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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
That still doesn't answer the question of why the Right isn't blamed for not reaching out to the Left. And given that they're the ones in power, it's their responsibility to do the reaching out.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Competition makes the participants in any system better." That's not universally true. There are places where the neighborhood public school is in "competition" with charter schools, however, the charter schools ar
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Depending on the state, there's no requirement for charters to accept everyone like a normal public school.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
How is it a lie? Money going to charters is money not going to the neighborhood school.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Charter schools expand choice for low-income families." Only if charter schools are not permitted to pick and choose who attends. "Maybe it's bad for the public school, but it's good for the high performing student
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This is the wealthiest nation on earth. The money exists to keep this school going, and do not let anyone fool you into saying it doesn't.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Relative to what? " To other cities of it's size? It's pretty clear what it means.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"At some point, though, personal responsibility has to come into play." Only if you're looking to blame something so you can feel smugly superior to them. If you're looking to actually provide services or improve conditi
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"You can't throw more money at a problem, then declare you've come up with a general solution." Given this country has immense financial resources, if it turns out that we're just not spending enough to start, it se
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"That’s certainly a popular talking point, but I think frankly it’s impossible;" Think what you want, but you're not entitled to your own facts. And the facts show that, most publicly traded companies used the money for buyba
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"The gains to the working class is seen in the lowest unemployment numbers ever" Which isn't being accompanied by wage gains, and were going up long before the tax cuts happened. "That’s because that extra 33% in our ban
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Bezos is the richest person on the planet. He can afford to hire people to look through the reviews.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I cannot buy any argument along the lines of "maybe it's just bad UX." Amazon has the resources to study and hire the best UX people in the business. There is no excuse for them having a UX problem except that they don't
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Just because some people write crappy reviews is not an excuse for challenging all of the bad reviews.
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Because he's done a lot of negative things lately.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Considering there's no evidence whatsoever to back up your second paragraph, yes, it is crazy to point it out.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Who in their right minds realistically expects any organisation to respond to some random journalistic enquiry on a Sunday?" Everyone. This is an on-demand world, where news is happening constantly. To not have someone available
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Ok. But the "working class" people who voted Trump in don't get to see any of those gains. They at best got a one time bonus, which is still taxed at higher rates, and in exchange, they get cuts to many of the services they r
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I mean, mental health in this country has long been neglected, but I'm not sure that explains it all.
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Because BofA decided how they were going to abide by those regulations.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I don't think it has anything to do with learning speed, as learning "faster" isn't necessarily better, and can often be worse. The idea behind "teaching is the best way to learn" is to help reinforce the conce
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Credit unions are still subject to the same regulations.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Don't blame Bank of America. For that matter, any bank. " I absolutely can and will, because those banks are run by people. People who are capable of telling right from wrong. "Bank Secrecy Act, Patriot Act, etc are beh
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I'm not 1000% up on how they tried to do it, but I remember seeing (on HN, I think) that they would see a non-chain theater be popular, and so they would threaten to not list their theater in the app unless they gave them a cut. The co
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
I can see a celebrity or official or someone wanting to run their own instance to be the "canonical" or "verified" one, like, "This really is The Rock, because the instance is from TheRock.com, their website."
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"I think that most instances would block Facebook if they tried to do something like that." I don't think so. Doing so would mean that their users wouldn't be able to get events from the biggest network; the one where mo
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Are you arguing that authors/editors/etc don't need to feed their families?" Not in any sense of the word. I'm rebuking the post's idea that those things shouldn't be focused on making money.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
That's not necessarily how it works. If those who are trying to "disrupt" things have more money or more influence, which many times they do, then they get their way, despite what most people would want.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
"Now 2/3 of library patrons are homeless or struggling with addiction," Citation needed.
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by s73v3r_ 8y ago
Most people don't have a strong opinion about writing software. They do have strong opinions about how tech companies think they can bypass the law and "disrupt" things.

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