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by moorhosj 8y ago
==By American categories, India is 100% asian, and almost every sub-saharan country is 100% black. Of course local definitions vary.== But the claim was about "ethnicities", not races. People frequently refer to their ethnicity as
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The World Atlas link shows 16 African countries more ethnically diverse than India.
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Your source was a news article from Northeastern, not Northwestern, about a study. That said, the study's data source is cited in the article as: "Fridel and Fox used data collected by USA Today, the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide R
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Ah yes, more slight of hand. In this instance, you have moved the goalposts to "mass" school shootings, only counting instances where 4 or more people were killed/injured. This list also doesn't seem to include shootings
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Well, he did say, "Chicago has about 750 murders each year." This seems off to me based on the facts. Murders in Chicago the last 10 years: 2009 - 463 2010 - 456 2011 - 449 2012 - 514 2013 - 455 2014 - 464 2015 - 512 2016 - 808 20
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You make a quick slight-of-hand in this comment. You start off talking about how gun violence, as a whole, is at low historic levels. Then, you go on to talk specifically about school shootings. As far as I can tell, school shootings are at
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If the people denying climate change are the exact same people denying the effectiveness of vaccines, it is likely that their stance is based completely on ideology. I can’t think of another reason the same people would share the same stanc
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You made this comment: ==As long as it is done through non-structural means, convincing people not to vote is a perfectly reasonable persuasion technique== I took your own generic statement and asked you to further qualify it. I did this by
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>As long as it is done through non-structural means, convincing people not to vote is a perfectly reasonable persuasion technique What if it is done fraudulently? For example, lying to people about when/where to vote or lying about
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Can you further explain what you mean by "legitimate" in this sentence? In it's context, it could be taken a number of different ways.
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To clarify, my point was specific to businesses like Quora and Medium that rely on high-quality content and engagement. These companies would have likely been better off as niche businesses with $10m-$50m annual revenue. Taking a large VC i
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Sure it does, venture funding comes with investors seeking to make a large return in a specific timeframe. If they were entirely self-funded, they could slowly ramp revenue streams and build on a sustainable base. Getting a large influx of
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Nobody said there is anything wrong with making money, that’s a straw man. The reality is that taking venture funding has forced these companies to compromise what made them useful in order to chase revenue for investors.
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Very hard to quantify this. CFA pass rates have trended down since the 60s, for all three tests [1]. However, it could just be that more people are taking it or less-prepared people are taking it. Also worth noting that things like derivati
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Yes, similar regulatory capture happens in most accredited professions, like lawyers (bar exam), accountants (CPA) and finance professionals (CFA). It benefits the people who have already achieved the certification to make it harder for oth
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Can you explain how is it almost the polar opposite? Things like retirement and health benefits are not negotiated at the individual level. having a personal representative likely wouldn’t help much in that area, but a union would.
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The same people will then lament the shrinking of the middle class and corporate greed.
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And my point is that we already have examples of plenty of policies from similar countries. Maybe we should look at what those places have done and see where we could adopt policies. In a way, the experiments you want to run already exist.
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==disincentivising entrepreneurialism== New business creation has fallen along with the highest marginal tax rate.[1] ==because "wealth" is a very fuzzy concept in modern economies== But income really isn't and that is what w
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==And don't get me started on the taxis. That entire industry in Chicago should go out of business.== This would lead to even more Uber/Lyft drivers which already make traffic considerably worse in my experience.
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This might be true if you view the government as adversarial. If you view the government as a service provider for citizens I don’t think it holds water. Your statement could easily be flipped. Turbo Tax is incentivized to keep the tax code
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Yea, Chicago is an older city by US standards and it’s clear when you compare it to cities built after the car was widely adopted (mostly Sun Belt cities). I think it’s one of the reasons Europeans tend to enjoy Chicago when they visit, it
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==Why does the U.S. have weak labor unions, when many developed countries have stronger ones? Is it because of "elites" overriding the majority? Or is it because a large majority prefer the current, weak labor unions, or would wea
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What if increased intellectual curiosity has a high enough ROI over someone's lifetime to cover the costs? What if the higher education allows them to enjoy life more and thus increase quality of life over the long-run? I'm not sa
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==In particular, voters skew heavily older, and older folks are already covered by Medicare.== Which is single-payer healthcare and has 77% favor-ability [1]. ==Most Americans would prefer labor unions to have less influence than they do no
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==It is almost as if some people are hoping for it.== It's also possible that the data is implying it. Not everything needs to be a conspiracy.
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==I really enjoyed college, especially my liberal arts classes.== I think this highlights the true question. Do colleges exist to promote education and intellectual curiosity or to train workers? According to PEW, Americans believe colleges
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Bizarre to see this type of comment on a technology-focused site. Turbo Tax can figure it out, but the government can’t?
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You still haven’t provided the reasons that this would be so in representative democracies. You focus only on tax policy and France. The rich can impact plenty of other policies (minimum wage, healthcare, overtime, unionization, parental le
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==But there are numerous reasons why, in a representative democracy, there would be a thumb in the scale in favor of policies supported by the top 10%== Can you share some? Why doesn’t it exist to such extremes in other representative democ

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