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by clavalle 12y ago
I wonder if it would be feasible to pick a small town in the US and have private parties contribute enough to run such an experiment -- perhaps with better record keeping. Say a town of 3000 adults and 1000 needed help to get to a 'liv
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by clavalle 12y ago
I'd probably want another system to replace the current one as fast as humanly possible. It's sad that for all the progress we've made we have to say "If these people don't spend all day doing something mind numbing
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by clavalle 12y ago
I, personally, am hoping for a more creative based economy. We must tackle some serious issues before that is viable as I'd like it to be, though. First is that we must value creators and be eager to pay them for their work. Right now
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by clavalle 12y ago
>How are those same politicians going to feel about cranking the work week back to 20 hours and tripling the minimum wage to make everything balance out? They will feel how the people tell them to feel (ideally). Now, the real problem, h
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by clavalle 12y ago
Only for people who don't know how to look up the data for themselves.
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by clavalle 12y ago
'fear'? That's an odd response to our most precious resource, human minds, being freed from time sucking drudgery. We've created the economic systems. They are not the Laws of the Universe. We can change them if they b
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by clavalle 12y ago
>bioengineering an intelligent organism Or just engineering some. Biological organisms seem overly tuned to their environment and complex ones need a supporting biological ecosystem to thrive (so far that we've seen). It may be mo
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by clavalle 12y ago
Unequal access to our legal system is the shadow problem of our age. It touches so many aspects of our society and we barely seem to be aware of the issue. Hopefully this technology and others in the same vein will bring costs down and spe
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by clavalle 12y ago
We prefer 'self-selecting breeding pools that happen to align toward advantage'.
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by clavalle 12y ago
There has to be some equally cheap countermeasures that can be found.
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by clavalle 12y ago
I am pretty sure my dad didn't like them to begin with but the question at the time was 'do I give the cops a hard time and spend even more time out here or let them take a look and get on my way'. Drunk driving is a serious
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by clavalle 12y ago
With wish fulfillment superpowers but recognizable as human. Not all comic superheroes are two dimensional.
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by clavalle 12y ago
Not really. To be libertarian you have to be pretty idealistic. They don't qualify. Now they are just Republicans that don't trust the police.
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by clavalle 12y ago
Good. I really don't understand how this practice persisted for so long next when we have the right to due process. For people who think it only happened to drug dealers who were difficult to prosecute; it happened to my elderly parent
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by clavalle 12y ago
Superheroes of a different era.
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by clavalle 12y ago
We have a server room that is almost empty these days. I unabashedly advocate for a cot or a hammock in there. I like to think of sleep as clearing my working memory: the important stuff gets saved and the cruft is cleared and, one hopes,
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by clavalle 12y ago
I don't know...the transferred credit aspect could be huge. I wish I'd taken classes like Organic Chemistry in CC. There is no way anyone could convince me that my quality of learning would be worse considering that class at Univ
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by clavalle 12y ago
In the community colleges in my state (Texas) they make sure credits can transfer to UT, A&M and other Universities. So they are equivalent in terms of those classes (typically at freshman or sophomore level).
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by clavalle 12y ago
>that same property was almost entirely all stolen in the recent past. Was there some sort of native American title office that the European settlers missed? Was every square mile of what would become the United States occupied, used, a
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by clavalle 12y ago
It started as a board game. The digital port is very recent.
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by clavalle 12y ago
Wow. I've had almost the opposite experience in every way. Waze has saved me a huge amount of time by routing me around the random traffic I have in my area in ways that I'd have never thought of. And the ride sharing update actu
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by clavalle 12y ago
>We could then achieve the same thing in public schools as in the boarding school. No we couldn't. There are only so many experts to spread around.
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by clavalle 12y ago
>The hard-to-teach students need to go somewhere Why not a school with behavior experts? Wouldn't a concentration of students with specific needs make it easier to address those needs because you can concentrate those specific reso
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by clavalle 12y ago
>Anyone can take the most motivated, compliant, best-supported students and do well with them. The question is: are charter schools doing better with these students than is being done with them in public schools? On the other end of the
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by clavalle 12y ago
Why is it assumed that to educate everyone to the best of their ability that the traditional public school system, where everyone is thrown together based on where they live, is the best to achieve that goal and anything else leads to margi
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by clavalle 12y ago
Basically the author is claiming that we have to hold all variables equal to compare charter schools and traditional public schools in order to 'be wise' and 'think critically' about charter schools. Why is that necessa
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by clavalle 12y ago
There's nothing like biking 10 miles in the cold fog along a freeway...
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by clavalle 12y ago
Because government regulation is sometimes the only effective counterweight to corporate abuse of power.
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by clavalle 12y ago
If a merchant ship is destroyed in international waters by a government, who would take care of that issue? Similar rules apply.
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by clavalle 12y ago
>Besides that, i'm becoming skeptical on Elon's announcements since hyperloop. Why? He was quite clear in stating that he wouldn't actively pursue hyperloop.

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