gozur88

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by gozur88 11y ago
You are completely ignoring the value of risk. Labor is just one input among many to widget making. Without somebody willing to take the risk, to sink money he has into the widget building business, it just doesn't happen. This is wh
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by gozur88 11y ago
>What I never understood is why in these days we are not able to have a product that would be spread on the teeth (let's say a yearly application) to protect them from most of the major aggressions. That's a sealant, which is s
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by gozur88 11y ago
Not really, no. Without someone willing to risk money creating the factory those people would be poking the ground with sharp sticks.
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by gozur88 11y ago
You should have named them "Old York" and "Old Hampshire". This way is confusing. "Olde" would be acceptable, too.
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by gozur88 11y ago
I have an East SF Bay developer friend who told me in California you can't build a house for less than about $150k (just the structure) because of permitting costs and building codes. It doesn't surprise me major renovations for
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by gozur88 11y ago
>Economists widely agree that cash transfers are more efficient at improving welfare for the poor than transfers-in-kind. It's one of the less controversial statements in the field. I find that baffling based on San Francisco's
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by gozur88 11y ago
Sure. I just think there are a whole lot of people who will be perfectly happy spending all day smoking pot and playing CoD. Assuming they eventually get tired of that lifestyle, it's still hard to imagine a 30 year old guy who'
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by gozur88 11y ago
>And do what? Abide? Why not? Not everyone is ambitious. Heck, I doubt more than about 25% of any generation would work if they didn't have to. It's one thing to be pulling down $100+/hr in a rewarding job building the
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by gozur88 11y ago
>Reaction to a long term political commitment will be different - once people trust that the basic income will "always be there." That might take a generation or two. I don't think I'd ever allow myself to be in a po
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by gozur88 11y ago
Reading the article, it's not clear from they detected any of these chemicals in concentrations that are known to be unhealthy. People who got "popcorn lung" were exposed to comparatively massive doses.
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by gozur88 11y ago
It's pretty difficult to defend the proposition that catching errors in unit tests is superior to not making them.
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by gozur88 11y ago
That's the problem I had with perl. Sometimes one plus one is two, sometimes it's eleven, and the interpreter doesn't always do what you expect.
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by gozur88 11y ago
That's exactly what I'm talking about.
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by gozur88 11y ago
That's because you're reflexively dismissing people on the other side. They're still there, though.
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by gozur88 11y ago
The GAU-8 won't penetrate the front armor of a modern tank, but I doubt it could penetrate the front armor of 1980s era tanks, either. However, there isn't a tank in the world that will remain operational after a properly execute
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by gozur88 11y ago
>This ridiculous polarised and incorrect caricature of "left" and "right" is not only ridiculous, but also damaging. You don't even live in the US, so you've no excuse. What in the world is this supposed to