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SAT to Add ‘Adversity Score’ That Rates Students’ Hardships(nytimes.com)
355 points by ckinnan 7y ago|895 comments
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by ckinnan 8y ago
Chariot teams were very politicized in ancient Rome and very much represented people and ideas. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/blue-versus-green-roc...
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by ckinnan 8y ago
Lives on the line? On average, existing cars kill more than 100 people each day on American roads. The current system of human-driving cars has killed one million Americans over the past couple of generations, mostly from human error. To
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by ckinnan 8y ago
U.S. variable rate mortgages are usually indexed to Libor or U.S. treasury rates.
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by ckinnan 8y ago
Did you read the report? The problem is that PROMISED pension benefits have grown, there's no funding problem if the amount of promised benefits grew with the economy or with revenue.
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by ckinnan 8y ago
Blog spam, here's the original report: http://www.wirepoints.com/illinois-state-pensions-overpromis...
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by ckinnan 8y ago
It is misleading to fully assign spending outcomes to the sitting president-- Congress has far more control over spending than the White House. Clinton was anti-deficit but he also had the most conservative Congress in modern times after 1
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by ckinnan 8y ago
Correct, the owner's insurance policy is the primary coverage when the owner lends their car to a 3rd party. Obviously in the case of a moving violation the driver is at fault and receives the penalty, but damage is still covered by t
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by ckinnan 9y ago
As autonomy is implemented and refined, and safety improves dramatically, new regulatory and economic models will emerge. This will spark design innovation. No doubt both single rider and shuttle-bus options will emerge, with much lighter
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Imagine if you'd limited Elon Musk's PayPal wealth with such confiscation taxes. We'd literally have no SpaceX or Tesla. Why should society put so much trust that politicians can allocate resources in a fair and economically
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Did you read the article? He's given away everything and the Foundation is disbanding.
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Yeah, the demand for parking will collapse, which would bring down the value of parking lots, that's going to be a far bigger trend than space for charging.
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by ckinnan 9y ago
I had EC2s running since 2007, eventually some of the underlying hardware fails and you're forced to terminate and move to a new instance.
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by ckinnan 9y ago
The vast majority of mainstream stocks PAY dividends-- in fact about 420 of the S&P 500.
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Medicaid covers around 80 million people, at roughly $7,000 a year per recipient, which is double what the UK spends per patient. https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/distribution-of...
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by ckinnan 9y ago
>I definitely would have felt safer knowing there was a drone The presence of drones will likely encourage people to take more risks in rough surf. The same thing happened with car air bags-- when they were introduced, people with airba
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by ckinnan 9y ago
In the 20th century, the political implementation of collectivism involved the deliberate murder-- often through starvation-- of at least 100 million people.
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by ckinnan 9y ago
"first responders" is the more common term. Honoring their risk/sacrifice became a cultural priority after so many died in the emergency response on 9/11. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_wor
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by ckinnan 9y ago
There's no credible source for that quote: http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/15/bush-chirac-and-the-war-...
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by ckinnan 9y ago
There is actually a similar problem in the Northeastern United States. Deer are overpopulated (in my area 6x traditional level) because they have no predators and hunting is restricted. The deer eat all of the hardwood saplings. In many
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Yeah, the partially severed limb needed to be fully cut off for the best interest of the tree. I'm guessing the work crew saw some rot or disease or other damage, and went ahead and coppiced the whole tree.
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Ag programs are byzantine and corn is subsidized several ways-- through price floors, crop insurance, the ethanol mandate, and import tariffs on sugar (which created the market for high fructose corn syrup, which is derived from corn). The
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Corporations have to pay quarterly estimated taxes.
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Which means immediately higher taxes because you get to pay the employer side of payroll taxes, plus no pretax benefits like health care and no vacation or other untaxed benefits.
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Property taxes are not related to your personal state of residence, you pay them wherever you own property.
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Actually that is a low rate for the 1990s
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Developers are just responding to market signals. The underlying problem in the U.S. is that the federal government backstops 98% of flood insurance policies and does not charge the actuarial risk price. This government subsidy gives peop
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Amazon just launched a service to help scan, categorize, and protect data https://aws.amazon.com/macie/
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Lots of weird half baked recollections today. The U.S. political system moved effectively on acid rain, Congress (not regulators) passed NO2 legislation by a 401-21 vote that was signed by a Republican president. It created a market for p
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by ckinnan 9y ago
Any evidence for your claim? That's not my recollection of the issue. The Reagan Administration implemented the Montreal Protocol to address ozone depletion. It was immediately ratified by the U.S. Senate by a unanimous vote. It&#x2

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