StackRanker3000

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by StackRanker3000 5mo ago
> Giving away food to homeless is a crime in many places. Bad capitalism. How is this due to capitalism? I mean, I can maybe see how you can tie it to NIMBYism, and from there to capitalism through the desire to maintain or increase pr
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by StackRanker3000 8mo ago
The way I understand it (and my understanding is certainly poor, so I welcome well-supported pushback on it), is that few, if any, components in the food that we in developed countries eat today are actively harmful in themselves (with the
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by StackRanker3000 9mo ago
So the only two options you can imagine entail his detractors being irrational and emotional? You can not comprehend that anyone can have any valid complaint regarding him and his behavior at all? Musk has accomplished some remarkable thing
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by StackRanker3000 9mo ago
Free speech by foreign governments (or controlled by foreign governments) has never been protected by the US constitution, right? I do agree that Trump, in both his administrations, has made it starkly clear that its checks and balances are
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by StackRanker3000 10mo ago
> Hm, those are all valid, but they're also from the perspective of only caring about external forces. It's as if the work itself is only relevant insofar as we get something out of it. From the perspective of the organization
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by StackRanker3000 10mo ago
I don’t think anyone is arguing that the basic idea of offshoring was invented after the COVID pandemic… But rather that workplaces and workforces geared towards remote working has made it more feasible and accelerated the process
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by StackRanker3000 10mo ago
Spotify offers lossless now. But before that the highest quality was 320 kbps AAC, and if you’re able to differentiate between that and lossless even on state of the art equipment under perfect conditions, for the vast majority of songs, y
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by StackRanker3000 10mo ago
Not saying you’re wrong in this particular instance, but there are all sorts of areas where we accept that harm will occur at scale (e.g. that 40,000 people per year die in motor-vehicle incidents just in the US). How do we determine what i
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
Do you have any thoughts on these reports from 2019? https://www.politico.com/story/2019/09/12/israel-white-house... > The U.S. government concluded within the past two years that Israel was most like
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
A synecdoche can either be when you use a part to represent the whole, or conversely use the whole to represent a part I think it’s valid to consider the US government a part of the US. Thus, referring to the US government when saying that
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
I can mainly speak for Sweden, but basically the answer there actually is ”everybody who wants to and meets the minimum requirements (essentially having graduated high school)” Sweden has higher gross enrolment in tertiary education than th
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
> For an extreme example: Harvard's tuition is nominally $60K per year, but for families earning $200K or less it's $0. Many prestigious universities follow similar patterns resulting in a large percentage of students paying no
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
But that doesn’t explain why this particular justification is especially ”wild”, does it?
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
It could, it just doesn’t want to. Or at least the inertia and obstacles of gaining enough political support for doing it, paired with the reluctance of the powerful entities that gain from the existing system, prevents it from happening. B
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
Yes, it’s similar in the UK. If you make over £100k, you lose your personal tax-free allowance. That means that your effective tax rate from £100k-£125,140 is 60% That doesn’t in itself make you worse off than people making less than you, b
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
Why would they resign? Their beef is with the government, not their employers
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
To what extreme do you take this? Would you rather be killed than scam someone? That’s a principled stance if so, but I’d personally rather you try to scam me if the alternative is you being beaten up, or worse > I personally have no sym
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
And are more or fewer people able to put in that time now than before piracy and streaming became a thing? The answer to that question is not obvious to me, but I lean towards ”more”, or at least ”roughly the same” Even if the answer is ”
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
Is this actually happening though? I don’t have actual numbers and would be open to be proven wrong, but my impression is that there are more people making music than ever (barriers to entry have been lowered) and more people making a livin
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
Thanks! I’ll take a look
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
Cheers. Do you have any citations handy for the old studies? I’m open to being wrong, but after some very brief searching and reading I’m skeptical that they properly controlled for increased feed intake (possibly due to palatability) to co
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by StackRanker3000 11mo ago
This seems like a fancy way of saying “it’s a cheap approach to make animal feed taste better, so the animals eat more and thus gain more weight/produce more milk/etc”. What impact would pouring a bunch of refined sugar on animal
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Yes, the US was in a particularly prosperous and exciting period compared to much of the rest of the world in 1995. If you’re, say, Chinese, chances are you find life in 2025 much more appealing Overall, life is better in 2025 for the vast
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
> This is the whole crux of the situation so buying it in a disclaimer misses the point. It maybe doesn’t adress the point you’re interested in, but it doesn’t miss the point I was making, that the goals and mechanisms revolves around ho
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
I realize that you responded to a specific statement, not necessarily the entire context of the thread. However: Saying that a person’s credit score is entirely due to their own financial decisions is incorrect because it’s overly simplisti
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
I don’t know if you didn’t read or didn’t believe what the other poster said about Atlantic Airways, that they have the equipment to manage the fog and the ability to refuel in Iceland and therefore can try again the same day if necessary.
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
> ID cards are also a thing, and in principle every grownup should always be carrying ID although its not like everybody really does when walking around the park etc. Tangential: I may be misinterpreting what you mean by ”should”, but no
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
What do you mean when you say ”work”? That you personally find them helpful? Or that they’re the only ones that can’t be easily avoided even if the viewer wants to? I think it’s pretty clear that other forms of sponsorships also drive reven
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Contradicting someone describing their own experience based on assumptions and generalizations that may or may not have a basis in reality is pretty arrogant. How are you so confident that you can presume to tell that person what’s going on
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by StackRanker3000 1y ago
Are you really not understanding that there are people who have different preferences than you do? I grew up in a rural area, with a decent-sized house and garden, surrounded by nature. It had its pros and cons. I’ve now spent a couple of d

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