Berobero

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by Berobero 5y ago
The "economy" is not just what is captured in formally taxable income. Large swaths of the economy is composed by absolutely essential reproductive labor that receives no direct monetary compensation. Conversely, the existence mon
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by Berobero 5y ago
Also, "federal" here does not include not include payroll taxes, which are, nonetheless, considered "federal taxes" in any colloquial conception of the term. Of course, in addition to the lying by omission, the true iron
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by Berobero 5y ago
It's related in that it morally licenses the privileged to be OK with wealth inequality because, see, the masses are actually being supported by the magnanimous benevolence of their betters.
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by Berobero 5y ago
This article is a jumble of broad strokes of conjecture with effectively zero empirical substance that vaguely alludes the just nature of the "meritocracy"; I have a hard time not interpreting it as a puff piece for the status quo
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by Berobero 5y ago
Some people, in an otherwise disadvantaged situation, will benefit from this; that is completely fine in isolation. Still, it's wholly naive to assume that Amazon is doing this out of some sense of looking to do a "nice thing&quot
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by Berobero 5y ago
I've never used PM, but just ran through sign-up for their free service. What could they do differently with regards to this issue? Simple. Make the legal limitations of their service -- or at least their understanding of them -- exp
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by Berobero 5y ago
Also says that developers will not be prevented from converting existing apps to "reader" apps, or submitting brand new "reader" apps. Further, "reader" app appears to be defined as "an app used solely for
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by Berobero 5y ago
> Now is that true? No. The root cause of the embargo is, manifestly, that the Cuban Revolution ousted American capital interests from the island and gave the preverbal finger to US economic hegemony. All else is secondary, after-the-fac
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by Berobero 5y ago
As a general principle, yes, all of humanity matters, and all grave matters deserve grave attention. At the same time, how a given issue impacts you and those around you, how much influence you can possibly have over the matter, and how muc
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by Berobero 5y ago
Iran has a shit regime (corollary: all countries' regimes are shit, just some more than others). To your question, it's a matter of emphasis. You have a fundamentally greater moral imperative to criticize your own government (I as
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by Berobero 5y ago
https://xkcd.com/1138/
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by Berobero 6y ago
The one time I remember being spanked as a child was -- many, many years after the fact -- explained to me in passing to be for the exact reason you describe. It seems neigh impossible to me to validate that the spanking was "necessary
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by Berobero 6y ago
I'm generally not in favor of spanking, but just some observations: - It's easy to find people who were spanked that are in favor of spanking, people who were spanked that aren't in favor of spanking, and people who weren&#x2
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by Berobero 6y ago
> migrants to the US have twice as many [citation-weighted papers] as migrants to other countries, or four times as many as those who stay at home Nitpicky, but... this is also only for IMO medalists (from 1980 to 2000) publishing papers
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by Berobero 6y ago
There's definitely reason to be suspect, although it looks like, on the average, it might be the reverse of what you seem to be expecting ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2785092/ ): "Ou
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by Berobero 6y ago
- Average sleep varies fairly significantly internationally ( https://www.economist.com/1843/2018/03/01/which-countries-ge... ), and regionally just in the US ( https://www.cdc.gov/sleep&#x2
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by Berobero 6y ago
While I'm not necessarily a fan of this particular article, I feel it relevant to point out that explicitly denying the "homogenous myth" of Japan has political value as a counter to its all-too-common use by conservative nat
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by Berobero 6y ago
A ML model giving a single false positive is generally uninteresting and meaningless in evaluating its overall performance. Also, note that the details clearly state that, even for high bot scores, some non-trivial percentage of examples in
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by Berobero 7y ago
I was in Japan two years ago; got pneumonia and needed antibiotics. Went to a hospital with no insurance and no appointment. I was being seen by a doctor within 30 minutes. Doctor wanted to do some additional labs just to rule other things
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by Berobero 8y ago
Looking at ~350k-400k for my dad if he lives another 5 years. Given his spending before Alzheimer's 200k would be an easy choice for us even even from a purely cold financial perspective.
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by Berobero 8y ago
Honest question: are there actually any long-term longitudinal studies of affirmative action that reasonably demonstrate it does or doesn't work? You seem to take it as a truism, but I'm not convinced that concerted after-the-fact
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by Berobero 8y ago
> $15,000 per year Importantly, per person receiving. In principle you have a virtually infinite tax-free gift giving exception available if you distribute your assets to enough people.
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by Berobero 8y ago
I agree with you, but I would also note that the original person being replied to seems to be committing a common colloquial misunderstanding in regards to social constructions; just because something is socially constructed does not mean i
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by Berobero 8y ago
> Congress is a bunch of idiots I mean, not all... https://www.c-span.org/video/?442912-6/senator-wyden-online-...
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by Berobero 9y ago
Also You're Only Old Once, perhaps? And then there's the Seuss WWII political cartoons that I've seen recently due to their criticism of the America First movement of the time... which is interesting to juxtapose against the
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by Berobero 9y ago
> effort to improve working conditions I'd assume the bar for this, though, is far higher than just claiming it. Obviously we're not not dealing with a clear cut poor working conditions like no restroom on site, or constant ver
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by Berobero 9y ago
The example you cite, however, is an argument for Rotten Tomatoes system; as the FiveThirtyEight article notes, the movie has a "great" 78% among critics. This is due to the RT score being a weight of reviews which have been flatt
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by Berobero 9y ago
This would be a reasonable take to me if the issue he took up could reasonably be described as significantly affecting his everyday work life; the key difference I see in your "double standard" is that the woman can't walk aw
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by Berobero 9y ago
I'm confused as to what your point was, then. It reads as though you're attempting to ascribe responsibility to organic social processes.
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by Berobero 9y ago
Surely "overreaction" is a matter of perception as well.

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