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by skh 8y ago
Your stat from source [1] shows a big decline from 2008 to 2009. This suggests to me that the calculation of average hours is skewed by those who are part-time but don't want to be part-time. The source doesn't indicate how the
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In some states for certain medical expenses family members can be forced to assume the debt.
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Yes, NATO expansion riled Russia and this is the result of imperial hubris on the part of the U.S.
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Thanks for the correction. I suppose propaganda is at play in the misconception. Also it wouldn’t make sense for Ukraine to not want a better security guarantee given the history between Russia and Ukraine.
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Our roads are bad. We lack decent public transportation. Our internet speeds are slow and overly exspensive. We do not have most of the infrastructure we need. Jack Ma calls it warfare you call it defense. Whatever term you wish to use
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Do you have any specific evidence that the school system teaches that the victim mentality is the greatest ideal? From what I can tell this is a popular belief amongst some that is without support or a basis in fact.
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Perhaps a system that is unsustainable long term is showing signs of strain? Maybe they really are victims relatively speaking. I don’t know. I don’t think it has to do with being snowflakes or otherwise lacking mettle.
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* You don't need to have a better solution to point out that implementing quotas results in more racism than having no quotas at all.* The U.S. implemented quotas/affirmative action in the 1960s. Are you suggesting that this caus
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...despite the gray hairs lining my chin. What is interesting to me is that before reading this part I assumed you are a man even though there was no hint before this line that you are. How many people thought kwamenum86 is a man from st
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We all have biases and those are largely shaped by media and pop culture and to a lesser extent personal experience. The talk of diversity evokes a lot of emotion. I sometimes think the focus ought to be not on race/religion/eth
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I’m an atheist and don’t necessarily care much for Biblical principles. However, right wing Christians I know quote par6s of the Old Testament as evidence for some of their moral beliefs. They do tend to ignore those portions that contrad
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What is interesting to me is that it is a Biblical principle to have jubilee years and in my experience some of the most ardent opponents of debt forgiveness are right wing Christians. The fact is that we all subsidize each other. Poor pe
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But when you get to the local level, it’s all simply people picking the team they think will help them win the election. A very nice observation. I do believe this occurs at the national level as well. One example being conservative Dem
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I own my phone and from the big carriers two phones or more generally costs $80+ a month.
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I suggest to you that you may be a victim of popoganda. Thee is in your writing a sense of urgency and direness. Fear monger it is a profitable business for “news” organizations. I use quotes around news because such media is really ente
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I’ve never cared about my credit score. I think for a lot of people they obsess too much about it. In my case the score went from 800 to 750. At least according to my credit card. If you are able to pay bills on time and otherwise be re
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Here’s one example. In 2012 my home was worth much less than the mortgage. I live in a no recourse state and strategically defaulted. I paid cash for a condo. I didn’t default because I couldn’t pay, I defaulted because it didn’t make e
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From my experience of teaching at a community college for 18 years it will not be a giant welfare program for the upper middle class. It will benefit the upper middle class but the ones who really suffer from student loan debt are the poor
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Didn’t bliblah’s last paragraph address this? Also, so what if it is just entertainment. It’s still fascinating to some people how much of an outlier among outliers these people are. I did mixed martial arts for 10 years and sparred with
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I sound like someone who recognizes that there are circumstances in which the majority ought not get their will satisfied and that there are circumstances in which the majority will ought to be satisfied. I’m someone who recognizes that me
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With his Lordship’s permission I wish to leave your manor for another. The floggings are less intense there.
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There are lots of cases where a significant portion of the populace wants something that is bad or is opposed to something that is good. Government is supposed to look out for the greater good. We can't just say that people want X so
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Ha. I've told new hires that one thing they must keep in mind is that this job is not about teaching.
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At my college not much. We are a public institution and cater to urban students who mostly are working adults.
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When I first started teaching in higher education the implied client was society at large. It was my duty to ensure that those who passed knew the material sufficiently well. This was when a student's tuition paid for 1/3 of the
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My recollection is different. The only thing I could find on Youtube substantiates your claim. I was wrong. Thank you for pointing this out. I think my overall point still stands though.
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Your comment reminded me of Seve Jobs mocking the idea of a pen for iPads. You can’t trust that such statements are true or that even if true today that they will be true in a few years. Ideas, tech, beliefs change and sometimes companies
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Adding to what amelius said. The formal term for the algebraic system we are talking about is ring. We want to consider all the elements of the ring to be numbers since they are all part of the same algebraic system. Also, let’s broaden
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The definition of a prime number is arbitrary. We could have defined the term “prime number” to mean anything. The question is what concept do we wish to capture with the definition. If we allow numbers with the property that all other n
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In case anyone reads the article and wonders why 1 is not a prime number I'll give a brief answer. A prime number has to have the property that not every number is a multiple of it. In the language of abstract algebra this means that

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