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The "economy" is not just what is captured in formally taxable income. Large swaths of the economy is composed by absolutely essential reproductive labor that receives no direct mo…

Also, "federal" here does not include not include payroll taxes, which are, nonetheless, considered "federal taxes" in any colloquial conception of the term. Of course, in addition…

It's related in that it morally licenses the privileged to be OK with wealth inequality because, see, the masses are actually being supported by the magnanimous benevolence of thei…

This article is a jumble of broad strokes of conjecture with effectively zero empirical substance that vaguely alludes the just nature of the "meritocracy"; I have a hard time not …

Some people, in an otherwise disadvantaged situation, will benefit from this; that is completely fine in isolation. Still, it's wholly naive to assume that Amazon is doing this out…

I've never used PM, but just ran through sign-up for their free service. What could they do differently with regards to this issue? Simple. Make the legal limitations of their serv…

Also says that developers will not be prevented from converting existing apps to "reader" apps, or submitting brand new "reader" apps. Further, "reader" app appears to be defined a…

> Now is that true? No. The root cause of the embargo is, manifestly, that the Cuban Revolution ousted American capital interests from the island and gave the preverbal finger to U…

As a general principle, yes, all of humanity matters, and all grave matters deserve grave attention. At the same time, how a given issue impacts you and those around you, how much …

Iran has a shit regime (corollary: all countries' regimes are shit, just some more than others). To your question, it's a matter of emphasis. You have a fundamentally greater moral…

https://xkcd.com/1138/

The one time I remember being spanked as a child was -- many, many years after the fact -- explained to me in passing to be for the exact reason you describe. It seems neigh imposs…

I'm generally not in favor of spanking, but just some observations: - It's easy to find people who were spanked that are in favor of spanking, people who were spanked that aren't i…

> migrants to the US have twice as many [citation-weighted papers] as migrants to other countries, or four times as many as those who stay at home Nitpicky, but... this is also onl…

There's definitely reason to be suspect, although it looks like, on the average, it might be the reverse of what you seem to be expecting ( https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…

- Average sleep varies fairly significantly internationally ( https://www.economist.com/1843/2018/03/01/which-countries-ge... ), and regionally just in the US ( https://www.cdc.gov…

While I'm not necessarily a fan of this particular article, I feel it relevant to point out that explicitly denying the "homogenous myth" of Japan has political value as a counter …

A ML model giving a single false positive is generally uninteresting and meaningless in evaluating its overall performance. Also, note that the details clearly state that, even for…

I was in Japan two years ago; got pneumonia and needed antibiotics. Went to a hospital with no insurance and no appointment. I was being seen by a doctor within 30 minutes. Doctor …

Looking at ~350k-400k for my dad if he lives another 5 years. Given his spending before Alzheimer's 200k would be an easy choice for us even even from a purely cold financial persp…

Honest question: are there actually any long-term longitudinal studies of affirmative action that reasonably demonstrate it does or doesn't work? You seem to take it as a truism, b…

> $15,000 per year Importantly, per person receiving. In principle you have a virtually infinite tax-free gift giving exception available if you distribute your assets to enough pe…

I agree with you, but I would also note that the original person being replied to seems to be committing a common colloquial misunderstanding in regards to social constructions; ju…

> Congress is a bunch of idiots I mean, not all... https://www.c-span.org/video/?442912-6/senator-wyden-online-...

Also You're Only Old Once, perhaps? And then there's the Seuss WWII political cartoons that I've seen recently due to their criticism of the America First movement of the time... w…