thebradbain

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by thebradbain 3y ago
Your complaint is at the studios, including Netflix, then. They’re the ones who own the IP, they’re the ones who decide to use it. The actors have absolutely no say in whether Disney decides to make another Marvels movie or not. Actors are
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by thebradbain 3y ago
The unions guarantee a minimum price floor for actors, and healthcare if you work full time. No maximums. Unfortunately the entire reason for the strike is studios will rarely, unless you are very top talent, deviate from the minimums. They
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by thebradbain 3y ago
They do have protections against that in the contract, which would apply to all SAG members — the use case you brought up is exactly what Fran Drescher, the president of SAG, brought up of something they are hoping to prevent. The studios d
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Do you mean Sept 2020? I believe everything shutdown (in most US states and European countries) in March 2020. Only wondering because ~3 years versus a little less than 2 years seems like a potentially big difference, so wondering if that f
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by thebradbain 3y ago
I would argue for many people the value of a college education is not so much the education. Fraternities/sororities/equivalents, for example, are often seen at some schools as more important to social mobility + marriages and mor
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Yet most US constituents, of all parties and socioeconomic status, seethe at the thought of a government worker of any level making “too much” money. It doesn’t matter that someone working for the government has the potential to have a much
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by thebradbain 3y ago
There’s no shortage of people who meet any of that criteria! The whole point of a selective college is they have to select from a pool of already qualified applicants. There is no objective measure to measure against when you’re splitting h
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by thebradbain 3y ago
I don’t think it’s a stretch to say an Olympiad 4.0 student — many of whom exist, I went to school with a few — has a much more promising academic career than someone who managed to get good-not-great grades and a single perfect test score.
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by thebradbain 3y ago
It’s naive to think schools don’t have a system in place for this: separating piles into buckets of test score, ordering by grade, marking a certain number from each bucket as worth another look, then ordering by essay, marking a certain fr
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by thebradbain 3y ago
1. Would absolutely not get you in anywhere selective 2. Would absolutely not either I believe the whole concept of “meritocracy” for purpose of admissions is a lie— choosing the criteria to measure against is itself a subjective act.
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by thebradbain 3y ago
I personally could not think of a more boring way to curate a student body, but even more so than that, I think that’s completely unfair to the many, many way-more interesting people who make up top schools’ student bodies: why does Jimmy A
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Interviews, transcripts, (optional) test scores, letter of recommendation, a set of common essays across all schools, and an optional supplemental section or portfolio to showcase any personal achievements not covered by the other standard
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Except for, you know, Letters of Recommendation, which at top schools are often the deciding factor. All else being near-equal (or not), a letter from a Kennedy is going to get you into Brown versus say, a regular high school teacher that m
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Depends on the city… in Los Angeles private schools can push $70k/yr/student easily; In the Bay Area I would imagine even higher. In Dallas, where I grew up and went to the same school for much less, tuition is now around $40k&#x2
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Which is exactly why I always advocate for outsourcing engineering talent overseas. Letting the Silicon Valley software engineers gain too much power is half the reason why keeping a product from being cancelled is so difficult at Google. S
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by thebradbain 3y ago
I completely disagree— walking around inside Boston City Hall, and any well-designed Brutalist building in general, makes you feel like you’re in some sort of natural rock formation. Brutalism prizes honesty over anything else— the necessar
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by thebradbain 3y ago
What is art or not is not decided by popular vote. Similar to how film or food critics often differ from the general audience on what makes a good film— art must be studied within the context of itself. The Eiffel Tower was hated in its hey
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Unpopular opinion, but Boston City Hall is an objectively VERY beautiful building. Brutalism is absolutely an acquired taste, but it is, by all measures, an objective style that can be measured against, in the same way classical or say, Spa
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by thebradbain 3y ago
I have complex relationships with both states, and family roots in each, so my entire life has been spent between the two, and I often visit Texas still. Both are dysfunctional in completely different ways, and both succeed in very opposite
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by thebradbain 3y ago
As a lifelong Texan who now lives in California— Texas has absolutely no problem overriding municipal and county governments, the biggest of which are solidly blue. It’s a pattern they’ve repeated for over 20 years, often more so as a sho
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by thebradbain 3y ago
I don’t use Reddit, but I did occasionally read Ask Historian threads when they were linked from other places on the internet: Good luck trying to find the actual historians that made the subreddit worth visiting (many often mods themselves
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Ah yes! Would love to know how the crowd that protests better public transit, pedestrian paths and bike lanes as “taking away space from cars” will respond to roads being further clogged with… empty cars? We’re really going to spend billion
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by thebradbain 3y ago
I’m sure that’s the case, but wouldn’t the courts be able to seize the relevant land in that case, too? Or pass some special blanket law stating any site that requires the government pay for clean up reverts to public (government) ownership
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by thebradbain 3y ago
What possible justification does Texas have for keeping Dallas/Travis (Austin)/Bexar (San Antonio)/Harris (Houston)/most of the Mexico border counties as captive colonies when they clearly want to leave? And that’s notwi
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by thebradbain 3y ago
SAG-AFTRA, the actors union, is actually about to go on strike for partly this very reason. Turns out unless you’re already very famous, boilerplate contract clauses claiming to own your image and likeness in perpetuity and forever outside
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by thebradbain 3y ago
San Francisco and Los Angeles could be the worst-run cities in the US (and spoiler, they’re not— as someone who has lived / still lives in both these cities and in red cities and in suburbs or towns), and they will still be desirable
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Who’s to say the proposed $300M in cuts won’t touch tech? They may be still trading as a tech company, but it looks like they may be firing some of those engineers anyways. So worst of both worlds?
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by thebradbain 3y ago
…? In these neighborhoods a 1bd condo would still sell for above $800k, minimum. More than likely $1.2-1.5m, looking at Zillow. They’d rent for at least $7k/mo. If we’re generalizing, like you are, then they’d allow the well-off profes
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Acres? Those are bona-fide mansions and estates. The definition of McMansion I’m familiar with, at least in Los Angeles, is demolishing a 2bd/2ba bungalow to build a 5bd/4ba house, usually by getting rid of all fertile backyard&#x
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by thebradbain 3y ago
Sorry, but you’re creating a false dichotomy. The _vast majority_ of land in the US, urban centers included, including NYC, is zoned for low density single family homes. Manhattan is only 1 of 5 boroughs in NYC, remember. There is NO shorta

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