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Entire country running on Constitution from 1700s.
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Women also doubled their laborforce participation rate from 30% to 60%. https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2017/08/Labor-Force-Parti...
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You haven’t shown any supporting evidence of why you can’t compare them. Universal healthcare has shown to scale from Norway, Sweden, Denmark size to Spain, Italy, Canada, Australia size to UK, France, Germany size. What is the evidence it
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Chicago, Atlanta, Denver, Boston.
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Semantics aside, you haven’t established that those are primary drivers of cost or effectiveness. France and UK have 10x the population of Norway and are considerably more diverse. Can you prove where this impacts their respective costs?
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I’ve raised this exact question and never seen an honest response. Why aren’t politicians in other OECD countries trying to make their system more like ours? Why aren’t their citizens demanding it?
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Maybe, but it acts as another barrier.
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Not all parents know how to solder.
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It's odd to compare two private industries (NBA and music) to education which is predominantly funded by the public.
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The discussion was about Uber's overall revenue. I imagine a far larger percent of their revenue comes from NYC tourists than Traverse City tourists. Traverse City gets about 3.5 million tourists a year [1] compared to 63 million for N
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Pretty big overlap between tourist destinations and urban centers.
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Let's compare to the results for The Black Panther (a primarily black cast). The Force Awakens: US Box: $937M Foreign Box: $1.132M Chinese Box: $124M The Black Panther: US Box: $700M Foreign Box: $647M Chinese Box: $105M The Black Pant
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Does it? The US market is greater than $10 billion and there are plenty of movies that portray Americans as bad guys. Seems more like the government of China might not allow that movie to be released in the first place.
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Having more money gives the option to spend it or save it. When you make $40,000, you don’t really have the option to save much compared to people making $100,000.
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==No. No they wouldn’t== You don’t know this to be true, at all. If the tax breaks didn’t matter and it was always going to be NYC, Amazon likely wouldn’t have conducted the whole dog and pony show in the first place. In reality, NYC has a
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==Non-hispanic whites + blacks made up 95% of the population as recently as 1970== The large immigrant communities from Italy, Germany and Ireland were not considered "white" when they first came to the US. Only later did that occ
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==How many?== I'm not sure, I provided two examples to prove your assertion wrong. Surely, you can find more if you look. == And I think it's particularly telling that the folks you managed to find are newbies to the political are
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==They're certainly not subject matter experts in anything outside that realm.== Except many of them clearly are. Bill Foster worked as a particle physicist at Fermilab for 22 years [1]. Sean Casten started and sold an energy recycling
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==The U.S. has multiple metropolitan areas that each has a larger population and more ethnic diversity than the smaller European countries.== Yes, but that was true when the US had a robust middle class (roughly 1940-2000). I haven't s
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And those distinctions existed when the US middle class was far more robust. You still haven’t proven that demographics and not politics is the cause.
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That is a fair observation. To clarify, you think that makes it harder to find political solutions because people don't feel they are "in it together"?
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==Whereas in the US, the people in northern Maine live in a completely different world than the people in Southern Florida.== And your contention is that Stockholm, Malmo, Kiruna, Haparanda and Skalstugan are all the same?
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==Swedish white, non-Hispanic population: easily 90%+== Not only is this contention wrong [1], it is completely arbitrary. Ethnicity isn't just how you want to draw lines to prove some point. Sweden has multiple ethnicities within what
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==What does a quarterly profit of $3.3m for MSTR mean without benchmarking against its competitors, or taking the macroeconomic environment (interest rates, etc) into account?== This doesn't seem that difficult to implement into a stor
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==everyone is the same ethnicity and culture== I think depends on how you define ethnicity and culture. Sweden foreign-born population - 17.0% [1] US foreign-born population - 13.7% [2] [1] https://nordic.businessinsider.com&#x2F
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==solely middle-class country== Isn't it possible that the reason their middle-class is so large is due in some part on political decisions they've made? I think it is at least worth exploring before we jump to the ethnic breakdow
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==I hardly think K12SSD's releases come "with no editorializing". == We could have a long discussion about what should and shouldn't be included in the data set. Should a bullet that hits a school building be counted? Sh
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The easier example involves comparing a single, privately-owned British newspaper in a democracy to all newspapers in an absolute monarchy? ==This difference in the volume of discourse does not indicate that women have it worse in London th
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Why would we compare the US today to the US 100 years ago? Should the Jim Crow-era really be our North Star? Categorizing it like this could be viewed minimizing today’s prejudice by comparing to prejudice of 100 years ago. I think the goal
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Sure, but that’s not what I, or the World Atlas, said. There are 16 individual African countries more diverse than India. 1 Guinea 2 Tanzania 3 Democratic Republic of Congo 4 Uganda 5 Liberia 6 Cameroon 7 Togo 8 South Africa 9 Congo 1

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