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by sethg 16y ago
I can see this working to compare one school district to another or maybe even one large school to another, but I would balk at applying it to individual teachers. You can’t assume that after all the measurable factors in your statistical
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The text mentions World War II, so it’s clear from context who was running Germany at the time. Germany was still Germany during the Holocaust, just as the United States was still the United States when it was committing genocide against Na
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That article reminded me of Giles Bowkett’s blog postings advertising his video- and ebook-based classes, e.g.: http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/03/programmers-what-to... I have no idea if the courses are any good, but he does market
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I think it’s a vicious cycle. Most of the people who apply for the jobs are mediocre because the pay sucks, and the pay sucks because the school districts don’t consider their mediocre teachers to be worth more. (There is also, of course, a
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When I was an education major, to the extent that people commented on my gender, the comments were all positive—as a teacher I would be providing kids with a “male role model”, etc. (Of course, one of the reasons that I didn’t go on to a ca
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(1) Buy low. (2) Sell high.
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As somone who lives in Boston, I think it’s just as well that our drivers are limited to two dimensions.
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Were there opponents of the current administration who applied for waivers and were turned down, even though they had exactly the same circumstances as supporters who got their waiver applications approved?
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As champion says below, everyone in Massachusetts can get health insurance, regardless of pre-existing conditions. You can go to https://www.mahealthconnector.org/portal/site/connector/ and see what plans are available, and how much they
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I keep track of my time on different projects using a half-assed version of the Pomodoro Method. However, that time-tracking paperwork is for my benefit alone . If I felt that the entire corporate hierarchy was looking down my shoulder a
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Obamacare implementation timeline(healthreform.kff.org)
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Social Security had plenty of loopholes when it was first passed, too. If Obamacare had merely outlawed discrimination based on pre-existing conditions, then premiums would have gone through the roof, because lots of healthy people would ha
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Price-fixed health care may be a bad idea, but I don’t think it would be unconstitutional. The Supreme Court retreated from that whole line of interpretation during the New Deal; in the early 1970s, wage and price controls were instituted
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FWIW, I went to the Web site that Massachusetts residents use to find affordable health-care programs. For someone of my age and zip code buying insurance for just myself, the premiums started at $272. (In Massachusetts just about everyon
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IIRC one of the options presented in “Sustainable Energy—Without the Hot Air” paper ( http://www.withouthotair.com/ ) was setting up an array of solar panels in North Africa and selling the generated power to Britain.
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I have a theory that “welfare” and “charity” for the poor, at least as practiced in the US, is frequently an exchange: impoverished people abase themselves in front of a representative of the government or some charitable organization, and
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My short answer: yes. My long answer: the economic growth of the 1990s went mainly to the upper classes (median wages hardly grew at all, especially when you take rising health-insurance costs into account). Instead of consuming their prof
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But most of those companies are not dependent on direct-to-consumer sales for their revenue. You’re never going to see “Oracle Database, Standard Edition One—$6,000” on the App Store directory. I suspect that even Microsoft gets most of i
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So under the new guidelines, can Amazon distribute an app that lets you read Kindle books you’ve already purchased in other ways, with a note “we can’t actually make a clicky link here, but open up Safari and go to amazon.com to buy more bo
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If I understand correctly, antitrust concerns would only kick in if Apple uses its monopoly power to screw its competitors . For example, if iOS apps were required to sell content for less at the App Store than through competing channel
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“It’s not the crime; it’s the coverup.” If the people who may have been complicit in the last meltdown are conspicuously not being punished for covering their tracks, then the people who have the power to trigger the next meltdown will not
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Auto theft goes on all the time, but if a car that was reported stolen on Monday showed up in my driveway on Tuesday, and a cop showed up to ask me a few questions, I wouldn’t be able to get him fired.
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Nokia’s current market cap is about US$34 billion, so the only people who can do this are the people who control institutions with massive quantities of money to throw around, such as... Microsoft.
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He didn’t just “do no evil”; he did some good .
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If an app publisher wants to avoid all the App-Store-related restrictions, can they just put their app on the Web and let people download and install it through the browser? I don’t have any iStuff so I don’t know the practicalities.
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IIRC, each video-game console manufacturer charges royalties to all games that are compatible with its hardware.
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In the private sector, it’s not uncommon for the party that controls a distribution channel to extract rent from both ends. For example: I know a guy who worked for a startup that made a new kind of low-fat mayonnaise. They had trouble get
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Apple is trying to prevent the following maneuver: ¶ FooPub Inc. publishes FooMag through the App Store, at a price of $1/year. ¶ Each issue of FooMag contains some small amount of content and a link: “To read more, go to foopub.example.com
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Also, if some cheap Chinese manufacturer slaps the latest Android commit on their handset, Google makes money , because that phone is going to run Google searches and show Google ads.
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They are a monopolist because most of the world depends on Windows and Office. They are desperate because they know that in the long run, Windows and Office will be irrelevant.

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