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Comment Re:Hello Captain Obvious (Score 1) 105

#1 Teacher pay, outside a rock bottom amount seen almost entirely in rural areas, has no significant effect on student performance
#2 This is a problem, perhaps if admin overhead hadn't ballooned far beyond teacher pay or student allotment it might not be an issue
#3 Irrelevant. They need to reinstitute student accountability. Disruption of class gets ISS and then suspension. Violence gets suspension. Continued violence gets expulsion. If you can't read, write, or do your sums at grade level, you get held back a grade in classes with people who were held back grades so as not to disturb the kids who didn't.
#3 in particular would solve most issues, with the rest being solved by getting rid of common core entirely. Phonics, grammar, memorization in math of tables and formulas, and book reports on books the kid chooses. Only one mandatory book per semester. Unless you're in AP class nothing else really matters to the process of learning prior to 8th or 9th grade.

Comment Re:For those getting pitchforks ready (Score 1) 153

If you have induction, how do you feel about the sound of the range? I still have an ancient gas burner (though I did install a good ventilation fan), but when I've cooked on an induction stove elsewhere, it both made an annoying high-pitched squeal (think old CRTs but louder) and had fan noises kicking on and off. It annoyed the crap out of me.

I don't want to get another gas burner, and technologically induction does seem like the clear winner, but the noise thing is really throwing me off. What's your experience?

Comment Re:This (Score 1) 55

Not very. It's what happens when you push for quick construction and none of the documentation for the custom equipment that needs to be built is in the local language, in this case English, is available. Getting custom documentation properly translated for industrial equipment takes time to ensure that everything is translated perfectly regarding construction and operation. So they brought in Koreans for the specialty construction and to train the people that would be operating the equipment. Since going hat in hand to the US government to tell them exactly why they need either more time or a lot more work visas would lose a significant amount of face, they took shortcuts. Those shortcuts came back to bite them in the ass.

Comment Re:Locked in (Score 2) 80

I think that's a total misread of the situation.

Tesco has a contract with VMware. According to Tesco, VMware/Broadcom is now breaking this contract. The point of litigation is to determine which said prevails in this dispute. Of course, during litigation, Tesco will make many claims to show how important they are, and how insidious VMware/Broadom's actions are, all in support of their position. It doesn't mean that they Tesco could go offline at any second (though that is of course possible).

You later said "Tesco sell groceries, like potatoes. Do you think they only have a single potato supplier?"

That's a good point, but the more direct analogy would be it Tesco signed a purchasing agreement with a particular potato vendor where they paid £1m for a certain amount of potatoes over three years. Now let's say that after the first year this particular vendor fails to supply the agreed upon potatoes and won't refund any money. Tesco would undoubtedly sue that one vendor (even though they have multiple potato vendors). I have no doubt that Tesco would likewise claim that "This vendor's refusal to supply us with potatoes is endangering the food supply for Britain and Ireland!"

You wouldn't say that Tesco was "negligent" for trying to enforce a paid contract with that potato vendor, would you?

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