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by syzarian 4y ago
They don’t chant “defund schools”. Instead the slogan is “school choice”. There has been a campaign for the last 50 years to erode public education.
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by syzarian 4y ago
Anyone can retire at any age. Those in a defined benefit pension typically get around 2% per year worked of the average of the highest 5 years of pay. This benefit has penalties for retiring before the standard Social Security retirement
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Power as it pertains to a union is about their ability to negotiate working conditions, pay, and worker protections. I know of no large group of public employees with better worker protections.
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by syzarian 4y ago
I’m a college teacher in a union. I don’t know much about what happens in k-12 but I do know my union is not responsible for our low pay in my system. What evidence do you have for your claim? Police unions are far more powerful that publ
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by syzarian 4y ago
I don’t see how China buying U.S. debt would lead to more inbound foreign capital into China. Can you elaborate on this?
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by syzarian 4y ago
There are lots of examples of counter intuitive results and lots of examples of “obviously true” statements turning out to be false after a rigorous study. Here is an example of a study that reinforces the “obvious”. That doesn’t make the
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by syzarian 4y ago
There are demographics where I would not want to take the risk of renting out my property to them. In the U.S. we tend to make things about race when it ought to be about class. Yes, I’m biased against certain economic classes of people (
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by syzarian 4y ago
It matters as it pertains to whether or not the claim that was made is true.
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Hence is disapproval amongst Russians. Russians don’t give the moniker “great” to humanitarians.
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What Apple earns from fees from $x per month per user in recurring revenue is greater than the fees for $y per user per upgrade for certain values of x and y depending on the number of users in each category. How do you know what you is tr
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by syzarian 4y ago
He sought to prevent Lithuanian independence. His legacy is tarnished because Russia lost influence while he was leader of the Soviet Union. Putin’s approval rating increases when he intervened, invades, or annexes territory of Russia’s n
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by syzarian 4y ago
I think the answer is as simple as a megalomaniacal desire for a return to the glory of Russia. Russia has never been stably non expansionist and it is Europe’s last colonial empire. While Gorbachev was OK with the disintegration of the W
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by syzarian 4y ago
Getting beat by other inmates is part of the “at the whim of those in charge” comment I made. The government can provide enough resources to largely prevent this type of violence from being common but chooses not pay to do so. It’s part o
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by syzarian 4y ago
Instead of talking about morality I think it’s best talk about incentives and try to determine what incentives ought to be in place in order to achieve a desired outcome. For whatever reason, it is the case that building high density hous
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by syzarian 4y ago
No. But I know people who spent time in Cook county jail. I know that in any jail in the U.S. a prisoner’s well being is at the whim of those in charge. There are lots of examples of dead, beaten, and otherwise traumatized prisoners. Th
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by syzarian 4y ago
It is sad how normalized your cynicism has become in the U.S. Too many people in the U.S. (I’m not claiming you are from the U.S.) share your view. Many Americans have forgotten what the purpose and role of society ought to be. Instead o
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by syzarian 4y ago
No system is stable forever. We get things like the Reformation and the 30 Years War when imbalances occur. I was not intending to convey a belief that totalitarian regimes can’t last for a long time. Rather I was indicating a belief tha
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by syzarian 4y ago
The trauma caused by being arrested and spending time in jail waiting for the system to process you is already done. Winning at court is irrelevant. What is instilled in the people is the normalization of police terrorism. We don’t have
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by syzarian 4y ago
In effect, in the U.S. one risks punishment by the state for criticizing the police and there is no recourse against such punishment. We have de facto a situation like exists in Russia where criticizing the armed forces is illegal. Slowly,
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by syzarian 4y ago
I don’t like carrying a phone around and have a cellular plan for my watch. For me that is the killer feature.
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by syzarian 4y ago
I overall agree with your point. There are many crimes the U.S. government has committed with impunity.
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by syzarian 4y ago
I don’t know the legal issues as play but morally speaking it seems to me that Google and Facebook are at fault. They deliberately control which material to feed to people in order to keep them hooked on their platforms. A person suscepti
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by syzarian 4y ago
I think your analogy is incorrect. The plaintiffs are alleging that Google’s algorithm targeted people susceptible to radicalization by feeding them videos designed to inspire radicalization. On the surface this appears to have merit in
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We were talking about Reagan and he did use death squads.
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But Reagan’s “effectiveness” includes murdering and torturing human rights advocates who opposed his unlawful actions in Central America. The U.S. and world would be better without such “effectiveness”.
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But Reagan got things done by blatantly violating the law with impunity. Lovers of democratic forms of governance ought to look with disdain at such shenanigans.
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What I don’t understand about narrative that Carter failed on Iran is that Regan never got enough blame for blatantly violating U.S. laws and negotiated with Iran despite saying we don’t negotiate with hostage takers. Carter got far too mu
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by syzarian 4y ago
There are models of the teams that are countable when looking at the model externally within ZFC. However, that model thinks it is uncountable. When you say “real numbers” what exactly do you refer to? I know you mean the standard model
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by syzarian 4y ago
Much cheaper to pay someone than to use AI? I’m skeptical of this claim. While you might be right today you won’t be right years from now.
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by syzarian 4y ago
We’ve seen state actors use social media to sway public opinion and sow dissent. Now using AI one can multiply such efforts. It will be easy to create a ton of websites and articles that sound plausible to the uninformed (uninformed in a

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