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by masonic 4y ago
>not taxing appreciation on a home sale That's what capital gains taxation captures.
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by masonic 4y ago
"in the final two years of the Obama administration. After years of gridlock, we suddenly — with little fanfare but large bipartisan majorities — got: The Every Student Succeeds Act, a major rewrite of federal K-12 policy An overhaul o
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by masonic 4y ago
TIL the entire history of world dance outside of the Western urban club scene doesn't matter.
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by masonic 4y ago
>And, in trials comparing Mounjaro to other diabetes medications, individuals who received 15mg of Mounjaro had lowering of their HbA1c by 0.5% more than semaglutide, 0.9% more than insulin degludec and 1.0% more than insulin glargine. I
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by masonic 4y ago
They're all flagged. https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=thenexthint.com
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by masonic 4y ago
If you're working at Meta , then going nonlinear about privacy issues is just hypocrisy in the first place.
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by masonic 4y ago
>Do you have any evidence that online charter schools are worse than online conventional schools? I wrote exactly the opposite . Perhaps your poor reading comprehension makes you a less than ideal candidate for critiquing education?
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by masonic 4y ago
A professor (of either gender) dating a student of age and over whom s/he has no authority, position of influence, or grading effect should not be a problem.
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by masonic 4y ago
They compare online charter schools with in-person conventional schools. Hardly a fair fight. The biggest disaster of all is online conventional schools.
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by masonic 4y ago
Conclusion: facts are racist
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by masonic 4y ago
https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/clinton-honored-first-b...
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by masonic 4y ago
>~500,000 (documented, skilled) immigrants per year Source? lamerceria.ca says 284,000 all-cause immigrants for 2019-2020 (unclear whether that's 1 or 2 calendar years). Even if it's one year, your "500K highly-skilled
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by masonic 4y ago
>that also has smallpox. Are you seriously unaware that that's "not a thing"? No US government entity, military or otherwise, has ever deliberately infected a native population with smallpox. You're reduced to makin
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by masonic 4y ago
There are already U visas for crime victims: Qualifying Criminal Activities: Abduction Abusive Sexual Contact Blackmail Domestic Violence Extortion False Imprisonment Female Genital Mutilation Felonious Assault Fraud in Foreign Labor Contra
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by masonic 4y ago
>about half the agricultural workforce of the US is considered "undocumented" That's not need , that's choice . They could pay higher wages and provide better working conditions. For the most part, right now that m
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by masonic 4y ago
>I would never move to a country without a clear and simple path to permanent residency. If you place the USA in that category, then why would you care about this article in the first place since you would already have ruled out the USA?
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by masonic 4y ago
>The way the US treats Indian (and other large countries, but India has it worst) H1B holders is disgusting. Describe for us the equivalent process by which those in the US can come to India to compete for jobs there.
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by masonic 4y ago
"Worst" here being most breakdowns, but there are more important measurements such as farebox return or passenger-miles per unit cost. I would imagine that Santa Clara County (CA) VTA would be among the worst there (empty trains
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by masonic 4y ago
>1M dead in the US alone (mostly unvaccinated) Only because most deaths happened before the vaccine was openly available .
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by masonic 4y ago
Apparently, your brand of "mentoring" doesn't include proofreading your copy or giving proper attribution for using other people's content. In other words, you're perfect for Medium.
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by masonic 4y ago
They're in the Philippines.
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by masonic 4y ago
This is just an assortment of a few dozen individual articles . I'm missing the point.
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by masonic 4y ago
(paywalled)
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by masonic 4y ago
Is this Australia-specific?
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by masonic 4y ago
>Robberies are reported because that's corporate policy. Most robberies are of non-corporate property. Unless the owner has a specific incentive (e.g. making an insurance claim after taking deductibles into account), there is no of
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by masonic 4y ago
>Get tinted windows. 1) tinted front windows are illegal in CA, with very few exceptions 2) burglars break in on speculation, even if nothing is visible. That's why Teslas are constantly broken into via the right side rear passenge
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by masonic 4y ago
Exactly what you might expect from a self-described "hustler" (see his Medium bio).
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by masonic 4y ago
(ad, in horrible English)
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by masonic 4y ago
Not for property taxes. If one is that far behind, one can sell long before facing anything confiscatory... and incarceration for it is not a thing.
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by masonic 4y ago
"Acceptable"? It wouldn't even be code .

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