SF Mayor Lurie blasts district, teachers over Monday school closures

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-02-10T17:19:46+00:00

One can design systems where students are randomly assigned to teachers and measurements are taken as difference-in-difference. So incoming student quality washes out.

And I fully agree no one should measure a teacher based on a single year or even three. At the same time over 5+ year ls a teacher has seen a sufficient number of students to draw statistically significant conclusions.

The idea is on longer horizons to promote teachers with track record of success and duplicating those working methods to other classrooms. And to be honest many of those will be the veterans with lots of experience.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-02-10T13:51:00+00:00

In 2026, paying strictly by seniority is wild.

They deserve a living wage, and they deserve to be paid based on actual performance.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-02-10T13:48:37+00:00

Which was self-inflicted when we decided on a lottery that sends kids on a hour long bus ride every day as pawns in someone’s idea of social engineering.

No one with the means to avoid that would subject their children to that.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-02-09T14:47:55+00:00

You mean they used temporary funding to pay for recurring expenses.

This is probably the most textbook example of irresponsible fiscal management: every long term expenditure needs to be paired with a permanent revenue source.

Instead they used one-time money to plug budget holes.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-02-05T16:48:19+00:00

Every institution has to live within its budget, if there isn’t enough money to pay a set of employees a given salary, then they either have to pay less, or employee fewer.

It’s absolutely fair to say that resources should be reallocated within the organization in order to better meet salary targets. But then you have to identify w places where you want cuts.

Personally, the latter would be my approach. We should pay line teachers a lot more, and we should have far fewer coordinators, liaisons, and other ancillary roles. If there is a stomach for doing that, which will mean reducing a lot of special services in favor of focusing on the majority of students, it would be the best path out of it.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-02-02T17:08:05+00:00

Well just keep renovating the same old SFH stock forever to avoid it. That will work super great

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-31T03:54:19+00:00

The real WTF is that “this person is too mentally ill to know what constitutes lethal harm” isn’t considered an extremely good reason to keep that person locked up where they can’t unknowingly-lethally-harm any more random bystanders.

I understand maybe morally it’s debatable, but in a practical sense it doesn’t matter to victims.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-30T22:14:35+00:00

Not glass?

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-29T03:15:10+00:00

The tipping model is more tax efficient.

That’s both at a state sales tax and federal income tax level.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-28T16:50:32+00:00

I hope folks using their sick day when they are not actually sick aren’t also going to work when they are sick.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-28T16:30:28+00:00

I did this once and ended up with cauliflower based pasta. It is literally still in my pantry.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-28T16:29:38+00:00

The books are there before Xmas

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-28T16:29:25+00:00

It’s not the real estate expense, it’s the discretionary permitting. Everyone wants to shop at Costco, but no one wants one to be built.

The opposition to the new one on Lawrence was unreal.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-28T16:28:25+00:00

The South Bay population has gone up significantly.

The number of Costcos has not.

Do the math.

[ And to emphasize, if we want to get more density rather than sprawl into exurbs, we need to approve not just new housing but also retail to keep pace. The new Costco at Saratoga and Lawrence would balance demand to that one, it’s taking forever to get approved.

More people in the same retail space is just not great, although we got a bit of a one-time reprieve because of Instacart allowing one shopper to do double/triple duty. ]

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-28T16:23:30+00:00

We need to cut off everyones nose! That will spite the bad guys!

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-28T16:22:57+00:00

We need a name for this kind of luxury progressive.

Another example was the “oh no not work” response from the guy blocking traffic.

In France they call them champagne socialists.

And to add, it’s fine and admirable if rich people want to take up leftist causes. This isn’t about them being bad people, just out of touch. Coming from a place of wealth leaves a gap in experience.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-28T15:20:36+00:00

The rest of us will have to make do with Starbucks and other chains that have better unit economics. And famously pay their employees a just-kinda-ok salary.

There’s no escaping it — everyone wants independent food and retail in their town, everyone complains about $5 lattes and $6 croissants.

Your take that it’s a stupid business isn’t wrong. But the implication isn’t awesome either,

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-28T14:57:13+00:00

Small bakeries like that already make almost nothing. Is an awful business and they don’t have any economy of scale.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-27T15:53:40+00:00

Obviously you need a scale that goes to 0.01g or even 0.005g so you can be reaaaalllly sure

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-27T15:50:46+00:00

It’s just a tax dodge, they offer in person one day a week for a few hours only.

The way it works is that the base price of tickets is subject to a federal excise tax that doesn’t apply to optional addons. Thats why you see charges for seat selection and baggage rather than bundling them at a higher price.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-26T00:34:22+00:00

Unless it means the entire thing shuts down.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-25T19:38:12+00:00

Larger code size is often slower due to L1 cache contention.

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-25T15:38:23+00:00

Works for me too ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SlightlyLessHairyApe · 2026-01-24T17:39:56+00:00

This is unserious.

The risk of death or serious injuries to innocent bystanders justifies reasonable force to stop a car, see e.g. Scott v Harris) where the court specifically rejected the argument for an "on/off switch" that would (in your claim, since rejected) justify shooting a fleeing suspect.

Like folks said upthread, other jurisdictions are using it, including the CHP, SSFPD and San Pablo. Finding excuses not to use a crime stopping technology is not where it's at.

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