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by deciplex 11y ago
> So, am I missing something, or are they, or both? They are.
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by deciplex 11y ago
It's safe to say Seattle will try very hard to make the rest of us pay for their mistakes. IIRC the people of Seattle and their government did not exactly push hard for the current plan? There was a referendum in which both the tunne
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by deciplex 11y ago
I haven't lived in Seattle for over a decade, so take the following with a grain of salt, but I was there for the earthquake that damaged the viaduct in the first place, and had followed another project which was winding down at that t
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by deciplex 11y ago
In most democracies "The State" is more responsive to the will of the people than you give it credit for, though I will agree with you that it is not as responsive as either of us would like. Moreover they are orders of magnitude
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Bastiat was right when he said the State replaced the Church with little differences. Yes, yes. Good for you that your threw off the yoke of your oppression or whatever the shit you're blabbering about. If the preference to live
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by deciplex 11y ago
You seem to be suggesting that political correctness and right-wing arealism are two sides of the same coin. I can buy that. However, and maybe this is just my personal experience, but I've found that it's a much bigger impedime
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by deciplex 11y ago
> does any one or any group of people has the moral right to initiate force against two consenting adults agreeing to a mutual contract because we think we know better than they do about what's best for them? Yes. Society broadly
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by deciplex 11y ago
What happens when, or if, the economy becomes dominated by a handful of actors who impose monopolistic economic inefficiencies just as damaging as any the state could have conjured, and with the additional injury that there is no democratic
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by deciplex 11y ago
I know that what you can do in a poll is limited, but frankly any answer to this question will tell me almost nothing: > Please tell me if you agree or disagree with the following statement: A big problem this country has is being polit
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by deciplex 11y ago
> The bookshop-keeper here, is eking out every single edge he can out of books to operate his shop. It could be, but it could also be the case that he's trying to be 'quirky' and happened to implement this particular ide
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by deciplex 11y ago
If you make a movie called "Star Wars", sure. But (and please correct me if I'm wrong) making any derivative work, i.e. using the characters and stories - fan-fiction basically, would fall under the copyright regime. That&#x2
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by deciplex 11y ago
You're assuming that the monopoly on IP is necessary to get a good return on a film like this. It's also arguable that copyright law made this film more expensive than it otherwise would have been - I don't think your $200 mi
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by deciplex 11y ago
Basically nothing about Disney's strategy would be wrong, or even harmful, provided copyright terms were something reasonable rather than infinite as a practical matter. By now anyone should have been allowed to make "The Force
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by deciplex 11y ago
On the other hand, 12 years ago MP3 players were commonplace just about everywhere, but in Japan Minidisc was still the big thing.
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by deciplex 11y ago
You seem to be suggesting that he wasn't "forced" to pray, because could have, and did not, appeal his mild (according to you) punishment all the way to the Supreme Court. That's, ah, unconvincing, to put it lightly.
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by deciplex 11y ago
Everything over the deduction (currently just shy of $100k) is taxed, minus a further deduction for tax paid to a foreign government on the earnings. Basically, you will pay the higher of US tax or local tax, on earnings over $100k. And you
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by deciplex 11y ago
Is the end to double taxation for the corporate tax only? Human Americans are also double-taxed on income earned abroad.
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by deciplex 11y ago
> Imagine an America in which the poorest families had two cars and a four-bedroom house, in a safe neighborhood with good schools. Would it then be considered problematic if Gates and Buffet became trillionaires? Yes, it would be very
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by deciplex 11y ago
I said that: > Then you would insert the max you just removed into the next heap in the same way, and so on.
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by deciplex 11y ago
I think for insertion, once you find the heap the new element should be inserted into, you would remove the max element from the heap, and re-heapify that subarray with the new element. Then you would insert the max you just removed into th
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by deciplex 11y ago
I'm pretty sure there is an additional (unstated) assumption that each element of each subarray is less than all elements of subsequent subarrays. Otherwise you could just take the largest sqrt(n) elements, sort them, and then randomly
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by deciplex 11y ago
And just to address this: > there's no serious argument here That's a pretty ridiculous opinion to have considering the voting in this thread. Even if you're right, I'm clearly far from alone in thinking that what y
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by deciplex 11y ago
You keep saying it's a slur. Since we obviously have some kind of basic disagreement on what this word even means, I'll just elaborate why I think it was appropriate speech: I think you'll agree that giving a charitable readi
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by deciplex 11y ago
Have you noticed that Muslims in e.g. the US and Germany are by and large less radical than the broader population there? Islam doesn't seem to be particularly incompatible with Western culture, rather it seems to be incompatible wi
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by deciplex 11y ago
I'd be in agreement with you if the OP started and stopped with that first sentence, but he didn't. And OP is not claiming that all Muslims are violent or making a generalization like that - he very specifically referred to reput
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by deciplex 11y ago
This seems to be mainly a problem in Europe (and France in particular) as opposed to Islam in general. Even the study you've linked indicates that. Here is an article that explores a bit more the attitudes among American Muslims in par
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by deciplex 11y ago
This wasn't a mere insinuation, this was a claim made along with some study linked in support of the claim. And since the topic at hand is precisely Islam's reputation in the first place, it seems we can't have any conversati
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by deciplex 11y ago
It's not a slur against Islam in the slightest , it's a supposition, with a link in support of it. If one-third of a population supports or tolerates a heinous thing, then it is not unreasonable to claim that the reason the popul
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by deciplex 11y ago
Indeed. The moderation in this thread has been supremely disappointing. Your post contained no slurs, only an interpretation of data along with a link.
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by deciplex 11y ago
They aren't, but I've seen you call out users in the past basically for making a joke that you either didn't catch or that you didn't think was funny enough to justify the impropriety that went along with it. I wouldn&#x

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