MatrixAlgebra

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by MatrixAlgebra 8y ago
They don't say "no" unqualified. They say the focus of the site is to build a knowledge repository, rather than being as nice as humanly possible. Complaints about SE "toxicity" seem far overblown. If someone doesn&
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by MatrixAlgebra 8y ago
There are hundreds of thousands if not millions of Spanish speaking people and families living in LA, NYC, Miami etc. Many business in the area offer their services in Spanish, and there are enough entertainment options in Spanish that ther
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by MatrixAlgebra 8y ago
Bad idea. A steady trickle of immigrants is much better because then it forces cultural integration, especially when the immigrants do not speak English. A flood of immigrants will lead to a nation divided among cultural lines without the p
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by MatrixAlgebra 8y ago
For most it is. For some it is not.
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by MatrixAlgebra 8y ago
Everything you say (except for the bit about me being willfully ignorant or an asshole) is true. The solution to the problem is getting people to be realistic about their prospects. Guidance counselors play a role in this solution. So do pa
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by MatrixAlgebra 8y ago
So essentially: You're trying to argue that forcing the entire population to pay for college education for everyone is justifiable even when the people going to college may study subjects or intend to enter fields that have very poor f
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by MatrixAlgebra 8y ago
The information is available to them, they have no one to blame but themselves. It is not the duty of the taxpayer to fund poor decision making. That's one of the major philsophical differences between the US and Europe: people must ta
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by MatrixAlgebra 8y ago
The problem with free education is that as more people become educated, the signaling effect of education becomes diluted. So the Europeans are paying for something that decreases in real value the more that people have access to it. That&#
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by MatrixAlgebra 8y ago
This article fails to understand the true costs of European economic arrangements. Let's consider healthcare. Often touted as an example of how much "better" Europe (and Canada, etc) is than the US, consider: 1. Wait times ar