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by firic 8y ago
The idea is to make a pack cost 0.2*num_of_cigs_in_pack more dollars and then when someone returns butts, they can receive that money back. It will not be a subsidy and even if the butts were thrown in the trash afterwards, it would at leas
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by firic 8y ago
Killing all prisoners will make recidivism 0. I think you can understand that just as I can. But I assume that we both agree that that is not a good solution.
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by firic 8y ago
Because you never asked... But sure, I also think that Fox news has a conservative bias. When I said that I thought that MSM has a liberal bias I was going by the majority. I did not mean that EVERY MSM has a liberal bias.
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by firic 8y ago
> Are you saying that there's a liberal/progressive bias in media? yes Here are some more examples, they report for weeks on Gazans violently protesting and attacking the boarder and sympathise with the Gazans, but when was the
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by firic 8y ago
Climate change is a big issue that in order to fix (if it is even possible) involves many people working together. No matter how much C02 you conserve, if a tanker ship exists, it will pollute more than you can ever do in your life. With th
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by firic 8y ago
For the most part all of mainstream newspaper's articles are "correct". The bias with them is what they choose to report on and how often they report on it. When they report to the front page an alt-right rally with more repo
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by firic 8y ago
Two things can be right at once. People who took out 100k loans to study a useless degree are stupid. And, undischargable loans probably shouldn't be a thing even if that means that some people will miss out studying their passion. In
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by firic 8y ago
The recent news about someone claiming to have Trump on tape saying nigger. If she actually released the tape or was able to prove that she had the tape, then I can understand all of the media attention. But right now it is just some crazy
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by firic 8y ago
that would depend on the size of them. typically colleges have large campuses with lots of people "doing" stuff there. in apartments they are not so full in the middle of the day and during the night, not much happens. if however
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by firic 8y ago
Are you being serious? Ambulances cannot arrive before in house medics. There are many cases where someone could have been saved if cpr or bandaging started before the ambulance arrived. I don't know of any case where someone was so su
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by firic 8y ago
why should a college offer therapists? that is not their job. a college should have a medic for emergencies and for all other things the student can go to a doctor's office that specializes in their issue
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by firic 8y ago
I can't find something that specific but here is a democratic elected official saying that her supporters should harass her political opponents https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Sus_0zebE-k
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by firic 8y ago
And companies that value free speech don't censor opinions regardless if them censoring is technically legal.
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by firic 8y ago
> it would strip citizenship from the children of green-card holders and illegal immigrants alike, leaving millions of American citizens suddenly without a country. Would it take a person with citizenship and remove their citizenship, or
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by firic 8y ago
Exactly! I read the entire article for the sole purpose of figuring out how they will distribute the money. IMO the only way I can see how they can implement it is by taking a small city and giving basic income to everyone in the city. Then
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by firic 8y ago
I don't know why but whenever I did the technique where I tense and relax my muscles I got nightmares.
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by firic 8y ago
> Often they referred to oranges as “golden apples.” That is how the fruit "orange" is called in modern Hebrew
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by firic 8y ago
thanks for the real link. this is the first time I noticed their slogan is "democracy dies in darkness". I think this says enough about who wp is catering for.
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by firic 8y ago
I guess the author and I come from different cultural backgrounds. I have a few stickers on my laptop to mark big accomplishments, such as after passing a very difficult course. Whenever someone offers me a sticker I put it away and if requ
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by firic 8y ago
> But if sanctions resume, and more Western companies leave Iran, it is possible that Iranian leaders will decide to resume nuclear fuel production. and > By the time the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, Yukiya Amano, w
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by firic 8y ago
Possibly, but it will be reinstated after every update. :(
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by firic 8y ago
It is not that simple to renounce US citizenship. As op wrote, if they think that you are renouncing because of taxes, they will flat out deny your request. Furthermore, changing tax law for an expat is virtually impossible because it is ve
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by firic 8y ago
can it defeat moss? https://theory.stanford.edu/%7Eaiken/moss/
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by firic 8y ago
A bit of topic, but one cannot simply renounce us citizenship. It is a costly and time consuming process. And if the process of renouncing ones citizenship is not done perfectly, then the us could rejected the request.
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by firic 8y ago
There is a reason communist countries had to close their boarder. Because if they didn't, too many of the good people would leave andv that would hurt the country to much. If enough people could leave a communist country to cause them
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by firic 8y ago
> Some have called on the university to fire Reges Unless someone was writing something that was directly encouraging violence silencing people should never be the response. I don't know who those "some people" that the ar
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by firic 8y ago
I don't understand your response. Just because I don't agree with the fixes that you suggested doesn't mean that I don't think that any fix should be implemented.
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by firic 8y ago
Let's go over your points one by one: - Make it illegal to bribe politicians. It already is. If you want to bring about change you should be more exact with your complaint, otherwise people won't take you seriously. - Make it ille
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by firic 8y ago
I dislike this bill as much as other HNers but writing "Disastrous" in the title makes this look more like an option piece rather than a news piece. How hard is it to ask for news to report facts and for me to decide if the facts
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by firic 8y ago
I should have been more precise with what I wrote. I do not understand legalese and therefore base my understanding on a group of people who I feel are honest.

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