gozur88

59 ms·

631.
by gozur88 9y ago
StanislavPetrov is correct - the incentives are set up for the colleges to graduate you. If they don't have enough students, or too many drop out, they won't have enough income.
632.
by gozur88 9y ago
The problem is students who should be in remedial courses are going to turn the first year of college into High School Part II for everyone.
633.
by gozur88 9y ago
It doesn't make a lot of sense to lump European countries together for this kind of stuff, but to the extent you do France and Germany probably have more in common with the UK than, say, Greece.
634.
by gozur88 9y ago
You can't, really. Not in the US. There's no way you can budget health care for that many years.
635.
by gozur88 9y ago
This may just be selection bias. Had your father died at age 70, you'd be thinking the reason was he didn't retire early enough. My dad retired at 55 as his health began to decline. He's still alive at 78, and there's
636.
by gozur88 9y ago
I don't see how that's rational after what happened in Hamburg last month.
637.
by gozur88 9y ago
"When"? We're pretty much already there now. Thank God I'm getting old and will be exiting the workplace (relatively) soon. Repeating lies out of fear for your job is corrosive to the soul.
638.
by gozur88 9y ago
Cards used to be more convenient in the US. But once they started putting in the chips the verification process takes ages. I can complete the whole transaction in cash in the time it takes the chip reader to get itself sorted.
639.
by gozur88 9y ago
From what I understand the real reason they're trying to get rid of the brothels is they bring in considerably less tax money than high-end retail. One of my big disappointments in visiting Europe the last time is how the major citie
640.
by gozur88 9y ago
I imagine it would be similar to the sorts of inspections you'd find at a hospital.
641.
by gozur88 9y ago
>The decision on whether one's work is "correct" and worthy of a phD is so subjective, and prevailing theoretical trends are so arbitrary and subject to change, that it's easy to reject a dissertation based on cliquis
642.
by gozur88 9y ago
Seems like you would have known, or at least heard rumors. Word gets around when people do that kind of stuff.
643.
by gozur88 9y ago
Are there venomous mammals in North America? I can't think of one.
644.
by gozur88 9y ago
I don't see free parking as any less of a public good than a park. Besides, last time I was in SF I didn't see any free parking. It was all meters and expensive garages.
645.
by gozur88 9y ago
But Knight was never really alone. Sure, he didn't live with or talk to people. But he couldn't survive without stealing from the people around him.
646.
by gozur88 9y ago
Well, yes. That's how words change. Phrases, too - I've given up the "begs the question" battle.
647.
by gozur88 9y ago
There's a difference between actively stealing service and owning a television. It's not like BBC is the only thing available in the UK.
648.
by gozur88 9y ago
Not as much as you'd think. Companies like Google and Facebook have government contracts and even if they didn't it would be trivially easy for the administrative state to attack them with tax or anti-trust law. They'll do w
649.
by gozur88 9y ago
Oh? What happens if you refuse to pay it?
650.
by gozur88 9y ago
The difference with robots being it only has to be figured out once and the entire next generation of robots will be able to do it.
651.
by gozur88 9y ago
I believe that. It takes, what four or five years for a kid to learn how to catch a ball?
652.
by gozur88 9y ago
Not only that, but cars shared with no supervision (as in a taxi driver) are going to be the nastiest places in the city. All sorts of things are going to happen in those cars that you don't want to follow.
653.
by gozur88 9y ago
But the important thing isn't that the mechanical brakes exist, it's that they get used. Presumably with computers driving cars and regional coordination, you would have cars doing mostly regenerative braking and reserve the mech
654.
by gozur88 9y ago
Sounds like an upgrade to the balaclava.
655.
by gozur88 9y ago
They may not have the answers to any of those questions yet. It's still news.
656.
by gozur88 9y ago
I wonder. One of the reasons internal combustion has lasted so long is great boatloads of cash get showered on the technology trying to eke out that last 0.2% of efficiency, and when that's the situation eventually someone has a brigh
657.
by gozur88 9y ago
tl;dr: Texas uses more energy per capita because they've included industrial use and it has a lot of energy intensive industry.
658.
by gozur88 9y ago
Voluntary economic associations are not theft. To say that capitalism is theft is to engage in sophistry. It's only theft if the workers are actually slaves.
659.
by gozur88 9y ago
Exports only tell part of the story. Much of what a country consumes is produced locally, so just looking at exports ignores the collapse of industries like construction and agriculture.
660.
by gozur88 9y ago
The economy was growing under Chavez's predecessors. Yes, it would have fared much, much better. What he did with oil is less important than what he did to the rest of the economy. Chavez was lucky, in a way, because he died right a

More ›