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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> Where did Western people get iodine before it was necessary to add it to salt? Iodine is so soluble that it's quite scarce other than in the ocean. And yep, people who lived inland (and thus didn't eat seafood) in premodern t
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
My nemesis was one of those round stick-on LCD clocks that used to be popular. The designer apparently thought that emitting a single beep every five minutes or so would be an awesome low battery indicator. I didn't know what kind of
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
"Communist _regimes_ have killed a a lot of people." And Nazi _regimes_ have killed a lot of people. So you're saying that Nazis are okay, then? "I'm not sure why the American Indiana genocide is in quotes." Be
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> If you're going to blame the Khmer rouge on communism, then you also need to factor in the conflict in the middle East, American Indian genocide, slavery and more and attribute that to capitalist philosophy. No, actually, I don&#x
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> I agree with your overall point, but this tactic seems almost as disingenuous as the other side. I don't actually advocate that Marxists be ejected from the public sphere. I'm merely pointing out that if we are going to sta
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> It’s not guaranteed by the First Amendment that people can’t be fired or blacklisted for their opinions, but when Communists were blacklisted from the film industry, that was seen as a disgrace—despite the fact that, in the 1950’s, th
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> Free speech protects you from the government restricting you from saying something No. The First Amendment (in the United States) protects you from the government suppressing your speech. Government suppression is far from the only
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
In North America, much of the land now used for grazing cows was formerly occupied by bison (which are so close to cows that they can actually interbred). I seriously doubt that this caused any significant net change in methane production.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
"there will be little to no harm to the ecosystem if they will just one day poof away from the face of the earth" Well, perhaps not if the specific species that carry the diseases vanish . Eliminating all mosquitoes would almos
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> Is it just that someone would probably notice and we could inject our kids with refertilizing viruses? Right, or something of the sort. There would be many decades available to fix it.
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To Eliminate Fruit Flies, California Farmers Eye Controversial Genetic Tool(technologyreview.com)
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
+1 on ifixit. I've yet to be disappointed with anything I've purchased from them, and I've done probably a dozen battery swaps, screen replacements, etc. You can find parts for less, but it's really a roll of the dice as
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> My guess is it's a quick way to compare while factoring differences in the cost of living. How does using national median income factor in the difference in the cost of living between states?
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> That is a preposterous way to compare poverty between countries. Yes, it is. Using "national median income" as a metric totally ignores the fact that the cost of living is considerably less in Alabama than it is in, say, Ca
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> So you are suggesting that Canada doesn't participate in drug research? I'm suggesting that the type of regulation you seem to favor stifles drug research, yes. If the entire world adopted your policies, there simply wouldn&#
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
http://www.pmlive.com/top_pharma_list/global_revenues As far as I can see, there are no Canadian companies on this list. It's heavily dominated by the U.S. and Switerland, with an occasional outlier in the U.K., F
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> Right. So what exactly do you think happens when you take the referee out of a UFC match?" There's no longer any "referee" to bribe? The fans get to vote on the winner in a free market? > Everything is a market.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
No, this is what happens when the government is too strong. To expand a bit, what is going to prevent your new "stronger" government from getting captured by the very same lobbyists, except now they'll have even more power to
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
"Riskier" how?
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Yes, of course you can.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
I get it: you don't like the piece. Do you have any substantive and specific criticisms of it? For instance, can you give an example of what you call a "logical gotcha" in the piece, and demonstrate why it is a "logica
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> allowing regular folks to build wealth in the form of their primary residence Sometimes that's true, sometimes it isn't. Sometimes people wind up with underwater mortgages, rather than building wealth.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
I don't think other business expenses should be deductible either, as that incentivizes inefficient businesses. I would favor eliminating all business deductions, combined with lowering the tax rate enough to make the change revenue ne
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Renters are already paying all of the property tax. The expenses for any business (including being a landlord) are, in the long term, paid by the customers. Otherwise the business becomes insolvent.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
The post below yours got flagged into oblivion, but I think it raises an important issue. Nationwide, less than 30% of the money spent on welfare actually winds up as cash in the hands of the needy it's supposedly benefiting. Most of i
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Here's what 1 kg of thermite does to a hard drive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lnqeodIIUw I'm comfortable that the Curie temperature has been exceeded for all of those platters. :-)
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
The DEFCON guy used 15 grams of thermite. An AN-M14 TH3 incendiary grenade contains ~750 grams of thermite (technically thermate). Those are two different things. Entirely.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
A hard drive has orders of magnitude less mass than an engine block. There's going to be nothing left of a drive but a puddle of molten metal after it's had a thermite grenade burn on it.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
A friend of mine who was a military secure comms guy back in the 80s told me that if their position was about to be overrun the procedure was: 1) Fire a twelve gauge shotgun slug into the drive (these would have been external drives). 2) Pl
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> Those rural areas had jobs before Walmart came into town. No, they did not. Do you know what the word "rural" means?

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