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You're right. I wasn't really talking about people in poverty/near poverty. They can benefit from the network involved with an Ivy more than just about anyone, because they usually don't have a network at all.

Law is a different story altogether though. I was talking about undergrad.

Harvard pays up to 90% of costs, which in my case was the full cost of the state school I got a scholarship to.

For most people, going to elite schools is a waste of money. For example, a high achieving student from a lower middle class family who goes to Harvard still pays the equivalent of full tuition and fees at an average state school, while they can often get a full ride at a state school.

Obviously there are a lot of ways an elite education can help you, but most people don't want to be a lawyer or go into business.

I'm suggesting that a fascist dictatorship is harder to establish in a place where everybody is armed.

Which is a lot more than $240.

Philosophy students tend to make good money.

I guess if you can't imagine it then it's impossible.

I don't think it's outrageous to say that a few people with weapons can command many people without weapons.

There's no doubt that the state always has more power than individuals, but the point is that the state will not have more power than all the individuals put together.

I think it's pretty obvious.

The best way to undermine a democracy is to get rid of people's ability to defend themselves.

That's not exactly what the research shows. The great book "Unlocking the Clubhouse" shows off some research to suggest that culture within CS departments and software development companies are largely, but not entirely, to blame.

If Google didn't want to reveal this information, they shouldn't have taken federal contracts.

About 70% of income, according to estimates. It varies for other taxes (capital, consumption, etc.).

Source article: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304393211...

There's a class of wealthy people they can tap into.

Perl is faster in the benchmarks I've seen, although it's difficult to really measure most real world use.

I don't know about the original poster, but Perl is great for back end development, and there are wrappers for just about every GUI toolkit if you want to go that route.

Perl 5. Perl is awesome and versatile, and it's the fastest scripting language in common usage.

Everything is a marvel of modern engineering now.

More like Hirohito than Stalin.

People like you are why the communists are going to win.

Supposedly, Prescott Bush was one of the people behind it.

That's not remotely true about Cuba.

Economic data disagrees with your personal experience.

Did you know that if you try to overthrow the government of the United States you'll be arrested? Crazy stuff.

Cubans do not live in poverty. There are neither rich nor poor. And if you think there's an "efficient" way to escape poverty in the UK, you've never been poor.

Oh right, and the United States has never had poverty.

Have you ever read anything about Cuban democracy besides the propaganda put out by the US government? If you're actually interested in educating yourself, there's an interesting sociology paper called Representative Government in Socialist Cuba.

Cuba is basically an autarky, for all intents and purposes, so they're not going anywhere on that front, and I think Diaz-Canel will help to steer Cuba away from liberalism/revisionism. But I've been wrong before.