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by tropo 7y ago
Choosing the attributes and their weighting can be used to bias a ranking as desired. In this case, the bias is typical: the raters prefer countries that are Scandinavian. Attributes were: "Income equality, well-developed public educat
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Wages are growing, mainly at the low end. We are seeing efforts to stop this via many different types of immigration.
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It's more true. Unemployment dropped from 4.0% down to 3.5%.
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There are different types of respect. Most people knew to keep their mouths shut. They have mortgages to pay and kids to feed, so they dare not freely speak their minds. Even HR is in that same boat, but worse. HR has to act supportive. Don
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That was a mistake. Criminals now very purposely run off with just shy of $950. Theft is way up in California. Meanwhile, in Texas you'd just shoot the laptop thief, either as soon as aware of the imminent theft or as the thief flees.
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Demographics is destiny, but this does not benefit Western Leftist parties. One political side is producing about 2.5 kids per woman, and the other is producing about 1.5 kids per woman. (numbers for USA) Above 2 is exponential growth, and
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by tropo 7y ago
For causing harm to the nation, direct election of senators is second only to the commerce clause abuse. (and both are of questionable constitutionality) Senators appointed by state legislatures could be counted on to oppose any attempt by
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Boeing can build a fuel-efficient aircraft that is highly compatible with the 737 airport equipment. There are two obvious approaches. The first approach is that taken by the Boeing 717. Do a T tail with rear engines. Bombardier, Gulfstream
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I'm willing to pretend, if that it what it takes to stop the "fixes" from being applied. I'm not a fan of destroying the economy, especially if other countries get a less-restricted situation that lets them climb past us
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Canada did that with dairy products. Fair is fair.
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Usually it leads to unemployment. People want to do the same things as each other, but we can't all be football stars. We can't even all teach kindergarten or nursery school, and the low pay of such jobs is the natural result of m
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Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class–A Status Update(quillette.com)
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Financial situation affects both house appearance and insurance claims. Some people won't bother to file legitimate insurance claims for small things, while other people will file fraudulent claims. House appearance and car crashes wil
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Every browser has to act together, or the ones that don't will win due to better compatibility. The obvious way to make that happen is a law. Just prohibit the user agent string from being sent, starting with browsers that are distribu
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by tropo 7y ago
It's not some conspiracy to pay women less. It works like this: 1. More people (women in this case) enter the profession. 2. Due to increased labor supply, pay starts to drop. 3. Men, placing a relatively higher priority on high pay, b
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You can save for college, but then this gets deducted from your "need", causing financial aid to be reduced. There isn't much incentive to save when that just drives up the costs.
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The cost is a drop in the bucket, but there are enough other drops to overflow the bucket. When we take offense at substandard living conditions and then regulate them away, we price out the poor. We often even excuse it as some benefit to
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by tropo 7y ago
Identical twins have hundreds of differences across the entire genome. None of those are carefully planned. Prior to that, during generation of sperm and egg, many other unintended mutations occur. Each chromosome typically breaks and misjo
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The only thing surprising here is that it isn't scalp cancer. Hair straighteners work by breaking and reforming the disulphide bonds in proteins. Proteins perform many important roles related to DNA repair, chromosome formation, DNA re
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Unfortunately "debunked" is typically untrue. The fast and easy way to suppress inconvenient facts is to claim that they have been debunked. It's just more information warfare.
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Project Veritas, exposing corruption via hidden camera journalism Judicial Watch, exposing corruption via FOIA lawsuits
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There have been huge gains at nearly all income levels, but not all. The groups missing out has been the 1st-world non-rich. Graph of it here: https://avc.com/2016/08/elephant-chart/ (note that the green line
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An ordinary suburban location is difficult to serve by road if you'd like to ship a large house.
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College professors have noticed a rapid increase in the portion of students who are clueless about filesystems. This may be because troubleshooting a PC is mostly a thing of the past; today it is common to experience computing mainly as pho
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This doesn't bode well for classic and antique car collectors of the future, who will want operable Tesla cars. There are Ford Model T cars that still drive. They were made 92 to 111 years ago. With undocumented and cryptographically s
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This seems to mean that a recording done on x86_64 MacOS can't be played back on aarch64 Linux, which is a shame for something that apparently is for javascript debugging. Limitations like that are more understandable for rr, which is
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I see that the Vatican has given up. Long ago, http://va/ was it. No other name under va existed. Netscape Navigator was able to navigate to that part of the net. It really did make sense for such a tiny place.
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Normally there isn't much point arguing about it. We all know. Why argue? I'll make an exception for you though, since you may have a misunderstanding. You mention "theocracy". Atheists can believe that sex should wait f
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Finding furniture that will fit, even for the simple case of a sofa going around a hallway corner, is an open problem in mathematics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_sofa_problem You should buy a Gerver sofa.
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The presumption is that teenagers are unmarried, unable to support an independent household, and of a mindset that lacks self-control. It's just a lot of correlations with various kinds of chaos. We certainly don't make it easy wi

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