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This is really the heart of it:

> Don't get me wrong - to an extent, some languages (especially more niche ones) drive hiring and what kind of employee you get

In my experience, the community around a given language is going to significantly influence the sort of typical applicant you get for a job working in that language. Those profile vary a surprising amount, especially for, as you say, niche languages, but also for "beginner" languages.

I have seen businesses significantly harmed because they hired what I would term language specific technicians instead of engineers. That's a failure of leader, certainly, but that failure is a lot more likely for certain languages.

This pattern is a big part of why Google is a poor company to buy infrastructure from. They are horrible at customer support, and have made it clear over the years that they have no intention of changing that. That's simply unacceptable for production infrastructure.

> Or put a slightly different way: libertarians were always lying about their noble anti-government ideas. They just hated the thought of the government helping women, minorities or the poor. And anything that threatened fossil fuel interests.

This is an extremely lazy form of argument and isn't really worthy of HN.

They're historically synonyms. The word libertarian was invented only after the word liberal was highjacked and warped into its modern meaning.

This is incredible to me. I wonder if you have some other mechanism of "knowing" or recalling that I don't that substitutes in. It's entirely possible, given that so many people report not being aware their experience is atypical.

I find this absolutely fascinating. I appreciate you sharing.

I fully believe this to be real, but I struggle to internalize that there are people who genuinely can't picture an apple. That is a very useful simple tool. Thank you for sharing it.

Even this feels like only a partial scale. I can picture what an apple looks like, rotate it in my, and see how light would reflect off of it as it moves.

How about smell? Can you call you mind what it would smell like to slice open an apple and experience that in some sense? Or what it would sound or feel like? I'm curious if it's literally "seeing" or if it's the entire experience of imagining an event.

The execution speed of the language the CLI is written in doesn't matter. Any difference is dwarfed by the slowness of network calls, specifically their API response times.

I have used the major hyperscalers for years. I agree with you that Google is the worst business partner, but saying they have the worst network and more issues does not align with my experience at all. Azure is miles behind on technical prowess.

You're lucky. In my experience no-call lists don't work.

I command a significant budget and even with a lot of effort to not proliferate my phone number, I get at least half a dozen spam or sales calls a day. I can't imagine how bad it would be if I didn't attempt to protect it. Perhaps it would be the same and I should just give up, but I'm not willing to try.

The other side of the coin is that it's just none of their business. They don't need my phone number to sell me SaaS software. There is no upside for me to give it to them.

Yeah, I'm not at all willing to do these sorts of verifications. Any company doing them essentially doesn't exist to me. I don't even use Anthropic because they require a phone number to register.

> Comparisons like his don't make sense. There's no dividing line between government-schooled and home-schooled in real life, there's a range of connections and dependencies. There is no friction or animosity between Government Education as an institution and people who homeschool. Their goals align.

I'm not sure what I said that made you think I'm arguing against this point. Government Education is absolutely necessary and a common good. It's a bare minimum that keeps a lot of children from a life of total ignorance and squalor.

I do think that government education has some pretty major flaws, but I didn't say anything to setup some zero-sum competition between the two approaches. I was replying to the statement "In most states, homeschooling is almost meaningless because there are no required assessments to demonstrate student proficiency in any subject", which is a bit ridiculous and, in context, is trying to paint home-schooling as some backdoor approach to child labor.

Sure, I don't contest that. Parents can definitely fail to educate their children properly at home. Students in government schools suffer from the same problem though.

The point is that the average result appears to be better.

> I'd love to see your citations on that.

Yeah, sure. Here are the popular studies on the subject: https://nheri.org/academic-achievement-and-demographic-trait...

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15582159.2015.99...

https://nheri.org/a-systematic-review-of-the-empirical-resea...

If you look into these you'll see people arguing against Ray's studies saying "the population is overly white, overly married parents, and overly Christian, it doesn't represent potential results for the wider population". That's definitely true, but it's also a fact of the home-schooled population that those groups are wildly over represented, and the results of that actual population being called "meaningless" is what I was responding to.

It is fair to argue that home-schooling isn't a panacea, and wouldn't work for everyone. I never intended to say it would. I did include the second study which is specifically about black American home-schooled students and their results.

As for the rest of your post, I understand your opinion, but don't share it.

> the schools aren't funded well enough to ensure a quality education anyway

The US spends more per pupil than every other OECD country except for Luxembourg, and exceeds the average by over 50%. If US schools aren't funded well enough, essentially no one is.

And yet home-schooled students widely outperform government-schooled students, both during homeschooling and in college GPAs.

That's essentially the entire reason illegal immigrantion and the H1b program exist. They are both in precarious positions that allow them to be treated as indentured servants, forcing them to tolerate conditions Americans never would.

None of it is about talent, it's about giving companies the ability to abuse employees, with a nice side of wage suppression.

Interesting trade-offs for a customer. No more expectation to tip or dealing with drivers potentially running scams. On the other side, I assume you now need to go unload the delivery from the car yourself, a much worse experience for apartment dwellers or the disabled.

Either way, we're going to see a lot more of this. More and more of the gig economy being automated away.

Very interesting. This definitely contradicts my direct experience. I'll have to give the study a close read. Thank you for sharing it.

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Right. It's a not-so-well-kept secret that hospice care is actually assisted suicide in disguise. It's done with a wink and a nudge, hiding behind the principle of double effect, but it's a mercy everyone knows is happening. It's sad that it has to be done covertly.

Absolutely true, and well said. Communism and fascism have always been two heads of the same hydra. They always appear together, and vie for the same radicals as potential followers. Benito Mussolini himself was originally a Marxist revolutionary.

Great opportunity to point to organizations like allsides.com who do a good job attempting to counter media bias. It's worth taking a pass over their coverage of any major politicized event in order to see the different slants.

This link appears to be dead. Do we have a healthy source?

Sounds more like they're killing ChromeOS and attempting to implement a Laptop experience for Android.

I wonder what this means for all the schools that invested in Chromebooks.

Agreed. I think we're a shrinking group though. Many got into this profession for high pay and easy work, which is understandable, but not that the shine has worn off they're regretting the choice. Those of us who enjoy the work will remain, but we shouldn't be glad to see the change.

Having foreign workers filling the jobs for American companies working on US soil and sending the money home is no better for Americans than having them working in their own countries.

Say what you will about this administration, God knows they have flaws. However, they're the only one that has taken steps to actually attempt to help American workers in a generation or more. Every other one has been a revolving door of shipping jobs out or importing cheap foreign labor in.

> In Western culture, we are socialized to believe that the desire to inflict counterviolence upon or retaliate against someone who has hurt us or a loved one is innate and that justice has always been done and will always be done in this way. In fact, far from universal or natural, this adversarial vision of justice is a relatively recent cultural and historical construction, arising around AD 1200 with the dawning of the nation-state and racial capitalism.

Socrates was jailed and put to death in ~399BC. The Code of Hammurabi called for "an eye for an eye" nearly 3000 years before the claimed period.

Trump already back-pedaled the H1B changes. They're one-time, instead of annual, now and don't apply to existing visas. Much like this "operation", the change will achieve nothing now.

https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trumps-100-000-h-1b-visa...

Here's the email from MS, supposedly: https://x.com/onestpress/status/1969444099317981563

Polymarket puts a cut at 98% likely currently: https://polymarket.com/event/fed-decision-in-september?tid=1...