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by rsj_hn 5y ago
>Wait, so, you're going to start with Prussia's rather, shall we say, statist education system, and completely ignore Britain's similar industrial age education system? Why focus on Prussia, not Britain? Because the essay
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Why do you say that?
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Nature is not a person that has emotions and will be fine with any amount of carbon -- 200 million years ago there were no icecaps and it was a flourishing time for life, with 2000 ppm carbon in the air as well as huge amounts of other gree
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But those options don't exist at the moment due to their cost, so it's pretty foolish to raise the price of something now because in theory, a replacement might become cost effective in the future. A rich nation can take a hit lik
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With this type of fear mongering, more people will die from the fight against climate change than climate change itself. For example, fertilizer is made from fossil fuels, so attempts to raise the price of fossil fuels or prevent companies
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pro-tip: For finding good coffee in strange places, search for "espresso roaster". I have had great success with this approach.
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I understand there is this religion of "liberation" in which being bound by the law of entropy or subject to electroweak forces is considered coercion and slavery. That is not what these terms mean. Man is a limited creature depen
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Someone must be collecting socks over there.
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The problem is when you start classifying voluntary exchange as coercive, then language loses meaning and you can start reaching really dysfunctional and foolish conclusions. So no, needing to provide a good that someone is willing to pay f
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So you prefer owning people? Or you just object to work? It's not clear what you are advocating for. We live in a world where people need three square meals a day, they want heating and transportation and energy, and other people have
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> If everyone stashed money in mattresses (as if), then all the banks would be forced to start enticing would be depositors with “store your money with us we will pay N% interest!”. This would bring out the savings from mattresses to be
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
That is some weird alt-history. In San Francisco, before Uber, this was the situation of the taxi industry: - It was routinely a 2-3 hour wait to get a cab on Friday or Saturday night - Rampant discrimination by cabbies who would always ask
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dang good egg, confirmed. Happy Thanksgiving!
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When inflation is low, yes. But as inflation goes up, interest rates will increase to fight it while at the same time, households reallocate their wealth.
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>Inflation screws the rich, not the poor. This is a pretty bold statement given that it is the opposite of all conventional wisdom, and historically those concerned with the poor have argued that inflation is a way for the rich to rob th
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This is a thread about soccer politics
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Yeah, building a city from scratch opens up new possibilities for governance, institution building, city zoning and layout. I'm for a lot of small cities, each experimenting. Adding to an existing city plugs you into all these incumben
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FYI, the reason I posted this is that Ethiopia has been the poster-boy for successful development and GDP growth in Africa, and now this appears to be threatened by a tiny insurgency - Tigray People’s Liberation Front - that appears unstopp
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Definitely agree with the notion that "your debt to society has been paid". Right to be forgotten also seems appropriate here.
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You mean, give them cash for switching? No, that certainly wont harm them, but, uh, there might be better uses for that cash.
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FYI, this was already done in San Francisco. There is a twitter thread where someone FOIAed SF unified school district stats to confirm their claims that this change would be beneficial if extended to the state as a whole. Here is what they
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by rsj_hn 5y ago
So curious, what is wrong with just letting people switch over as they need to? What does it matter if the switch is sped up by a few years? Some are happy with their current ipv4 addresses, and then maybe if they need to buy new ones only
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Ethiopian P.M., a Nobel peace laureate, will lead battle from front line(washingtonpost.com)
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> The podcast "Nice White Parents" makes a good case that gifted programs in NYC were essentially used to create two separate-and-unequal systems of education for black and white students inside the public schools. I'd say
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> China's version of the petrodollar-for-military-bases system What do you mean when you say "petrodollar for military basis system"? Before you answer, please remember that a petrodollar is the analogue of a eurodollar
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> Facebook recruiting in London feel about as desperate to fill their pipeline as Google did ten years ago these days. I'd say it's more size than desperation. Yeah, recruiting in London probably gives you lower bang for the
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My mistake, the limit isn't 5000 but 8500 pounds. In 2027 these will also be covered under fuel-efficiency standards. https://www.motorbiscuit.com/why-dont-heavy-duty-trucks-have...
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> Also do you think the 0.01% of people in a western country have any obligation towards the 99.99% of people in that country? In a patriotic, nationalist culture, yes. But if you explicitly reject things like patriotism and nationalism
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> Marx was not writing a plan of action, and all that has been proved is that authoritarian assholes are assholes. The Communist manifesto is literally a plan of action . It calls for an authoritarian government in which all financial a
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> In the US, half of shoppers buy groceries from a dollar store. I think you are misreading the (ambiguous) mashed.com text, "More than half of shoppers now visit dollar stores to buy groceries, eMarketer reports, up from 21 percen

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