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by bmelton 9y ago
That depends on a great deal of factors, I think. Even if we guarantee some sort of income floor, there will still be those who, despite that guarantee, need additional assistance. Whether it's because they have more children than the
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Fujifilm had enough product diversity (in medical films, recording media, and digital, to name but a few) to survive the film camera downturn. Kodak didn't. They did try to innovate in their space, which they thought was camera tech,
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by bmelton 9y ago
If you'd said toilet paper (or most other things) instead of cigarettes, I think you'd have a different conversation, but as cigarettes are a restricted and specially taxed thing, I suspect that using individual cigarettes as bart
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Sure. But if one central planner is better than two, because price controls would work better without competition, then it should stand to reason that even more than two planners would be even more effective. If the entire market were inv
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So, similar to how capitalism does it?
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So, because of the first amendment, we do have a "right" to express our views however we want. Because of the freedom of association, people and companies have the right to refuse to associate with us. Irrespective of the first
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Actually, I looked into it, and aside from the $10k initial fee for ICANN (which might be avoidable?), it didn't look all that difficult to set up.
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I think I expressly acknowledge that there's a difference, and I'm not looking for government intercession. > Further, certain kinds of speech have never been considered protected: "fighting words", certain classes of
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It should be clarified, but I appear to have missed your comment until the edit window had closed. As to your second paragraph, I agree completely. I hate the negativity associated with a term like 'virtue signaling', but it seem
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Countering your hypothetical with another hypothetical: How would you feel if Twitter decided to ban all people of color from being able to use the platform? Is that something you're totally cool with, because companies can't poss
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Others have already chimed in here, but I honestly can't remember a CGP Grey video that I wasn't thoroughly entertained by, even when I already knew all of the facts presented. For amusement's sake, I really enjoy his videos
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While technically correct, I don't understand how this has any bearing to my earlier response. I explicitly state that I do not condemn EasyDNS for choosing to exercise their freedom of (dis)association in whatever manner they see fit.
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I have friends who are women / Jewish / black / brown / trans / gay / queer, etc, and because I feel it's somewhat implied, no, I do not have any friends who are nazis, neo-nazis, white nationalists, white
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Somewhat dichotomously, I agree with every position mark takes in the linked post, but at the same time, I'm quietly waiting to see where Daily Stormer ends up landing, so that I can start treating them as the 'real' bastions
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by bmelton 9y ago
For anyone who wants an explanation at just how bad the social security number really is, this is the most enjoyable explanation for it I've seen, by CGP Grey https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erp8IAUouus
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by bmelton 9y ago
Define "hold capital". Most capital held in banks ends up helping the velocity of money because it's used for loans. If we tax the hell out of money stored in banks, banks will have less reserve, which reduces the fraction
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by bmelton 9y ago
On the flipside, shortly after a discussion with my wife on how user friendly nixes had become, I attempted to convert one of my old Windows 10 boxes to Ubuntu, for the purposes of leveraging mdadm over whatever SW RAID Windows ships with.
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by bmelton 9y ago
> Even 'racist' music can be tricky business This seems like, basically, all of the rap I grew up listening to in the 90s could be arbitrarily censored here. "Big dicks in ya mouth is bad for your health" comes to min
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To be fair, in America we have "time, place and manner" restrictions for that sort of thing as well. > I'd rather have a pissed off bakery serving gay cakes and coffeeshop serving nazi teaparty than letting a private compa
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by bmelton 9y ago
By your definition, true freedom of speech would force me to open my home to Nazis so that they could come in and yell at me about how much they hate my consorting with Jews. In the real world, freedom of speech is generally free enough as
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> and all those mom and pop shops that don't want to serve gay people in the South because of first amendment rights. Citation? This seems like a clumsy attempt to bash the south. Considering that the two largest cases for violatin
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by bmelton 9y ago
Just one man's opinion, but if you're looking for a quality phone for Project Fi, the Pixel is all-around very good, especially relative to the Nexus 6. I can't speak directly to the Pixel XL, but I've been more satisfi
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by bmelton 9y ago
So, in the case of the aforementioned Stagg, the distillate went into the barrels at 125 proof, and came out at 144. Clearly, the angel's share preferred to take water over distillate. That said, the yield was horrible -- 10-15 gallon
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The 2016 release of George T Stagg came out of the cask at 144 proof, or ~72%. You might want to recalibrate your high-water mark. ;-)
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What do you find problematic with the Pixel?
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> So you're saying it was wrong to assume 9/11 to be a terror attack before 2006? Osama Bin Laden claimed credit for 9/11, verbally expressing his intent. > Because until then, nobody had been convicted, and, by your lo
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by bmelton 9y ago
Personally, I worry about ingroup vs. outgroup tribalism, whatever the ingroup or the outgroup is. Specifically, I very sincerely worry about its effect on the political landscape. I understand that this is not an issue of government ac
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by bmelton 9y ago
> http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/masterpiece-cakes... They have not decided anything, other than to agree to hear the case: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/maste
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> The slippery slope argument is an awful fallacy and ignores the fact that we can't even get content most of the world agrees is bad (child porn, active malware exploits, spammers) offline So is false equivalence. Child porn, acti
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by bmelton 9y ago
Maybe a press release saying "Hey, we're not nazis, but we also have this policy that says we won't shut off service to people with whom we disagree politically" would have done the trick?

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