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Your country's solution to keeping people at home is to pay them so bad they can't afford to leave? Sorry but that really doesn't sound good.

Yeah but then I want to move to the US or Switzerland or Germany and the US$66k is suddenly a lot less? I have no idea why a skilled senior SWE contractor would go into that kind of deal, the market is much hotter than that, $66k is entry level rate for a contractor even if you work at local companies here.

I think the point is more that having the degree doesn't guarantee anything, and that not having a degree is not a barrier. You still have to do an interview with the candidate, and there will be many self-taught devs who will be much better than the people with degrees.

Cool, but the coolest thing about Telegram is that IDGAF, it just works

But others might miss the meaning if they only went with what you wrote.

I used to chat on IRC between 2005 to 2014. We tried to switch to Jabber several times but it was simply too much work (we had elaborate mIRC bots, for example) and it simply wasn't as good - bloaty clients (this was in times when we had 512 MB RAM and single or dual core), chat servers were frequently down while IRC always worked (with the occasional netsplit, but oh well)...

Then we tried Slack but most people didn't come there too much. Today we have a Telegram group and it's so much better UX/UI wise...

It wasn't all fine and dandy here too, but at least buildings and land were mostly returned (corporations were mostly robbed by the communists so there wasn't much to return). Has Polish land not been returned at all to the rightful owners?

Didn't Poland have a privatization post-revolution like Czechia had? Here, we returned most of what was stolen to the ancestors of the original owners.

Why would you accept a job that pays only US$66k if the value of your work is US$100k? Here (central Europe) it's common practice to count your money in EUR or USD even though we're paid in the local currency - especially if the local currency is not pegged to EUR.

The meaning is that you can learn to do the job without needing the piece of paper and the loss of sanity and time that goes along with it. There isn't a field where it applies more than in programming.

A nice senior engineer contract pays around $100k over here.

The government office responsible for education based on feedback from schools, whose administrators read articles similar to this one (some points from these other well-known articles were recited word by word, basically).

Yeah but this is resolved with installing a Pi-hole or Ublock into browser; yes, teens can do that and those who care about privacy do it. The rest has already spewed their data all around the internet anyways.

Why care about protecting the kids from Google and Facebook etc when they have Youtube and Facebook running in the other browser tab? Why not protect them from actual physical threats they can't do anything about by themselves instead?

You can't do shit about being forced to go to a school building - don't go and the police will come to force you to go (tested that for you).

> I don't see anybody calling for edtech to be cancelled

But that's the practical outcome - here they said "oh we have these unresolvable problems [...list of bullshit...] with this internet stuff, I guess we need kids back in the prison!". And articles like this are just feeding them more.

Well, my school is the kind of school where a child recorded a teacher abusing another child and the solution was to ban mobile phones...

And when a child (unsuccessfully) knifed a teacher, all the other teachers went and started telling every parent that their children will have problems if they tell the press that the attacked teacher was abusive, saying things like "this is our internal problem to solve, no need to involve the authorities" (but of course they were more than happy to involve the authorities in the attack, they just didn't want them to know the full story).

The problem is, the fact that there are a few great schools doesn't mean there isn't a ton of really bad schools. You can't base policy on the great schools alone... I'm absolutely convinced that distant/online education is a huge net positive. Canceling it instead of improving it feels so wrong.