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by champagneben 6y ago
He wanted poorer, minority kids to have a chance at a good education and high standards as well? Wasn't very shocking, though the title was incendiary.
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by champagneben 6y ago
Intellectualism and being a "nerd" is appreciated in black Democratic strongholds?
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by champagneben 6y ago
>The distribution of case fatalities from SARS-CoV-2 is still very much up for debate. Really? It seems to follow the same pattern everywhere. >1: about 20% of all patients regardless of age require supplementary oxygen to survive the
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by champagneben 7y ago
Given that this clamping down came about earlier than any discussion of this matter by the American leadership, I don't think that's a good explanation for this. *Reading this comment again, perhaps I should have phrased it more c
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by champagneben 7y ago
>if Foxconn met certain targets Have they been met? Has it been a net negative from the taxpayers' standpoint?
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by champagneben 7y ago
Could you not make the same argument about many politically divisive questions? Medicare for all, climate change, etc.
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by champagneben 7y ago
From your Wikipedia link: "In 2005 and in preparation for a predictable pandemic influenza, the Bush administration called for the coordination of domestic production and stockpiling of protective personal equipments.[6] In 2006, the U
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by champagneben 7y ago
"The CDC would not have gone this direction if not for the White House," the senior official told CNN. "We would have tried more to understand about asymptomatic transmission. We would have done more studies if we had more ti
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by champagneben 7y ago
Germany last month implemented export bans on medical equipment that applied to other EU nations as well. I believe many others have as well, but can't remember off the top of my head. Is any country a friend to any other?
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by champagneben 7y ago
> The reason women's shelters exist is because activists in the 60's and 70's decided to build them and gain support, and eventually fought for funding. What is stopping any of you from actually building a movement to help
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by champagneben 7y ago
I'm sure physical violence happens against men as well. Many would never retaliate or really physically defend themselves against a woman. And you can be very vulnerable when you sleep or look away.
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by champagneben 7y ago
How prevalent was mask wearing in Asian cultures before SARS?
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by champagneben 7y ago
> the US paved this road in my opinion with massive cuts to education How much has the US cut its education budgets?
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by champagneben 7y ago
Could you provide a source for that? A quick googling returned nothing for me.
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by champagneben 7y ago
Wow - never knew that!
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by champagneben 7y ago
> Open borders is anti-capitalist because it allows labor to move with the same liberty as capital, so it can help reduce the ability of capitalists to find deals. What? I seriously don't understand this. Find what deals? How does i
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by champagneben 7y ago
What's the scientific issue with manifest destiny?
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by champagneben 7y ago
From Wikipedia (prior to elected office): advocated for nationalization of major industries, including those in the manufacturing, energy and banking sectors. In 1974, he advocated for a marginal tax rate of 100% on income over one million
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by champagneben 7y ago
The same one!
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by champagneben 7y ago
That's what the kids want: classical stuff in the public domain.
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by champagneben 7y ago
One of the interesting questions would be how much a basic income would affect people's willingness to work, and we would not be getting that out of this experiment. In fact, I can't imagine anything useful we'd be getting ou
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by champagneben 7y ago
> if the president had just accepted WHO kits instead of refusing them for US profit I haven't followed this very closely, so my impression was that that was the CDC's decision/regulation - is that not the case?
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by champagneben 7y ago
> Despite significant progress with diversity initiatives, 84% of founders are White\Caucasian. Europe is much less diverse (if you just count the French and Germans as European) than America is, so I wonder how well represented minoriti
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by champagneben 7y ago
I don't think that was calmworm's qualm with it. Heh.
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by champagneben 7y ago
I haven't watched the 1999 version (the one linked) of this class, but I have watched Gilbert Strang's newer lectures on this subject and they were absolutely wonderful. The book is great as well. Don't watch these just becau
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by champagneben 7y ago
> 2) IMF decisions brought an increase in suicide rate and children mortality rate. Are the lenders allowed to bring death to the borrowers? Is this illegal for the mafia but allowed for IMF/ECB/EC? How does one make this claim
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by champagneben 7y ago
That list speaks nothing of industriousness. It's about how many hours are spent at work. Most people who have experienced working in different cultures could tell you that that doesn't necessarily have anything to do with how pro
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by champagneben 7y ago
Would the formation of Israel be an expression of nationalism? Can it in that light be seen as the belief that one's country or ethnic group is just as deserving as others'? Or to take a more recent example of Kurdish nationalism.
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by champagneben 7y ago
Johnny Depp came to my mind as well reading that. Perhaps it's not such an opposite conclusion, though? I don't want to suggest most actors have personal problems, but having listened to a lot of the more successful ones it seems

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