MiroF

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by MiroF 4y ago
If someone has "elite science and engineering" ability and came from a background where they were raised by a family with a household wealth of $5, and someone has a slightly more "elite science and engineering" ability
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by MiroF 4y ago
I thought you meant 800 across the categories.
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by MiroF 4y ago
> By the time of the ACT/SAT test it's too late to fix those things. Fix those upstream. Based on?? If someone is smart, but denied opportunity, often times this can be resolved by exposure to things - even for an 18 year old.
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by MiroF 4y ago
I don't know what "800 minus noise" means. All 800s is something only about 500 people achieve a year, and not all of them are going to MIT.
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by MiroF 4y ago
But there are a number of studies demonstrating how race & class impact things (when controlled for other factors) like teacher perception, grading, letters of recommendation, not to mention just the fact that if you are growing up in a
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by MiroF 4y ago
> Harvard considers roughly 4 in 5 applicants to be academically capable of doing the work at Harvard I have no doubt that this is true of Harvard. I mean, after all, you can pick your own classes! That said, I think there is a differe
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by MiroF 4y ago
But shouldn't starting points be taken into consideration when you are judging someone's merit?
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by MiroF 4y ago
> I'd expect that most students who will be able to survive at MIT can make the SAT threshold with no gaming of the test and no test prep other than maybe doing one or two free sample tests. Eh, not so sure. The "threshold&quot
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by MiroF 4y ago
The SAT doesn't testing anything as high level as that.
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by MiroF 4y ago
The deficit is not printing money, because the money is borrowed.
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by MiroF 4y ago
> Any multi-family older than 15 years falls under rent control and eviction control. Considering how little housing is built in CA, that's a huge number of housing units. Nope, only if it is owned by a corporation. AB1482 exemption
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by MiroF 4y ago
Wait, but they do point out the law requires them. And as you said, > Pointing out that a law is requiring them to do something is the least anybody can do if they object to that law's requirements Generally, I prefer comments bla
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by MiroF 4y ago
Are you still not following that this "omission" is something you've entirely made up in your own mind by selectively copying one quote from an entire article?
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by MiroF 4y ago
Doesn't matter if they have missed rent, they still need 30 days notice. These laws exist for a reason, they weren't created to address a problem that didn't exist at the time.
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by MiroF 4y ago
You're comparing a quote from an article clearly being written in the context of this Australian law to the actual quote from Google's implementation of DMCa law. There is nothing in your quote indicating they are "protesting
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by MiroF 5y ago
It only applies to homes owned by a corporation, you are incorrect that most properties are not exempt.
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by MiroF 5y ago
It's discussed on other parts of the thread. Also, I was assuming that this was not an owner-occupied duplex. It falls to state law if it is.
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by MiroF 5y ago
I didn't understand the GP to mean they were occupying the duplex. But in that context, it still violates california fair housing law.
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by MiroF 5y ago
Yes, you're correct.
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by MiroF 5y ago
> But there are areas (e.g. San Francisco) where getting a non-paying tenant out is close enough to impossible that it might as well be. You absolutely can evict people in SF, unless you are discussing the recent eviction moratorium, whi
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by MiroF 5y ago
I think the large majority of units in CA are not covered by any sort of just cause eviction law. This law has several very large exemptions.
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by MiroF 5y ago
> In a tenant protection environment, landlords cannot just decline to renew leases. Unless we're talking about some rent controlled context, where in the US is this law?
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by MiroF 5y ago
Civil Rights Act of 1968, Unruh Civil Rights Act, ... there are a few other California specific legal statutes around civil rights/housing discrimination.
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by MiroF 5y ago
If you want to control who lives next to you, feel free to buy the neighboring properties.
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by MiroF 5y ago
> Why aren't landlords able to do this? Isn't it seen as immoral to steal property from an owner? Well, for one, the government should enforce contract neutrally - so if you sign a contract leasing your property, you can't
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by MiroF 5y ago
> It's like no one could agree on happy medium between "landlord can eject you whenever they want for whatever reason" and "no one can make you leave, ever, for any reason". No place in the US actually has the la
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by MiroF 5y ago
You're not a liberal if you're casually violating fair housing law :) Everyone wants to call themselves a liberal or progressive nowadays, it's bizarre. These things are about actions, not self-assigned labels.
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by MiroF 5y ago
> Holodomor is relevant, ot orthogonal. > I meant purgers, internal thing toward Russians. Neither of those were covered on the TV. They are also from over half a century ago. > 2011 to 2015 is long time of escalations. But 2014 t
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by MiroF 5y ago
You can't destroy anti-aircraft guns located in civilian areas without killing civilians.
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by MiroF 5y ago
Much of the US media spent the 2 weeks up to the invasion excoriating the German government for being reluctant to commit to certain sanctions if Russia invades as well as offering scant military aid to Ukraine.

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