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by chuckee 5y ago
> Taxes Keep in mind the graph shows only state taxes, and does not include federal taxes. Though it's interesting all the same that the rich pay less (as a % of their income) - does anyone know why? > The more expensive the neig
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by chuckee 5y ago
Doesn't your link point to Teflon? What is missing from the article?
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by chuckee 5y ago
Sounds like an open and shut case of false advertising, a crime.
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by chuckee 5y ago
I sure am glad we have Google and Apple looking out for us, instead of the traditional unions.
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Not only does this mean that police can very easily control crime statistics One could compare police statistics with victim surveys ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Crime_Victimization_S... ) to check h
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by chuckee 5y ago
How do you propose they do that? For example, take your typical steel-and-glass skyscraper, such as the One World Trade Center. How can the inhabitants make the exterior less hostile? Or affect it at all? And isn't the complete absence
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by chuckee 5y ago
> highly skilled craftsmanship will never again be affordable on an architectural scale Is that why those award-winning buildings look like that? Because the architects tried to make them cheaper? Is 'detail' requiring highly s
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Biden's first plan would have prioritized funding for broadband networks owned by municipalities, non-profits, and co-operatives, but that didn't make it into the final bill.
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by chuckee 5y ago
> For some reason Intel keep a significant presence in Israel. A great many US companies have a significant presence in a great many countries, that receive far less in military aid and support. > Yes? Meaning that boycotts against Is
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by chuckee 5y ago
> racist parents getting mad about children learning the story of Ruby Bridges. Let your political adversaries choose which true, uncontested historical facts are taught in schools, and you too will find yourself in the uncomfortable pos
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Intel has a significant presence there That's a bit tail wagging the dog, isn't it? Intel has no trouble getting engineers to immigrate to the US when it comes to other countries. > boycott Israel There's a lot of roo
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by chuckee 5y ago
Yet another in a long line of articles that denies via omission the existence of any European culture prior to the Victorian era, and entirely ignores eastern Europe and Slavic people. It should be plainly obvious that mothers needed to car
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by chuckee 5y ago
> a beneficial although controversial deal for both parts. How did the US benefit? Did that benefit go to the US population as a whole, or to a few oil companies? Does that benefit exceed the astronomical cost of the many middle eastern
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by chuckee 5y ago
> progressively minded, a bastion of secularism, LGBT rights, and western ideals. Which other ethno-nationalist states do you laud this way? It is unrealistic and unacceptable to expect the State of Israel to voluntarily subvert its own
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by chuckee 5y ago
> If a phone has a bad radio it could affect hundreds of other customers. I still don't understand - what does 'activation' do, how does it prevent a bad radio from interfering with other customers? Why not kick phones wit
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Lamoureux focused on whether the gesture fit into the Criminal Code’s definition of assault as an act where someone “applies force” without another person’s consent. Advertisement Article content > “Air pressure is a force at the mo
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by chuckee 5y ago
Could you explain what that means, for someone unfamiliar with phone tech or the US approach to activation? Naively I would think the SIM card functions as a sort of API to the carrier network, and as long as a phone supports that API, carr
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Harvard to host performance of re-imagined Macbeth for Black-only audience(thefire.org)
8 points by chuckee 5y ago|8 comments
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by chuckee 5y ago
> to prevent automatic downloading To prevent all downloading, not just automatic. When they remove a video, they don't want you to have an archived copy to prove the content ever existed, or to watch it without their permission.
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by chuckee 5y ago
I wish they used more honest language. He was jailed for an 18-second clip he posted to Facebook. That means he was jailed for insulting them, disparaging them, or threatening them (though no threats are mentioned), not "abusing&quot
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The Social Science Monoculture Doubles Down(quillette.com)
3 points by chuckee 5y ago|0 comments
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by chuckee 5y ago
I'm confused - are you disputing their findings? They use official Dept. of Education data. And a 2019 peer-reviewed paper gives broadly similar numbers [1]: on average, both Black and Latinx total per pupil expenditures exceed White
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Meanwhile school funding remains directly tied to standardized test scores, creating virtuous/vicious cycles of classism in virtually every city across the country. Unequal school funding is a common talking point, but, on average
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McAuliffe Plan: Giving Parents a ‘Choice’ Leads to ‘Segregation’(dailywire.com)
16 points by chuckee 5y ago|17 comments
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by chuckee 5y ago
That may be so, but the article gives the impression that the professors were forbidden from testifying, presumably under threat of losing their jobs. If they were simply not allowed to take payment for that testimony, the article and tit
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by chuckee 5y ago
I couldn't find this information in the NPR article - do you have a different source?
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by chuckee 5y ago
Staff members must be sensitive that perfectly proper political activity by their spouses, family or companions may nevertheless create conflicts of interest or the appearance of conflict. When such a possibility arises, the staff member s
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Targeted companies and institutions were restricted from doing business with China. Academics can simply shrug this off, but for many businesses, this could mean bankruptcy. And China doesn't even have to use this much, as just th
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by chuckee 5y ago
> Renewables need to be combined with power sources that can be turned on and off quickly and on demand. Do most fossil fuel power plants currently serve that purpose? Only running when there is excess demand, instead of continuously?
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by chuckee 5y ago
It's so frustrating seeing nuclear pitted against renewables, while fossil fuel powerplants are still operating/being built, whose baseline power could be replaced by nuclear. But somehow the idea took hold that nuclear would be b

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