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by daedrdev 4mo ago
I think math bas be slowly transforming more and more into word problems and scenarios. You might think oh yeah this engages the student by showing them reality, but I actually found it incredibly boring and useless, it served as a distract
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by daedrdev 4mo ago
Very few US prisons are for profit. Like I said in my other comment, some are more likely to reoffend because their prison time, but other were already more likely to reoffend, especially multiple felons who commit an extremely high percent
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by daedrdev 4mo ago
Theres obviously going to be a correlation, but it may be because the state effectively gives more evil criminals longer sentences
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by daedrdev 4mo ago
The majority of people in prisons in the US are incarcerated for violent crime. 64% of violent criminals are rearrested compared to 40% of nonviolent criminals. It really looks like the US is being somewhat efficient here and just has a lot
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by daedrdev 4mo ago
Reducing poverty only has a minor impact on crime. I think some Criminals commit crimes because they know they will most likely get away with it, they are bad people
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by daedrdev 4mo ago
Econ 101 often ignores side effects, but I don’t think economist has a whole ignore side effects. That’s like one of their main topics of study.
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by daedrdev 4mo ago
The current situation, where students succeed regardless if they completely failed to learn and do zero work is also pretty bad
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by daedrdev 4mo ago
In California, this is absolutely not the case. Regulations are strict, chemical emissions are heavily restricted and proper disposal of chemicals via specialized companies at great expense. Chemical companies have no need of formulating ne
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
Publishers loose money on most books and most advances they pay authors, and are simply gambling for the big hits.
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
Or in the past code just sat unpatched via obscurity because fewer people were looking. After all there are plenty of exploits from injection to CSS that we have fixed or migrated away from for code from the far past
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
The UI covers itself on a large screen with no way of viewing what's underneath, not great
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
Once you look, you see this all the time when new CEOs join large companies, they feel the need to mark their territory by taking a dump on it.
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
Horse labor went away is a objectively decent argument
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
Made harder by the fact that we make it illegal and hostile to build housing
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
FDR created the US welfare system which destroyed socialism in the US. I'm not predicting the future but it has basically happened before.
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
I think people are blaming AI for a recession caused by trump’s tarrifs and the oil crisis. Businesses fear that oil prices may explode until enough of the economy enters a recession that oil demand decreases, and are already feeling the s
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
Until last year, the share of wealth by the 1% had been basically flat at 31% for a decade https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/WFRBST01134 Your expectations aren't matching reality
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
There is plenty of research, it is all kept as trade secrets because they are in a competitive business environment
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
I made sure to mention that several times while complaining about the cuban government overall.
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
I can't find the article but I did read a few years ago most had left to either Mexico or the US. The US had a very favorable program for cubans to enter, work and stay in the country under the Biden admin. The cuban government via Nat
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
Cuba let 20% of the population leave in 2020-24 so that they would have fewer dissenters in the country who might overthrow the government. Thats a higher rate of population per year than the peak of the great Irish famine
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
This was the situation in the past, but the US has now forced Mexico and Vueneusalia to not ship Cuba gas. Of course the cuban economy is so weak it can't afford solar which could solved this, largely due to their own failures
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
The US has had an embargo on Cuba for a long time that exempted Food and Medicine, while other countries freely traded with Cuba. However, under the Trump admin it has turned into a de-facto blockade of all fuel, which really isn't the
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
The thing is grocery stores make very little money, usually low single digit percentage profits, that surprisingly low rates of shoplifting can sink a store and force it to close. Shoplifting, especially the trend of rich people performativ
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
I think its a good fear to have, I feel like many sites dies when the main path of discovering them broke for one reason or another, who knows what the path to discovery of this site is would be for a student today.
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
This is Costco literally suffering from success, they have had an enormous growth in subscriptions yet opening stores takes time, faces regulations, has limited availability
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
Right I forgot we waived the jones act. Refiners are hard to come by in CA though as they keep shutting down
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
Texas is better at this because they don't restrict solar with “enviromental” nimby lawsuits.
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
They are being strangled, it’s their choice to tap out is how I would put it. The improvement in air quality is due to the clean air act, catalytic converters, and the shuttering of industry, the gas blend plays a minor part. Even then, wit
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by daedrdev 5mo ago
Once again, its illegal to use that oil in California due to (imo bad) environmental regulations

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