IslaDeEncanta

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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
You're right. I wasn't really talking about people in poverty/near poverty. They can benefit from the network involved with an Ivy more than just about anyone, because they usually don't have a network at all.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Law is a different story altogether though. I was talking about undergrad.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Harvard pays up to 90% of costs, which in my case was the full cost of the state school I got a scholarship to.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
For most people, going to elite schools is a waste of money. For example, a high achieving student from a lower middle class family who goes to Harvard still pays the equivalent of full tuition and fees at an average state school, while the
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
I'm suggesting that a fascist dictatorship is harder to establish in a place where everybody is armed.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Which is a lot more than $240.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Philosophy students tend to make good money.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
I guess if you can't imagine it then it's impossible.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
I don't think it's outrageous to say that a few people with weapons can command many people without weapons.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
There's no doubt that the state always has more power than individuals, but the point is that the state will not have more power than all the individuals put together.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
I think it's pretty obvious.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
The best way to undermine a democracy is to get rid of people's ability to defend themselves.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
That's not exactly what the research shows. The great book "Unlocking the Clubhouse" shows off some research to suggest that culture within CS departments and software development companies are largely, but not entirely, to b
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
If Google didn't want to reveal this information, they shouldn't have taken federal contracts.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
About 70% of income, according to estimates. It varies for other taxes (capital, consumption, etc.). Source article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304393211...
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
There's a class of wealthy people they can tap into.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Perl is faster in the benchmarks I've seen, although it's difficult to really measure most real world use.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
I don't know about the original poster, but Perl is great for back end development, and there are wrappers for just about every GUI toolkit if you want to go that route.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Perl 5. Perl is awesome and versatile, and it's the fastest scripting language in common usage.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Everything is a marvel of modern engineering now.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
More like Hirohito than Stalin.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
People like you are why the communists are going to win.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Supposedly, Prescott Bush was one of the people behind it.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
That's not remotely true about Cuba.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Economic data disagrees with your personal experience.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Did you know that if you try to overthrow the government of the United States you'll be arrested? Crazy stuff.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Cubans do not live in poverty. There are neither rich nor poor. And if you think there's an "efficient" way to escape poverty in the UK, you've never been poor.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Oh right, and the United States has never had poverty.
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Have you ever read anything about Cuban democracy besides the propaganda put out by the US government? If you're actually interested in educating yourself, there's an interesting sociology paper called Representative Government in
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by IslaDeEncanta 10y ago
Cuba is basically an autarky, for all intents and purposes, so they're not going anywhere on that front, and I think Diaz-Canel will help to steer Cuba away from liberalism/revisionism. But I've been wrong before.

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