SovietDissident

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by SovietDissident 11y ago
Demonizing farmers for the water crisis is completely missing the issue . The fault lies at the feet of environmentalists and politicians who stopped building water infrastructure in proportion to the growing state population. LA is natu
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Don't mean to ride you on this point, but proper terms are very important. You can call it corporatism if you think fascism conjures up a black-and-white image of Il Duce, but calling it capitalism sets us back in terms of actually un
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From The Economist : "So far this year oil-production firms have raised $15 billion of equity and $20 billion of bonds, helped by frothy markets, a near-zero Fed Funds rate and a partial recovery in the oil price. Even Goodrich, the
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There is a limited supply thanks partly to public housing and rent control (people never leave and developers basically can't touch it), and also it's incredibly expensive to develop in NYC: "A 2010 study by the Associatio
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Similar to the putative attitude of the organizers of these conferences, colleges have bent over backwards to get more female enrollment (indeed, there are now more females going to college than males). However, "A new report from th
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I'm mostly just avoiding the tedious task of refactoring some load tests, haha. Almost all solar power is heavily subsidized by the government, and is still more costly than its worth: "In spite of government’s best efforts to en
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"The electric car is one of the ways carmakers expect to lower their average fuel consumption and get to the 55 mpg average. The problem is, people aren't buying, whether all-electric or plug-in hybrid. General Motors is struggli
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1. "Sergio Marchionne had a funny thing to say about the $32,500 battery-powered Fiat 500e that his company markets in California as “eco-chic.” “I hope you don’t buy it,” he told his audience at a think tank in Washington in May 2014
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Coding Camps Climb Professional Ranks(onpoint.wbur.org)
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The Uber fare is cheaper for sure. However, even the taxi fare was only about $10 at the time. The point is that they have a minimum fare from the airport, and part of the drivers' discontent probably comes from the fact that they
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I used to live in Playa del Rey, which is maybe 10 minutes from LAX. There's a minimum fare for cabs of something like $17, which I was forced to pay. But the worst part was that every freaking time the cab driver would give me attit
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Let us not forget that the Sierra Club proudly proclaims on their website that, "2014 was a monumental year for dam removal projects. A record-setting 72 dams were removed across 19 states...While the best reasons to do away with old d
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3 - The rare earth mining operations in China which provide the raw materials for solar panels, batteries, and many other electronics products are reportedly quite filthy and require massive energy (diesel trucks, processing plants, etc.)
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"Editors and producers pursued stories that interested them, without much concern for how readers or viewers might react to the journalism that resulted. Members of this tribe of journalists shared a sense of what “the news” was. The
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I for one welcome our robot overlords. As a member of the technical class, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves. But seriously, the Luddite argument has been debunked many times. There's no
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by SovietDissident 11y ago
Rowing would be a perfect sport to do this in. I've heard rumors that there are rowers who do it, but I think the reason why it isn't that widespread is because there's no money in the sport. Although testing is lax, so may
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by SovietDissident 11y ago
Been to Vienna once; seemed nice. Love to watch the New Years philharmonic concert every year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIPL5gxjKO4
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Forget the Patriot Act: Here Are the Privacy Violations U Shud Be Worried About(foreignpolicy.com)
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*I've
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by SovietDissident 11y ago
I'm become convinced, thanks a book by Radney Balko and articles such as this one, that the drug war and the militarization of police departments (including the proliferation of SWAT teams) has done the most amount of harm to the Fourt
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The U.S. can get away with our inflationary monetary policy shenanigans because we (still) have legacy reserve currency status in the world. Currently, banks are being paid interest to keep money in government coffers, so they have no inte
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It seems to me that if the entire Eurozone was subject to the same monetary policy by the ECB, it leaves a wonderful base for comparison. In other words, we can forget about monetary policy in our analysis and compare the relative health o
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This was my initial reaction also, probably because most of the people interviewed for the article were affiliated with MBA programs. The central quote was my favorite: “It’s going to be a (graduating) students’ market for the next 15-plus
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Dern kids and their "Romantic" claptrap. If Jean-Baptiste Lully was good enough for the French court, it's good enough for me.
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It doesn't help that over 70% of farming subsidies go to ~10% of the farms in the country.
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Moynihan in 1965, writing at the Labor Dept.: "The steady expansion of welfare programs can be taken as a measure of the steady disintegration of the Negro family structure over the past generation in the United States." http:&#
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I found one of his best insights to be that the factory model has been shifting out of blue-collar work, where factories are automated and many people now work essentially as craftsman, into white-collar work, where much office work has bec
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"Men" is gender-neutral. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_English Can you read back my comments? When did I lionize the institution of slavery? The Founders got most things right philosoph
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Who is the employer? It is either an individual or a group of individuals who have bound themselves together in some legal manner. Should they not be able to choose who they employ? How they employ them? What wage rate they pay? Should
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There is a classic aphorism: "democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what's for dinner." This country was very specifically founded NOT as a democracy, for the very reason elucidated above. If the mob wants to vote you

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