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by dangjc 9y ago
Not sure what to make of the article. I can't find the original report, and it's not clear the conditions their system "Automata" is subjecting the students to. It would also be interesting how this varies across countri
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Only 4.77% of Indian engineering students can write correct logic(qz.com)
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At the national level, it's usually the right that is obstructive in making government work better. Like letting Medicare negotiate drug prices so costs are contained. Or defunding regulatory agencies that protect consumers so they can
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If you count expenditures Americans have to pay to private companies that Swedish people don't, eg thousands of dollars for health care, $100k+ for college, day care, private transport, etc, I think you'll find Americans pay the s
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by dangjc 10y ago
Smart protectionism does help. It's how Japan, South Korea, and now China have developed advanced manufacturing industries where free traders would have told them to specialize in what they did best at the time like grow rice. We need
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Sounds like NZ needs a destination based cash flow tax, like the idea that is floating around Congress now: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/01/07/upshot/the-major-poten...
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I did a road trip in New Zealand where petrol is $2 a liter, ie about $8 per gallon. It made us much more conscious about how much we were driving. It's the only place I've seen hitchhiking still socially acceptable and not creepy
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TLDR: costs are high because hospitals and doctors have little pricing transparency and monopoly power in many markets. This administration might be friendly to forcing hospitals to publish prices, but unfortunately, I think the FTC won&#x2
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Traffic (along those trunk routes). Cost (some say Uber's price would drop by 2/3 with self driving, but for a long commute, a $3 train ticket is probably still cheaper). Self driving cars would be great though if your route is no
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I'm very much looking forward to self driving cars to save us. It's hard for public transit to cover enough of a city, but we can easily build trunk lines or commuter lines and have self driving cars carry people the last mile. Pu
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Cars are not freedom when you can't drive, ie anyone younger than 16, anyone too old to drive, anyone disabled. Being stuck in bumper to bumper traffic is not freedom. Especially compared to commuting on a train where you can read or g
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FHA and HUD loans cap the ratio of commercial to residential, and so strongly favor single use developments. Banks take their cue from this and are also less willing to lend to such projects. It's a shame because in many cities, these
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The Singapore government controls all the major press outlets and sues political opponents into bankruptcy. A single party has won every election since independence. The US has flaws, but in a completely different way from Singapore.
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Yes you should tax empty land, just by taxing all land. The land owner always has the option to sell the unused land. It encourages property use, and the tax rate actually decreases the more built up the property is. This is not rocket scie
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China has a current account surplus (they export more goods than they import). To keep their exchange rate down, they export the capital back out, funding things like rail in Africa. It's not the free market. Much of the surplus saving
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by dangjc 10y ago
The last mile wires going into your home aren't changed every 3 years. Those should be shared through a regulated utility. The telcos can compete building connectivity between neighborhoods and cities.
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Our main ability to control things happens during elections, but we can debate and become informed in the meantime. Debate and inform your friends and family who are on the fence too. Hopefully by election time, there won't be so many
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He's advocating greater density than the typical American suburb but far less than a Manhattan. More like old fashioned main streets, with mixed commercial and residential and less driveways and parking lots. Stores and apartments gene
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This is really exciting electoral reform. I don't think our current system captures the diversity of political opinion now, and we could really use a couple more parties. Like a democratic party that is anti establishment or a republic
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Because of politics. You can win votes in coal country if you promise them jobs. You can win votes in Alaska, Texas if you let them drill.
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In a simple math world yes, but tax policies consider other factors like social equity, disincentivizing work/investment, compliance likelihood, etc.
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Tokyo is one of the most walking/biking friendly cities I've ever seen. Once you get out of central areas like Shinjuku/Shibuya, there are tons of lovely lanes where cars are technically allowed but so rarely go that the stre
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by dangjc 10y ago
This is a great example of why taxes are so high in America. Instead of having one party be for lowering taxes and one for raising taxes, why not have both parties admit that we all want to make government more efficient with the money it d
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In southeast Asia, you can get an Epson L300 tank printer for about $170 USD. Each tank refill costs $10 and lasts for 10,000 pages. This line of printers isn't offered in the US. It's market segmentation. I think it's indica
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Overall for a country it can be beneficial to have immigrants, but it can be hurtful to low-skilled workers in that country to have to compete against the foreign workers. Higher skilled workers usually have less to worry about as connectio
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Economically develop. Wages in eastern Europe are a fraction of western Europe.
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It actually was a supermajority of 60 senators that passed it. The House concurred, the President signed it, and five supreme court justices repeatedly affirmed it. These all reflect different cross sections of voting behaviour. A majority
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They're related by fear. Fear of being swamped by immigrants. Fear of terrorists. Fear of losing their country's identity. The UK, like Switzerland, adopted freedom of movement provisions to access the common market despite the UK
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Freedom of movement is an ideal to aspire to, but maybe the reality we live in now is that immigration needs to be managed to maintain social cohesion. People need time to stop thinking of themselves as British or German first but rather Eu
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The point is that majorities are allowed to make some decisions, not all. At the broadest level, there are rights which no majority can take away. Some fundamental changes require super majorities. Then at a geographical level, decision mak

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