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by tabeth 10y ago
I don't understand your argument at all. It seems to hinge on some arbitrary obsession with gifted students. Your entire argument could be applied to at-risk students, who arguably need the help even more than gifted students and would
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by tabeth 10y ago
I won't address your second point, as the problem we'd then be discussing is completely different (i.e. we're now discussing resource allocation). However, in regards to your first point: I said nothing about crippling those
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by tabeth 10y ago
I love this story. Thanks for sharing. I'm curious though, did you try this with your other kid? The one who's presumably not having any problems? I'm curious if your method would further strengthen their resolve.
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by tabeth 10y ago
Heh, a few years ago I thought of this same thing. I didn't know anything about ML so I thought it'd be possible by doing the following (for food served in a restaurant/fast-food) 1. Tag the location (if you go to McDonalds a
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by tabeth 10y ago
1. Children come from the rich and poor and from all ethnicities. The way to reduce income inequality is to take students from across these diverse groups and help them achieve their potential. 2. False dichotomy. I've read the book yo
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by tabeth 10y ago
I agree with you. See my comment from earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13472276
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by tabeth 10y ago
That's a completely different discussion and problem.
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by tabeth 10y ago
Who's pretending it happens?
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by tabeth 10y ago
I won't respond to the first point. If you're seriously asking "who cares" about income inequality then I don't think discourse will be productive. In any case, you didn't seem to refute my main point that gift
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by tabeth 10y ago
You believe that the brightest children helping their more unenlightened peers will result in society losing out?
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by tabeth 10y ago
I'm shocked, yet paradoxically unsurprised that so many of the comments here are saying "yes" to the question. In practice, separating gifted students does two things: 1. Accelerates income inequality (there's no way the
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by tabeth 10y ago
I disagree. A manager is not an individual contributor. It's important for them to have technical skills, but I don't think it's necessary they be on par with an average developer , let alone better than the best. * The deve
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by tabeth 10y ago
I made no implication saying it's bad or good (if I unintentionally did, I explicitly state that it was not here). "You reap what you sow" is an idiom that simply says everything that happens to you is a result of your own ac
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by tabeth 10y ago
Poor people donate a greater percentage than Z: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1290682...
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by tabeth 10y ago
The general form of this question (are people happier if they're in smaller communities) inspired this other post of mine [0]. As far as the answer: the short answer is yes. The long answer is, "it depends" [1]. Personally, I
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by tabeth 10y ago
I have alternative advice: follow those thoughts to its conclusion and address that. For example: -> I often start to preemptively regret my decision Why do you regret your decision? Perhaps it's because there may be a more optimal
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by tabeth 10y ago
First. As far as the purpose of salvage logging. It is economic. [0] > "the term 'salvage' is appropriate for operations in which the primary objective of postfire logging is economic..." From the link the parent post
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by tabeth 10y ago
I've been wondering this myself. Personally I want to have a backend and then a SPA for each app. On one hand that sounds like overengineering, you could just serve everything from the backend. On the other hand, separation of the API
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by tabeth 10y ago
Isn't salvage logging entirely just to make money? Humanity reaps what it sows.
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by tabeth 10y ago
Is it a false dichotomy for me to say: "we can't even fix the economy; I'm skeptical to think we're going to do any serious modifications to our DNA with positive, well directed results that are absent in shocking negati
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Ask HN: Why not self driving buses?
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by tabeth 10y ago
Hah. Obviously something like that wouldn't be allowed, since it would violate the rule of no land ownership to begin with.
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by tabeth 10y ago
Why link to the Wikipedia page and not to an actual definition? https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/privilege
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by tabeth 10y ago
I won't pretend like I'm an expert. However, I will say that in our supposedly democratic land, a useful heuristic would be just to vote. If the land was not owned by anyone and this could be magically enforced, then the people wo
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by tabeth 10y ago
Interesting. I thought the assignments were random, though? Assuming a normal distribution most parents shouldn't have a 40 minute across town commute.
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by tabeth 10y ago
The idea of someone living in multiple places is just hilarious. The epitome of privilege. That being said, didn't Z just buy the land from other people? How was he able to even "buy" the land without full agreement of all of
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by tabeth 10y ago
Why exactly would you end up with universally bad schools?
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by tabeth 10y ago
Sure. I don't disagree with any of that. I still think you'd just be trading one problem for another. In the case that you have to live close then you would have to be wealthy enough to live close to a school that has activities a
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by tabeth 10y ago
Don't live in SF, but I fail to see how that's inherently bad. It is inconvenient, for sure. But if the school a block from you was terrible and the school your child was randomly assigned to was amazing there would be no problems
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by tabeth 10y ago
I personally would love to see two things: 1. School curriculum structured more like an RPG skill tree. The main point or advantage of this is that students can take any path they'd like to be "Level 12th Grade." Many schools

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