. Both public and private employers can set up defined-benefit or defined-contribution retirement
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by nradov 7mo ago
Youth participation in travel club sports is up so they miss more school days due to tournaments. These tend to be the more affluent and motivated students who still achieve good grades and high standardized test scores. I receive warning l
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by nradov 7mo ago
Could we look at average SAT scores by year as a proxy? It's not a great metric because not all students take the SAT but I think there's some correlation. https://blog.prepscholar.com/average-sat-scores-over-time
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by nradov 7mo ago
PhD holders are, on average, not starving. Some of them could make good primary/secondary school teachers, but knowing how to teach children effectively is a skill by itself. It's quite different from working as a college instruct
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by nradov 7mo ago
The pension issue has nothing to do with private schooling one way or the other so I don't know what point you're trying to make.
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by nradov 7mo ago
I agree with you to an extent, but many states and school districts also engaged in fiscal malpractice by using defined-benefit employee pension plans to shift costs into the future. Those plans are financial weapons of mass destruction: fa
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by nradov 7mo ago
GPS works well as a time source for smart watches and other mobile devices. But indoor clocks have trouble picking up GPS signals.
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by nradov 7mo ago
There is already a robust online market for lesson plans, both free and paid.
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by nradov 7mo ago
The submersible drones are quite slow, and require significant support from external sensor platforms. They're useful for defending or denying constrained areas but they can't do much to protect a Chinese invasion fleet near Taiwa
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by nradov 7mo ago
It's easy to say that organizations should do it right the first time, in terms of applying proper engineering practices. But they often didn't have the time, capital, and skillset to do that. Not ideal, but that's often how
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by nradov 7mo ago
What a silly, low-effort comment. It's always sad to see that level of arrogant ignorance on HN. There haven't been many examples of international peacekeepers imposing peace by force. In the few cases where peacekeeping missions
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by nradov 7mo ago
And yet some of the software most valuable to customers was thrown together haphazardly with nothing resembling real engineering.
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by nradov 7mo ago
Let's say that all of the problems in Sudan are the fault of British colonialism. (I don't think that's completely correct but just for the sake of argument.) The British are gone and not coming back in any significant number
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by nradov 7mo ago
Which international peacekeepers? They have to come from somewhere. How would they be armed? Would they have artillery and air support or small arms only? What would the rules of engagement be?

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