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by sokoloff 1y ago
Gender equality does not imply nor require gender indistinguishability. Rejecting the latter does not imply rejecting the former, but of course you know that and are just being a gender-neutral cylindrical appendage.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Have you found a generally equal level of interest in hunting, fishing, sports, and cars across the genders? That’s not been my experience and, as a basic social skill, I seek to adapt my conversational topics to the audience’s interest.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
It’s absolutely okay to prioritize the needs and comfort of the living. The guest of honor won’t notice, I promise. If the other (living) attendees have a problem with it, it’s at least 51% a them problem, IMO.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Exactly. I feel like you'd have to write such a law to be based on provable influence, rather than solely on outcomes. The last thing we want is for a school like Ohio State or Michigan to lose public funding and tax exemptions just be
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by sokoloff 1y ago
And it’s ridiculous and should be repudiated, not copied and expanded in a different direction.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
This requires a precise and careful definition of legacy student, I think. Is it a student whose admission decision was influenced by legacy status? Or merely someone who was a child of an alum? MIT claims to not have legacy status affect a
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by sokoloff 1y ago
You should buy the Codex Leicester containing many of Da Vince’s thoughts, designs, drawings, etc. ;) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Leicester
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I doubt the typical students scoring 1540+ have time pressure on the SAT. Sure extra time might help someone get from 1400 to 1440, but it’s not going to get you 1400 to 1600.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
“Not worse” in what sense? Is there a Stanford/MIT/Caltech/Harvard/N-others of equivalent global prestige/regard in those countries?
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I think it's self-evidently true that there is a not ignorable group of people who can't create enough value to be worth being paid $20/hr (plus the employer-paid overheads) and have that be something that an employer would v
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by sokoloff 1y ago
People with better fitness for employment had their situation improved. People with less fitness for employment may be more likely to be harmed. That’s a big success for the former group for sure. Whether that’s a policy success is slightly
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Many times they’ll take an interest in underage drinking or recreational drug use, which the party attendees might prefer they didn’t get tagged for.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> highly processed foods like burgers, pastries, snacks and pizza Is a burger highly processed? Home-made burgers seem not to fall into that bucket. (Hot dogs, I can buy as being it, but burgers not.)
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by sokoloff 1y ago
https://archive.is/8IavU
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The HSA is like a bank or investment account, not an insurance program; there's no claim process; you just withdraw the money whenever you want at your say-so. There is only an IRS audit process if they think you acted against the rule
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by sokoloff 1y ago
You can completely escape taxes for any amounts that you have receipts for medical expenses incurred after the HSA was opened. You can pay cash for a qualified medical expense in 2025 and take out that amount of money from the HSA decades l
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Five of the ten in the table were flying from San Diego, Lyons, Sydney, Paris, and Lisbon. Though the stowaways may have had individually terrible reasons to try this, I don't think of those five places as being particularly terrible.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> Many of the most concerning acquisitions were small… Instagram had 13 employees when Facebook bought it. Instagram was bought for $1B. Whether they had 13 or 1300 employees, a $1B acquisition isn’t small in an anti-trust sense.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Pretty much this. I have a great relationship with my boss. If the time comes where he needs to let me go, I need 2 words from him [which could be in email] and then the only things I care about that day are the details of the severance. No
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by sokoloff 1y ago
At a consulting company I worked at, we were told on Wednesday that layoffs affecting around 1/3 of the company would happen on Thursday and Friday and that the company was paying for an all-company event at a nearby pub-restaurant whe
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by sokoloff 1y ago
I'm on team "own the home you live in if your circumstances allow", but if there was no appreciation, your equity isn't "working for you" in any way that I can detect/imagine.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
No one is seeking to build smaller; they're seeking to build less expensive. Building smaller (specifically reducing square footage, baths, and kitchen amenities [which are a mix of size and non-size elements], and using less land [goi
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by sokoloff 1y ago
The $10K roof is noticeable precisely because it's an outlier that pulls the average up towards the 1-2% per year range for all but the least expensive houses. If houses really consumed 5-10% of the purchase price on average per ye
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> where the mortgage payment on a house would be $2600/mo but the rent for the identical one next door is $2000 is going to swing heavily toward renting I think those figures point towards buying being favored, especially if the mor
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by sokoloff 1y ago
If you're paying a relatively high hourly wage to all of the staff, it seems unsurprising that you'd not want to be open during times of low customer traffic. Honestly, this seems good overall; there's no more sense in having
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by sokoloff 1y ago
Exactly; those are the things that are needed to turn "smaller more affordable homes would be a better solution" into reality.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
How is getting your own money back, many years later, without appreciation "equity working in [your] favor"? Without the appreciation (and leverage multiplying that), buying housing would be nowhere near as good an investment. (As
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by sokoloff 1y ago
A 1000 sqft, 3BR, 1 Bath, basic kitchen unit will be cheaper than a 3000 sqft 4BR, 2.5 Bath, fancy kitchen unit. Builders (and most everyone else involved in real estate) make a lot more money on the latter than the former, though.
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> nor pitch the have nots majority against the haves There are almost twice as many owner-occupied homes ("haves") as not ("have nots"). https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/RHORUSQ156N
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by sokoloff 1y ago
> The measure, originally called the Preventing Elected Leaders from Owning Securities and Investments (PELOSI) Act, would prohibit members of Congress and their spouses from trading or holding individual stocks I genuinely laughed out l

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