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  1. Re:Teachers are themselves to blame on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    That's true. She couldn't take the crap anymore and quit after 20 years.

  2. Utah ranks #3 in education on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    https://www.usnews.com/news/be...
    and 50th in student spending (50th, last place).
    https://www.census.gov/newsroo...

  3. Re:Teachers are themselves to blame on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    My girlfriend is highly ranked in her district and she doesn't sit idle for 3 months/year, we usually do foreign travel.

  4. Re:overpaid, underperforming on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Teachers don't get Social Security.

  5. Re:My wife has other complaints on Wages Aren't the Only Reason Teachers Are Striking (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    slowing the whole classroom down in learning

    It was like this for me 30 years ago. I then transferred to a private school where there was zero tolerance for crap like that. Be disruptive and you could be expelled on the spot. Interestingly enough, no one was to my knowledge and our school was ranked one of the highest in the state despite being poor compared to neighboring schools with athletic fields, cafeterias, auditoriums and elective classes. All we got was English, mathematics and history and no AP classes.

  6. Re:Overstating what "AI" can do on Google Cofounder Sergey Brin Warns of AI's Dark Side (wired.com) · · Score: 1
    I kinda like it because then I can prove that I've been writing AI software since I was eight years old.

    Hello, what is your name?"

    John

    Hello John. How are you?

  7. Change culture on Bill Gates: U.S. Education Harder to Improve Than Infant Mortality Rates (xconomy.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    if you want to change education. School has minimal impact if the desire is not there.

    I logged onto yahoo yesterday when I'd heard about N Korea and it was buried under a bunch of celebrities that I'd never heard of doing something that I did not care about. I grew up in a poorer area of town and all of my Asian friends did well (very well in fact) in school, everyone else was a mixed bag, but tended to be on the lower side of educational attainment.

  8. Re:challenge w/edu is capable? on Bill Gates: U.S. Education Harder to Improve Than Infant Mortality Rates (xconomy.com) · · Score: 1

    Because everyone has different ideas about what a modern society should be.

  9. Re:Public Internet on Will GDPR Kill WHOIS? (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I don't understand what is wrong with whois. I used to use it all of the time like 30 years ago when I was heavily into internet stuff.

  10. Re:In this case, they catch a killer on Genealogy Websites Were Key To Big Break In Golden State Killer Case (nytimes.com) · · Score: 3, Informative
  11. It's just our 12-dimensional overlords toying with us.

  12. Re:shaver and vacuum digital content on Appliance Companies Are Lobbying To Protect Their DRM-Fueled Repair Monopolies (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    Here you go. From the EEVBlog.

  13. Re:Not surprising on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    I have a 16 hour workweek....but then I also lead a 1960's lifestyle. It's entirely possible. On an even more positive note, a 60's lifestyle with 2020's conveniences and automation is pretty sweet.

  14. Re: Not surprising on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Sounds like you'd still starve.

  15. Re:Not surprising on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1
    You are confusing skills with intelligence. Knowing a bunch of facts and being literate dos not necessarily make you intelligent.

    Otto: Apes don't read philosophy.

    Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don't understand it.

  16. Re:Not surprising on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless you are a picker, it takes a lot of skill to work a farm from complex machinery, to repairs of said machinery to knowing when and what to plant, how much seed to save, how to save it as well as a lot of experimentation.

  17. Re:Not surprising on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Farming requires higher skill than working in a factory.

  18. Re:gloomier? on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    Eloi and Mordocs

  19. Re:gloomier? on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    In the beginning, everybody was unemployed. What happened?

  20. Premature optimization is the root of all evil.

  21. Re:They are going to pay me for not working anyway on A Study Finds Half of Jobs Are Vulnerable To Automation (economist.com) · · Score: 1

    unemployable humans in it, the real question will be mental health and stability.

    They could always go back to being farmers and work for their own living like Amish.

  22. In 1780, it was close to 100%.

  23. Re:Interesting Question - No Simple Answer on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    There were hundreds of billions of dinosaurs that ever lived

  24. Re:Interesting Question - No Simple Answer on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    Dinosaurs were around 200million years, yet we have very few fossils.

  25. The mice are still here on Was There a Civilization On Earth Before Humans? (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 2

    They are able to control insects remotely via telepathy to watch the humans. They've already discovered everything discoverable and now have nothing to do.