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by heurist 9y ago
To be fair even in a first world system it's a good idea to filter drinking water again before consuming it. A countertop filtration system is much less expensive than one month of OP's bottled water. $80-200 for the initial setup
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by heurist 9y ago
They could be the global distributor for individual companies operating different regions, like a franchise but without regional providers existing under one corporate umbrella. That could open the market to competing distributors and regio
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by heurist 9y ago
Or the possible transference of non-harmful or beneficial bacteria?
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by heurist 9y ago
I think it's being presented in the hope that a future Congress will run with it. Or that his constituents will appreciate his ideas. It is beyond this Congress to fix the system they've brazenly manipulated for their own benefit.
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by heurist 9y ago
Solid start though. Even if the redistricting measure was dropped, a federal holiday for election day and top-two primaries would clear out a lot of the clogs in our election systems. I'm not sure the top-two measure is constitutional
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by heurist 9y ago
Expect this to become a much bigger issue leading up to the redistricting that comes after the 2020 census.
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by heurist 9y ago
Wouldn't he want them higher across the board so Amazon can fill in the price gap?
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by heurist 9y ago
... in markets where they can and do operate. Uber might be widely used in large cities but elsewhere it has little impact. Uber exists because American public transportation infrastructure is awful, nonexistent, or otherwise inefficiently
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by heurist 9y ago
There are technological benefits to being alive today but we must also acknowledge that that technology has made modern life much more complex, stress-inducing, isolating, and noisy. Modern life is not all roses...
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by heurist 9y ago
Are you kidding? Gates and Zuckerberg live in a borderless world with access to nearly anything they could ever want. They could take their personal jets to any country in the world and not go through customs. They can call up any socially
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by heurist 10y ago
This is a landmark in the communication of complex data. Obviously room for improvement but very well done.
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by heurist 10y ago
I disagree about the implication. Even when raising cattle you wouldn't slaughter one unless you had to, either to avoid waste or starvation. Few would deny that humans have eaten meat but it was definitely much less common than it is
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by heurist 10y ago
Not to the extent we do today. Meat was hard to come by for most of human history.
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by heurist 10y ago
Most vegans I've met are "mostly vegan". Occasionally eating meat is not a big deal. The problems start when they're the main part of your diet - you start increasing your disk of heart disease, diabetes, colon cancer, e
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by heurist 10y ago
High school should teach students how to get what they want from life and give them the rudimentary foundation they need to attain it. In retrospect my education was greatly lacking in certain aspects. High school should involve at least on
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by heurist 10y ago
It was a big enough problem that technological solutions were invented to solve it: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Safety_coffin It still happens today: http://www.businessinsider.com/man-rescued-after-bei
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by heurist 10y ago
Don't waste your money donating to joke causes, donate it to the politicians running against the representatives who voted for this.
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by heurist 10y ago
Only techies will be setting up VPNs. What about the vast majority of everyone else who don't understand what is happening when they connect to the internet?
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by heurist 10y ago
Personally, because I don't like being told what to do :) If I don't have a significant amount of control I shut down, become depressed, anxious that I'm wasting my life, etc. I'm also wary of being taken advantage of. I
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by heurist 10y ago
No, VCs are fallible and don't always recognize opportunity. They may not trust that it can be delivered. They might be hedging their bets for whatever reason. Having a good product is no guarantee of significant funding. Most startups
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by heurist 10y ago
Because being underutilized in a large company is unfulfilling. Because being a staff engineer in a large company gets you no closer to running your own business. Because you want to learn technology that you cannot yet compete for. Because
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by heurist 10y ago
I have no context on this... What were those regulations? The whole argument against this was that ISPs would be able to sell our private browsing history. Anyone know if they can really do that now?
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by heurist 10y ago
Awful. I stand to profit greatly from that data being commercially available but the personal violation underlying it is unjustifiable. Who will be the first to start a "privacy-driven" ISP with marked up prices?
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by heurist 10y ago
You might be surprised by how technical fine art really is. I've learned as much about programming from painting in the last two years as from programming.
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by heurist 10y ago
That's already happening through globalization. The scope of this discussion is American inequality.
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by heurist 10y ago
So the choices are wait for the economy to suddenly unfuck itself or give our lowest earners am immediate boost?
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by heurist 10y ago
So the ultra rich should grow wealthier faster than middle class Americans because there are poorer countries in the world? Absurd.
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by heurist 10y ago
Scientific consensus can be divided and misguided but generally indicates a single direction. The main reason the left avoids leaving important decisions to states is that state representation is biased toward the people living outside of c
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by heurist 10y ago
Maybe I should clarify. The left does need to stop calling their opponents names and ignoring hard truths. I love talking with people who can expose me to hard truths, even if I reflexively reject them. But the right also needs to open thei
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by heurist 10y ago
There's no such thing as freedom. Everything that exists is constrained somewhere by something. The economy is no different.

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