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by glenra 13y ago
> American cities are the most dangerous in the developed world, by a large margin. Um, can you give a source on that? I rather doubt it's true, but probably depends on what you mean by "most dangerous". (And also perhap
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by glenra 13y ago
No, it sounds like it's a welfare program. If it were insurance, it would charge proportional to the expected cost of serving the relevant demographic group. But due to the "community rating" provisions, charging actuarially
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by glenra 13y ago
It certainly is a screed - you can practically feel the spittle as the guy expresses indignation that anyone could possibly disagree with the teachings of his own church. Cohen seems to have made no effort to understand what the other s
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by glenra 13y ago
I'm responding to the headline claim that it's allegedly impossible to work oneself through college. The corrected claim is that it's quite difficult to work through college on a minimum-wage job . But probably still possi
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by glenra 13y ago
I can't speak to other times and places but in silicon valley in the late 1980s I went to a temp agency and looked for unskilled work during the summer - I don't think I ever came across any jobs that paid as low as minimum wage.
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by glenra 13y ago
That chart assumes the only option available is to work minimum wage jobs. Which seems nuts, especially when one takes into consideration the possibility of working full-time during the summer at a real job in one's area of specializat
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by glenra 13y ago
This new tech is not in general as strong as fiber woven in sheets. The claim they make is that it's "1/3 the strength of the best carbon fiber composites made today" and that to test this they measured resistance to ben
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by glenra 13y ago
As technology advances cars are more reliable, more consistent, and tend to require ever less ongoing maintenance and a lot of what they do still need is stuff like changing the oil (which you can do most quickly and conveniently at the n
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by glenra 13y ago
It's also a problem if you'd like to preserve old art or repurpose it for the modern era. The tragedy isn't Mickey cartoons, it's all the less-famous art that is being lost forever with the passage of time. Which could
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by glenra 13y ago
> Why can't Tesla just have regular dealerships and let people buy them? "Regular dealerships" are a horrendous waste of resources. It's a business structure that made sense 50 years ago and makes very little sense
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by glenra 13y ago
The entire article was not written by this blogger and seems to have been quoted from "Entrepreneur Magazine", so OP is blogspam: http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/232341 I like the weirdly precise profit
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by glenra 13y ago
There is an odd disconnect between what I'm saying and what you're hearing. One can either be an effective communicator and respond to what people actually say OR one can assume bad faith and spend one's time trying to ferret
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by glenra 13y ago
When people don't find your arguments convincing, you might want to at least consider the possibility that your arguments aren't very good. Or perhaps (as in this case) you've just done a bad job of showing their relevance
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by glenra 13y ago
Are you sure you read the article? It's not merely "about Marxism", it's about how Marxism allegedly applies to today's issues . It has this general format: (1) describe some issue/concern workers today have
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by glenra 13y ago
Two more points: (1) Regarding the word "anxious", you wrote: "the word was not used in isolation. It was contextualized in an utterance about the particular anxiety about the loss of livelihood--predicated on the very real
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by glenra 13y ago
Setting aside your pompous overall tone - which is probably not helping you to win any arguments - the best I've been able to parse from what you've said so far is this: if somebody already accepts a slew of Marxist assertions
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by glenra 13y ago
> The author has actually asked, "Why are we all SO anxious...?" Not just "anxious," but "so anxious." In that case, my answer is: because we are each on our own hedonic treadmill , and that particular le
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by glenra 13y ago
> Not that I'm very fond of social sciences but do you have at least one study to support your claim I'm basing my claim on the standard findings of happiness research as I understand them - look up "hedonic treadmill&qu
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by glenra 13y ago
Of course, the other answer is that we're not anxious all the time . Maybe Marx was. Maybe the people who find Marx insightful are too. I'm not. Most people are anxious some of the time. And they should be, because being anxi
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by glenra 13y ago
> Why are we all so anxious all the time? Marx had a diagnosis. Because capitalism makes the human being utterly expendable... I'm sorry, but that's just nuts unless you can point to a society - of any sort anywhere - that co
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by glenra 13y ago
One benefit of many GMO crops is that they allow farmers to use much less in the way of pesticides and fertilizers than they otherwise would have. For example, BT Cotton kills cotton bollworms on its own, so you don't have to spray
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by glenra 13y ago
"Net Neutrality" is still at this point essentially a hypothetical problem. It's people hyperventilating over how companies might conceivably act, even though the companies have essentially no actual financial incentive to
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by glenra 13y ago
FWIW, Somalia developed excellent cellphone coverage - better than many of its neighbors - during a time when it effectively had no government. https://www.hiiraan.com/op4/2007/mar/2432/the_phones_keep_ri
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by glenra 13y ago
> Nationalist and libertarian are not orthogonal in practice. Try talking to any self professed libertarian about free movement of labor. Okay, I give up: What are you expecting to find upon doing that? Most libertarians I know are in
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by glenra 13y ago
Where on earth did you find the "while everyone else is restricted to doing what I want them to do" part? Libertarians who don't themselves do any drugs (eg, Penn Jillette) still want drugs to be legal for other people. Liber
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by glenra 13y ago
I'm pretty sure the seagull photo was in the article - it was the second picture, labeled "Slide 37". It did appear to be exactly as described.
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by glenra 13y ago
There were other references to Snowden in the video you linked. Two others I noticed in the first 15 minutes: (1) Colbert mentions it bothers him that Snowden claimed he leaked in order to let us know how then NSA was spying on us , but
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by glenra 13y ago
I would just add that being overly afraid of Fox News, the Tea Party, and/or the Koch brothers is part of the exact same phenomenon.
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by glenra 13y ago
In addition to the cost of benefits - which can be HUGE for jobs of that sort (if you take proper account of the value of early retirement with a defined benefit pension) - there's also the overhead associated with hiring that cop. Get
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by glenra 13y ago
That is how science works - you have to prove each axiom or your theorem doesn't hold together. The CAGW claim is that warming exists AND is human caused AND is going to continue AND is something we can do something about AND the c

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