chenelson

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by chenelson 12y ago
If we took religion away from history, would we have science?
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by chenelson 12y ago
Perfectly. Wow. You've confused a single-payer system with mandated-coverage for-profit insurance companies...that will somehow be forced by regulation to "optimize"...cost? Yeah. What's the CEO of UnitedHealthcare'
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by chenelson 12y ago
We don't really have Health Insurance companies. Insurance is about risk management, and we have mandated health coverage. But, to your point, this is why real insurance companies manage their portfolios, aggregate. If they're los
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by chenelson 12y ago
Insurance is a mode of risk management. If we all have mandated coverage, then all risk is assumed, and the term "insurance" is meaningless.
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by chenelson 12y ago
Well, margin is a difficult concept to grep. Vanderbilt University economist Kip Viscusi claims a net cost savings of 32 cents per pack sold [1]. It seems we're all going to die, and Alzheimer's isn't part of the quick and ea
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by chenelson 12y ago
And, I guess, Bill Maher is a right-wing nutty? He believes Mars and Moon missions would be a great waste of money. The Bible isn't holding us back....it's our lack of imagination and lazy jokes and the conflation of capital and f
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by chenelson 12y ago
Where are "kids" going to find these "candy bars" with "extreme" doses of, what, 100mg of THC? Where are their parents? Can these kids read or are we talking about toddlers? What are the consequences? Are they
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by chenelson 12y ago
But that's my point...you're talking about a "few times" and not volume. Sure, some (at least 1) may purchase freedom, but compared to the convenience crowd (think Starbucks), freedom is a rounding error. BTW, prior to l
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by chenelson 12y ago
Of course you're seeing transients/homeless where you didn't in the past. The City Council is playing Whac-A-Mole: the police blocked off significant portions of the downtown library green areas and patrol the river. Where do
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by chenelson 12y ago
People, especially those in their early 20s, tend to not pay attention to the serving size for alcohol, sometimes to the point of death. Those drinking for the first time often experience a hangover. People, especially those of retirement a
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by chenelson 12y ago
People aren't purchasing freedom, they're purchasing convenience. And this isn't a new product. Also, as prices fall in the legal retail trade, shouldn't we expect more competition with the black market?
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by chenelson 12y ago
Hodos ano kato.
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by chenelson 12y ago
I thought the Founders were fighting against the so-called needs of law enforcement; so much so that the US literally exists because of heavy-handed governmental action. The Fourth Amendment was intended to keep the the Founders' busin
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by chenelson 12y ago
Ha. I've seen $22/gram recreational with a max of 3 grams, and people are lining up in downtown Denver. Things aren't much better in Boulder, where the city is dragging their feet on recreational. You can get 1 gram of wax (c
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by chenelson 12y ago
The report didn't claim the great Corporation of the Elites are omniscient and omnipotent; just that 'they' owned all Intellectual Property rights, and that We, the People, must offer remittance for air.
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by chenelson 12y ago
I read your argument as (1) humans are entangled with the environment and (2) a judgement that guns are related (mind) to death more so than edged weapon or rope (hence my question of your mood or state). Following your logic, shouldn'
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by chenelson 12y ago
Clearly false: In Switzerland, even though one likely posses a gun, one is more likely to use a rope to commit suicide. While we, being simple humans, may project feeling upon an inanimate object, it's a mistake to assume a god's
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by chenelson 12y ago
It seems odd to conflate person-on-person crime with a choice to kill one's self. Further, in my limited experience with suicide, firearms are part of the planning process and not the impetus of death. It seems just as likely to me tha
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by chenelson 13y ago
Facebook is literally 60% water, whence they came. Pretty wild when you think about it.
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by chenelson 18y ago
Simplicity: Each purchase represents a discrete function users require in a package that doesn't have a steep learning curve. Value: Customers are leveraging the wisdom of crowds (aka popularity) to help them choose an application (aka fun
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by chenelson 18y ago
Milestones alone are often abused, too. In startup work, people are invested and there's too little time and even less reward to compare what I'm dong to what someone else isn't. If someone doesn't deliver, someone else steps up and we mov
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by chenelson 18y ago
I think that's kinda the point of the article. Why was Leo focusing his energy on something that he had to know wasn't possible in his lifetime? For many, that would be waste of talent: a boy in a man's body. What we may fail to recogniz
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by chenelson 18y ago
Ideas are waves and the Internet is just a medium.