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maldusiecle
·27 дней назад·discuss
50% of global streaming revenue, you bet it its
maldusiecle
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
In the US, they do.
maldusiecle
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
> long track record of being happy when he moves people even marginally towards his views

Most cranks are.

Caplan is a radical libertarian bent on annihilating what few functioning social institutions we have left.
maldusiecle
·3 месяца назад·discuss
In 1979, 13% of US hourly workers were making the federal minimum wage. By 2025, that number had dropped to 1%.

Inflation-adjusted wages have been at worst stagnant. Inflation-adjusting prices is necessary for these comparisons to be meaningful at all.

This is a website for engineers, you should be embarrassed to be posting these completely innumerate comments.
maldusiecle
·3 месяца назад·discuss
Yeah it's really messed up that middle class people can't afford to...rent movies...anymore?
maldusiecle
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
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maldusiecle
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
> In matters of bathroom, locker-room, and sports segregation, universities will define sex categories based on reproductive and biological criteria.

In other words, trans people can't use the bathrooms matching their gender identity.

> Calls for ideological diversity, not just at the campus level, "but within every field, department, school, and teaching unit."

In other words, every academic department is susceptible to ideological litmus tests defined by the state. If Trump's white house feels like your Computer Science department has too many Democrats in it, you fix that problem or you lose your funding.

> Restricts student visas to foreign students who ... "are ... supportive of, American and Western values."

In other words, another ideological litmus test, only in this case the consequence is that foreign students can be thrown out at will.

> Requires that "university employees, in their capacity as university representatives" as well as all colleges, faculties, departments, and other academic units "abstain from actions or speech relating to societal and political events"

In other words, tenured faculty lose their right to free speech.
maldusiecle
·7 лет назад·discuss
Do ebooks cost a similar amount to print books? If you limit what you're buying to recent bestsellers and the like, sure. But many ebook sellers, including Amazon, routinely have massive sales. I've bought ebooks for $2 or $3 apiece. I don't see similar discounting for physical books unless they're secondhand and well-worn--and usually even in that case the price doesn't go so low.

I use ebooks for books I think it's less likely that I'll reread, when I can get a bargain.