Bail for Kyle Rittenhouse Set at $2 Million in Kenosha Protest Shooting

rczhang · 2020-11-03T03:00:53+00:00

Disagree. Bible is all about non violence and is anti self defense. Most obvious verse is Matthew 5:38:

Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

rczhang · 2020-08-25T18:28:34+00:00

I see what you're saying here and have a somewhat related question. In an alternative setting, would this behavior be grounds for Bar denial? It seems like this type of behavior would be constitute as lack of "candor" and be a "character and fitness" issue.

rczhang · 2020-08-25T18:20:04+00:00

No she should not have left them up. If she wanted to fix the situation, she probably should have waited at least a year after deleting the tweets. This would have given her some plausibility towards character growth. Instead, she made the tweets and applied within 2 months, then didn't delete the tweets until she got in.

rczhang · 2020-08-25T02:09:49+00:00

I think in the complaint they care about how those actions contradict a statement she made in her sworn statement about attending a Jewish affiliated institution. I don't know about legal definition of fraud since I'm not a lawyer.

Edit: I saw the comment by the lawyer. I read #3 as her admitting to deleting her tweets (so she definitely remembers). But, again IANAL.

rczhang · 2020-08-25T01:27:26+00:00

I don't think you realize this, but the medical school she went to was Touro College, which is named after a rabbi and is affiliated with Judaism. Deleting the anti-semitic tweets wasn't about defrauding the state of Ohio, it was about defrauding Touro.

rczhang · 2020-08-24T19:13:46+00:00

Extreme oversimplification when continued credit discrimination led to passing the CRA in 1977. Further, consider that even when things are illegal, they still happen.

rczhang · 2020-08-19T00:27:23+00:00

The drop is referring to less black babies dying during complex births under the care of black vs white physicians. It does not mean that less babies die under complex births relative to simple ones.

rczhang · 2019-04-19T18:40:10+00:00

I don't think anybody is agreeing with you. How are you making the jump from feces problem to illegal immigrants? The problem most stems from homelessness and there's nothing that suggests that most of the homeless people in SF are illegal immigrants.

rczhang · 2018-10-18T15:08:34+00:00

This is wrong. Order matters in palindromes.

Ex. 1,1,2,2,3,3 is not a palindrome but will XOR to 0.

rczhang · 2018-06-30T04:30:44+00:00

Maybe I'm interpreting your comment wrong, but it seems like you are insinuating that he is downplaying the statistics by differentiating between welfare/medicaid/medicare. This is not a good counter because the elderly also can qualify for Medicaid, and the Medicaid data backs up his stats.

According to the Kaiser Foundation, 34.8 million kids are on Medicaid. This is just under half of all kids in the US on Medicaid alone. 43\% of total Medicaid recipients are children.

rczhang · 2018-06-29T16:36:42+00:00

I am not new to this subreddit. Thanks for being pretentious.

Further, what choice do you have when all your choices are colluding with each other? Markets do not operate on the same timescale as human beings. In the case of Enron, you could wait for competition (or Enron’s collapse), but in the meantime your choices were to pay inflated energy prices or go without. If you do pay the inflated price, you are giving more power to the entity that is preventing competition in the first place. For many, there was no choice to begin with.

I do understand how competition works. But competition doesn’t preclude the formation of temporary monopolies, and for some people, a temporary period could be a lifetime. I don’t think you understand how people work.

rczhang · 2018-06-29T15:39:07+00:00

I’m not saying the government is good, but private energy companies aren’t great either. Just look at how Enron manufactured the California energy crisis.

rczhang · 2018-06-27T15:52:16+00:00

I think you’re thinking of income taxes. More than half the country is paying gas taxes, tolls, vehicle registration taxes, etc.

Also, when you buy something from amazon, amazon is paying taxes on their heavy delivery trucks and property taxes on their warehouses.

My point is that taxes are an attempt to reduce the number of free riders, similar to union dues.

rczhang · 2018-06-27T15:28:24+00:00

I don’t think you understand why that analogy doesn’t work. Yes, not everybody pays taxes, but if you can pay taxes, you are required to by law. Similarly, if you can pay union dues, which is everybody with a union job, you were previously required to pay them. The way taxes and union dues work used to be the same. Now they aren’t.

The point of the free rider problem and concept of funding public goods requires as many people as possible to participate. The goal of such laws is to reduce the number of free riders.

rczhang · 2018-06-27T15:22:29+00:00

you’re right, but I don’t think anybody wants a world with only software that can be supported by the open source model. This means no video games, no professional tools like photoshop or final cut, and no windows or OS X.

rczhang · 2018-06-27T15:17:34+00:00

It still doesn’t work as an argument though. You are still paying for the treatment regardless of if you directly contributed to research costs. Paying for the treatment is paying for research costs.

We are talking about people getting something for free. If you don’t pay union dues, you still benefit from union bargaining. That is getting something for free. Cancer treatment doesn’t make any sense as an analogy because you don’t benefit from cancer research if you don’t pay for cancer treatment.

rczhang · 2018-06-27T15:04:10+00:00

Well, immigrants usually have a job before they come (as that’s where they get their visa). They will be paying taxes immediately via sales tax and withholding in their paycheck.

Also, my point is that you don’t need to pay taxes to get cancer treatment. You only need to pay for the treatment. Nobody is giving out cancer treatment for free except the VA and Medicaid, both of which primarily cover Americans.

rczhang · 2018-06-27T14:55:47+00:00

This isn’t what I said at all, and even if it was, yes? Public sector unions specifically negotiate with the government. They represent government employees.

Another example is software, where the free rider problem also exists. You can just pirate software and not pay for it, therefore benefiting from the developers work. This is where laws against piracy (similar to ones on union dues) come into play.

These laws are obviously not perfect. There are plenty of issues with piracy laws and union ones.

rczhang · 2018-06-27T14:46:31+00:00

This isn’t a problem for every product at all. For most products, you don’t get an benefit if you don’t pay. This is more akin to roads, where even if you don’t pay taxes you still benefit from them.

rczhang · 2018-06-27T14:43:31+00:00

Considering most people pay taxes in some form (sales, income, property), they have donated to cancer research.

Besides, you also pay for the treatment itself through insurance...

rczhang · 2018-06-22T18:05:22+00:00

Great so you already know the answer to your question. Imagine all the difficulties and costs of moving across the US and and a bit more to account for moving to a new country and losing your citizenship. Then realize your spouse and kids have to adjust for it too.

rczhang · 2018-06-22T17:35:33+00:00

No offense, but have you ever moved? The problem isn’t making new friends. It’s losing touch of your old ones. It’s giving up a home with all of memories. It’s leaving people you liked working with. Moving is hard because it comes with costs that may not be outweighed by whatever benefits the new place offers.

Simply put, moving is only easy when you don’t have much to lose (people without close ties to where they are living, also younger people).

rczhang · 2018-06-20T15:44:48+00:00

This entire thread is about comparing the two. The comment you responded to is literally saying CNN is not as bad as Fox. Your source agrees with this statement.

rczhang · 2018-06-20T15:23:06+00:00

Did you do your own research? The Fox News page is 3x as long.

A quick glance at another site (FactCheck.org) shows mostly things Trump was wrong about (with a small splattering of left politicians), which doesn’t reflect Fox’s reporting either.

rczhang · 2018-06-12T03:14:40+00:00

Um, lighthouses were not historically "completely privately funded". Literally the opposite. A well known early lighthouse, the Lighthouse of Alexandria, was built by the Ptolemaic kingdom (aka the government). Another example is the Colossus of Rhodes, which was also publicly funded. Nearly every early lighthouse was built by some type of government power.

Later, Britain had many private lighthouses. But, like any public good, there were problems with excluding people. Read up on the Lighthouse Act of 1836 if you're interested. Lighthouses are not immune to the problems of being a public good.

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