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New comment by adrr in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

adrr — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:16:58 +0000

Self inflicted injuries. Bunch of the public schools in large metro areas have removed their gifted and honors programs. Seattle and NY. That will force people into private schools or charter schools. Some districts talked about removing pre-calculus, thats will force kids as well. Dumbing everyone down to the lowest common dominator isn't the solution and public schools should fail if they keep that up. Its banning schools from having separate JV team and varsity team forcing all the athletes into the two teams without looking at ability. Unfair for everyone.

New comment by adrr in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

adrr — Thu, 28 May 2026 16:24:19 +0000

Everyone blames the school. Its the mentality of parents and kids at the schools. Kids go to charter school. 90% of the kids in my 10 years class meet or exceed grade level on the state test. She is surrounded by kids who push her up and parents that push their kids. Teachers care because the parents and kids care. My wife had half hour call last night with my daughters special project teacher because they want showcase the kids work and have the kids give speeches on it.

You don't get that dedication unless you're at private school. It democratizes private education for the masses. Also have lots of volunteer teachers and student teachers from local universities so the ratio is 1 instructor to 10 students. Special project teacher is a volunteer who is earning her masters at Harvard.

New comment by adrr in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

adrr — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:51:12 +0000

Sports is the most expensive way to get into college. Tennis is close to $1 million to get your kid into an Ivy league through tennis. Malcom Gladwell wrote about sports and colleges in his book "revenge of the tipping point". Sports is used by the wealthy to get their less academically inclined children in to top schools and some school are expanding it.

New comment by adrr in "Citing 'severe' math deficits, UC faculty demand a return to SAT tests for STEM"

adrr — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:15:12 +0000

They could just accept the kids who are at or above grade level. There are way more kids at or above grade level who graduate from California high school like my nephew who took AP calc and missed only question on the math of his SAT. He couldn't get into any UC schools and instead had to leave the state for college.

We could set up a standardized test for the UC schools ensure that the students being accepted have minimum baseline normalized across all applicants. We could call it scholastic aptitude test or the American College Test.

New comment by adrr in "Incident Report: May 19, 2026 – GCP Account Suspension"

adrr — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:53:50 +0000

GCP was never known for their support and deprecation of services was always a huge risk. Its very sad because its actually a quality product. They should easily be the number 2 provider. Azure is extremely unreliable and their documentation is subpar. GCP being in 3rd place is more of their doing.

New comment by adrr in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

adrr — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:24:10 +0000

Thanks for pointing out how he equated random street violence to premeditated attempted murder and torture.

New comment by adrr in "Tennessee man jailed 37 days for Trump meme wins settlement after lawsuit"

adrr — Wed, 20 May 2026 15:11:18 +0000

Imagine if he said "we need a patriot to bail out the guy who killed charlie kirk" like Charlie kirk said about the guy who tried to murder Paul Pelosi and was at Nancy Pelosi's house to torture her.

New comment by adrr in "Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

adrr — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:16:51 +0000

Saudi and Iran hatred goes back long before that. Shia vs Sunni. Genesis of most of the problems in middle east. Syrian civil war: Sunni vs Alawites(Shia offshoot). Yemen civil war: Sunni vs Shia. When a mosque is bombed somewhere in middle east, its sunni vs Shia. It makes for some interesting decisions on support from the US side. We are now backing the new president of Syria who spent had spent a decade killing Americans in Iraq when he was leadership in Iraqi Al Qaeda.

New comment by adrr in "Iran demands Big Tech pay fees for undersea Internet cables in Strait of Hormuz"

adrr — Tue, 19 May 2026 16:01:08 +0000

Why would they want to harm Iraq? Iraq is mostly Shia who identity with Iran. Their only real military force is Iranian backed Shia militias which led to some interesting things like US bombing Iraqi military installations. More interesting is the media never covered all the American A10s strafing Iraq government installations in Iraq.

New comment by adrr in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

adrr — Tue, 19 May 2026 14:22:01 +0000

International law only applies when you ratify a treaty so it becomes domestic law. Thats how treaties work, they actually laws of the country hence the term ratification into domestic law. Why US doesn't violate international law on land mines and cluster bombs. US never signed that treaty.

New comment by adrr in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

adrr — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:58:12 +0000

US at war? We are past the 60 days for a military operation. From US law perspective, it’s illegal. From the constitutional perspective only congress can declare war which they haven’t.

New comment by adrr in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

adrr — Mon, 18 May 2026 22:01:32 +0000

Countries that haven't signed do violate it. Israel prevents ships free transit to the Gaza strip. US does naval blockades and blows up boats.

New comment by adrr in "Garry Tan, the CEO of YC, accused me of unethical reporting"

adrr — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:57:47 +0000

HIPAA only covers entities that are legally required to follow it. Covered entities and business associates. It doesn’t apply to anyone else.

New comment by adrr in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

adrr — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:32:13 +0000

Using bitcoin to pay extortions or ransoms is very common. What ransomware doesn't use bitcoin?

New comment by adrr in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

adrr — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:11:38 +0000

UAE is firing weapons at Iran's oil infrastructure.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-u-a-e-has-been-secretly-car...

New comment by adrr in "Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait"

adrr — Mon, 18 May 2026 20:04:16 +0000

> Iran hasn’t ratified UNCLOS either, and claims it is not subject to it.

Which isn't unique. Bunch of countries haven't ratified it and aren't legally bound by it but do follow it in spirit. US, Turkey, UAE, Israel etc.

New comment by adrr in "Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI"

adrr — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:55:43 +0000

Because they got to participate in the early investment in the for profit entity.

> Early Angels (Reid Hoffman, Peter Thiel, and others): Approximately $10 million invested, current value $1.4 billion. That corresponds to a return of around 140x.

New comment by adrr in "590k buyers paid $59M for Trump's gold phone, but not one has shipped"

adrr — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:52:22 +0000

Thats more expensive that my top tier tmobile plan which is $120 for 3 lines.

New comment by adrr in "Colombia hosts talks on exiting fossil fuels as global energy crisis deepens"

adrr — Wed, 06 May 2026 20:06:47 +0000

There are three main sources of green house gases. Top one which is power is declining. Transportation is still growing and the last one is agriculture which is stable. There is progress if you look at the details.

New comment by adrr in "NPR finds "no sign" of Polymarket at its Panama HQ address"

adrr — Wed, 06 May 2026 00:43:25 +0000

No. Its because has chancery court which is a court based on equity not a court based on common law.