DuskStar

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by DuskStar 6y ago
old.reddit.com is the only way to reddit.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Local control and national funding is a completely possible policy choice. There are tons of examples. I can think of a few examples of national control and national funding, or local control and local funding, but not national funding
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> The school generally has about 25% of the kids on IEPs. That really just sounds like the definition of IEP has been stretched beyond all reason.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Financing and control are separate things. I'm not so sure this is true - or at least it's not true in practice . Look at "Obamacare" - the lever it used to control state medical regulations was federal medical fun
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And how would you propose to set budgets, or teacher salaries? Should the teacher in rural Montana be paid the same as the one in downtown NYC? For that matter, "funding" is also "control" - do you think many states or c
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by DuskStar 6y ago
And disincentivizing breaking the curfew both reduces the number of rioters and makes them easier to distinguish from everyone else.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
This creates terrible incentives, though. Are you going to proactively help with a civil rights case if it means your pension disappears? If the person suing "dies in a random armed robbery, so sad", are you going to put maximum e
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> The police were beating random people and shooting pets. Well, at least there'll be evidence for that, right? Dead pets?
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Imagine an article on Obama's presidency that devoted a paragraph to his accomplishments, and then several pages to drone strikes on US citizens, use of torture, selling guns to Mexican drug lords, and keeping kids in cages. None of it
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Now, you also have to launch so that you intercept the ISS when it is at the proper position on that hoop. If, when you reach the hoop the ISS is half way around the world, you won't get to it. (Technically, you can spend some tim
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Ah, RationalWiki. At least it makes Wikipedia look consistently fair and unbiased, I suppose. (Two thirds of that page read to me like "and this is why Hanson should be unpersoned")
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Depends on who's dying, but somewhere between 10k and 500k haircuts per death. (A teenager or child is "worth" more than someone in a nursing home - and if you go by life expectancy, it's more than 50x higher) So 10k @$2
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by DuskStar 6y ago
That'd be evidence for CGPGrey being wrong, then. But I'd still love to see statistics on what proportion of people found the existence of the Redskins to be offensive.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> The attitude that your comment reflects crops up a lot in relation to, for example, the Washington Redskins naming controversy. Folks who like the current name are always bringing up a couple of examples of Native Americans who say the
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by DuskStar 6y ago
It'd also require solving the piracy problem, which would be a pretty big ask.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
"My GF thinks this pug is the cutest thing ever, so I'm going to make it the least cute thing in history - a Nazi" And then trained it to react to things like "Gas the Jews" and "Sieg Heil". This is not at
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Just a few decades ago the militarization of space was universally acknowledged as inappropriate and this was codified in international law. That's a hell of an interpretation... I'd instead say that the world powers recogniz
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well that's an interesting rank structure. (I'm sure it'll change soon though)
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> I think there's only ~100 people so far in the Space Force It has to be more than that, now - I'm pretty sure more than a hundred just went straight there after graduating from USAFA a few weeks back
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by DuskStar 6y ago
All of these posts are great - go through the archives if you haven't already!
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Yes, and? What percent of that 10% are nearing retirement age or retired, and might want to de-risk? And personally I'd say that the 90th-99th percentile investor (if not 99.9th percentile) would still qualify as "retail" -
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by DuskStar 6y ago
As long as they don't print lies and don't play favorites , ideally.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
I thought his most recent (Fall, or Dodge in Hell) was a followup to Reamde, not Anathem or Snow Crash? And I was pretty sure Cryptonomicon led into Snow Crash and then The Diamond Age...
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Stephenson is great at starting stories. Arguably he does this several times in each book. He can't write endings for shit, though. (Every book of his that I've read - Anathem, Seveneves, Reamde, Cryptonomicon/Snow Crash&#x2F
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, the quote is that the plan, competently carried out, STILL didn't work, and had never worked in the past.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Well, here's a few examples of people saying that the New Deal either had no major effect on the Great Depression or even extended it: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123353276749137485 https://fee.org&#
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> The answer is called Keynesianism, also known as the New Deal. Because that worked out so well. Aren't there more and more economists saying that the New Deal made the Great Depression longer?
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> Some people want to argue the next thing "those are mostly old people or sick people", so too bad for them? The argument re: old/sick people is a combination of "these people have fewer years left to live anyways ,
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by DuskStar 6y ago
Pretty sure he can't run for president for the same reason that Schwarzenegger couldn't - he isn't a natural-born US citizen.
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by DuskStar 6y ago
> France, Germany, Denmark, Britain and others have decided to take over the payrolls of struggling companies Didn't the US largely do this too, via a forgivable loan to companies?

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