burfog

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by burfog 7y ago
If word order is to be unchanged now, let's start doing that with the rest of the words, eh? Sentences can be translated word-for-word without regard for the sentence ordering conventions... or maybe this isn't such a good idea.
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by burfog 7y ago
I know a librarian making around $100k in a small city. The job involves knowing ancient Greek and Latin, which surely affects pay. Perhaps it wasn't the greatest example. It's what popped into mind as a skilled job that isn'
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by burfog 7y ago
We could limit max interest rates. If that had been in place, your loan would have been denied. Would that have been better for you? Might you have then chosen to get an illegal loan at an even higher interest rate from organized crime, wit
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by burfog 7y ago
They sure do have jobs, but you can't land in a random small city and expect to find a specific pair of specialist jobs. Small cities work great for single-income families that aren't picky about which particular city they end up
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by burfog 7y ago
The college dropouts, and the people with truly useless majors, have a real problem. For you, there is an obvious path forward. The 40th percentile household income is $50k. Live on that. You can thus put the extra $50k toward the loan, pay
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by burfog 7y ago
You'll need the air speed and direction. Normally, speed is from a tube aimed into the air. Normally, direction is from a little fin that can spin. There are lots of alternatives: Direction can be via multiple tubes aimed into the air,
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by burfog 7y ago
I'm not so sure that it is good engineering to be inherently stable during normal takeoff and landing operations. Modern fighter planes are inherently unstable because this is required for better maneuverability. Passenger planes can c
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by burfog 7y ago
I think you see it pretty well. I share your concern about US industry getting soft, but overall I think bringing back industry is a worthwhile endeavor. The jobs are good. The ability to resist supply shocks (for example an embargo, such a
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It's not a problem unless you object to having your oven in a room with a toilet.
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by burfog 7y ago
Not all products have the same price elasticity. There will be cases where the cost is borne 99% by one party or the other. Some products will go one way, and some will go the other way. Products also change in price for unrelated reasons.
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by burfog 7y ago
Tariffs are taxes on transactions. Like all other taxes on transactions (sales tax, VAT, excise tax, etc.) they are paid by both parties to the transaction, with the share being determined by price elasticity. It doesn't matter which p
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by burfog 7y ago
We're doing it already, in every nuclear power plant. We might as well harvest the results. Many won't be radioactive, with the problematic isotopes disappearing quickly, and anyway we know how to separate isotopes. Particularly c
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by burfog 7y ago
You practically did, just now. My interpretation is that you recognize that this is in fact Trump making Mexico pay for the wall, but it pains you to admit that.
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economics, law, financial planning, accounting, cooking, how to repair things, business writing, estimation That's all. No, we mostly don't teach this stuff anymore. For those going the college route, obviously the STEM prerequisi
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by burfog 7y ago
This confirms what another teacher told me: the training is garbage. He found it to be insane psychobabble that he could only tolerate while drunk. There was nothing useful. The teacher training did almost nothing to cover the key skill of
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by burfog 7y ago
An interesting example is the Westboro Baptist children. They are sent to public school in order to learn about how rotten the sinners are. The bullying they receive helps to drive home that lesson.
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by burfog 7y ago
The accusation of not having children is the polite one, assuming no malice. The worse ones are that you would exempt your own children (the rest of us get to sacrifice ours), or that you wouldn't exempt your children (due to not carin
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by burfog 7y ago
You want to talk about math now? OK... My coworker's wife was a math major. She volunteered to help at her child's public school. (kind of surprised that this is allowed, actually) The teacher gave a math problem, "BLANK - 9
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by burfog 7y ago
For my kids, contagious diseases come from the doctor's office. (there is a concentration of sick people) The most horrifying disease was hand/foot/mouth disease, which really should be called hand/foot/mouth/a
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by burfog 7y ago
I went to a public high school and I also missed out on all those things. It sounds like you got an equivalent education! We often mistakenly think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. I suggest to you that in the alternate
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by burfog 7y ago
The whole point is to NOT be equivalent. That is the principled objection to public school. For example: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=trump+history+school+book&t=canoni... About half the population would be offended by tho
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by burfog 7y ago
You don't have to be a religious fundamentalist of any type (Christian, Muslim, Jewish, etc.) to be deeply offended by the political indoctrination in the history and sex-ed classes. Atheists and agnostics are not of one mind on those
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by burfog 7y ago
That first crash is a good example of multiple minor problems joining together to create a disaster. 1. "they didn't even get as far as switching off the stab trim" means they were incompetent. 2. MCAS, obviously, was a bad d
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by burfog 7y ago
Leaving some gaps and being rough... poor: below $25,000 (below an E-4 in the military) lower middle: that $50,000 middle: around $70,000 upper middle: $150,000 to $500,000 rich or wealthy: doesn't matter, could be $0 because assets, b
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Of course not: "nothing compared to the cost of food [...] still about double the cost of the cars. The cars are not the difficulty here." "What they could not afford would be food." "What you can't do is feed
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by burfog 7y ago
Earning $50,000 per year is not poor. You can live fine on that. You can even buy all those cars on that. You can buy a house on that. What you can't do is feed 12 children on that. Also, don't even think about San Francisco or Ma
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by burfog 7y ago
I've lived in 4 states, widely spread around the country. I'm not an urban dweller. In a typical supermarket, there might be dozens of types of cheese. Only a few types are orange. So going by type, it might be only 5% orange. Nev
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by burfog 7y ago
Content ("porn sites", "awful gore") is a relatively insignificant issue compared to the time sink of useless junk. There are so many mind-dulling videos that would be rated G. There are so many mind-dulling games. Your
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by burfog 7y ago
Yes, there are people who really can't afford $400, but... For much of that 40%, this is sort of a choice. They can't budget. Some of those 40% are even very highly paid, earning well over $100,000 per year. We don't teach ho
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by burfog 7y ago
I highly doubt that, since they lived in 3 different states. The solution is to drive a 15-passenger van loaded with 3 car seats. (these days, maybe 6 car seats, depending on local law) The kids got cars at age 16. Once one kid has a car, t

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