DoodleBuggy

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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Exact same situation I observe, though I know a lot of parents who are instead opting for a Kindle Fire for their kids since it's much cheaper to replace and it's mostly used for videos and simple games anyway.
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
The "iPad Pro" is the same iPad as it always was, the "Pro" is marketing. A member of my family was hustled into buying an iPad "Pro" from a sales rep who convinced them it can do everything and more, yet they
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Dig a big moat and fill it with alligators, each alligator gets a $5000 tax credit so the more alligators the bigger the tax credit? Anyway, "ditch" as in lose or remove, it's American slang.
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Is lobbying just a cute alternative word for "corruption"?
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Give people a tax credit to ditch their lawn. That with having a lawn tax (or excess water use tax) would be an effective solution to reduce what is generally a waste of water and a poor use of space, particularly in arid regions.
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
HOAs are the height of absurdity pertaining to land ownership, I will never understand why someone would volunteer to pay a monthly fee (basically a tax) to have a group of bozos tell you what you can and can't do with your own propert
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Interesting, I always thought the incentive to grow grapes was rapid production compared to other crops. Are you in Sonoma or somewhere land is cost prohibitive?
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
I know a few who left IT for various reasons, usually burnout or being unfulfilled, sometimes money. They went into sales, management, investing, consulting, medicine, teaching, the most satisfied became public school teachers or are direct
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
How much land do you have dedicated to grapes?
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
There's certainly a high correlation between belief in science and education as well as how much garbage media is consumed.
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Source study https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/australian-journal-o... I don't find this surprising. If you have a closer connection to something, you tend to value it more.
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Source study without The Verge garbage-ification http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(17)30087-9
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
This is obvious and has been for years. Reddit is full of astroturfers, spammers, marketers, disinformation, trolls, and other generally undesirable behavior. I generally look at reddit like one fractional step above facebook, it's bas
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Find a niche and charge a premium. Or, make something addictive and use in-app purchases. I am not sure there is another way. I'd love to be wrong but I tend to think any semblance of an app store gold rush passed by 5+ years ago.
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
$16 in Napa is probably $2 in Nebraska. The cost of living there is so much lower than California you can barely compare the two. Homes are 1/10th the price or less. You can find a nice house in Omaha for $175k that would cost about $2
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Yes which does an even better job of proving the point. When the economy was worse and unemployment was higher, why didn't the huge numbers of unemployed who need jobs take those available jobs? Hmm!
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
I guess Georgians or Alabamans don't want the jobs either? That's weird! https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2012/05/17/the-law-of-... https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Who needs science and education?
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
OK, so tax garbage food and tax BMI. Really, it should be no different than any other sin tax. It's behavior you want to discourage, so tax it.
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
> Calories in - calories out = fat accumulation. It is literally that simple. It's literally the first law of thermodynamics. Everyone tries to over complicate things, but the reality is if you eat more calories than you burn, you w
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Every complexity you posted still comes down to consuming more calories than is needed. The reality is the vast majority of people eat way too much, and the dietary guidelines for caloric intake are far too high for a largely sedentary soci
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Is this really different from smoking or another harmful unhealthy lifestyle choice? It's abusing food, and it has negative consequences. The cost of health care to manage obesity and related issues is staggering and will only increase
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
And after publicizing the name and blasting the location onto the internet, the unique archeological site will be vandalized profusely and destroyed in no time at all in the name of selfies and social media points. At best, visitor access w
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Hey, I read that book too.
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Hard to believe there is really an "epidemic" beyond typical fearmongering and political noise. People have always used drugs, this is nothing new. Unfortunately all the hype and noise is having significantly negative consequences
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Dubious validity?? Participate in the market and try to replicate what you think are dubious counterarguments with achievable and repeatable results. People like Buffet and Einhorn are extreme anomalies. So much so that they are legendary,
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
>>> "There was a clear sense that each person had a clear responsibility, and rarely deviated from it. When you went to someone for help solving a problem 'not my job' was a common response." Yikes. Perhaps that
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
Fascinating, some reptiles and plants do the same.
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
But it's cold outside, and the politicians keep telling me it's not true!
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by DoodleBuggy 10y ago
I have the same feeling towards gravity!

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