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by gozur88 9y ago
But that's sort of irrelevant, isn't it? When the USAF buys an F-35, the cost of the F-35 is almost entirely domestic US labor, even though on the military budget it counts as equipment.
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by gozur88 9y ago
I would think nearly everything, either uniform military or contractor employee. What else is there?
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Expenditures are a terrible way to measure military strength. The US military can't pay Chinese wages.
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>The question that I have is this: is the growing narrative about the United States not being a meritocracy a self-fulfilling prophecy. Yes, and particularly on the personal level. You'll never be employed if you don't look fo
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It makes sense for everyone if people move to where the jobs are. Why would you encourage people to stay in a place they can't thrive?
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by gozur88 9y ago
> The price per pound on the large rockets from SpaceX and others is still more economical. But it’s the flexibility of requesting a launch, almost like you’d order something on Amazon.com, that could end up being more attractive than pu
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by gozur88 9y ago
"Presumptive" would have been a better word.
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by gozur88 9y ago
The system couldn't work if judges could be prosecuted for their rulings, unless you're counting bribes, which they already get prosecuted for.
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by gozur88 9y ago
This. A non-alcoholic friend of mine got popped for drunk driving, and part of his sentence was counseling for alcoholism. At one point they asked him if he'd ever done cocaine, he foolishly answered yes, and they sent him to a simil
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by gozur88 9y ago
Also, the price of everything shipped by truck goes up, so it's essentially a tax. If you're gonna raise taxes, raise taxes instead of trying to sneak it in like that. There are arguments for private roadways, but "source of
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by gozur88 9y ago
Only because you've classified every activity as "work". People have hobbies where they do things purely for entertainment.
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The implicit assumption here is the only reason people don't spend 100% of their time working is the inability to find an employer.
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There are nightclubs in Vegas that pay attractive women to show up and spend some time on the dance floor.
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Or they just want people to turn off their Kapersky AV so as not to risk having their machine bricked.
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This. I don't get the impression people who set up ransomware typically write all or even very much of the virus. They cobble together bits and pieces from the web, writing only the portion they couldn't find. Seems like the tou
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by gozur88 9y ago
The fact that cops would want to be aware of people using the Dark Web doesn't seem particularly surprising or alarming. When you're looking for bad actors you build up a profile based on previous bad actors. I used to work in f
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by gozur88 9y ago
>If you want to use light, well, that's getting interesting - there are a lot of ways that biology can create and read light (see bioluminescence and plants, respectively). Periodically someone alters an animal such that it glows un
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by gozur88 9y ago
Nearly every country has "rich people" visas and fast-track citizenship. Rich people don't put pressure on social services and they generated economic activity when they spend money. That's why drastically raising taxes
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by gozur88 9y ago
But still critical enough to make it impractical. How would you do maintenance on a hydrogen airship without risking the people doing the maintenance? And you'd never be able to fly over populated areas.
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>The Electoral College was created to protect citizens from being manipulated by a tyrannical dictator. No it wasn't. The Electoral College was created because the smaller states would never have consented to join a union with an e
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>Any action which leads an agent to a state closer to his preferred state is an economic victory. I find that construction odd. Are you trying to say all goals of war are ultimately economic? If so I think that's needlessly restri
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The most likely culprit, IMO is the anti-cancer function of the immune system. You take cell damage at a relatively predictable rate (at least, on the low end), and once enough damaged cells have been destroyed by the immune system you sta
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by gozur88 9y ago
The "war for oil" thing is looking at the wrong end of the telescope. The problem in the middle east is oil gives the rulers of these countries a way to purchase security organizations and strong militaries they could never affor
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The author of this article is both dishonest and hopelessly naive. He's redefined war to mean "conquest" and "winning" to mean "come out ahead financially", which isn't always or even usually the poi
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It's not so much that it benefits people who get income from investments as protects them from inflation. If you hold on to something for ten years and sell it for the same amount in constant dollars, the tax you pay on the increase i
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Usually what happens is people with extensive social networks and (now virtually worthless) property stay in the area, and their children leave for greener pastures. I have relatives in Western PA in a town that was built around oil and lu
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by gozur88 9y ago
I've never worked at a place that allows alcohol at the office, but I've worked at places where it was common for people have two or three drinks at lunch. From the productivity perspective I'm not sure there's a differ
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Here again, though, you have the same correlation/causation problem. People without a close social circle may not have one because they're too sick to get out much, or they're on a drug regimen that makes them drowsy or grou
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1. White collar cases often turn on technical details neither the judge nor the jury really understand. Even if the law's on your side it's a crapshoot. 2. Defendants have enough money the prosecutors can't just scare them i
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San Francisco took this thinking to its logical conclusion years ago. "We're spending tens of thousands on services for homeless people. Why don't we just give them the money and let them buy what they need?" So the ci

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