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by nostromo 4y ago
We pay our teachers well in the US compared to our better-performing peers. And who doesn't respect teachers? More money isn't the solution.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Shockingly, that has recently been found to be true in some cases. “Arizona man finds out mother’s body donated to science was sold to be used in IED blast test” https://www.newsweek.com/donated-body-sold-army-brc-arizona-.
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by nostromo 4y ago
> In the US, a recession is defined by NBER after the fact. This isn't true. There is no "official" declaration of recessions in the US by law. Yes, some federal officials will reference NBER, but that's not the sam
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by nostromo 4y ago
I’ve always been a supporter of legal pot. The problem I’m seeing is that once we legalized pot, there was no enforcement of nuisance crimes related to pot. So while I think it’s totally fine to use marijuana in a private space, I’d prefer
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by nostromo 4y ago
States have been spending printed money nonstop since 2020. Federal Reserve buys treasuries -> Federal Government hands trillions of borrowed dollars to state and local governments as “Covid relief” -> States spend well beyond their m
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by nostromo 4y ago
I get it, no politician is perfect, but your edit is pretty funny. "Don't blame me, I voted for them!"
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They know it's going to get thrown out. But they also know that once the checks have been sent the courts can't do much to get the money back.
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by nostromo 4y ago
> Shares now offer a (relatively) regal 5.3% dividend yield US treasuries are nearing 4% and are risk free.
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Sometimes command+click will still work to open into a new tab when a right-click does not.
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Even at the highest estimates of false imprisonments, it still means several thousands of murderers are walking free each year that wouldn’t have just 10 years ago.
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by nostromo 4y ago
This works both ways. The US is experiencing a crime wave currently and in several major cities, it’s become next to impossible to actually send someone to jail due to political pressures. Most prosecutors are not running as tough on crim
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by nostromo 4y ago
The 1% actually cites the estimation method (extrapolation from DNA exonerations). The higher 2.3-5% doesn’t. What studies are those? https://innocenceproject.org/how-many-innocent-people-are-in...
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by nostromo 4y ago
Just because someone in your favored tribe had their rights violated doesn’t mean you should argue in favor of violating the rights of another group. It’s sad people are duped by this bad reasoning. You’re seeing the world through tribal
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No, you need a supermajority of both houses and of the individual states. It’s very hard to do, which is by design.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Civil rights should never be left up to the whims of the public. That’s what the US constitution gets right. As for all the Europeans that like to call the world’s oldest democracy dysfunctional - the fact that it’s hard to do things natio
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by nostromo 4y ago
Articles like this make me want to kiss a copy of the US constitution every night before bed. These raids are now happening in places like the UK and Canada too, places with a history of protecting speech. It seems unless your legal system
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by nostromo 4y ago
The first sentence of the article makes it very clear they’re speaking of a slowdown in the rate of growth.
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According to other reports, he was an Egyptian living in America. His citizenship status wasn't reported. Not sure it matters... but it does complicate the usual "Americans behaving badly abroad" narrative.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Ah yes, the self-appointed, private, and secretive cabal of folks that decided they would be arbiters of truth, NBER. Here's the thing -- there is no "official" or "legal" definition of recession in the United State
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by nostromo 4y ago
That’s even funnier since the US entered a recession this past summer by the most common definition of the term.
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This is exactly what Germany thought it was doing when it forged energy deals with Russia.
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by nostromo 4y ago
The only reason the states are afloat right now is because the federal government gave them hundreds of billions in printed money. So, yeah, it’s printed all the same. 1. Federal reserve makes several trillions in new money and lends it to
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Germany and the US also export a tremendous amount of goods, and do so without clogging up our rivers (and eventually the ocean) with trash. And studies have shown that only 15% of China's CO2 emissions are for the production of export
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by nostromo 4y ago
This is just poverty tourism. And it reeks of a publicity stunt of a sort for his podcast. People work these jobs for years. Taking one of these jobs for six weeks is interesting - but you’re effectively a tourist having a completely diff
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by nostromo 4y ago
It’s sad we’re just regurgitating derivative art more and more. Everything seems to be a sequel or to be memberberries, like StarWars and the new Lord of the Rings snoozefest Amazon lit a billion dollars on fire to throw at the wall. There
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by nostromo 4y ago
13th floor * 10 times * 18 repetitions… Yes, just a simple climb up 2340 stories and you’ll have climbed an Everest equivalent. By the way, you’d still be quite a bit short if your building’s stories were a more average 3m tall.
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by nostromo 4y ago
Some of these are a bit nightmarish! https://replicate.com/api/models/stability-ai/stable-diffusi... https://replicate.com/api/models/stability-ai/stable-diffusi... https:&#x2
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Or hardened against that type of damage. After floods or wildfires or tornadoes or earthquakes, you'll see some buildings are a pile of rubble and others just need brushed off. These locales should be making these requirements a part o
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Some types of regulation increase competition - for example, antitrust law.
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It's sad to me how successful people have been sanitizing the internet. The whole point was to be decentralized, and now we have Visa, Mastercard, Apple, Google, Amazon and Cloudflare deciding what we are and are not allowed to see, re

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