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by bsanr2 6y ago
Ask people what they want, and then listen when they tell you? Therein lies another problem: the perceived cost of improvements is modified by the perceptions of "deservedness" on the part of the people paying. Compare post-WWII t
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by bsanr2 6y ago
Never seen a starker illustration of the idea that poverty anywhere eventually makes itself everyone's problem. Dude just wanted affordable internet access, and that was enough of an incentive for him to do something that accidentally
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by bsanr2 6y ago
But is their ability to produce or sell refined vs unrefined oil effected by the sanctions? Maybe not directly; maybe in how they're able to access funding for infrastructure, for example?
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I should point out, as I have no attachment to my karma, that the schadenfreude comes from the fact that those inflated asset prices were used to justify and fund gentrification and displacement. If a crash ruins a few of the entities profi
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Maryland's UI site implemented a queue for access, usually 5-to-6-figures long(maryland.queue-it.net)
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Which is gonna suck for a lot of people in major metros, as those salaries were necessary to keep up with asset inflation post-2008. Wariness about the future, spiced with a tinge of schadenfreude.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I suppose that depends on what device category you place the iPad. To many, it's a particularly hobbled laptop, especially with the advent of 2-in-1s. >Apple actually provides software updates for devices for years longer than their
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>First of all the media player space is dead. Not quite. In fact, the premium media player space is essentially the only one that still exists. They're mostly Android-based devices with high-quality DACs for the playback of lossless
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Venezuela - and, frankly, the rest of the world - is reliant on monetary policy set by outside parties, who can also impose explicit (import/export) and de facto (loan terms) sanctions should their political positioning be undesirable.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I don't agree that there aren't multiple premium brands within the phone, computer, and media player spaces, but humoring you, I would say that platform lock-in is a factor. If I sell my Ferrari to buy a Lambo, I don't have t
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by bsanr2 7y ago
It could have been passed through reconciliation IIRC. They didn't, in a bid to insulate the final bill against GOP objections to the legislation as a whole. We all know how that turned out.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2010.... >On 12 March 2010, as she prepared for her final push to pass reform legislation, House Speaker Pbbnelosi shut the door on using reconciliati
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Now is the time to watch closely. When Pelosi got on board healthcare reform, we lost the public option. The chances that her support is a mask for a campaign to water down any potential legislation are high.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I think the idea that Jobs had "great taste" is a myth. What he was good at was implementing an all-encompassing product strategy that established Apple products as status symbols. I don't think it's an accident that App
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by bsanr2 7y ago
No one is arguing that Japan's economy has grown more than others. The reliance on GDP-based data (obfuscates inequality) and household income data (Japanese and American households do not send both parents to work at an equal rate) fa
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Yes, China and the US, which are both substantially larger in population. Japan also outperforms most countries that outsize it in terms of population. >Besides, it's super easy to avoid that GDP / population confusion by looki
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>This cannot happen while also respecting the idea of properties as investments, the wealthy wanting to be able to purchase disproportionately large places in multiple desirable locations I'm not convinced that these are values wort
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by bsanr2 7y ago
This needs to be taken within the context of Japan hosting one of the largest economies in the world, despite being substantially smaller in population than countries with economies of comparable size; and also in that their real wage losse
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by bsanr2 7y ago
As explained throughout this comment section, much of success in America can be attributed to network affects, which are susceptible to social bias. That is the reason we talk about "Asian" and "Jewish" success, and not
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by bsanr2 7y ago
No, black girls are also much more likely than white girls to be disciplined, often harshly and physically, and often by people who are not their family. "School resource officer body slams female black student" is practically a Y
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by bsanr2 7y ago
White and black men do not retain upper income status across generations at equal rates. White men who are born to wealthy parents are highly likely to remain in the same wealth quintile (something like 60-80% do), while black men who are i
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by bsanr2 7y ago
You're casting adversity in terms of economic adversity. A poorly-performing school district, rce-agnostic, performs poorly because it is likely underfunded in regards to its needs. That's your example, not mine. But adversity in
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>BTW, I don't agree with your original comment for whatever it's worth. Well, let's hear why.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
You characterize the woes of the second group as resulting from their purported inadequacy, and not their treatment. Let's consider a third group: black and Latinx ("racially-advantaged" is just about the most preposterous eu
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I tend to agree with much of what you've posted in this comment section, but I want to point out that economic incentives are not what is truly at the heart of the moral underpinnings of affirmative action. If that was the point, then
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Downvotes are not for disagreement.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Lying on your application can get it summarily rejected. I would advise against this.
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This represents a fundamental misunderstanding of what affirmative action is meant to correct. It's not simply about bridging economic divides, any more than college is solely about future earning potential. Rather, as higher education
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by bsanr2 7y ago
He demands, as entire sectors of academia creak above his head, threatening to crash down and dash him against a floor on which the phrase, "reverse racism," is painted in 12-point font between two 200-point quotation marks.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
It's because predicating carefully-chosen giveaways to "the right kind" of people with darker skin is easier and preferable to the elite than what is actually righteous and necessary: capital transfers (reparations) to the de

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