skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
'the parable of the workers in the vineyard', one of the weirder and more radical ones. It's a real hard thing to think about, which is probably why it sticks in my mind. It takes every normal rule about sensible economic practices and just stomps on it.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+20&vers...
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Jesus [0]. Now if that 1.6T was the money that Bernie Sander's himself had loaned out to students, I could see the connection here.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parable_of_the_Workers_in_the_...
If student loans could be discharged banks wouldn't lend to unworthy creditors. Because the bank gets paid back written in blood you might as well just provide as many as people will sign for. Doing useless degrees in particular seems like a better deal from the financing side. If this were normal debt and the degrees people got were useful, maybe yes.
You should also consider if the changes he wants are the changes you want, right?
Can someone else propose a bill to bar senators who are running for president from proposing bills?

I find this disgraceful. Most of these loans were taken by students and co-signed by parents / guardians. Meaning everyone knew what they were getting into. Presumably, because the parents / guardians are on the line if the students can pay their debt, they would / are providing guidance (i.e. thinking of the long-term impact).

Buying votes is the hallmark of American politics, usually with political favors; but this is a tad more than normal.

I'll take my $70k in loans over selling my soul.
The SEO mongers are on to that search already. I get spam blog posts with reddit in the title for no reason.
I remember 26 year old me making this same argument in 2008 on Craigslist Message boards about the housing crisis.
Sounds fine to me
Where else? The Bible. Jesus is trying to point out that it doesn't matter whether you were pious all your life or came to it late. You still get to enter the Kingdom of Heaven
They'd be better to redefine every individual debt as having an interest cap, retrospectively applied.
1) Interesting when you conclude 'dishonesty'with no contacting received. A second explanation would be that people put it to lost and found box or culturally/occupationally have the practice waiting instead of searching for the owner. For Japan you realized that and excluded it. For other countries, the way to deal with unattended belongings might not be as black and white as in Japan but certainly varies. I could also interpret the data as measuring active searching vs passive waiting strategies across countries.

2) I feel dishonesty is a too big word and this title/claim goes too far. I think it more reflects the sense of responsibility of the employees at this particular job. 'Not my business' is different from being dishonest.

The workload, the degree of satisfaction towards the job and even how natural to communicate in English/via email will largely affect whether an employee would send out that email, which isn't part of their duty in their understanding. They might just leave it there at the counter. Again, I won't call that person being dishonest.

3) The nonusual looking of the wallet and the whole act might be more perceived as a spam or fishing for info in certain regions. In deed, when I moved to one big city in the US, I became less willing to reply to missing phone calls compared to a rather spam-free top city of a different country. Your subjects in certain countries might just be very alert to your behavior.
One good reason is that a $1.6T handout to the "young and educated but not quite poor" is the wrong demographic. If you want to spend that money on an inequality fix (and I agree, we should spend that money on an inequality fix) it should be aimed farther down the ladder. But it's better than nothing.
The reality is these stupid recipe websites are just reproductions of other people's recipes anyway. Look for an "adapted from" credit - it will only have minute changes. Maybe they halve the cream somewhere "because it's too rich for their family" or something.
Is it really private if it's backed by the government and immune to bankruptcy?
Boil a pot of water and dump on top of the ant colony mound. You will want the hot water to reach the queen and kill it.
This is one of the most ridiculous things I've heard suggested yet. It goes against every value of fairness we hold.

Bernie essentially wants to forcibly take money from everyone who was financially responsible enough to save and pay off their loans early, or who like me worked their asses off through college to be able to graduate without debt, and use it to pay those who were irresponsible enough to dig themselves into a massive debt hole.

I have little empathy for people with student or credit card debt. You took a deal knowing the terms full well, you have no right to complain that you owe the money you already spent but never earned.
Or those who skipped going to school because they did the math and figured out it was not worth the debt. Can those people go get free degrees too?

I don't know what the solution to correct the past problem is. But I don't like setting the precedent that if the masses fuck up and make poor choices that they should get a pass later.

I could 100% get behind student lone forgiveness if any degree issued was paid for by debt being forgiven was made null. This protects those who figured out how to pay them off, and those who did not get degrees because of the cost. Each person would be able to chose their degree over debt -- the same decision many of made in the past.

To fix the issue moving forward, guaranteed loans need to be done away with and lenders need to weigh risk and validate loans based off merit and a degree's likelihood produce a job to pay off the loan.
Right now you can’t pay down employee’s student loans without it being considered taxed income. Even if the money goes from the employer to the loan servicer. It’s ridiculous. This does not need to result in a cancellation of all debt to result in progress.
I understand moving the Overton window, but a plan like this just seems infeasible and dangerous. Like drug prices, the price of higher education should absolutely come down (or wages rise faster than the cost of higher education).

I actually think the Department of Education's strategy is a good step forward here. By publishing earnings data of grads by major it helps inform prospective students of what would be a prudent major.

My hope is that with the resurgence of the space sector with private space companies and going to Mars, that kids will have a new found interest in the sciences and move into more technical fields.
I feel like sometimes short-term solutions can undermine long-term solutions.

If the root of the issue is skyrocketing college cost due to lack of supply then this is going to reward all the consumers who weren't financially responsible (i.e. majored in something unprofitable), which in turn alleviates the market pressure on colleges to offer better value.
I went back to grad school to get my computer science degree, I still owe more than 35K from my bachelors and masters combined and I can say honestly this is a terrible idea.

According to both liberal and conservative economists making higher education completely free is an awful economic policy. We're already running a deficit. Make it means based.

For those those making less than 100K, for teachers, social workers, working for non-profit give those people a break. We loaned billions to financial institutions at exceptionally low interest rates during the economic crisis, give those same rates for college loans.

But don't just cancel all of it. That's terrible economic policy.
I wish college had been free for me too -- that would've drastically changed my relationship with where I could decide to attend.

But if we generally improve society in any way, it means that some of the difficulties / obstacles that people have faced so far will be more rarely faced (or maybe eliminated) by people who come after the changes.

It isn't fair any more than it was fair that people who learned to program in the 80s/90s had to buy their compilers and software and didn't have Stack Exchange. Or, more dramatically, it isn't fair any more than it's fair for people who suffered or died from infectious illness before antibiotics.

As the saying goes: we all sit in the shade of trees we did not plant, we all drink from wells we did not dig. If we're bitter about planting trees we don't get to sit under, we break the chain that lets society move forward.
> And what is the incentive for anyone to choose a cheaper public school, rather than an expensive private one?

From the article

> as part of a package that also would make public universities, community colleges and trade schools tuition-free.

There would be no incentive to pick a cheaper school because all schools would have the same price -- $0.00. Students should go to the best school they can get into. Schools should enroll the best students they can attract. It's better for both parties.
So what you're saying is... there's a compromise to be made?
For comparison, Obama bailed out wall street in 2008 for 3.6T. Bernie is still on the cheap.
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> Everyone

I don’t want the government to spend at all. I don’t want a government at all.

Yes, I’d be happy to pay a toll on every other road and every time I cross a bridge. Yes, I’d be happy to carry a firearm at all times (the SCOTUS ruled that the police don’t really have the duty to protect you anyway).

Most ambulances are private already.
> I don't know why anyone even pretends there is a "fiscally conservative" end of the spectrum. A few writers at the WSJ and a banker or three does not a demographic make.

How does a perspective like that gel with a state like Texas?

https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/per-capita-state-s...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_GDP_per...

> The galaxy brain end of things is the realization that, yes, US government debt is almost literally free money in every sense of the word

How does a perspective like this gel with any of the numerous hyperinflation states that have tried this?
I pay people for it all the time. They ask me for a reasonable amount of money, I give it to them, I get fairly simple access to a file without any further restrictions. But I only get that opportunity from people that understand they're not in the supply chain business. Unfortunately, most people and organizations do not realize that and never provide any means to conduct a fair transaction.
There's no such thing as free money. The economy and the Fed does not run on magic. Financial ruin is a very real possibility for the United States.
How does it go back to the banks?
Hopefully this just leads to free tuition in the US. People in other countries already make fun of us and say we "buy our degrees".
How are this and ACA even remotely similar? This proposal doesn't even address the cause of high costs of education. So, we pay it all off and then wait for the next bubble. That's like implementing TARP in 2008/2009 to buy up bad banking assets and doing nothing else to prevent it from happening again.
I wish Haskell had better syntax for records, but to be honest it’s very rare that it actually presents a real issue in practical code that I write. Sure, it can be a bit awkward to update nested records, but I struggle to think of more than a few cases where it’s caused me any real grief, and even then it was only an issue of convenience (having to write a slightly more awkward line of code) as opposed to causing bugs or preventing a satisfactory solution to a problem. I readily admit it’s something that could be improved, but I think it’s more of a hobby horse than a real problem. YMMV of course. For what it’s worth, I’ve written tens of thousands of lines of Haskell over the past few years and have barely ever used lenses. They’re really there as a convenience for people who are familiar with them. Understanding lenses is by no means a prerequisite to writing practical code in Haskell.

I find it hard to co-sign on your assertion that all non-trivial programs require mutation. This hasn’t been my experience at all. While having access to side-effects is certainly essential (which Haskell is fully capable of doing), mutation is quite rarely needed in my experience. In the cases that it is, IORefs are trivial to use. On top of that Haskell has MVars, which I hazard to claim are the best concurrent mutation primitive I’ve ever had the pleasure of using. Quite the opposite of being crippled.
Not everything is about strategy. Bernie already wanted to make collage free. It would be unfair if he did not also want to erase student loans.
Stupid question: if they don't ship an i386 version, how would the snaps be created? Since there would no longer be a root disk it could be based on…

I'm probably missing something obvious?
Yes, I had intended on spending this month on the audio codec for nexus 5 but was deterred by the modem not working. I want to split my time between reverse engineering mediatek baseband and getting a pmos daily driver going with the shelli UI. So hope to come back to the audio codec in about a month. Hopefully somebody comes along and does it before me! :p ;)
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What obligation? If this passes, student loans were never an obligation, so he can't have been fulfilling one. Instead he made a gift to the treasury.
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We need more startup to use Haskell in production, like Dfinity.
I didn't say they were similar, I said that the ACA is an example of legislation that was passed through compromise.
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And if's really justice driving someone, they should be angry at colleges who charges tens of thousands of dollars for degrees they knew going in were going to be worthless. I see forgiving this 1.6T in debt without correcting that system of injustice as compounding injustice even more.
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... It's not a compromise if you're negotiating with yourself.
Let me preface this by saying I 100% don't see this happening anytime soon...but.

Would you prefer we just keep going at this pace and hurting future students because in the past people had to pay? Sounds like a pretty shitty future.
Not to mention that the beneficiaries are by definition college educated, meaning they are currently or will in the future be among the highest income groups in the country!
I don't think the very poor make up much of the voting population.
Wish I would have known this before I served 6 years in the military to get my GI bill to go to college. Is this ridiculous to anyone else?
I'm currently enjoying Thimbleweed Park, and while not the same genre Return of the Obra Dinn is fantastic.
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Are we trying to solve inequality? Look at demographics the millennials are the largest voting group now surpassing the boomers. Student Loans debt is killing them. Millennials are poor compared to their counterparts. Seems good politics if anything. This idea that democrats or republicans are looking for solutions to fix the country is laughable at this point.
It gets paid to some banks from taxes on other banks.
You design a system for the citizens you're representing. Not for citizens you ideally want to be representing.

Are these debts using people's ignorance about financial terms to make money? AKA Are they predatory? - If so then that's a bad thing.

You might not care - but I care about the well being for people I'm sharing a society with. I don't want people taken advantage of. I don't want education to have capital associated with it. I want people to be able to get education without "oh will i be able to pay off the loans for this education."

So you might think you did a good job working your ass off affording education. People like Sanders and I think that getting a quality education should be completely unrelated to "working your ass off."

I've also worked my ass off to afford my education. I still think it's a bad system and I don't care if my taxes are rerouted from killing people in foreign countries to helping my society get stronger and better.
Like you, I have hard time empathizing with people that put themselves in debt "knowingly". It is hard to not think they are just stupid. The issue is, I was lucky to have the opportunity to be educated about these risks early enough. I have hard time blaming people of not knowing something that was never alluded to when they were growing up (e.g. credit is not free money). Otherwise I agree with you, this is a ridiculous solution to an otherwise real problem.
If Sanders won the presidency on this platform, there would be some pressure to support the policies that got him elected.
Especially since our federal loan programs have very generous repayment plans. 20 years paying no more than 10% of your disposable income and it gets wiped out.

I paid 264k plus interest. It’s bullshit to tax me further to pay off loans for people who can afford to pay it.
and the Kingdom of Heaven does not have to have anything to do with “what happens to you when you die”.

Along with “son of man”, it’s one of the more undefined but well known phrases from the NT.

I tend to think it’s got vastly
more to do with improving the life we know than it does with anything about “getting to go to heaven if you’re good”
Has Dfinity launched yet?
I used this setup daily on a geeksphone keon for about a year. I liked it quite a bit. Sadly the screen got broken and 2G service was getting bad. :) I hope to bring this fun experience to another phone with pmos. After the modem starts working I can pull together what I had before for texting and contacts and push it to the shelli repo.
The ACA was only voted for by one party hardly a compromise, and because of that it had been crippled on the state level where it absolutely needed support. So, still a poor example.
To do this fairly it would have to be a kind of retroactive scholarship for all students, where you would be refunded your tuition as well.

Of course, then there are the people who chose not to study at university in the first place for financial reasons. I don't think there's a completely fair answer.
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Although I do think that education should be mostly free (which also means that the university degrees will be at according to the country needs... so there it goes most liberal arts degrees out the window), I think it's a very bad idea to change the rules of the game ad posteriori.

We can't trust a state that just keeps changing the rules like this.
I also experimented quite a bit using pocketsphynx for voice recognition and espeak for synthesis. Some things worked pretty well if I kept the set of recognizable things small, which I liked anyway.
> This is one of the most ridiculous things I've heard suggested yet. It goes against every value of fairness we hold.

But it will work. It's outrageous, but it works (in getting you elected.) If you remember, there was a guy called Vladimir Lenin. He used slogans like that to the effect of "social earthquakes"

I will not be surprised if 99% of people in hopeless debt trap will vote for that without a second of hesitation.
I agree this is straight up pork barrel politics, not good policy, and rewards poor behavior without anything preventing the problem from happening again.

A simpler, fairer proposal: give _everyone_ who attended college in the last X years $Y per year attended. At least that way the good actors aren't punished to subsidize the bad ones, and everyone is still drawn towards lower cost programs and valuable degrees.
I have auto-input select disabled since I only use my monitor with a dock. Still takes 15 seconds.
I believe Andrew Yang proposed something similar
Why should not that not be considered taxable income?

If it wasn't taxable income, you'd incentive students taking unnecessary loans senior year so they could get tax free income the subsequent one. Which accomplishes nothing but reduced government revenue and additional government money going to loan servicers.
you mean this one signed by Bush?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emergency_Economic_Stabilizati...

'free market economics'
> My other option was to translate it into real assembly

I wrote a compiler from emoji-code to amd64 (mostly because I'm more interested in compilers than reversing). It runs quite fast - prints the whole domain in ~1 min. I'd highly recommend it to people who are into assembly, it was a fun exercise.
digital copying has never existed before, it's a new ability due to computer and information technology.

up to the internet any digital (or analog) copies needed to be transfered along with a physical (thus exclusive) object.

of course none of the copyright justifications are based on the cost of copying becuase it had never been so easy to do. I can't imagine the legal justification of anything being based on technological possibilites from future times.

in any case I think about it "from the other direction" (so to say). I start from the fact that digital copying is so increadiby cheap/easy that we should take advantange of this technological ability instead of trying to diminish it because of "the market's business interests"
For personal listening maybe. PA systems for concert halls are sold in blind demos. Several vendors competing for the contract hang their systems behind an acoustically transparent curtain and the buyer decides which one sounds best.
Most schools are private.
Warren's suggestions seem more practical/plausible/informed. Any particular reason you are lumping them with Sanders'?
The private entities that hold this debt are generally completely different from the entities whose activities would be taxed.
So you haven't heard about the Libertarian party, which got close to 5% of the popular vote last election? There is absolutely a large demographic (which includes libertarians but also goes far beyond) which wants to drastically reduce the size of government spending.
The new taxes on the banks pay off the loan balances owed to the banks
Citation is definitely needed, but I would suggest that it depends on your definition of popularity. I think the PSP was king at least in terms of desirability. (I may be biased though as my web development career started with making PSP portals ) PSP was substantially more expensive than the DS which would have affected the sales (especially when the DS was such a worthwhile console to own.)
The parable literally starts saying "The Kingdom of heaven is like"... so you can't really escape from that context.