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by unescape 10y ago
Sounds like a good idea, provided it's more a more specific and verifiable commitment than Google's vacuous "don't be evil".
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by unescape 10y ago
I suspect the G&Z agenda is to set up a sustainable model of investment in Africa by western countries. They don't want BIA to lose money because that would scare off investment partners who are more loss-averse. They believe in th
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by unescape 10y ago
Large-scale philanthropy is not incompatible with a lust for power. I'm sure most people who try to effect wide-ranging change think of themselves as quite magnanimous - say, any third world dictator or 19th century robber baron. The e
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by unescape 10y ago
My guess is that maximizing ROI is also popular among investors not named Carl Icahn. I don't think I've ever worked for a company where the investors said "we want you to make money, and also accomplish socially relevant goa
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by unescape 10y ago
Certainly Gates & Zuckerberg are trying to bring about what they see as a positive vision for the world. Their track record is to provide a product (Windows, Facebook) that's "good enough", and creates a network effect th
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by unescape 10y ago
Tell that to Carl Icahn. Management that puts public good over return on investment is likely to be replaced. The interest of shareholders are generally construed as maximizing return.
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by unescape 10y ago
I agree, in the context of US schools, privatization may imply a non-profit. However in this case, BIA is explicitly described as for-profit. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2016/06&#x
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by unescape 10y ago
It's been pointed out that there's a world of difference between a private school and a for-profit school. A for-profit school has an obligation to its shareholders to maximize profits. If it can make more profits by providing an
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by unescape 10y ago
Higher education is more about social signaling than actually providing education (STEM subjects being a partial exception). That's a very limited perspective. I enjoy reading history books, many written by people who studied history
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by unescape 10y ago
kids are passed even though they are illiterate ... well ... it's really not the schools. Surely the school is to blame if they're passing kids who are illiterate. it's basically just a charity doing very good work Can yo
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by unescape 10y ago
It's not just Uganda. Education International (Brussels) tried to investigate the school and BIA had their representative arrested. Kenya has complained to the World Bank about their funding of for-profit schools to the exclusion of fr
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by unescape 10y ago
Imagine if a Swedish NGO started providing 'basic education' for 'near free' in New Orleans? It would be rather embarrassing to America, no? That's an interesting thought experiment. I think a lot of people would
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by unescape 10y ago
People switch schools all the time. It's a non-argument. This is like saying, what if you eat bad spaghetti sauce once, and then your taste is ruined and you can never enjoy good spaghetti sauce again? Guess we better end spaghetti sau
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by unescape 10y ago
Doesn't the same logic say: School choice means competition among schools. Which leads to losers and winners. So you will get good schools. The only way to avoid this is, to have only bad schools, nation wide. So that the worst school
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by unescape 10y ago
See also "Cyber Attackers Crash Muni Computer System Across SF" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13047458
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by unescape 10y ago
The entire message read, “You Hacked, ALL Data Encrypted. Contact For Key(cryptom27@yandex.com)ID:681 ,Enter.” http://www.sfexaminer.com/hacked-appears-muni-stations-fare-...
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by unescape 10y ago
In my day we did all our programming with uppercase letters. Code should be congruent to speech, which does not have letter case. Best practices dictate that identifiers and keywords should never differ only in case. Thus as a programmer I
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by unescape 10y ago
If you want to help adding multicolor fonts to free platforms: https://wiki.dequis.org/notes/emoji/ https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2015-August/047175.h...