alchemism

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by alchemism 11y ago
Since you mention it: http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/05/lotterie...
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by alchemism 11y ago
A vicious racist killer is proudly displayed on our $20 bill, after all...
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by alchemism 11y ago
>Among today’s physicists, there are some who still believe the cosmos cycles in and out of being in this way. It may take science some time to grudgingly test hypotheses drawn from mysticism and metaphysics. So perhaps not so much due t
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by alchemism 12y ago
"Choose a job you love and never work a day in your life." That is probably a cliche for a few good reasons.
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by alchemism 12y ago
Ever listen to a group of men argue about the qualitative meaning of baseball statistics? I don't think it has anything to do with technology at all
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by alchemism 12y ago
That's playing semantic games though. If someone wants broadband at their house and the only possible provider is Comcast, then to them it may as well be called a monopoly.
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by alchemism 12y ago
The free market is a nice fantasy. Most Americans live in a place with one (1) choice for broadband Internet. How can competition be reduced from that as the starting point?
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by alchemism 12y ago
Are you talking your history lessons from Hobbes, perhaps? Tribal life being nasty, brutish, short, and full of back-breaking work? It didn't really turn out that way http://www.jblearning.com/samples/0763749591&#x
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by alchemism 12y ago
To be fair, NYC's subway system is not a hub-and-spoke system, it is a true network of rail lines. Practically a matrix. One of the finest in the world.
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by alchemism 12y ago
Anecdotal evidence as part of a Burner-esque 'tribe' of party people: 120-150 is about right. Same holds true for client relationships in IT. After that they are just faces in the crowd, not people.
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by alchemism 12y ago
I live in Philadelphia and use Amtrak to go up to New York on the weekends, where I used to live. The train ride is actually faster than the most-distant points on the NYC subway, so in a way I feel like I'm actually in a distant part
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by alchemism 12y ago
And with that, physics discovers Pandeism.
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by alchemism 12y ago
And, for that matter, the majestic complexity of Dwarf Fortress.
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by alchemism 12y ago
Actually the people who do not succeed (the lower-to-middle classes) pay far more in income taxes than the paltry capital gains taxes of the ultra-successful.
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by alchemism 12y ago
How free, exactly, would you like the cells in your organs to be --- free from the social rules regarding nutrient flows and replication rates? Free to do something other than its specification? Go up one or two levels on the scale of lif
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by alchemism 12y ago
Where do you think the red shirts come from?
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by alchemism 12y ago
> I argue that it is precisely because of government intervention that these things happen. It may very well be that the various 20th-century post-war G.I. Bills started the college bubble in the first place, by democratizing the expecta
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by alchemism 12y ago
"Less alkaline" is the same as saying "more acid" as you move in a specific direction along the scale. Srsly can't believe you tried to make that point