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They achieved what Escobar couldn't: respectability on a mountain of skulls.

Because, while North Korea is still at war, South Korea is not.

It seems to me that agile approaches are a response to the phenomena of the spec often being wrong. If the spec is wrong and going to need substantial revision, iteration is better than planning.

If the spec is not wrong, careful planning is probably better than high velocity iteration.

I think cryptography is a good example of this--would you develop a cryptographic API on which people's lives might depend iteratively through a release early and fail often method? I hope not.

This dismissive attitude really pisses me off.

Babysitters don't have to get the kids to DO anything.

Saying these are the same is like saying a manager in a business is only supposed to check if employees showed up and clocked in.

Sure, some managers are that bad at their job, but it is also very clear that their job is supposed to be much more than that.

Same with teachers. Getting 30 children who did not choose to be there to actually DO something is a very different skillset than babysitting.

/rant

But that's not caused by SCARCITY. Scarcity means there isn't enough food. That's not the problem we have. There is enough food to feed everyone. It's just owned by the wrong people.

>I'm just saying that it's a weak argument to point out that success in school is linked with wealth.

Would you like to say that the Earth is flat, disease is caused by an imbalance of humors, and Adam and Eve tamed dinosaurs for use in ancient rodeos while you're at it?

Because those would have more chance of being correct than what you're saying. Socioeconomic security correlates more strongly to educational outcomes than ANY other variable, including IQ.

>I don't like how you need so many licenses to be a teacher. Most college lecturers do not have a background in education and definitely don't have a license and we do just fine. The licenses just feel like a way to limit supply.

Teaching adults who pay for the privilege of being in your class is VERY VERY different from teaching children who are forced to be in your class.

The latter requires a very special skill set that can only be described as 'managing psychopaths'.

The former just requires you to show up and tell them they're on "responsible for the material" (i.e. they're on their own).

For what it's worth, Cormac McCarthy hasn't read much fiction in a long time (so he says), but his books are some of the best in the second half of the 20th century.

1 kB = 1024 bytes, not 1000.

13*1024 = 13,312.

And the key bindings are lousy.

But, setting that aside, I was begrudgingly impressed. I was conditioned at an impressionable age to be revolted by anything Microsoft, and VS Code mostly won me over.

I still prefer emacs, but only because I haven't managed to customize VS Code to match my workflow (that might be impossible for now given that I spend about half my time working in Clojure).

Even the US government doesn't claim that US law does not apply outside the border; that is simply false.

Case in point: having sex with a child outside the US is still a crime you can be prosecuted for under US law when you return.