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Americans have a really tough time with the notion of materiality. America is such a big country that, as a matter of statistics, anything that can happen is happening. That doesn’t mean it happens often enough to call into question our basic systems.

In this case it’s the right that fails to grasp materiality. Yes, people vote illegally, ballot boxes get stuffed, their is collusion, etc. No, it doesn’t happen often enough to undermine the integrity of elections in the aggregate. But the left is just as susceptible to such thinking. They take, for example, a few isolated instances of innocent people being falsely convicted or forced to plead guilty as proof that such errors are pervasive and undermine the integrity of the justice system. It’s two sides of the same token.
I have read so many of these types of arguments but why is it so hard to find the pro argument? Where are the proponent's rebuttals and counterarguments?
Now I have no idea why I’m being downvoted here… Can someone tell me? I truly meant what I said without any form of sarcasm or malice. It was just a small comment to encourage him to share more even things he may consider small or not that interesting for others.
One thing that clearly provides better results are smaller class sizes. That requires having enough teachers and enough rooms, both of which cost money.

Just spending a lot of money doesn't guarantee good results, just like some companies manage to spend a lot of money doing very little. But not having enough money is a great way to make it very difficult to achieve good results.
They make it sound so simple:

Bribe the Judge of Elections who oversees everything. Dilute the vote tallies by using the voting machines to increment the votes for specific candidates. Certify that the fake results are correct. Lie if anybody asks.

This person did this with 2 separate judges. Why is it so easy?
I think that working at a bank is fantastic so long as a person can internalize the good parts.

The bank I was at had the best data practices of any company I’ve worked at by a mile. They wouldn’t hesitate to write huge checks to make sure that the hardware systems and teams supporting those systems were perfect. Software management was a bit procedural but the results were consistent and high quality.
'Super visa' allows grand/parents to stay in Canada for up to 7 years
> but raising the difficulty of every class to what the most advanced student is capable of is not the answer

The most advanced students will find one way or another to educate themselves. I think our school systems should focus on the middle: the students who could realize their full potential if they are sufficiently challenged. They are the group that do not always get STEM naturally but can eventually get it if pushed enough with the right material and exercises. Watering down curriculum means the students in the middle would lose the chance to truly grow, or their parents resort to tutoring and we get back to the discussion of how social-economic status matters in education.
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I don't think at all that we're near the limit of human ingenuity.

The quibble I had was with the "sustainable", which in that context, I read as indefinitely/infinitely sustainable (and it seems other responders have similar issues).

I agree that there should be a lot more human ingenuity ahead of us than behind us (assuming that those seeking power over others, e.g., megalomaniacs and autocrats, don't first destroy us).

That said, productivity of any one thing is certainly never an x^y sort of curve but eventually flattens and becomes asymptotic, if not declining.
Us v them has been drilled into the populace for decades to divide based on tribal allegiances. The best thing you can do to break down tribal walls is to talk to "the other side" and find solutions that are acceptable for everybody.
I'm just ranting on general election integrity. Probably should have commented at the top level, too late.
If you give a business $15,900 per student ($1.59million per 100 students), they can run much better than most public schools, especially than those public schools in crappy school districts.
You struggled with math in elementary school because of deeply flawed teaching. Even at that early age, it's not hard to understand that "3 + 5 = 8" is not something that you'd need to literally memorize. Of course, the fact that teaching quality can vary to such an extent is itself noteworthy.
In the meantime, zed.dev, baby, zed.dev.
What makes it so bad, and what would be a better way?
> I don't thing there are many mainstream languages that have a more complex type system.

I both agree and disagree with this. I think if you're coming from a statically typed language, and you're familiar with features in those language - Typescript is a very complex type system, where it can often be difficult or frustrating to express common paradigms.

That said... if you're coming from something like Ruby/JS, typescript has a pretty simple path to convert your existing code, and it doesn't get too fussy about letting you punt on the problem for a bit (start with very loose rules and lots of "any" - get more strict over time).
If I'm understanding the indictment right, these are elections for low-level judgeships:

>On or about May 19, 2015, Domenick J. Demuro, and others known and unknown to the grand jury, added 40 fraudulent ballots during the primary election in the 39th Ward, 36th Division, on behalf of defendant MICHAEL "OZZIE" MYERS' client candidates running for Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the First Judicial District of Pennsylvania, and on behalf of defendant MICHAEL "OZZIE" MYERS' preferred candidates for other state and local offices.

(this is just one incident on the list). I don't know what the campaign budget for a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas is, but I suspect it's not that high if they're willing to bribe someone for an extra 40 votes!
It is equity, it's just that equity is an incredibly ludicrous and impractical idea.
It also works on Windows through ssh (including desktop win10), which makes working with Windows easier on the nerves.
I originally planned on a 3-6 month sabbatical and I'm now 8 months in and starting to look for work. It's been a phenomenal refresher and I highly recommend it to everyone who is able to do so. I plan on taking another one in 5-10 years if I'm not retired by then.
It is much more expensive to teach and support the children at lower performing schools than it is at higher performing schools. Lower performing schools are also providing significant front line social support services for the communities they serve, including food, trauma counseling, sometimes medical intervention, extreme behavior management. None of that is cheap.

Students/families at higher performing schools have far lower need for support systems.
There's such a big overlap between most tasks though. The tab paradigm is fine for casuals, but think grouping, tagging, and sorting needs a lot of work.
I mean, even assuming they spend all the money on better buildings -- if the building is so poorly made that the heat or air conditioning don't work, then that will be distracting, resulting in worse education.

The public school in the town I grew up in had lectures in these shitty trailers that were supposed to be temporary (spoiler: they became permanent). They couldn't afford to hire enough teachers to do small classes, but if they had the money for that, there wouldn't be enough rooms put them in.
The big difference between large companies and small companies is that large companies prize specialization. The way to thrive at a big company isn't to be the person that sets up the entire stack for the company, it's by finding value in deep obscure corners of very specific niches and smoothly rolling out that value to orders of magnitude more people than you would had impacted with a package of full stack decisions in a smaller company.
This was done by adding votes. The voter counts of poll watchers should not have matched those of the election officials. Why wasn't that noticed?
A lot of my friends in the city I went to college in would have been on the "equity" side of this debate as well, until they had kids themselves. It dawned on them that their kids in public schools may not be able to get algebra in eighth grade anymore. And good luck with long division. So after they realized their kids will get a worse math education than they had, they changed their tune.
Friction is usually caused by reactive policies. Pain causes reaction. Pain like a customer complaint, or accidental data deletion. It usually causes red tape or people that got chewed out from allowing certain changes. It's good and it's bad. It's obviously good because there will be fewer customer complaints. But it's bad because the product does not evolve fast anymore - which may cause fewer customers long term.
If an Application team is finding and fixing a lot of vulnerabilities and bugs is that a good thing or a bad thing?

The answer is it depends on the context.
Just for context it seems The guy he bribed (i.e. the one who actually did the stuffing) was convicted in March 2020. So this isn’t exactly fresh news.
The state I occupy doesn't allow accelerated programs for students to help them advance to a higher level math than originally projected, they only allow it for students to catch up. This is the opposite of what the previous state I lived in which allowed motivated students to advance, but they're also turning gifted programs into lotteries versus achievement.

My daughter is in the high school math club, so she frequently talks with math teachers and they reveal what state or county school districts are intending for future high school students. Earlier this week, a teacher was ranting to the club about new guideline goals that either the state/county was pushing, that all (most) incoming 9th graders take Algebra 1.

I understand they're attempting to narrow the achievement bandwidth in public schools on the basis of race, but this appears to be creating societal inefficiencies and decreasing equity overall. Sort of like, how someone could have a PhD in physics and working as a middle school science teacher, they'd effectively be underemployed or underutilized in society due to lack of demand for particle physicists; however, unlike limited particle physicist positions, in the students case, they don't have to be limited or underachieving in classes. Further, the additional problem this push for public school equity is decreasing equity, without imposing the same limitations on private school, homeschool, or charter school students, this mechanism is increasing the divide between the haves and have-nots. Either lens you evaluate this from, either equity or utilitarian perspective, this is a poorly executed plan that isn't going to achieve success in equity; unless, equity strictly means racial categories and doesn't include wealth/income inequality.
How would you measure "racial differences in per-pupil funding" if not with difference in expenditure per-pupil?
We should not be punishing smart kids even if some of those smarts may be due to income inequality that may have some basis in racial inequality. It's not the kid's fault that their grandparents generation thought that lower taxes were better than good governance.
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Update: apparently there is even a product now for credit cards...

https://watcher.guru/news/edge-unveils-bitcoin-mastercard-fo...
Fortunately, it does take more than imagination to actually demonstrate, it requires facts and evidence.
If that's true why do private prisons have such higher recidivism rates? This is simply false.

> Mamun et al. (2020) report on studies that demonstrate that recidivism rates in private prisons are between 16.7% (Spivak & Sharp, 2008) and 22% (Duwe & Clark, 2013) higher when compared to public prisons. [1]

When providing services, private companies do worse because their charter is not to provide services per se, it's to make money. These are antithetical in the world of social services.

Private enterprise isn't a solution to every problem. It's a solution to a lot problems. However police, fire, healthcare, education, regulation and so on are services in the public interest and should be provided therefore be provided by the public.

[1] https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.6721...
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Is there any reason to not just revert the changes that remove it from the codebase? Obviously maintenance had a cost, but would their be much bitrot?
No. I'm advocating a civil discourse in which people evaluate the pros and cons of different approaches without resorting to racial attacks. I'm advocating that people should be encouraged to ask questions, like why does it take so long for the US to count ballots without getting into partisan bullshit.
> People point out disparities as evidence that there aren’t equal opportunities

That’s a very low bar if you take population level disparities and assume it’s a lack of equity causing this. You’re talking about having a deep understanding of incredibly complex systems layered on top of one another.

Equality of opportunity is never possible. We’re all born with different genetics. Anything less is just arbitrary line drawing as to what’s ok and what isn’t (ie tribalism).
Probably late posting here but going to post here to maybe offer some understanding to why it is people support policies like this. For the record, I'm not personally for it but there is a method to the madness. I'm black, take that for what it is.

"unacceptably white" is probably the most triggering thing in here but it actually represents the core of this conflict. The people trying to eliminate gifted programs are recognizing that many forms of power in society are zero sum. There are plenty of ways to get a great education but there is only one Harvard. Access to higher education opportunities is not only a pathway out of poverty but also to power within the institutions that hire grads.

The supporters of this form of affirmative action recognize that in a system where black/latino/indigenous students have structural disadvantages (poverty, prejudice, health, etc) but also operates as a pure meritocracy leads to a system where their racial group possesses disproportionately less power vs their population. Less kids in these groups in gifted programs means less of these kids going to top universities and on to top positions in government and business.

Many of you may see this as tribal or even perpetuating divides on race. But I'd respond that you fundamentally are underestimating how much marginalized communities distrust communities outside of their own. I'll use the black community because I'm a member of it. There is very little trust (myself included) that the white individuals who attend these programs and (hopefully) go on to succeed in higher education will use their influence for the benefit of blacks. I don't believe that because I think white people are racist, just self interested (like most people). That thinking extends to other groups like east and south Asians.

Personally my views on this are not to eliminate gifted programs, I benefited from one myself and know how important they are. Ideally we'd do what many others here suggested and just build more programs. If there is this much of a fight about it obviously there is a lot of demand for schools where Algebra I is taught in the 8th grade. So let's make more of those. That won't solve the issue at the college level though. There is a reason there are not 50 Harvards and its because the access/power/influence that degree offers is zero sum. Until we figure out a way to ration out that power in a way that people think is fair we're going to see constant contention over it.
In my city, the worst schools tend to pay a good 20% better than the best ones, for teachers. They get lots of federal and state aid.

People still usually prefer not to work at them, if they have options, because the work environment is terrible.
I have worked at several big companies, including BigFatHugeBank and heartily agree with the above comment.
Does someone want to explain to me how a recall vote in San Francisco is supposed to punish radical Leftists who hold no elected office, refuse affiliation with a mainstream political party, and basically function solely to organize protests/pickets outside the offices of actual politicians?
Mark Zuckerberg spend $400MM to get influence over state election offices in key swing states.

Makes you wonder.
I have a theory that if a team reaches a critical mass of FIRE people the culture begins to suffer. Mostly due to what you are describing: they are hustling all of the time instead of approaching thing in a more sustainable way, setting unrealistic expectations.

But teams also benefit from having at least a few people innately interested in tech (too much “passion” is probably bad too). If lots of people consciously take the mercenary position, it can damage the whole team’s morale because unsurprisingly the necessary but unglamorous work gets de-emphasized more than usual. This eventually drags down everyone’s performance and increases the likelihood of stressful events like outages.
Do we have a release date for this yet?
Something also cool that's not widely known: Rosetta emulates i386 instructions. CrossOver/Wine uses this on macOS to run 32-bit Windows EXEs.

I haven't tested yet whether this functionality works on Linux.
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I'm sorry, but who is Freddie de Boer kidding? We throw people away all the time. It's just that the people we discard usually aren't conventionally attractive wealthy white women. Moreover, I have no use for forgiveness; I do not want to be "forgiven" if I say something that offends you. To be forgiven by you implies that I answer to you, and I don't answer to my equals.
Who needs a better teacher? The gifted student or the remedial student?

Gifted students (at least up to middle school) don't need special teachers (an 8th grade math teacher could teach gifted 6th graders), they just need challenging material and peers to keep them motivated and study with.
Sometimes I miss the predictable and ensured progression as you tunneled into the mountain and got farther from natural light.

Underground river -> Chasms -> Magma -> Bad Things(tm)
Back in the day it also had decent PHP support (don't know how true that still is).
>Why are you so intent on arbitrarily labeling people as something despite their actions?

I am intent on illustrating my point that the leaders of SF have successfully labelled themselves as progressives so that the progressives that live there will vote for them. I get your point that they aren't really progressive, but people vote for them because they sell themselves as progressive.

I'm also not "stuck on this branding thing" - just because you disagree with me doesn't mean I'm dumb :)
>Seems like the obvious outcome would be a lot more students who struggle, necessitating a slower track for them.

That is not obvious to me. It is a known psychological phenomenon that children will meet external expectations, high or low. In sports it's commonly referred to as playing up or down to your opponent. Other countries have much higher standards and have not seen an explosion in children struggling. What is most likely to happen is... nothing. The percentage of kids exceeding and struggling will stay largely the same.
It's a hard topic, and it certainly is not made easier by repeating old cliches that has been proven false repeatedly. Throwing money at bad schools does not make them good. There are plenty of terrible schools spending as much money as the best ones, with no results. It's not a money question - at least not alone.

Yes, there are correlation between academic success and living in a rich neighborhood. Because yes, rich successful people often pass on their success to their children. But it's not solved by just dumping money on poor schools and hoping that would solve everything. It has been tried. Unions love it. Kids don't get any better. In fact, the whole "structural inequality" thing was roped in to explain this phenomenon - why tons of money are being spent with no observable result? Oh, it must be the invisible and immeasurable "structural inequality"! Which means we should shut down the gifted programs (so rare students that manage to overcome the awfulness of their schools have no recourse now), introduce race-based school policies and let students that barely can (and sometimes can't) read graduate. That surely will make them successful.
There are still targets to be met and demands still being made of you. Sure, if you have nothing to do, do something good with your time; that's not always the position people are in.

> Life is more than serving your boss in the office.

Sure, I don't think anyone's saying you exist to serve your boss. But if you have to work a job, why not find one you actually like doing? I think what the OP describes would be a complete drain of my energy, even if I could read a book occasionally; working on actual code during my workday gives me an opportunity to be paid to learn new things and is honestly actually energizing. Why work on a tiny Nix environment on a toy project when I could be setting up a real-world Nix development environment that's deployed across tens of developer laptops, y'know?
I can probably count on two hands the number of times I've ever directly opened my bookmarks in about 26 years of browsing. The reason I still bother to bookmark is that most browsers these days allow you to type into the URL bar a word and it'll suggest bookmark titles containing the word, that works for me. Still think bookmarking needs a paradigm shift in how we manage and organize the data.
>It's pretty far left to say we need to spend trillions on new projects at a time with high inflation and a shortage of workers

No it's not. The high inflation is precisely because of underinvestment in fixed capital and infrastructure.
I tried Jetbrains remote workstations with Jetbrains space.

I had a pretty reliable ~150ms connection. It sucked SO BAD.

150ms + input latency before I see a response? It's a horrendous experience. Ask any pro gamer what they think about gaming with a ping higher than 20-30. Same thing for development.
I would assume that, in a large city, those counts are routinely wrong and mismatches are ignored. If I try to count even a few dozen items twice in a row, I’d be lucky to get the same count twice. I can’t imagine poll counts are better.
There are always individual cases that work out. Even in systems with extreme oppression, members of oppressed groups succeed. But it is still a problem if there is a large and observable statistical disparity between groups for no compelling reason.

Consider a toy admissions criteria where students go through the same process as today but students with black hair have to also win a game of rock paper scissors. There will surely be a large number of kids with black hair who are admitted and succeed. But the system would be plainly unfair and deserve to be fixed, despite many individual students with black hair being able to say "well I was admitted."
Any further reading recommendations? It's unclear why the cultural example of baking and sharing food would cause significant differences in test results but that's picking at an example. Were the six other questions also stereotypical of white middle class families? I imagine they were more abstract (lacking cultural context?). Would the solution here be to remove cultural context, or have culturally tailored exams? It would be interesting to take IQ tests from other countries and compare results.

I imagine other factors such as home life, economic status, and cultural emphasis on education would be much, much stronger predictors on IQ test performance.