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by chiaro 10y ago
Cars give freedom to those who don't have it. It's easy to have a rosy pastoral view of the Amish, but the reality is grim for many young women subjugated to that culture. The ability for such people to see that the outside world
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by chiaro 10y ago
Christ, tell me about it. The presence of one fiat/debt conspiracy theorist in the comments is far less troubling than the collection of commenters seemingly amazed at his insight. Let's not even get into the the smug myopia of Mu
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by chiaro 10y ago
It's perfectly consistent to believe that the civil rights movement meets one's threshold for justifiable civil disobedience, while Uber's plight does not.
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by chiaro 10y ago
Baby boomers exiting the workforce, along with lower birth rates (and some increasing anti-immigrant sentiment that curtails the normal set of solutions) will lead to issues with healthcare affordability and end of life care. But these are
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by chiaro 10y ago
Australia's income growth has been some of the best in the world over the last couple of decades, and unlike our friends in the US, it's been experienced by working and upper class alike. There are issues, of course, but their pre
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by chiaro 10y ago
It's a shockingly transparent corruption of power that these increases were applied retrospectively. The entire rationale for copyright is to incentivize the creation of new works, which explicitly does apply to past creations. This is
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by chiaro 10y ago
I didn't write the article (nor as far as I know, anything like it) so you're reading rather a lot into my comment. I wasn't even commenting on the article's own view point necessarily, but rather the degree of alienatio
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by chiaro 10y ago
It's funny. When I first read this article it must have left a strong impression for me to have recalled it now, in the wake of the election. I see someone else felt similarly. I also remember a HN comment on it saying the blame for wr
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by chiaro 10y ago
No they didn't: >Our final map has Clinton winning with 352 electoral votes. Compare your picks with ours. http://www.latimes.com/nation/politics/trailguide/la-na-trai...
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by chiaro 10y ago
Man, heading overseas in a couple of months. I remember how travelling Americans would all call themselves Canadian during the Bush years. This will only be worse.
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by chiaro 10y ago
To be fair, the polls were consistently in the opposite direction. 538 had clinton at 70%, PEC at 99%, everyone else somewhere in between. It's a black swan event, bubble or no.
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by chiaro 10y ago
Yeah, on the other hand prices really have dropped much more than quality. I'm ten years strong on a toaster I picked up from Target for (and I can remember this, for some reason) $12.
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by chiaro 10y ago
Wait, you can star-rating AND heart songs? Why? Why both?
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by chiaro 10y ago
“The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealin
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by chiaro 10y ago
There should at least be maximum age limits for the supreme court. Pushing people to retain their positions despite entering positions where mental faculties are degenerating for entirely political ends is a horrific outcome. For comparison
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by chiaro 10y ago
Given the paucity of high profile business speakers at the event thus far, I'm surprised that the RNC didn't milk Thiel for longer. It's also surprising that he talked about replicating the prosperity of SV beyond the Bay Are
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by chiaro 10y ago
The LDP are a bit of a joke party in Australia, did you just mean the Coalition?
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by chiaro 10y ago
Why not go to any Western country with a functional police force? e.g. the UK, Australia, Sweden
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by chiaro 10y ago
Reposting this terrific (long) article: http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/10/how-davi... Hume, along with the Ancient Roman Stoics and some Taoism, have a good deal in common (and compleme
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by chiaro 10y ago
Depends. You'd be right if you consider rich whites with a college degree, but I believe rich whites without one are more dependably Trump iirc.
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by chiaro 10y ago
That's a bit of a myth that's come about when compared to Sanders. In reality, her voting record is around the 70th percentile most liberal out of Democrat senators (referring to her last year). http://fivethirtyeight.c
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by chiaro 10y ago
I think the majority of app developers still, at least nominally, believe that they are providing something of value.
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by chiaro 10y ago
...and in Capitalist America, party ignores people like you since indistinguishable from apathy and laziness.
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by chiaro 10y ago
The voting constituency is not, nor has it ever been, made up of informed citizens. Indeed, you could probably say that the more extreme your political views are, the more likely you are to vote. In this case, more 'average' voter
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by chiaro 10y ago
A duty is stronger than a right, and implies an obligation, not just an option. Countries that implement obligatory voting (or rather, obligatory showing up to the ballot, there is no need to vote once there) are obliged in turn to make vot
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by chiaro 10y ago
Yep, people who complain about political apathy here in Aus have no idea how bad it gets elsewhere.
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by chiaro 10y ago
>I won't be a part of it. You are though, mate. You don't have a choice in the matter.
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by chiaro 10y ago
You may find it interesting that opposition to vaccines (to the degree that it exists) doesn't really have a left/right association outside of the states.
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by chiaro 10y ago
In practice, it's done the opposite way. The implementation of work condition standards is a standard feature of trade liberalisation agreements, including the TPP. Manufacturing tariffs are, indeed, a wealth transfer from foreign prod
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by chiaro 10y ago
Horrific. For comparison, when I flew Sydney/Melbourne recently it took me 2 minutes in line and 30 seconds through security, and that's including being singled out for the bomb-residue swab. Never needed to present an ID, either.

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