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by bokonist 17y ago
However, I'm afraid I still don't see why you view USG's ownership as legitimate, unless you are equating de facto ownership with legitimate ownership -- i.e., you don't believe there is any difference between the two. I think the concept
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by bokonist 17y ago
This is where the question of legitimacy matters, because a sovereign will have at least some trouble if its residents do not accept its legitimacy, even if it wins in the end. There are two things to consider in regards to USG's relation
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by bokonist 17y ago
Adverse Possession does not care how the property was acquired. All it cares is that the owner has managed to maintain uncontested possession of it. The states originally siezed the territory from the Brits. The Feds then seized it from
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by bokonist 17y ago
I think that the principle of Adverse Possession applies ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adverse_possession ). If USG is not the legitimate title holder of middle-North America, who is?
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by bokonist 17y ago
You choose to stay. A person may be born in an apartment, but that doesn't mean they can live there rent free for the rest of their life. And yes, you are not just free to walk into some other country and live there. But nor are you are
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by bokonist 17y ago
but presumably the focus here is what people choose to spend their money on, and taxes aren't much of a choice. Taxes are the rent you pay for choosing to live in the USA.
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by bokonist 17y ago
is there any other benefits of "no price tag" approach, particularly for buyers? Yes. Say the marginal cost of a good is $1000. The fixed cost of developing the product was $900,000. There are 100 potential customers. In order to brea
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by bokonist 17y ago
Probably the world's number one example of urban farming is Shanghai: "The magazine Urban Agriculture describes how Shanghai has in effect created a nutrient recycling zone around the city. The municipal government manages 300,000 hectares
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by bokonist 17y ago
The study you cite is neither predictive nor evidence based. It is a speculative, after the fact explanation: "We used computer-generated simulations to get this research result. I hope that in the future we'll be able to verify this resul
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by bokonist 17y ago
Public figures are almost never intellectually honest, because in order to get to their position they usually have to align politically with either the Left or the Right. Facts and arguments are not methods for discovering truth but weapon
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by bokonist 17y ago
Total sea ice is as high as ever: 'On a global basis, world sea ice in April 2008 reached levels that were "unprecedented" for the month of April in over 25 years.' source: http://www.climateaudit.org/?p=3066 Could warming have caused ice
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by bokonist 17y ago
The Idiocracy phenomena is quite interesting and there is a lot of merit to both sides of the debate. The issue deserves a lot better treatment than the drivel in this cartoon. The proof by assertion of the guy in the hat is ironically an
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by bokonist 17y ago
I very much disagree. There is still a lot of contention over the basic science. See this article for the best critique I have found of the science behind global warming: http://commentlog.org/bid/4409/The-Case-for-Global-Warming-S...
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by bokonist 17y ago
They appear to be a government funded research institute. The bigger the fear over global warming, the more funding goes to such institutes. That does not mean they do bad science. But it does not mean that you should not take their repo
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by bokonist 17y ago
I was a late comer to that thread, so I'll repeat here the challenge I made there ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=657364 ): Can anyone tell me what exactly Krugman said about trade theory that was both a) novel and b) true? Krugman
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by bokonist 17y ago
The problem is not with physicians, rather its a structural problem with the American political system. I have no doubt that you and many of your colleagues are compassionate and well intentioned. But you also pay dues to an organization t
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by bokonist 17y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by bokonist 17y ago
Doctors learn medicine in medical school. College is just wasting time jumping through hoops. As for law, a friend who recently graduated from law school said, "We would spend all semester paying to hear our professors who just liked to h
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by bokonist 17y ago
I'd rather be ruled by a system, not a person. We are a nation of laws, remember? I would rather not be ruled by any one person no matter how great they were. Laws must be enacted, interpreted, and enforced by people. All governments are
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Differences in fertility by class, world wide(gnxp.com)
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by bokonist 17y ago
I have not tested my app on the final version. In my app, and in other reports of the leak, it was not the complicated stuff that caused the leak. See this report, for instance: http://markmail.org/message/wwovry6qwnezcrr2 My case was ba
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by bokonist 17y ago
I had really bad luck using Jython 2.5 beta 0 with django. I ran into some nasty memory leaks. It looks like other people have run into the same problem: http://www.nabble.com/Django-Jython-memory-leak--td20899097.... I would not recomm
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by bokonist 17y ago
Your brain may be signaling to you that doing well in class is not actually a good use of your time. You should listen to your brain, and figure out goals you actually believe in. The motivation then follows.
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by bokonist 17y ago
Shudda, wudda, cudda, bokonist. (ie, counterfactuals and supposition are a poor-man's way to argue history) What if my grandmother had wheels? Would that make her a trolley? I care about these issues for two reasons. 1) simply for the ple
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by bokonist 17y ago
Yes. But two points: 1) the military superiority of democracy was due to its ability to mobilize mass conscript armies. At the time, winning wars was a matter of bodies. Post 1945, great power wars are determined by of nukes, planes, and
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by bokonist 17y ago
It's great in the short term. For the long term, well, see Spain.
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by bokonist 17y ago
If this were true, then where are all of the great monarchies? They were superior in terms of quality of governance. They were inferior at war. The monarchies were defeated militarily by democracies.
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by bokonist 17y ago
They worked quite well in Venice. The Republic lasted 1,000 years, which is pretty impressive. The half-life of the typical represenative democracy seems to be about twenty years, so that's a big difference. Since Venice, unpredictable e
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by bokonist 17y ago
Right, but the limited direct democracy they have does not seem to make better decisions than the legislature: http://econlog.econlib.org/archives/2009/06/myth_of_the_rat_...
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by bokonist 17y ago
The best answer so far is so let everybody vote once in a while and to use representatives to make the day-to-day decisions. Have you ever considered whether or not this is actually true? Sure we have a government run school system that

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