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by bsanr2 7y ago
That depends on which country you are born into. There are several million South American immigrants living undocumented in the US who would beg to differ with that statement. Likewise, there are many expats who've chosen staying with
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Intervention without exploitation would seem to be a simple-yet-fulfilling answer. South Korea received investment instead of being ransacked for resources.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
This is truly where the danger lies. You can say that you're trying to make rulesets that are accurate to the world we live in, without acknowledging that you fall heir to, and may in fact be producing this generation's version of
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>The issue is that as a society we've (mostly) decided that unfairly classifying someone based on correlated but non-causal characteristics is wrong, EVEN in the extreme that you're right more often than you're wrong if yo
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Are there any failed nations without a relatively recent (<100 years) history of economic or political exploitation by a contemporary superpower?
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>Most of the west is not corrupt. That's laughable.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Balkanization of the real estate market into the hands of less savvy, more competitive operators might be a good thing, actually?
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by bsanr2 7y ago
That's cool. If I'd gotten that money at 22, the world would have a reddit-like that weighted the clout points that you could give to someone else's post inversely to how similar you were to the other poster (based on the sty
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Most of the people making those discoveries were people of means, though (or at least adjacent to, but not competing with, them).
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Maybe? But it's like saying that it's harder to fix a bad country than to leave for another country, so its accuracy is possibly less important than its rationality.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
So your main objection is that the quote betrays its speaker as uppity?
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by bsanr2 7y ago
The only convincing alternative that I've heard from someone in that world is that conservatives are so afraid of getting screwed over by the rich and powerful that they'll do whatever they can to placate them while scraping to th
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I suppose you'd have to look back and see what's changed in the world (and particularly in the lives of HN's primarily American demographic) to understand why this is happening. I'd be more explicit in my suspicions as t
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Unfortunately, the way credit risk is measured does not always measure actual credit risk, but your proximity to stereotypes of high credit risk.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Drop-out rates are much higher at community colleges, particularly for low-income and minority students. This is kind of a privileged statement to make. Also, the UC system is one of the few that retains a robust CC-to-university pipeline,
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by bsanr2 7y ago
The short, non-snarky answer is, "No, you cannot, at least in time to get back from your 30 minute break."
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by bsanr2 7y ago
It would help if much of the financial industry didn't purposely obfuscate the meanings, uses, and ramifications of use of their tools. There seems to be a lot of euphemistic jargon in use, for example.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Is there a reason why I can't, say, sell equity in my car to cover the shortfall? I have a vehicle worth $nK at purchase, so I'm also solvent, just with a liquidity problem. It just seems like real cash and assets are valued less
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I just think it's funny that rich people can get billions of dollars to stay solvent in a sudden crisis, and I can't get a dime when I can't pay for lunch. Am I reading this wrong? Is this a bad analogy? Is it not exemplary o
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I still think there's a problem with the logic, even accounting for "market forces." The "shortage" of STEM workers (whether that's an actual shortage of actual capable bodies or simply a shortage of people wil
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by bsanr2 7y ago
This is not true. As a Millennial, I know many people in my parents' generation who did well starting with a high school degree. They may have obtained further education later, but not at the beginning. This is borne out by statistics
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by bsanr2 7y ago
The problem with keeping your scheme in high school is that you're then dealing with actual legal minors who are very close to home. You're essentially trying to track young people whose brains aren't even fully physically de
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Well, when we approach the problem from that angle, we have to ask what we value and why, and how that informs what work we value. Running that same analysis would find that a BA in education similarly underpays compared to private or acade
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Here's my issue: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/25/three... https://www.epi.org/publication/labor-day-2019-racial-dispar... So while what you say
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by bsanr2 7y ago
As with all Vitamin D studies, this one should discuss or acknowledge the differences in intake requirements for people of different ethnic groups. It doesn't, which means that for some of us, the findings balance somewhere between use
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by bsanr2 7y ago
I see these type of comments as an underemployed college grad and don't know how to feel.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Investment > innate capability You would think the tech industry, with its endless graveyard of technically-superior-but-undermarketed or under-supported products would recognize this.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
Really? There were a couple who looked like their families were dealing with poverty, but most seemed to be happy, healthy, living in comfortable surroundings and with a handful of nice toys. What I didn't see was excess. Now what surp
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by bsanr2 7y ago
>Print money Taxing isn't printing.
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by bsanr2 7y ago
It doesn't have to be a conspiracy. Just an annoyingly prevalent viewpoint among journalists. (See also: referring to things happening in specific locations Nigeria, Sudan, DRC, etc. as happening in "Africa".)

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