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by pseudo0 5y ago
So did Canada and the US... Vote-buying is a common strategy, not something unique to authoritarian governments. Especially with COVID giving a lot of governments carte blanche to run massive deficits, it appears to be easier than ever to i
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by pseudo0 5y ago
When I said armed, it's pretty clear by context that I was referring to firearms. And fair enough, the Wikipedia page appears to be out of date, as it does look like Alberts and Ibrahim were charged with having firearms on Capitol grou
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by pseudo0 5y ago
None of the people who entered the Capitol were armed, at least according to the charges brought by prosecutors ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_charges_in_the_2021_U... ), and the only person shot that day was a
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by pseudo0 5y ago
People who engage in risky sexual behavior increase the spread of STDs in the population as a whole, causing increased risk even for those who don't engage in risky sexual behavior. The parallels to COVID seem pretty clear, no?
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Chongli's experience is much more similar to mine, we covered basic real analysis topics in calculus classes, and the class titled real analysis was a third-year pure math course. It was designed for students who had taken multiple pro
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Most capital investments do require a more skilled workforce to get the expected return on investment. In your example, a box stacker requires virtually no training, while a forklift operator has to take a training course and be skilled eno
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by pseudo0 5y ago
> (FWIW, real analysis is generally considered one of the easier courses in a typical math degree) Quite a few colleges seem to use it as a filter class to determine who has the requisite aptitude and interest in pure math. At my college
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Okay, taking Baltimore as an example, if you have a pod with five children, that's a total budget of $100k for the year. From some quick googling, Baltimore teachers have an average salary of just over $60k, but let's make it say
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by pseudo0 5y ago
With the COVID pods, parents would handle food (often not provided by public schools anyways), transportation, and providing a location to teach. From talking to people in those situations though, the main cost was by far the tutor or instr
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by pseudo0 5y ago
I had the Baltimore number of $20k cited above in mind, which would be $80k per year. Or a 5:1 ratio with $16k per year would also work out to $80k per year for the tutor. My point is that a pod-like structure would be financially viable wi
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by pseudo0 5y ago
It seems kind of crazy that for that amount, you could hire excellent full-time private tutors at a 4:1 student to teacher ratio. I know a number of parents who felt that their kids got a much better educational experience through COVID &qu
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by pseudo0 5y ago
That tech is nowhere near the reliability needed to lock out vehicle access. My (relatively new) car's lane departure system regularly gets confused by wet roads, construction zones, snow, and other environmental factors. Imagine the h
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by pseudo0 5y ago
From what I saw, Rittenhouse was using a pretty standard open carry configuration, with the rifle held in front of him, pointed down, and secured with a sling. Generally that is safer than slinging it across your back, because you are bette
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Open carrying isn't "conduct of a type likely to provoke others to attack". If you see someone simply walking down the street with a rifle in Wisconsin, you can't just whip out your own gun and start blasting. Even if th
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by pseudo0 5y ago
I have been watching the trial live, and The Federalist's perspective seems quite accurate. Just like with the Zimmerman case, people watching live are seeing the prosecution's case fall apart in real time, while most media outlet
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Isn't another school of thought that life imprisonment is also a form of torture? Being confined for up to 60-70 years with no hope of release is also a quite bleak future.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Weird, the first example appears nowhere in my first three pages of my Google results, but the Ten Elements one is result #1.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Even if a community did have a higher homicide victimization rate than average, it could still punch well above its weight in terms of Twitter mobbing. Those things aren't somehow mutually exclusive. And Chappelle's anecdote was a
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by pseudo0 5y ago
It's rather disingenuous to point at the increase in murders like that, given how 2020 saw a huge spike in murders year over year for the general population. So 44 trans people were murdered in 2020, out of a total of 21,570 in the US
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Are you sure it isn't that suicidal people attempt to purchase firearms? Seems like a pretty obvious correlation/causation problem, like blaming home alarm systems for burglaries.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
A union would be incredibly foolish to admit that it is engaging in an illegal wildcat strike, so I don't think that statement is particularly useful either way.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
The crlp looks like it has a timestamp and geo_id appears to be a zip code. The rest is non-trivial to decode.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
I'd guess it's this one: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.08.24.21262415v...
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by pseudo0 5y ago
It took Microsoft a little while, I suspect due to lingering antitrust fears, but they have cannibalized the consumer AV market with Windows Defender. Hardly anyone I know uses, let alone pays for, a third-party AV product at home. Also, ma
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by pseudo0 5y ago
As you have recognized: > Plus, women are more likely to leverage recourse to law enforcement (instead of physically beating a stalker) Isn't the issue then that your business model is competing with law enforcement, which has far g
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by pseudo0 5y ago
They're aiming for different things. Fine dining is intended to be an experience, while fast-food is an anti-experience where the point is to get fed as quickly and easily as possible.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
It's cheap, fairly consistent, and won't give you food poisoning on a road trip. Rating it on the same scale as fine dining is just silly though.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
Just put a constant tax on carbon and let people choose between their shitcoins, vacation flights, and sirloin steaks.
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by pseudo0 5y ago
I initially misinterpreted the question a bit, and edited it for clarity. I was listing sub-fields where it still is possible to get away with being openly right-wing. Presumably people more to the libertarian end of the spectrum would want
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by pseudo0 5y ago
It depends, but some areas of tech are more welcoming than others. If you're more libertarian right-leaning, fintech is probably a decent bet. If non-libertarian right-wing, you could always get a clearance and work for one of the many

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