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by iguy 6y ago
Do you know of any systematic figures on such things? A six-figure bake sale (if I grant that it happened) is probably 1% of the school's budget (at a school of 1000 in CA, or 500 in NY). I always thought such things existed more as so
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by iguy 6y ago
> That is very dangerous. Not having employers provide health insurance doesn't necessarily mean a free-for-all. For example (IIRC) the Swiss system unbundles this, but it's obligatory to buy insurance, so that you are not free
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by iguy 6y ago
This history also means there's a lot of pre-1914 city per capita today. The urban planning of that era has tended to result in more liveable neighborhoods today, compared to districts & cities built from scratch more recently.
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by iguy 6y ago
The logic of calling a flat sales tax regressive is (I think) that poor people spend most of their income, while rich people save more, and thus pay a lower percentage of their income. Agree that this isn't a great way to look at thing
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by iguy 6y ago
Count this as evidence for consumption tax being fairer than income tax. Earning money and sitting on it doesn't hurt anyone. But in buying a nice life in Canada, you are in part buying what the government provides.
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This really isn't a one-dimensional question with an easy "studies have shown" answer. For a start, it would require a definition for what "benefits host countries" means -- benefits tax receipts? Proportion willi
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by iguy 6y ago
> 41% of residents spoke English moderately well Do you know (or care to speculate) on how those eligible for this offer would compare to residents captured by the census? e.g. Did lots of people arrive from the mainland post-97, who mig
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by iguy 6y ago
Yea I couldn't figure it out. The context of the thread was which way the causality goes from density of policing to level of crime. What were you saying then?
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by iguy 6y ago
Are you seriously claiming that the presence of police increases the murder rate? Or are you actually asking to know by what mechanisms policing can prevent murders? Once you are talking about solving a murder, clearly that one was not pr
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by iguy 6y ago
Thanks! So between 10 & 20% are in for drugs -- the lower figure if I try to exclude trafficking (although roughly, as they don't always break it down). And this means "in for nothing harder than drugs" since they are cou
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by iguy 6y ago
If what you describe was the pattern, then the regions with lots of observed "victimless crimes" would be uncorrelated with the regions with lots of serious crimes (e.g. from counting bullet holes down at the morgue, or from ShotS
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by iguy 6y ago
I don't have a link handy but it's around 15% of the total prison population who are in for drug offences.
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by iguy 6y ago
"catch[ing] more criminals" was a quote from above. But I used it when discussing murder, not jaywalking. I agree that being locked up once surely makes going straight harder (because employers are wary) and going crooked easier (
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by iguy 6y ago
More policing may indeed catch more minor crimes that would otherwise go unobserved. But the morgue has a pretty close to 100% set of data on murder victims. It's hard to argue that those are caused by catching more criminals. (And in
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by iguy 6y ago
I agree that Ukraine couldn't have usefully threatened Russia over Crimea. Likewise nukes are no use for minor conflict in Kashmir. But the game the Pakistanis imagine is different. Their concern (as I understand it) has always been th
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by iguy 6y ago
This also happened. But there was a completely legal tier of regional editions, my guess is also that this note is there because the regional rights were transferred to someone else.
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> One is how closely related were these neolithic people to modern Irish people The article explains that these are related to the first farmers, who arrived (slowly) from roughly what's now Turkey, and mixed with local pre-farming
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by iguy 6y ago
> What kind of crime? Violent? Non-violent? The US has more murders than Europe for sure. This is the simplest statistic to collect, because the definition of a dead body doesn't vary, and in any functional country almost all of the
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by iguy 6y ago
Always a bit shocked how much is spent, even on schools which don't perform well. Baltimore spends $16k per student per year, NYC $23k. Maybe it's even higher in rich suburbs but that's quite the "shoestring". For c
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by iguy 6y ago
> lectures are almost useless. Exercises and practicing is what gives insights And community -- both the other students, and the professors. To motivate each other, and to calibrate expectations, and to fill holes in each others' kn
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by iguy 6y ago
It would be interesting to understand better how shortages came about. Was there enough time for a global price rise to have filtered through to retail customers? Or was there enough retail panic-buying to generate shortages? If everybody w
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by iguy 6y ago
A policy of funding a domestic trial of anything which anyone else is trying anywhere in the world wouldn't be crazy, actually. We're not trying to only make safe bets; the cost of not having a solution is 1000 deaths a day.
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by iguy 6y ago
Sure, that's bad. There's no point spending money chasing existing stock of the drug within the country, if it's useful it will all get used anyway. But a $100M or whatever check to ramp up production, or to buy wholesale sto
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by iguy 6y ago
Maybe this was clear to some, but lots of people thought it worthwhile to fund trials. To me 63M doses of a cheap drug sounds like a really small bet. We should be willing to make lots of them, on the slightest hope, knowing that most will
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by iguy 6y ago
I thought lots of existing mines had ore containing them, but can't make a profit extracting them, so they don't. How quickly such extraction/refining steps could be added, I don't know. (Am far from an expert though!)
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But there was also the need to re-install the OS because everything you added somehow got its fingers into everything else until it was impossibly slow. Even if you were unusually cautious about how many toolbars to install. Phone apps were
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by iguy 6y ago
I guess I'm happy they established a strong norm early on that apps don't get to run in the background. This was a big change from PC apps. But I agree they could now offer a bit more flexibility. (And demand that, if I refuse per
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by iguy 6y ago
Different rules lead to different ecosystems. My claim here is that, under anything-goes rules, some options I like having would probably go away. And while I understand the temptation to complain about a 30% cut, it's not so obvious t
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I guess my claim is that, if side-loading were common, then lots of apps which now play by the rules would (eventually) be replaced by ones that don't. There are lots of iphone apps from companies I would never trust to install a real
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by iguy 6y ago
Not OP, but I share the desire for convenience. This convenience is only available to me because there is a large customer base which companies can't access any other way. They have varying reasons for wanting an iphone, each of which

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