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by moorhosj 7y ago
Do colleges exist solely for the purpose of training future workers? ==The guys going into plumbing right out of high school are a lot smarter than the history majors working at Starbucks.== Based on what criteria? How much money they make
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==while the "quarter-intellectuals" that took some low-effort third-rate humanities courses tend to fall victim to Dunning-Kruger more often, and offer simple solutions/explanations to overwhelmingly complex topics.== Are you
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==If there were less 4-year graduates, the demand would diminish at all the smallish businesses wanting bachelors and associates in business where they provide little to no value beyond just working for those few years anyway.== Or companie
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==In Poland's case, there are stupendously large numbers of people studying various branches of humanities (literature, psychology, pedagogy, law) which have poor job prospects in our country. After graduating, a lot of these people ju
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If you give something away for free, you don’t need to hand out loans. Why is it so much cheaper? What can we learn from their policies?
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Then maybe that is the real discussion we should be having. Do publicly funded colleges really need brand new student unions, exercise facilities and dorms every 10 years?
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Meanwhile, other rich countries offer college that is significantly more subsidized, sometimes even free. How do Norway, Sweden, Germany, France and Slovenia offer almost free university tuition without the same problems [1]? Certainly thos
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==For social security the insolvency date is 2025 according to our own governments accounting. == Without changes, the Social Security system will pay out 79% of benefits starting in 2034 [1]. The concept that there will be no money paid ou
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And those clips clearly show the channel’s logo. So yes, you know what channel it’s from. Either way, this is a discussion of Facebook.
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People claim lots of things, that doesn’t make them so. Watching the Daily Show is a programmed event on a comedy channel that people opt-in to. Something popping up in your Facebook feed because a friend posted it or an algorithm chose it
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Potentially similar situation as the number of publicly traded companies continues to fall. Fewer companies available to invest in may inflate the price of those left.
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Comparing two things doesn’t automatically make them the same. When you see a video on late night comedy tv show, you know you are watching a late night comedy tv show. You even opted-in by turning on that particular channel/show, they
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I have Facebook.com, Reddit.com and Twitter.com completely blocked through content restrictions. This can be a big pain when links won’t open, but I use Reddit and Twitter far less now as time wasters.
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In my experience, single-purpose hardware also lasts longer because it isn’t as reliant on software updates and maintenance.
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Ask HN: Tracking tutorial progress?
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In this case, the poster said: "Education, public awareness, these kind of initiatives I can get behind. Regulation of food intake, is a step too far." I merely pointed out that the thing identified as "a step too far" a
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Aren’t lots more government services digitized now versus 20 years ago? Lots of forms and records you needed to be in-person to access are now available online. Many cities have open data programs where they make large data sets freely avai
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On the flip side, Chicago pays their teachers, police and fire fighters pretty good annual salaries. I imagine that outweighs their analysis of future benefits as a share of tax revenue.
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Silicon Valley workers also don’t work for the taxpayers, so that would be another difference. Who would pay public employees if not taxpayers?
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All of that was true when they initially agreed to the deal, so I’m not sure that explains it.
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That they have done the same thing in Pennsylvania [1] and Brazil [2] implies there is a deeper reason. [1] https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2017/03/how_foxconns_b... [2] https://www.zdnet.com
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I think the argument is around anti-competitive behavior based on them controlling both the platform (Amazon Marketplace) and their own store (Amazon Basics/Whole Foods). This Verge article [1] cites the Diapers.com incident, where the
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There were food and drug products that were unsafe, “adulterated” and mislabeled. This created health problems in the United States so we created the FDA to regulate food and drugs. Do you have any argument why they shouldn’t do this?
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Taking children who are apprehended with their parents and then separating them for detention isn’t typical and hasn’t been done by other administrations.
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Yes, and those people wouldn't be considered "struggling" or "living paycheck to paycheck", which is the point.
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==He walked away. That's how you negotiate.== You negotiate by giving them what they want (ending war game activities with South Korea [1]) and receiving nothing concrete in return? Seems like a questionable tactic? Also, just to clari
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The trade imbalance has grown since these tariffs were enacted. [1] https://piie.com/research/piie-charts/us-trade-deficit-china...
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==Which "deal" have we "signed" with North Korea? As far as I'm aware that negotiation is very far from over,== We haven't signed a deal, that was something Trump promised at the second summit, but never delive
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==violating human rights== Kind of hard to take this stance when we are palling around with Saudi Arabia and Israel and potentially committing our own abuses at the southern border (and definitely droning civilians in other countries).
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==They know this perfectly well. The US has a tremendous leverage in this negotiation.== You are leaving out how Donald Trump wants to be re-elected in 18 months and Xi has no such pressures. ==China's main sticking point is they want

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