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by naturalauction 5y ago
>Now of course I am not an economist so it is ridiculous to believe that I have found the fatal flaw in a published paper, but because of the political nature of such articles I find it hard to trust the "hard numbers". I remai
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by naturalauction 5y ago
I’d be skeptical of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage. They are pretty much a Qatari state outlet and Qatar isn’t friendly with a lot of countries in the region. It certainly was an issue in the past https://www.theguardian.com&#
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Not sure what you mean by “institutional victim mentality” but I would say that your example is a great example of institutional failure. Ideally kids would get good career advice from many other places (schools etc) which would rectify a l
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by naturalauction 5y ago
On the flip side - I've smoked probably more than 12 times but definitely less than 50. Also only while drinking. I definitely have cravings every once in a while (though generally mood dependent) even when I'm not drinking. I hav
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Kinda related but the NYT somehow kept on charging me even after I froze and then closed a privacy.com card associated with the account (this went on for months). No idea how it happened but I eventually had to spend 30 minutes going throug
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by naturalauction 5y ago
I mean there are plug-ins that block paywalls. Whether that’s ethical or not is up to you but you could just install that instead.
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by naturalauction 5y ago
I guess the way I saw it was that the wealth itself begets high SAT scores (through the channel of paying for a good education, which would be invested in regardless of SAT requirements). Removing SAT requirements doesn’t help most wealthy
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by naturalauction 5y ago
That doesn’t necessarily conflict with what GP said. There has been a massive change in housing affordability (which also reflects in rent affordability). See https://fred.stlouisfed.org/graph/?g=EjVw
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by naturalauction 5y ago
>"Getting into prestigious schools" high? If you're doing that effortlessly then you should bottle your local water and sell it, because there's something in it. :) Yeah, I think it's pretty standard for certain
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Coaching can help kids who otherwise wouldn't have the discipline to practice themselves (SAT prep is very boring).
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by naturalauction 5y ago
It's much worse than that - there is whole industry around college admissions consulting. Why depend on your high-school counselor when you can hire an expert? In the worst cases the expert even helps students effectively pre-plan thei
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Do you have any citations for this? I would think that removing SAT requirements would be done alongside an explicit push to admit more lower-SES students. Anecdotal but where I grew up it was never much work for students to get high SAT sc
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Maybe slightly different than this (which seems to be at an os level) but I would pay for new interfaces for social media apps/sites that make users less susceptible to social media addiction (or even interfaces that don’t explicitly o
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Yeah, I really struggle with the concept of "native" as well. I grew up in the US but the first language I spoke was Tamil. When I went to a nursery, I couldn't communicate with any of the other kids. My parents then spoke to
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by naturalauction 5y ago
I guess the unfortunate reality is that many of the people who engage in the behaviors that make people feel isolated go on the defensive when the harmfulness of their behavior is highlighted.
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Remittance has (at least for me) become way easier in the last few years, using Wise (Transferwise) or even my own bank. The fees are smaller than I'd pay buying and selling crypto for way less hassle and price risk. Unless you mean ci
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by naturalauction 5y ago
I think it's user dependent, I turned off AdBlock and got this https://i.imgur.com/hyWlOpJ.png . Only one visible result at 100% zoom on a 1920x1080 display.
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by naturalauction 5y ago
I tried driving licence (at least the ones who popped up for me made it very clear they aren't government affiliated) and national insurance number. The national insurance one was pretty much an outright scam. It took me to https:&#x2
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by naturalauction 5y ago
No, that sounds about right - maybe you are looking at a different kind of life insurance. Just take the SSA yearly chance of dying (the real chance of dying is likely less if you are healthy, but on average this should be the price) from [
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Not saying that Al-Jazeera is unbiased at all and the differing content on the Arabic and English channels does seem to be quite concerning. That being said, the guy behind Nas Daily is paid by the UAE government not only for tourism work (
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Oh I agree that it's a complete racket that hurts patients, I just wanted to provide some rationale from the drug company's perspective.
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Patients and doctors need to know about a medicine to prescribe it. In order to increase brand awareness, drug companies can either advertise to or incentivize (free trips to conferences, consulting gigs) doctors to prescribe a drug or get
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by naturalauction 5y ago
I don't think it's only that - there are plenty of ads for medications with no generics. I think it's also because doctors may usually prefer one treatment for an issue, but if you mention another treatment you found (either
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Perhaps you are right, I am just surprised with almost a month of unrestricted vaccine uptake opportunities in the US, the rate of vaccination (people who have taken at least one dose) is significantly lower than the UK, which as you note i
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by naturalauction 5y ago
>Vaccines are available for all Americans 16 and older. I'm not sure when this occurred nationwide, but California made vaccines avaiable to everyone 16 and older since April 15, and other states did so before then. Despite the vacc
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by naturalauction 5y ago
On the other hand, here in the UK - the socialized healthcare system is making it much easier to ensure doses get to people who need them. Something like 95% of over 50s have gotten their first dose. While I may not like it, the vaccine rol
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by naturalauction 5y ago
You can get very close, I had an ad on Facebook the other day with transliterations of hindi/urdu words on it. When I clicked to see why, Facebook thought I was interested in a Pakistani newspaper (I think I'd read some articles o
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by naturalauction 5y ago
Not sure what you mean, they are all (except for the "necessary" one) unchecked by default. I just clicked "OK to necessary" and it worked fine.
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by naturalauction 5y ago
>The 'Australians' in India are citizens of opportunity, who were born in India and retain their citizenship there, and the sympathy for them from actual Australians is zero. India doesn't recognize dual citizenship, while
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by naturalauction 5y ago
>There a few issues with DMARC, but the main one - adoption by senders is well below 100% so you just cannot block mail without DMARC. I wonder if this could be fixed by email clients marking emails that fail DKIM as spam/attaching

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