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What the article proposes (the government setting the maximum level of loan it will provide for a course) is essentially the Australian system.

The other aspects in the Australian system, though, are a "Commonwealth contribution" (part that the student does not have to pay back), an institutional maximum on how much the government will fund / underwrite that's dependent on institutional performance metrics (e.g. student employment rate on graduation), and that they alter how much students can be charged and how much the government will contribute depending on the subject area.

It gets very political and there are perverse incentives hidden in the detail.

(There's a couple of controversies in Aus higher ed at the moment. One is a lot of downsizing due to Covid affecting the international market. The other is proposed changes to the fee structure for particular courses and universities from the government.)

However, it does get universities to respond to government strategy, so I expect the people in government who run it are probably very happy.

Within government, I think they see university funding as also being one of the levers the government has to influence economic growth. For example, directing student places to a particular institution brings university jobs, students, and the students' living expenses into that university's town to grow it. By giving incentives for particular courses, they can feed particular industries with graduates, etc.

So you'll hear universities and government talk about "creating job ready graduates" (they've always talked about this), but also "creating graduate ready jobs" (universities as a mechanism for growing parts of the economy in an area)
Some people might not be lonely. They might just be horny, and have a fetish to see specific individuals, whose erotic content might not be available elsewhere.

Your model when thinking about this is to assume everyone thinks nude people are fungible, but people used to buy specific gossip magazines at the grocery store to see SPECIFIC celebrities caught in the nude. So this is not something new.
On the one hand you say spouses should not be responsible for maintaining a standard of living but on the other you say people should know what they’re getting into with marriage. This cuts both ways. If you don’t want to be solely responsible for someone else’s standard of living then maybe make sure they plan to be self-sufficient BEFORE you get married. Or sign a prenup. Alimony is no secret.

This becomes even more unrealistic when you introduce the concept of a “homemaker.” Usually that involves kids but it doesn’t necessarily have to. If a couple decides to have one get an education and a paying job and the other has responsibilities around the home then that is how they’ve chosen to divide their labor. You can’t just maintain a balance for your marriage but come divorce time say “oh well, they can take care of themself.” The working spouse has a massive head start and the non-working spouse has (possibly unwillingly) had a massive downgrade in QOL forced on them.

Alimony seeks to create equality. Either equality in success or equality in hardship. It probably isn’t a perfect system and I’ve seen instances where it is massively abused but I don’t think the concept or execution is overly flawed. Perhaps too many adults are jumping into marriage without fully understanding what it means and how it might end.
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The roi was also high during that period.

The price of services relative to goods has also trended strongly upwards during that period due to increased trade.

Urbanization and increased cost of living in some areas could be pushing up averages in costs.

Nobody pays the sticker price. A lot of colleges are subsidized by a small slice of wealthy and/or foreign students, so to maximize differential pricing, universities raise prices, and simultaneously offer larger tuition grants for need or merit.

There are a dozen reasons. Student aid is probably one of them too, absolutely.

I just worry about someone saying 'x' is the reason for some complex social or economic changes decades in the making. The interesting question to me is how to weight all these influences.
That never made any sense to me either. It's not like there's a huge pool of people saying 'Oh I really like that new Taylor Swift song, should I buy the album, or just go to the hairdressing salon and listen to it there?'. It's not a substitute good.

In the case of Facebook, I imagine there are people who read the headline + snippet on Facebook, look at the photo and then don't click the linked article, which seems more like actual infringement of the copyright. It's not the same as taking the entire newspaper and replacing all the ads with your own, but it's a bit like that, enough that I can see what the intention of the law was.
It's all complicated by the fact that the news organisations currently facilitate the process, and obviously at some point they thought it was worth it
> People donate thousands to streamers and models because they are [lonely].

Or because they like the entertainment? Some guy on twitch donated over $20k, over half of it for college students to do push-ups in exchange for free food (about the other half was tips to the workers of the streaming food truck [0]).

A happily married couple both watch a food streamer [1], they donated hundreds of dollar, probably over 1k.

Hell, I donated around $300 between the two mentioned streams, I’m happily married as well.

When people donate to FOSS authors, it’s because they want to support their work, but when they donate to streamers it’s because they are lonely?

Now certainly. There are those, and probably a lot more on streams featuring scantily clad women. But reducing it to that level is just wrong.

[0]: https://www.twitch.tv/grubtruckers

[1]: https://www.twitch.tv/kattskitchen
Do prenups work? My understanding is that many states effectively void them (including California).
There are definitely people who think both of those things are true, but you could also argue that the economic damage would have been the same and also that there would have been other costs (e.g. losses to individual autonomy, lost social connections / harms to community, resulting stress and trauma, etc. etc. )
This is one of the worst types of censorship. It doesn't help to repeal the act though. But certainly they seem to be afraid of what he has to say.
I’m merely talking about one statistic the poster stated. Not protests. I also only brought up sentencing to demonstrate the point that these statistics themselves lead to policies and processes that in turn feed the statistics.
What do you mean by submarine in this context?
This is nowhere more obvious than when comparing Monoprice vs Amazon.
Sweden's handling of the pandemic has been a catastrophe, causing the death of thousands of people.

If you look at the numbers of countries that had a decent pandemic response with lockdowns... like Vietnam, Croatia, New Zealand. These 3 countries account for 242 deaths.

Sweden alone accounts for 5800, almost 25 times as much as those 3 countries combined!

Sweden looks good only in comparison of other countries that locked down only after it was too late (e.g. UK, it was several weeks ahead of the curve, and it totally squandered that advantage). There's something to be said for Sweden's population managing to socially distance a bit without being compelled by law enforcement. But that doesn't help the economy anyhow, since they also got a 8% drop in their GDP.
yes! the volume control is huge for me
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It is a universally accepted truth that you should not trust actors with vested interests and a history of lying, yes.
Could a sliding scale work here? As in, for expected damage up to some threshold, advise only evacuating the most at-risk, such as those in lower elevations and in valleys, or those in older houses.
What do you mean? What would give foreign companies an advantage? If a transit construction project can be done at lower cost, isn't that a good thing, for the local government and for riders? And construction is something that hires local workers anyway.
I take pictures of personal identification because it's a legal requirement to hail a car (now that taxis are going extinct). I need it to use ewallets, contact tracing, all these things that are legal requirements because of COVID. I'm fine with the government having this, but not with this going in the hands of Google, Xiaomi, etc. I take photos of passwords sometimes, when there's no way to copy paste them from a protected computer.

We've had meetings early in the morning on Skype, which sometimes I drop in and Bluetooth in my car. We write meeting minutes and email them. Gmail is blocked by the company, but some of the consultants use it. Word is used to write them and now it syncs to a cloud. I can leave my phone on the table and nothing prevents Xiaomi from secretly recording it.

These are all questionable security practices. Our main competitors are tech giants, not some guys raising money on Indiegogo, and one of the clearance requirements is blocking Google Drive on computers.

Open source is great and all, but it's still easy to obscure. WhatsApp stores "no messages on their servers" but I don't buy that it's not reading my messages and giving "analytics" to Facebook.

Glasses, I can take off.
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why not randomize selection of everyone within a certain radius rather than just "closest" ? That seems like it would be more fair.
The hours can be pretty rough, though.
This actually is a broken part IMO. I’ve read that it actually just hurts both parties because a judge still must try to maintain an equivalent QOL but since alimony is paid from post-tax income now they cannot afford as much so less is taken. Likewise, even though it is tax-free for the recipient, since less is taken they often end up with less.

I can’t remember where I read this but I’ll see if I can track down a source.
Sure. So now the only source we're going to trust is the US State Department. Which, by the way, has quite the history in threatening journalists too.

Also, many news sources are already banned in China and have nothing to lose.
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> Google had spent $1.1 billion on the project [1]

The wikipedia also mentions Waymo raising ~2B and ~3b rounds that IIRC Google participated in as well. I'm surprised its so low honestly.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waymo
Your chances of landing a job in a research lab in undergrad probably doesn’t correlate with top research output. People who have armies of phds and post docs don’t have time for undergrads.

I spent my last 2 years of uni in a research lab and got some stuff published. Im pretty sure i got this opportunity because i went to a school with a dearth of grad students and i showed some initiative in an intro class for what became my minor.
> Onlyfans is, arguably, positioned to specifically exploit parasocial relationships.

i don't see anything wrong with that - it's a need that is being fullfilled. In a sense, it's the same category as prostitution, or gambling.
> but you could also argue that the economic damage would have been the same

I really doubt that. Look at how people were behaving until the day the lockdowns began. Look at how people are behaving now. They aren't afraid of going to bars and restaurants and shops. There is no good reason to believe that they wouldn't have behaved the same way the entire time, if the lockdowns had not intervened.

It's obviously true that the economy would have been damaged with or without the lockdowns. It's entirely different to claim that the damage without lockdowns would have been as bad as the damage with lockdowns.
Ask HN: Is Apple market cap rise justifiable?
I am trying to understand from $1T market cap of Apple jumped to $2.29T during last 6 months of pandemic.

Apple revenue is $260bn and net income ~$55bn, in third quarter of 2020 they had revenue increase of 11% from the year-ago quarter.

What is justification of additional 1,29 trillion (1,290,000,000,000 USD) in 6 months?

Entire world economy is just $86 trillion?!
Not sure. I’m no expert. I guess this is part of your pre-marriage research that you should be doing. And of course a frank discussion with your soon-to-be spouse about expectations is a good idea.
> are "stans"

the new name for this is SIMPs
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It isn't surging. A company selling downloadable
"legal templates" is claiming a 34% increase in sales. This is a clickbait PR stunt masquerading as news.
I’m not a lawyer, but as I understand it, prenups protect premarital assets (like your childhood pet or a necklace your grandma gave you), but would not protect you from income that was generated during the marriage, like if you started and sold a company.

There are special exemptions on inheritances that happen during the marriage, but you have to be careful with commingling assets and it depends state to state. Like if you provide the down payment, but split the mortgage, the house is 50/50 owned
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It doesn't deserve much nuance though. We had years of articles describing election interference and lying to people through that whole time.

I guess you could claim that Putin is even worse and just kills his opposition, but that doesn't justify the blatant lies. Be reminded that it was also used as a justification to defame whistle blowers as Russian assets.
As someone who moved into this city, after a year I see nothing good about San Francisco. It’s a shithole with every well off person in their little castles of crumbling houses that are worth $2.5M.

As a staunch democrat, I always wonder - why are cities in Red states such as Austin, Houston, Phoenix, Raleigh, Dallas have so much better infrastructure than Portland, Seattle, LA and San Francisco? Pot holes everywhere and homelessness out of control.
The IV of options is almost always too high (by too high I mean option prices are too high compared to mathematical fair value) and selling couple month out Vix futures is probably a great way to make some money right now. Moreover, the IV often fails to take into account upside volatility, effectively reducing the vix to an index that is inversely correlated to market returns.

I doubt the market will fall regardless of who gets elected, so the obvious trade would be to sell Vix futures and profit off of the carry. If you get scared, simply offset your position before the election and net a smallish profit (probably).

That being said, options IV is mostly a function of supply and demand, so it's totally possible that you could get crushed without any realized volatility at all.
You answered your own question. Seems you're having trouble taking responsibility for the fact that you acted unprofessionally by lashing out with presumptive attacks on my beliefs, which are incorrect. The culture of that workplace is a mitigating factor for the lower ranked staff, conversely it is a compounding factor for the senior staff that failed to put an end to it and discipline those involved.

Should you have been fired? Depends on how much you abused your privilege and what you did with that information. Your comparison to 1 strike laws and greater crime is pretty rich given the information you improperly accessed could be used to blackmail others, or whatever. It's important to treat such information with the utmost respect. Your cavalier attitude and inability to accept responsibility in this regard may be very common within the tech industry, but such attitudes are also why there is a growing movement to; take data out of the hands of companies, and to harshly punish companies who fail to protect the data on one hand while vacuuming up as much as possible with the other.
We do, although they seem to obey a power law distribution in "prestige". California has 116 community colleges (serving 2 million students), 23 campuses of the California State University, and 9+ campuses of the University of California.
@twblalock - can't reply to your reply so replying here instead.

I also doubt it and wouldn't argue it myself, I was just pointing out that making that argument need not imply that you think there are no other costs, i.e. those arguments are not equivalent.
Maybe I’m misunderstanding the link, but it appears to list several configurations where shooting uncompressed raw results in 12 bits.
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> Also AFAIA the only real difference between Onlyfans and Patreon is that one allows adult content.

I'm afraid you're being disingenuous. Up to this point of the discussion, the whole argument was about how platforms such as OnlyFans and to a lesser extent Twitch monetize loneliness via parasocial relationships. Platforms such as Patreon were not included because they don't focus on monetizing parasocial relationships due to the non-interactive relationship of their content. Your moralist red herring intentionally ignores the entire argument and is uncalled for as a blatant attempt to poison the well.
Honestly just a well flung pipe bomb over the fence from outside the property line would do some damage to an airport.
Community colleges and 4-year colleges aren't the same product. I'm asking why we don't simply have lots and lots more 4-year colleges, if the demand is so high that the prices can skyrocket the way they have.
Also, those three countries have combined population of 105+ million. Sweden has 10.3 million. Quick napkin calculation suggests a 244-fold death rate per capita.
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I don't think single party control is a good thing anywhere. I lean Democrat like most of us here, but I find myself avoiding deep blue cities.

A lot of Democrats are just as selfish, Republicans tend to be more open about it. Deep blue cities have the same corruption and social segregation as red ones do.

A lot of "hot" cities outside SV are Democratic mayors in Republican states. The mix keeps corruption low and forces compromises.

The homeless issue is a city scale prisoners dilemma. By offering better services you attract homeless. Homeless people aren't stupid and will move to places that suit their lifestyle better, just like we do. The only way to avoid it is better policies on a national level. Otherwise cities that treat homeless better just become a magnet for them.
First off, the 86T figure is the yearly GDP of the world whereas the 2T figure for Apple is the value they are worth to shareholders in perpetuity. Not directly comparable.

I would say the rise itself isn't logical but that doesn't mean it is overvalued now - perhaps it was undervalued before. The P/E ratio is 40. That is high but not crazy high if you think they can expand their profits from services and continue to expand to new countries like India. Additionally, they have so much cash and a business moat that even if things don't go well it is unlikely the value of the company could drop too far.

I will continue to hold my stock for now.
Yeah, all of the headline, article, and source seem to be junk here. This is a law firm publishing an online "newspaper" named after itself, running a news story with a headline that misinterprets a quote from their own employees. They said that their sales were up 34%, not that divorce rates went up 34%!
Dating or rather, relationships do take effort not unlike a second job. I don't know what that says about you.
Restaurants are waaay emptier then they used to be. What are you talking abou?
Tell a story about the "scammer" or "fraudster" that buys this. What do they do with it? What do they win, how many times do they win it, and with what likelihood of success? How much work goes into realizing value from the vulnerability before they get their first dollar, or whatever it is they're getting? Is that work already done, or do they have to do it speculatively on this one vulnerability?

Reason your way through it all the way, and you'll see why real vulnerabilities sold on darker markets are paid in tranches, and why nobody pays real money for one-off serversides.
Like others have said, "The Communist Manifesto" is the easiest entry point. My copy also has "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" which some say is the work most descriptive of the US today. "The State and Revolution" by Lenin is a relatively easy and enlightening read as he talks about the nature of the capitalist state, the police, and other topics. "Reform or Revolution" by Rosa Luxemburg is also clarifying as it talks about why reformists have lost the thread. However, there are also many many many leftist podcasts you can listen to that can be easier to digest and will get you the basics, so that way when you read the original works later you have a baseline of understanding.

Capital is a doorstop, but I have heard that past chapter one which talks about the labor theory of value, the reading is much more breezy.

However, while some of these books are dense, even rural peasants have been able to read and metabolize these books, so don't despair!
Is there really anything stopping someone from taking a little gopro mounted drone and crashing it into the engine of a 747 taking off at LAX? I doubt you'd even get caught if you are on the move immediately before LAPD rallies a police helicopter. I don't know why this sort of stuff doesn't happen way more often, be it state actor or insane person.
How can you reasonably compare an isolated island country like New Zealand with anyone else?
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I agree that social media doesn't promote the best voices, far from it. But that is a process that would get better with time. Censorship is certainly the wrong approach in any way and can get very dangerous.
I strongly doubt this, and especially the high percentage. Apparently, the numbers are based on online sale of legal templates. Maybe that took off, just like e-commerce in general.
TL;DR: the claim is that some quantum process is fundamental to brain functioning, and that makes upload impossible.

Well, really, there's no proof to that hypothesis. And I find the argument weak. The complex processes necessary for cells to live might have nothing or just a tiny bit to do with our consciousness.