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by caseydurfee 10y ago
The Clinton Foundation is a global healthcare charity. https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summar... It does not personally benefit the Clintons (other than the prestige). I've donated to Michael J
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
You didn't answer my question -- do you have any sort of proof that "discretionary spending" was actually invented by radical leftists? That was your original claim, remember? Do you stand by that claim, or no? So, let me su
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
You said: "Things they want are non-discretionary, other things are discretionary." That simply isn't true. Things that are funded by an appropriations bill are considered discretionary because the level of funding they rece
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
Incorrect, it has a perfectly precise legal meaning. Discretionary spending is government spending allocated through an appropriations bill. It's useful to distinguish between entitlement programs and non-entitlement programs. Where d
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
Is "sensible" a euphemism for "don't allow brown people in"? I've never heard Japan's immigration policies described as sensible before. Japan as a country is dying because of their low birthrate and ove
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
Considering how much the school you attended is a proxy for your race, gender, veteran status, socioeconomic status, etc., it would be incredibly dumb for them to say anything different.
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
Type I (insulin-dependent) diabetes is an autoimmune disease. It is not caused by obesity. Most Type II diabetics do not take insulin.
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
This is good news for Steve Guttenberg.
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
"This entire movement isn't really about ideas or arguments it's about group identity" I'm curious whether you recognize this as your opinion, which is valuable to you because it flatters your own political beliefs,
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
This is argument from anecdote. "everyone feels that they are being victimized constantly" is a pretty bold claim. You offer no concrete evidence to support this. Instead you link to Jerry Seinfeld also claiming, without providi
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
We need some kind of global treaty to cap straw man emissions.
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
Well, since you're not discussing things with an actual person, but the ludicrous one dimensional straw man version of an "extreme leftist" that only lives inside your own head, you're just congratulating yourself over h
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
Serious question, bro: Are you unaware that you have completely and miserably failed to address the point OP was making, or are you aware but just don't care?
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by caseydurfee 11y ago
curl https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9427468 | grep "SJW" Every damn time, Hacker News. Every damn time.
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
None of these are commercial speech. For crying out loud. Commercial speech is speech done by a private corporation for the purposes of furthering their own economic interests. Even commercial speech is protected as long as it isn't
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
My goodness, what are they teaching in schools these days? Commercial speech is protected under the 1st Amendment. It can be restricted if it passes the Central Hudson test: 1. The speech regulated is fraudulent, misleading, or proposes an
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
"The Democrats had the votes to pass any bill they wanted." Do you honestly believe Ben Nelson, Blanche Lincoln, Joe Lieberman and Evan Bayh (among many others) would vote for any bill Obama wanted? That's not factually true
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
I really wish we could retire the word "borrowed" to describe the nature of sovereign debt. It makes it sound like we're borrowing dollars from the Chinese to pay NASA. That's not how it works. (United States currency
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
Coding is just a really specialized type of writing. A lot of the principles of writing and editing prose well equally apply to code.
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
You might want to take a couple seconds to think about all the ways that taxation is different from actual slavery, and how clueless and asinine your comments look in light of that. Taxation doesn't control who you can marry. Taxation
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
The Wire was about psychedelics?
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
This is an initiative that will lead to higher earning potential for Americans, leading to higher tax revenues over the long term. Will it pay for itself? Probably not, but it's juvenile to act like all government spending is equal w
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
Fascinating article. Is there any reason to believe that upsampling an audio file should produce a better analog signal than playing it at its native sample rate? I find that playing high quality mp3's through an upsampling DSP filter
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
The operating system has to support the exFAT file system. I imagine that's the main barrier -- you have to license the exFAT technology from Microsoft. You can take an SDXC card and format it as FAT32 and it'll work -- of course
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
I don't understand the resistance (not you specifically, but our culture in general) to treating happiness as a learnable skill. There's plenty of evidence to suggest that it is. "A person who is good at software development
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
The OP was not talking about the magnitude of the differences, but the nature of them. Do you believe that neuroplasticity remains constant throughout a person's lifetime? Unless you believe that, your statement is incoherent. Lesions
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
The game has been around as long as civilization has been around. The conventional view is that money came first, then debt, when actually it was the other way around. Rather than being a modern invention, debt and the management thereof
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
The hippies think it's a bad idea to drink Clorox bleach, too. So start chuggin'! You gotta show those dumb hippies they're not the boss of you.
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
They'd already raised over 800M before this round.
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by caseydurfee 12y ago
Funny you didn't quote Marshall's much more famous saying about corporations in Dartmouth College v. Woodward: "A corporation is an artificial being, invisible, intangible, and existing only in contemplation of law. Being the

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