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by glenra 13y ago
> "So you think that all the younger, healthy people who either didn't have insurance or had it but paid extremely low premiums aren't going to largely offset the added costs?" Nope, I don't think that will happe
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by glenra 13y ago
> If you don't call the patients who do that without any coverage "free riders", I'm not sure what to say. Surely some people walk in the door without coverage and then - here's a shock - pay their bill later.
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by glenra 13y ago
> What he should have said was that nothing has to change for people who already have insurance plans that meet the minimum standard (which is a lot of us). Nah, that wouldn't have been true either. All insurance plans got more expe
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by glenra 13y ago
I realize guns aren't allowed in hand luggage, but they should be - there's nothing actually wrong with them. It's no more inherently dangerous than having them in the luggage one takes on a bus or a train or a ship or a
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by glenra 13y ago
A loaded handgun is a fine thing to take on a plane. I imagine the hilarious part was more on the "chainsaw" end of the scale.
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by glenra 13y ago
The frog-boiling story is false - actual frogs try to jump out when the water gets too hot. So invoking it usually detracts from the argument being made. (If we were like the frog, we'd ignore incremental heat increases until they be
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by glenra 13y ago
How do you know this to be the case? Can you give a couple of examples of US attackers who did this? (Not including FBI plants who spoke deliberately attempting to incite violence in others)
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by glenra 13y ago
> US soldiers and others near battlefields overseas are constantly getting ill from dust from the (badly named) depleted uranium ordinance that the US uses (and white phosphorus weapons). No, they aren't. What's your source c
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by glenra 13y ago
"radioactive dust" does not work that way. You should run some numbers and see if your movie-plot threat is plausible before proposing it as a risk. (hint: it's not)
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by glenra 13y ago
> The 5s is hot; the 5c not so much People did more talk.to searches for the 5s than the 5c because the 5c was in stock and not hard to obtain, hence not necessary to search for.
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by glenra 13y ago
Direct polygraph evidence isn't used in courts. Polygraphs are a scam used by authorities to trick people into confessing. The trick is that they hook you up, ask you questions, and tell you "the machine says you're LYING!&qu
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by glenra 13y ago
> IMHO there are certainly organized covert groups (commercial and military) who are editing it on behalf of governments (and corporations) already. Yep. Though in your list of groups/causes you forgot "environmental". For
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by glenra 13y ago
You also need to look at the discussion page to (a) see what points of view are being deliberately excluded by the biased editors, (b) find references to data on the other side. (At least you need to do that on climate/environment - I&
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by glenra 13y ago
The first reason given for why to-do lists don't work is "the Paradox of Choice". Alas, the studies claiming to measure a Paradox of Choice didn't replicate and related followup studies have found roughly no effect
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by glenra 13y ago
It's actually kind of a terrible piece. The heart of the problem is that he regards skepticalscience as a valid source of science information. But just looking at the part you quoted: if the warming trend ever stopped, that would look
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by glenra 13y ago
There's no free lunch. Mandating more gas efficiency means you necessarily get less of other important things people like and want, such as safety and cost savings. One way to make cars a lot more fuel efficient would be to get rid
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by glenra 13y ago
> A number of people that disagreed with anthropogenic climate change were adamant that a number of scientists had decreed that the world was, in fact, getting cooler. I asked them for sources, and several sources were put forth. In ever
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by glenra 13y ago
Which error bars do you mean? The recent warming "pause" currently puts us outside the 95% error bars for nearly all of the individual climate models, demonstrating that either climate sensitivity is being drastically overestima
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by glenra 13y ago
"The Room" on iOS is a puzzle game with a very similar feel, albeit on a much smaller scale. (with no outdoor scenes - you're just figuring out a complicated multi-part artifact inside a room, complete with an ominous backsto
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by glenra 13y ago
Marathon (released in 1994) did the same sort of thing - lots of backstory revealed in drips and drabs via computer terminals. The team that did the Marathon series (originally a Mac-only title) later went on to develop Halo.
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by glenra 13y ago
I believe Baldwin's plane was either still at the gate or parked on the runway at the time. He still could have turned it off prior to actual takeoff.
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by glenra 13y ago
It's worth noting that Sinclair invented his stories of "very unsanitary conditions of food production". They had very little basis in reality. Rather, Sinclair took any disgusting story or allegation he could find, assumed
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by glenra 13y ago
Most murderers are people who have been convicted of multiple violent crimes. An interesting related statistic is that most murder victims also have been convicted of multiple violent crimes. So if you aren't a violent criminal and d
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by glenra 13y ago
>The reason it makes sense to worry about terrorism to the tune of billions of dollars is that a WMD attack on American soil would cost potentially trillions of dollars. Nope. The truth is that it simply doesn't make sense to worry
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by glenra 13y ago
People also forget about things like "the pony express" (a creative effort by a private delivery company to fill a niche market), Spooner's American Letter Mail Company and other wuch precedents. The post office would have be
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by glenra 13y ago
What I learned from this article was: if you ask vague questions you tend to get vague, boring answers. Even from a billionaire. For instance, you could have asked things like: What's the craziest business proposal somebody has made to
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by glenra 13y ago
> "The nature of Easter eggs is an oxymoron. Why would Snapchat or any other product hide functionality..." I'm not sure what word was intended there, but it wasn't oxymoron . Perhaps the writer meant to say the na
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by glenra 13y ago
Given the situation described, I'd be inclined to install a security camera in the classroom. Then if one kid punches another or starts walking around the room there'd be a video record of what happened that you could show a paren
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by glenra 13y ago
>Yes, or more likely, it's a random fluctuation indicative of nothing in particular. The latter assumption, which may seem overly skeptical, is how a scientist is expected to look at an unexplained change in the rate, based on a pre
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by glenra 13y ago
What interval would YOU suggest to establish your claim that the number of people starving "doesn't change"? And can you provide a supporting link?

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