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by wrp 3y ago
I don't understand this obsession with tutors. If the kids have good teachers at a school with high standards, the only time for tutors is if the kids need remedial help. I'm speculating this focus on tutors comes from the belief
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by wrp 3y ago
You are thinking about it backwards. It's not a matter of what was done for the kids, but what was expected of them. Parents would not tolerate low effort. Also, I didn't know any who employed private tutors, but they did arrange
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by wrp 3y ago
Quality isn't the same everywhere. I'd heard often from my colleagues about inexpensive tailored clothes they got in Asia. So when I was working in Dubai, I went to a tailor to get some shirts made. They measured my arms and neck
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by wrp 3y ago
The "dumb|lazy rich kid" stereotype is very old and no doubt has some basis, but in the few rich families I've known, the kids were pushed extremely hard to achieve academically.
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by wrp 3y ago
> ...I perceive that cotton clothing has gotten worse... Well documented problem. There has been a drastic decline in production of high quality cotton over the past two decades. I think the biggest change has been in Egypt, but there wa
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by wrp 3y ago
> Big question: HOW? By asking OTHER specialists. In the 1970s/80s of my experience, journalism was much higher quality than now, but reporters were still notoriously ignorant of technical subjects. Standard procedure for a reporter
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by wrp 3y ago
Have used Best Travel Store for many years. No complaints. ( https://www.bt-store.com/ ) I haven't done any comparison to see if it is the best for finding good buys.
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by wrp 3y ago
Sports programs used to be a net income source, but I think that ended with Title IX, because schools became forced to spend on non-income-producing programs. However, athletic programs are still given tremendous emphasis by schools because
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by wrp 3y ago
Absolutely, but it's hard to convince people of this. Elite schools (generally) provide better facilities and peer support, but the quality of teaching is usually better at non-elite (but not bottom-of-the-barrel) schools. Also, grade
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by wrp 3y ago
Enjoyed the movie very much, but have issues with how Heptapod communication is portrayed. For one thing, they have two modes of language, purely verbal and purely written. Well, what do they do if they want to write down someone's spe
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by wrp 3y ago
Something I've seen frequently in the business world is the husband and wife maintaining separate financial identities so that if one side's business goes bankrupt, a large chunk of the family wealth will be protected.
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by wrp 3y ago
This is really cool. I'd like to read more about this approach. Are there also non-military applications or hobby drone designs?
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by wrp 3y ago
They are tube-fired, so maybe it's so they don't have to be oriented for firing. I'd like to hear an explanation of the aerodynamics of the wing arrangement, such as how it affects flight stability. I've never seen anyth
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Russia readies next-generation suicide drones(aviacionline.com)
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by wrp 3y ago
In the USA, your SSN is supposed to be kept confidential, almost like a PIN for an account. When you think about it, that's an absurdly bad system. It's like if it was a security risk to let people know your real name.
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by wrp 3y ago
The Ben Rich book is good, but the one I was thinking of, which covers technical details of stealth technology, is Peter Westwick (2020) Stealth: The Secret Contest to Invent Invisible Aircraft . It is really very good.
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by wrp 3y ago
The story on the color is actually simpler. They had put a lot of effort into designing a camouflage pattern for it and there was still some debate over the final design. The project manager from the Pentagon heard about it and said, "
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by wrp 3y ago
Absolutely true that the faceted shape was due to computational limits at the time. There is a book detailing the development process for the shape of the F-117, but I can't remember the title. Anybody? Anyway, the basic principle of s
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by wrp 3y ago
The issue is being able to choose your degree of involvement. I know people who like to attend church but won't if their only choice is a small one, because of the social demands made of them in a small group.
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by wrp 3y ago
An ironic thing about the Lovelace story is that while the popular impression of her is quite twisted, the real story is just as interesting. Stephen Wolfram wrote a nice article a while back, after he spent effort to consult primary source
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by wrp 3y ago
What value does this business add to the consumer or the bookstores? I have been using www.bookfinder4u.com for many years, and I don't see an obvious benefit with this service.
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by wrp 3y ago
I have sympathy for anyone who spends effort to better understand the current conflict, and I'm also very bothered there isn't a good online forum for considerate discussion, but I think it would keep HN a better place if we polit
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by wrp 3y ago
This is based on the same premise as the "writing cure." Lepore & Smyth (2002) have a good volume on it. ( https://books.google.com/books?id=3GeSRAAACAAJ ) I've read the literature on the writing cure and i
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by wrp 3y ago
While I'm not completely against performance-based pay, there are some issues that would make this particular approach unworkable. One is that in dealing with children, personal compatibility matters a great deal more. Some teacher-stu
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by wrp 3y ago
> The culture in America doesn't respect...educators in the way it used to. Things may have gone downhill since the 1950s, but it was never very good. Think of the scorn directed at the teaching profession in The Legend of Sleepy H
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by wrp 3y ago
It's already been a problem that airlines can book you on a schedule without enough time to make a transfer. I've only had that happen with US carriers at US airports, so far. When buying a ticket, I consider whether there is suff
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by wrp 3y ago
If the Vitebsk-25 defensive system works anywhere near as well as claimed, it would seem to be a really bad idea to resume production of this old technology.
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by wrp 3y ago
Are you assuming no pension payments, just living off your capital? I doubt there is such a thing as non-taxable income. Also remember income tax isn't the only kind. How about property, VAT, automobile, etc.?
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by wrp 3y ago
I was once told about similar cases in mathematics by a famous professor in the USA. The subject came up in reference to dissertations he knew of that were exceptionally high quality. I think that in those cases, the published articles were
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by wrp 3y ago
There was a 1950s/60s juvenile sci-fi story about a teenager who programmed his dad's lab computer to do his math homework. When the adults caught on to what he was doing, they decided it wasn't cheating because he had to lea

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