akimball

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by akimball 8y ago
Yes. The opioid crisis is directly caused by regulation.
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It seems very harmful to me to curry punitive action unless you are part of a mass movement with a valid aspiration to revoke the immoral law. Gratuitous self-harm just makes you a drain on everyone. Your moral purity is not worth harming
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Do not cite Nature articles.
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There are twenty times that many people on Earth. You would have to compactify the wood for building materials, or something similar, to properly sequester. I suggest iron seeding the equatorial pacific as cheaper and more scalable.
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In my childhood regions, amphibians and reptiles were at least 4x in the 60s. They tend to be more tightly clustered now. The clusters are more distant from each other, and the spaces between more sparsely populated. Not in any danger of
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Given Pu, a gun type nuke is basically banging two rocks together. Given DU, Pu is just hitting it with fast neutrons and chemically separating. Given marginally free hydropower, fast neutrons are a homebrew fusor and a light switch away.
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And the ones that do need to pay the cost of their actions. Taxing pollution means society can control the incentive tipping point to optimize cost-benefit.
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Better is inflation.
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Academi.com will do it, if you are the high bidder.
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Not an improvement.
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Let's make human rights inalienable.
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How well served are the unenumerated?
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Nothing ever truly goes away until relativistic effects dominate.
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Or cherry-picked one?
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The international space station? Islamic state in Syria?
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This comment may explain why we are governed by bureaucracies
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Who will wipe you when you are 97? Hard to find a citizen to do it.
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Mike Bloomberg himself stands to lose an enormous amount of money due to lost business in China, as a result of this story's publication. Whether the story is accurate or inaccurate, either way Mike is going to lose money on it. The o
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The SDR is also an option.
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1861 and 1979.