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@pie_flavor Earth-73 is weird.
Alternative joke: USA is weird.
Alternative joke 2: those must be academic teachers talking about K-12 teachers.
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@pie_flavor If those people taught you, it explains a lot of things.
I just asked 3 teachers to respond to your statement and the response from each was disagreement. One expressing that whoever came up with that can, and I quote, "eat a bag of dicks", one about how most teachers are wholly incapable of teaching because low pay prevents talent retention and one about how the only way she gets by is with her husband's paycheck. Jointly, they came to the conclusion that they have literally never met another teacher who thought they were properly compensated.
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@pie_flavor said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
@Gąska Actually, a good number of teachers would tell you that keeping salaries low is how you make sure that only the right sort of people become teachers.
In my experience the teachers bitched about how they weren't paid enough, while buying brand new cars every couple years.
Completely unrelated:
Camelot Group are the operators of the UK National Lottery.
[...]
In March 2010, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan from Canada announced that it was buying Camelot for £389m.
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@Weng I have in fact met a teacher who thought he was properly compensated.
It was of course $120K plus benefits.
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@pie_flavor said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
I have in fact met a teacher who thought he was properly compensated.
He was teaching the art of negotiation?
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@TimeBandit can't be. They'd never admit they have enough
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@pie_flavor said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
I have in fact met a teacher who thought he was properly compensated.
I don't think I've met a person who thought they were properly compensated.
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Speaking as a teacher, the big issue isn't raw pay. That varies tremendously from locale to locale and from person to person. I see lots of teachers complaining about low/no raises, about having to pay for benefits, and especially about working conditions.
Pros:
- 9 month work schedule with lots of time off in the middle. Seriously. I'm free from about the 20th of May to about the 5th/10th of August. No responsibilities whatsoever.
- No on-call/late shifts. Hours are very predictable.
- Most public schools have good retirement benefits[1].
Cons (in the public sector):
- Crappy work environment with no backup from administration
- No control over how you do your job and constantly changing targets.
- No accountability for lousy co-workers.
- No backup on discipline, so the inmates rule the asylum
- Pressure from everybody to get test scores up, but no ability to actually do the right thing.
- Heavy union pressure means that outstanding people can't shine.
- Constant political interference from all levels
- Contracts that reward time-serving and seniority over effectiveness
- Constantly changing winds of "best practices" with exactly zero meaningful data. Really. Education research makes the worst psychology research look like a hard science. Education research and education schools are total wack with no clue.
- Gigantic gaps between student backgrounds, including from functionally illiterate to college ready, in the same classroom.
[1] The benefits are a dominant reason[2,3] for the no/low raises. All the money is going to pay retirees because they over-promised and under-funded it back then. The California pension system assumed average 7-9% returns minimum and was still only about 30% funded. Illinois is bankrupt due to paying for pensions of all state workers including teachers.
[2] Another reason is the explosive growth of administration-level positions, often in compliance and "diversity". This is even more true at the college level, but it's still an issue at the lower level.
[3] A third is the high and rising cost of special education mandates. When you have to have kids with a 1:1 teacher-student ratio (an aide for every student) mainstreamed into a class with already 30+ other kids...
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
Another reason is the explosive growth of administration-level positions, often in compliance and "diversity". This is even more true at the college level, but it's still an issue at the lower level.
I'm just waiting for the administration to come clean and admit that they don't want to have any students about at all.
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@dkf said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
I'm just waiting for the administration to come clean and admit that they don't want to have any students about at all.
Can't really blame them. After all, don't we think that IT would be a perfect job if users didn't exist?
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@dkf said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
Another reason is the explosive growth of administration-level positions, often in compliance and "diversity". This is even more true at the college level, but it's still an issue at the lower level.
I'm just waiting for the administration to come clean and admit that they don't want to have any students about at all.
I recall a remark to that extent in one of the wizard-related discworld books as well. Though that is a university, so that is a research institution as well as an educational one.
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@PleegWat said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
@dkf said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
Another reason is the explosive growth of administration-level positions, often in compliance and "diversity". This is even more true at the college level, but it's still an issue at the lower level.
I'm just waiting for the administration to come clean and admit that they don't want to have any students about at all.
I recall a remark to that extent in one of the wizard-related discworld books as well. Though that is a university, so that is a research institution as well as an educational one.
Yeah. At the research university level, undergraduate students exist to pay (part) of the cost of the research. Other than that, they're a nuisance and a bother by and large (from the faculty/admin perspective). Graduate students are a source of low-cost, semi-skilled labor that have limited mobility so you can keep them there unfairly.
Small teaching schools are different, but they're the exception.
At the primary/secondary level, students get in the way of featherbedding. Not all teachers and admins are this cynical or jaded, but a large part are.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
At the research university level, undergraduate students exist to pay (part) of the cost of the research.
They pay for the ivory on those towers.
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@dkf I'm so glad I picked Reed College.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
Graduate students are a source of low-cost, semi-skilled labor that have limited mobility so you can keep them there unfairly.
oof, right in the feels there
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@HannibalRex said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
@Benjamin-Hall said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
Graduate students are a source of low-cost, semi-skilled labor that have limited mobility so you can keep them there unfairly.
oof, right in the feels there
I don't want to garage up this thread, but all those stereotypes/attacks against big business and how it treats its workers, is only in it for money, etc?
I saw those in full bloom when I was in grad school. The professors (especially those up for tenure) abused the grad students/post-docs and ignored the undergraduates except to demand money, the textbook companies were rapacious, the whole system was screwed up from top to bottom. Not everyone was like that, but the system as a whole was full of this oppression.
A friend was getting paid for 13 hours/week (about $19k/year + tuition waiver, out of which she had to pay $1.5k for mandatory student fees). Her dissertation adviser required 10-12 hour days in the lab 6 days a week and was COMPLAINING (and badmouthing her to other faculty) that she wouldn't come in and do it on Sunday as well. On top of her other responsibilities, class work, personal research, etc.
Then you have the fact that they're pumping out tons of PhDs who will never get a university job (hint: the replacement rate for faculty is just slightly over 1 per career . A given advisor may have dozens of PhDs who get their degrees under him). So they bounce from post-doc to adjunct position, working for low pay and few benefits on temporary contracts at the mercy of student evaluations and grant money.
And the hard-science types are the lucky ones. The humanities types frequently don't even get paid to go to grad school, or get paid way less.
And I hear from others at other schools that the same things apply elsewhere.
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@Benjamin-Hall oh you got me all wrong, I meant it hit me right in the feels because it was so accurate.
I actually have a good working environment in my program, pretty good pay (even though it's part time) and really affordable healthcare. But I'm stuck. I'm not exceptional, so advancement in academia is pretty unlikely without very serious commitment (like moving around for postdocs, if I can even get one). And I'm not graduating with a degree or portfolio of work that shows a ton of value in industry, so that jump is not a given.
So yeah, I'm semi-skilled labor with low mobility. Damn.
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@HannibalRex said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
@Benjamin-Hall oh you got me all wrong, I meant it hit me right in the feels because it was so accurate.
I actually have a good working environment in my program, pretty good pay (even though it's part time) and really affordable healthcare. But I'm stuck. I'm not exceptional, so advancement in academia is pretty unlikely without very serious commitment (like moving around for postdocs, if I can even get one). And I'm not graduating with a degree or portfolio of work that shows a ton of value in industry, so that jump is not a given.
So yeah, I'm semi-skilled labor with low mobility. Damn.
That's what I figured you meant, but I felt like ranting more. It's exactly how I felt when I got my PhD. At the time I wanted to go on and primarily teach, but the more I'm out of it, the gladder I am that I'm not in that environment any more.
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@Benjamin-Hall yeah I hear you, it's difficult not to let your feelings be known when the words "grad school" come out.
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@Benjamin-Hall So, got any grad students yet?
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@Gribnit said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
@Benjamin-Hall So, got any grad students yet?
I teach at the high-school level. And I am very open to my students (heretically so in fact) that college might not be the perfect place for everyone. And that grad school is only for those who
- can get paid for it
- need to have that credential for the job
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@Benjamin-Hall Oh my word, I take back any complaint I had at you complaining about your students, then.
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@Gribnit said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
@Benjamin-Hall Oh my word, I take back any complaint I had at you complaining about your students, then.
To be quite fair, I can't really complain about my students very much, at least fairly. The kids I teach are, by and large, good kids. Teenagers (with all that entails), but good kids. If they'd just let me do that and not go to any of the meetings or deal with parents, I'd be a happy camper.
In now 6 years of teaching at this school, I've had a total of like 5 kids I thought were genuinely bad kids. Lots of kids who have crappy home lives (yes, even the rich ones) and end up showing that at school, but only about 5 who intentionally, knowingly chose to be jerks. One who was a slimy manipulator sociopath (or came across that way), a few who refused to take personal responsibility for anything, one who was broken and lashed out at others knowingly. That's about it.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
can get paid for it
That's the only reason I went to grad school. When I joined AT&T (way back), they had a program called OYOC. I got partial pay (I forget, I think it was 60% salary) and 1 year to complete.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
If they'd just let me do that and not go to any of the meetings
Wouldn't we all love that!
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
And I am very open to my students (heretically so in fact) that college might not be the perfect place for everyone.
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Edit: yes, Bloomberg, I'm a robot.
U.S. Farmers Are Being Bled by the Tractor Monopoly
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I've heard about it before (perhaps on this very forum). The level of DRM on tractors is insane. And it's not like you could pirate them, either.
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@Zerosquare Are you thinking of the first post of this thread?
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Probably.
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Hey Apple: FUCK YOU
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@TimeBandit said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
Hey Apple: FUCK YOU
Yeah, Samsung owners don't even have to puncture the battery. It does so by itself.
They're not technically wrong - if you punctured a battery it might hurt, and (for their older argument) it may be too complex for a "normal person" to fix not only iPhones but most smart phones.
However it's a retarded argument to say "not everyone is capable of fixing these so no-one can".
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@loopback0 said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
if you punctured a battery it might hurt
BAN ALL THE KNIFES
and guns, chainsaw, powertools, etc...
@loopback0 said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
However it's a retarded argument to say "not everyone is capable of fixing these so no-one can".
exactly
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@TimeBandit Especially when you're perfectly allowed to buy these things:
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@Rhywden said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
Especially when you're perfectly allowed to buy these things:
... wiederaufladbarerRight. Barer wiederauflads should definitely be banned; cover those things for the sake of the children!
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Apple, again
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At first, I parsed that as "secure pairs" and thought "huh? "
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@Zerosquare said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
At first, I parsed that as "secure pairs" and thought "huh? "
I didn't parse it any other way until I read your post. Took me too long to see the alternate. (because why wouldn't security professionals to pair programming)
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Microsoft isn't better than John Deere
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@pie_flavor said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
@Gąska Actually, a good number of teachers would tell you that keeping salaries low is how you make sure that only the right sort of people become teachers.
Incompentents that's shouldn't be allowed in a classroom?
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This question isn't as simple as it seems.
Some countries deliberately have modest salaries for political positions, arguing that it drives away people who are motivated by financial gain. Others have attractive salaries, arguing that if you're well paid, you're less likely to accept corruption. It isn't clear which strategy works best in practice.
Of course, it's a bit of a moot point here, since teachers tend to be severely underpaid for the kind of shit they have to endure.
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@Zerosquare said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
It isn't clear which strategy works best in practice.
On its own, neither. What's actually needed is very strict laws against corruption, with high detectability and punishments.
I've heard an interesting idea once: make corruption only punishable for the taker, not giver - to make the givers more cooperative during prosecution of corruption charges for the takers.
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@Zerosquare teachers, when you actually add up the whole package, tend not to do so badly, especially accounting for the low levels of training they require and the time off they get. However, their work environment (in most public schools) sucks horrifically. I wouldn't teach in the Hillsborough public schools (my local district) for double my current salary, and that's not a totally horrible district. I don't know that there is a salary that would get me to teach in the LA municipal district.
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Must be for your security
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Okay, I've watched the guy's video, and the claims in the article seem to be somewhat overblown.
Basically, what he's showing is that if you use a different battery... the "battery health" section in the settings claims the battery may not be original, and doesn't display the info it normally does. The video doesn't show anything else not working as it should, and you don't even see the warning message unless you specifically go look for it.
Sure, it could be used to look out third-party batteries... but it's not. I don't like defending Apple, but honestly this is pretty innocuous, especially when compared to other things they did or still do.
(The "Apple has been keeping this secret for a long time" part is also pretty . Battery authentication has been a publicly advertised of battery ICs for years. Not to mention that the "loophole" he seems proud to have found is pretty obvious to anyone with a bit of knowledge.)
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@Zerosquare You're right that a claim that this somehow "locks" something is untrue. However it doesn't just say that the battery is not original, it says that the battery is not functioning well and needs servicing, even if you take an original, well-functioning battery from a different iPhone.
Louis Rossmann's theory - which doesn't seem that far fetched - is that it's meant to instill doubt in third party repair.
"I paid this guy money to replace my battery and it still says it's busted! I should have gone to Apple instead!"
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It may very well be a FUD move. But in that case, it's a pretty inefficient one -- the typical user isn't likely to go look at the piece of info in the first place. They're more likely to notice that their phone is no longer shutting down, and be happy with that.
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@Benjamin-Hall said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
@Zerosquare teachers, when you actually add up the whole package, tend not to do so badly, especially accounting for the low levels of training they require and the time off they get. However, their work environment (in most public schools) sucks horrifically. I wouldn't teach in the Hillsborough public schools (my local district) for double my current salary, and that's not a totally horrible district. I don't know that there is a salary that would get me to teach in the LA municipal district.
Low requirements of training seems to be a thing in the US? Over here, teachers are required to have a Master's degree after which they spend another 18 months as teachers-in-training (i.e. they only teach a reduced number of classes but have to attend training courses and are constantly supervised). And while there is the possibility of becoming a teacher without the specialised university course, you usually still need the equivalent of a Master's degree in an applicable field. And our vocational schools require experience (i.e. real-world experience) in the occupation you're teaching. E.g. if you're teaching carpentry you kind of have to have been a carpenter yourself for a number of years - oh and just before someone trotts out this idiotic "Those who can't..." again (I dare say that most of the guys saying this would go under horribly in a classroom), our vocational schools are coupled tightly to the industry (pupils are 2 days at school and 3 days at their job) so if the teacher doesn't know what he's doing, this would be found out really fast. And acted upon.
Coincidentally, our police force also has strict multi-years training requirements.
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@Rhywden said in Right to repair sold to the highest bidder:
oh and just before someone trotts out this idiotic "Those who can't..." again (I dare say that most of the guys saying this would go under horribly in a classroom), our vocational schools are coupled tightly to the industry (pupils are 2 days at school and 3 days at their job) so if the teacher doesn't know what he's doing, this would be found out really fast. And acted upon.
One wonders why they sentence themselves to teaching if they could easily find a much less stressful and much better paid job in the industry.
My university is in the process of closing up the entire Computer Science wing. The reason is that the industry just pays too well.