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I seem to recall that was the benefits of building things in Texas.

"Future of AI in Texas: What we’re watching"

Louisiana is far behind:

Or, are you thinking about the Meta $10 billion data center? Planned in Dec 2024:

Why would they collapse? AI is unlikely to be as productive and as profitable as the investors seem to hope, but the drives and DRAM will probably still be useful.

And poor education and support for the people who make the hardware work. Now that Trump is busy deporting the wet-backs that the employers used to imported to do the grunt work, this may get to be a bigger problem than it has been in the past.

Louisiana doesn't have a lot of money to spend on public education but they seem to allocate what they have pretty well. The fact that some other red states like Oklahoma seem actively trying to destroy their pubic education system has likely helped LA in the rankings.

The National Assessment of Educational Progress does demographic adjustments to see who is actually teaching well in the public schools and who just has talented (aka wealthy) students getting outside tutoring.

E.g. Massachusetts has a lot of wealth so does well in both categories, but Louisiana also tends to rank high in effectiveness per dollar spent on primary school teachers.

There is a population diffusion from high-cost states towards the south. I suspect that process selects for common sense.

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Everyone's not doing poorly, the e.g. MA public education system would compare favorably with Japan, Singapore, Germany and the Scandinavian countries if MA were an independent nation

But if you are just *ranking* participants, then you have no ABSOLUTE way of knowing how good (bad) they are performing.

And, how "scores" translate into real-world abilities.

When I was a kid, we had "remedial" programs and *gifted* programs. Because math, science, reading, etc. were considered important. So, you didn't want anyone to fall behind -- nor did you want to hamstring those who could excel.

Having neither program means you're just willing to "settle" for whatever comes out of the school system.

Billionaires get a lot of press, but it's the working middle class that untimately shapes an economy.

The lowest birth rates in the US are the west coast and the northeast. The middle and south are highest.

I think a lot of young things are not dating at all.

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And John Larkin thinks that Donald Trump has "common sense".

Things are looking good so far.

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Google Ai says

Top 5 States/Districts (Highest Literacy):

New Hampshire (94.2%) Minnesota (94.2% in some reports, 278.8 score) Alaska District of Columbia Vermont

Bottom 5 States (Lowest Literacy):

California (76.9%) New York (77.9%) New Mexico Louisiana Mississippi

putting California last.

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If there aren't enough of the working middle class available to do the tasks the the billionaire incomes depend on, the billionaires go away to places that can support their businesses. Lots of American billionaires weren't born in America. But the initiatives that shape an economy do depend on the occasional brilliant individual who can get a team together to get the brilliant ideas to work,

That just shows that middle and south of the USA don't educate their female citizens as well as west coast and the north east.

The human population is going through a demographic transition from the historical situation where 50% of children born died before they could reproduce to the current state, to the current situation where only 4.3% die - and only 0.4% in genuinely advanced industrial countries. It's

The social pressures that kept the birth rate high enough to sustain the population with 50% child mortality have gone away, and society has yet to evolve mechanisms to sustain the population at it's current level (which may be unsustainable). My relatives are sustaining themselves - my parents had three children, and eight grand-children, and there are twenty great-children so far - but we clearly aren't representative of the Australian populaton as a whole.

Not that you have any evidence to support that hypothesis. My guess is that they having more sex than previous generations, but getting pregnant a lot less often, and only when it suits their careers.

I see. I have a hard time understanding why any first-world nation would have a literacy rate below 99%.

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For a rather short-sighted version of "looking". Trump is depressingly ignorant, and he appeals to people who shared his kind of tunnel vision.

After a few years of communism, Cuba claimed 99%.

I doubt if 99% literacy is even possible.

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I imagine that it depends on your definition of literacy.

I doubt if John Larkin would hit level 5.

"At this level, tasks may require the respondent to search for and integrate information across multiple, dense texts; construct syntheses of similar and contrasting ideas or points of view; or evaluate evidenced based arguments. Application and evaluation of logical and conceptual models of ideas may be required to accomplish tasks."

His capacity to evaluate evidence-based arguments isn't great.

I scored 99 percentile on most school achievement tests, 720 out of

I didn't take any Australian tests. I don't even speak their language.

Why do you make up lame insults even when you are obviously wrong?

Get an oscilloscope. Design something. You'll feel better.

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American education isn't all that demanding. Giving the kids low marks upsets their parents. Being analytical about how far some kids fall short is equally unpopular.

Australian and American are mutually intelligible dialects of English. You do speak a language that pretty much all Australian's can understand. American shows on Australian TV don't need sub-titles.

Your capacity to evaluate the evidence based arguments which confirm the reality of anthropogenic global warming is clearly non-existent. Donald Trump has the same problem. It's not a skill that American manufacturers want to see in their customers.

I feel fine. I've got an oscilloscope - or at least hardware that plugs into my computer and can persuade it to put an oscilloscope-style trace on the display. What I lack is customers to give me problems to solve.

That wouldn't make me feel any better about your inanities.

There are very few billionaire incomes. Most billionaires just hold stock shares, bits spinning on a hard drive somewhere.

"Progressives" want taxes on unrealized wealth. That would force people to sell shares, with unexpected and amusing consequences.

the billionaires go away to

Do you assume that the choice to have kids is a symptom of stupidity? Were your parents stupid to have you?

Just the ones I know. Gamers, not daters.

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Billionaire refers to net worth, not income.

Which "progressives" do that? The Dutch do have a wealth tax - a levy on capital. It's less than the dividends that invested wealth normally generates.

It might - if it were high enough. The only one I know off isn't.

Not knowing about reliable birth control methods is evidence of bad education, rather than stupidity.

My parents were both university educated and not in the least stupid - they made a deliberate choice to have me. I was born a bit over nine months after they got married. My younger brother arrived two years later. My youngest brother arrived after another seven years. He might not have been intentional, or he might have been their last try at getting a daughter. They never talked about it.

The rest of my family are all university graduates and they've had the kids they had because they wanted them. Abortion is easily accessible in Australia these days if contraception fails.