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by gwright 5y ago
> You seem to be complaining that some percentage of recipients have moved past the arbitrary line, while ignoring that they still can't afford food and shelter. No that isn't at all what I was trying to point out (or "com
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by gwright 5y ago
The problem is that if you are trying to measure the effectiveness of government programs you can't exclude their value in your metric. In a very simple stripped down version: * assume 20% of people need public assistance *
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by gwright 5y ago
It might help to understand a bit more about poverty statistics (at least as they manifest themselves in the US): https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/annals-of-poverty Basically the "poverty rate" that makes it to
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by gwright 5y ago
The parent posted relevant details to the case at hand. Your comment doesn't really add to the conversation and suggests that your opinion as a middle-schooler 20-years ago about a video that has nothing to do with this case is a more
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by gwright 5y ago
I read that as just more information not any sort of justification. I reacted more negatively to your response than to the parent.
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by gwright 5y ago
I was confused also but I think what is being said here is that "noon" is de-coupled from "12:00" and becomes relative to the local position of the sun. So if you are at UTC-4 today your "noon" would happen at
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by gwright 5y ago
I think the point of making the lists public is to provide information that can lead to iterative improvements. I'm not sure it will do that but I'm a bit more confident that it is a necessary first step.
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by gwright 5y ago
> Social media was supposed to help level the playing field of society, Why do you think this? I mean it isn't like there was a plebiscite on what "social media was supposed to help". As with most things of consequence in
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by gwright 5y ago
I have no opinion on whether playing games for 3 or 5 or 8 hours a week is good or bad for people under 18. I do feel like a government (never mind central government) having the power to legislate at that level of micro-management is very
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by gwright 5y ago
I don't think modern economies and supply chains work that way. It isn't like the tennis ball supply chain is an independent entity from everything else. It is all connected in somewhat intricate and non-obvious ways. It isn&#x27
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by gwright 5y ago
It would be nice if definitions were well-known and stable but there seems to be a significant number of people working against that ideal in favor of definitions that are malleable and curated (some might say policed) by various preferred
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by gwright 5y ago
We are talking about two different things. Platforms should be able to have an editorial policy. That doesn't magically make their policy immune from criticism. YouTube or Facebook presenting their editorial choices as "truth&quot
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by gwright 5y ago
And so what do you conclude? You seem to be saying that instead of unfettered speech you prefer that some authority step in and pick and choose what speech is to be allowed? And who gets to be in that privileged position of determining what
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by gwright 5y ago
Yeah, except that isn't actually the argument.
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by gwright 5y ago
> That's fine. YouTube doesn't want to host it, because in their view it's harmful. What's the problem? It is perfectly rationale to say that YouTube has the freedom to make editorial choices while also pointing out t
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by gwright 5y ago
> They are no arbitrator of truth or facts, leave that to the courts Not sure this is a good approach either. Discerning truth and separating fact from fiction isn't a skill that some people have and other's don't. It is a
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by gwright 5y ago
Your comment as written was unclear. I was trying to provide clarity.
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by gwright 5y ago
I don't want to discount the challenges and pain associated with being homeless but your observations don't really explain the explosion of homelessness in some places. Something else has changed in the last 4-5 years to make this
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by gwright 5y ago
I don't know how valid those stats are but those are per capita numbers not absolute numbers, so not twice as many total homeless: Sweden: 10,230,000/10,000*36 = 36,828 homeless US: 328,200,000/10,000*17 = 649,740 homeles
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by gwright 5y ago
> But the terms are not ill-defined I'm asserting that if there is no rough agreement on definitions then you can't have a coherent conversation. You seem to be asserting that there is an effort to actively obscure the meaning
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by gwright 5y ago
> Misrepresented ideas The notion that "misrepresenting ideas" is a form of "misinformation" is chilling. It suggests that there is some privileged point of view regarding any given idea and that anything that contrad
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by gwright 5y ago
I feel like your definition of "left" and my definition of "left" aren't even remotely equivalent. It seems that much of our public debate is hobbled by an outstanding lack of consensus regarding what is meant by ma
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by gwright 5y ago
This is a great example of perversive incentives driven by ill-conceived benefit rules.
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by gwright 5y ago
> It’s just for show > the huge national security risk Which is it? I'm not up to speed on the details of the factory but on the surface ensuring local fab capabilities seems like a reasonably justified national security concern.
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by gwright 5y ago
> Are customers that aware of price increases? Yes. This is exactly the question answered by the concept of supply and demand curves. Of course you can argue about the shape of those curves but their existence is not in doubt.
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by gwright 5y ago
false dichotomy
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by gwright 5y ago
I feel like there is something interesting in here but the finance jargon and writing style is obscuring it for me.
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by gwright 5y ago
> This is the problem, isn't it? You seem to be posting an easy question to answer. But it's not, is it? Who is Google to judge what anyone would "consider violent or garbage?" You aren't even touching on the com
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by gwright 5y ago
> forgive those loans And what about the people who have already paid off their federally backed loans via their own hard work? They seem to get the short end of the stick in this case.
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by gwright 5y ago
Why impugn "capitalism" when you could have just said that the business model has negative consequences that should be addressed via legislation? I was reacting to the non-sequitur that you were suggesting that somehow capitalism

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