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The solution to people fleeing public non-charter schools to go to better options is to provide opportunities for kids who remain in public schools to thrive. As it stands, school districts are doing the opposite. Getting rid of educational
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Once it becomes a critical part of our social structure. That will always be a judgment call, but Harvard qualifies as that more than any nongovernmental entity today.
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Foundations aren't too great; although you can maybe give a couple administrative jobs to your relations, ultimately the bulk of money still has to go to nonprofits, and a foundation faces additional taxes and administrative fees that
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Harvard is about being a reproduction ground of the current elite ruling class, both literally and figuratively. Although it's also a great educational and research institution, a brand, and a hedge fund, those are all secondary consid
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Back in the 90s, there was a push to pass legislation banning or limiting legacy admissions, coming from a staffer in Ted Kennedy's office IIRC. Lobbyists from Harvard went nuclear and scared Democrats into opposing it. I barely even n
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That's irrelevant, though, when you're talking about the vast majority of people who apply who don't get accepted because of those factors. Telling someone "you're privileged because a child of a Kennedy gets a le
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We agree that there are still racial biases in the present day that disproportionately affect Black applicants. But that's not the only disadvantage, and as AA is set up, a Black kid whose parents are doctors who goes to a ritzy boardi
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How? By having the kid get a smaller inheritance? Or by having the kid not having the privilege of having college educated parents? If those are the metrics we're using, then use them directly: prioritize first gen college applicants,
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That's missing the point: how does giving person A preferential access to college recompense person B who is distinct from person A? As far as legacy admissions go, they're noxious, but you're not accounting for the ~99% of p
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How exactly does present-day affirmative action recompense the victims of racist policies from half a century ago? Are their children materially worse off statistically? Yes, and that should be remedied, by the same methods that everyone
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Hijacking this for a question I've been wondering about. For context, I'm a long-time tmux user who spends 90% of my time in remote shells. Ideally, I'd have my WM handle panes, layouts, etc. "Terminal multiplexing"
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It's exciting to see so much action in this space. How would you compare Warrant to other Zanzibar (ZaaS?) offerings? Particularly Ory and Authzed/SpiceDb.
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But you need to master the lower order skills before you can master the higher order skills. If someone is unable to evaluate a multi-digit sum, they'll be unable to devise creative solutions that use multi-digit sums.
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I don't think most people who use the term wage slavery (which does seem a distraction to me) think that any payment of wages for labor is a form of slavery. It's more about the perception or reality (take your pick) that those jo
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Depends on the particular bus line. Yes, they can be unpleasant. However, you do gain a whole lot living in a quiet area compared to living in the middle of the shitshow, and it's not close to comparable.
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At some point, nice is subjective. And Mission definitely has some sketch spots. But Castro, Eureka, Noe border it and are even nicer; then there's Hayes and the Haight and Alamo Square; head west on Haight and you get to Cole Valley a
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> the city is 7 square miles. 49 square miles, in a 7 by 7 square, roughly. (Your point stands, of course)
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I don't think Houston residents spend much if any time thinking about how to walk home from work to avoid a homeless encampment. Cities don't have to be like this: by any standard, US cities are much less safe than those in the re
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SF is weird in that one block can be pretty nice, and a walk a few minutes in the wrong direction can put you in the middle of skid row. It is a rapid and jarring transition. A night out for the unaware can start with an early dinner at a M
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The Mission District alone is almost 2 square miles. Add in a couple more decent neighborhoods (particularly the Sunset and the Richmond), and you're probably at half of SF's 49 square miles.
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Factually, there aren't any glaring errors. The way it frames things is weird, though. Not to say SoMa and downtown aren't shitholes that will make you feel unsafe multiple times per day; they are. But most other neighborhoods hav
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Although that is of course true, it's unclear how you translate that into policy. The ideal would be for the city to remove badly behaving people (regardless of homeless status) from public spaces and allow the well-behaved people to g
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Everyone should have access to public amenities. But a widespread homelessness problem ends up denying amenities to people who aren't homeless: when libraries regularly have people smoking meth or shooting up in the bathrooms, that mak
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San Francisco already spends half a billion dollars per year on homeless services, which comes to 50k-75k per homeless individual per year. Is there reason to believe that more spending would actually fix homelessness, when most other citie
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You can certainly take that perspective. It's unclear, however, how you'll find the funds to turn a city into a giant homeless shelter when no one else wants to live there because you don't offer access to safe and clean park
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It's reasonable for people have access to public services. If you turn every public service--sidewalks, parks, libraries, public transit--into something unusable because it's really an ersatz homeless shelter, there's an enti
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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6731029/ > Covariates. We control for covariates that are likely associated with both psychological distress and marital strain including respondent age, educat
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Straight folk have lots to learn from gay folk. Probably starting with how to do marriage right[0]. [0] https://www.advocate.com/people/2020/2/13/study-gay-people-h...
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As a bi man, the dynamics of dating men and women are very different. It ranges from the very explicit (you must plan the date; you must pay for the date) to the comparatively subtle (you must be emotionally stoic and not show too much vu
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There's lots of luck involved, which is always missing from these conversations. I've taken a similar route to you, and it's working out spectacularly, but, damn, it took a long while.

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