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by sykh 8y ago
She wasn't on PAYE or any of the other income based repayment plans. You have to be on such a plan for payments to count.
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by sykh 8y ago
I didn't downvote but jeremyt's statement is without evidence. It's certainly plausible that the statement could be correct but there really isn't any evidence given to support it.
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by sykh 8y ago
It should have but she wasn’t aware of the program until after we met. I researched her options and PSLF is the best one. She works at a Hospital and thus has qualifying employment.
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by sykh 8y ago
PSLF only takes 10 years so if he could get onto that program he’d save himself a lot of money. PSLF forgiven debt is not taxable.
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by sykh 8y ago
That is cool. If they can pull it off that’d be awesome. Thanks for the link.
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by sykh 8y ago
My wife has $4000,000 med school loans. We are on PSLF and payments are 10% of (adjusted gross income minus 150% fed poverty line). She’s an attending now and we do everything we can to decrease our adjusted gross income. Our payments d
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by sykh 8y ago
I think AI flown drones is a much more realistic goal now than AI driven cars. It’d certainly make it cheaper and easier for Google and Apple to update maps. Is there anyone working in this space?
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by sykh 8y ago
What’s interesting about this problem is that the average American is way better off now than in the past. We have access to things unimaginable to people a mere 100 yeas ago. We live longer and have way more material wealth. It shouldn’
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by sykh 8y ago
This is a nice article. I teach mathematics at a community college and the last section of article resonated with me. What can we do about education of mathematics to improve it? Years ago it dawned on me that most of the students taking
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by sykh 8y ago
I'm not comparing the atrocities of the Nazis to sexual harassment. I don't understand how you can think that I was. I specifically wrote that the scenario that started this thread was hardly a controversial one. I then said a
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by sykh 8y ago
It’s an odd way of trying to make that point. Wouldn’t it be better to just directly say that? It doesn’t seem controversial. A better scenario to contemplate would be the Nazi medical experiments. Absolutely horrific in every way. Sup
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by sykh 8y ago
It depends on when in his life this hypothetical is supposed to have happened. Given the era he did his important work it’d have to be rape that he was accused of to have had a major impact on his employment as a professor. Sexual harassm
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by sykh 8y ago
I've not indicated a child-like belief in the invisible hand. Labor is a product. If the supply is constricted then the price for it ought to go up. Isn't this generally true? So much so that if it isn't the case in this
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by sykh 8y ago
There are low wage industries that overwhelmingly employ illegal immigrants and legal immigrants. Those industries would need to raise wages and improve working conditions if immigration were curtailed. I’m not advocating a position on imm
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by sykh 8y ago
I looked at my bill. I pay $140 per month for cable and internet. Actual bill is $181. So more like 30%.
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by sykh 8y ago
That may be a result of decreased immigration. I’m only pointing out that if illegal immigration were wiped out then wages would increase.
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by sykh 8y ago
Shouldn’t the decrease in available labor as a result of decreased immigration lead to wage increases? Particularly for jobs that aren’t going to be shipped overseas (construction, manual labor..). EDIT: I know the topic of immigration ca
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by sykh 8y ago
What Comcast doesn't mention is that when you get a TV bundle to save on internet costs the fees they tack on for TV increase the monthly bill by around 40% of the advertised rate. Bundling TV is actually more expensive when you look
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by sykh 8y ago
It’s a very well written article and talks about an aspect of racial disparities that isn’t talked about much in the public sphere: culture. At some point negative aspects of poverty culture in general and black poverty culture specificall
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by sykh 8y ago
Yes there is lots of room. There is plenty of food. But what kind of place will the planet be in 100 years on our current trajectory? Pollution is being done on a grand scale. Deforestation too. What good is it to have all that land wh
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by sykh 8y ago
There is plenty of food being produced to feed everyone at present. The problem of starvation is one of distribution and not one of production.
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by sykh 8y ago
It seems to me that overpopulation is presently a reality. As far as I can tell there are way too many humans given our level of consumption. At the rate we kill off other species, destroy ecosystems, pollute, and generally make large por
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by sykh 8y ago
It's not the same thing as a false positive by an eye witness. Eye witness testimony is well known to be prone to false memories. Hence there needs to be corroborating evidence. I think people are too readily willing to accept a te
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by sykh 8y ago
We could rely on the Supreme Court but I'm skeptical that they will put the public interest above the government's interests. I think a new Bill of Rights will be needed if there is sufficient outcry over abuses.
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by sykh 8y ago
At some point in time we Americans are going to have to come to grips with the computational abilities of the state. There are way too few safeguards in the system and the Bill of Rights does not seem to be adequate in dealing with the new
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by sykh 8y ago
If the time spent on troubleshooting cuts into the number of billable hours then one should factor in the wage for those billable hours. If it doesn’t subtract from the number of billable hours then the wage of a billable hour doesn’t fact
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by sykh 8y ago
The problem with the calculation you made is that he is not making $50 per hour every hour of the day. If a person is at full employment, that is they can’t or won’t work more hours, then the calculation changes. The opportunity cost of d
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by sykh 8y ago
They charge a fee for using their modem.
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by sykh 8y ago
I claim it’s extreme and unreasonable because it’s outside of the view most people have on the issue. Most people do not see unions co-opting the normal political process. Most people don’t think being a public employee ought to mean givi
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by sykh 8y ago
He is free to believe this. He is free to advocate that his state become a so called right to work state. It’s not the place of the Supreme Court to play the role of the legislature. Janus’ claims to having his free speech impinged are r

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