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by chmod600 3y ago
"We did not take direct advantage of the benefit; but a reasonably well educated populace benefits me in a host of other ways." But that's precisely the point: what does "well-educated" mean? If the money is going t
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by chmod600 3y ago
Public schools don't have some inalienable right to that money either -- they are entrusted with the money by popular vote. If we want that to continue, then there needs to be very broad consensus that the things teachers are teaching
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by chmod600 3y ago
If you home school, you don't get the money back. Public school is something like $12k/yr. That's a lot of money that you're essentially opting out of. For parents who do so for political or culture war reasons, that mus
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by chmod600 3y ago
That's something I've wondered about for a while. Why?
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by chmod600 3y ago
Japan and Germany were two of the best foreign policy outcomes in the history of humanity. They were defeated decisively but not destroyed and they people were not subjugated for any long period of time (except East Germany). They recovered
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by chmod600 3y ago
WW2 was ended quickly and our two primary enemies became not just our allies, they also joined us as top-5 economic powerhouses. That's really something to be proud of on many levels. The bombs were horrific but also seem likely to hav
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by chmod600 3y ago
"Arguments from authority carry little weight — “authorities” have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts.&
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by chmod600 3y ago
The great thing about that idea is that I don't care about personal air travel, so a ban costs me nothing. I can feel good about myself without needing to think about my own excesses.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Sometimes life is better when you just accept that something is different but not necessarily worse. Natural gas fireplaces aren't real wood-burning, and I can tell, but I just appreciate that they are way cleaner. Now, furniture is a
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by chmod600 3y ago
The worst are floors with a thin layer of hardwood surface (a few mm) over some "engineered" material below making up the rest of the plank. I'm not sure vinyl is indistinguishable from real hardwood, but I'd take it ove
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by chmod600 3y ago
Right. Social systems and the effects various interventions have are very complicated. The idea that some intervention is proven or disproven is, in all but the simplest cases, ridiculous. Even with research, the results are going to be har
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by chmod600 3y ago
"I guess when you're up against anti-vax fear mongering, you need to fight fire with fire." That's seems like a dubious strategy likely to backfire. I hope you're not serious.
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by chmod600 3y ago
"Crime did rise nationwide in 2020 and 2021. The disruption caused by a deadly pandemic, a record increase in the availability of guns, a pullback of policing in some cities and perhaps other factors combined to create a surge in homic
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by chmod600 3y ago
A lot of people have built the idea of being "right" so deeply into their identity that admitting they are wrong is unthinkable and traumatizing. They weave a narrative about how they were really right in some way. Normally, peopl
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by chmod600 3y ago
There are different causes of violence and a ceasefire solves some kinds but not others. For instance, fear is a major driver of violence: attack "them" to reduce their ability to attack "us". A ceasefire is a good solut
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by chmod600 3y ago
Bread doesn't have fructose, right?
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by chmod600 3y ago
I wish there was some easy way on either the cable or the port to just disable data. 90% of the time I just want power.
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by chmod600 3y ago
That at least clarifies that the antecedent of "it" is WFH rather than RTO (which the grammar of your original comment implies). But the comparison to communism is not along the axes one might expect, so it makes the relationship
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by chmod600 3y ago
Can someone recommend a relatively short and disinterested survey of the issues and conflicts in that area? I'm not looking to be an expert, but just to understand why various potential solutions are unacceptable. For instance, what&#x
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by chmod600 3y ago
"Why do you think Paul Graham compares it to communism?" Link, please?
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by chmod600 3y ago
You are expressing your low-cost lifestyle, and that's great. But I'd also like to hear about the benefits of life you are experiencing within that lifestyle.
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by chmod600 3y ago
At 8 years old I'm not sure what the downside is to waiting a bit. It's not like she's accruing vet school debt right now.
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by chmod600 3y ago
"Your work computer" is (mostly) an oxymoron. If you didn't buy it, its their computer.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Considering that the construction costs are identical, there needn't be a very strong reason to do it one way vs the other. Any reason would be enough, which might include some remote possibility of a battle advantage.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Intellectually I understand this, but it's really really hard (for me) to consistently avoid this fallacy.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Both concepts can be true. A lot of people, especially in the developed world, have way more opportunities than they realize. Those that take on some (often very modest) risk to exercise those opportunities are self-made. It would be ridicu
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by chmod600 3y ago
Social phenomena (such as crime) are not distributed evenly.
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by chmod600 3y ago
Your first sentence is regrettable in an otherwise informative post. There are tons of laws, and part of the problem is that many laws are just, well, stupid and poorly-implemented. California has some kind of review process for guns themse
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by chmod600 3y ago
By far the easiest win would be to enforce laws more strictly against people who have proven themselves to be violent. Many homicides are committed by people who already have a violent past or other very troubling crimes. Putting them in ja
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by chmod600 3y ago
Information is hidden when we generalize too much. How many are innocent children (or teens) vs crime-or-drug-involved teens? Note: this is not to say deaths of criminals is somehow OK, just that any policy prescription would be very differ

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