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netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
10hr ago
I thought the trap was legible vs. illegible value. Your non-economic labor had value but you didn’t realize how much.
This is going off Scott’s review. I haven’t read the book.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
10hr ago
This is definitely not true. Schools care about volume and general reputation. If nothing else, state colleges usually target that market.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
10hr ago
Yes, but the money would come out of a fund for parents who don’t stay home.
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10hr ago
California tends to be one giant outlier, so I’m not sure it’s representative.
But also, what are you talking about? All I could find with a casual search were teacher:child ratios.
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11hr ago
Yes, the current system is messy and perverse. Elizabeth Warren was right about some stuff.
I’m saying that this kind of subsidy for single-income families will not get them to pull their kids out of public school. They will mostly take the payout and keep collecting the $24k of public daycare.
Worse, the proposed funding source is currently earmarked for two-income families. Some of them will lose benefits, quit their jobs, pay less in taxes, and keep their kids in public school. Lose-lose.
If the Republicans conditioned this payout on homeschooling, and combined it with sweeping cuts to make public school even less appealing, you would get more people out of the system. But they aren’t doing that. The President has approximately zero incentive to court the small government faction, which is why he’s bombing Iran and subsidizing his cronies.
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1d ago
It turns out that poor but physically-fit 20somethings don’t make the best decisions about women.
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1d ago
Something like 6% of Americans are homeschooled now. 30% of moms are stay-at-home. Assuming all homeschoolers have one of those moms, that’s still only 1 in 5 who are getting out of the public school system. Incentivizing more births will mostly add more kids to public schools.
Now, I think this is going to incentivize stay-at-home parents before it actually incentivizes more kids, since the money is coming from subsidies for working parents. So out of every 5 parents it takes out of the workforce, maybe 1 of them will put in the effort to homeschool.
On the gripping hand, a flat payout is regressive. Do you think homeschooling is more popular amongst high-powered corporate types or part-time convenience-store clerks?
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1d ago
It’s certainly on-brand.
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1d ago
This board has more than a few users who never question the President on anything, so no, you can’t be the only one.
I notice that the money is coming out of an existing appropriation which subsidizes working parents. The most likely effect is encouraging some of those dual-income parents to quit.
I think this is stupid. At least the Trump Accounts were directly tied to the kid.
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1d ago
U.S.: 2.7 million soldiers and 60,000 casualties against a country of 210 million.
German Empire: 14 million soldiers, 1.7 million dead, total population 60-65 million.
Totally different ballgame, and that’s before you compare the economic situations.
Anyway, I always got the impression that true crime’s fascination with nubile innocent young women was aimed at a male audience. But then, most of my exposure to the genre is through bodycam channels or otherwise very red-tribe sources. Maybe I don’t have my finger on the pulse. Do you have examples in mind?
Why do you think mathematics is supported at its current scale today?
(Bonus question: what is that actual level compared to, say, materials science? Pharmaceuticals?)
The goal is construction of useful maps which can then be applied to weirder and weirder situations. Sometimes those situations spit out a new branch of engineering, like cryptography or transformers. Proofs are a byproduct of this exploration.
Neither art nor chess is known for spinning off new fields of science. The effects of automating them are going to be pretty different.
Edit: I see your other response. You’re putting the cutoff around 1800? Before Galton, Kelvin or Maxwell?? My friend, I don’t think you have a good grasp on the timeline here. Don’t even get me started on the math of solid-state electronics, most of which is less than 100 years old.
netstack
The horse embodies the wings a person feels inside.
2d ago
Sorry, that would be following America’s lead.
Do you actually think Russia’s special operations have been a good thing? I personally think they’re stupid and destabilizing enough to outweigh any benefits.
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2d ago
I do still see a little “zine” publication in the OSR RPG space. It’s more than a couple steps removed from its predecessors.
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2d ago
Part of that is the lack of peer conflicts.
When I was reading up on this for an immigration thread, a lot of the citizenship cases were about the rights and obligations of dual citizens when at war with the second country. It was particularly contentious in the Civil War, since we initially flip-flopped on rebellion vs. war.
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2d ago
Part and parcel.
Irredentism was table stakes for anti-Weimar groups in the interwar period. You couldn’t shake a stick without repudiating Versailles.
Today the equivalent would be opposing the EU, which is exactly how AfD got their start. Anti-Islam was something of a pivot once the debt crisis had passed.
They’ve also been rather supportive of Russia’s regional foreign policy.
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2d ago
Do we…not?
I actually thought we required renouncing other citizenships before letting someone naturalize. This was based on an in-law who elected not to do so.
Turns out that might have been a requirement by the German side? They changed their laws in 2024 to allow Americans to become dual citizens, but I can’t find anything about the other direction.
Anyway, it seems like a reasonable requirement. Would probably have some knock-on effects against the people who pursue dual citizenship while staying in the home country; not sure how common they are, or how much they pay in taxes…
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2d ago
No? “Fundamentally opposed” is the kind of framing you’d use for a doctrinal debate, and approximately nobody is trying to debate the proper role of astrology in politics. If you had a contingent of wine aunts trying to recognize the ascendance of Mercury in a DNC plank, then yeah, you’d see antiracists bring the knives out.
People like to measure every “leftist” against a central authority. Every category, really: I think this is an instance of Isolated Demands for Rigor. But most people don’t make every decision in alignment with their broader political lean. You’re better off thinking of astrology (or entertainment, or whatever social ritual…) as a separate magisterium from the question of how society ought to be organized.
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2d ago
This is what I was thinking, but I'm sure someone at the Texas Tribune has called him a fascist or whatever.
Honestly, that's half the problem with mass social media. Claims like "never see X that isn't called Y" just don't mean what they used to.
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5d ago
1/4 More to say on this later. But for now,
4/4 Rational fiction at its finest. Are you sure Eliezer didn’t write this?
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5d ago
Okay, describing chromium’s limit as “about a meter” is unreasonably funny to me.
I had always assumed point of sale printers just accepted lines of text, terminal-style. Crazy to think of it as a page.
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7d ago
Are you telling me that GURPS is so realistic, it triggers antiterrorism safeguards? I think SJ games needs to advertise with that.
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7d ago
Al Qaeda
I remain a little disappointed that more people haven’t made “based” jokes about this.
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7d ago
Third option: refusing unilateral contract mods might outweigh the political costs. Give an inch…
I happen to think it’s a version of the “true believer” hypothesis; Anthropic has branded itself as safety- and governance-conscious. Dario is obligated to defend that brand in addition to the quarterly financials.
This particular treasure chest was last filled during a rather popular administration. “A rising tide” and all that. We still teach Keynesian economics in high school; the government is expected to run a surplus in good times and mitigate the bad ones with deficit spending.
That cycle has been more or less pretextual since 2008. The opposition got hijacked by a populist before they could really pull back on spending, and the next crisis hit right before an election. I suspect we can still put the toothpaste back in the tube, but it would take a level of economic optimism which hasn’t yet appeared.
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