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by glenra 13y ago
> So... that's what, about 15-20% of the US population? Um, I actually would have assumed a much larger number. Parent post asked "Who takes long car trips (200+ miles) on such a frequent basis...<that charging would be inconvenien
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by glenra 13y ago
> Who takes long car trips (200+ miles) on such a frequent basis that a 30 minute charge in the middle (that can be easily combined with a rest-stop break) is a major inconvenience? Um, lots of people do that. I used to drive from San F
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by glenra 13y ago
> wealthier people have fewer children on average I don't believe that's the case. At least not if we're using income as a proxy for wealth. Arranged by income, wealthier households in general tend to be larger households. It's well est
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by glenra 13y ago
> yes, 121%, that means the other 99% of people's income went down Your phrasing implies the SAME PEOPLE are in the top 1% each year, which is not the case. And implies that what happens to a cohort also happens to everyone WITHIN that
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by glenra 13y ago
Nowadays you could paint the algorithm on the side of a wall near a road and wait for Google streetview to pick it up or paint it really big on a paved area and wait for Google Earth to pick it up.
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by glenra 13y ago
In most contexts we interpret "speech" quite broadly. Speech is the transmission of information. Blueprints consist of information structured in a particular meticulous way which can be beautiful as well as practical and informative. Novels
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by glenra 13y ago
> legally you cannot export blueprints about weapons without an export license. Wow. That seems incredibly stupid. How did this manage to survive first amendment challenges? Or has it not been tested?
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by glenra 13y ago
> Striving to eliminate as much as possible the reporter's subjectivity results in what we see frequently in the media today: "He said, she said" journalism where the reported facts consist merely of reports that varying parties made v
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by glenra 13y ago
Many individual US states are larger than individual European countries. People can immigrate within the EU, can they not? So why defend the UK or Denmark having its own system? On the other hand, it could easily be argued that interstate
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by glenra 13y ago
> 45,000 Americans die every year due to lack of coverage Sorry, no. That claim is often made, but it's just nonsense. Every time we've had a BETTER sort of study - had the chance to examine a situation in which people are randomly ass
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by glenra 13y ago
> Is it really the case that there's an argument that this can't work in the US because there are more people? The simplest such argument would be that there are diseconomies of scale - it's conceivable that the bigger you make a bureau
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by glenra 13y ago
> If anything we'd get more economies of scale. No, because there are also diseconomies of scale. Some services are best provided by smaller-scale organizations than an entire nation, much less one the size of the US. It is perfectly
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by glenra 14y ago
(HN weirdness - I couldn't "reply" to you a moment ago and now I can. Oh well...I'll recap what I wrote above.) Here is the report on FEE relied - it was, in my opinion, accurately represented by FEE's summary: http://books.google.com/book
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by glenra 14y ago
ahoyhere wrote: > Uncited statements from a magazine that a mission to promote free market ideology isn't a very good citation at all. What do you mean "uncited"? I gave the cite. But since you asked so nicely :-), I found the actual
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by glenra 14y ago
Forget "marketing". Take that out of the equation. I don't care if you ban all marketing to individuals. (Well, I do, but that's an entirely separate argument, and a distraction from this one). The question here is just what drugs can legal
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by glenra 14y ago
> I still don't get the value of twitter "Talk directly to semi-famous people" is one of the chief value propositions. Suppose you are a fan of some public figure - say, an actor or a politician who has more than thousands of fan - snd
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by glenra 14y ago
Here's a much more specific response (from http://www.fdareview.org/harm.shtml ): Gieringer (1985) used data on drug disasters in countries with less-stringent drug regulations than the United States to create a ballpark estimate of the n
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by glenra 14y ago
Read the links I gave. I wasn't expecting you to be convinced just by what I wrote above. Before 1962, the FDA was tasked to verify safety but NOT to verify efficacy. Everything you just wrote only argues for that - for keeping drugs off
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by glenra 14y ago
> I have read a lot about Upton Sinclair but never heard the criticism that his novel was unrealistic. References? Try this summary: http://www.fee.org/the_freeman/detail/of-meat-and-myth A few paragraphs relevant to what you just wro
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by glenra 14y ago
>> And the FDA has quite likely killed more people than it has saved, > My immediate reaction is to say you're full of shit. But I'll hold off judgment and see if you can offer any shred of an argument that justifies this sta
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by glenra 14y ago
> The free market offers no incentive to give health services to people who [...] don't know that these services will reduce hospitalization by 33% and costs by 22%. Your argument proves too much. You might want to think through the l
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by glenra 14y ago
> Have you not heard of the FDA? Upton Sinclair? I'm not going to get into the rest, but it's always worth mentioning that Upton Sinclair's book was a work of fiction . Most of the more disgusting and dangerous scenarios in the book we
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by glenra 14y ago
One big problem with medicine in this country is that bad hospitals can't just go out of business and be replaced by better ones. If you want to open a new hospital today, there are hearings in which all the crappy existing other hospitals
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by glenra 14y ago
Suits tend to be uncomfortable (mainly, they're too hot to wear in the summer, don't fit well if your body size fluctuates), are fragile and easily get damaged or stained or rumpled (eg, you can't casually sit on the grass wearing one) and
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by glenra 14y ago
For a followup, they should publish an article called "How The ACLU Impeded The Boston Bomber Investigation". (eg, by defending civil rights) And then perhaps "How The Police Impeded The Boston Bomber Investigation".
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by glenra 14y ago
This is a terrible article. Yes, the NRA was opposed to extra ill-thought-out mandates on the gunpowder used in ammunition, laws which might make bullets less reliable and would make criminals out of people who make their own ammo. The arti
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by glenra 14y ago
Better still, they can even drive the car! Just can't drive it legally on the public roads . But they can drive it all they want on private property. If we treated guns like cars, a 14-year-old could buy as many guns as he wanted with no w
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by glenra 14y ago
Right, and it was a plausible response back when the rate of increase had only been slow-to-none for ~5 years. But as the length of the slowdown increases to more than a decade and starts to approach two decades that becomes less tenable.
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by glenra 14y ago
> Here are some graphs which make this seem less interesting. Your source shows a graph that stops in 2005 and one that stops in 2000. But the subject of OP is how much it seems to be warming (or not) in this century. Those extra 7 t
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by glenra 14y ago
It's talking about the general flattening of the temperature trend in the last decade or two. Try this: http://www.woodfortrees.org/plot/wti The default woodfortrees index averages a bunch of different global temperature series so you don

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