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by JeffL 16y ago
I view the debate over free will as missing the point about context. Context is everything. An analogy would be rolling a dice with your hand onto a table. Is this random? A physicist could say, "no", how you roll it, what the speed it's
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I suspect that's a misleading graph. They are trying to show a loss of manufacturing jobs and in order to make the graph more dramatic, they are graphing the percentage of jobs that are manufacturing. But if they graphed the total number
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I love my UL30V like no laptop I've ever had. Two dual graphics cards and 12 hours battery are so great, I don't know how other laptops can compete.
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No, the idea is you use stolen credit cards to buy your own game, then you get the money from the credit cards to yourself perhaps easier than other ways. I'm not sure.
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People tend to self-segregate in real life. It makes sense that it should happen on the Internet, too.
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So I have a question - doesn't this effectively take billions of dollars that was (via investment) essentially going to capital expenditures to increase productivity overall and make it go instead to consumer expenditures? Doesn't that mak
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I think 1 is not a loophole because ultimately the reason you invest is so that you can consume more down the line, and that ultimate consumption should be taxed. I also don't see problems with 3 or 4. 3 maybe if you get a "poor" person to
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And as a result, we get inferior sodas with corn rather than sugar. The only country with corn soda as far as I know. =(
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Don't you think that almost by definition, the more free a society is economically, the more unequal wealth will be distributed? As entrepreneurs, we are certainly aware of this fact in striving to found businesses. In a society where peo
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Yeah, I think the fair tax is a great idea. Just thinking of the savings on tax compliance alone is almost mind boggling.
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Just my opinion, but I think that even this may be striking at the root. I've long thought that what we really need is a constitutional amendment dictating the separation of economy and state, just as we separate church and state. There sh
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Because it's very interesting and very high quality. Also, from the guidelines of this site: Please don't submit comments complaining that a submission is inappropriate for the site. If you think something is spam or offtopic, flag it by
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The first thing I thought of is that if lack of diseases is what has been causing the rise in intelligence, then there's likely to be a ceiling that average intelligence will hit as countries become healthier, rather than some mysterious fo
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Interesting idea. But is doubling ones success really equivalent to halving ones expectations? I feel torn between the two. On the one hand is the American/start up/self-help trend of going out and getting lots of success, and on the oth
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What? No it isn't. http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Gravity_plating
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You make a good point. I took 5 different philosophy classes in college because I was interested, but never was really that satisfied. For me, the authors that were really eye-opening were Ayn Rand and Thoreau, though I feel many here wou
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Yeah, really. I don't want that shit showing up in my inbox.
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Like the prices of wine all get driven down to a very low level? I suspect there will be lots of expensive premium varieties.
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What are astroturf forum comments?
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This is an interesting article for me because I'm currently in SV and am contemplating moving away. My employees are all remote contractors, but it's time we got an office and moved together and there's just no way I could have them move h
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by JeffL 16y ago
Thanks for the link. Note that it says Inconsolata is only at the top over Consolas because Consolas isn't free.
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I really want a combination of Google docs + wiki for my online collaboration. Basically the ease of use and simultaneous editing of Google docs, plus a structured resource of a wiki where we can link to the other docs, not have to set the
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I think that would be a ton more expensive.
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I'm surprised Iridium has to replace its satellites already. Seems like an incredibly expensive business for them if they have to replace their satellites so often.
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Same sort of thing in the 5th Element.
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Does anyone else think that this also seems to work with one eye closed?
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Spread the politics of freedom and capitalism. What is happening in North Korea is the logical outcome of the theories of Socialism.
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Just post your pictures to Hot or Not to find where you are in the scheme of things.
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Isn't this space really crowded already, though? Especially if you consider flash games? Is your thinking that with HTML5 you can get onto platforms where flash won't work such as the iPhone?

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