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Comment Free college degrees (Score 1) 107

According to the first source, the total spending by colleges in the USA is $700 billion.

That would make the spending the second largest federal government budget item, just below social security.

- What gets cut from the federal budget?
- Will the free college include free books, free housing, free transportation, free school supplies?
- How many dollars of free education at the college level will someone be limited to over their lifetime?
- Will there be age limits so that going to free college is not a retirement entertainment plan for people who are very unlikely to pay payroll taxes?
- Will there be limits so that someone cannot relocate to the USA, get a free education, then relocate to another country?
- Will the free college be means tested, so that a wealthy family's daughter or son does not get free education?
- Will the free college be limited to public universities, or can it be used to pay for buildings / salaries for religious universities?

Since the earlier comment was mentioned that payroll taxes will be higher, will their be a clawback if someone goes to college for free and either does not graduate, never works, or earns less than 1.5x minimum wage? The clawback being turning the free college which is unused / underused into a college loan or garnishment of wages / transfer payments.

Source A - Educational spending https://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/...
Source B - Federal budget spending https://fiscaldata.treasury.go...

Dennis Moore - "Blimey, this redistribution of wealth is trickier than I thought."

Comment Re:The most valuable lesson (Score 2) 26

13) Disclose if an interview has prepared questions and prepared answers
14) Disclose if an interview was scripted or based on press kit from the interviewee
15) Disclose if the article is just another low effort social media scraping
16) Report medical news for medical conditions affecting women and men from both the men's perspective and the woman's perspective, not just one gender repeatedly with a non-valid "it also affects the other gender too" fake equality

Comment FOSS developer retirements expected (Score 1) 74

Speculating that lots of FOSS project maintainers will retire from their project based on maintainer age and other demographics.

What should come out this is what code structure, such as a 10 +/- line window around the bug, is common so that compiler, syntax checkers, code suggestion tools, etc. can recommend, compiler warn or fail to compile those language patterns.

And then again, some languages, like C / C++ can be changed that a free() or dispose call set the variable to Null instead of letting it reference the already released memory.

Comment Re:The most valuable lesson (Score 3, Interesting) 26

Just a disclosure of source documents would help.

A journalistic code of ethics where the reporters are disclosing at the media biases, source biases at the top of the article would help.

1) don't equate individual events and blame a larger group (nadir fallacy / association fallacy)
2) don't report opinions as science or proven facts just based on them originating in an academic journal, questionable methodology in an academic paper, academic expert's opinions'
3) don't equate anecdotes as news, a trend, an epidemic
4) don't confuse a civil case loss with a criminal case conviction or use the definition of the crime as a name for the civil case
5) don't report on the laundry list of past real or imagined historical events as grounds for a call to action / fix this crisis agenda
6) don't parrot think tank or agenda based nonprofit 'research'
7) don't invent new agenda based terminology,
8) disclose the political bias, employment bias, social biases of experts quoted,
9) avoid having persons not in a demographic group write about the life experiences, issues, problems of people in the demographic group
10) don't do the end of life, end of political career, end of business career, etc. articles with the "ten musicians (former music star) hated to work with" agenda
11) don't repackage the book tour press package as news or report on the two or three outrageous revelations from a tell all book
12) don't report on political investigations which have only allegations, testimony

Comment Eating too much rice history (Score 1) 109

Have not heard the Einstein one.

Here is one which may be an informative read. It's much like the British Navy's discovery that vitamin C prevented scurvy. I heard this Japanese navy history and the science battle behind it on a radio documentary.

https://nationalinterest.org/b...
Eating Too Much Rice Nearly Crippled the Japanese Navy
November 1, 2020

Here’s what you need to remember: Sixteen per cent of all disease and injury in the Imperial Japanese Navy in 1882 stemmed from this one sickness. Beriberi.

In August 1882 in Incheon Bay near Seoul, four Japanese warships were locked in a tense stand-off with two Chinese warships that had brought troops to quell a revolt on the Korean peninsula.

On paper, the Japanese flotilla outnumbered the Chinese, but the hulls of the Japanese ships hid a deadly secret. Less than half of their crews could man their stations. ...

Comment Another "fund my area" advertisement news article (Score 1) 81

Art, singing, music and other creative ares may help us live a better longer healthier life.

Don't need another "news" article with its thinly veiled call to taxpayer "fund the arts" advertisement.

Conjecture: There is a decline in the number of lifelong patrons willing to fund opera, classical music, museums and other fine arts.

Conjecture 2: The boomer generation has kept tens of thousands of world-class art pieces in private inaccessible collections for decades, mainly as an investment and now the next generation needs to sell them for cash, find a museum willing to display and take on the cost of curation and insurance risk that art.

Comment not the top headline (Score 1) 94

Stop giving the distractions and news to divide people a mention.

The first headline and policy issue should be "How to make South Korea a livable country, where people start families in their early 20s, most families stay together for decades, and where parents can raise their own children without working at the office + home for 90 hours a week?"

Decades of ignoring 50% of the population and paying/handouts to the other half the population have not increased family formation or reduced the number of childless women.

Ignoring for decades that there is no equality if men have by law 18 months of forced labor to server in the military while women have no required by law national service of any kind (building roads, cutting trees, working on a farm 12 hours a day outside). Women do not have by law to go into the military, they can do civil labor jobs outside of the cities, building roads, farming, logging, and building.

Comment Report by admission type (Score 1) 177

Need to see the grade point averages by degree, and admission type to see how legacy admissions get graded versus students who are not legacy admissions.

A legacy admission would be the daughter or son of a person who attended Harvard, usually from a very wealthy family.

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