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by pnathan 9y ago
Well, I can confidently say that your activities are executing a tragedy of the commons. Sorry.
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by pnathan 9y ago
Private prisons have serious issues, but public ones have issues as well; often they are underfunded, which allowed the private company world to get involved to offer a service for cheaper costs. I would suggest the solution is properly aro
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by pnathan 9y ago
I've seen this advice repeated elsewhere, with more academic analysis. And also repeated in terms of startup advice. patio11 has a phrase: "increase the luck surface", and it is kin to this as well. If % of Making It is 1 in
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by pnathan 9y ago
hi, academic liberal here. I don't think I've never pretended virtue doesn't exist. And, to be frank, most of the liberal types I know, regardless of their (a)religion, believe there are virtues.
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by pnathan 9y ago
Let's agree to agree that such criticism is within the intellectual purview of the university. However, I posit that the essence of postmodernism is to deny objective claims to truth and virtue. Would you agree with that?
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by pnathan 9y ago
The essence of the shift in the postmodern worldview is the belief that truth and virtues are subjective; that communications are fundamentally impossible due to the differences between people; at the same time, teaching and the knowledge o
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by pnathan 9y ago
The keyword is "Classical" education when you're looking for homeschooling materials.
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by pnathan 9y ago
The ancient Western word for this is virtue : to cultivate virtues as part of an education. It's not a novel concept, but it rather got shot in the head in the postmodern revolution in education, and we're a lesser society for
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by pnathan 9y ago
I would suggest selling and finding a role in the EU.
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by pnathan 9y ago
Yes. Most of the educated Americans I know are assessing emigration in a more-than-idle-dreams way. By 2020 I expect that the most risk-accepting and flexible Americans - the creme de la creme for new ideas and new businesses - will be gone
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by pnathan 9y ago
I downvoted because it's nasty . WaPo has a lot of credibility, particularly their long form investigative journalism.
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by pnathan 9y ago
Startups have an enormously high risk profile. I'm simply unable to come up with enough money to spread around enough startups that my expected ROI will beat an indexed fund.
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SEC remarks on SAFEs investment vehicles(sec.gov)
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by pnathan 9y ago
microserfs was amazing. It's a slice of time. Worth reading for a perspective.
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by pnathan 9y ago
> What's embarrassing is not that the government "are involved in" being morality/obscenity police, it's embarrassing that people ask them to be morality/obscenity police. It's not like they just, &quot
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by pnathan 9y ago
> I always had a problem with this (very American, in my view) concept of "appropriate". What does it mean exactly? It seems to be hiding stuff that is either ill-defined or unlikely to withstand deep scrutiny. The concept of a
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by pnathan 9y ago
Didn't read the article. FWIW, local churches of Seattle had a rotation going to host Mary's Place. It was sort of a hassle; you needed people who volunteered for the night to monitor the situation, some food and drink served for
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by pnathan 9y ago
I believe Trump made some pretty grandiose promises. Now, he may have intended in good faith to follow through, but he harnessed his star to the Republican party, which has systematically opposed Obamacare since it was announced. Therefor
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by pnathan 9y ago
The people who really took their school seriously often couldn't afford it too well. They knew where they were coming from and didn't want to go back. Collectively, we should support them, in my judgement. As we're all adults
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by pnathan 9y ago
I'd like to see Jubilee on student loans and free university for all who are admitted. I think it'd unskew a lot of weird knock-on third order effects harming the country.
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by pnathan 9y ago
http://www.who.int/water_sanitation_health/publications/fluo... In summary: The beneficial and the detrimental effects of fluoride naturally present in water were well established by the early 1940s. High levels
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by pnathan 9y ago
So why would they change it so recently? Since it's so recent, maybe some of the discussion around it is available/recallable? I mean, I could remark snarkily about the polarization of America and urban vs exurban divides etc, b
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by pnathan 9y ago
> I would like to see a reference to Hillary promising to add dental coverage to Obamacare. Thanks in advance. Can't give that, sorry. I wanted to specifically provide the high-level claims Hillary was making, as GP couldn't re
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by pnathan 9y ago
Certainly more forwardlooking than Trump. But I don't think Official China's shadow is a moral one, even if it allows trade to flourish. I certainly hope that the citizens force their government to be more moral and have a better
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by pnathan 9y ago
I'm sure part of the deeper issue is that preventative care is not really popular in the US among many, along with far too many sweets. Unfortunately, even if that changed overnight, tomorrow we'd still have the exact same problem
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by pnathan 9y ago
Hillary would have expanded and improved Obamacare, basically. Relevant to this article, a goal was to add a public option; along with adding optional Medicare coverage down to age 55 and significantly enhancing the ideas of "community
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by pnathan 9y ago
> Nearly all of the sub-cities around Austin and Dallas, and Austin and Dallas themselves, for instance, have minimum interior area requirements spanning from 1200 to 2000 square feet. Red Oak, just south of Dallas, is particularly egreg
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by pnathan 9y ago
> It began by necessity; most places near metropolitan areas have zoning ordinances that mandate large (often very large) houses Really! do you have an example I could go look up? I'm curious. You might be a map nerd, but I'm t
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by pnathan 9y ago
I want Uber to operate within and respect the laws as a business policy and practice. While we all, I think, recognize that in many US cities the taxi and transit services were simply terrible, and many things need to be changed, we also ne
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by pnathan 9y ago
sigh. i am tired of the 'soak the poor' rhetoric so popular.

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