blackflame

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by blackflame 7y ago
What about SDG&E? Why should the people of San Diego have to pay taxes for a public utility they don't benefit from?
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by blackflame 7y ago
California's stringent green energy initiatives and regulations have cut into the budget allocated for updating transmission lines. The same people that pass those laws, also pass laws limiting the maximum profit of a utility to 10% an
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by blackflame 7y ago
Clever yes, but I wonder about the legalities of it
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by blackflame 7y ago
Well you might want to familiarize yourself with this story first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_Ulbricht
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by blackflame 7y ago
Can you make your political bias any more obvious? Compromise is a way of life unless you turn everything into a life or death, good or bad, moral or immoral decision so that you can claim the virtuous high ground as a way to justify your m
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by blackflame 7y ago
Oh thanks for clarifying, I thought he was all 62
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by blackflame 7y ago
"He simply doesn't care about the people being affected by those policies" - I'm pretty sure he's directly affected by LGBTQ policies but as you said, in his calculus, the pros outweigh the cons.
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by blackflame 7y ago
Peter Thiel. No, not because he is a Trump supporter, but rather because of his Philosophy that you don’t have to support every plank in a parties platform to support the platform. Too often it seems we’ve become an all or nothing society i
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by blackflame 7y ago
Exactly! You can only extrapolate statistical observations to identical scenarios but we know that every aspect of this universe has a great degree of variation and is anything but uniform. Statistics breaks down when you cannot ensure unif
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by blackflame 7y ago
Controversial Suggestion: People discern truth for themselves like they always have and will always continue to do. True and Trustworthy are two very different things when it comes to human instinct. Something that is true but not trustwort
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by blackflame 7y ago
I would imagine at the very least you would degrade DNS resolution times for legitimate users since there would be a lot more requests than usual
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by blackflame 7y ago
"by identifying abnormally heavy users and removing them" - That costs money, ergo, theft. It's like if someone had to hire a security guard for a vending machine.
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by blackflame 7y ago
I think your metaphor falls flat because you can only take with you the things you own, as in literally throw it into the casket.
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by blackflame 7y ago
Like Frank Capra's 1938 film, "You can't take it with you"
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by blackflame 7y ago
Just because something is unlikely doesn't mean it can't happen. Furthermore, there could be something very special about Earth's position that makes it far more likely than we initially calculate. It doesn't make sense
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by blackflame 7y ago
What came first, the photon or the electron? Can a photon be emitted without a change in energy state? I’m new here, so instead of answering questions is the protocol just to downvote?
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by blackflame 7y ago
Would such a thing even be attainable on earth without the tremendous forces that collapse atoms into neutrons? Does matter in a neutron density state convert back to atomic density state in the absence of such forces?
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by blackflame 7y ago
Elon Musk is many things and his fortune has always been uniquely tied to that mystique. Belief in Elon the man lends belief to Elon's companies which in turn makes him valuable. But none of his companies have reached the point where t
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by blackflame 7y ago
High profit margins
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by blackflame 7y ago
There will always be a market for one man to foster another man's laziness. Edit: Not sure how this is even debatable down-voters?
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by blackflame 7y ago
Yea I think that's more of what caused the Type 2 Diabetes to begin with rather than Diabetes being the sole contributor.
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by blackflame 7y ago
So what if they do? You can't let other people dictate your emotions or they will take advantage of you any way possible. That feeling of shame and embarrassment comes from within, not from the scammer, and therefore you have power ove
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by blackflame 7y ago
That's an interesting point. Frankly, I don't think we should punish DUI drivers if their only infraction is the DUI. Obviously, if they were driving wreaklessly then that is illegal, but I don't like the concept of charging
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by blackflame 7y ago
Does one person have the right to define what another does with their body in a country that prides itself on the freedom of the individual? If they commit crimes while on drugs, punish them for that.
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by blackflame 7y ago
For people with addictive personalities often the best treatment is a substitution with something addiction but less harmful
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by blackflame 7y ago
The Neutrino has always fascinated me since I first learned about particles. It's almost not of this realm with the way it interacts with matter compared to everything else.
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by blackflame 7y ago
Yes that would be the best thing but sometimes kids aren’t wise enough. Yes they could add all your friends, but the idea is to kill their incentive. After all they’re banking on you being ashamed for their blackmail to get money from you.
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by blackflame 7y ago
Maybe, but heart disease is the #1 killer and stress is its biggest nemesis.
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by blackflame 7y ago
I think the biggest impact that diet soda has it the high salt content dehydrates you which makes you perform worse at the gym and creates this negative feedback cycle. Additionally, diet soda's cause you to retain water which will mak
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by blackflame 7y ago
I was always on the fence about meetup but now they made my mind up for me.

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