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by yequalsx 14y ago
You may say this but it is wrong to believe this. The discriminant is not taught when factoring is taught. Indeed, any quadratic can be factored over the complex numbers but this is beyond the students' mathematical prowess at the time we
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by yequalsx 14y ago
I've seen a number of criticisms of the article. Some things need to be kept in mind. Presently it is standard to introduce factoring before one knows how to graph polynomial functions. It is possible to argue that we teach this before fa
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by yequalsx 14y ago
I've thought for some time that Microsoft, Apple, and Google would end up forming a patent cartel. At some point they'll each have the patent equivalent of mutually assured destruction. It seems to me that it is in their interest to maint
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by yequalsx 14y ago
I will look at your links when I have time. My initial reaction to what you wrote is to look to history. Before the 20th century college was expensive and rare. It's costs were very much out of the range of the middle class. Perhaps we
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Thank you for this clarification. It's hard for me to wrap my head around focusing the latter without focusing on the former. I tend to think bloat will be taken care of through economic pressures. That is, tuition will reach a point whe
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Thank you for your response. I strongly disagree with the notion that the book only approach is efficacious. Very, very few people learn through this method. If it was effective I think a lot more people would go this route instead of th
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by yequalsx 14y ago
There is something about that interaction, boring though it may be, that is better than online courses. Some students will benefit from MOOCs but a large majority of the students won't.
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Possibly more information than you wanted. I teach at a community college. Typically people think of Stanford or Large State University when they think of higher education. Around 1/3 of all higher education students are community colleg
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by yequalsx 14y ago
In some sense Gutenberg ought to have obviated the need for the lecture format in college but it didn't. Radio didn't, television didn't and I suspect the internet won't either. At least not for the majority of students. I've been teachi
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by yequalsx 14y ago
I reached the same conclusion as you in January. I've since walked away from my mortgage on a two bedroom place in the burbs and bought an efficiency condo in downtown. I paid cash and in retrospect realize that my need for a two bedroom
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Can you source your information on the abject failure of the "War on Poverty"in every way? I'm sure you were speaking in hyperbole so I'm not expecting that literally this be shown to be a failure in every way. The term "War on Poverty" in
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by yequalsx 14y ago
I wasn't giving an argument. I was giving an explanation on how such a law could be made without it being the product of pressure fom some lobbying.
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by yequalsx 14y ago
When Paul Graham has instruments of state power and coercion at his disposal then the use of encrypted and undisclosed will be relevant. I do not wish for the state to have access to this information. It being located in an undisclosed lo
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Perhaps there are reasons for this that have nothing to do with money. Many for-profits have very shady marketing and admissions policies. Almost all of them have very low academic standards. Mostly their money revenue comes from student
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by yequalsx 14y ago
I too was surprised by the comments. I thought the post was nice. It demonstrated their process for coming up with a new logo. It showed their thought process. It gave me an insight into how such things are done. An insight I didn't pr
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Nice website. Would love to check it out but I don't use Facebook. I really don't understand why websites don't have alternative means of creating an account. It's worth considering that people who are more likely to use such a site might
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by yequalsx 14y ago
If it is a problem of intelligent people doing stupid and selfish things then it seems to me that blame on them ought to be antagonistic and personal. Necessarily so. I pretty much agree with everything you wrote except that your original
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by yequalsx 14y ago
I'm curious why this is being down voted. It seems obvious to me that if international tourism to the U.S. declined sufficiently then industry would put great pressure on the government to make the process much more inviting. I think there
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by yequalsx 14y ago
I think the only way the TSA and ICE become more humane organizations is if people stop visiting the U.S. Please don't come here! There are many other nice places to visit that don't treat visitors with the disdain that visitors here freq
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by yequalsx 14y ago
I didn't refer to the poor as a drain on society. Yummyfajitas did. Perhaps you meant to critique some other aspect of what I wrote?
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by yequalsx 14y ago
The top 20% of the U.S. control 93% of the financial wealth of the country. I don't believe they pay 93% of the total tax burden.
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Your disdain for poor people is shocking. People need to eat to live and in most places in the U.S. food is taxed in a regressive way. The proportion of tax poorer people pay for food is much higher than for the very wealthy. One must loo
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by yequalsx 14y ago
Does income tax include capital gains in the article? I think not but am not sure on this. One must look at the ratio of wealth controlled to the ratio of total expenditures of government. For the very wealthy that ratio should be higher
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by yequalsx 14y ago
It's a bad point of view to look at government services consumed. The very rich live in a system that allows them to have gotten their wealth. They benefit greatly from living in our society. They should pay to maintain it. What matters
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by yequalsx 14y ago
One needs to look at overall tax receipts. Not just income taxes. The very wealthy primarily pay capital gains taxes and not income taxes. Also, the 36.7% figure is not meaningful without knowing the percentage of wealth the very rich cont
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by yequalsx 14y ago
You are looking at the nominal corporate tax rate. What is relevant in such considerations is the effective tax rate.
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by yequalsx 14y ago
All money is double taxed, triple taxed, etc. The money a business receives from selling a good is 'taxed' money. If you earn a profit (gain) you pay a tax. It's the only way to keep things consistent and fair.
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by yequalsx 14y ago
It's a simple sounding solution but I'm skeptical of the issue being that simple. There's a world of difference between GE style corporation and an S-corp owned by a single person. The GE type corporations effectively pay very little tax i
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by yequalsx 14y ago
At today's interest rates a bank is a destination in the minds of depositors. It merely is holding value and preventing a loss in nominal terms. Do you have evidence that people are leaving T-bills in disgust and investing in other assets?
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by yequalsx 14y ago
The only part of your comment that is germane to the GP is that before his roommate left they could cover the rent without renting the third room. "Chris being a good friend" and "His listing was great value" are irrelevant.

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