Recent content by sevensages

I am not an engineer like you. In the OP, I asked you to explain it to me like I am a five year old.

What are you telling me? Are you trying to tell me that the reason that the low voltage short caused the fuse to blow is that the low voltage short caused the resistance to be a lot lower, making the amp draw a lot higher?

I used to be an HVAC technician. One time I had a service call in which there was no power to the thermostat. The thermostat did not have power because the fuse in the air handler was blown. The fuse in the air handler was blown because there was a low voltage short. The rubber coating on...

And we would have a better educated population if the summer vacation was reduced to two weeks.

I think that two weeks is a proper amount of time for a summer vacation. The summer vacation's lasting three months is a tradition that started with the advent of public schools in the 19th century. With the advent of modern airplanes in the early 20th century, one can travel anywhere in the...

It's more important than vacations. I did not look at summer vacation per se with disdain. In my childhood, I always got excited about the summer vacation. The problem is that the summer vacation is way too long. Two weeks would be a lot more appropriate than three months.

No. You're assuming that I am assuming that the primary cause of world poverty is a lack of education. But I am not assuming that. I am assuming that PART of the cause of world poverty is a lack of education. Furthermore, a better educated workforce in America can make more money to give to...

Yes. Yes. A 2 week summer vacation would be a much better work/life balance than a 12 week summer vacation. There is an enormous amount of poverty in the world. This enormous amount of poverty in the world causes an enormous amount of human suffering. An educated workforce will be a far...

Japan has public schools in session year round. There is no summer vacation in Japan. And in Japan, students have to attend class six days per week. Japanese people tend to be much better educated than Americans. There is far less poverty in Japan than in America. There is far less crime in...

Students would get a better education if public school was year round.

There are a couple of things that we can do to incentivise people to want to be teachers: 1# Raise property taxes to increase teachers' pay substantially 2# Make the teacher's jobs easier by expelling disruptive students.----The first thing to do is restore paddling in public schools...

It is stupid because there is no need for students to be out of school during the summer. It is stupid because it wastes over two months that could be used productively to better people's educations.

Stupid: to unnecessarily close public schools for three months in the summer, which has significant opportunity costs for students' educations. A lot of teenagers age 18 and 19 who have already graduated from high school work to pay for college tuition, but very few teenagers working summer...

I got burnout on summer vacation after about two weeks.

What country did you go to school in ? In America, the summer break is approximately three months (usually just a hair under three months like eleven weeks). Reducing the summer vacation from three months to six weeks would be a big improvement, but I think that even six weeks is excessive. I...