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by ebrenes 14y ago
Thanks so much for this bit of knowledge, I was not aware this was the grammatically accepted means of doing this. I always tried to reformulate sentences to avoid nested "expressions" due to the confusing nesting of parenthesis.
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by ebrenes 14y ago
If I don't pay for food, I die. If I don't pay for medicines, I die. Does this then imply I don't have a right to live, because "rights cannot be denied based on the ability to pay"? That I don't have a right to property, because if I don't
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Of course, that's a perfectly valid path if you don't mind bears roaming free and unhindered, biting whoever they desire. However, it's fair to say some people would prefer vicious grizzlies be confined to areas that are safe for them and t
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by ebrenes 14y ago
I suppose this adds another bullet point to Philip Greenspun's use of "King" instead of "President" when referring to the sovereign head of the USA. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/2009/10/28/is-it-fair-to-...
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by ebrenes 14y ago
I'm pretty sure that after the government has been violently overthrown there's really not much validity to what that government considered to be legal. At any rate, the right to bear arms is associated with the concept of defending yoursel
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Because as people state in this other thread ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4176658 ) quite clearly: "It's not about pointing the finger or otherwise apportioning blame. It's about learning from mistakes and preventing them from happ
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by ebrenes 14y ago
But you don't even need a product to do a Kickstarter. In fact in most cases the product doesn't even exist, the only thing that exists is the design and even that gets changed once the projects is funded sometimes to the chagrin of the bac
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by ebrenes 14y ago
There are also other reasons for going to war that go beyond personal gain, that have to do with the context of the time: * A desire to focus people's ire and attention at a specific target * The unity of purpose that creating such a target
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by ebrenes 14y ago
They do have a sub-website that caters to the high-end market. It might fill your requirements better? http://couture.zappos.com/
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Which they ? That same site says that it's the donors who would have to pay the tax, not the recipients: The donor is generally responsible for paying the gift tax. http://www.irs.gov/businesses/small/article/0,,id=108139,00....
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by ebrenes 14y ago
This reminds me of that part in Office Space where the manager complains about the waitress' "15 pieces of flare". I can only imagine the comedy of having it apply to legal and other areas of life... IRS: It says here you only paid the bare
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by ebrenes 14y ago
I guess I didn't do a good job of expression my thought. I completely agree on your point, and I wasn't try to endorse or espouse a lack of government. I suppose I could have stated it better by saying that the regulation that's in place is
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Honestly curious here, why is stevia excluded from the list in the article? It would seem to fall under the same process and cause equal amount of harm? Or is it the naturalistic fallacy at work?
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Take it a step further: if there weren't any government intervention, then they wouldn't have to pay any lobbyists. The companies wouldn't even need any laws enacted. They would - as the phrase implies - do whatever they wanted. The lobbyin
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Hasn't it always been a fairly well established business model? If anything the success of this model means we're seeing it more and more in ever more gigantic failures. Whereas before it seemed confined to snake oil salesmen and politics..
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by ebrenes 14y ago
I like the ideas. Personally, I would set it up as follows: 1. Have a fixed price for non-transferrable tickets, which are identified by ID/CC or sent to a specific mobile device with a QR code or something. These tickets will be refundable
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by ebrenes 14y ago
And how might that graph look if you take each state in the union as a sovereign entity and map it accordingly? It might actually make it fall in line with the trend, as I think the fact that these disjointed states are taken as a group is
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Is it really? I think all these derisive comments against CL are focusing on tangential details to the classified ad market. If I place a classified ad it is to find a buyer for the services or product I'm trying to move. CL currently does
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by ebrenes 14y ago
I think you sum it up perfectly in your third paragraph. The emotional jerks we get in these examples are based on that false assumption that the market "rewards" anything. The market just is, and it's a fickle beast as you eloquently descr
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by ebrenes 14y ago
I think one of the links mindcrime provided attempts to answer that question briefly: http://www.ozarkia.net/bill/anarchism/faq.html#part16 However, I don't feel it does a very good job. It basically devolves into private security provide
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by ebrenes 14y ago
To steal a quote from Forest Gump: "Evil is as evil does". I don't believe evil is an immutable property of an object; these kids were evil by virtue of their actions. I also believe that, yes, children can be evil. That they don't know any
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by ebrenes 14y ago
I would contend it's quite the opposite, it's the adoration of women and putting them up on a pedestal that makes the 'yo mama jokes' even exist. The underlying theme of the joke being that the target would be insulted or feel slighted by t
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Not to mention that you do not get that level of support around the world. If you happen to be outside of the US when the RAM fails, you're shit out of luck, and looking at several weeks without a computer, even if it's under warranty.
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by ebrenes 14y ago
Even if they do have this knowledge, and even if they could just as easily find it through Google or some other publicly available mechanism, they are most likely just seeing if you'll incriminate yourself. Why do they ask me what I'm doing
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Smartphone docking station transforms phone into "laptop"(clamcase.com)
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by ebrenes 15y ago
But is it offensive because being a woman is offensive, or is it offensive because as a man, being identified as a woman is a degradation or insult of your condition of being a man? A developer might feel slighted at being compared to a man
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by ebrenes 15y ago
I'd like to take the time and expand on what others have said. In particular, I was prompted by this bit: "to most people, their domain and availability are important parts of their brand..." First, I think that's only true of competent web
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by ebrenes 15y ago
I'm willing to accept someone was careless if they mix up rise/run or run/rise. But you can readily summon the correct expression if you understand what slope means algebraically/geometrically. So barring a sloppy mistake, which we all have
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by ebrenes 15y ago
I'm not sure how it applies to other countries, but here at least you have to have special car seats for all children until they're aged 12. It's insane, but that's the fabulous new law they enacted. So, yeah in some cases, some parents rea
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by ebrenes 15y ago
And if these middle do actually provide value, they will continue to be included in the process. If these organizations (currently known as publishers) are capable of providing capable editors and providing other value to the finished work,

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