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by everdev 8y ago
In principle, yes. In practice, a halted recount in FL in 2000 affected who represented 100% of Americans as President. The number of true "toss up" states is unfortunately fairly small.
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A practical benefit I see for meditation is being able to move through stressful situations faster. I still feel stress but I'm able to notice it faster and recover faster. The number of stressful situations per day is probably consist
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There is so much money in politics, it's not surprising when one of them rejects an overwhelming number of experts and sides with their donors or the short-term economic interests of their constituents. Sure, short sighted, profit focu
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Another theory is that it's the desirability of the location. I'm sure there are plenty of high cost of living areas in the highly desirable areas of red states and plenty of low cost of living areas in the least desirable parts o
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by everdev 8y ago
How about fleeing to lower cost of living states. I don't think their politics have much to do with the cost of living. Some very blue states like Hawaii and Delaware have very low property taxes and Washington has no income tax.
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> your employees won't stop having sex with each other Haven't there been studies indicating that our environment and physical proximity to a person greatly factors into our sexual attraction? It is a little paradoxical that co
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>I think some creative products lose a bit of their essence when not created by humans Does they though? I bet in 10 years, if you walked into an art gallery, you'd still be drawn to certain pieces and not others regardless of wethe
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I could see someone paying for the novelty of one of the first well-known AI paintings, but I can imagine supply and demand economics will drive prices way down as more high quality AI art floods the market. Good time to get in though while
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Or smog
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Every satellite I've seen crosses the sky in seconds. How does an orbiting mirror provide consistent illumination? Can it orbit as show as the rotation of the Earth and still maintain an orbit?
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But if the parties are picking partisan voting officials to oversee the election, there might not be much moderation or civility among them.
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> There's a moment at which every scientific theory is only thought credulous by a single person. Agreed, but the same is also true of any conspiracy theory or half-baked idea. The theory should be evaluated on it's merits, not
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As a US citizen you're taxed even if you stop living in the US. In many states, you have to show proof of residency to vote, so there's taxation without representation. You have to renounce your US citizenship to stop being taxed
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Which is what most national income distributions look like. With the vast majority making below or well below the median income. Hence the fuss about the 1% controlling so much wealth.
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> Chances to be better off than the median are exactly 50%. No, if a sample size of monthly salaries is: $1k, $3k, $4k, $10k, $12k The median is $4k. Achieving better than that may indeed be a slim chance if it represents a level up in s
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Scientific progress has no end as far as we can tell. Just because we've found a theory that explains more than the previous one doesn't mean that we're done.
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I think the OC was more about non-democracies
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Almost all of our current scientific knowledge has come from challenging the consensus of the times. Scientific skepticism is always healthy and should be welcomed. Even if the original theory is correct, that doubt will simply help science
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Name one ruler/dictator of any background that didn't do this. It has more to do with the power structure and our innate inclinations than any geography, nationality or era in history.
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Another possibility is that once you have the damning evidence you question the people involved to see how badly they will lie. Police do this all the time.
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It's more like seeing one boy actually impacts the gender of the second child, which is why the quantum experiment is so mind boggling. It doesn't seem to have any resemblance with classical physics and only makes sense in quantum
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by everdev 8y ago
Instead of firing/hiring to create consideration, why not just attach a $1k bonus to the non-compete? I'm sure after spending millions on an acquisition they could have a few thousand more set aside to give themselves a good first
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If the magnetic field flipped 780k years ago [0] and animals do rely on it for survival (like migrations), wouldn't we see mass extinctions around those magnetic flips? Or maybe magnetic field navigation is a weak signal out of many? [
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I thought there was no sound in space? "Boom" sounds like a sound to me.
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I don't like "+1" type comments, but this is a rare instance where I want to highly recommend Netlify. From support to performance, uptime and UI, they've been exceptional.
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There's multiple legends of CEOs famously shunning the rational advice of their team and charging down a path they believe in. You're a genius if it works out (ie. Steve Jobs) and second guessed if it doesn't.
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Apparently microbrews are out of fashion now and "nanobrews" are the new thing where only a couple cases or kegs are made in any one batch. I also know a lot more people being their own beer. I knew Lagunitas got too big though wh
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Yep. Free markets aren't perfect, just self-correcting. Everyone would need perfect information for them to be perfect and I'm not sure that's a realistic goal.
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In a free market, things can only be "over valued" if the buyer is misinformed. If a home buyer believes that housing prices will go up 10% next year, but in reality they stay flat, they are apt to over value houses. However, if t
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No matter how far back you go in any creation theory, something has to come from nothing. Multiverse and simulation theories kick the can down the road but don't answer the question "why is there something instead of nothing?&quot

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