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It's the Paradox of Tolerance, some people seem to believe that this prance must accept every point of view.

The reality is some viewpoint are simply unacceptable to a modern world.

A first hand account of the antebellum South, by the man who designed Central Park, and helped conserve Niagara Falls & Yosemite.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1549672622

An interesting viewpoint here is how slavery actually hurt most white people in the South. Outside of the top 1%, slaves performed most labor tasks that were needed. This meant there was far less work available for the non-wealthy. This stripped the South of having a real middle class like the North had. He argues that the South's economy and people were getting more harmed by slavery than the benefits it gave.

Originally he wrote 3 volumes, then they got combined and condensed into this one book.

Wow, a whole two employees! Very newsworthy, NBC.

I don’t see what so bad about the book in all honesty. It’s to be expected that there’d be some pushback

My international studies class is terrible. The 4th Chapter of our textbook <em>Globalization: A basic Text</em> written by a marxist sociologist is get this: NEOLIBERALISM, Roots, Criticisms, and Neo-Marxian Alternatives the book goes on to cite naomi klein and repeat the friedman = pinochet myth.
cc /u/darkaceAUS

Milton Friedman's work is very good. This includes, Capitalism and Freedom, Free to Choose, A Monetary History of the United States and any articles he's written over the years.

Edmund Burke is a classic, but he helps you understand the importance of cautious change and how it is a bedrock conservative principle.

>Removing primaries at the congressional level and letting party experts select 2-4 candidates in the Presidential primaries is an essential step to improve the quality of our representatives

Check out Responsible Parties: Saving Democracy from Itself . They make a similar argument.

What kind of climate change thinker are you?

From here:

Alarmists pay little attention to the details of the science. They are “unconvincibles.” They say the danger is imminent, so scare tactics are both necessary and appropriate, especially to counter the deniers. They implicitly assume that all global warming and human-caused global warming are identical.

Exaggerators know the science but exaggerate for the public good. They feel the public doesn’t find an 0.64°C change threatening, so they have to cherry-pick and distort a little—for a good cause.

Warmists stick to the science. They may not know the answer to every complaint of the skeptics, but they have grown to trust the scientists who work on the issues. They are convinced the danger is serious and imminent.

Lukewarmists, too, stick to the science. They recognize there is a danger but feel it is uncertain. We should do something, but it can be measured. We have time.

Skeptics know the science but are bothered by the exaggerators, and they point to serious flaws in the theory and data analysis. They get annoyed when the warmists ignore their complaints, many of which are valid. This group includes auditors, scientists who carefully check the analysis of others.

Deniers pay little attention to the details of the science. They are “unconvincibles.” They consider the alarmists’ proposals dangerous threats to our economy, so exaggerations are both necessary and appropriate to counter them.

I tend to align with the lukewarmer camp, but I wonder what the rest of this sub thinks.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beto-o-rourke-gun-violence_n_5cd048ace4b0e4d757360676

• 1) Now we know why Beto is at 6%, he's targeting people who can't vote.

• 2) Sad that we have kids so scared of going to school.

Well, Labor's share of income has been declining over the past quarter century.

Whether or not compensation is pacing productivity is probably less relevant than something like the Iron Law of Wages.

No, I have an issue with CRT too. I like tracking and entrance exams.

And anything that focuses on teaching white kids about their racism is whiteness studies, which is an off-shoot of CRT.

CRT has absolutely had an influence on pedagogy, too. There's even a (kind of incomplete) book. It's just that a lot of other stuff that isn't actually CRT but is related and just as bad is getting called CRT because it's an OK casual label to build a movement around.

IMO these kinds of articles are just looking for crazies they can use to talk about what they wanted to talk about in the first place.

This book came out over two months ago, has a whopping 8 reviews on Amazon, and I'm pretty sure only two of them actually bought it. The author is literally a nobody that no one takes seriously. It's like taking things a crazy homeless guy says on the street and writing an article about it to discredit their ideas.

It depends on how you define success.

If you're looking at income but you adjust for cost of living, North Dakota looks like a pretty good place to live. It ranks 8th in per-capita income but has one of the lowest costs of living anywhere in the country, giving it a very high effective standard of living, according to this article. Other red states that perform well are Wyoming and Alaska.

Interesting though, some of North Dakota's success can probably be attributable to natural resources, like Texas. I think states rich in natural resources (ND, Alaska, Texas) make poor evidence for the success of policies. The true indicator of successful policies are long-term success in the absence of natural resources.

By this standard, Utah might look like a better example.

I'd add some nuance and say there are different types of "assholes". See e.g. Brilliant Jerks in Engineering, as well as this discussion about it. The story is mostly about jerks in engineering/software dev, the gist hold up fairly well in general.

> Take a look at Mcdonald's profit margins.

15% at company-owned stores (franchises notwithstanding). Chipotle, which doesn't franchise, brings in an average of about a quarter-million in profit per year; my best guess is that a typical Chipotle probably has 20 or so employees, meaning they could be paying each of them $10,000 more a year without breaking the bank.

Like, you know how I know this works? Because restaurants don't somehow not exist in places where people can get healthcare and a living wage.

> Markets are usually pretty good at these types of things

Markets are good at one thing and one thing only, and that is ruthless efficiency and largest gross takes. Markets do not care about distribution and they do not care about human values, and if we do, we need to put restrictions on those markets.

I don't know. You would need to ask a conservative. I'm center left, so I don't really have a problem with tax and spend if it is shown to be effective.

I have seen praise for Housing First policies implemented by conservatives in Utah. They took a look at the numbers and realized that it was cheaper to house the people than it was to react to the costs of homelessness. However, to me, that seems more like a decision made in spite of their conservative principles rather than being a conservative idea itself. They did have the tenants pay a small chunk of change for their housing, which seems like a compromise and a way for the tenants to feel invested in their homes.

You're also seeing liberals championing housing first and it does require more government spending, so I'm not sure if I'd really call it a conservative idea.

Also in high cost of living areas (like LA or my area Seattle) there are limits to housing first because when land is so expensive, it's not always going to make economic sense to just provide housing. Even though I do think it's going to get less people going back to homelessness.

> But this isn't what critical race theory actually says, right? I'm genuinely asking because I don't know. Is there some CRT guidebook I can read the core philosophy?

Here you go.

It's been done. The court ordered Harvard and UNC to release their data

Institute of Labor Economics link

PDF link

If we rank Harvard applicants by academic score (SAT and GPA z scores), 50th percentile applicants have the following admission rates:

White: 2.57%

African American: 22.41%

Hispanic: 9.13%

Asian American: 1.86%

They also train a logistic regression model with the following coefficients:

Now I'm just stuck thinking about JSM's Harm Principle and need to re-read on liberty. thanks.

>The object of this Essay is to assert one very simple principle, as entitled to govern absolutely the dealings of society with the individual in the way of compulsion and control, whether the means used be physical force in the form of legal penalties, or the moral coercion of public opinion. That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinion of others, to do so would be wise, or even right... The only part of the conduct of anyone, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.- John Stuart Mill "On Liberty"

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/34901/34901-h/34901-h.htm

I can't cite something that doesn't exist

https://www.npr.org/2016/05/09/477402982/study-sanders-proposals-would-add-18-trillion-to-debt-over-10-years

It could actually be 32 trillion for Sanders' plan

Niall Ferguson.

This one. I managed to get a used hardcover copy (A bit like a coffee table book actually)

This article is reminding me of the most recent (very good) episode of The Weeds in which the theory that in a post-cold war era, the lack of a credible communist threat has allowed the conservative coalition to begin falling apart at the seams (including the [small-L] liberals and libertarian wings coming into conflict with the illiberal social conservative wing [predominantly religious]). Episode here..

IMO this is just another facet of the growing partisan divide enabling bad actors to make 'ends justify the means' arguments. Whether it's newly-emboldened leftists demanding ever greater nationalized control over the economy or right-wingers pursuing anti-democratic powergrabs. If nobody believes that a compromise can be achieved, they may as well demand everything and see what happens.

I said in an above comment, but if you dont' see the notification:

https://pi-hole.net/

Network level ad-blocker, can be run on a small lil raspberry pi. Bonus, is that it blocks ads at the network level which means your phone on wifi also gets the benefit. It's so nice.

The world is in the midst of a titanic realignment the likes of which were last seen after the invention of the printing press. The printing press got everything a little bit unstuck, so information and ideology could flow faster and more freely than the establishment was able to react to. This led to the Protestant Reformation, which entailed a lot of senseless violence including the Thirty Years War. The only way out of the mess was the settlement of the New World and the founding of America.

Over the past few centuries, the new establishment figured out a few good ideas (e.g. realizing it's a terrible idea to slaughter each other over our religious differences) and got itself settled into place, with the ability to control an information landscape that operated at the speed of the printing press and even the telegram. But in the process, it got corrupt and, even worse, complacent, and there's no way it can keep up with the internet. Although we have managed to kill God as the central figure in our philosophical understanding of the world, we haven't destroyed the religious impulse inherent to the human spirit, and since the twentieth century we have transferred this religious feeling onto political ideology. And just like in the Protestant Reformation, the old ideologies aren't working for everyone anymore. This has already led to unrest and I would be surprised if it didn't ultimately lead to war within the next century, but that's not the only parallel. Humanity is on the cusp of unlocking the ability to settle (or potentially construct) new worlds. It's going to be an interesting next couple of centuries, and we might see some generations of young men who are born into the war that they will die fighting, but all the while people will be building the future of humanity.

>If you buy every stock, you gain money in aggregate.

Or, you lose money in aggregate, because you don't know what the stock market is going to do. The number one rule of trading stocks is, and always has been, "past performance does not predict future results."

Also, you are incorrect about the requirements of other brokers. Schwab requires you complete an application to even move to options trading, and heavily restrict access based on tier, which may require additional information sessions before you can move up for more options trading.

Congratulations on the graduation!

Applying for jobs can be a rough experience. You've just gotta keep applying until you find something that sticks and remember that rejections/ghostings are just part of the game.

Absolutely leverage recruiters. They get paid to fill roles so their incentives are somewhat aligned with yours. That being said, they can exaggerate roles and you will not be the only candidate they're talking too.

Most of my experience is preparing and interviewing for software roles, so I'm not sure how applicable all of this will be:

1. Ensure your LinkedIn is up to date, detailed, and clean. You should have a professional profile photo and your experience section should be detailed. Use that section as a way to flex your writing skills.

2. A web presence/portfolio might be helpful, but that might not be applicable/too much work. https://pages.github.com/ is a good resource to spin something up quickly.

3. When interviewing, try to make a human connection. If you can get the interviewers to like you and root for you in an organic way, you're in a much better place. Prepare what you think you might say beforehand by saying it out loud. Ensure you go in with some questions (is their a mentorship program, what does a successful career look like, is their paternity leave).

Good luck!

Absolutely ISP's are natural monopolies.

I have two choices for internet. They both suck. One is restricted to ~50megabits but is pretty reliable. The other is 200 megabit but the number if outages are a fucking joke (eat my ass Xfinity).

I live 90 minutes from Manhattan.

I have a multi gigabit fiber connection literally a block away from my house. Verizon was paid to run the fiber those last few thousand feet to my house under a state project years ago. They took the money and never did it.

Nothing happened to them. Nothing will.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/the-book-of-broken-promis_b_5839394

Do you know what it would cost me out of pocket to have that fiber connection ran the last few thousand feet? About $4,000.

Their Chief legal counsel now runs the goddamn FCC.

How is the chief lawyer, for the biggest most crooked corporation in the entire industry, now suddenly being the chief enforcement officer over the industry not regulatory capture.

We don't even have average internet speeds better than Latvia. The infrastructure to be the best in the world is literally in the ground, but corporate greed has fucked it up, and you are now defending them.

Bold take by The Bulwark. Snowden may have been a coward for not taking responsibility in releasing NSA secrets, but I for one was glad to learn about the PRISM program, along with all the others.

I mean, we we supposed to just be hunky-dory about the mass collection of text messages, emails, backdoor encryption efforts, and be good boot-lickers all in the name of security?

Ever since middle-school when 9/11 happened, I've always thought that the strongest move we could have made was not do anything drastic, as that would have shown our resolve for liberty and shown the Middle East there's an alternative to authoritarianism . But, you know how it goes.

solving problems with them I guess haha. This was the one that introduced me to the concept: https://leetcode.com/problems/evaluate-division/

i think i get the concept of creating a dictionary of the links and then traversing through using a set to identify nodes already explored, but i have next to no experience with it, especially compared to other common testable data structures like linked lists or binary trees.

To copy my comment from elsewhere:

I usually try to do by best to design APIs which have a good user experience. Sometimes this is easy; often it is not. The usual process is something like this: 1) write some library, 2) use it, 3) improve the library based on the experience of using it, 4) use it in another program in some other way, 5) tweak things a bit more, 6) have some idea, 7) rewrite things, GOTO 2.

This is a process that can take months or even years. Quite often the technical implementation isn't that hard – or even trivial – but finding a good API to use it which balances control with "elegance" (whatever that may be, exactly) is something I often find hard part.

That there are so many mediocre and outright bad APIs out there proves the point I'm not the only one who finds this hard; I suppose the difference is that I enjoy working on this kind of stuff more than some others, so I spend a bit more time on it.

Anyhow; it seems to me that APIs are substantial creative works which are non-trivial to produce, just like the actual implementation. If we accept that code can be copyrighted, then I don't see how it's that far-fetched or ridiculous to copyright APIs too. I have a lot of reservations about the entire copyright system as implemented today, but that's a different discussion then whether or not APIs are copyrightable under current law.

This calculator has me feeling slightly depressed. So instead of doing something productive, I went to the internet to talk about it. lol.

>Keep in mind too that alcohol is deeply embedded in Western society whereas cannabis not so much, and I think this makes some conservatives more wary of marijuana while sometimes protective of alcohol.

I understand what you're saying regarding cultural views, but it's worth highlighting epidiomolgy showing alcohol is much worse than cannabis.

You know, I kind of feel like how many Conservatives must have felt around 2007/2008 with the rise of Sarah Palin and Tea Party, when the unhinged craziness of the fringes on the right started spilling over in to the mainstream. There was a long build-up to this, but this was probably the watershed moment. Objecting to a new health care system is perfectly fine and even required for a healthy democracy. Defacing Obama as Hitler over it is nasty, mean-spirited, and horrible. Fighting racism is great, but too many things I see now are just as nasty, mean-spirited, and horrible.

A while ago I wrote a comment else where that a lot of the craziness problems on the right are due to a lack of empathy. I think that if you swap out a few key terms a lot of it can apply to the "woke left", too. This is not a problem on the left or on the right. For every "woke" idiot you have a "shoot communist BLM protesters" idiots. I increasingly feel society as a whole is just breaking down, this isn't a left vs. right problem; for my part I think this is a media problem. "The news" is biased towards both rare and negative events, giving a very skewed perception of reality, and the internet only made that worse. These are problems that have been building for a while.

On the whole, I feel like framing this as a left vs. right issue is worse than harmful and actively contributing to the problem – it only feeds in to the cycle of anger. The article didn't do this, but from the comments on the article (as well as your comment) it's plenty clear that quite a few of its readers do.

It's a paragraph length re-iteration of this famous thesis.

> My eyes rolled after the opening paragraph.

My eyes rolled after reading your post. Arrogance is not a center-right tenant, from what I understand.

Just in case you don't already know, Kabaservice is working on another book titled Conservatism and the Republican Party - Releases 8/18/2022.

Then, there's also The Death of Conservatism: A Movement and Its Consequences, 2009 by Sam Tanenhaus. As the Liberal Republican faction fell, conservatism took hold of the party. Sam Tanenhaus writes about the other side of history against George Kabaservice's Rule and Ruin.

Behold, butthole nirvana.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00A0RMQ1E/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&amp;psc=1

I have the normie one. If you want to invest a bit more and have a warm water line near your toilet you can get one that's heated. I hear nice things about them.

I'd also point to proposals suggested by authors Ian Shapiro and Michael Graetz in The Wolf at the Door: The Menace of Economic Insecurity and How to Fight It.

Some of those I remember:

• Transitioning from unemployment to reemployment by providing universal adjustment assistance
• Expansion of EITC

I've got the Adams-Jefferson Letters sitting on my bookshelf and am looking forward to the opportunity to read through them.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08923JK7H/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_meaQFbJQ4ZF6T

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B087LR59CF/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_fabc_1eaQFb3C56VP0?_encoding=UTF8&amp;psc=1

Looks like you should be good

That and his massive ego. He was far from the strategic genius he made himself out to be. If you look at the way he talked at the outset of the Korean War and compare it to how he talked at the end, it's amazing. The hypocrisy is ridiculous. "There's no need to worry, I have everything under control, China won't intervene" became "I always said China wasn't going to intervene, and it's Truman's fault for not supporting me.

I strongly recommend The Coldest Winter by David Halberstam for anyone looking for a good chronicling of MacArthur and the Korean War.

Right?

We live in an age where the sum total of human knowledge is accessible at your fingertips for less money than the wages at a day working minimum wage.

https://www.amazon.com/BlackBerry-STJ100-1-Unlocked-Touchscreen-Smartphone/dp/B07BSQ388R/ref=sr_1_8?dchild=1&amp;keywords=smartphone&amp;qid=1595371428&amp;refinements=p_85%3A2470955011&amp;rnid=2470954011&amp;rps=1&amp;sr=8-8

If you can't pass a 10 question standardized test on basic civics and democracy at the polls, why should I trust your vision for the future of a nuclear arsenal at the tip of the strongest economy in the history of the world.

I'm not asking for a high barrier to democracy, but shit. We need A barrier.

I'm straight up looking at lamps on amazon because the one I read with isnt cool enough

It has nothing to do with funding. The Navy will always get whatever they want for the most part.

It's incompetence and mismanagement.

https://www.amazon.com/Bleeding-Talent-Military-Mismanages-Revolution/dp/0230391273/

I suggest you read this.

VERY few people with any aptitude remain in the military long enough to have any decision making power.

I once had an officer ask me "How do you tell what state your car is registered in?"

That officer is now a department head, and will soon promote to an XO billet due to attrition.

Do a deep dive into Naval procurement in the 21st century. The LCS program. The HSV program. The Zumwalt program. The cancellation of the CGx program. The F35 shitshow. The Ford shitshow. It's hundreds of billions of dollars thrown into the incinerator with absolutely no meaningful result.

Lots of rich contractors though.

Discussing tactical vulnerabilities of our ships on Reddit is not appropriate, but the vulnerabilities are there, and people are really freaking out about it.

https://mwi.usma.edu/era-drone-swarm-coming-need-ready/

Unfortunately, no, this is his book: Dereliction of Duty: Johnson, McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Lies That Led to Vietnam https://www.amazon.com/dp/0060929081/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_0SWqDbC69YFZD

Even if your argument was true. It doesn't de-legitimatize the Death Penalty.

The FDA, police officers, and other government entities with less constitutional legitimacy than the death penalty (see the Fifth and 14th amendments) have made errors that resulted in innocent deaths. That doesn’t render these entities and their functions illegitimate. It obligates government to do better.

Im sure the National Research Council does. It doesn't change the fact that my source disagrees.

> What gets little notice, however, is a series of academic studies over the last half-dozen years that claim to settle a once hotly debated argument — whether the death penalty acts as a deterrent to murder. The analyses say yes. They count between three and 18 lives that would be saved by the execution of each convicted killer. Among the conclusions:

• Each execution deters an average of 18 murders, according to a 2003 nationwide study by professors at Emory University. (Other studies have estimated the deterred murders per execution at three, five and 14).

• The Illinois moratorium on executions in 2000 led to 150 additional homicides over four years following, according to a 2006 study by professors at the University of Houston.

• Speeding up executions would strengthen the deterrent effect. For every 2.75 years cut from time spent on death row, one murder would be prevented, according to a 2004 study by an Emory University professor.