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by gragas 10y ago
> People are becoming more educated about personal finance and are recognizing how much active management fees eat into their returns. Do you have a source that supports what this implies?
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by gragas 10y ago
>Salarymen work large amounts of overtime, although much of it is for appearance’s sake That's just stupid. It makes me wonder, though: is the work culture similar for ex-patriots working in Japan?
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by gragas 10y ago
>And that this didn't used to be the case, that Asians used to have a similar gap, which indicates that Americans have simply gotten less racist towards them. Source? You have no proof that any of these differences are due to racism
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by gragas 10y ago
This is what happens when you take "everyone is equal" to a delusional extent. Everyone should have the same rights, but not everyone is born the same. It is sad, but true. I think the only reason one could come to your conclusion
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by gragas 10y ago
Should we be allowed to charge more? Definitely. Should we charge more? I don't know, I'm not an airline company.
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by gragas 10y ago
>your overly simplified logic "You should pay more because it costs more money to fly you" obviously makes no sense. No, that logic makes perfect sense. Firms can charge whatever they want. If you cost more to fly, then firms c
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by gragas 10y ago
It sucks but it's absolutely reasonable. It's shocking to me that you think firms shouldn't be allowed to charge more to cover greater costs.
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by gragas 10y ago
If you live in a smaller city, you'd know that this happens all the time. Nearly half the time when I fly on a tiny CRJ to and from my local airport, after everyone boards, the pilot will ask if three or four people could shift around
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by gragas 10y ago
By your argument, no analysis should ever be applied to any decision involving humans because that has disparate impact. Car insurance companies should only charge one rate, because otherwise they're discriminating against teenagers an
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by gragas 10y ago
It's not the duty of airlines to cater to every mental illness. Are you suggesting that they stop the whole show because one person with a relatively rare disease might be too embarrassed to use their service?
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by gragas 10y ago
It is not and should not be the duty of anyone to mitigate disparate impact. It is, by definition, not the fault of the "accidentally discriminatory party".
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by gragas 10y ago
This has nothing to do with BMI. The problem is exactly the same regardless of the BMI of any of the passengers. It ONLY is about properly distributing weight. It's not a fat tax. It's not "oh, this person is heavy compared t
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by gragas 10y ago
Perhaps they should work on their weight then? If this new practice affects the airline's profits, it'll solve the problem or take the losses.
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by gragas 10y ago
It's not a grey area at all. Airlines should have the right to charge customers per pound of items they take with them --- be it flesh or carry-on.
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by gragas 10y ago
How can this possibly be discriminatory against Samoans when the airline explicitly stated that seating arrangements were to properly distribute weight on the aircrafts? 1. The airline's motives have ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with race
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by gragas 10y ago
Here are fantastic Algebra lectures (Abstract Algebra, Fall 2003, Harvard) by my favorite lecturer Benedict Gross: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLelIK3uylPMGzHBuR3hLM...
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by gragas 10y ago
>It's now possible to make your way through a university education in CS without ever touching or understanding C. This is a problem. I suppose that this is the case. But really, to me this is article does not reveal anything beyond
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by gragas 10y ago
I think less than 15% of professional C programmers have a weak understanding of the language. One only needs a basic understanding of pointer arithmetic to understand why `(&arr + 1) - arr` is the size of the array.
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by gragas 10y ago
>I think this article made a lot of people feel stupid I don't think so. Anyone with a solid understanding of C understands pointer arithmetic. I think the article isn't obvious only to those who have a weak understanding of th
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by gragas 10y ago
I don't think the technology is convincing yet. You can't go hunting or fishing in a self-driving car.
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by gragas 10y ago
That's exactly the point I'm trying to make. I completely agree. I want to know, how does it feel to have gone to a place like Stanford, only to end up in the same position as someone who went to a state university?
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by gragas 10y ago
How is it not "just" ending up at Facebook or Google when you could've BS'd your way through high school, gone to a mediocre state school, and landed a new-grad position at one of those companies? Stanford or X State Uni
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by gragas 10y ago
> in the wake of the election. I see someone else felt similarly. I think that's exactly why everyone is on about "liberal hubris." It's because people like you who are so self-absorbed that you write articles about h
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by gragas 10y ago
I've always wondered what it'd be like to go to Stanford and then just end up at Facebook or Google, alongside many state-school graduates. Would it be a massive let down? Sure, you might have learned more at Stanford than at your
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by gragas 10y ago
>However, the greatest joy for me is sitting in front of my computer interacting with you folk. That sounds like my version of hell. I think the best thing you can do is ask people to do things with you. Many will say no, but that's
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by gragas 10y ago
That's not to say that loneliness causes those things. I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that lonely people are more likely to be depressed and sedentary. Many diseases follow from being depressed and sedentary.
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by gragas 10y ago
>and published the changes to `master` -_-
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by gragas 10y ago
you're an idiot if you think google, facebook, and amazon are breaking state-of-the-art crypto to steal your information
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by gragas 10y ago
The pretense of this article and this thread is astounding.
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by gragas 10y ago
Wow, I didn't know the higher ups at GitHub were that unethical.

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