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by bhb916 14y ago
I sat my 5-year-old daughter down in front of the first drawing tutorial today (Introduction to Drawing). I let her watch the video, then asked her some questions to test her comprehension. Before I could too many questions out she blurted
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by bhb916 14y ago
The best part of that is that every drop of that kickstarter money was voluntary. That is to say that the donors gave their money up willfully without the application of compulsive force. The same cannot be said about the NEA. Regardless, t
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by bhb916 14y ago
He's not going to have to pay for legal representation. There are plenty of lawyers who will take this case pro bono.
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by bhb916 14y ago
Someone losing a benefit on short notice does not constitute an argument for tax-payer subsidization of that benefit. There are other options for these people, like individual plans that aren't provided by their employer. If such plans aren
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by bhb916 14y ago
I didn't get that from the article, really. They could have registered with the S.E.C. without listing on a major exchange.
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by bhb916 14y ago
I believe you're misrepresenting the Australian situation. While it is true they experienced less of a slowdown that other nations, it's not entirely clear that the stimulus had anything to do with it. A few points: (1) The data (when compa
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by bhb916 15y ago
No, dude, that's just democracy.
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by bhb916 15y ago
I agree to the extent that it's a misrepresentation of what is actually going on. It is not, however, a misrepresentation of what the regulations and laws regarding the TSA allow. The fact that they're not doing it, even though it's well wi
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by bhb916 15y ago
First, "The Shock Doctrine" was a book before it was a political documentary. Recommending the movie but not the book seems a little silly to me. Second, I can't recommend it as a serious work. I've read a lot of Klein's work (two of her bo
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by bhb916 15y ago
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone
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by bhb916 15y ago
I second this recommendation. Proakis was my undergraduate text. I read both Gallager and Sklar at grad school and would highly recommend the later over the other two.
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by bhb916 15y ago
He's not advocating giving drugs to anyone, what he advocates is letting the at risk group decide whether or not they want to roll the dice with their own lives. You advocate forbidding this to happen. In other words you're hoping that: (pe
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by bhb916 15y ago
True, this certainly could be just a bad policy on Paypal's part. However, if there is even a remote possibility that Paypal could be held liable for fraud using their services then I can sympathize with "shut them all down" approach. After
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by bhb916 15y ago
I believe that Paypal (and judging by the comments above: banking institutions and credit card companies) are going to these customer-service-destroying efforts at fraud prevention because the regulatory environment forces them to do so. If