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Completely Unwoven: Business, Economics, and Tax Policy 4.0

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dxmnkd316 said:
I always thought RCP was right-leaning.
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RCP was originally formed by two guys, one left and one right. The idea was to aggregate using point/counterpoint style, which is why their links typically alternate left/right.

Over time I have noticed that their original material has skewed right -- enough so that it sometimes is irksome. I don't know whether the plan was always to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, but it seems a little like that now.

I would blow away RCP but their poll of polls is still valuable even though it's not as sophisticated as 538, and they do a Senate and (theoretically at least) a House poll aggregation too.
 
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Kepler said:
RCP was originally formed by two guys, one left and one right. The idea was to aggregate using point/counterpoint style, which is why their links typically alternate left/right.

Over time I have noticed that their original material has skewed right -- enough so that it sometimes is irksome. I don't know whether the plan was always to be a wolf in sheep's clothing, but it seems a little like that now.

I would blow away RCP but their poll of polls is still valuable even though it's not as sophisticated as 538, and they do a Senate and (theoretically at least) a House poll aggregation too.
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Interesting. Agreed that they skew right and that they have the most polls in one place. Where they're losing it IMHO is some of the sources they use for the right wing counterpoint. National Review? Okay, no problem. Flagdudeblog.com? Definitely not a reputable source. ;)
 
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Rover said:
Interesting. Agreed that they skew right and that they have the most polls in one place. Where they're losing it IMHO is some of the sources they use for the right wing counterpoint. National Review? Okay, no problem. Flagdudeblog.com? Definitely not a reputable source. ;)
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The entire enlightenment period began because someone dared to challenge an "accepted" narrative. Only then are we able to root firm belief in our convictions, and become much wiser. If we do not consider all that is being discussed, we become the USSR with Trofim Lysenko, an echo chamber, the fanatic religions despised by many, whatever term you would like to use.
 
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joecct said:
My oldest son tried college, didn't like it and became an auto mechanic. His new job is grooming him for a management position.
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We had BOCES way back when I went to HS. It was a great program for kids who were automotive / mechanical geniuses. It was really well funded at that time, too -- they had great facilities. We should have much more of this.
 
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Kepler said:
We had BOCES way back when I went to HS. It was a great program for kids who were automotive / mechanical geniuses. It was really well funded at that time, too -- they had great facilities. We should have much more of this.
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My high school had an auto shop on premise where the teacher had classes from basic maintenance to repairs that he could be expect his students to complete within a single class. For the more interested students, they offered advanced classes at the county tech college a few miles east of the high school campus. I'd be curious to know who took that route thinking they'd get out of boring subjects, expecting to breeze on through school, and those who truly were serious about it as their potential career.
 
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Kepler said:
We had BOCES way back when I went to HS. It was a great program for kids who were automotive / mechanical geniuses. It was really well funded at that time, too -- they had great facilities. We should have much more of this.
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BOCES isn't limited to high school students, either; I get catalogues in the mail all the time for the trade school programs they also have for adults, or other educational opportunities, such as the pre-licensing course for drivers. Obviously the concern being raised is the same argument between public and private/parochial schools. It's not as prevalent because it isn't compulsory and there's still tuition fees involved, just like colleges and universities, but it does raise a bit of a concern when it comes to educational choices. Of course, I know I would always see apprenticeship as an option, speaking towards both sides...
 
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St. Clown said:
My high school had an auto shop on premise where the teacher had classes from basic maintenance to repairs that he could be expect his students to complete within a single class. For the more interested students, they offered advanced classes at the county tech college a few miles east of the high school campus. I'd be curious to know who took that route thinking they'd get out of boring subjects, expecting to breeze on through school, and those who truly were serious about it as their potential career.
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Some kids did it to get out of classwork, but most were there to learn a profession. One of the oddities, in retrospect, is that in the beginning (late 70s) computer skills classes were more numerous and better at BOCES because they were tied to particular work environments. For example, there were kids learning printing with an industrial linotype machine that was configurable with a sort of proto-firmware. The consequence was you had supposedly "rock head" kids stripping and rebuilding and modifying computers before the straight A science and math kids ever saw one. And the kids who did work with computers at that level really got their hands dirty and could understand assemblers and compilers and mainframes and even some rudimentary automation with sensors and servos. They were probably better prepared for a place like MIT than the honors students.
 
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What a mess!

South Korean shipping giant Hanjin is in bankruptcy proceedings, and has ships all around the world laden with cargo that may or may not be offloaded because port operators aren't sure whether they will get paid or not....

Hanjin and its clients are scrambling to move an estimated $14 billion worth of cargo off ships that are no longer operating normally in the shipping industry’s peak season ahead of the year-end holidays....

More than half of Hanjin’s ships have been blocked from docking at ports or denied service on fears they will not pay, while some ships have been seized by creditors.

As of Wednesday, some 86 vessels were not operating normally, Hanjin Shipping said.

With expectations high that Hanjin will eventually be liquidated, there is little clarity on just how the problem of stranded cargo will be resolved.

Hanjin is seeking stay orders to prevent its ships from being seized by creditors in 43 countries, ....

A US court on Tuesday granted temporary protection to Hanjin, allowing its ships to dock at US ports without the risk of being seized.
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dxmnkd316 said:
Hanjin? Holy ****.
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That might leave that million year-old Finnish (Norwegian?) dude as the only major shipper in the world.

How do you go bankrupt as a shipper? I thought that was a license to print, well, not money, but something valuable.

Edit: Maersk. They are more than 6 times the size of Hanjin. So I assume they'll just drink their milkshake and nobody will know the difference.
 
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Kepler said:
That might leave that million year-old Finnish (Norwegian?) dude as the only major shipper in the world.

How do you go bankrupt as a shipper? I thought that was a license to print, well, not money, but something valuable.

Edit: Maersk. They are more than 6 times the size of Hanjin. So I assume they'll just drink their milkshake and nobody will know the difference.
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Yeah, when I looked up the shipping companies by size, I would have expected Hanjin to be a much larger player considering how often I see their containers fly by the plant on the railroad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_container_shipping_companies_by_ship_fleets_and_containers
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Yeah, when I looked up the shipping companies by size, I would have expected Hanjin to be a much larger player considering how often I see their containers fly by the plant on the railroad.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_container_shipping_companies_by_ship_fleets_and_containers
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I heard the author of a book on intermodal shipping containers speaking on NPR. It sounds like the most boring thing on earth, but he made it incredibly interesting. He had a whole thing about the evolution of efficiency using a unit of measure they use in their biz which is something like the variance of actual shipping times per thousand mile-tons (i.e., one ton transported a thousand miles will miss its expected ship time within a margin of x). I don't remember the actual numbers but it was something like this: in the 18th century: 2 weeks, in the 19th century: 2 days, today: 2 minutes.
 
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