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by dokein 8y ago
I don’t understand the second forumulation. What is (drug addicts than students) as an entity?
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by dokein 8y ago
This is, I think, partially the result of decriminalization. When a vocal sub-population says "oh no, but poor people have no agency, and therefore no choice but to commit crime / evade fares, etc. and we should be more lenient&q
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by dokein 8y ago
In many other eras these two would be dead. Can you imagine a couple farmers in the 1200s with planning this shitty? Instead, modern society has provided Tom and Kate with stable upbringings, solid graduate-level education, good jobs, readi
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by dokein 8y ago
After reading the original article linked within the slate re-reporting bullshit: It’s a sad indictment of Tom and Kate, not capitalism. They both make decent money — significantly more than their parents. They both have graduate level educ
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by dokein 8y ago
This isn’t going to be popular, but: Should parents be allowed to try to give their children a boost in life? If the answer is yes, then it follows that parents with more resources will be more able to provide that boost. For me, the line
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by dokein 8y ago
From the article, no mention of this applying to subcontractors, who do some of Amazon's packing and deliveries.
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Amazon increases its minimum wage to $15(engadget.com)
3 points by dokein 8y ago|1 comments
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by dokein 8y ago
A week ago, at the stop nearest me, the E train uptown was re-routed. The C train had an 18 minute wait (the next one after that -- 19 minutes). The station was somewhere north of 100 degrees F and packed. As the trains were one floor below
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by dokein 8y ago
When I first started evaluating research, I was able to deconstruct studies and show why they were bad left and right. I thought I was so smart, but then when I started trying to do my own research it became obvious that we operate under t
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by dokein 8y ago
Not clear from the article: - What hardship / not-boring is (i.e. Buffet's father became a congressman when he was still in his formative years; but that doesn't count for Bezos because his adoptive father was well-off). - Wh
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by dokein 8y ago
For the sake of argument, let’s grant that his B.A. was someone else’s fault. But the masters? After four years of undergraduate, presumably at a decent university, was he still uneducated and unable to think for himself? If yes, that degr
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by dokein 8y ago
We don’t hesitate to hold the terrorist responsible either. That’s the wonderful thing about responsibility: multiple people can have it, without dilution!
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by dokein 8y ago
Can you clarify: does inflaming one’s intellect require one to NOT understand what 6% of 200,000 is?
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by dokein 8y ago
When my parents couldn't spare $40, I took a job at a local motel. The author, in contrast, asked them to cosign for $200,040.
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by dokein 8y ago
But... I thought taking English classes and reading literature was supposed to provide one with critical thinking skills? How many years of "critical thinking" does one need to take before realizing that $200K on 6% variable inter
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by dokein 8y ago
One of the issues with polarizing politics these days is that, although I am against affirmative action (with moderate confidence), I will, as a direct result of the Trump administration taking the same side, not ever again voice this opini
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by dokein 8y ago
It sounds like the article is asserting that tax breaks result in decreased public services per capita, but most of the people interviewed were priced out from a housing perspective. Also, while touching, it is not clear that a few anecdote
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by dokein 8y ago
It turns out that regulations are made largely by old lawyers, who are more connected and charismatic than smart and practical, and haven't operated in the real-world for decades.
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by dokein 8y ago
100% agree. 100 years ago, if you didn't have access to a textbook or a teacher, you were largely shit outta luck. Today, with adequately motivated parents / students (and a moderate amount of resources, i.e. access to the interne
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by dokein 8y ago
Given the most-penalized people in this situation are Asian first or second-generation immigrants, I don't follow your point. Also, although I agree that part of the variation between recent immigrants and historically-forced immigran
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by dokein 8y ago
Annual revenue, monthly fee.
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by dokein 8y ago
So obviously relationships are bad when there's a power dynamic, and between different management levels is a common subset of this. However it feels like many people are spending more and more time at work, and it also seems cruel to
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by dokein 8y ago
Broadly, I've been doing a 5-fund portfolio with a mix of several index funds in decreasing percentages (total US stock, total international, US bonds, international bonds, REIT). If I had enough money for it to be meaningful, I'
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by dokein 8y ago
Hard to judge whether this is true, but with billions of dollars in play I wouldn’t put it past human nature to do something immoral.
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by dokein 8y ago
As far as anecdata goes, I know someone who makes around $800K a year even without some crazy-impressive a follower count on Youtube (around 600K). This is not factoring in free trips, etc. As with any commercial exchange, there's a lo
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by dokein 8y ago
In my opinion, Harvard needs to just be straight about why they're doing what they're doing. If it's race-based quotas for the sake of class diversity or long-term societal benefit, then just say it outright and we can have a
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by dokein 8y ago
Student loans should be dischargeable in bankruptcy after 10 years post-graduation (and not fully guaranteed past a certain amount, say $10K or $20K) -- hear me out. The common reason student loans are NOT allowed to be dischargeable is bec
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by dokein 8y ago
You're right. Fever often feels bad, and like pain, is often worth treating. I just ask the patient if it's bothering them, and treat it if it is; the only exception is sometimes leaving a fever unmasked is useful to determine if
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by dokein 8y ago
I know this is an aside, but speaking as a physician the treatment of fever doesn't actually do much of anything [1]. The rates of certain injuries e.g. febrile seizures are the same with or without Tylenol [2]. [1] https://
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by dokein 8y ago
Thank you for this--I missed it in my read of the article! Thinking about it further, it's a careful balance between defining market supply correctly (e.g. high performing individuals who would normally be hired at Google) without the

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