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by cb18 11y ago
Regardless of one's feelings about 'climate change,' it really behooves us to stop doing a variety of things in a way that are hugely destructive to the planet and ourselves. That would be good policy no matter what, but the
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by cb18 11y ago
In the link from the article, suggestions like: if worried about foreigners voting against the interests of current citizens, don't allow foreigners to vote. Yeah, so just create a society with an underclass with no political power,
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by cb18 11y ago
Because like it or not, westerners are more or less entirely responsible for creating the modern world[0], if we just decide to do away with the idea of a nation state and let all the people from not so nice places move freely en masse to t
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by cb18 11y ago
This whole article is so mindbogglingly dumb. Under free migration, labor would relocate to more productive regions, massively increasing total production. He thinks it is a given that open borders would be overall beneficial, because it
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by cb18 11y ago
And I here agree with you. Reduced crime including from ex-cons would obviously be the preferred situation. Do you know if prison systems that have more of a reform focus have reduced recidivism rates? If so, what can be learned from these
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by cb18 11y ago
your equation doesn't consider the ethical costs of locking people away for long periods of time. This is just my kind of off-the-cuff theorizing, but I had that factored in to the cost column as well. I wasn't speaking about a
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by cb18 11y ago
sorry, I should have clarified ok, I see. the US is atrociously higher than it's contemporaries (a rate of ~4.8 vs ~1.0-1.5) What is that a rate of, murders per 100k or something? Maybe the US just has a population and/or cond
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by cb18 11y ago
The issue is that criminals for the most part don't think "ah, I can commit this crime, I will 'only' get 5-10 years" and "oh, this crime would be 50 years - in that case I won't do it". With all r
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by cb18 11y ago
I don't know if your meaning to say we should do away with criminal sentencing? I would think your not saying that, but just so no one gets the wrong idea. For people that commit crimes that are highly disruptive to society, on any lev
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by cb18 11y ago
Not sure what your point is... If mine wasn't clear to you, the article starts with a claim that this 'word gap' is the cause of effects observed later in life. It's easy to see the attraction of this, simply talk to k
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by cb18 11y ago
Follow-up studies showed that these differences in language and interaction experiences have lasting effects on a child’s performance later in life. That's quite a leap to say "this caused that," rather than them both just
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by cb18 11y ago
The scenario you describe is really one more common to the modern world of just the past couple generations. Intelligence has been evolving and subject to inheritance far longer than that. Believe it or not, the scenario you describe has oc
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by cb18 11y ago
So you are saying that we fought for independence because British were invading our privacy? Not only is he saying it, so is the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, whom he quoted. Opposition to such searches was in fact on of the
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by cb18 11y ago
And another amusing little wrinkle to this is that this recent btc pump and dump appears to have been driven in large part by an actual admitted ponzi scheme with no pretensions of appearing otherwise. https://duckduckgo.com&#x2F
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by cb18 11y ago
Bitcoin and its advocates (who I guess are just [...] early adopters holding bitcoins). Exactly. This is the fatal flaw of bitcoin, the distribution model.
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by cb18 11y ago
"In fact, last week, as the price of bitcoin topped $500, the usage rate reached an all-time high, after roughly doubling over the past twelve months. “The real usage is catching up to the hype,” Armstrong says." That is a highl
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by cb18 11y ago
It's amusing how there has been a spate of these 'bitcoin is back' articles after this recent little(by bitcoin standards) pump and dump. Because the last time bitcoin was here apparently was the massive pump and dumps in 201
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by cb18 11y ago
Advertisements are paid for. This wasn't. I've not read the article, but it makes sense to remember that 'payment' can come in various forms, not just cash. Access, favors, special privileges granted, etc. This isn&#x2
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by cb18 11y ago
What kind of study do you want? They are different compounds. Mix up a blend of 25% cayenne to 75% cinnamon, then 75% cayenne to 25% cinnamon. Do you think that conscious experiences that results from these blends interacting with your ton
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by cb18 11y ago
I think this is pretty well established, both scientifically and experientially. We're talking about different ratios of psychoactive agents, so it's only natural to assume that if the action is different, the result will be diffe
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by cb18 11y ago
The equivalence raised was to yazriel's point of any considerations of future energy generation methods really need to be taking into account the rapid growth of renewables, and not just rapid, but exponential. Which if your unfamiliar
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by cb18 11y ago
Most importantly, IMHO, they completely ignore the learning curve for solar & wind. This is a proven trend, over last decades, appears to be set to continue, and completely changes the discussion. By 'learning curve,' I gues
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by cb18 11y ago
applicable username. also witty
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by cb18 11y ago
"Gravity powered," not "fully automated." I think this is pretty clever.
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by cb18 11y ago
I'm probably not entirely in the 'bitcoin has no value camp.' But that those currencies issued by dictatorships having value as you say, doesn't really have much to do with bitcoin, apart from being another example of cu
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by cb18 11y ago
I'm not really to concerned with or even pay much attention to his criticisms of somebody's gestures in a youtube video. The thing I found worthwhile about the site was his reporting of serious matters with serious sources, you k
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by cb18 11y ago
I don't really see what it has to do with Curators of Sweden. Curators of Sweden, has to do with Sweden, specifically the curation or portrayal of Sweden. i.e. "The big picture." My post also has to do with Sweden, spec
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by cb18 11y ago
I will personally never forgive Sweden and the people in charge betraying innocent lives abroad The people just as betrayed or more so by the people making these decisions are these people's fellow Swedish countrymen. What these gove
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by cb18 11y ago
I'd imagine most other countries haven't thought of doing this, because most others countries don't have such a rigidly enforced group-think as does Sweden. Did you know that Sweden's main export is not lumber or steel
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by cb18 11y ago
I will admit, though, I assumed it was a woman just from the male romantic interest, which is my bad. What? There's something to be said for not being hostile to those with different proclivities, however, there is certainly no reas

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