not denying your broader point, but jobs did give to charity. Whether it was "enough" for you your own choice, but what came out after his death was that he didn't care at all for the publicity of having given large sums of money, and so mostly there is only speculation as to whether or not he was behind several anonymous large donations that seem to fit his interests.

it's not about it being a hard sell..... it's about having to pay for lawyers to defend yourself over and over. it's not worth the time, and 60k doesn't buy very many hours of lawyer time.....

yes, no one disagrees that the customers of AT&T have a legitimate issue with their security and should be able to seek compensation from them if their data security was lacking.

If a bank I deposit money at is mismanaged in such a way that I lose my deposit, I can seek restitution from management if their actions are found to be criminal/negligent. If someone points out they are being cavalier with my money by say, getting access to it and showing everyone they could, then again, I can leave and not do business with that bank and seek some form of restitution.

But that doesn't mean the kind civilian who helped himself to my information or money has a free pass. Two wrongs do not make a right. whether his punishment was fair, considering the damage done, I don't know (because I'm not familiar with what his punishment was).

they won't keep their job, but the person who actually steals the money, if caught, is arrested and prosecuted for theft. the jail time will be less than if they forcibly took the money (say, with a weapon or threat of violence) but we punish both. the difference is the person who loses their job is punished by their boss, and if the boss continues on with incompetent people, then his store will go out of business because all their revenues are being stolen and getting them back is a real problem.

usually the solution is some mixture. were you that far ahead on every subject, or just some of them? My school tried to push me ahead 2-3 grade levels and my parents vetoed it for many of the reasons you give (and they had done it so they "knew"). This meant my elementary school years were mostly a waste when it came to science and math education. But by middle school they started letting me just take the higher grade level classes and by high school you could just take whatever class you qualified for.

What I appreciated is they made the attempt to bus me back and forth between teh middle and high school so that I could be in the higher intensity classes. What I hated was having guidance counselors that actively tried to hold me back by making me take worthless classes rather than continuing forward. But then again I was the only person in my middle school doing that so it's pretty easy to forgive it as ignorance.

But in general, this is the benefit of a good private school vs a public school. They are generally willing to work with you to make sure your child is always challenged. The downside being not everyone can afford these schools (where I live they cost about 35k/yr/kid).

anecdote: in my elementary school there was 1 gifted teacher, where over the day, each grade's gifted kids (we had about 100 kids per grade, and 6-7 qualified as gifted in florida) would go into a class with the gifted teacher for an hour or so.

I also was far enough ahead in math that to help me stop being a disruption (I was not one to sit still) I was sent to help in the special needs class. IIRC, there were 6 kids in that class, and 2 full time teachers with special training.

I don't think it's crazy overfunding. I saw first hand that if you just get the few really gifted kids away from drudgery for an hour or so and challenge them with creative learning, In Florida the entrance was usually based on an IQ test given at a young age (I took it at 5). So oddly, across the students I remember, I was from a wealthy family, 6-8 from middle class families, and 2 from poorer backgrounds. it helps a lot. And frankly, the kids who are learning disabled I gained a huge respect for. My experience with the disabled is they usually try far harder than almost anyone else. I know if I had so much trouble wrapping my head around addition I would have given up way before some of these kids did, spending years trying to really "get" it.

But this is one state, and 1 district within the state. I've heard of a lot worse.

no they don't. net every school loses money on the overall athletic department. And only a tiny fraction of football teams bring in enough to fund themselves.Those that do usually see those proceeds plowed into all the other money losing sports. I can think of only a few schools powerful enough in enough sports to fund their entire sports department.

If sports actually paid out enough to fund better science programs, that would be awesome. But the vast majority of sports programs are a drain on academic programs.

you do realize this is just as bad with hockey in places like Canada, soccer everywhere in the world, Rugby and cricket in the commonwealth countries, etc.

This is in no way unique to the US. We just feel that way because with 6.8 billion people worldwide and the US being the sink for the talented ones from around the globe, we get a false sense of inferiority. I have yet to see a place in the world where sports and tv stars aren't held in far higher regard than science (and that includes south asia, far east, and europe as places I've lived).

I don't have experience where 100% of what I do is programming, but at times, up to 25 or 30 pct of job was coding, and without an IDE I'd be lost. I can never remember any of the semantics of a given language (and I only use VBA and Python), but I do remember roughly what a language can do and an IDE makes it a lot easier for me to find the exact wording of a call, capitalization, etc.

I'd be miserable in notepad, getting hung up on typos, or an extra space that gums up indentation. IDEs allow a lot of folks like me who don't program full time to be able to code useful algos when we need them and walk away, not worrying about the time it takes to re-familiarize myself with a language.

nah, seems more like they are throwing cash at every company that mimics in a superior manner any piece of fb people used to use. Chat and images are the big two,
the problem is, any new company can come along and start the same service, at which point fb will have to buy them as well. this was the story with instagram, they then tried to buy snapchat, and now bought whatsapp.

I regularly do my rent for less than 15k per year in Tokyo, Charlotte, and have found places near SF in case I move there.

There are a number of specialties that can be required in an emergency and small communities cannot always have multiple of each as they can't afford the cost.

Its the tough difference between theoretical perfect system and what most countries, even nationalized healthcare, deal with regularly

Yes because everyone has to have a personal nanny?

Its easy, professional friends do it as well. Its called jobs with staggered working hours, and even those on the minimum wage can find them. One parent goes from 7 am to 3:30 and another from 11 to 730. You now need about 5 hours of child care unless the kids are in school, when you need 0. But yeah, if you want a personal nanny I can imagine living on a budget gets hard

I don't think you replied to the correct comment. I never said anything about whether a higher minimum wage detracts from a desire for training. Only that its ridiculous to think it needs to be high enough to support anyone in any stage of life.

What does work ethic have to do with it?

Every job is different. I want my pilot and copilot both well rested and also able to and have experience working longer than statutory hours. Because if We end up stuck in a pattern I don't want them to be unable to push through.

Similar for my ER surgeon. This is the value of consistent 90 hour weeks in residency. Some jobs you can't just put down and say "sorry, I hit my 40 hour quota" and they require you to actually be effective.

Before they changed residency rules, new doctors were working 105 hour weeks on repeat for 18 months before getting to slow down to 90. There is a reason for this. If you live rural, there is no backup. It comes down to your ability to handle doing surgery at 3 am effectively even though you haven't been home yet. Sure, you aren't as good as when fresh.