If you go on the web ui and look where the sort option is, there's a little ?. Click it and it will explain the sorting options.
Many instances use Active as the default, which is based on latest comment. However, it's also based on the score, so if you are spamming or people don't like your post you'll get down voted (or no one will upvote) and then it won't hit the front page even when sorted by Active.
One size doesn't fit all. That's why all kids should have an hour of reading, an hour of writing, and an hour of maths every day (which takes up like 70% of the learning time available).
It's probably pretty difficult to measure the performance of charter schools vs public schools.
A charter school might specifically cater to underachieving kids, kids for whom the public system didn't work well. Then by selection the public schools will outperform the charter school.
Or alternatively, a charter school might outperform public school because the class sizes can be smaller and they don't have to stick to the government set rules for schools. If you set dumb rules (like three hours a day on the three Rs) then you can then point to the charter schools and say "look, they are doing better than the public schools so we should convert more schools to charter schools" when in reality it's just a sign the way you run public schools is wrong.
If we look at a country level then things like attitude towards education, the specific implementation differing between countries, or the general social structure outside of school differing may make comparisons meaningless.
Another factor is that "charter school" doesn't necessarily mean run by a company, just that they have an agreement with the government (a charter) that says they don't have to follow the normal curriculum. But from my understanding charter schools in NZ are privately run?
The figure below shows some notable results from the CREDO studies. The key takeaway is that charter school students, in general, perform about the same as their matched peers in the traditional public schools, but there is variation across different types of schools and groups of students. For example, students in urban charter schools generally perform better than their matched pairs—likely for an assortment of reasons—while students in online charter schools perform much worse.
This study shows that charter schools are slow to get started (i.e. perform poorly at the start) and slowly catch up to public schools over time:
This study investigates whether student achievement varies during the institutional life span of charter schools by comparing them to new public schools. The results show that there is little evidence that new public schools struggle with initial start-up issues to the same extent as new charter schools. Even after controlling for school characteristics, new public schools generally perform about as well as one would predict given their demographic and socioeconomic profile. New public schools hit the ground running and maintain steady performance, while new charter schools begin to improve after their first year and slowly close the gap.
This article talks about how charter schools and public schools are as good as the people running them:
The effectiveness of charter schools is a hotly contested and often debated issue among educators, parents, researchers and politicians. And studies have been published supporting both sides of the argument: that charters underperform public schools and that they outperform public schools. However, the key difference appears to be the state in which the charter is located and the organizing body by which the charter is run.
*What rights do you have to the digital movies, TV shows and music you buy online? That question was on the minds of Telstra TV Box Office customers this month after the company announced it would shut down the service in June. Customers were told that unless they moved over to another service, Fetch, they would no longer be...
I think it's like this: if your game is not on Steam, you won't sell many copies. Publishers fight to make sure the game is on Steam.
If your movie isn't on Steam, the company doesn't care. No one goes to Steam for movies. So Valve has to fight to get the rights to distribute (and compete with streaming services).
I don't know about that guy but you can't even get cheque books in NZ anymore. They were phased out, mostly because electronic payments are ubiquitous and most places already stopped accepting cheques a decade or two back.
Yeah, I guess I'd just like to see some case law or something to back up the idea. Or to know the specific law that says that US companies have to follow EU rules or they can be prosecuted in a US court.
I did. The best I've found is that US companies have to follow GDPR because it says it's reach is international, and this has never been tested in court. Any specific cases are always related to big tech which EU courts can hurt, as far as I can tell there has never been any test of the reach for a site like in the OP.
Sorry but I went off on a thread with someone else and now I really need to know what this is based on. As far as I can tell, GDPR's international reach has never been tested, there is no specific legislation I can find, and any companies big enough for the EU to care also operate in the EU so can be hurt by EU courts (as in, pay the fine or no more Facebook in Europe).
I'm being down voted to hell for asking a question but I still want some confirmation of the answer backed up by something.
Thanks for providing this, I wasn't able to find it through my own searches. I'm reading the linked documents, and can't find anything to back up that the US courts will enforce the foreign fine. In fact, this is specifically addressed in the document and it seems to support that they will not support it.
C. The rule against recognition of foreign fines and penal judgments
The general rule in favor of recognizing foreign country judgments that meet the foundational requirements above is subject to a key exception: under both the Recognition Acts and the common law, U.S. courts generally do not recognize or enforce foreign judgments for the collection of taxes, fines, or penalties.
Given my original question was why can't they ignore the fine, it seems the answer is that they can?
I'm almost certain that import and export has specific laws written for that case, considering how crucial it is to the country. GDPR is a specific new thing less than 10 years old and has no equivalent in US law.
Sorry, I may have given the impression that I mean I was questioning if there are any laws that control how interactions with other countries work. In fact my question was if there are generic laws that say "when Europe introduces some new law, the US has to follow it".
Thanks! Feels a little like the exception that proves the rule though 😅
If you see the chain here (sorry, lemmy has no good way to link to a comment - here is a lemmyverse.link link for redirecting to it in your instance), it seems US courts generally follow (but are not obliged to follow) court orders from other countries where there is a similar law in the US. So it's likely now that California courts would uphold rulings in relation to GDPR, but other states probably wouldn't.
However, there's a giant caveat in that fines and penalties are specifically excluded (see above chain) so for my original question about whether the site could ignore the fine - well as far as I can tell they can ignore it, because it won't be enforced by US courts.
That doesn't rule out other action though. Perhaps a US court would uphold some sort of takedown order, since it's only fines and penalties that are specifically excluded and the US would likely have other laws (some sort of anti-stalking?) that could be used for the takedown request?
I accidentally bought 1kg of espresso-ground coffee, so drinking lots at the moment! I was intending to get beans which would hold their flavour for longer. I'm also using an aeropress and espresso grind is a bit hard to use in that.
I was at Briscoes and saw coffee machines and thought oh, maybe I should get an espresso machine to use with my espresso grind coffee! I don't know what I was expecting a small, basic espresso machine to cost but I was not expecting them to start at $400 and go up, up, up from there!
Anyone got a small sized espresso machine (doesn't take much bench space) that makes coffee and froths milk that they can recommend?
Or put another way, what's the cheapest machine worth having?
Thanks! Looks like this one is currently on special, $150 off so now only $400 😆. I'll keep an eye on it, I might be willing to spent $250 if it makes good coffee. Thanks for the recommendation!
The only thing that currently stands out, and it a tad annoying, is the aids amplify my own voice when I speak. Makes to me my voice sound echoey and louder than I’m used to.
A quick search and it seems it's normal you'll probably get used to it, but also there are some specific things that can make it worse so if you have a follow up appointment then mention it then as there might be some adjustments that can help to some minor extent.
I also saw mention of specific hearing aids that you can train your voice on and it filters it out. But I'm assuming they come at a premium.
The (orginal) idea of a target of 1-3%ish (depending on country) is that you want inflation small so businesses can ignore it for their planning. A business will avoid spending and possibly lay off people if they are expecting big increases in costs coming up.
"Good" inflation is driven by demand. Company doing well -> expand -> need more staff -> not enough people in job market -> have to raise prices to pay higher salaries to attract staff = inflation.
Bad inflation is more like: sales down -> cut staff to save costs -> less people have disposable income because they are losing their jobs -> sales down even more -> have to charge more per item because low sales remove economy of scale benefits = inflation
Deflation is a sign that the second one is starting. Sales down, so companies cut prices to try to get their sales up, they then have to cut jobs to stay afloat with lower prices, then those people cut don't have disposable income so sales fall further.
You may have noticed the problem, which is that issues with inflation impact employees. Deflation is bad for employees. Inflation is bad for employees. Most larger companies are fine either way.
First, pick some to do software. Start adding things as you remember them, and ticking them off as you do the. Soon you will find you are adding things to the list much faster than you are ticking them off!
Now here's the trick: find some new to do software, and start adding your to dos to that one instead! Ignore the previous list.
Transcription: a photo of a shared pathway entrance with a series of steel pipes placed to create very narrow pathways to enter. The width is hard to tell from the angle of the photo, but far too narrow for a wheelchair or bicycle to fit.
I've seen these around a bit. I think the idea is you walk through the side while pushing your bike through the middle. But you can ride through if you've had a bit of practice.
They want to keep out motorbikes, though, so they need to be pretty skinny.
Once you've had a bit of experience pushing prams something like this isn't an issue. They are pretty common around the place. They are needed because there are idiot motor bike riders that drive at speed on the walking/cycling tracks.
It's a very common design on shared walking/cycleways. A bike will fit through the middle, they are pretty skinny. And the one in the OP isn't finished, then will fence up to the sides so you have to go through it.
Nah most bikes are much higher than those rails. If a bike isn't (like a kids bike), they can go under the rails on the sides since there's a sufficient height difference.
I think “they want to keep out motorbikes” is an incredibly lazy reason to have such a terrible and inaccessible design. Police enforcement is the appropriate way to deal with rare cases where someone takes their motorbike onto a clearly illegal path.
I have lived in areas where people ride motor bikes in areas supposed to be for pedestrians and bikes. They did it all the time. Some would ride recklessly, others were just riding their mopeds as a quicker path than using the road. It's not the intent of the path and as a pedestrian it definitely puts you off using the path.
When I'm riding a bike, I haven't had any issue with these types of bars, you can ride through them once you get some practice. So long as they are only used at entrances and not staggered along the path like your banana bar example then I would rather have them than not.
That's the sort of thing, but those ones have a huge gap, bigger than I've ever seen. The ones at the end of alleyways I've seen, the gap is much smaller. I don't think you'd get a mobility scooter through, and a wheelchair would be a tight fit.
I was thinking about this. And under the rule of "if doesn't matter what they are saying about you as long as they're talking about you", perhaps the marketing power is higher to deny it and make front page? It wouldn't have been as big of a big news story if they had just paid it.
I haven't heard of them, but if someone advertised unlimited internet and cut you off for 400GB of data then I think they would get in trouble for false advertising. If you average 400GB a month and occasionally hit 700 or 1TB I wouldn't expect to have issues.
I often hit 5TB+ and never even considered I might hit a fair use policy. 1TB or less is well within the "I just watch a lot of Netflix" defence and so I wouldn't be too worried about it.
Yeah, you usage is pretty normal these days, for the reason you describe. You're not the only one having to download 80GB updates or 150GB games off Steam, pretty common these days.
Here's our usage for the past few months. Just changed to this ISP in December which is why that's so low:
It did actually surprise me to learn how much we use. At the last ISP they didn't tell you how much you used, so I never knew. When we switched to this ISP I thought something must be wrong 😆
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Transcription: a photo of a shared pathway entrance with a series of steel pipes placed to create very narrow pathways to enter. The width is hard to tell from the angle of the photo, but far too narrow for a wheelchair or bicycle to fit.
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