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A little bit, but I am not sure whether it is really comparable. It's a relatively new trend here in germany (started 2002). Translating a recent article: "According to this, in 2007 only 16.2 percent of children attended an all-day school. In 2017, the figure was more than twice as high, at 42 per cent."

As I understood it (not a parent and it was not available when I was at school): You have all-day classes and "normal" classes at school. The kids in all-day classes stay together during the day and the kids in the other class go home, it is not an optional add-on. My niece is attending all-day school with a musical focus and likes it very much. All day classes differ between schools and classes, with school on 3-5 afternoons until 4 pm. Supervision is given for homework and studying for exams.

I wonder whether averages here "average out" the missing spending. I am not surprised that the average spending in San Francisco per kid is higher than most places, especially because of the prevalence of private schools. And, of course, more money is not always a solution if it's not used effectively. I would also guess that absolute spending per child is not really comparable without adjusting for cost of living, you can't outsource your teachers after all. The question is quite complicated.

> If the only equality you can figure out how to manage is hammering down all the nails that stick out, what good is equality?

I have not said that, but opportunities should be well thought out and available to each child. I am also convinced that there is a balance to strike here, classes should be diverse to not entrench inequality too much. Of course young mozart just needs more musical education, young warhol more art and young einstein more math.

If you pin every responsibility to the parents you are just leaving unlucky kids behind. Having someone to blame is not helping kids succeed without much support from the parents. Of course someone will always succeed despite the odds, but the odds are still stacked agains the poor kid. It just entrenches wealth and slows down social mobility.

What's the fix? More support from the state of course.

It really is a task for the society compared to the individual, otherwise you will never ever ever have a fair system. Success in schools should not be so dependent on the parents. What about single parents? Do you just accept that it will be miserable for them to get their kids trough school? Parents without a lot of education will also have a problem of helping their kids. And what about those kids? Will you just leave them behind? It's not their fault they are born in the wrong family. This is just a take I would just really not agree with.

are there no all-day schools in the US? My girlfriend went to one because of her mother being on her own and having to work and it was pretty involved compared to my "normal" school. They handled school, sports and homework. Your kid should come home with only very, very few things to do. It's a trend in germany to have it as an option at more and more schools but they have to build the infrastructure first (may schools in german didn't have a canteen) so it's taking a bit. The schools where I grew up didn't have one but now both "advanced" schools have all day school options.

I think every school should have the possibility to put your kid in an all-day school, I can't imagine the strain on single parents or parents where both have to work a lot otherwise.

Of course it's not possible to eliminate parents as an important factor of the success of your kid, but you can help.

nearly every other developed country managed to fund their schools system adequately, to provide a uniform system of education without heavy reliance on private schools. While you can't really guarantee equal opportunities for every kid due extracurricular support, at least the possible schools and classes are open to everyone independent of income.

So one should strive to eliminate private schools as much as possible. I entrenches inequality.

I wholeheartedly agree. Exceptions to the rule always exist and I don't want it to be impossible, but they should be entirely optional and non-standard. You are going to re-learn it anyway (and learn it better, from first principles instead of patched together).

It's also an arms race that's misplaced. STEM majors are learning math anyway, there really are diminishing returns in cramming more of it into your school curriculum. A lot of different subjects are way more useful, ideally some that do exactly not prepare yourself for a major of your choice, otherwise you end up with over-optimised education. You need some social studies and discuss current topics moving america and the world. You need to write essays about these difficult topics. You need a little bit of science and a little bit of history. And a foreign language. It's about the abstract ideals of education, afterwards you can choose the major you want.

> it’s a business after all

is it? I thought those sports organisations are not businesses but associations of the clubs. Is it different in the US?

I bet that a factor is that, while not the majority, it's the largest group

great question! Coal is unfortunately very well connected on every level of the government. For example, the unions are one of the oldest and have very good political connections, especially to the left of the political spectrum and down to the smaller levels. So combined with the corporations they wield a lot of power. I've also seen major players of the political, federal left, meeting with representatives of these unions.

They are the typical union-jobs with large corporations in the background.

this doesn't seem like a lot tbh. What is it afterwards? Is it expected that the woman abandons her job and only cares for the child? There are a lot of costs involved

while weird at first, I am reminded on the agencies focused on matching people with jobs. It's a bit similar I think! Reminds me a bit of the movie "the lobster"

this is truly absurd. I bet there are quite a few small businesses/self employed people getting popups all the time. I really can't believe how you can damage your product this much, it's like if they have no respect for windows.

I can't that IT has to disable those ads via group policy.

Another point is that germany is decentralised whereas france is centralised. France can formulate a policy and stick to it, but in germany usually every level of government is involved. And nobody wants to have a nuclear power plants near you. Ignoring local decisions for the greater good is very hard in germany. So I think a there's also naturally a greater pushback in germany than france and then came Chernobyl, which (if I remember correclty) affected germany way more than france. You can still find traces if you analyse wild deer shot from certain areas.

You can also see this in the rail networks, if you ignore that france invested more into it's rail there's also a different philosophy. France not only connected major population centres, it is also quite focused on paris. Exactly as some planners, sitting in paris and planning top-down would devise them. Germany tries to interconnect as much as possible, benefitting as many as possible.

My girlfriend recently had a popup from microsoft urging her to use bing instead of google for a few days in return for a few bucks (I think it was amazon credit). I was simply astonished, windows really didn't seem like a tool anymore but just someone trying to sell you something or get your data. Also it's tacky. As I personally haven't used windows for years I really was in disbelief seeing it.

How can you work professionally with something like this?

EDIT: seems I remember it correctly https://www.howtogeek.com/269793/how-to-earn-earn-amazon-cre...

ah I never knew that the protocols behind the zeroconf services (Bonjour etc.) can also resolve hostnames. Very interesting. Although I have to say that in my experience these things are not robust enough yet. Setting up the printer at work was a pain because it was not automatically found (okay, this is a complex network) and at home I have a few devices that should talk with each other (some running behind switches) but only if I start them in the right order.

I wonder why there's no way to let the router handle the DNS with some sort of registering/de-registering functionality? I would think this to be more robust compared to the broadcasting.

I have recently come to the conclusion that a major problem is that there is no "local" internet. You either have websites somewhere out of local network or some app-based solution, but there's no "dishwasher.local". And you can't burden consumers with IP addresses.

It really is unbelievable considering what the train was hauling. It wasn't just a long coal train:

> It had five locomotives at the front and 136 cars trailing behind, about half hauling hazardous material: propane, isobutane, ethyl alcohol, phosphoric acid and molten sulfur heated to 235 degrees Fahrenheit.

I could have killed a lot of people. It seems really dangerous to play fast and loose with those rules while also carrying super dangerous cargo. It's very easy to imagine the wrong composition of those dangerous trailers getting derailed.

How is rail safety handled in the US? Is every company responsible for itself with little oversight or are there more detailed rules? I wonder how this:

> It happened in September 2005 when a 1.5-mile-long BNSF train tried to fit into a siding in Missouri that was 1.4 miles long.

could have happened. It does not make sense to me. Shouldn't there be a computer saying no to the scheduling or at least some rail safety system?

there must be some way to manage this since I can't recall this to happen in the subways I've used (mostly munich, germany). Or I imagine what you describe a bit more dramatic than you've meant it to be

I bet the other places he looked at was London, Paris, Amsterdam and Copenhagen. Of course in a cool part of the city. The reality is just that many would like to live in munich but it's just very expensive because of this. Many can't pay this. His girlfriend makes a lot with 75k, so they should be able to find something but you have to be realistic in this city but you have to adjust your expectations.

what are you talking about? The economist has nothing to do with american administration. It is an independent, british publication. Also, for example the "Throwing babies out of incubators" was, as I understood it, not ordered by the american government but by the kuwait government and later disputed by the independent journalists of ABC.

Your comment is just baseless and easily leads to "alternative" facts and other senseless claims. It is actively harmful.

Statements by governments need to be checked, but that's what independent journalists are there for. The same venue you criticise.

I was also pleasantly surprised by Ionic. I found it easy to use, quick to set up and performing well. Perfect I think for small to medium sized web-apps!

somewhat. You still have Hamburg, Frankfurt, Berlin etc.

Maybe Munich has slightly better opportunities, really depends on you specific niche, but then probably Zurich has even better opportunities but is even costlier. Or Copenhagen.

I really somewhat agree. You really have to see that living in munich is a luxury that a lot of people can not enjoy because it's too expensive. Since you major in CS your social bubble is very well of (75k salary for the first job?) so you see it as somewhat given that you also belong there. And at the TUM they constantly tell you how much of an elite you are. It's a bit entitled I would say. Many Germans can't really live in munich and therefore have access to the opportunities there, it's just the most expensive place in germany you can rent in.

You can always try to find a flat to share with roommates, this is still possible in munich.

talking about vscode without its plugins or langue servers does not make sense. They provide 99% of the functionality. The plugins can create new views, from pdf-viewers to interactive coding environments with 3d plots ala plotly. Done in electron. The python language server provides all you can think of with python.

Emulators are not native to IDEs, there's always glue code, you can write a plugin for it. I don't know about GUI-Builders, but in principle you can do anything. It's just a web view after all. Vscode is incredibly flexible. I have written a paper with it including live preview of the pdf. But I don't care about GUI-Builders. You only need them for apps and then you are stuck with each walled garden anyway and forced to use e.g. Xcode. Except ios/android apps, who's native anyway in the 21st century? ;)

that's great for 1980's editors, feel free to use them. But vscode is a different beast, a plug-and-play solution ranging from simple editor to a full blown IDE. It also stays snappy for me, as mentioned.

hm but is it comparable? I've used sublime in the past but only as a bare-bones editor. I see vscode more in line with IDEs (it's kinda both), as there ist a lot of functionality and coding support available. Pycharm, Intellij etc are all clunkier in my experience and that's how I mostly use vscode.

I am using a mid-2014 Macbook pro. It's not a recent laptop and vscode is still snappy for me.

vscode launches very fast for me and is in general quite snappy

yeah, some sort of caching. Small models for most tasks with a way bigger models just one get-request away. It's a smart idea that hasn't been tried yet. But I bet that you could shrink the models significantly. It doesn't really have to know so much if it can google, but I we don't really know how to train such models (we just want the "common sense" without so much knowledge).