zenithd

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by zenithd 5y ago
The Democrat's Expanded Child Tax Credit is the single largest transfer of wealth to SAHMs in the history of the country.
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by zenithd 5y ago
> It's a question of knowing Exactly. Norvig's skill set happens to be of the upscale variety, but similar "10x" knowledge+practice effects exist in more pedestrian domains as well. Compared to my current self, my t
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by zenithd 5y ago
> If a group within the DoD has plans for a project other than the stated goals, that is a conspiracy. But that's not what my comment is claiming, at all. There's no conspiracy. Everyone is acting on sincerely held beliefs.
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by zenithd 5y ago
The DoN is part of DoD. I promise. Even your last link mentions DoN is a child agency of DoD and the DoN wiki page states "The United States Department of the Navy (DoN) is one of the three military departments within the Department of
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by zenithd 5y ago
> an opportunity to take a cheap jab at the US for doing it wrong I don't have any issues with the DoD. There's nothing wrong with tax-funded social programs for rural communities. Collectively being more honest about the dua
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by zenithd 5y ago
> The ship this wood is harvested for is older than the DoD. The DoD isn't even mentioned in this NAVY article. Huh? DoN is part of DoD... > Not everything is a conspiracy. In what sense am I accusing anyone of conspiring? Ma
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by zenithd 5y ago
Yeah, it's more like "DoD vanity project used as backdoor funding/justification for wildlife preserve". The USA launders unpalatable social programs through the military, including enormous amounts of basic science fundi
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by zenithd 5y ago
>> Universities will get whatever the state appropriates to them and then have an obligation to take all comers. > Would that be like current pre-university public schools then? Shudder! Why would that be the case? IE, what are
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by zenithd 5y ago
> Wouldn’t the taxpayers foot the bill for whatever the price is? No, that's not how state budgets work. It's the other way around. Universities will get whatever the state appropriates to them and then have an obligation to
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by zenithd 5y ago
> Outsourcing option pre-coursera/edx/YouTube The IITs are truly world-class computer science programs. Better than most US colleges/universities. To say nothing of the fantastic engineers in Canada and Europe that can
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by zenithd 5y ago
Yes, I've done this once. I was moving from the SW industry to another industry that doesn't pay nearly as well. I was asking for less than 1/5th of my salary, and they thought the number was too high. I offered my current sa
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by zenithd 5y ago
> but who wants political stunts at a game. The audience doesn't, no real debate is happening. Not the same scale as political dissent censorship. "No one wants to hear the things that the people I disagree with say, so laws
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by zenithd 5y ago
> Top 0.1%ile of 8,000,000,000 is 8 Million. "All of humanity" a silly denominator. There are fewer than 30 million software engineers in the world [1], so at 0.1% we're talking about 30,000 people worldwide. That's