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> There were plenty of people who we now recognise as “great artist” who absolutely could not figure out where the “incentive vectors align”. Thus they lived in abject poverty, or needed to support themselves from something other than th
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Science has been rewarding politics (e.g. securing funding) over achieving objective truths. Objectivity is a modernist value, and proposing ways how to systemically change society to advance modernist values is something we've been do
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It's not exactly secret knowledge of who would opposed a public option because their constituents fear "death panels."
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The reason Democrats couldn't do more is because not enough people voted for them, so they can only be angry with themselves. We would have had a public option if Congress didn't have to rely on the Blue Dog democrats. IMO Democra
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...or you can just use a VAT, which are also paid at purchase. Tech companies have high margins and low expenses, so if the point is to tax tech companies, taxing purchases and giving a credit to sales is literally the exact opposite of wha
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> As a student, the only thing the next institution will see is GPA, school, major. Roughly in that order. At least for my CS degree, this surprisingly wasn't the case. I remember our freshman class advisor gave a speech that said t
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It's similar to saying that Y2K was just a panic because nothing catastrophic happened at the turn of the millennium. You're ignoring all the work out into preventing it from happening. Today, around 70% of birthing age women use
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The Bitcoin was only worth $620,000 at the time though, and he only was able to do so because he stumbled upon a bug in the Silk Road, so it wasn't premeditated. That's very different from intentionally gambling with billions of d
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I have a really hard time believing these allegations because that would mean that they're actively trying to push away paying customers, which neither helps Realpage nor the alledged cartel. Everything I've read about this has be
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A lot of native New Yorkers live with a lot of family members or roommates, and these are the types of people who are most likely the move out. Meanwhile, the most likely people to move into New York are well paid young professionals who ca
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This is barely relevant to college debt. If anything, it contradicts the parent comment because it would be the white collar middle class resting on the "mudsill" of cheap global labor. The Internet also underestimates how hard la
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> While management had all the power, including the power to fire bad workers and to hire better ones. Including the power to force workers into compulsory training courses, including the power to create a system of incentives that would
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Do you think researchers who dedicate their lives to measuring poverty haven't thought about a problem you thought of in a few minutes? > These poverty figures take into account non-monetary forms of income — for poor families today
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> I think it's important to optimize life for metrics, but I think it's even more important to remember that we (conscious beings) are the ones living, so if we hate it, the metrics are either wrong or not relevant. Almost ever
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The Wikipedia summary of 1491 makes it sound like it's basically a book filled with fun facts about how American Indians societies were more complex than what most people give them credit for. It's not a serious analysis of whose
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By the medieval period, the vast majority of the world were peasants, and they did not live significantly better outside of Europe. Asia had significantly higher agricultural productivity, which made their lives more stable on average, but
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When you start a co-op, just like any other bootstrapped business, you're staking your livelihood, but you're forgoing most of the upside. You also need several other people to agree with you. This screens out most of the risk, wh
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First of all $3.5 billion is not a lot of money when you consider that it represents all industry. We spend significantly more money on almonds [1]. More importantly, lobbying is literally just talking to politicians, and the vast majority
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Increasing the tipped minimum wage means that restaurants will add that cost to the menu. Because tips are based a percentage of your order, this means that customers actually pay more money in tips, even though these laws are marketed as r
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> Where are the numbers for applications? It basic math. You divide the numbers of people accepted by the acceptance rate. And before you nitpick my data some more, enrollment is a a fair proxy for acceptances because there is no reason
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> Show some data or don't say anything. https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2023/10/2/gender-parity-a... > At Caltech, there has been an average gap of 10 percentage points between the acceptan
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Just because an author of the New York Times article made some angry tweets and some people disagree with her narratives doesn't mean that they were fabricated. That's besides the point though. If you're happy with the Interc
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> I thought it was Pearl Harbor. Japan wasn't stupid enough to rouse a sleepy giant for no reason. It's no coincidence that the majority America's western fleet was docked on tiny islands thousands of miles away from any t
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I hate that propaganda has become a thought-terminating cliche. First of all, it's not necessarily a bad thing. "Agitprop" is literally what brought the deeply isolationist Americans to finally act in World War II. Also, just
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I'm pretty sure that unalive came from TikTok because they wanted to keep their app upbeat. My point is that average YouTube is going to be less censoring overall. The perception may be that there is more censorship because there is si
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YouTube doesn't print money out of thin air. They make money by making advertisers happy, and advertisers will only buy ads if their customers are happy. This isn't anything new either. Creatives have always been beholden to censo
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Homeless people make up about .2% of the US, so multiplied by 10 and that's 2%. If your country only has 1.02 people's worth of food per person, that's more of a shortage than a distribution problem. The same goes for housing
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Not everyone wants to be a homeowner or will have the means to purchase one even with additional incentives, and the increased property taxes are going to be passed to renters. Also, if you intend on purchasing a place to live, you're
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> her community prioritized happiness above all else, but everyone she met in the US prioritized making money. I'd bet that she was wealthy relative to the average Greek, but was perceived as "regular" because they are mid
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If they're capable of 1950s era urbanism, they're capable of 1950s era agricultural technology. They get enough dollars from tourism and exports to purchase make up for what they don't have just like any other small nation. T

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