TimPC

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by TimPC 4y ago
I actually prefer a four day school week and four day work week as a standard I just don’t think it’s easy to have multiple simultaneous standards. I get that not all jobs are M-F 9-5 workloads. But I also know a number of people report sub
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by TimPC 4y ago
There is a sizeable contingent in education that ascribes to the theory that learning styles is mostly bunk. The differences in outcomes for students taught with a preferred learning style vs students taught with their least preferred lear
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by TimPC 4y ago
It's difficult and disruptive for students to be on a 5-day pattern of education with a homeroom teacher on a 4-day pattern. This basically necessitates scheduling entirely non-core subjects on the fifth day, potentially even resulting
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by TimPC 4y ago
I think it's a legitimate problem though that schools and daycares operate predominantly on a five day schedule now that works for a large number of workers. If we go to a model where we have something resembling a 50/50 split bet
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by TimPC 4y ago
Ultimately though we need to pick an arrangement. It's going to be very difficult to have part of society on reduced five day work weeks and part of society on four day work weeks. It creates unusual demand patterns on schools and day
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by TimPC 4y ago
The US had designed a system where large numbers of municipalities need more revenue then they actually produce. This has led to large swathes of the country having crumbling infrastructure as tax revenues are not adequate to maintenance. T
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by TimPC 4y ago
Also you found an error. “Your opponent” is not valid in the language of M:TG it needs to be “target opponent” because “your opponent” is not well defined outside of two-player games.
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by TimPC 4y ago
It’s like a one-sided pyroclasm on steroids. And pyroclasm was a playable card.
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by TimPC 4y ago
I kind of feel like someone needs to do a post about the missing middle now.
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by TimPC 4y ago
I tried to find my source but I’m no longer able to successfully google it. I do remember the worst offenders were big box chain fake-organic brands like “Earth’s Best”.
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by TimPC 4y ago
Discord is particularly bad on erasure as they have a TOS that gives them a perpetual royalty-free license to your photos and use this license to allow leaving photos from users up in discords they have been banned from. This effectively me
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by TimPC 4y ago
Unions in general are overly focused on job security and fairness in pay at the expense of other things like total salary. While there may be a place in tech for unions the last place that would want to unionize is a big tech employer. A gr
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by TimPC 4y ago
This game is terrible because even yearly is too slow. The property market went up 30% in my city this past year. If I set a fair price at the beginning of the year I’m forced to sell my house at a loss. Only if guess that I should overpay
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by TimPC 4y ago
Taking regulated payments subject to financial law as a Russian hacker group is quite difficult. Bitcoin is used in nearly all ransomware attacks precisely because it is unregulated. The idea that they’d just take PayPal without Bitcoin is
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by TimPC 4y ago
No one is arguing Georgist tax policy will solve all of zoning. We will still have some issues with land use and no system is absolutely perfect. Still I think on the balance this is a vast improvement over the status quo.
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by TimPC 4y ago
By weak right I mean that they are socially constructed and thus depend on society. By strong right I mean they come from nature and don’t depend on society. Many of the classical philosophers have made strong arguments for the right of bod
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by TimPC 4y ago
No the building on the property isn’t taxed. You pay $0 more in taxes for building it. If you have a fundamental objection to how the established theory of supply and demand curves works I can’t really help you. Large parts of economics hav
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by TimPC 4y ago
Because you can put structures on the land and capture the entire value of the structure? There is a difference between something being intrinsically worthless and the taxes driving the market price to $0.
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by TimPC 4y ago
No where did I say I wanted to be king of the world. I think our democratically elected institutions can decide such things. My vote would be to do so. I agree that democracy potentially means that things I like may be prohibited. I don’t s
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by TimPC 4y ago
It was far rarer because it was much more difficult to collect payments.
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by TimPC 4y ago
It’s almost like we created a system of rules for moving cash and made certain behaviours with it illegal due to some of the problems with this. Imagine that.
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by TimPC 4y ago
I think the one university that closed in Illinois due to a ransom attack made possible by Crypto will in the long run prove to be more valuable to society than all of crypto. If only we had some way of preserving all the things crypto dest
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by TimPC 4y ago
I’m in favour of not burning more power that the country of Argentina for a coin who’s primary historical purposes have been speculation and the facilitating of illegal transactions. I also think it’s a hard problem to solve short of bannin
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by TimPC 4y ago
This assumes you even try. The US allows for relatively large amount of some heavy metals in baby formula and as a result parents have to be especially careful about certain brands with high heavy metal content.
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by TimPC 4y ago
We could use this a vehicle for banning all cryptocurrency transactions. Just require all transactions in all currencies meet certain industry standard financial regulations and provide injunctive relief if transactions occur that don’t.
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by TimPC 4y ago
Republican who opposes funding the FDA complains they can’t do their job quickly enough.
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by TimPC 4y ago
The portion of property taxes that tax the land tax it at its market price though. And we know from economics that the market price is set based on the best economic use. So the entirety of your disagreement seems to be “we also tax buildin
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by TimPC 4y ago
I personally think it’s a bit disingenuous to call people out for legitimate anger. The appropriate reaction to endless Ponzi schemes is anger. The appropriate reaction to pointless environmental destruction is anger. So “be calm bro, why s
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by TimPC 4y ago
Seeing as most the studies mentioned Norway which has a perfectly healthy and functional university system that doesn’t leave people in debt, I doubt it. Going to University doesn’t affect IQ much, IQ is not learned.
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by TimPC 4y ago
This is basically Prop 13 in California which the world outside of California conclusively thinks is stupid. It’s incredibly unfair to give people massive tax breaks for buying a long time ago. The alleged benefits don’t reflect the immense

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