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by drcube 11y ago
Yeah, comparing city parks to national parks is silly. A green space designed by government workers and built using modern technology is not the same as Yellowstone or Yosemite. Municipal parks, lawns, golf courses and playgrounds are not &
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by drcube 11y ago
Nurse practitioners are doctors. None of the others listed can legally diagnose illnesses or prescribe treatment. That's the point. If nurses could open up their own practice and prescribe meds, that would be more like what the OP is p
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by drcube 11y ago
You don't have relatives across the country? Or you just don't visit them?
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by drcube 11y ago
I expect almost any laptop I buy will work (with minimal tinkering) with any flavor of Linux I use, but something tells me that is not the case with BSD. Are they all running it on a virtual machine? Or is there a lot more people writing dr
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by drcube 11y ago
All treaties have to be approved by the Senate. They just voted this time to approve a special "fast track" for TPP, which gives it a strict up or down vote in the Senate while waiving their right to amend the treaty or add attach
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by drcube 11y ago
Because breaking encryption breaks it for everyone. If the cops can get your data, so can a hacker. There is simply no way to compromise. You either are encrypted, in which case nobody but you can decrypt your data, or you're not encry
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by drcube 11y ago
The government only insures up to $250k. Beyond that, the bank is a lot riskier place to store money than the US Treasury. Maybe you could get four bank accounts if you have $1M, but what if you have $250 million, or a billion? In other wor
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by drcube 11y ago
Why does it matter what Apple wants? Oh yeah, it's Apple's phone, I'm just temporarily using it.
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by drcube 11y ago
> Do you have any sources for this? "A new report by In the Public Interest finds that private prison contracts that include “occupancy requirements” — effectively inmate quotas — are alarmingly common. Among the 62 contracts that t
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by drcube 11y ago
So iOS ad-blockers only work in the browser? They don't block ads in apps?
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by drcube 11y ago
But why do they quit their jobs? If it's to start a business, educate themselves, obtain skills for landing a job they enjoy more, etc, then all those are good things, and not a downside to basic income. And if they're just too
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by drcube 11y ago
Basic income is for everyone, workers and the unemployed, rich and poor alike. Or at least it should be. Every dollar you earn should be a bonus, on top of basic income, or else like you said, you create disincentives to work. If you'r
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by drcube 11y ago
At a rate of $1B per year, they'll be out of cash in... 300 years.
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by drcube 11y ago
Gentrification is bad because it pushes out the people who can no longer afford it. How does Arduino do this to electronics hobbyists?
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by drcube 11y ago
No, the mind of the perpetrator is relevant, not the victim. And it isn't just "he said, she said", but the court tries to actually understand what was going on in the perpetrator's mind. For example, you can't sh
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by drcube 11y ago
MTV isn't free. Paying customers are still their product.
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by drcube 11y ago
>> In the time of patronage, it wasn't the intellectual property that was bought and sold, rather the artist. Slavery and patronage are very related systems of organizing human capital. They're both based around primitive id
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by drcube 11y ago
I think the OP is illustrating the pedantry of "well technically solar energy is atomic energy" by pointing out that, by that standard, so is coal and oil. In other words, I don't think you disagree with the OP.
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by drcube 11y ago
It doesn't matter who invented it. It matters what it is. And marriage is fundamentally a government institution. It concerns laws and legally granted privileges. If there's a sacred component, let the churches keep that part, but
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by drcube 11y ago
Marriage has always been a government institution. Religion co-opted it for themselves at a later time. This "leave marriage to the churches where they belong" cry is disingenuous. Marriage is about a contract between individuals.
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by drcube 11y ago
Regarding the whole burial aspect -- the guy was already buried! With a ceremony according to his own religious beliefs as he practiced them, not whatever religion descendents 8 millennia distant currently practice. Shouldn't they just
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by drcube 11y ago
Statistically , eh? Got a cite?
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by drcube 11y ago
Dirt is shit. Shit is dirt. It is everywhere you walk. Every animal in the world shits on the ground. This is literally the most trivial issue on earth.
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by drcube 11y ago
What harmful chemicals are those, exactly?
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by drcube 11y ago
In Illinois, the law says you only have to go to school until you're 16. Doesn't mean most people don't go to school for longer, 16 is just the earliest you can drop out by law.
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by drcube 11y ago
>It Gets Converted to Energy (So wrong. Mass cannot be converted to energy except through nuclear reactions) This is not true. There is energy in chemical bonds, and that energy is released when the bonds break. When you burn gasoline, t
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by drcube 12y ago
This is the same Peter Singer who told parents not to send their kids to college and instead send their tuition money to Africa. But apparently, if you send your kid to college anyway, he could make enough to send half his salary to Africa
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by drcube 12y ago
I don't see how this is any more likely than a teetotaler taking cash bribes for information.
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by drcube 12y ago
I think it's funny that anyone anywhere thinks that whether you smoked pot in the last year is "a matter of national security".
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by drcube 12y ago
As a kid I made "ant poison" by mixing various household chemicals and water in a gallon jug. Then I'd pour it on ants. Sure enough, they died. Mostly by drowning, but still. It worked. I wouldn't be comfortable buying a

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