markshead

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by markshead 9y ago
> After all, their whole "disruption" is "how about we just ignore all the taxi legislation" The laws I'm familiar with for taxis specifically apply to a vehicle that you hail (wave down) from the street. If you
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by markshead 9y ago
At the bottom of her post she says she did just what you suggest. She started interacting with other people. I don't think the whole "nuclear family causes misery" thing made much sense. She evidently didn't either since
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by markshead 9y ago
I'm not sure the isolation she mentions is because of a nuclear family unless there is something about her family that prohibits her from doing things with other people. For example, going to the park as you do.
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by markshead 9y ago
The article wouldn't have been as marketable if the title was "Could Not Doing Things With Others Be The Reason We are Lonely?" Yet at the bottom of the article the author explains that she joined a group of other people who
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by markshead 9y ago
Banks used to be able to loan you money but have it guaranteed by the government. I think that ended in 2010. Wells Fargo does offer a type of student loan, but it looks like you have to have someone cosign it with you (probably your parent
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by markshead 9y ago
> I've never met anybody who believes that the government is solely responsible for educating children Parents who think it is their responsibility to educate their kids and see the public school as one of the ways to provide that e
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by markshead 9y ago
> make them dischargeable by bankrupcty and let the market price in the default rate and see what happens. These loans aren't coming from the market. If students had to go to a private bank and make a case about why they were a good
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by markshead 9y ago
Everything I've seen suggests that Plus loans will cover any cost of attendance at a college that isn't covered by other financial aid. https://studentaid.ed.gov/sa/types/loans/plus#how-much It is p
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by markshead 9y ago
> adding any situation where bankruptcy is impossible seems like it destroys the purpose of having bankruptcy exist in the first place. Agreed, but keep in mind we aren't talking about loans in the traditional sense. Normally a loan
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by markshead 9y ago
That is possible, but in smaller communities where everyone knows each other, I see teachers and parents working together to help their kids succeed. I don't want to discount the value of a good teacher, but I think it is very unfair m
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by markshead 9y ago
As I understand it, subsidized loans mean that the government will pay your interest for awhile. Unsubsidized Federal Student Loans are still loans from the government, but you have to start paying interest right away. As far as I can tell,
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by markshead 9y ago
> Citizens who make similar mistakes when they're young get their lives destroyed. Except in this case the mistake is that the government is willing to guarantee huge loans made to an 18-year-old. There are colleges out there that y
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by markshead 9y ago
There is a huge difference between parents who feel they are responsible for their children's education and see the public school as an important tool in fulfilling that responsibility and parents who feel the government is responsible
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by markshead 9y ago
For basic electronics, you might check out Understanding Modern Electronics by The Great Courses. I think they have a free month-long demo to watch their content online.
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by markshead 9y ago
> and we've stayed current over the years I think this may be the key.
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by markshead 9y ago
Well, the discussion here was UBI so I guess the same magical pool that UBI would be paid from. :) Seriously though, the money that funds unemployment benefits and some other welfare programs would be a possibility because it seems a progra
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by markshead 9y ago
I believe this is talking about overall hikes and cuts in fees charged overall not the increase the is charged during peak hours.
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by markshead 9y ago
Imagine something that pays based on the work you do kind of like AWS Mechanical Turk but for physical work that benefits the public in a community. Basically, if someone wants to work, there is always work available. The jobs could be paid
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by markshead 9y ago
You aren't alone. From the article: > Hughes is no basic income purist. He believes, for instance, that for this economic moonshot to be politically palatable, it would have to be tied to work. “Not just because it seems more intuit
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by markshead 9y ago
As I understand it, this would allow you to create a level of a game like Super Mario Brothers as usually and then it could use that to generate additional levels that work in the same way with the same set of rules.
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by markshead 9y ago
Interesting idea. As I understand it, you must give it a file with all the objects that will be shown in the game first. I think the general idea might be applicable to 3D but I think you'd need to give it all the objects that could ap
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by markshead 9y ago
I'm not trying to downplay the plight of people who lost a lot of money in 2008 and I'm not trying to say "well it is their own fault" to trying to justify not feeling bad for them. However, I think it is entirely reason
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by markshead 9y ago
The reason ALDI pays employees really well is because the entire store is run with only a few employees at a time. A significant portion of the value you get from the store (cheap prices) is because their labor costs are low. I'd go as
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by markshead 9y ago
Companies operating in the United States (like ALDI) are going to be subject to all the same labor laws as any other company operating in the United States. (I believe ADLI is owned by the same parent company as Trader Joes.)
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by markshead 9y ago
> retired folks needed money to live on and were forced to remove some of their nest egg at the bottom While I understand that people who are already retired can't just choose to keep working while their investments recover, I'
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by markshead 9y ago
I drove by a closed Amazon.com warehouse in Kansas a few weeks ago. Next to it is a RV campground that is still operating. If you look around on RV websites you can find quite a few reviews from people who went there and other Amazon.com l
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by markshead 9y ago
How did people lose their retirement investments in 2008? Most of the stories I've heard where people lost all of their retirement around 2008 involved doing things were considered fairly risky before 2008 hit. Were there people who lo
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by markshead 9y ago
Eclipse Che might be worth looking into. I'm not sure how mature it is, but it gives you a web interface to Eclipse running on another machine. https://www.eclipse.org/che/
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by markshead 9y ago
Normally the way people learn to read cursive is by having some exposure to writing it. Most kids who haven't learned to write cursive can't read it. But I agree with your overall point. Kids could probably learn to read cursive w
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by markshead 9y ago
There is probably some value in being able to read the original founding documents of your government. In the United States those are written in cursive.

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