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by yes_really 2y ago
I saw a lot of people justifying Trump's moves because "the US shouldn't be spending so much money helping Ukraine in the war." I understand that argument, but what about security guarantees? Zelensky has been simply ask
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by yes_really 2y ago
I saw a lot of people justifying Trump's moves because "the US shouldn't be spending so much money helping Ukraine in the war". I understand that argument, but what about security guarantees? Zelensky has been simply ask
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by yes_really 2y ago
> "woke" [...] is about being aware of the past 500 years of global history, systematic systems of oppression, racism, discrimination, religious wars, a reasonable understanding of the root causes of the major wars of the past
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by yes_really 2y ago
No, It's not my "personal definition" of woke. I wrote "woke is well understood to be about identity politics.". Do you deny that "woke" is well understood to be about identity politics? It is hard to beli
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by yes_really 2y ago
Is this post an instance of that? The following requirements were part of the program [1]. Are you really unable to see how this can fairly be described as "woke"? > In addition, states had to prove that they promoted participa
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by yes_really 2y ago
No, woke is well understood to be about identity politics. The following requirements were part of the program [1]. Are you really unable to see how this can be described as "woke"? > In addition, states had to prove that they
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by yes_really 2y ago
No. It seems very clear that his problem is with the guy paying lower rent than him for a better apartment. If the subsidy is done by the government (though regulations, direct subsidy, rent-control, etc), and if he pays those taxes, then h
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by yes_really 2y ago
Pitt has an endowment of 5.5 BILLION dollars [1]. It really does not seem like they paused all PhD admissions as an honest way to optimize their money. It seems like they are using their institutional power to protest Trump's policies,
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by yes_really 2y ago
I think it depends. In the US, denser cities are more expensive than lower density ones. If a city doubles in population, it will probably generate more demand due to the extra jobs opportunities/amenities/culture/etc, so peo
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by yes_really 2y ago
For example, consider "more supply can generate more demand". I agree. In many cases, when a city starts to densify, the simple fact that the city is denser can generate more demand by attracting more people that want to live in i
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by yes_really 2y ago
> Supply and demand are worse. They [...] almost always break down in real world situations. > For example: more supply can generate more demand. Demand can be inflexible with respect to supply. Supply and demand are unstable and can
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by yes_really 2y ago
That's not a neighborhood. That's an apartment complex! It covers roughly 200 by 300 meters. For comparison, the average officially recognized neighborhood in San Francisco is around 3.3 km². That "neighborhood" covers a
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by yes_really 2y ago
Interesting. I didn't know they were so focused on the most sought-after men. In some cultures, a large fraction of men is matched by matchmakers.
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by yes_really 2y ago
Did you try a professional matchmaker? There must be matchmakers specialized in professionally successful singles in NYC.
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You cannot seriously think that Hamas did not try to kill people on Oct 7th. Flagged.
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by yes_really 2y ago
Why are you using scare quotes for "terrorists"? Do you dispute that Hamas are terrorists? Do you think that the Hamas' attacks aimed at civilians, such as Oct 7th, or indiscriminate launching of missiles it performed for dec
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by yes_really 2y ago
What level are you applying to? Do you think it's hard because you are applying to a high level and there are fewer openings the higher level it is?
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by yes_really 3y ago
> I think that the idea is not to "dumb down" the kids, but to have a goal that everyone can achieve instead of a goal that is impossible to achieve for some [...] You don't need to have a unified "goal". Just le
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by yes_really 3y ago
California: one of the richest regions on Earth, with the highest taxes in the US, and math education worse than third-world countries.
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by yes_really 3y ago
> I mean, being invisible and rightless, but allowed to work and get a tiny fraction of the value your work represents, until someone just murders you and then makes it out you were such a danger to them? [...] I would burn things down,
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by yes_really 3y ago
The difference is that employers at least *try* to pick the best candidate by ignoring characteristics such as attractiveness and height. For race and gender, it's the opposite: employers actively give preference to certain races and t
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by yes_really 3y ago
Remember the first thing women did when they got the right to vote in the US was to ban alcohol.
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by yes_really 3y ago
There is no principled reasoning from those politicians. The rule is basically "Sign any law that advantages women. Be neutral or against any law that advantages men." Usually prostitutes are women and buyers are men. So they lega
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by yes_really 3y ago
There is no principled reasoning from those politicians. The rule is basically "Sign any law that advantages women. Be neutral or against any law that advantages men." Ask these politicians how they are respecting men's body
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by yes_really 3y ago
> Simply put, being exposed to a a rich, diverse student body is good for everyone, not just minorities. Why does the student body need to replace part of its Whites and Asians with minorities to be "rich and diverse"? Can&#x27
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by yes_really 3y ago
> the red states are MUCH more reliant on federal government handouts that the blue states have to pay for, BECAUSE of their "conservative" policy choices. Do you have any economics paper indicating that? The much more likely e
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by yes_really 4y ago
The UC system has 170 billion dollars in assets and an endowment of 20 billion dollars. How come they can't afford to put students in a lecture room and pay TAs a few hours of work?
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by yes_really 4y ago
> Amazon has introduced a new weapon in the battle against internet trolls: delays. What a bunch of BS. Their product was received very negatively by the users and they would rather call them "trolls" than admit they screwed up
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by yes_really 4y ago
Let's say Cloudfare had not banned KF because they consider themselves a utility, what liability does Cloudfare really have?
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by yes_really 4y ago
> It's not just about people posting offensive shit in their own little corner of the internet - what happens there spreads out, by design, into the mainstream web and real life too. During the Black Lives Matter riots, we had a ful

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