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by rovolo 3y ago
The US retirement system (Social Security) is paid for the same way. The population pyramid for Germany does show a much larger hump of upcoming retirements compared to the US though. The ~30yo population cohort has grown in recent years th
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by rovolo 3y ago
> by the time I will go into retirement, the whole system will be unviable financially and I might get nothing. What do you mean when you say "financially unviable"? There have been similar concerns raised about the US retireme
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by rovolo 3y ago
>I am not sure how much safer can Fentanyl get Proper labeling/packaging would make it easier to know what dose you're taking. I believe many overdose deaths were blamed on fentanyl added to heroin, where the user was expecting
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by rovolo 3y ago
My point is that the article you linked to is not a data point supporting your assertion that tuition cost increases are caused by more admins. A) Yale is a research-heavy university so the admin:student ratio shouldn't be expected to
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by rovolo 3y ago
My point is that Universities don't just teach. They also perform research, which requires staff. Yale is researched focused and has more grad students than undergrads. Grad students and research faculty require more administrative sta
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by rovolo 3y ago
Yale is not a representative college. It makes 4x the income from its endowment than from tuition, room, and board. It also has multiple research labs and a hospital . They don't break down the staff (admin) by department, but 2/
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by rovolo 3y ago
The rating methodology on this website is exclusively test score based[1]. When I compare nearby schools, the school rating is almost perfectly inversely correlated with the % of Free/Discounted Lunch Recipients. The reduced lunch % is
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by rovolo 3y ago
The article is explicitly advice for students. It matches the path your life took, but would your advice to drop out and get a GED be good advice for someone without your privilege?
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by rovolo 3y ago
> Our heritage Wow, that's quite the historical artifact. I can't get back into the headspace where people like PA thought they "owned" the concept of video games.
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by rovolo 3y ago
> we shouldn't underestimate how a job title helps people from underrepresented groups That point is addressed in the post: > On the other hand, the measure corrects for insidious biases: the title can lift some of the burden of
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by rovolo 3y ago
> Java with checked vs unchecked exceptions Java doesn't make it nice to deal with exceptions though. Converting a checked exception into an unchecked exception is incredibly wordy: int output; try { output = doSom
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by rovolo 3y ago
The title says "sickened by Covid-19", but the text says "developed COVID-19-like illnesses in November 2019".
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by rovolo 3y ago
> Suppose dang edited your post to say "I like to get drunk at work" You're generalizing the action described in the article to something that feels very different to me. Yes, his actions fall under "editing comments&
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by rovolo 3y ago
> I still don't understand why I can't fetch a URL from top level javascript. > Maybe javascript async is build upon regular promises and regular objects, instead as a proper language element with proper support in the javas
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by rovolo 3y ago
I agree that all of the example in the blog post and bbc article are nonsense. However, I think that you're slightly wrong in this statement: > I think the implication was that there was some sort of systematic campaign to erase Ind
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by rovolo 3y ago
My partner's mom read her diary at ~11 and then got mad at her for writing about her frustrations with her mom. She then grounded my 18yo nibbling a couple weeks ago for writing the same sort of frustrations on the notes app on their p
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by rovolo 3y ago
> At the time of the Gilded Age, [1] starts at 1947; [2] starts at 1979; [3] starts at 1964. None of your sources show that poverty was less of a problem during the Gilded Age (1877 to 1896). I find it very hard to believe the Gilded Age
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by rovolo 3y ago
"This comment" is referring to lbatross13, not to you. I'm uninterested in talking to lbatross13; I was adding context for other readers.
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by rovolo 3y ago
The "bait" this comment is referring to is that a Sheriff publicly denounced in a press conference a bunch of neo-nazi messaging spread around his town during a racecar event. https://www.jta.org/2023/04&#x2
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by rovolo 3y ago
To be nitpicky, wall clock time isn't the same as CPU time or power draw. You can increase efficiency at the same time as you increase wall clock time because they aren't necessarily the same metric.
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by rovolo 3y ago
This is the first time I've heard of Bandera, but skimming the wiki articles these dates and numbers lack some context which I think is important. "On 1 January 2014", this was during the Euromaidan period. There were earlier
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by rovolo 3y ago
The NEC is also free online (with registration). The NYC amendments are also available starting on page 30 of "Local Law 39 of 2011" linked from the page. > 27-3025 The New York city amendments to the 2008 National Electrical C
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by rovolo 3y ago
Note that this article is plotting "% of women 40-45 currently married". Limitations: 1) only women, 2) "currently married" instead of "ever married", 3) the 40-45 age band is when kids finish HS if you had the
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by rovolo 3y ago
1) Do you mean "Academic Art" the style, or "Academic" art as a type of person producing the art? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_art 2) What's an example piece which you think has helpe
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by rovolo 3y ago
> The cause could have been (with equal evidence for each case) aliens ... people were quick to project their biases onto the situation It would indicate a specific kind of commenter bias if, lacking any evidence, most comments on the
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by rovolo 3y ago
They mention 3 locations in the press release, so here are the electric generation types by state https://www.eia.gov/beta/states/overview Gloucester, Virginia - 53% gas, 36% nuclear, 6.5% renewable, 4.5% coal Jac
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by rovolo 3y ago
The picture in the article is of a flat top grill, which I imagine is easier for a restaurant to keep clean. Would gas vs electric matter much to you on a flat top where you aren't moving a pan around?
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by rovolo 4y ago
That is a decent control, though I think that finding "all people born in 1900" is probably more difficult than you'd imagine. I propose adding "who died 20-30 years ago" because that will make it easier to find com
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by rovolo 4y ago
This isn't a good control if the record accuracy depends on the age of person. Imagine if you're trying to find medical fraud and you find out that a lot of supercentenarians have cancer. You try to control by comparing them to th
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by rovolo 4y ago
JFYI, the ACA did have a large impact on the health insurance coverage through expanding medicaid. The percentage uninsured was halved from 18.4% to 9.1-9.8% (in states which expanded medicaid. In nonexpansion states, the uninsured percen

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