DareRight

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   by DareRight 8y ago

   I'm not sure what your point is. A numbering system based on five-fingered hands is still base6. It doesn't make mathematical sense to argue that we learn base10 today because our hands have 5 fingers. Even if you argue that we ha
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   by DareRight 8y ago

   A numbering system based on human fingers would be base6.
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   by DareRight 8y ago

   I've never understood this thinking. A state has a certain amount of expenditures in their budget. They have to acquire those funds somehow. If they don't collect income tax, they bump up food tax, or hotel tax, or restaurant tax,
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   by DareRight 8y ago

   Nit pick: 100 years is more like four or five generations.
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   by DareRight 8y ago

   The Sears catalog
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   by DareRight 8y ago

   So you're saying, "Grow something unusual."? Something like... water chestnuts? Or mint? Convert your wheat crop to mint? Commodities are commodities because there is such a huge demand for them. Niche products are not some s
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   by DareRight 8y ago

   I also own one of those hobby farms. My simple answer is, No. At my scale, barter is pretty useless. How many vegetables will you trade me for one pig? It better be a lot because I only have 6-10 pigs to barter every year. We have a lot of
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   by DareRight 8y ago

   I generally value tptacek's comments on security matters, but this position doesn't make sense to me. When Apple decides to take away an app I paid for, I have no security to block them. When Apple decides to quit posting security
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   by DareRight 8y ago

   Ok. How about we forgive every outstanding mortgage they hold? They're so big, they can take a hit, right? What's that? They don't hold many mortgages? They sell them all upstream? Then why are they foreclosing? But it's
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    by DareRight 8y ago

    I could take you on a 100 mile ride through my neck of the woods right through dozens of ranchers' grazing grounds and I bet you'd see less than a dozen cows. There's nothing artificial about it. The land is still very natura
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    by DareRight 8y ago

    Just ask the Bundy's
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    by DareRight 8y ago

    Of course you should stay out of the way. But on the other hand, if everyone stayed out of the way, nobody would actually help. Do you see all those miles of hoses? Where do you suppose those came from? Did you see the discarded pile that w