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by glenra 13y ago
I would pay extra for the walk-straight-on flight. Not a lot extra, mind you, but it'd be worth at least $25 to me to reduce that source of stress and uncertainty. If there were a no-checks airline I would fly that one almost exclu
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by glenra 13y ago
You say the "core element" is that one shouldn't feel ashamed to be privileged. Well, fine: one also shouldn't feel ashamed of being a witch! And why would one? If I were a witch, I wouldn't be ashamed of it. I&#x27
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by glenra 13y ago
If you think his quote is clear and concise, can you unpack it a bit? I find it opaque and confusing. Maybe focus on the part after the colon. Suppose you accuse me of being a witch. I deny it. In response, you claim that my repeated, insi
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by glenra 13y ago
It's possible for just about any scientific field to get stuck in an error cascade and take a while to climb out of it. Medicine has pretty much the same problem as climate - lots of scientists are doing good work but some are finding
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by glenra 13y ago
Is it also more than mortgage + taxes + broker fees + interest to borrow the downpayment?
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by glenra 13y ago
400 tons of slightly radioactive coolant water, I believe. Or of groundwater that had been mixed with the slightly radioactive coolant water. Journalists don't seem to realize the more water there is, the less harmful it is per unit
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by glenra 13y ago
> Well, I wouldn't want to walk around outside with levels at 300 times what is "considered safe". Wouldn't that depend on how many orders of magnitude of safety margin went into deciding what is "considered sa
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by glenra 13y ago
If actual measurements of radioactivity were produced rather than measurements in terms of "tons of water (with some tiny unknown percentage of radioactive component)" or "300 times the level considered safe (without saying w
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by glenra 13y ago
> I was pulling numbers out of the air for simplicity. But essentially, even if you only bank $10 in equity, $10 is better than $0 you'd bank if you paid rent. Heck, then I'll do the same. Let's just pull some new numb
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by glenra 13y ago
If the homeowner gains $10 (or whatever) in equity over a certain period, that means he can break even renting the property he owns for $10 less than if he didn't have that gain. So competitive rental rates will tend to be somewhat c
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by glenra 13y ago
> If you're going to talk about following the law, how about the fact that the bus is illegally parked in a public bus stop? A vehicle temporarily pausing to pick up or discharge passengers is not usually regarded as "parked&qu
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by glenra 13y ago
I found the polygraph stuff disturbing. The fact that the NSA takes polygraphs seriously (despite presumably knowing there's little scientific evidence supporting their use and knowing that lots of spies have had no trouble passing the
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by glenra 13y ago
Sadly, a single chapter doesn't make the whole argument - you do kind of need to read the whole book. But your immediate objection is covered in the immediately following chapter, called "The Stability Problem". That one does
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by glenra 13y ago
> You do realize that this means only the rich and powerful can defend their property, right? Nope, I don't realize that at all. It's a common objection made by people who don't understand how private legal systems work an
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by glenra 13y ago
> Without government to enforce these rights, you have no real claim on what you consider yours. Anyone can come along and take it away, and the only recourse you have is to steal it back, or steal something similar from someone else. [
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by glenra 13y ago
> Property rights are a purely governmental construct. purely governmental? Really? Property rights exist wherever people successfully claim stuff and are willing to defend their claim. Even dogs have property rights (and help us have
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by glenra 13y ago
> On the other hand, I don't think that means airport security should be drastically scaled back It absolutely should be drastically scaled back. Or eliminated entirely. The thing you're ignoring is that the current level of
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by glenra 13y ago
When they turn 18 they will be allowed to choose where they spend their time and what they do with it and who they spend it with, which is likely to reduce both the need to self-medicate and the chance of getting caught doing so.
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by glenra 13y ago
Wait, why WOULDN'T he expect to be arrested? Possession of CP is illegal. He went into a police station in possession of CP. Therefore, he is a lawbreaker. Simple as that. Yes, it's stupid...but these laws ARE stupid. You'd b
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by glenra 13y ago
You need to remove the "#" at the end of the url in order to read the article.
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It's weird the article doesn't mention that there's no scientific evidence for a measurable connection. Or mention that typhoon activity has been remarkably low for the last decade.
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by glenra 13y ago
Preventative medicine isn't actually more cost effective. If anything, doing more preventative medicine on the margin increases total costs. http://healthcarecostmonitor.thehastingscenter.org/louiserus... http:&#x2F
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by glenra 13y ago
I like it! You know what else might help? Legalize price competition between hospitals. Right now if you think your local gas station or restaurant is way too expensive or slow or otherwise incompetent and you'd like to build one right
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by glenra 13y ago
There's a trick: append "nyc" to your addresses.
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by glenra 13y ago
I gave up on Apple Maps, put it in a folder, and just use Google Maps. For me the killer is the lack of integrated transit - I live in Brooklyn. My typical use case is: (1) look up an address. (2) see how long it would take to get there via
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by glenra 13y ago
> it also reminds me of people who complain about CPS, but that's just me I give up; what does CPS stand for in this context?
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by glenra 13y ago
Aha. That's a really narrow hit target. Yeah, it seems like if you place a video and decide you don't want it there after all or want it somewhere else, all you can do is delete the whole tab containing the video and start over. A
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by glenra 13y ago
Seems like the YouTube Video widget doesn't work - dragging it to the page doesn't do anything. And I can add "social media" buttons but it's not clear how one edits what they link to or which ones show up.
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by glenra 13y ago
> I thought it got better after the list, not worse. I meant the list (and logic) got worse after reason #1. For instance, Reason #2 is: > "The upper classes blissfully ignore the fact that human life is being brought into this
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by glenra 13y ago
> Only someone looking to scrap is going to ask for a source for someone saying that our country is loosing access to quality education. I am being completely serious here: I don't know what you're talking about when you make

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