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by rkk3 5y ago
Easy to underestimate the historians incentive to blame the previous regime & to paint their patrons ancestors in good light.
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by rkk3 5y ago
PS: Roger, We also need to rewrite the line "we don't need your thought control" to something more pro advertisements
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by rkk3 5y ago
How much do you think the offer was to use "Another Brick in the Wall - Part II" in an Instagram add?
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Honestly, if I were to make a platform and someone else were to come by and somehow force my hand regarding what should be allowed on it It's not just "a platform" Apple's Market cap is 10% of the US GDP. What they
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by rkk3 5y ago
The Risk equivalent of "how to win at chess every time in 4 moves"...
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by rkk3 5y ago
Don't think Biden went to prep school, He didn't even go to an Ivy. So 7/9? Edit: Correction I forgot McCain Bush - Philips Academy Gore - St Albans School Kerry - St Pauls Obama - Punahou School (On scholarship!) McCain - E
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Not quite what I'm getting at. My point is more that the value proposition of the undergraduate programs of Ivy Leagues is partly the elite social circle you buy into. Being trained for an elite social circle is the entire value p
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by rkk3 5y ago
That is the universities marketing & legal defense. But in reality "getting creative" is encouraged to find funding for speciality programs that run at a loss, like sailing. The Universities will take money to "specially
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by rkk3 5y ago
They are arguing that elite institution's goal is to prepare entry into polite society not to provide a liberal education. "A finishing school is a school for young women that focuses on teaching social graces and upper-class cult
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by rkk3 5y ago
It was a whole network, not one coach. College advisor, Rick Singer, would facilitate what he called 'side door' donations. In some cases these were bribes to coaches, or admission staff. In other's they were donations to fun
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by rkk3 5y ago
They have a particularly scathing take on the idea that higher education is a finishing school.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> If you reduce the number of kids from rich and powerful families going to these places, you are going to drastically reduce the networking potential amongst classmates Disagree. The biggest "network benefit" comes from the Al
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by rkk3 5y ago
> but a substantial portion of undergrads in these institutions are from lower middle class or lower (economically) backgrounds. "69% of Yale students come from the highest-earning 20% American Families" [1]. So the bottom 80%
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by rkk3 5y ago
It's a power law driven game. Also I'm skeptical of the Methodology... SLC has a performance ranking of 8 (which only the top 10 cities & 2 others have) yet is ranked 31st. It's better performance than Amsterdam, Paris a
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by rkk3 5y ago
> the liberal cry of student loan forgiveness will overwhelmingly favor people who went to expensive private colleges. True, but you can be expensive & private & not be elite (most of them are not by definition).
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by rkk3 5y ago
> surely black folks getting disproportionately policed and killed is a bigger manifestation of institutional racism Are they disproportionately killed & policed? It depends on how you cut the statistics for your narrative. As a % o
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by rkk3 5y ago
> What is the author's thesis? I skimmed and read and re-read, but didn't figure it out. Same. I think they are hoping Biden will put more money into public schools and stop preferential tax treatments for the large endowments.
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by rkk3 5y ago
They have been honing the tactics for 100 years now, originally developed to exclude the Jews from WASP Universities.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Unsurprisingly they will try to capture as much value created as possible, hopefully competition is enforced and they aren't able to collude with other Automaker to price fix... Are they expecting people to buy/lease cars and then
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by rkk3 5y ago
> No real political pressure to do anything, no assassinations, nothing. Thousands dead every year. Assassinating a Chinese citizen in China would be a huge overreach and a major violation of sovereignty. Not to mention it wouldn't
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by rkk3 5y ago
Yes. The backstory... England was very hostile to France, especially because of Pitt, and France lost its navy at Traflager so Napoleon's only option was to get all of Europe to Embargo England [1]. Russia eventually decided to trade w
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by rkk3 5y ago
It's questionable how much it would have inhibited their genocide capabilities, it almost certainly would have killed the people in the camps and it was only an option late in the war. Prioritizing strategic targets to end the war &amp
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by rkk3 5y ago
Aside from the similarly fated Russian invasions, they are completely different. Napoleon was not genocidal and contrary to his popular reputation was not a warmonger. England & the coalition was generally the aggressor because they wan
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by rkk3 5y ago
UBI is different from enhanced unemployment benefits. People can collect UBI & get paid from a lower income job. With unemployment they give up those benefits if they work which is part of why we have a low-income labor shortage.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> So you form "3d printing shop" company and put some money in (loan, services...). Company purchases 3d printer, but does not pay any taxes on printer, it is an expense. But you already paid the 5k in Income Tax, when you init
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by rkk3 5y ago
hangover's get worse when you are older, or when you are older you drink less regularly so you get a worse hangover?
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by rkk3 5y ago
Binge Drinking is just having more than 5 drinks in a few hour time period, doesn't have to be everyday can just be occasionally. Its a pretty low threshold, compared to the article's top decile which you need to drink which is av
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by rkk3 5y ago
> sanitizing water is as simple as boiling It may be simple but it takes a lot of energy to boil & you can't store it. They didn't have the convenience of electric kettles.
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by rkk3 5y ago
I remember seeing a study a few years ago that showed a lot of the negatives from Meth weren't inherent in the drug but from behaviors it encourages; like not sleeping.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> The truth of the matter is that covid vaccination has its risks and they need to be weighed against those of the virus. And when you make an honest effort to perform such an evaluation, the choice is not quite so clear cut. What risks

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