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by suture 4y ago
State funding per student has steadily declined since 1987. Tuition rates have risen in response. I don’t claim all of the tuition increases have come from the decline in funding but the decline in public funding contributes to the increa
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by suture 4y ago
I teach at a community college. We’ve had declining enrollment for 10 years or so. I need a job and these days it’s easy to acquire a reputation and easy to look up someone’s reputation. Retention of students is very important since it l
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by suture 4y ago
At the Ivy League schools these used to be called “gentleman C’s”.
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by suture 4y ago
It’s hard to read the whole post when the second paragraph contains: Who is doing the research to discover if Prohibition caused a change in the rate of alcoholism? Is that an area of research? It would be interesting to know. It’s easy t
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by suture 4y ago
I believe the case is about defamation and there is a counter suit. It is not at all clear how the defamation verdict will go even if everyone believes everything plaintiff said. Believing Depp to be a victim of spousal abuse is much easi
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by suture 4y ago
Politically, the best course of action for Biden is to suspend payments until there is a bipartisan bill addressing the funding of higher education. Any other course of action will piss off lots of people.
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You missed entirely the point made. Obviously I was pointing out that your stated reasoning was flawed. Government regularly publishes data and predictions that are trustworthy and useful. Therefore merely disagreeing with this report be
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by suture 4y ago
The CBO and other government agencies use well known and well documented methods for their inflation predictions. Again, if there is a reason to not trust the CBO then it should be stated. Just saying, essentially, “government can’t be tru
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by suture 4y ago
Do you doubt weather forecasts from NOAA? What about projected trajectories of hurricanes? The pint of these rhetorical questions is to point out that we all rely on “government projections”. We rely on the Department of Agriculture’s pr
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by suture 4y ago
Last October Tesla had a market cap of $1 trillion and was worth the 10 largest auto manufacturers combined. It’s a stock that has been way overvalued. The $575 billion drop in market cap is itself more than the market cap of any other au
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by suture 4y ago
Clearly the argument is that inefficiency grows with size. Small charity (even a so called large one) is nowhere near comparable in size to a nationwide government program. Therefore comparing efficiency between these organizations is not
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by suture 4y ago
You entirely missed the point made and are addressing a different point. By the way, who is more efficient at providing healthcare to the elderly: Medicare or the private sector or charities? Private health insurers fought hard to not hav
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by suture 4y ago
I disagree. My claim is not that charity wouldn’t be able to fill the demand right now in the scenario I presented. My claim is that it would never be able to fill the demand. Indeed, charity has never fulfilled the basic needs of the po
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by suture 4y ago
Efficiency at solving the problem at scale. What good does it do to have the most efficient system in terms benefit per dollar spent if it helps only a few people? Government is the most efficient at providing help at scale. For example
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by suture 4y ago
Remove UK government support for food for the poor. This includes school lunches and whatnot. Will the charities be able to fill the need? The answer is no. Charities can fill gaps but not beyond that.
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by suture 4y ago
I think you are very much wrong when talking about efficiencies. There are no examples in the history of the world of charity sufficiently providing for the needs of the poor at a national scale. There are lots of examples of government pr
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by suture 4y ago
I suggest that you are confusing “privacy” as it is colloquially understood with what is means as a legal principle.
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by suture 4y ago
The five axioms of Euclidean geometry don’t mention triangles and yet they are a big part of geometry. The five axioms of Euclidean geometry give rise to a vast collection of consequences. The U.S. Constitution is considerably more comple
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by suture 4y ago
It appears from the following website that you are wrong to discount the effects of increasing the weight of the vehicle a few hundred pounds. I stand by my original assertion. https://streets.mn/2016/07/07/c
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by suture 4y ago
A Hyundai Kona electric is 15% heavier than the Hyundai Kona ICE version. I was under the impression that damage to the roads due to weight followed a power law. I think I’m right in my assessment. https://streets.mn/2016&
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by suture 4y ago
Another thing not talked about with regard to electric vehicles is the increased weight they have and the accompanying damage to the roads due to that increased weight. In my city the roads are already crappy and having large numbers of el
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by suture 4y ago
I understand better your point and agree with it. I have been concentrating in my remarks in the tail end of U.S. control of the Zone. It was beneficial to Panama to get the Canal as a result of the treaty.
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After a while assimilation and integration occurs and thus the argument would not apply to present day California. The U.S. made no attempts to incorporate Panama, as a whole, into the U.S. Poor Panamanians were prevented from getting man
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by suture 4y ago
I think that Panama would not be any near as well off had the Canal Zone remained. We stunted Panama’s political and national growth. It’s not a coincidence that the Thatcher Ferry Bridge was the only bridge across the canal on the Pacifi
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by suture 4y ago
I grew up there and came to the United States to go to college. I was there during the Noriega years but was in the U.S. during Just Cause. As I recall Panama uses the Balboa as its currency and the Balboa is pegged to the dollar. Panama
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by suture 4y ago
I refer to the belief you have that global cooling had consensus status in the 1970s. Edit: I don’t recall any predictions of imminent disaster that would occur at the turn of the century. All predictions I recall were always to occur well
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by suture 4y ago
I grew up in the Canal Zone (former American colony in Panama). We Americans built roads, sewer, water systems, etc. in Panama. We paid good wages by Panamanian standards. This is the standard imperial justification. We thought Panama w
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by suture 4y ago
Reading what you wrote makes me think of the Murray-Gelman Amnesia Effect. Most people get their information from media and in my limited, anecdotal experience when media talk about an area I do have a great deal of knowledge in there are a
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by suture 4y ago
Government programs that benefit poor people generally aren’t tied to inflation. This is not going to change.
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by suture 4y ago
I like what you wrote and here is my perspective as a mathematician. A lot of the notation is due to legacy and common practice. For instance, we write y=f(x) and think of x as the independent variable. If I switch it around and write x=f

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