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by take_a_breath 6y ago
The US has surely done undemocratic things, that’s not my point. I never remember hearing the justification that “they are just as bad.”
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
It’s more about the pliable reasoning than the actual action. That said, in this case, it is the government actively manipulating the “free market” through regulations.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
==The CCP certainly makes this distinction.== Growing up in the US, I’m 36, we used to celebrate how we didn’t do un-democratic things like the CCP. Now, we seem to use them as an excuse to justify un-democratic actions.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
==In 2060 the 2020 level of diversity in lieutenants should be reflected at the top.== Your embedded assumption is that today’s lieutenant diversity reflects the overall military’s diversity of 1980. Is this true?
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
If it’s not an issue, why do they “actively try to increase the amount of minorities they recruit?” It seems that their active efforts imply there is an issue.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
Where is your work published? I’d love to look through your predictions.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
== But Uber is losing billions every year. Where is the money going to come from?== Maybe it’s not a viable business model.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
Relatedly, my dad always told me that thinking about the vastness of the universe "weirded him out." My hypothesis is that he has narcissistic tendencies so pondering the vastness of the universe only highlights his own insignific
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
==A better question would be whether the expected value of all future cash flows has doubled. Evidently, a lot of people seem to think so.== If there is a finite limit of "investable assets", then the relationship between those as
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
More information from the Senate Intelligence Committee [1] [2]: "Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign chairman Paul Manafort worked closely with a Russian intelligence officer who may have been involved in the hack and release of
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
I don't buy this argument at all. This is exactly the type of thing experts write policy papers and perform economic research to answer. If your claim were true, we could never debate policy proposals because they all rely on what peop
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
So...that's a "no" on sources?
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
==If you impose a wealth tax at the national level, rich people will leave America and ambitious people will never come here to begin with.== This is a pretty absolute claim to make without any sources or data to back it up.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
This article is about temperatures in August.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
FYI, this article is 5 years old.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
The political bias of news outlets is not an objective measure. It’s completely a matter of perspective. I have listened to people explain how Fox News is “liberal” and “true conservatives” must watch OANN.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
I think we are agreeing. I was trying to highlight that by calling everything that involves subjectivity “discrimination”, we diminish the word. Very much agree on these being private schools and playing by a different set of rules.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
==Assuming the options grant was coordinated with the loan deal (so we don’t need any innuendo about the suspicious timing), would that be insider trading?== We shouldn’t assume that considering the Kodak gave a completely different reason:
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
The same political party that runs the inland cities? I’m not sure “fly over states” is a phrase you can blame on Democrats, seems like a stretch.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
==They are glossing over the fact that it is other people who made the university great over the years to the point that it is desirable at all. Those people made it great by donating money and going on to bring prestige to the university.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
==Much the same way we pretend that racism doesn’t exist.== We even take the next step of referring those who point out racism as the actual racists.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
==Until plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc. stop being a part of the undesirable Other to middle and upper middle class Americans== Source? I think most people view these jobs as the foundation of the American middle class. At least we
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
You just replaced “people” with “media outlets” and made the same over-generalization.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
Sure, but it proves that admission is not based on the student’s merit. It discriminates against those whose parents did not attend the school.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
Then the concept of “legacy students” should be illegal.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
==Even so, in such case the decision is based on race or let say gender and that alone is discriminating.== Is it discrimination if the decision is based on intelligence alone?
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
I’m sure people were saying that and they can speak for themselves. The problem is with extrapolating that thought to “the left”. Now you’ve editorialized it to fit you political views.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
I think the phrase “triggered” was invented to describe this post. Maybe take a walk?
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
==Roommates are also kind of like acquiring a fraction of a house.== Unless you rent, in which case you are acquiring a fraction of the liability without acquiring any house.
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by take_a_breath 6y ago
If assets appreciate faster than wages rise, it creates price-points that are too high for people to invest.

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