YokoZar

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by YokoZar 13y ago
Conversely, if you had a preexisting condition, you may have just seen your health bills plumet.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Which in turn would leave 13 votes absent. Although it's unlikely they'd all vote in favor.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
From what I observed it seemed like the chair called for a voice vote, where it sounded like an approximately even number of people said "Aye" and "Nay", and the chair then just declared the nay's the winner and the
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by YokoZar 13y ago
In the same way that a normal roof heats up the environment, yes.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Depends how you pronounce it. An comes before vowel sounds, like the E in "en", while A comes before consonant sounds, like the N in "no". I'm curious, then, how you pronounce NSFW -- "nnnsfwa?"
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by YokoZar 13y ago
If you happen to own a swimming pool, you can also try running the water from there to radiators in the attic, cooling the house and heating the pool.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
That cannot explain a negative interest rate.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Even if you only need the money for a year, there is no reason you can't buy 30 year bonds and sell them later. Short term treasury bonds get a much lower price because they are dominated by buyers that are obligated to buy them for s
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by YokoZar 13y ago
US Government Treasury bonds have a 3.5% annual interest rate. I'm pretty sure that buying them does not require trying hard.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Hotel taxes are almost universally applied because it's one of the only ways for local governments to raise revenue without taxing their own residents. This is not something to laud and praise.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Here's the longer article: http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21582041-rich-world-s... The economist clearly doesn't agree with you, here's what they said about lead: Jessica Wolpaw Reyes, an A
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The economist generally has 1 page "summary" articles at the front of the newspaper, and more in depth articles in the dedicated sections. Both are available online. Trying to put every point into the summary would defeat the en
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by YokoZar 13y ago
It's entirely plausible they still profit from your couponed purchases, just not as much as if you had paid full price. Price discrimination is generally the motive behind issuing coupons (which still have marginal profits), as a &quo
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by YokoZar 13y ago
While I understand the author's point comparing a wave of groupon-only customers as a swarm of locusts moving from deal to deal, I don't agree with lumping AirBNB in there. If a business is offering a groupon at a loss on the hop
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Dividends are taxed at the same rate as capital gains, so it should make little difference to a shareholder if a company paid him 1000 dollars or raised the resale value of his stock by 1000 dollars.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Racism has always been a bit strange to me, but the idea of turning down a literal million dollars because of it is just unfathomably alien.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
It does this only because the market thinks that management thinks the shares are undervalued. If things are "efficient" then a buyback and dividend are equivalent Conversely, if shares are overvalued then a dividend payment is
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Well, not exactly -- there's an enormous unit test suite, and most changes come with associated tests to prove correctness (tests, in turn, are deemed correct by automatically running them on a dozen different versions of windows). Reg
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by YokoZar 13y ago
If you want something stable that doesn't change much from one release to the next, you could just not upgrade. Ubuntu LTS releases are supported for 5 years, and that support includes backporting hardware-enablement work.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
You can't compare the US price of HFCS to the world price of raw sugar as it doesn't count the absurd US tariffs on it. When you count these in I'm pretty sure that HFCS is cheaper than sugar in the united states.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Why is this a problem? If quinoa sprouted literal diamonds we wouldn't be upset that the farmers were selling them instead of making their own jewelry. Having your crops be too valuable to eat is a good problem to have; these farmers
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Chain book stores were a middle ground between libraries and coffee shops. Most of them served coffee! But now they seem to be going out of business.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
You're right that it basically will all go to heat. The only real exception is if light from the display goes out the window, or if sound from the speakers escapes the room.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Ahh, this is just a simple bug in the command-not-found package that makes those recommendations when you type in a missing binary, not an underlying problem with the entire philosophy of splitting pacakges!
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by YokoZar 13y ago
On the other hand, perhaps it's entirely possible that creators of technology will notice this large swath of available labor and create technology to make use of it. An important point about the Luddites is that while expensive weaver
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by YokoZar 13y ago
It's also impossible for anyone with ordinary political views to be represented, as representatives must first win highly partisan primaries. At best the system leaves us with a coin flip between a solid democrat and a solid republica
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by YokoZar 13y ago
It's not clear those are similarly dangerous behaviors. Talking to passengers can prevent falling asleep at the wheel, which may be a bigger net danger than conversational distraction. But the larger answer is perhaps that if you are
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by YokoZar 13y ago
The most obvious reform to me would be triggering an automatic review of any patent asserted in a legal case. That way we wouldn't have to worry too much about all the existing bad patents, since whenever they became an issue the patent of
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Or you haven't told facebook that you don't care about certain people yet. It's surprisingly easy to do, and yet a lot of people seem to think defriending is the only way to get stories to not show up on their feed.
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by YokoZar 13y ago
Was the original DRM copy-protection put onto CDs, or the fact that the game required that CD to be inserted to play?

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