MiroF

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by MiroF 6y ago
As others have said, if an industry can't operate while paying workers fairly/with benefits, then it isn't a profitable industry. Abolishing slavery certainly nipped the plantation economy in the bud, pretty certain that was
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by MiroF 6y ago
Not all regulations lead to regulatory capture, and this is not generally the pathway to capture.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> I hate the idea of closing it off to people that just want to side income. Oftentimes this is a necessary side-effect of what (I believe at least) is good legislation. A minimum wage of $7 might close off a job to less qualified people
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by MiroF 6y ago
> it can also mean very bad this usage is definitely uncommon/archaic
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by MiroF 6y ago
They're wrong - it's state, not federal.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Well the original attempt was to close to eliminate it, like many of our peer nations have done. Since we've failed at that, it's going to be touch and go so that we flatten it.
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by MiroF 6y ago
I'm guessing GP was clearly referencing that phrase, not unaware of it.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Stewart Brand (still alive) is the famous innovator of this sort of stuff, starting with the Whole Earth Catalog.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Of course, clicking on DC gives "United States" rather than the District of Columbia.
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by MiroF 6y ago
They take into account COL, they definitely take existing debt obligations into account, as well as size of family. That said, yes, if you have more money left over per child than someone else, you are expected to pay more.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Your household income would be more than 96% of all Americans today and likely more than that when you were applying for college. I'm not arguing that Harvard isn't expensive for affluent families, but even with an income like tha
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by MiroF 6y ago
Yeahhh outside of Cornell you're not going to transfer into an Ivy from a CC.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Harvard does not cost full-sticker for most people who attend. Most people who go are very rich, sot hey pay a substantial fraction of full-sticker, but if you aren't, you won't.
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by MiroF 6y ago
If they make less than $65k and don't have significant college savings/assets, then yes it is free. If you're a hedge fund manager who just retired and is now making $0/yr, sure it's not free.
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by MiroF 6y ago
This will be Senior's last impression of the school before they become alumni (and donors).
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by MiroF 6y ago
> Freshman-only seems to me more realistic although disheartening to hear as a rising senior. I think that most schools will do most everything they can to ensure that the senior class still has a senior spring.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Many students at Harvard interact quite a bit with professors.
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by MiroF 6y ago
not at Harvard
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by MiroF 6y ago
Not fuck you, just pay what you can? Harvard is extremely affordable - like among the most affordable of any school.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Do you think the fact that some journalists maliciously crop social media posts means that we should replace the institutional model with a "Github" model of professional journalists? I'm sorry, but I fail to see this as a cr
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by MiroF 6y ago
I'll be honest, I would prefer to read pretty much any major news organizations reporting on this conversation other than Vice.
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by MiroF 6y ago
Journalists do in-depth investigative reporting, they submit FOIA requests, they cultivate connections with other institutions in order to get stories of public interest to the public. I have never seen a "Github" non-profession
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by MiroF 6y ago
The journalists come off negatively, but honestly I'm surprised how... naive or perhaps myopic the VC people are. Replace institutional journalism with a "github" model? Please.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> The fact that we're hearing about it at all is an indictment of the media. We have vastly different views of the role of the media and I truly hope that your view never comes to pass.
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by MiroF 6y ago
> He proposed that the approaches to truth and accountability offered by GitHub, venture capital funding, and cryptocurrency all offer better models for journalism than "the East Coast model of 'Respect my authori-tay.'&qu
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by MiroF 6y ago
But they're still incredibly targeted. They're not just using info from your search, although that information is highly relevant in choosing what ad to display.
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by MiroF 6y ago
This is also happening on my Macbook's Safari
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by MiroF 6y ago
Was it DC?
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by MiroF 6y ago
> not worth the small benefits which static typing brings. pshh
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by MiroF 6y ago
> we did coordinate the entire neighborhood to help the police how did this work? also sounds like a pretty suburban place maybe?

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