Consensus... are you kidding? Trump thinks reality is set by fiat - HIS fiat.

I wasn't saying or implying that Harvard is the norm or really talking about Harvard specifically. I was just presenting extremes of the college experience. Those extreme's make the averages meaningless. It's like comparing my wealth to that of Elon Musk, the local car dealership owner who is worth $20 million, and saying that on average we have over $300 billion. Doesn't give you much meaningful information.

Your small private college wasn't really the norm either. Most college matriculants numerically are going to community college, local state schools, and for-profits. Non-profit privates (both elite and non-elite) are the minority.

Every time you block an ad, a puppy dies.

I don't think TFA is saying that kids couldn't read a sentence out loud. They can "decode" words. The accusation is more about attention span and reading comprehension. It's a stretch to attribute that to lack of phonics instruction.

The use of averages to obscures huge differences within higher education. Harvard isn't going to bend over backwards to accommodate a horse because they don't have to (unless they think the parent is going to donate a full equestrian center). They don't have trouble filling their classes with full-pay students. By contrast, your local CC or directional state school isn't getting remotely like 40k for a student in revenue (let alone profit). It's students at the latter that disproportionally make up freshmen dropouts. At highly selective schools, graduation rates typically exceed 80%.

The unions are very regional and also aggressively gatekeep. A few years ago I had an interesting conversation with a plumber in NYC. He had been shut out of the union and barely met ends meet. Outside of the East Coast, most plumbers aren't unionized. What often happens around here is you have one licensed plumber and a bunch of low-wage assistants (usually barely above minimum wage) who do most of the worth. Similar issues with a lot of trades.

I think you've been sold a story by people with a political agenda (i.e. attacking teacher's unions and anything they think is "woke"- i.e. anything they disagree with). Public teacher's unions and schools aren't responsible for curriculum selection. That's done at the state and district level. And any teacher I've met would laugh in your face if you said they thought correct answers to math problems are "white supremacy."

smaller companies would come out of nowhere and eat the lunch of more established players by out-innovating them.
That is actually what is happening right now. You are just to blind to see it.

Some game studio from some surprising location would come out with AMAZING AAA games at twice the speed and half the cost.
To write a game you need an idea first. And: marketing you still need.

But for now, the only people making money are selling tools or computer chips or building data centers for this circular AI economic bubble.
There is no bubble. This si a stupid /. myth

No idea what is wrong with you idiots.

We are experiencing the 6th Kondratieff! We are in the middle of a gigantic industrial revolution. If you would not insist to make China your enemy, we could get their AI super chips. And you had not the power problems your data centers are producing.

We are in the beginning of the biggest industrial revolution mankind ever experienced - because it is mind and knowledge based - and you idiots put your head into the sand and call it "a bubble". As if AI will go away and kind of explode? This is the first industrial revolution which YOU experience during YOUR lifetime, and you insist to ignore it? How brain dead is that?

Stop running around singing lala lala - I can not hear you.

Seriously: good luck!

I was halfway expecting him to be "honored" with an UFC peac prize between cage matches tonight.

I'd bet that nothing gets signed Friday. What the US administration is claiming is in the deal looks far different than what Iran states is in the deal.

Also, does anyone else remember Trump making up some BS about Iran promising some really nice gift to him? I think the odds are high Trump screws this up, even if the negotiators land on agreeable common terms between now and Friday.

Energy-based weapons? Mostly still not practical, and the real-world versions (lasers, masers) predate Star Trek.
If you think that, you are completely out of the loop.

You still did not explain your point.

GB/UK has border controls right now.

It had them when they were part of the EU.

They will have them regardless if they rejoin the EU or not.

Stupid idiot.

What the fark has having border controls to do with being a member of the EU or not?

Every border country (or airport) of the EU has border controls.

Seriously: stupid idiot very much?

Almost all Java 1.0 code written in '95, on the other hand, still runs fine today on Java 27 or whatever the latest version is.
That is my experience, too.

But why did you need to recompile 16/32 bit apps on windows?

An enterprise app has nothing to do with

How your fat fingers are unable to interact with a laptop or why your eyes can not see the text on your screen, or why hitting shift 5 times opens a screen reader and so on

Perhaps you do not know what an "enterprise app" is?

Hint: it is software were no normal user is interacting with.

That's not entirely fair. I know quite a few young people who... maintain their Facebook accounts so they can talk to their grandparents.