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by fargolime 12y ago
It's more like 80% of the population, when considering expenses not covered by insurance. A hospital can charge you for anything and you're legally obligated to pay it.
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by fargolime 12y ago
> The last three have some form of nationalised healthcare though, which the US does not. Plus a much better retirement plan. In the US you can wake up in a hospital after someone rear-ended you, to find you are bankrupt and going to bec
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by fargolime 12y ago
Just read that. I'll try to skip Sony movies from now on.
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by fargolime 12y ago
A lot of people might see it now, who otherwise wouldn't have.
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by fargolime 12y ago
Freeing little kids from prisons isn't in good taste?
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by fargolime 12y ago
Not suddenly, but maybe after the 4th or 5th replacement got assassinated in short order. Keep killing them as long as they remain hostage takers who don't surrender.
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by fargolime 12y ago
Sure they do. I didn't suggest otherwise.
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by fargolime 12y ago
Ha! Yes, this account is for going against the hive mind. Maybe I'd get less downvotes if I had "throwaway" in the name? Hmmm.
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by fargolime 12y ago
Then kudos to you!
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by fargolime 12y ago
Okay, thanks for sharing your opinion on that. Myself, I'd rather see it paid off as costs are incurred, if we spend the money at all. If we weren't so in far in debt already (i.e. if future kids weren't so doomed), then we c
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by fargolime 12y ago
Even if, incredibly, there are no huge cost overruns and the final tally is $30 billion, are you willing to pay extra taxes starting today so the money isn't borrowed from future generations who presumably would like to have their own
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by fargolime 12y ago
Not offhand, but how is that relevant?
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by fargolime 12y ago
If the US wasn't $17 trillion in debt, I could agree. Pretty sure all NASA funding to date fits into that debt amount. Since it's a "nice to have", I'd say the average taxpayer has never paid anything to NASA, not e
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by fargolime 12y ago
Well you haven't paid a dime in NASA funding yet. All funding to date has been borrowed from people younger than you or not yet born. Presumably the gov't will borrow many times more to get to Mars, than it has for any previous mi
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by fargolime 12y ago
Wow, I applaud you for being among the very few people who can both support a space mission and be willing to pay for it!
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by fargolime 12y ago
So you're okay with paying extra taxes today so money needn't be borrowed from the kids (and their kids) for a Mars expedition?
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by fargolime 12y ago
You think that will pay for a human expedition to Mars and back?
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by fargolime 12y ago
You don't think the budget will increase as they take on their biggest challenge yet, by a couple orders of magnitude?
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by fargolime 12y ago
Isn't it prudent to spread out the $1 trillion cost over a couple decades? After all, we have to borrow every dime of that from future taxpayers. I'm including cost overruns. Or are you willing to pay an extra $10K a year in taxes
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by fargolime 12y ago
There is a point when immigration is too much. Resources are finite, defining an immigration limit to maintain a certain standard of living.
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by fargolime 12y ago
Just put skyscrapers everywhere! Cut down those national forests. Dam all the rivers. Build baby build!
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by fargolime 12y ago
Increasing the size of the economy isn't the best choice, though. We have too many people in the US as it is. More people, more money, more stuff isn't always better. (Using a throwaway since it seems most people think more people
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by fargolime 12y ago
When the law takes away your retirement to provide a cushy retirement to the older generation, it shouldn't apply. Laws that are blatantly unfair to you, that you didn't agree to, shouldn't apply to you. Most pensioners would
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by fargolime 12y ago
I gave you an upvote, but the problem with your logic is that today's young workers didn't agree to forgo their retirement to pay for the teachers' retirements. The teachers of yesteryear got sweetheart deals that should be s
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by fargolime 12y ago
The better analogy is, you get the bill and discover you're supposed to also pay for the old couple who ate there. You didn't agree to do that. Instead the old couple's generation agreed that you'd have to pay for them w
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by fargolime 12y ago
Gotta use a throwaway because I'm going against the hive-mind. People were promised pensions on the backs of future generations; the money wasn't set aside for the pension. That's a form of Ponzi scheme. Considering how much
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by fargolime 12y ago
I wouldn't support that myself. Where teachers get pensions they already make over $100K/yr all things considered. It's an important service but that's plenty for what they do.
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by fargolime 13y ago
I realize I've been confusing, for which I apologize. I change my law of physics to: Two free test particles each moving toward destinations beyond opposite sides of a LIF, as measured in a global frame containing the LIF, recede from
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by fargolime 13y ago
> This is wrong as you state it. I'd have to think about this for a while, like weeks, so I'll move on to lower hanging fruit for now. > So within the LIF, the two probes are not moving in "opposite directions". A
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by fargolime 13y ago
Again I agree with most of this. > So decreasing epsilon increases the catch-up distance extrapolated from the LIF such that the extrapolated catch-up distance remains much larger than the size of the LIF. A fatal problem though: you arb

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