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Linking another website using the same tricks really doesn't really dismiss my point, and referring to my criticisms of the definition-gaming and timeline chopping as "casual armchair dismissals" amounts to nothing more than name calling. I'm sorry that you have misplaced your morality when it comes to telling the truth.
I'm just a lost epistemologist seeking truth in whatever dirty alleyway I find myself in.
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Why didnt you think Miami was a good place to raise children ? And how is Chicago better?
In general people in Miami are less friendly, cliquish and unreliable compared to other parts of the country. Even other parts of Florida. They’ll show up an hour late and act like they’re doing you a favor by showing up. The drivers are erratic and irresponsible. Everything is a scam or hustle of some kind. The cultural institutions like museums and libraries are extremely poor even compared to mid-tier northeast or…
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Unlike Detroit, NYC has a very diversified economy. In addition to being the primary finance capital it is a major international player in media, art, fashion, tech, and more. NYC is simply not utterly dependent on finance in the way Detroit was on manufacturing- or SF is on tech, for a modern example. I think that’s what has made it, and the other global cities like it, so extremely resilient over a long period of t…
Finance is pretty meta itself, which is probably a contributing factor to NYC having such a diversified economy. Like an automotive company might still want a business-focused office in NYC, but a non-automotive company doesn't have much reason to open an office in the auto manufacturing capital.
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In general people in Miami are less friendly, cliquish and unreliable compared to other parts of the country. Even other parts of Florida. They’ll show up an hour late and act like they’re doing you a favor by showing up. The drivers are erratic and irresponsible. Everything is a scam or hustle of some kind. The cultural institutions like museums and libraries are extremely poor even compared to mid-tier northeast or…
I agree w/ all of this, but the public schools in Chicago pretty much suck too.
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they'll make it up. nothing is going to magically bring a dead parent back.
>they'll make it up That remains to be seen. The 2022 PISA tests suggests that in developed countries, children have missed on the equivalent of 0.5-0.75 of a year's worth of learning. [1] https://www.economist.com/international/2023/12/05/the-pande... > nothing is going to magically bring a dead parent back. nothing is going to magically bring back those years either, for all 500 students.
Maybe the effect of going through a pandemic was a stressful event harmful to school performance, independent of whether your schooling was in-person or remote?
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Supply and demand. At one point there should be enough supply that AirBnB will bring too little profit for people to be bothered. Things like AirBnB work precisely because the supply is constrained.
I agree we should build more housing. But in the meantime it's not helping to have a bunch of the housing stock dedicated to tourists. Now maybe banning airbnb will put such a damper on tourism that it becomes a problem, but let's deal with that problem when it happens.
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> and teens You (and cnn/everytown/giffords) use the word kids to imply toddlers are getting shot with glocks when a majority of those are "teen" gangbangers in chicago/baltimore/detroit/LA killing each other. I wouldn't call the thing you are seeking truth. Why do you have to lie? Just say you want to ban guns.
Hahaha I do not want to ban guns outright(I will leave it as an open question whether I have guns in my own domicile). Why do you want to imbue my use of statistics with an agenda you think I support? I do think we should resume a strict interpretation of the 2nd amendment (specifically "well-regulated militia") if we want to claim an originalist view of the Constitution. And I am also in favor of regulating harmful…
> well-regulated militia
Regulated meant well supplied or well armed at the time the constution was written.
> I am also in favor of regulating harmful substances so that humans can interoperate in society, while still allowing trained humans access to useful tools for manipulating the universe.
DC vs Heller rejected the idea of an interest-balancing approach to Second Amendment. (right to bear arms vs harm to society). "The Second Amendment is the very product of an interest-balancing by the people". - SCOTUS
> these humans that you choose to label as '"teen" gangbangers' also deserve compassion and the opportunity to live in peace.
Then they can stop killing each other. I don't see why joe the plumber that lives in the suburbs should have his rights be infrigned because people in some other city choose to break the law. The problem isn't guns, its the people.
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>they'll make it up That remains to be seen. The 2022 PISA tests suggests that in developed countries, children have missed on the equivalent of 0.5-0.75 of a year's worth of learning. [1] https://www.economist.com/international/2023/12/05/the-pande... > nothing is going to magically bring a dead parent back. nothing is going to magically bring back those years either, for all 500 students.
This happened everywhere, including in the places that only shut down in-person schooling for March 2020-May 2020, and opened up again in August 2020. Maybe the effect of going through a pandemic was a stressful event harmful to school performance, independent of whether your schooling was in-person or remote?
>Education ministries the world over will envy the handful of rich places that have a cheery story to tell amid the gloom. In Japan, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan, test scores not only held steady over the pandemic period, they actually ticked up in at least one of the three subjects in which pupils sat exams. Israel and Switzerland are among other countries that appear, at least as judged from these data, to have done reasonably well.
>Some of these outliers protected learning by keeping school closures short. Across the OECD’s dataset there is a modest association between the length of time schools stayed closed and children’s subsequent performance in tests. Teachers in Switzerland ran fully remote or hybrid timetables for only six weeks (the average among countries in Europe was around 29). Closures in Japan were also comparatively zippy: in 2020 schools in that country shortened their summer breaks in order to claw back some of the class hours that children had lost up to then. Singapore, likewise, decided to alter school holidays to maximise learning time.
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It wasn't just the elderly. Pretty much anyone over 50 was at higher risk. I'll point out again, covid killed over 1 million people in the US alone. That doesn't even account for the ~ 10% of infected who got stuck with the lingering effects of long covid. Yeah, we asked kids to attend school remotely from home. Some didn't have parents that kept them on task, and suffered. The pandemic was hard on everyone, but even…
My child's classmate has a mother who has only one lung, and that one lung is barely functional. If she catches COVID, she will certainly be in the ICU. As a class, we all worried about her mother during the entire pandemic.
The same goes for the elderly. You don't lock down the world to keep them safe (which in NY was a disaster under Cuomo anyway). You take measures to secure their well-being without paralyzing everyone else. And FWIW, there are plenty in that age group who would rather risk COVID to see their grandchildren than live out their remaining years in isolation.
If anything is irrational, it's the ridiculous priorities that were imposed by the lockdown.
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> I have a question for people who say this: Have you ever actually lived in any metropolitan area outside New York? For me, Chicago and Boston. I spent a ton of time hanging out in SF between 2008-2015 when I worked for a startup out there. I've spent a lot of time in LA for both work and pleasure. [edit] I also spent a lot of time in Miami for work at one point in my life. And yeah, to me it's true. There's really…
If the NYC Boston bullet train ever happens, Boston will be such an ideal place to live. I already prefer it to NYC personally, but it's true there are "tier 1 global city" things it can't offer. But if it becomes feasible to get door to door in under 2 hours? I suppose that could also change the entire character of the city over time though.
Philadelphia is about 1.5 hours by train from NY (and probably ~2 hours driving). While it's very underrated - really a special place of its own - it's not NY or part of it.