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by syki 5y ago
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/26/china-sees-strategi...
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by syki 5y ago
https://www.politico.com/news/2022/02/26/china-sees-strategi...
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by syki 5y ago
The college I worked at had a few classes at the prison. I was an adjunct and agreed to do it. None of the tenured faculty would do it. Didn’t really have any support. Did wear a body alarm. One way the body alarm would be activated wa
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by syki 5y ago
I quickly figured out they were mostly there to break the monotony. I threw out the curriculum and did basic graph theory and some logic stuff. I only had one run in with someone. The prisoners treated me decently. I gave them all passi
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by syki 5y ago
I taught a semester in a max security prison. It was described to me as a controlled movement facility. It was an interesting experience and one that stuck with me. That prison was a bad place. Thanks for your anecdote about the former
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by syki 5y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience and bringing these things to light. As Dostoevsky said, you can judge a society by how well it treats its prisoners. We are not a free people when we live under the threat of being out into a prison s
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by syki 5y ago
It’s hard to give meaningful security assurances when the powers involved have nuclear weapons. Ukraine is far more important to Russia than it is to the U.S. Clearly the U.S. is not willing to go to war with a nuclear power over Ukraine.
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by syki 5y ago
The question is about Putin and his cronies using their power as dictator and oligarchs doing a specific type of stock trade. Nancy Pelosi is neither a dictator or an oligarch and as far as I know has not shorted the market since she’s pla
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by syki 5y ago
I see no amount of evidence will convince you that China is ok with Russia invading Ukraine. Your thesis about China and international norms is clearly false and your beliefs about China’s position is not supported by the facts. My content
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by syki 5y ago
Still think you are right? https://www.businessinsider.com/china-editor-says-must-suppo...
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by syki 5y ago
Hardly surprising: https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/22/china/china-ukraine-russia-re...
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by syki 5y ago
RU actions are against PRC interests in terms of international norms. They are not and I don’t believe Russia would do what it is doing in Ukraine without Chinese approval. The timing of the recent agreement between Russia and China is p
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by syki 5y ago
I believe your analysis is wrong and that there is no way Russia would do what it is doing without approval from China. China will do nothing to punish Russia. They might make some meaningless gestures but nothing meaningful.
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by syki 5y ago
So you don’t know which situation I was referring to? The fact the Musk accomplished what he did with SpaceX is prima facie proof that he had sufficient power/influence to accomplish the goal.
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by syki 5y ago
Some Russians view Ukraine as legitimately part of Russia. China views Taiwan as part of China. China also wishes to garner as much support as possible for its desired takeover of Taiwan. The recent agreement between Russia and China spe
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by syki 5y ago
Look up Wernher Von Braun. A group of people thought Jim Crow was a great idea. A group of BP executives thought it was a great idea to not fix oil leaks in Nigeria and poison a bunch of people. I think you miss the point. People with p
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by syki 5y ago
A person (or persons) with sufficient power/influence decided to pursue space flight and it happened. Which example does the previous sentence refer to?
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by syki 5y ago
In 1919 no one in the world would have thought the backward, fledgling Soviet Union would be the first in space. Your example is not apt.
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by syki 5y ago
Isn’t the issue less to do with “communism” than with concentrating too much power in too few hands? It seems to me all political systems tend toward autocracy and the only thing preventing that eventuality are robust systems in place that
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by syki 5y ago
We can go back and forth and quibble over using the word “murder” as you have and quibble over who ultimately is to blame. I won’t convince you of anything and likewise you won’t convince me of anything. War truly is hell and after the wa
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by syki 5y ago
That’s a seductively simple idea. Using the Emergencies Act to bring to an end of the protests was unprecedented. Without having thought too deeply about it the suggestion to then call for elections seems like a brilliant one. I almost t
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by syki 5y ago
If doctors already make more than enough to pay off their medical debt, what would change to make them start accepting lower salaries.. If med school were free then salary required to live at the required standard would go down since the
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by syki 5y ago
The paper calls into question the existence of a supply/demand curve and as such is relevant to all of your points. Supply/demand is not sufficient to describe elasticity of labor in all cases. For example, in the quoted articl
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by syki 5y ago
Sorry. Yes, Card. Clearly I’m not an economist but I believe within the field is an emerging movement question the traditional iron clad belief in supply/demand being the explanation in labor economics. One cannot always use the sta
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by syki 5y ago
I believe there is a dance between these various quantities. Overall, my claim is that large med school debt does play a role in high doctor salaries. I don’t claim it is the only factor but just that it is a factor. I further claim that
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I said there was a moral aspect to taking medical talent from poor countries. You say that you don’t completely disagree with this. So it sounds like you too believe there is a moral aspect to this issue. Great. I'm not willing to
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by syki 5y ago
I made no claims about uniqueness so I don’t understand your first paragraph. If debt affected salaries, you'd expect your claim to play out on all fields, which it does not. This is very much wrong! All fields are not equal. No on
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by syki 5y ago
There are private doctors in Canada and the UK and they don’t make as much as their American counterparts. Anecdotal evidence. My wife has $400,000 in med school debt. She needs a $300,000 salary to afford paying that debt off whilst also
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by syki 5y ago
In countries with mostly free higher education doctor’s salaries are less on average than in the U.S. You really think having several hundred thousand dollars in student loans doesn’t in any way affect salaries?
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by syki 5y ago
There is no reason at all for a German, Mexican, British, etc. practicing doctor to have to do a US residency at all after they finish whatever training qualifies them to be a doctor in their home countries. You should have stated it this

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