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by rkk3 5y ago
If you'll pay me 150k to be a custodian again or however much to afford to purchase a million dollar home I'll take it in a heart beat. You probably haven't but I've actually been a custodian, and besides the pay I found
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by rkk3 5y ago
Not really, all I did was question the OP scoffing that an 150k salary is not a lot of money. My mother is a public school teacher.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Like I said previously, Teachers salaries in SF aren't even at question in the cited article. A custodian employed by sf makes an average of 92k [1] vs an average teacher in SF makes 75.6k [2]. But I can still simultaneously believe te
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by rkk3 5y ago
My thought is that your claim that setting salaries is a complicated process and we shouldn't rashly come to judgement, while not untrue, is also in effect saying "ours is not to wonder why" and that because high salaries exi
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by rkk3 5y ago
Agreed that it is important to understand things on a systems level, but at what point are we not talking about Chesterton's Fence but The Divine Right of Kings/Mandate of Heaven.
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by rkk3 5y ago
I definitely am in favor of changing laws around making it easier to build & develop new-housing. I can't afford to purchase these radically inflated assets myself... but if you want to call me scrooge because I don't think o
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by rkk3 5y ago
> I'm less convinced that the undergraduate education at Harvard or Yale is substantially better than, say, the University of Michigan or any other top 20 school, especially in domains with a relatively standard curriculum like math
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by rkk3 5y ago
First I think it's important to differentiate afford to live & afford to buy a home are different things. Afford to live in the community is significantly more important but In general I think it is better if they can do both. Ho
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by rkk3 5y ago
All I said is that it might be excessive to pay 40% of public employee's individually [1] 40k more a year than the median household income [2] in the area. Don't equate that with arguing for Austerity. https://www.o
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by rkk3 5y ago
They are saying my process isn't "rigorous" enough and needs to follow their complicated rules and ways of doing things, I don't think calling that bureaucratic is a false dichotomy.
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by rkk3 5y ago
Is this the bureaucracy defense? I need to be certified, have 30 years experience, and do a 10,000 page analysis before I can have a "legitimate" opinion.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> I think my favorite would be this one [3], where they assert that a $150,000 salary in San Francisco is excessive. When it's almost 19,000 public employee's being paid over $150,000 in SF, that kind of does sound excessive es
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by rkk3 5y ago
Thanks. I just remembered the emphasis of Children belonging/being raised by the community. Still don't necessarily think it's right to interpret those few sentences as evidence there was rampant child sacrifice like Carthage
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by rkk3 5y ago
I recently read the Lycurgus chapter of Plutarch's "Lives" and I guess I missed the baby killing part? Very little emphasis compared to there being no such thing as adultery in Sparta, or effectively getting rid of Money.
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by rkk3 5y ago
so what can individual consumers do? The LOE to keep up with everything is so overwhelming, even with organizations like EWG.
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by rkk3 5y ago
I'd say you meant to post on Twitter but you're above the character limit.
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by rkk3 5y ago
IMO the worst is middle aged guys walking recording self-help/promotion sales selfie videos. But what do you expect them to say? Excited to talk at this upcoming conference --> My company just paid thousands of dollars for me to get
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by rkk3 5y ago
Can't blame him, those investors sound pretty terrible...
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by rkk3 5y ago
> The text quoted clearly blames monarchy on the Heathens. Paine then recounts the history of monarchy in the Old Testament "Monarchy is ranked in scripture as one of the sins of the Jews, for which a curse in reserve is denounced
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by rkk3 5y ago
There is some irony, in that him not being a tyrant ham-strung efforts both to placate the colonies before the war (He couldn't act unilaterally and over rule parliament) and in fighting the colonies because scorched earth tactics were
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by rkk3 5y ago
> "blamed monarchy on the Jews" seems an unfair summary of Common Sense. "for the quiet and rural lives of the first Patriarchs have a snappy something in them, which vanishes when we come to the history of Jewish royalty&
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by rkk3 5y ago
In his private writings & views, especially before he was King, he was very anti-slavery. His ultimate record is a bit more mixed because he prioritized other issues and never exercised much political power to stop it.
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by rkk3 5y ago
The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III Revisiting a major historical figure, whose reputation may be completely un warranted. Was he a Tyrant or a Patriot King? Did he suffer from a genetic in-breed disease or was
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by rkk3 5y ago
> Let's take fluoroquinolones for example. It is an extremely dangerous antibiotic, no longer recommended as a first line treatment for simple infection. Yet, patients are being prescribed it for SUSPECTED unconfirmed infections. Th
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by rkk3 5y ago
> I do not understand why there is a huge gap between scientific knowledge and physicians. Why do you assume physicians are making their treatment decision based on gaps in their scientific knowledge or incompetence? I am not a physician
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Not just meat, also dairy & eggs. Thats significant.
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by rkk3 5y ago
> A group will never admit they were wrong. A group will never admit, “We made a mistake,” Controversies over the status of historical figures serves as a complete refutation of this piece. Societies and groups values are constantly chan
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by rkk3 5y ago
> I mean what else can you really do? Mental health outcomes are a second order effect of FB’s stuff. I don't think Mr. Zuckerberg can do much, besides pivoting to a new-flagship product which is what he might be trying to do with &
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by rkk3 5y ago
Isn't this the traditional corporate strategy for not taking responsibility? Have corps fund research and pretend to do something, while really just kicking up doubt about causality. Like the Tobacco, Energy and Food/Drink compani
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by rkk3 5y ago
There is a difference between a fleeting feeling of loneliness, and the prolonged feelings of social isolation that the article is talking about. Just like there is a difference between "feeling sad" and clinical depression. They

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