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by SR2Z 1y ago
AOC and Sanders wanted a JOB GUARANTEE as part of the GND. The "one-time wealth tax" is confiscation and redistribution. That's sure as hell not capitalism. In what world is a party advocating for universal healthcare, free c
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Everyone at Harvard is given unearned grades. It's the poster child for GPA inflation. I forget the exact stat, but I think the median GPA there is about an A-.
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> We have a huge consumer goods economy Office space is not a consumer good. Buying a bunch of LaCroix is also not going to make a dent. > We should probably just measure this. We should also measure engineer productivity in general.
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Then I suppose you either believe that advanced technology falls out of the sky or should be created by government agencies. Both of those are harder to make accountable than companies. The ends do sometimes justify the means. That's
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> Do they have any other actual purpose? Some people believe that offices should be pleasant places to work. It's not a grand conspiracy. > The lockdowns incidentally showed that not _every_ single job needs to be held in the o
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You don't see a downside to freezing out investment in medical devices or other risky but useful technologies? I know snarking is fun, but it's really annoying when it's clear you didn't read my comment before replying.
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That doesn't make any sense. Gamifying gamification sounds like giving your eng teams streaks for CLs that improve gamification, not just... gamifying more.
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Aviation in China is uncompetitive mostly because a ton of Chinese airspace (more than half) is closed to civilian traffic. I love trains, but the problem in the US is mostly that it's so damn hard for the government to acquire land fo
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Companies like Uber that work in regulated industries would find it nearly impossible to operate. Healthcare companies - like the ones that manufacturer pacemakers or implants - would find it basically impossible to raise money. Ditto for
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Because they don't just compress their wood! That's the step after putting it in a vacuum and baking it and heating it up so that the lignin depolymerizes. The video does a great job of explaining how this is different from just
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This is true, but I'd like to point out that hibernation to NVMe is almost as fast as sleep. The lines between memory and storage are blurred these days.
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I do! That's how I know plenty of homeless people have phones. There's a disconnect between how people think smartphone ownership works on this site and how it actually works.
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Septic systems are used outside cities when no sewers are available. They're very common in the US.
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What about the significant number of homeless people who don't want to live in a shelter?
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If they want to use an ad-hoc bus that runs exactly where people request it in real time, then YES. They should not expect it to work for them.
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a: Then get one. Virtually everyone has a phone. b: Then get someone nearby to help you, or improve phone accessibility. c: Tough luck. You made your decision, now live with it. d: I highly doubt this. Phones are basically free - and I&#
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Lawmakers and public servants have ALWAYS been concerned with majorities. I don't know where you get the idea that every single government program ever has to work for everyone - that's clearly not true and many useful programs ar
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> the peasants that lived on it and farmed it were necessarily part of the deal and couldn't be just removed from the land at a whim Is it that they COULDN'T be, or is it that there was no reason to relocate them? Serfdom might
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> So if there's a teen without a smartphone, they can't take the bus, nor can someone who's phone died, etc. I feel very strongly that if a teenager is old and responsible enough to take the bus on their own, they are old
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Where do you get the idea that peasants owned their land? One of the defining traits of medieval Europe was that peasants were forced into serfdom and were granted the privilege to work the land. More primitive societies banned usury becaus
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Yokes will be fine - but only BECAUSE they can have variable ratios now. Frankly, there are a lot of quirky design choices on a Tesla that make them unpleasant for me to drive: - not being able to coast/disable regenerative braking - t
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> The structure was designed for being disavowed. > I expect it was more the army looked away, over condoned. Right, in the exact same way they "looked away" while OBL lived half a mile away from the most prestigious militar
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The population of Detroit declined from >1M in 1995 to 630k today. That would not be the case if they "moved into welfare" or became homeless. You seem to have the idea that welfare systems in US cities can handle 40% of the ci
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> You can’t just keep automating every non-knowledge job away and just hope people find something else to do. [citation needed] We've been at it for more than a century now and it seems to be working pretty well for nearly everyone!
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I can't even begin to understand this logic. Why do you think Pakistan orchestrated the last attack? Do you think those reasons had anything to do with the expectation of retaliation from India? The default is that Pakistan's moti
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I don't understand what you're complaining about. You dislike this guy wearing his actual uniform to indicate his actual credentials, on a site where people make videos using visual aids? Does it make a difference to you if this
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Because this one can be explained to normal people who seem to like the idea of IRV and voting reform but don't want complicated elections? IRV gets implemented a ton in the US, surprisingly. It tends to get enacted because people und
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The variant of IRV that doesn't suffer this issue is to simply check for Condorcet winners at each stage. If candidate A wins every 1v1 against other candidates, don't allow them to be dropped in the runoff. It's a shame tha
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There are many situations where Congress has actually specified in detail where the money should go. These are also being ignored.
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This is one of the stupider things this administration does. They have the legal power to do lots of the things they're doing, but they are too incompetent to dot their is and cross their ts. Who knew that driving off everyone who was

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