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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
> Are you actually arguing that workers were not oppressed in the US during the industrial Revolution? Compared to the manual subsistence farm labor they were doing before, you mean? Rural workers flocked to the new factories because it
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
> Have the mayor give them an award for thier dedicated service ridding the streets of children running lemonade stands. It's just as likely that someone with the mayor's ear has complained and caused him to lean on the cops.
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
Yep, I always buy the lemonade. I usually surreptitiously dump it out after I've gotten out of sight, but I buy it. :-)
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
But they can do that anyway, even if they have all the licenses and other folderol.
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
Indeed. A classic (and simple) Monte Carlo procedure lets you estimate pi by essentially throwing darts. 1) Draw a unit square. 2) Inscribe a circle inside the square. 3) Throw a whole bunch of darts at the square, distributing them as rand
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
Those links offer some other interesting comparisons. There are about 700,000 U.K. citizens living in the U.S., and only about 160,000 U.S. citizens living in the U.K. The populations are about 63 million and 320 million, respectively. On a
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
> I can only imagine that it was implemented to fight the drug war. No, actually it comes from English common law, and has been around a long, long time. It has been abused in recent decades (using the drug war as an excuse), but it&#x27
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
Canadians as a whole apparently disagree. There are about ~700,000 Americans living in Canada, and also about ~700,000 Canadians living in the U.S. (see links below) However, the U.S. population is more than 8x that of Canada. That means th
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
> I'm pro nuclear, but given that the side effects on the oceans and hence the entire planet are still to be accounted for and that we won't know before decades, I find that comment quite arrogant. The ocean already has about 4
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
> What could they possibly be doing that makes not abusing a handful of user's privacy an insurmountable issue? Perhaps they're busy running their business and don't have time to comply with baroque EU regulations, regardl
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
Because they already eat rice, and vitamin pills are far from "cheaper and more convenient" if you're living in a third world village.
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
> No, the idea is to taint anti-GMO activists with the accusation that they're killing third world children 670,000 kids a year die from vitamin A deficiency (and, of course, many more than that "only" go blind). Golden ri
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
What you have posted is a link to a second-hand opinion piece that was copied from an old Tripod site. Here's a peer-reviewed journal article that provides real data: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
> Regular rice is absolutely not "naturally occurring". Definitely not. Its genome differs from its wild ancestor in many respects. To name just one, like most domestic grains it's resistant to "shattering" (i.e.
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
> If only we could say things are "clearly beneficial." Personally, I'm quite comfortable describing "keeping children from going blind or dying outright" as "clearly beneficial". > However we still
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
It used to be called the "Law of Conservation of Mass". Now it's called the "Law of Conservation of Mass-Energy".
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
Because that would result in the EU users burning bandwidth and processor time without any offsetting revenue. I'd imagine that the cost of providing (say) the Los Angeles Times to the EU is non-trivial.
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
Of course, but acknowledging that required that the supposedly immutable "laws of physics" be rewritten.
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by Turing_Machine 8y ago
The bankruptcy would remain on their credit report for seven years (affecting their ability to buy a house, rent an apartment, or perhaps even get a job), so it's not at all correct that they have "nothing to lose".
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> China spends less than half what America spends on defense We're not talking about what China spends. We're talking about what Canada spends. Which wouldn't be enough to defend against Mexico in a fair fight, much less C
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> The quality of food is better? The quality of food is immensely better. For one, you can get actual fresh veggies and fruits year 'round, even in the northern regions. They didn't have Whole Foods in 1960, dude. In fact, 19
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> It's just propagnda. No, it isn't. You don't see people leaving Miami for Havana on rafts they've made of trash bags full of styrofoam packing peanuts. You didn't see people getting shot trying to cross the Ber
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> I totally empathize with your situation, but globally the numbers are irrefutable. Indeed they are. Here are some numbers from NPR (hardly a right-wing thinktank): https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015&#x2
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Canada (and most of Europe, for that matter) don't bear the costs of their own defense. That helps a lot. You may be wondering who would want to attack Canada. Well, you have an awful lot of wheat and oil, and China has an awful lot of
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
> again, the Civil Rights Act was passed by a politically elected congress. Imagine a hypothetical world where the South won the Civil War and successfully seceded. The elected government of the Confederate States of America says that bl
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
There is no "the state" to "use as a metric". That's what's dishonest. > Do you think that what you were doing before was accurate? Pointing out that the government of Nazi Germany and the government of Mich
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
You could start with the victims of Nazi Germany. If Neville Chamberlain and his cronies had strangled the infant Nazi regime at its birth, rather than appeasing Hitler, many of those people would have lived. Instead, the appeasement just m
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Thanks. I will be referring to bidets as "bum guns" from now on (because it's funny).
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
Thanks. Seriously considering buying one. Others: be sure to read the review by Mercury. It's very funny.
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by Turing_Machine 9y ago
There's also a lot about this in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle , including the building and destruction of an 18th century incendiary munitions factory.

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