frankbreetz
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Comment · 1 month ago
I find this article to be more interesting:
https://www.economist.com/international/2026/09/08/are-teena...
Especially the part where it states that part of the issue is in 2000 when Finland had higher test scores then everyone it was attributed to play based learning and less testing. Everyone immediately jumped on this, because if you can have more fun and learn more, of course that is the way to go. This opinion still permeates both teachers and parents. I was of this opinion for a long time, as I went to a rigorous school, and would have enjoyed "play based learning".
It turns out this may have been way off and difficult schools such as those in China and Singapore have the best results. In the Finland example they had only recently switched from more rigorous to more play based, so the rigorous schooling was still being shown in testing. I think we were all a bit bamboozled by this. Maybe it seemed too good to be true and we should have been more critical of the findings. But the play based learning opinion is still strong and we as a society need to move back to more rigor will make stronger students.
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 3 months ago
the bathroom and kitchen both have faucets! You can potentially trek from the bedroom to the living room
Comment · 3 months ago
Even more companies are just starting AI/ML initiatives. The tokenmaxxing thing only happened at a handful of tech companies, most companies don't have unlimited money to do this kind of thing.
Once the Pathfinders find out where the real value is there is much more room for growth from companies who have be mindful of budget.
Comment · 3 months ago
Has anyone's doctor ever not ask them if they exercise during a checkup?
Every checkup for me has started with "what is you diet and exercise like?"
Comment · 5 months ago
More like if you use services that cost money, why would you expect them for free?
Comment · 5 months ago
You would pay little to no taxes if you completely removed yourself from society and lived deep in the wilderness, but I but you aren't going to do that. I wonder why that is?
Comment · 7 months ago
The TSA was created because a plane crashed into a building. Private planes can crash into buildings. Why should they be exempt from TSA checks?
Comment · 7 months ago
Looking at the employment report that came out today, tech seems to be doing better then most sectors...
"Other professional, scientific, and technical services" grew month over month and year over year
"Information" took a hit, but the bulk of that was "Motion picture and sound recording industries"
"Computing infrastructure providers, data processing, web hosting, and related services" modestly shrunk, but "Web search portals, libraries, archives, and other information service" is the only area to grow under information.
This seems different then what the post says. They also said worse then 2008, but didn't post any information. I would imagine the total market was much smaller, so the while total jobs lost was probably smaller, percentage was probably larger. When I started in 2012, tech would take any with a science degree.
I don't understand the job titles being propose in the post, are the using different BLS data then me?
Comment · 1 year ago
Pretty much all companies are created in order to make the owner(s) money.
Comment · 1 year ago
The issue with hiring many juniors is, when there is another dev boom, all the juniors that were hired, now mids or seniors, are going to jump ship to whoever is going to pay them the most.
So, the company can either grow talent and then pay them market rate or hire at market rates from other companies that grew them. Hiring juniors, while good for the industry in the long run, doesn't really benefit an individual company.
It is game theory and it is still why senior developers make a lot of money despite there being an oversupply of juniors.
Comment · 1 year ago
Are you suggesting that this is the fault of the people who said tariff's are a bad idea?
Comment · 1 year ago
yes, but "salaries and compensation" are people doing work, and profit gets paid to shareholders. Most people would agree that the bulk of taxpayer dollars should go to working people and not shareholders, these are two entirely different categories.
All of it goes to people, is such a reduction. We could just cut a check to Elon Musk and claim "All of goes to people". It is important to establish the difference, between paying people for labor and giving people money in the form of profit.
Comment · 1 year ago
Profit would fall into an entirely different category then "salaries and compensation"
Comment · 1 year ago
From what I understand this provision is potentially being temporally re-added in the "Big Beautiful Bill"
https://www.crowell.com/en/insights/client-alerts/house-comm...