pirate787

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by pirate787 1mo ago
For-profit is the delivery system, which should save taxpayer money. Systems where the institutions are directly administered by taxpayer funds and their attendant public employee unions also have political/financial incentives.
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by pirate787 1mo ago
Sesame Street is doing just fine and the people making billions off the licensing will have to make do without federal taxpayer subsidy.
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by pirate787 1mo ago
Congress voted to stop federal funding of the CPB, it had nothing to do with DOGE. In a free society, we don't need state-run media.
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by pirate787 1mo ago
Actually it is PBS that bears responsibility here. Very likely the decision by PBS to hire OSS was corrupt (OSS are just a reseller of Iron Mountain) and they made no other provision to backup the files a second way, like AWS Glacier.
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by pirate787 3mo ago
You can't be bitter because Europe squandered technological and capital market parity with the US in just 20 years.
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by pirate787 3mo ago
Krugman so badly wants this to be true. But handwaving away massive difference in IT innovation and in practical data like housing size and vastly greater American consumption does not make it true. Just 20% of European homes even have ai
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by pirate787 3mo ago
Piketty is just a marxist flailing around, backfilling data to fit his belief that communism is the solution for every problem. He's been spectacularly wrong in his predictions so far, for example he said Milei would be "devasta
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by pirate787 3mo ago
This is the real issue: "Uber received over 400,000 sexual assault and misconduct reports between 2017 and 2022" https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/uber-liable-pay-8-5-million-...
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by pirate787 3mo ago
Also interesting is that the US didn't need the base and was able to operate command and control from South Carolina.
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by pirate787 5mo ago
In the UK the establishment is generally unsettled by the display of the English flag. https://edition.cnn.com/2025/08/29/uk/st-george-flag-england...
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by pirate787 5mo ago
Mississippi is one of the recent education success stories though.
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by pirate787 5mo ago
The change was in fact designed to make the scores jump. The purpose is compressing the top scores to allow universities to be more subjective and still have high averages
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by pirate787 5mo ago
Part of the replacement is declaring white Americans don't have a culture. Would you say the same about black Americans?
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by pirate787 6mo ago
The center has already shifted to Musk, SpaceX is 83% of global lift capacity. Artemis is flying an obsolete rocket at insane cost, and higher risk.
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by pirate787 6mo ago
Maybe more people should listen to Musk's political message. The Biden Administration was playing nasty games, blocking progress on both SpaceX and AI generally.
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by pirate787 6mo ago
No the downvote is from smearing an individual for the political activities of his grandfather.
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by pirate787 6mo ago
While this leak may or may not have happened, for this type of exposure there should be criminal liability for developers and executives. Criminal negligence and prison time.
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by pirate787 7mo ago
either you allow a democratically elected government to do everything they want that is legal, or you insert private corporate decision-making into every government decision which is untenable
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by pirate787 7mo ago
Your take is a call for civil war. You're obviously wrong about "treason" since even larger majorities voted for Trump in 2024.
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by pirate787 7mo ago
It's almost like the democratically elected government gets to decide the name, not Google!
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by pirate787 7mo ago
Don't deadname the Gulf!
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by pirate787 7mo ago
He also elected the guy who did a 180 on AI regulations and stopped FAA harassment of SpaceX.
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by pirate787 7mo ago
A big driver in increasing entrepreneurs in the US has been DEI and H1-B driven racism against white men. For example in 2021 only 6% of all the people hired by major US companies were white. An entire generation was locked out of traditio
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by pirate787 7mo ago
Plenty of Americans are ready and able to do the work if the conditions and wages are at the market rate. We're addicted to abusing the illegal immigrant underclass. Returning undocumented people to their homes is the moral issue of
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by pirate787 8mo ago
Import substitution has failed consistently as an economic strategy.
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by pirate787 8mo ago
EV have far more tire wear because they are heavier and also probably from regenerative braking
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by pirate787 9mo ago
That was Best store in the 1980s https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_Products
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by pirate787 10mo ago
I agree but the argument is better framed as Mary Beard is a modern scholar with a rigid intersectional world view that is highly moralistic and highly judgmental from the perspective of modern norms around violence, feminism and racism. S
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by pirate787 10mo ago
I doubled my bitcoin profit and got out at $1,000!
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by pirate787 1y ago
The US military physically occupied and restructured the governments of Japan and Germany. A better example might be Vietnam, which has become a US partner but it took a couple generations.

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