So, I know something about this because I used to do a lot of housing affordability research.
The 30% is a long-standing rule of thumb used for housing affordability, so the National Low Income Housing Coalition didn't pull it out of thin air, Australia and New Zealand both use it too.
As for where it comes from, well it doesn't come from anywhere that I'm aware of. The trouble with poverty threshold sis that they are all arbitrary at a certain point. Because, as Adam Smith pointed out the only real test of poverty is social expectations, and those change over time and between places. What this means that all you can really do is pick a line and stick to it for comparability reasons.
So, while there isn't some unassailable logic behind 30%, it's as good as any other threshold, and it is a conventional one - they didn't pick it for rhetorical purposes.
It's only partially about trust - I also just prefer to play a finished game over an incomplete one. The one game I've bought in early access was Factorio, and that's because I found the concept too compelling to leave alone, and it behaved like a complete game, even though it wasn't.
As an aside, Factorio is due to leave early access in a few weeks, I should write a Saturday Gaming post for it in celebration of it actually being finished.
My main issue with this quote is that it implies a uniformity of purpose with "the white man". The people who can control sports team names and how TV shows are broadcast don't have the power to change police policy. They're probably just mostly trying to make gestures int eh direction of anti-racism and hope an angry mob doesn't descend on them.
For the politicians making symbolic gestures though, Malcolm X is dead-on.
So the original reason for a Federal City was that the Federal Government didn't want to be held accountable for not paying its debts? That's very on-brand.
This is a very good piece Kristen, the need to have systems that don't assume good faith in our leaders is an important part of The Scottish Enlightenment and is key to create a successful government.
I can't help but feel that a lot of the US's residual social problems are caused by the fact the US was far too kind to the Confederacy. As Machiavelli put it:
"You must entice men or else destroy them utterly, for mean will avenge a light insult but cannot avenge a heavy one."
The USA should not have lightly insulted the Confederacy.
Bear in mind that social license is more about specific activities than whole agencies. For example, the police here recent trialled having some police armed as fast-response units. Cabinet didn't intervene to stop it, but the police have decided not to implement the armed teams permanently, in no small part due to public outcry. Because the police don't have social licence to walk around carrying guns in New Zealand, unlike in the US.
There's a concept that gets thrown around a lot in New Zealand government called "social licence". It''s about the public's willingness to go along with government policy, as distinct from just looking at the legal powers a government agency has.
I think a lot of US police forces are about to find out what it looks like when they lose their social licence, and I don't think they're going to enjoy it.
New Zealand is free of COVID cases as of Monday, and we've just dropped our Alert level down to the minimum - basically the border control are in place and we're being asked to keep track of our movements but otherwise things are largely back to normal here.
It looks like locking down hard and fast has worked out for us.
It's the nature of an evangelical faith. Christianity teaches that everyone should be Christian, and Christians have an obligation to try and make that happen. Therefore 30% is not enough, they'll keep going so long as the proportion of Christians is below 100%.
I used to work with a project manager who was ex-army, he made the observation that the first war where disease accounted for fewer than half of all casualties was the Gulf War.
New Zealand's alert level dropped down to Level 2 yesterday, which means we're going more from "don't to things" to "do things, but be careful". So i'm going back to working in the office on Monday. So this weekend will be about me adjusting myself back to my regular office routine.
Also, this Sunday will be the first D&D session I've had in 2 months.
Some of the rural iwi in New Zealand have been doing this too. Since people aren't supposed to be moving around much under lockdown anyway, I beleive the police have largely just let them be.
In fairness:
1) Other countries use a similar system and have far fewer problems than you guys do.
2) We've seen what happens when governments in the US use competency rules to control voting and it just turns into racism.
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If only he wasn't equally good at making messes for everyone else.
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Exactly correct.
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So, I know something about this because I used to do a lot of housing affordability research.
The 30% is a long-standing rule of thumb used for housing affordability, so the National Low Income Housing Coalition didn't pull it out of thin air, Australia and New Zealand both use it too.
As for where it comes from, well it doesn't come from anywhere that I'm aware of. The trouble with poverty threshold sis that they are all arbitrary at a certain point. Because, as Adam Smith pointed out the only real test of poverty is social expectations, and those change over time and between places. What this means that all you can really do is pick a line and stick to it for comparability reasons.
So, while there isn't some unassailable logic behind 30%, it's as good as any other threshold, and it is a conventional one - they didn't pick it for rhetorical purposes.
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It's only partially about trust - I also just prefer to play a finished game over an incomplete one. The one game I've bought in early access was Factorio, and that's because I found the concept too compelling to leave alone, and it behaved like a complete game, even though it wasn't.
As an aside, Factorio is due to leave early access in a few weeks, I should write a Saturday Gaming post for it in celebration of it actually being finished.
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I'm very interested in Griftlands, but I'm no fan of early access either. I guess I'll just wait and see.
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I agree, while most of our public discourse is on social media, we won't be able to fix the problems we have with that discourse.
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Alternatively - keep the name, change the mascot to a potato.
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My main issue with this quote is that it implies a uniformity of purpose with "the white man". The people who can control sports team names and how TV shows are broadcast don't have the power to change police policy. They're probably just mostly trying to make gestures int eh direction of anti-racism and hope an angry mob doesn't descend on them.
For the politicians making symbolic gestures though, Malcolm X is dead-on.
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So the original reason for a Federal City was that the Federal Government didn't want to be held accountable for not paying its debts? That's very on-brand.
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This is a very good piece Kristen, the need to have systems that don't assume good faith in our leaders is an important part of The Scottish Enlightenment and is key to create a successful government.
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I can't help but feel that a lot of the US's residual social problems are caused by the fact the US was far too kind to the Confederacy. As Machiavelli put it:
"You must entice men or else destroy them utterly, for mean will avenge a light insult but cannot avenge a heavy one."
The USA should not have lightly insulted the Confederacy.
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Bear in mind that social license is more about specific activities than whole agencies. For example, the police here recent trialled having some police armed as fast-response units. Cabinet didn't intervene to stop it, but the police have decided not to implement the armed teams permanently, in no small part due to public outcry. Because the police don't have social licence to walk around carrying guns in New Zealand, unlike in the US.
"
There's a concept that gets thrown around a lot in New Zealand government called "social licence". It''s about the public's willingness to go along with government policy, as distinct from just looking at the legal powers a government agency has.
I think a lot of US police forces are about to find out what it looks like when they lose their social licence, and I don't think they're going to enjoy it.
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People who think they are untouchable often make this kind of strategic error.
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I'm working very hard to make Bowler hats happen.
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The police were definitely out in force to enforce lockdown, from my point of view the US is weirdly over-policed and under-policed at the same time.
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New Zealand is free of COVID cases as of Monday, and we've just dropped our Alert level down to the minimum - basically the border control are in place and we're being asked to keep track of our movements but otherwise things are largely back to normal here.
It looks like locking down hard and fast has worked out for us.
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Deleting your tweet history regularly is smart. Deleting your tweets before you post them is even smarter.
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It's the nature of an evangelical faith. Christianity teaches that everyone should be Christian, and Christians have an obligation to try and make that happen. Therefore 30% is not enough, they'll keep going so long as the proportion of Christians is below 100%.
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Yes, they do.
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I used to work with a project manager who was ex-army, he made the observation that the first war where disease accounted for fewer than half of all casualties was the Gulf War.
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New Zealand's alert level dropped down to Level 2 yesterday, which means we're going more from "don't to things" to "do things, but be careful". So i'm going back to working in the office on Monday. So this weekend will be about me adjusting myself back to my regular office routine.
Also, this Sunday will be the first D&D session I've had in 2 months.
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Some of the rural iwi in New Zealand have been doing this too. Since people aren't supposed to be moving around much under lockdown anyway, I beleive the police have largely just let them be.
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In fairness:
1) Other countries use a similar system and have far fewer problems than you guys do.
2) We've seen what happens when governments in the US use competency rules to control voting and it just turns into racism.
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I'm sorry, are you suggesting that American conservatives are in any sense market-oriented, especially under Trump?
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