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by ars 3y ago
Someone trying to invade your country to kill people is not grounds for lethal force? You can't possibly be serious.
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by ars 3y ago
If you notice many of them died on Oct 7. i.e. they knew about the massacre in advance and were being "journalists" covering it. Reuters even had to publish an article saying they did not know in advance that some of their freelan
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by ars 3y ago
Israel estimated 12,000 Hamas at a time when Hamas figures claimed 26,000 dead. That's pretty close to 1:1. Part of the trouble is Israel can't prove the 12,000, and no one actually believes the Hamas figures are legitimate. But t
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by ars 3y ago
> This has also been one of the deadliest wars for civilians in general. That's not actually true. The ratio is similar to other wars. Civilians die in war, they die a lot. War sucks. But Gaza is not unusually deadly compared to oth
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by ars 3y ago
And for comparison 715 were killed in Syria. "Of the 715, the Syrian regime was responsible for the killing of 553 journalists, including five children, one woman, five foreign journalists, and 47 journalists who died due to torture, w
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by ars 3y ago
That's not a thing. You are horrified at something that doesn't exist. If a credit card company offers this kind of perk it's because that customer gives them enough profit to make it worth it. It's simply not a thing to
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by ars 3y ago
There are a lot of people who always run balances, so interest is always accruing. It won't change a whole lot for them in that regard. There's probably people on the margin will will pay late, then be hit with interest. Or they&#
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by ars 3y ago
Interest rates will go up so that they will end up making the same amount of money, just from slightly different people. Another possibility is penalty interest rates that kick in if you are late.
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by ars 3y ago
How do I know another person is conscious? For all I know I'm the main character and you are all NPC's. There's no actual way to know, we act that way because when we talk to others they have an internal state, and their prog
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by ars 3y ago
That's the opposite of what I said. A Veblen good means the same item, if priced higher, is somehow more desirable. But you've described a more expensive lawn that is actually better, which makes it a normal good. You are simply w
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by ars 3y ago
It's not semirural - there are no farms or fields anywhere, and there are plenty of houses. It's just they are spread far enough apart for people to have space. > that there literally isn't enough space on Earth for everyo
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by ars 3y ago
Due to my privacy I'd rather not say the city name, but I will say it was the second largest city in a strongly Democratic coastal state. The largest city in that state was one of those large city hell-holes with too many people crowde
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by ars 3y ago
> doesn't make it any less of a luxury good That's not what Veblen is. A Veblen is better the higher the price, and that is not correct for lawns. A lawn doesn't get better if the cost of the lawn is higher. A lawn is bett
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by ars 3y ago
And you can do that with a cheaper watch also. That makes in a Veblen, but a more expensive lawn is not a better lawn. So a lawn is not a Veblen.
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by ars 3y ago
You can add some code into CSS that will tell you if someone printed your webpage (or at least print-previewed). Make a tracking background image that only loads in the print version of the css.
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by ars 3y ago
You've apparently never actually been in a suburb. They typically have random unkempt forests behind each row of houses, and not just a little bit. Like you need a serious walk between houses on different roads, and all of that is a lo
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by ars 3y ago
Lawns are a place where I play, or my kids play. Or where I go to just sit and enjoy nature. They are also decoration (flower bed for example) to make my surroundings more pleasant which helps my mental state. If your lawn is a Veblen good
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by ars 3y ago
And worse for the people who live there. I get anxiety just thinking of living in a dense city. Everyone I know who left a dense city never wants to go back - they talk like people who suffered from Stockholm syndrome and were now freed. An
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by ars 3y ago
It also assumes that the density of stars is constant in an infinite universe. You can have an infinite universe, but with all the stars located in just part of it, i.e. finite mass, infinite space. Most of the light heads off into empty sp
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by ars 3y ago
> I'm responding to a thread about Facebook "lobbying" legislators for tax carve outs. Yah, that's not what the thread said. Facebook is simply deducting a business expense, there was no carve out. > I choose to ca
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by ars 3y ago
I don't understand what the bribe has to do with anything. Did you just put that in there for an emotional response? According to you, all money belonging to everyone is really tax money that has been stolen from the people. There are
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by ars 3y ago
Are there no other jobs in California that pay less? If this is a global floor in California, it's going to lead to some interesting things. It will have the effect of flattening out the income of a huge chunk of society. A huge number
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by ars 3y ago
How far will you take that? Do buisiness owe all of their profit as tax? At some point you say "this is your tax", that doesn't mean that all other profit is money out of the public coffer. Governments do not tax all money.
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by ars 3y ago
That's an incorrect understanding of the accounting. First of all it's not a tax deduction, it's a business expense which reduces profit. Second when you have a tax deduction only a portion (around 20%) of the amount actually
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by ars 3y ago
Because the $20/hour price is artificial, so there aren't enough of them. If the price were not artificial it would balance until the number of jobs = number of seekers. But it won't, instead it becomes a lottery of sorts. It
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by ars 3y ago
That's an overpriced completely ordinary filter. All filters remove microplastics. Just get a standard filter housing and it'll work just as well and you can pick any filter you want. For example the KX 06-250-10-GREEN costs 1&#x2
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by ars 3y ago
The most commonly encountered plastics (Polyethylene, and Polypropylene) don't leech anything. It's mostly vinyl that leeches, and that's not a common microplastic.
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by ars 3y ago
Make equal amounts of matter and antimatter (you would have to anyway) and store them together in some kind of sealed power-unit. Like Starget ZPM.
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by ars 3y ago
> My theory is that its darkness is down to the fact that the civilisation there has figured out a way to harness solar energy to near 100% capacity, along the lines of a Dyson sphere That doesn't work quite the way you think. If yo
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by ars 3y ago
The reason that whole controversy basically evaporated is that embryonic stem cells have so far been useless - anything you can do with them can also be done with adult stem cells. As far as I know there is no treatment, or even research th

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