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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Regular people in Switzerland don’t spend as much either. Regular people in Switzerland will maybe barely make $1M over 20 years, so to suggest that this is how much it costs to raise a single child, even in such a wealthy and develop
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Regular people spend much less than a million to raise a child up to 20.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Like what, for example? To the contrary, I think that, other than constness, C++ has rather few facilities to communicate semantic invariants to the compiler.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Unions are all about your position in the union and your tenure. They are discriminating by age through explicit design, and in favor of most powerful and least vulnerable actors on the job market.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
One reason why people talk about “hurricane insurance subsidies” in the first place is that it is hard to quantify, so it’s hard to call people on their bullshit. This is similar to introducing arcane metrics like for example “federal depen
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
These companies are losing a lot of money. That the raw ingredients are cheap doesn’t matter much if the cost and complexity of processing is high.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> If he had written any decisions correctly, no one would disagree with him. This is absurd, and only a complete partisan could write something like this. There is absolutely no point in discussing anything with you, because you literall
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Okay, and can you name any decision by SCOTUS that was decided egregiously incorrectly in favor of liberal/progressives? And any decision by conservative SCOTUS that was decided correctly, to a detriment of liberal/progressive cau
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
May I ask you what you think about Blackmun’s opinion in Roe v. Wade’s case? Was it correctly argued as a matter of constitutional law and historical practice?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
This is a reason, but there are other reasons too. For example, developing nations are often full of corrupt practices. This typically is not a huge problem for investors, you just pay a few bribes, it’s a cost of doing business. What is a
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Yes, but if grad students are good at anything at all, passing exams is one of those things.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, the parent is exactly correct. Research in quantum computing has been mostly mathematical, and it predated any practical development of useful physical implementations of quantum computing. Quantum computing as a field does not depend o
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
We are talking about grad students here, in case you missed that.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, my position is that their situation is not so terrible as claimed by the people who compare the grad students to low paid workers in retail or manufacturing. They are compensated highly in non-financial terms. More importantly, the mai
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
No, they should just quit if they don’t like it. The reason they don’t is that they are getting extra compensation in the form of status and credential they are working towards, or legal immigration status for many foreign students. It is
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
My friend just got a job as a delivery truck driver here in WA. Works 4 days a week, from 4 AM to 2 PM, and makes north of $100k. He tells me that the trucking companies are hiring like crazy. Do you think this is beyond the abilities of gr
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I agree, my point was only that Sudafed today is not solely phenylephrine.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Homeless people steal stuff mostly not for their own consumption, but to sell it.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
“Sudafed” labeled pseudoephedrine is still available for sale, I have some in my cabinet, bought this spring.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Note that what you said does not contradict what the person you replied to said.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Seems like you’re saying that one of the worst parts of being poor is living around other poor people.
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
I agree with you completely. What makes me sad, however, is that you describe the ideal of academia I had in my mind when I was entering academia, which simply no longer exists, if it ever had. Academia is not focused on the pursuit of the
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> I'd probably feel blindsided if someone criticized my work in public w/o first talking to me about it. Why, though? If you present your work in front of audience, it is extremely reasonable to expect the audience offer questi
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Ice age was not that much colder than now. Most of Canada was covered with ice, but most of United States wasn’t. Places which are hot today were warm at the time, and places that are warm were temperate. This means that there is no reason
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
How is this "safety net" relevant? Literally millions of people in America have same or better "safety net". Are they some kind of lazy losers because they haven't earned billions like Elon had?
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Without a dam, during times of drought, the downstream party does not have water either. It is the very presence of the dam that enables considerations of this sort. Without it, the water just drains to the ocean quickly, and neither upstr
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
Dams can release water downstream as needed. Without them, water would just drain out to sea/ocean in the wet season, and in the dry season would be completely gone. Without dams, American southwest literally wouldn’t exist.
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Severe droughts are a reason to build more dams, not to demolish them.
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> You also need to factor in the time value of money: if the winemaker sells you a 2022 release in 2022, they get paid immediately. This is right, I forgot about this: at 5% interest rates, 5 years of storage is actually 25% of the origi
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by xyzzyz 4y ago
> In fact giant layoffs tend to cut the best people first because they are the ones who feel comfortable walking. This is more true when the layoffs happen because the company’s situation deteriorates. If the company cuts jobs because re

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