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by unono 13y ago
There's always something 'wrong' about tech people wanting to meet face to face. What is the point of the telecommunication tech YOU created? Did you not do a good job? There's a better approach than what the blog outlin
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by unono 13y ago
I said don't don't punish teachers, simply fire all of them. Let charter schools compete to lure students. Personally, I'd want to see self-directed curriculums with a core of entrepreneurship and computing.
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by unono 13y ago
Teacher union doesn't want any kind of performance based system - they're the villain. Even if there is variability of pay, at least society would be far richer, so being poor wouldn't suck so bad.
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by unono 13y ago
We wouldn't be punishing teachers, just get ridding of a system that doesn't work. Salman Khan has a proposed a better one where schools are essentially libraries/babysitters that any child can go in and learn a self-directed
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by unono 13y ago
The government spends about $10,000 per year per child on public education. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/06/21/155515613/how-much... That's $120,000 over k-12 (not including pre-sch
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by unono 13y ago
This is good stuff. Even better would be small cameras that can be worn around the body so the incidents can be recorded. Yelp has already demonstrated why crowdsourcing is so important. The public often rails against the government, but mo
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by unono 13y ago
The root cause is that the teaching system doesn't turn all children into businessmen. If everyone was a businessman, they'd be earning more than government set minimums.
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by unono 13y ago
What are the successes. Are they successful in taking children from the socioeconomic group and turning them into high earning 30 year old adults? Teaching metrics should be about how successful people turn out as adults, not some test scor
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by unono 13y ago
Child care workers who watch children when parents aren't present make $19,000, that's maybe more appropriate. http://www.bls.gov/ooh/personal-care-and-service/childcare-w... Where are the proper studies
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by unono 13y ago
Boo-hoo, teachers, who cannot clearly demonstrate how they actually add economic value to anything, want to be paid even more than their current $52,000 median salary. Meanwhile, fisherman, who hold the most dangerous job, have a median sal
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by unono 13y ago
The root cause of poverty is the incompetent government education system - The Teacher's Union. Most public school teachers I've come across have contempt for the businessmen (people who create the wealth) and for poor people (tea
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by unono 13y ago
Larry Page, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Vinod Khosla should've been speaking there, get the YCers thinking big.
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by unono 13y ago
That doesn't sound so bad to me - sounds like capitalism - greed is good http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vscG3k91s58
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by unono 13y ago
The flip side is does he help you succeed? You just made a case for why you should be in his portfolio - he'll go to the lengths of shady stuff to help you out. He openly admits he's tough, but that's out of wanting all of hi
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by unono 13y ago
Vinod Khosla is one of the few good guy VCs out there. He's invested in high tech foods, robots, energy, healthcare, farming. He runs a Google X type fund.
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by unono 13y ago
Crowdfunding will replace venture capital, and investing itself to a large extent. You don't need investment, you make the case to customers directly and they prepay you.
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by unono 13y ago
Khan got famous for explaining concepts really well. There were plenty of online stuff covering it already. He just did a superior product. Same with the app. It needs to be excellent, something Steve Jobs would be proud of, and it will mak
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by unono 13y ago
I think we'll keep disagreeing about this. I think your argument comes from the traditional 'liberal arts' education angle. I'm coming more from vocational type place. More of a rentacoder/odesk done more comprehens
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by unono 13y ago
Gamers are better at (virtual) surgery than MDs http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2012-11/teenage-gamers...
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by unono 13y ago
No, this ain't non-profit, it's big profit stuff. Khan academy is definitely not it. They teach traditional curriculum which is isn't useful to business. The app is definitely isn't the easy part - it is basically the wh
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by unono 13y ago
Writing a really good app that is both enjoyable for students and a rigorous test of ability that employers are looking for is not chump work. If you can show employers that your app truly tests useful abilities they would be lining up. The
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by unono 13y ago
No. A free app. The data points of the app users are sold to employers.
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by unono 13y ago
Perfect opportunity for hackers. Employers pay big money to find employees. Students pay big money to get educated to get a job. Hackers roll in with apps that allow students to do courses for free on the smartphone/tablet, sell the i
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by unono 13y ago
The guy in the article wasn't completely moneyless, he just came up against the recurring costs of taxes/rent which can trip up the unorganized. Google car expense is overplayed. In mass production and with competition the cost wo
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by unono 13y ago
Very enjoyable article. I was just thinking that recently, mobile is just a nicer experience and it's because of these cards. There was something about reading books and magazines before the web came, a gamified experience, because you
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by unono 13y ago
This is why we hackers should all be helping Google get their self-driving cars on the road. It could save so many lives if people could have the option of living in their car.
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by unono 13y ago
By that standard few startups are 'important'. Twitter (sms on web), Facebook (another myspace), Microsoft (another OS). InstaToiletPaper is a pretty good startup if existed. When you run out of toilet paper you really want it qui
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by unono 13y ago
Spoonrocket is pretty unique. You'd have to go to the 3rd world like India to get similar levels of service. Spoonrocket's cars have builtin heaters that keep food warm, only 2 menu items a day, and really quick delivery. If they
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by unono 13y ago
Current thinking on this matter is to avoid the tired old web 2.0 hipster stuff. The current batch of YC is all about solving real problem for real people. Spoonrocket got the most applause ($6 meals delivered within 10 minutes).
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by unono 13y ago
OK. I try to see articles and find a positive spin where I can say "hackers could ...". To some people it would be obvious, but to young or non-tech people it might not be, so it could be helpful to them. As other commenters have

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