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by opendais 12y ago
> How much do you want to bet violating such a ban would lead to immediate dismissal without tenure protections? Another way to phrase that would be: Teachers can violate such a ban temporarily . It isn't blanket immunity and t
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by opendais 12y ago
Please cite examples of this actually occurring and the teacher not being fired for 12+ months? I used the word immediate for a reason that seems to be lost on some people :/
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes, actually. I have a cousin who runs a charity that could use someone to do their IT work for free.
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by opendais 12y ago
It isn't impossible to fire them. It just takes a mountain of evidence. Generally the bullshit stuff doesn't stick long enough for that to happen while legitimate issues do.
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by opendais 12y ago
I didn't actually. Tenure doesn't give them immunity to the school board and/or other administrators. It does last long enough that abuses of the system and/or unofficial pressure to be resolved before the teacher actual
846.
by opendais 12y ago
School administrators, not teachers, are the elected crazies.
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by opendais 12y ago
Ah, but that is a violation of the curriculum and clear cause for removal. Tenure isn't some magical invulnerability to being fired. It simply slows the process to a crawl and forces the collection of a mountain of evidence to fire som
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by opendais 12y ago
I think you've never experienced unofficial pressure in the workplace before when you need to put food on the table. ;) Tenure is much, much more effective than trying to make a law like that work reliably. Every time some new topic ca
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by opendais 12y ago
Honestly, it is a pretty bad solution. However, it was sufficiently shielded from politics that bypassing that shield was difficult for decades. Pretty much any alternative is purely governed by populous whims because it is no longer the &q
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by opendais 12y ago
It is because of bullshit like this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-207079/Evolution-ban... "The word "evolution" will be removed from school books in the deep south of the United States un
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by opendais 12y ago
The problem with your logic is, what happens when you have one of these people elected to the school board or as an admin? http://www.christianpost.com/news/kansas-school-board-candid... I think you are putting your he
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by opendais 12y ago
Why shouldn't they have the right to collectively bargain like every other worker and Union in this country? And more importantly, in the past, teachers were removed for political reasons or for teaching unpopular topics. http:/&
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by opendais 12y ago
It appears to be the $0 plan from http://www.typeform.com/pricing/ + a landing page. So I'd guess the only unique bits are any connections they might have.
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by opendais 12y ago
Well, if anyone was going to become Skynet and kill us all, it would be Google. ;)
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by opendais 12y ago
There is numerous ones: https://github.com/google/go-github https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/gcloud-golang https://github.com/google/cadvisor https://github.
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by opendais 12y ago
Getting a critical mass of drivers is Uber's network effect. However, when we are talking about $1 billion in funding that can be ripped apart pretty easily.
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by opendais 12y ago
Yes, but almost every regulator now has both of them on their radar and they are going to end up eating regulatory costs roughly equal to a taxi company. It is going to happen sooner or later because the cities need the revenue and "re
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by opendais 12y ago
Pretty much. But it would be 500 million per year, not 500 billion. ;) Uber is a quality 10 billion dollar company, it isn't worth anything close to 18 billion.
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by opendais 12y ago
Maybe, but everyone keeps overlooking the fact that if they get regulated like a taxi is...a massive chunk of their advantage vanishes. That 90k to 30k figure for instance? http://betabeat.com/2014/05/new-york-city
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by opendais 12y ago
Fair enough. :) I'd be happy to be wrong, it just seems like it is getting more public.
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by opendais 12y ago
Well, I think we've pretty much established that the USA's modus operandi is deniable assets [e.g. compromised anonymous hacking groups] for direct attacks and a massive surveillance network. The Chinese are more direct, less disc
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by opendais 12y ago
Ya, I used them to buy a condo and find my realtor. It was a good experience. :D
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by opendais 12y ago
Would you say a woman using gender-based insults against a man to be considered oppressive when she has the power to have men fired?
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by opendais 12y ago
If you feel "insulting people on the basis of their gender" isn't something that should be universally vilified and cause for firing someone....I'm really not sure what to say beyond making sure that is what you mean?
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by opendais 12y ago
> I have no idea because I have no idea what your objective is... I'd like to see equal, proportional response regardless of gender or the size of your soapbox. > Which eludes to my original point of why one would engage with the
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by opendais 12y ago
Did you miss the edit? I was trying to avoid changing it to avoid confusing what I was trying to say further :/
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by opendais 12y ago
> Substantively: why should the previous behavior of the reporter matter one bit? If someone is actively baiting people on the basis of gender, it should have equal consequences regardless of the speaker's gender. > My sympathy f
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by opendais 12y ago
To what? Pointing out a troll's hypocritical behavior seems to be the only one that is effective with both trolls and rational people.
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by opendais 12y ago
I guess. I just don't like the idea of cowering in fear because trolls will be trolls.
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by opendais 12y ago
The person that was let go has a profile that says Contractor: https://twitter.com/zivcjs So I'd assume contractor.

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