thrden

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by thrden 6y ago
Development agencies actually hire lots of local people. for USAID/State Department, they're called FSNs, and its pretty easy to find stories about them and the work that they do. According to one Document I found around 55k&#x2
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by thrden 6y ago
Even if we set aside any potential spiritual, or child-rearing value. Marriage is a very important institution in helping people achieve economic mobility, it increases your household income significantly, as well as seriously reducing your
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by thrden 6y ago
digging into this, it doesn't seem to adjust for CoL but competitiveness of the market. Seattle and NYC have the same salary bracket, but NYC is by far more expensive. Nerd Wallet claims the city is between 37% to -6% more expensive
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by thrden 7y ago
Rent Control in NYC actually disproportionately benefits wealthier New Yorkers.[1] https://ny.curbed.com/2019/6/12/18662844/rent-regulation-stu...
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by thrden 7y ago
If this is a lander what will they use to deliver the lander to lunar orbit? I'll admit I don't follow this sort of news very closely, but it seems quite exciting.
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by thrden 7y ago
do you have any public writing? I'd be interested in reading what you've written.
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by thrden 7y ago
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by thrden 8y ago
its the 4 most recent decades covered by census data. Although you're right to point out that suburbia had its primacy in this time period, the researcher can't be faulted for looking for the highest quality, most recent data.
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by thrden 8y ago
Socialized Medicine and Education are often discussed in this context. However, if we look at Europe where student debt is minimal, and medicine is provided by the state fertility rates are even lower.
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by thrden 8y ago
I'm not quite sure how to parse that particular piece of data. It seems as though it may be nominal if we consider that the Household Debt-to GDP ratio is substantially decreased from 2008. Further, household debt service ratios have
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by thrden 8y ago
I know this has already been down voted, but I want to point out that this exact dialog was invented by the soviet union to distract from their abysmal human rights records[1]. Moreover, it doesn't even make sense as a deflection give
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by thrden 8y ago
I believe this is because poverty rate is determined on a national scale, whereas this factors in California's particularly high cost of living.
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by thrden 8y ago
not that its not smart enough, just that it has to listen to alternative groups. Nuclear power would be one way current technology could drastically reduce C02 Emissions, yet well intentioned, intelligent actors oppose the proliferation of
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by thrden 8y ago
That doesn't seem like splitting the difference as much as putting the costs on men...
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by thrden 8y ago
its part of the gawker family so its not surprising that it uses non-professional language
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by thrden 8y ago
Even in the least developed countries on earth life expectancy is nearly double the 26 years quoted in the article. This article feels less like serious analysis, and instead the product of over-problematizing
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by thrden 8y ago
I don't find this particularly compelling as given the author's fundamental assumptions regarding inequity and sexism as natural outcroppings of agrarian society. For example the mongols were a largely non-agrarian society that w
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by thrden 8y ago
I would argue against the informal power dynamics as they tend to be far less transparent. Informal systems can be coopted by individuals far more easily, and with far less limitations on their power. Moreover, individuals who do take con
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by thrden 8y ago
While I'm not saying they should have banned one, and not the other it would have been entirely possible to say ban an opioids sales subreddit, but not the bb-gun subreddit. It would have been trivial to simply make the rule such that
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by thrden 8y ago
its hard to see that its anything but censorship when these platforms hold a pure monopoly on the space. If Gutenberg prevented anything displeasing to him from being printed, we would rightly see that as censorship. Further, censorship t
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by thrden 8y ago
Unfortunately we've had a very poor week for internet freedom. However much of it has been the result of corporate overreach. This week: Reddit bans Cigar, beer and Alchohol trading subreddits, toy bb gun sales, and gun related coupon
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by thrden 9y ago
I disagree, I happen to love capitalism though I'm just a student. Its brought about incredible changes, and raised the standard of living for billions across the world. I've lived in post-soviet countries, and I've lived in
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by thrden 9y ago
I dislike comments like this because they play on the ignorance of people in regards to China. You say America has issues with race, but at the same time ignore that China holds 120,000 Uighur in "Political Reeducation Camps".
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by thrden 9y ago
While that's generally been true on a global level, the olympics have generally been profitable endeavors for American host cities. the 1984, '96 and '02 all turned a profit for host cities.[1] Further, if olympic upgrades a
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by thrden 9y ago
California has aspects of it that do well economically, overall its situation is quite dismal. It boasts the COLA adjusted highest poverty rate in the country. Worse than Mississippi, West Virginia or Alabama. [1] http://www.pol
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by thrden 9y ago
Interestingly that seems to be a result of the CDC's own political leanings. They seemed to pursue the research with an explicit political goal, rather than research the effects of gun violence, and then find a goal[1]. Further, the
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by thrden 9y ago
well thats clearly untrue, because when adjusted for cost of living, California has a higher poverty rate[1] [1] http://www.politifact.com/california/statements/2017/jan/20/...
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by thrden 9y ago
One thing that people aren't considering is that we have legalization experiments within the United States, and we have seen an uptick in marijuana usage[1]. This uptick has been benign because its been limited to Marijuana. I think
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by thrden 9y ago
While you are absolutely correct that the presidency was won by the minority of voters, its not really correct to say the same for congress. Within the house of reps where everyone is up for election every 2 years, the republicans won the

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