ryuhhnn

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by ryuhhnn 9mo ago
One could argue that PE is both A. ) the ultimate form of capitalism and B. ) explicitly creates inelastic demand. A truly free market will always succumb to dominating forces that create the inelasticity (or at least that's what histo
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by ryuhhnn 9mo ago
Not to be pedantic, but this would make you not so "pro capitalism as it comes". The ability to develop and sell houses, but not hold them (in service of rent-seeking) runs contradictory to the very core tenant of capitalism, whic
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by ryuhhnn 10mo ago
> No one says disabled people cannot attend elite universities The author spent the byline and first half of the article trying to explain that these universities wouldn't accept people with disabilities because they're just to
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by ryuhhnn 10mo ago
The CDC reports that 1 in 4 Americans are disabled. Sure 38% is higher than 25%, but the 38% number is the worst case scenario, two of the other universities cited only had 20% of students who were disabled, below the CDC number. > one s
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by ryuhhnn 10mo ago
Why is it so hard to believe that disabled people can be accepted into "elite" universities? I think the article author, and many of the commenters here, are conflating "normalised behaviours" with "intelligence&quo
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by ryuhhnn 10mo ago
> if it's "learn and forget", then it might be testing the wrong incentives The thing I find interesting is that when most people talk about standardised tests, they are talking about assessments that benchmark how much tr
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by ryuhhnn 10mo ago
Put yourself in the student's shoes: instead of being required to rote memorise every detail and hold that in your head until the end of the year, you are now only required to be assessed at the time that you are learning the material.
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by ryuhhnn 10mo ago
Some very important context that the researchers don't mention: during the same period that they are claiming test scores improved because of phone bans, Florida changed the way they administer standardised tests. Starting in 2024, the
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by ryuhhnn 10mo ago
Every time the author mentions a problem that young men face, he explains it away by saying that it stems from a society that's built against serving the needs of men, even though the outcomes affect women all the same. He mentions the
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
Are we supposed to just accept that because something is status quo, it’s permissible? The consequence for “stealing” food should never be death, ever, in any scenario. It’s also interesting that people taking and distributing food are char
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
Sure there is, but we’re not talking about firing “warning shots” at armed combatants, we’re talking about unarmed civilians, most of whom are minors. If you are sympathetic to the idea that these aid sites need to be heavily guarded, then
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
“Fire at unarmed crowds” and “fire towards crowds” is the same thing, what sort of semantic ping pong is this? Also propaganda =/= bad. All media is propaganda, in some languages the word “propaganda” has the same semantic meaning as t
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
In formal logic we would call this kind of argument a "post hoc justification". Any company who does anything payments-related is going to be primarily motivated to allow the most amount of transactions possible (including risky o
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
There are very good reasons for KYC, the problem here is not the government regulation, it's once again private companies being sloppy with their customer's data because sloppy is cheap and it's not their info on the line, it
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
I never understood the anti-capitalist argument to be that it’s a top down system (and thus is why it’s “bad”), I think the critique is more that capitalism will inevitably beget hierarchies and self-reinforces them. And to be fair, some ea
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
> you can expect that one or both sides will be using drones, at least for surveillance if not for offense How is this any different than the risk that is currently present? Surveillance technology, in this day and age is ubiquitous and
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
You created your account today on a tech discussion board where you aired a personal grievance you have against a company that has a proven track record of operating above the board and accused them of "stealing" your money. Then
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
So the “weapons of war” in question are… cameras? But because those cameras are also used by the Russian military that means that China Bad? Meanwhile gun laws in the US would like to have a chat…
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
It sounds like you're just frustrated at being in an (understandably frustrating) situation. Your post wasn't removed, it probably was just outvoted. Breathe.
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
Their quickest publicly listed SLA is 6 hours. I realise $50k is a lot of money, but give it some time. Though frustrating, and wrong on their part, no money was stolen. You'll get it eventually.
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by ryuhhnn 1y ago
You most likely got caught in some sort of automated detection. Have you tried reaching out to their customer service?
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
This is an impossible question to answer, nobody can predict the future. It’s not always a given that we would simply regress to what came before it, that’s the point. You don’t have the ability to predict the future either.
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
Yes they would require those things, but there would no longer be an incentive to use energy sources that have the marginal benefit of making a few people very rich with the incredible downside of killing our planet.
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
> Abolishing capitalism wouldn't change the physics and engineering of natural gas wells, nor of the lumber mills and mining required to make paper and wood. Of course it wouldn’t, I don’t think anybody would believe this. Abolishin
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
Nobody here brought up serfdom except you and your snarky comment doesn’t provide anything of value or broaden the analysis here. The absence of capitalism doesn’t beget serfdom, it doesn’t even beget socialism or communism, it begets the a
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
Except the decades of materials science research demonstrates that even independently of those economic incentives, scientists understand that although plastics are incredibly valuable in a variety of applications, they’re not perfect (and
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
Not sure why this was downvoted, it’s a perfectly reasonable explanation. Even ideas as abstract as private property comes into play here, private owners are incentivised to make the most of their investments, and when one of the many main
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
> don't make a black-and-white there-is-no-alternative declaration that other people have no choice in the matter say the person who quite literally can't accept that there can be more than three letters in an acronym, less the
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
Trans is an umbrella term that can be used to refer to anybody who does not identify with or express the gender they were assigned at birth ( https://www.hrc.org/resources/sexual-orientation-and-gender-... ). Having surg
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by ryuhhnn 2y ago
How does this comment help anybody or move the conversation forward?

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