bmmayer1

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by bmmayer1 10y ago
Ah, the old 'Tu quoque' fallacy. Even so, let's examine some of these claims a bit: > Indian reservations Yes, the state of the modern Indian reservation is tragic, but doesn't that have to more to do with too much go
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
That's completely unfair. China is a huge importer of CO2 emissions. Where do you think the dollars behind all those plastic toys and electric components come from? Statistics like these don't account for a countries carbon footpr
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How Venezuela’s socialist dream collapsed into a nightmare – Vox(vox.com)
4 points by bmmayer1 10y ago|1 comments
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
This happened to me, in Guatemala. Was using a rental car Garmin GPS whose map had some serious errors. The worst was, driving at night, thanks to my brights being on, I saw the road drop off ahead and slowed us to a stop. It was a sheer cl
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by bmmayer1 10y ago
At that level, in general, boards pay CEOs that much money to leave, because the cost of them staying on to the shareholders is often many times more. The severance usually sounds like a lot compared to what you or I make, which is why it g
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
The irony is, the US has the highest corporate income tax of anywhere in the world. Maybe if we eliminated corporate income tax (like most economists suggest[1]), foreign companies would be inverting here instead of the other way around.
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Boy’s Response to Blasphemy Charge Unnerves Many in Pakistan(nytimes.com)
3 points by bmmayer1 11y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
There's also the point pg brought up in his most recent essay[1]: "To some extent this was an illusion. Much of the de facto pay of executives never showed up on their income tax returns, because it took the form of perks. The hig
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
It should be mentioned that currently 40% of Indian children are enrolled in private ("independent") schools, which in turn make up 25% of the K-12 schools in India[1]. The public school system is viewed as such a poor education t
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
This is a great idea. One thing that most unbanked people in the third world lack is access to easy credit. What a great way to extend credit than essentially a lease to own on useful products. They can easily expand this concept to many ot
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An Inmate Dies, and No One Is Punished(nytimes.com)
1 points by bmmayer1 11y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
Last month an Uber driver told me: "I don't work for Uber. I just use their app." The same driver had the Lyft app.
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
What kind of world do we live in where a counterargument has to be prefaced with "maybe it's my white privilege talking" Seriously, what does your race have to do with how right or wrong you are?
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
Just because an organization is religious doesn't mean it can't provide social benefit. The air quotes seem unnecessary.
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
"wouldn't it be better to have all this power be in the hands of the democratically chosen" This assumes the money in question belongs to the state to begin with, and we're merely deciding how it is to be allocated. That
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Earning Bitcoin Through Arbitrage Software(bitcoinbulls.net)
16 points by bmmayer1 11y ago|6 comments
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
I think the point is that like all religions, Islam contains in its holy books rationale and justification for many barbaric acts that most Muslims (such as yourself) don't follow. There is nothing special about Islam in this regard; h
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Blind teacher loses job after rinsing his mouth with Listerine(nypost.com)
68 points by bmmayer1 11y ago|17 comments
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
It depends on what your product is. Are military customers receiving 2x the value from your product? Are they 2x more expensive to serve?
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Eyes Wide Open at the Protest(dartreview.com)
1 points by bmmayer1 11y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
Of course they don't. That's why they don't assume any responsibility for it.
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
If science has taught us anything, it's that Science is not a Revealed Truth but must be prone to criticism, testing, and new insights, not to mention the discovery of the unknown. Using 'global warming deniers,' a not-so-sub
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
The irony here is that, at the beginning, the Nazi Party started counting members at 500 to make themselves seem bigger than they were.
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NY Fed's $40B Iraqi Money Trail(cnbc.com)
1 points by bmmayer1 11y ago|0 comments
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
It's never a bad idea to think about how these ideas play out when taken to their logical conclusion. Kurt Vonnegut on the subject: http://www.tnellen.com/cybereng/harrison.html
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
I wish I could double upvote this comment.
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
Why do you assume freedom of speech exists on college campuses?
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
Completely inaccurate headline, and they buried the lede. The real reason power producers were willing to 'sell' electricity for negative $8 per MWh, is because of a $23 federal tax credit they received per MWh. So the negative sa
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
Productivity is the creation of goods and services. Goods and services are the building blocks of wealth: one who has more goods and services is more wealthy. It is impossible to create more wealth without increased productivity. Now, to yo
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by bmmayer1 11y ago
This is the most important point. We apparently live in a country where regulators get to decide what falls under the umbrella of their regulation.

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