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by syops 5y ago
The greater good in this case means following rules/mandates that do not in any way lead to an outcome of supporting atrocities. There is no valid critical analysis by which one concludes that not wearing masks or engaging in social d
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by syops 5y ago
Their economy is small and ours large. Therefore we have more to lose possibly. Removing them from the internet will not prevent their ability to mount attacks. It makes it more difficult but not impossible. We cyber attacked an Iranian
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I can think of some reasons why we should not retaliate against the Russian government. Perhaps we have more to lose in escalation. I don't know if this is true but it might be. If this is an attack at the behest/approval of th
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by syops 5y ago
Can't you make it expensive to move money overseas by taxing such moves?
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by syops 5y ago
I don’t believe this is the reason. I think people in general don’t want to go through the intellectual pain required to understand. I think the system in k-12 is as it is because it maximizes the outcome of getting the most people to the
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by syops 5y ago
Would you also blame those who buy lumber and crops from the Amazon? Capitalism's great problem is not accounting for negative externalities. I would include the consumers who drive the demand for Amazon products among the people tha
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by syops 5y ago
Well, my experience is that the way it's being taught is the sort of an optimized version of teaching math given the culture/desires/abilities of those students that hover around the median. I've tried all sorts of thin
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by syops 5y ago
To be fair, I don't either! I missed that part. Thanks for pointing it out.
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by syops 5y ago
I don't suggest anything other than what I wrote. Specifically, that comparing the crime rate of a rural American state that has no major metropolitan centers to the crime rate of Scandinavian countries which do have major metropolita
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by syops 5y ago
The set of people who can teach themselves mathematics by reading a good math book is quite small.
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Have you taught in a classroom? I have over 20 years experience teaching mathematics at community colleges and what you write sounds great but also sounds like it's from someone who hasn't taught in the classroom.
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by syops 5y ago
I have no expertise in this area. I imagine that there is an increased amount of guessing due to uncertainty about our present circumstances.
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Typically the forecasters are not this wrong. Thus this is cause for investigation and possibly concern. We do want policy makers to be given forecasts on these sorts of things and we do want them to be alarmed when the forecasts are so f
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by syops 5y ago
What does "Liberty and Accountability" mean in this context? Accountability is quite broad. Can you narrow things down a bit and elaborate? Can you give examples of countries that tried liberty without accountability (as you
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by syops 5y ago
New Hampshire doesn't have a city of the size of Stockholm, Oslo, or Helsinki in it. Large cities almost always have higher crime rates than rural areas. Clearly class and culture are part of the equation but I believe so too is the
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by syops 5y ago
They are taxi medallions to newly graduated MDs but not to the hospital. Without a residency slot MDs often times are relegated to a lifetime of med school debt servicing.
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by syops 5y ago
The bottleneck is not the number of people with an MD. The bottleneck is the number of residency programs. These are funded by Medicare and I believe they are not profitable for hospitals.
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by syops 5y ago
It seems to me that someone like Spotify or Apple (or another player getting into podcasting) should buy Clubhouse or quickly come up with a competitor. Now that Twitter is getting into this space it will be interesting to see who wins in
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by syops 5y ago
I suggest that your reply would be much better without the last paragraph.
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by syops 5y ago
Being far from Constitution-loving capitalists as it’s possible to get does not make one leftist. Your perception of what makes one leftist is badly distorted. At the extremes of ideology one finds people for whom the cause is more impo
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by syops 5y ago
It’s not just one video. It’s just the latest example of many such videos. It’s another example of police committing crimes and getting away with it. For other examples lookup police officers and the domestic violence they routinely get a
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by syops 5y ago
I believe all you need is an iCloud account. If you do get an Apple TV here’s the best way to subscribe to video services. Subscribe to the video service using the Apple TV app (confusing to have an app with the same name as the device).
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by syops 5y ago
Lots of graduate students are employed by the university they attend. When I was a graduate student I was employed to teach classes. I also was a client of the university since I paid some tuition/fees to attend classes there. I pre
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by syops 5y ago
Most Europeans from Western Europe speak English and have at least some cultural knowledge of the U.S. due to our cultural hegemonic status. It’s easier for Greeks to come to the U.S. and integrate than vice versa. Also the U.S. has a lon
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by syops 5y ago
I never claimed student fees pay for stadiums. I think you did not understand what I wrote. I claim that stadiums are built by taxpayers (at public institutions) and that expenditure is not part of the calculation of the alleged profitabi
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by syops 5y ago
I did and couldn’t find any information. I do know at lest 2 major D1 programs have had their stadiums built with taxpayer money and the accounting of those programs’ profitability does not take into account the building of their stadiums.
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Those D1 schools generate insane amounts of revenue from college and that revenue, in general, goes back to the athletic programs. The university as a whole does use money from those programs to fund education. Those programs don’t pay fo
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by syops 5y ago
How does that last quote of mine show my bias? I’ve cited in other posts numerous articles talking about the lack of profitability of most college athletics. I then stated an opinion of mine and indicated that it was merely an opinion. I
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My claim was about most college sports programs and that the universities don’t profit from sports programs. Div II and Div III programs are relevant to my claim. When there is profit it gets dumped back into the athletic department. The u
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by syops 5y ago
Yes. Hence the with few exceptions part of my comment. Also profit is revenue - expenses. A $220 million revenue doesn’t say anything about it’s profitability. https://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/why-students-foo

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