If everyone is poor, there's no poverty, just an ubiquitous state of subsistence. Poverty is always relative to some existing state of abundance. >That the justice can be persuaded in a certain direction with money is a…
That's incorrect. The baseline need that poverty is calculated relative to is itself calculated relative to local conditions. Because inequality drives those local conditions, poverty cannot exist without it. Your post…
You don't have Apple stores without a functioning state either.
You're attributing elements to my post that don't exist in it. I think this is perhaps projection. Further, as a proponent of nuclear power, you should be aware of the eforts that have gone into preventing deaths from…
Corruption is a enabled by inequality.
Logically-speaking, poverty can't exist without inequality. It's a condition of "want" that requires others to "have". Practically-speaking, inequality is insidious because it enables violations of rights and unjust…
*raise the prices
How many tons does it take to make a dirty bomb that irradiates a city center or small downtown? To poison an aquifer when storage fails? How much does it cost to make sure neither of these events, or any other similar…
I used to think so, too, but the Steam/Valve stuff from the past few years has opened my eyes to the usefulness of arbitration as a leveler (specifically, the parts of agreements that force big companies to pay all of…
Actually, the best way that doesn't get you bogged down in battery charges (for beating a teenager) or manslaughter charges (oops, your barbed wire caused a fatal infection) is social services that help fight poverty…
I wish I could find a position that would. My SAT scores, by far, outshine my CV.
It was "mild" because they rolled the would-be losses into high-risk vehicles and strategies that eventually created the GFC, which included Fed policy to juice asset markets. The Dotcom bubble was the rolling over of…
IIUC they've been slowly expanding availability over the years. Someone who was denied in their 20s might be able to get it now in their 30s.
"Official" in only the strictest sense. Everyone has used Hepburn since forever, the government just got around to acknowledging that.
Wrong premise. Near-term and historical causes are intertwined, inexorably-linked. Both cohorts are the result of historical racism. Hence, >Even if you're in the group that's being discriminated against, and succeeding…
>You're arguing that teaching calculus in public school is a form of eugenics. If that's your assessment, then you are, ironically, yourself proof of the failure of the American education system. (If you were educated…
I'm not sure where you got the idea that, "A school shouldn't pass students who haven't attained grade-level mastery," and, "Schools have an obligation to support the development of children beyond their basic academic…
Ladies and gentlemen, the modern eugenicist. Meanwhile, an anecdote: 11th Grade: Precalculus, all A's 12th Grade: AP Calculus, C average, one D quarter (in the middle of my parents' divorce, onset of body…
So it goes. Wage theft dwarfs the amount lost to street-level theft, robbery, burglary, etc., combined. The economic stimulus from correcting even a portion of annual wage theft would represent complete coverage of…
It's not just that. Houses are a consumer good instead of an investment, yes, but a large percentage of Japanese people live in apartments that are built to last and be renovated (because they ARE investments). The…
taps the "most jobs are bullshit" sign They are not about actually "doing things", they are social validation, particularly the part where the people with resources/capital enjoy your company and give you what you need…
The number of "Kagi" comments here is amusing (suspicious), considering how few people actually use Kagi.
This comment reads as, "It's been bad forever, but only a little, and look at all the good stuff that happened!" Let me correct. Search was good as late as 2010, when they changed the engine to facilitate an "instant…
It is actually remarkable how much of the bullshit we have to put up with comes down to our giving power to craven or unscrupulous men with a chip on their shoulder. Bush W. and his father's single term. Biden and his…
Seasonally-adjusted EPS has been a consistent stair-step up for 2 years. Declining revenue does not matter; they're squeezing more profit out of the revenue that's left than they were out of the gobs of revenue they had…
If everyone is poor, there's no poverty, just an ubiquitous state of subsistence. Poverty is always relative to some existing state of abundance. >That the justice can be persuaded in a certain direction with money is a…
That's incorrect. The baseline need that poverty is calculated relative to is itself calculated relative to local conditions. Because inequality drives those local conditions, poverty cannot exist without it. Your post…
You don't have Apple stores without a functioning state either.
You're attributing elements to my post that don't exist in it. I think this is perhaps projection. Further, as a proponent of nuclear power, you should be aware of the eforts that have gone into preventing deaths from…
Corruption is a enabled by inequality.
Logically-speaking, poverty can't exist without inequality. It's a condition of "want" that requires others to "have". Practically-speaking, inequality is insidious because it enables violations of rights and unjust…
*raise the prices
How many tons does it take to make a dirty bomb that irradiates a city center or small downtown? To poison an aquifer when storage fails? How much does it cost to make sure neither of these events, or any other similar…
I used to think so, too, but the Steam/Valve stuff from the past few years has opened my eyes to the usefulness of arbitration as a leveler (specifically, the parts of agreements that force big companies to pay all of…
Actually, the best way that doesn't get you bogged down in battery charges (for beating a teenager) or manslaughter charges (oops, your barbed wire caused a fatal infection) is social services that help fight poverty…
I wish I could find a position that would. My SAT scores, by far, outshine my CV.
It was "mild" because they rolled the would-be losses into high-risk vehicles and strategies that eventually created the GFC, which included Fed policy to juice asset markets. The Dotcom bubble was the rolling over of…
IIUC they've been slowly expanding availability over the years. Someone who was denied in their 20s might be able to get it now in their 30s.
"Official" in only the strictest sense. Everyone has used Hepburn since forever, the government just got around to acknowledging that.
Wrong premise. Near-term and historical causes are intertwined, inexorably-linked. Both cohorts are the result of historical racism. Hence, >Even if you're in the group that's being discriminated against, and succeeding…
>You're arguing that teaching calculus in public school is a form of eugenics. If that's your assessment, then you are, ironically, yourself proof of the failure of the American education system. (If you were educated…
I'm not sure where you got the idea that, "A school shouldn't pass students who haven't attained grade-level mastery," and, "Schools have an obligation to support the development of children beyond their basic academic…
Ladies and gentlemen, the modern eugenicist. Meanwhile, an anecdote: 11th Grade: Precalculus, all A's 12th Grade: AP Calculus, C average, one D quarter (in the middle of my parents' divorce, onset of body…
So it goes. Wage theft dwarfs the amount lost to street-level theft, robbery, burglary, etc., combined. The economic stimulus from correcting even a portion of annual wage theft would represent complete coverage of…
It's not just that. Houses are a consumer good instead of an investment, yes, but a large percentage of Japanese people live in apartments that are built to last and be renovated (because they ARE investments). The…
taps the "most jobs are bullshit" sign They are not about actually "doing things", they are social validation, particularly the part where the people with resources/capital enjoy your company and give you what you need…
The number of "Kagi" comments here is amusing (suspicious), considering how few people actually use Kagi.
This comment reads as, "It's been bad forever, but only a little, and look at all the good stuff that happened!" Let me correct. Search was good as late as 2010, when they changed the engine to facilitate an "instant…
It is actually remarkable how much of the bullshit we have to put up with comes down to our giving power to craven or unscrupulous men with a chip on their shoulder. Bush W. and his father's single term. Biden and his…
Seasonally-adjusted EPS has been a consistent stair-step up for 2 years. Declining revenue does not matter; they're squeezing more profit out of the revenue that's left than they were out of the gobs of revenue they had…