pmonks

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by pmonks 4y ago
Or they could have been excellent test takers and not much else. Unless you’re trying to say that cheating on standardized test is commonplace, which would be yet another black mark against them.
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by pmonks 4y ago
My money’s on you being right tbh.
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by pmonks 4y ago
Sure but grades aren’t all that indicative of anything in the real world. Some of the worst hires I’ve made were graduates who, on paper, should have been outstanding ICs.
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by pmonks 4y ago
Fair enough. FTR I think you’re trying to dunk on SF using factually incorrect claims about what actually happened at local schools during the course of 2020 and into 2021.
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by pmonks 4y ago
Nope. I literally meant what I wrote - that I do, in fact, know enough families in the city to personally know what happened at most of the schools, both public and private, in the city. Recall that SF isn’t that big a city - only 800,000 p
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by pmonks 4y ago
My own family was one of them.
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by pmonks 4y ago
You literally said: > During the pandemic, SF had in-person schooling at private schools, but not in public schools. This is patently false. All of the private schools in SF that I’m aware of switched to remote learning from March 2020 t
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by pmonks 4y ago
This is 100% false. Source: I know many families with kids in various private schools in SF, and not one of them had uninterrupted in-person learning throughout the pandemic. That said, SF public schools were slower to reopen to in-person l
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by pmonks 4y ago
It does not sound reasonable, as the concerns (and actions in response to those concerns) in the city during 2020 were driven by the actual documented damage COVID was already causing elsewhere (especially NYC), not based on some hypothetic
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by pmonks 4y ago
Briefly: * NYC is a lot more than Manhattan. * NYC is a substantially larger area than SF. * SF is also substantially built on top of reclaimed mud flats. * NYC is tectonically stable. All of these things mean that comparisons between the t
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by pmonks 4y ago
It really was. I still see ghosts from that time as I move through the city.
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by pmonks 4y ago
You’re comparing apples (the Big Apple, it turns out) and oranges. SF is 7 miles by 7 miles of hilly, earthquake prone land, surrounded on 3 sides by water. There is literally no “new land” available to build on, and redeveloping existing l
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by pmonks 4y ago
How do you know what’s “in the minds of SF folks”? Do you live in SF, yourself, for example?
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by pmonks 4y ago
San Francisco has always been a boom and bust place, as anyone who was here during the 2008 crash, the dotcom bubble, or probably even the gold rush would tell you. The author of this seagull* article needs to take a deep breath, wait a cou
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by pmonks 4y ago
No one said you could. That doesn’t mean it’s not still financially beneficial.
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by pmonks 4y ago
Furthermore he didn’t start Tesla anyway - it was founded in 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning. Musk didn’t invest in it until 2004 and didn’t become CEO until 2008. The guy is a loon, and while I think he’s done some good for the
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by pmonks 4y ago
Yeah that’s a terrible approach. All you’d get are kids who are good at testing and nothing else.
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by pmonks 4y ago
A (perhaps funny) anecdote of my own: I had just started as product manager for a remote engineering team, and it had been briefly mentioned in passing that one member of the team was an intern from UBC. I quickly got a feel for the work et
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by pmonks 4y ago
Sure, but he’s fixated on ~1% of the “top schools”, and seems closed to the possibility that the other 99% will be just as good (and in some cases better) for his son than that list. That’s before we even unpack your claim that there’s a cl
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by pmonks 4y ago
My point is that he’ll be surrounded by super smart people giving him real challenges at many schools beyond the ones you’ve listed.
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by pmonks 4y ago
What makes you think he’s only going to get a great CS education at the Ivies, Cal, Caltech, Stanford, etc.? Very few of the best graduates I’ve worked with in my ~30 year career studied at those schools - it was places like UW, UBC and Wat
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by pmonks 4y ago
The burden of proof lies with the person making the claim. That would be Dr Doom in this case, not throwaway23597.
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by pmonks 14y ago
As an American friend of mine once said: "why would we let facts get in the way of our illogical obsessions with socialism, encroachment by the state on personal liberty, etc. etc.?"