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by gozur88 9y ago
Yes. HN is becoming more like Reddit as time goes on. It was probably inevitable as the site became less focused on startups. EDIT: I should probably add that's just in relation to the voting. The moderators keep the site from gett
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In the US the CDU would be center left.
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As I recall she didn't want to shut down Germany's nuclear industry, but was dragged there by the voting public. It's pretty difficult for stubborn people to be successful politicians in a parliamentary democracy.
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Can't we recycle old batteries? The starter battery in my IC car is recycled.
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It seems odd to me we've settled on the weirdly, well, misleading "trafficking" to describe prostitution. It sounds like people who don't like prostitution are trying to lump in a relatively small percentage of women wh
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>My understanding is that the failure of institutional lending in response to QE is still considered "a mystery" by mainstream economists, etc. As the Austrian school economists pointed out during the crisis, you can print mone
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Then rapists go free. That's the price of not putting innocent people in jail.
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>The entire ISS weighs only 450 tons. But an Aircraft Carrier weighs 100,000+ tons. Even with a 90% launch cost reduction, it's impossible to build Carrier-sized habitats without breaking national economies. What makes space expensi
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Jerry Pournelle wrote once in frustration "I knew I'd be alive to see the first man walk on the moon, but I never imagined I'd be alive to see the last!"
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If I had my druthers only two people would be recognized as individuals with a national holiday in the US: Stanislav Petrov and Norman Borlaug.
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It's difficult to imagine Soviet SSBN commanders realizing their country had been nuked and thinking "If only my superior officer was around to give me the order to strike back!" There isn't really a workable first strik
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I agree, though it's not clear to me what we should use for identity security. Any piece of information related to a person is going to get out eventually.
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I don't care much about Amazon playing hardball with TNR - car companies have been doing this for ages. The fact that he owns WaPo is a much bigger deal.
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>t's a subsidy for all mortgages. More people would rent if not for this subsidy. Well, okay. You still haven't made the case it disproportionately benefits the suburbs. People who buy houses in the city pay a lot more money,
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Or maybe they'll report in a more timely manner. They knew for the entire month of August a breach had occurred and they didn't report it. It shouldn't take more than a couple days. That's enough time to verify you had
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I'm not a big fan of microtransactions unless everybody pretty much used the same service. Otherwise there's too much mental overhead. Also, I'd pay for a service that got me free access to a dozen original news providers (I
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That's the whole point of a mutual fund (of any kind). You're paying them to do things you couldn't possibly justify given the size of your portfolio. If all they're doing is sifting through quarterly reports they&#x27
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Don't confuse a lack of preparedness with pacifism. Iceland is a member of NATO.
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A country completely populated by pacifists wouldn't last a generation. The US isn't under threat of invasion because non-Amish people are willing to join the military.
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Two things. One, you've mischaracterized what I said. I said the county relies heavily on these taxes, not that the Amish "survive off" other people. Two, $50/month is a lot of money in rural PA.
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Okay, but once you get on those registries you're screwed. Can't live within a certain distance of anyplace a child might be. Schools, parks, day care centers. I remember reading an article about a town in Florida where all the
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I'm not convinced the Amish could survive without the rest of the US. For one thing, they refuse to serve in the military. For another, they don't pay much in taxes. My relatives in PA get red in the face whenever you bring up t
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Is he on the sex offender list, though? I'd rather go to jail for a few years than end up on that list.
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Why would you think that? Are people who buy million dollar shacks in SF forgoing their deduction? It's hard to imagine.
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I would laugh at you if I could. Oh, wait. I can.
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>I expect you'll find that your city core pays for it. I expect you're wrong about that. > Every calculation I've ever seen about the expenses of suburbs ends up with downtown paying for suburban development. It all dep
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You can only count the highway system as a subsidy if you pretend a highway between, say, San Francisco and Los Angeles is there to benefit the people of the Central Valley. And it's not. Certainly the mortgage market is distorted by
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Sure, but you could buy something that isn't a detached, single family house. When I moved from my apartment I bought a house (no mortgage). When I add up extra utilities costs, taxes, insurance, and maintenance it comes up to about 7
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Roads, sewers, and mortgages aren't subsidized in my suburb. We pay for all of it.
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It's not that hard to guard against their trackers. More critical, from my point of view, is the fact that, assuming you have a normal social life, snapshots of you show up on FB. And people identify you in those snapshots. So anybo

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