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by ep103 9y ago
I got a chance to hang out with Immortal Technique some 5 or 6 years ago (very political, well known rapper). That night we all talked a lot about wealth inequality, and how it impacts working people int he New York region. He referred to
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by ep103 9y ago
Thank you for your service! The current civ AI team is pointed in such a wrong direction... wish they would hire you guys instead! :)
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Wealth inequality is higher than its been in quite a long time. Massive numbers of people feel that they aren't being represented in government, which at its root, is usually accurate (1). This results in distrust of economic elites.
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tl;dr: To put it one last way: if drugs were legal, the pharmaceutical industry would be free to iterate on making recreational drugs, that don't have the drawbacks of the things people currently make in back alleys. The taboo truth is
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by ep103 9y ago
I'm pretty surprised to hear this on here. I work in advertising analytics, and its amazing. I always thought that going over a bit, into ad tech, would mean more access to cooler, more interesting real-time technology
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The man's got a 40% approval rating in his first few months, and Republicans are attempting to push a healthcare bill through congress that currently has an 18% approval rating and a 56% opposed rating. Opening up ANOTHER front for rep
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Might as well do so anyway, its still going to affect you :)
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It costs a lot of money for ISPs to expand their areas of service. As such, they explicitly avoid expanding into areas where a competitor already exists (riskier rate of return). To counter this, government at all levels have provided tax
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Its a level of degrees, though
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Al Franklin apparently just came out against this pretty loudly. So yes, I'd say the same steps as before, donate to politicans that come out against this, write letters / emails to your senators / representatives, and lodge
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straw man, it was the stated reason they originally implemented the tax, and has been the reason people have defended it since.
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The founding fathers enabled the tax. It was re-instated and repealed into and through the gilded age. It was finally re-enacted at the beginning of the 20th century, and has remained in place since.
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Repealing the estate tax? The tax instituted by our founding fathers, specifically as a safeguard against the creation of an aristocratic class? A tax that ONLY affects people with more than 5 million at time of death? For shame.
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Yeah, sounds more like a review of the reviewer than an actual review of the book. I mean, fair enough. The first time I read siddhartha I thought the main character was an asshole, and couldn't figure out why anyone would live a lif
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Because it isn't about the bicycle. What are you doing, right now? (Besides posting on the internet). What are you working towards? That's the bicycle. And if you are spending your time working on it or towards it, then that me
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What's the critique? I've never heard of it.
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yeah, you really can't just pull a quote out of this book and analyze it in stand-alone. I just re-read the book, and that sentence really had nothing to do with the economics of labor and motorcycle maintenance. OP's quote was
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by ep103 10y ago
eating dogs is insane. Pigs are very smart, but they're also probably _the_ most delicious meat. Its unfortunate. Cows, I think, most people assume are stupid?
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You make a good point. Yet the entire time I'm reading it, the main thought going through my mind, is people shouldn't have to make choices like this about education. And definitely not in a democracy.
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Starve the beast has never been about making federal agencies work better. Its been about creating a path to privatization
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longform.org
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http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/lisp.html
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well look, I'm absolutely not an expert. But the argument that Hitchens was making was that Islam, more than any other major religion, very explicitly dictates things of a governmental nature. Christianity has the 10 commandments, an
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I still remember, 10 years or so ago, watching a debate between Hitchens, and a preeminent Islamic scholar. Hitchens was arguing that while strict religious beliefs generally made it difficult to have a secular democracy, the special natur
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This is a great essay
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I've yet to hear a good argument against determinism, though. Not that is matters, our brains are obviously wired to pre-suppose free will, but nonetheless.
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Sounds like Philip K Dick's take on time. IIRC he had a mental breakdown at one point, and believed this is exactly how time works. That at any moment, you could be walking down the same street in 2000 AD, 4000AD, and 0 AD, and the s
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Hello, is this (Candidate)? (Assuming you can pronounce candidate's name, otherwise, try a different opening. This is X from company Y. Is this a good time to talk? Great, so the way this usually goes is I talk about A, we talk a litt
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oh, I was going by the definition you left in your previous post. Ie) technology changes faster than people can retrain.
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That was the point of my post though. Its a moving target. First it was diabetes. Then hypo/hyperglycemia. Then hypo/hyperglycemia when it manifests in ways that aren't understood. Etc This, to me, sounds like more of th

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