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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>That might be what they tell themselves, but I can guarantee that if all the HK youth got cushy finance jobs This is so cynical it makes me sad. Some people have principles that are not necessarily the best for their own personal outcom
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
The welfare state was much smaller in the 40s. Things have changed, and people need to be "means tested" in order to implement these government programs.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>You guys spend upwards of 2 billion dollars What is your concern with how our country spends its own money? Where do you live, and let's scrutinize that system like you judge ours?
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
The USPS has subsidized junk mail. I have a mail scale, 90% of the mail sent to me is complete junk. Non-market based entities have no incentive for efficiency.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
That's how it works in the 9 states I've lived in personally.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Sure, let's do like Russia and ban opposition candidates[0] from running in the first place. Russia was always founded on liberty and is a living example of it forever. No "blood and soil" or eugenics garbage from the Russia
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I appreciate your perspective, but these issues should be dealt with by citizens. It is not a global issue how the USA handles its elections. Foreigners weighing-in scare the shit out of our old people. That's how we get epithets like
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
As far as I know, the secret ballot is present in every state within the USA. Could you please cite your sources if you have different info (I've lived in 9 different states)?
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Under a proper federalized system, that shouldn't matter unless one lives in FL. Let them handle their local issues how their voters see fit; they have voter initiatives there. The only people that have issues with the way things are d
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
None of the replies mention that a secret ballot is a concept that goes back to ancient Greece. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_ballot
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>Just because Florida is To be fair, I believe that is not the case across the state, just certain areas (i.e. county level).
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
In Colorado, we often often have ~15 ballot initiatives, as well as city, county, and state elections. That's on top of the federal elections. Most of our domestic policy is dictated at the local level rather than the federal level, an
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>in sunny suburban Houston. My parents moved there after I left (I visit once/yr), and that place is a literal swamp, and would not be so populous without the invention of AC. >If it really, truly cost less to go without plastic,
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>is adorable. :) This kind of condescending garbage does not belong on HN. It's poison that needs to be kept away from this site. Please stop the know-it-all, 20-something, rhetoric.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
You are missing both the polio vaccine and anti-biotics. FDR was afflicted by polio, and he was from a very wealthy family.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Not only that, the US leads GHG reductions. https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2017/10/24/yes-the-u-s-... Everyone knows China and India lead GHG growth by country, and they have no real interest
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Thomas Sowell, wrote a great book in 1995 about the phenomenon you describe. The Vision of the Anointed lays out this problematic tendency. It was quite prevalent 100 years ago as anxiety arose about the industrial revolution (radio, tele
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
It's probably a good idea to evaluate the consequences. By all means, do not take the popular narrative at face-value, but it would probably be informative to investigate the details behind implementing the barriers. The full moon offe
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
One way to minimize risk is to put a security freeze on one's credit report. https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0497-credit-freeze-faq...
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Sugars are heavily involved in inter cellular signaling we still do not understand at all. All sugars occur in nature within highly fibrous constituents. Fiber has been the helpful constituent on the side that helped with digestion of sugar
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I think you should use a quality pizza stone, but you were unfairly treated for espousing the idea that one would choose to use quality ingredients, rather than accepting some inferior product (or at least a relatively expensive product).
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
As I read your parent's comment, my mind was drifting in the direction of your comment. Domino's is said to be working on such a thing, but more of warming rather than a cooking setup. The good pizza places I know use ovens that a
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>That makes two of us. You're a parent, which seems to make a difference WRT empathy. I can openly admit that I share the viewpoints of Spock more often. Principles are costly. I never investigated 'delay,' nor have I ever
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>I mention this only because what works will vary between people and I think it's an important change. I really like this because I took an alternative option. I decided "home row" thinking was too confining when writing c
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Is the death penalty "cruel and unusual" punishment, or helpful? There is no way to humanely force people to tell the public what they know. This doesn't really impact the accusations against him other than preventing people
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
I read through this whole despicable thread to find an interesting comment. I can't imagine having the mentality of taking advantage of other people to satisfy personal desires and the enabling of others to do the same. To your point,
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
>There's no requirement to explain downvotes I know this. I was annoyed and responded in juvenile fashion. I was wrong. > the bit about hostility to noob accounts wasn't very kind You know far better than I, that these green
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
The argument appears to be that we need more emotion and intuition, and less facts and data. It's absurd, and quite scary. I have never made a good decision while in an emotional state, and my father warned me about doing so in my teen
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
Downvotes, but no arguments, because they have none. It is quite sick.
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by 18pfsmt 7y ago
[I, honestly, am hostile to n00b accounts discussing non-tech topics.] I agreed with you from your opening thread until you held high Dylan's lyrics, rather than his instrumentally produced melodies which entranced me in the 80s. Poetr

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