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by chmod600 5y ago
Poor people who choose degrees with good career prospects will get a loan. Poor people who want a degree with bad career prospects may not have the chance to waste a year or more of their life pursuing one.
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by chmod600 5y ago
"We can’t just rely on the market to provide all of the quality discipline that master’s programs need." It seems like if the federal government stopped lending for master's degrees, and allowed students to file for bankruptc
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by chmod600 5y ago
The parent wants it both ways: the connotation of entitlement in collecting a product that was paid for (by calling it "insurance"), but without actually paying for it.
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by chmod600 5y ago
The parent compared it to insurance, not me. To call it insurance invites comaprison to traditional insurance. Sure, it can run at a loss. Maybe that's a public service. But I asked some questions that merit an answer if you want to ca
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by chmod600 5y ago
To call it "insurance", you need to at least imagine how the accounting and risk management might work if it were like a car/homeowners/term-life insurance policy. First of all, do the payments alone support the program,
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by chmod600 5y ago
Did they really pay for it, though? It seems like the people that have the highest risk of unemployment payouts pay the least (in taxes or premiums), which is not how insurance works.
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by chmod600 5y ago
How quickly did the agricultural revolution happen? Probably much more slowly and we still call that a revolution.
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by chmod600 5y ago
The planner of 9/11 was in Afghanistan and actually carried out an attack on the U.S. Presumably the parent comment didn't think he was a direct threat worth invading over. One might make a similar argument about Europe during WW2
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by chmod600 5y ago
Then what's the point in this list?
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by chmod600 5y ago
What does it mean for other countries to get involved in Afghanistan as the US withdraws? What will they gain, and how will it affect the US?
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by chmod600 5y ago
Would you have opposed interfering in Europe during WW2? Do you generally oppose any kind of alliance, like NATO?
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by chmod600 5y ago
Without numbers to compare what was spent in Afghanistan vs a specific domestic program, it's hard to evaluate your comment.
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by chmod600 5y ago
Why do you say the US can't fund the war? What percentage of the government budget is spent in Afghanistan?
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by chmod600 5y ago
Can someone provide context on what it means for Israel to be on this list? I generally think of Israel as being defined by religion. It's in the "holy land", and it seems like almost every news article about Israel includes
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by chmod600 5y ago
Oh, yeah, it's great for that niche. But it's hard to break out of that niche. It's also hard to grow that niche. If 20% of people in the bar are ordering NA beer, it would seem to reduce the pressure to be drinking beer at a
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by chmod600 5y ago
You are arguing too technically here. How people feel and what they like is very subjective. If people don't like air blowing unnaturally at them, no amount of arguing will change that.
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by chmod600 5y ago
It seems like the biggest markets for drinks all have an addictive hook: sugar, alcohol, or caffiene. Without any of those, non-alcoholic beer seems to fall into a category of drinks like flavored carbonated water. I enjoy drinking those, b
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by chmod600 5y ago
There could be interesting trends around subgroups that aren't obvious from population-level stats.
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by chmod600 5y ago
Is there a possible compromise where the damage is mitigated for a modest increase in extraction costs? I feel like "stop" is not terribly productive. Copper will probably be mined somewhere at some point, and saying "stop&qu
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by chmod600 5y ago
"If Nature wasn't kind, how did we make it for those hundreds of thousands of years?" Some thrived, but a lot did not. Humans were down to a tiny population at one point. And low-tech is still tech. Fire, tools, pots, and agr
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by chmod600 5y ago
Aren't mites tiny (like less than a mm)? How did you even know you were bitten?
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by chmod600 5y ago
I believe this comes from confusion between freedom as a choice with consequences, and freedom as a choice without consequences. The latter definition has taken hold over the last few decades because it is seen as offensive to reinforce goo
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by chmod600 5y ago
Is it due to lack of training for life-saving measures, or fear of doing something wrong and getting punished, or something else?
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by chmod600 5y ago
Surveillance doesn't matter without prosecution.
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by chmod600 5y ago
I thought spiders were much older than insects. Why would they be primarily insectivores?
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by chmod600 5y ago
What do you have to lose? If there are a lot of companies interviewing (high demand), you just interview at a couple of them. When they ask how much you expect, tell them 20% more than what you are making now. If they say that can't be
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by chmod600 5y ago
There is choice overload. People are willing to dig in and learn deep concepts. But they have to get past analysis paralysis first, and start doing something.
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by chmod600 5y ago
Sometimes people just need to get started by doing something with technology that they are interested in. Once they get past the first hurdle or two, they are more able to absorb the deeper material. I have a lot of books where I read qui
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by chmod600 5y ago
Politicians who are crafting policy are certainly a different category. Many well-intentioned people do get stuff wrong when it comes to racism or sexism. It's a complex topic with shifting definitions and evolving standards. 100 years
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by chmod600 5y ago
Let's say, for the sake of argument, that all the people doing the canceling are right and all the people being canceled are wrong. Cancel culture will make racism and sexism worse . Even the most well-intentioned will fail to learn w

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