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by betelnut 14y ago
Scale is going to be critical here - it has to make sense for a shelter or a food bank to pick up whatever a restaurant is offering, and there's probably a threshold number of meals below which the cost of gas and travel time doesn't justif
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by betelnut 14y ago
"Time of Death" is a little deceptive here - I was expecting the article to pinpoint a year, not a time of day!
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by betelnut 14y ago
The author of the article alludes to, but doesn't pursue, another possible concern: the rise of Kickstarter-funded arts projects will lead to reduced interest in NEA and other government-endowed sponsorship, which will in turn lead to furth
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by betelnut 14y ago
Unfortunately, I can't read the buttons - can you offer an English version of those?
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by betelnut 14y ago
Just to play devil's advocate, TSA could also put pressure on airlines to build the cost of the screenings into the price of air travel. Travelers could wind up paying for it (beyond taxes).
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by betelnut 14y ago
I think this kind of behavior is considered a ban because it doesn't take a formal government decree to effectively preclude someone from being able to access undesirable literature. If your school/community library is your main source of l
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by betelnut 14y ago
There's also "make deleting an account so difficult that most people won't bother."
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by betelnut 14y ago
According to the USPTO site, "The work of examining applications for patents is divided among a number of examining technology centers (TC), each TC having jurisdiction over certain assigned fields of technology." Since this office is part
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by betelnut 14y ago
Neuroskeptic has a good response to these articles at http://neuroskeptic.blogspot.com/2012/11/were-probably-not-g... , essentially arguing against Crabtree's thesis for being too speculative.