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by hodwik2 10y ago
>"Removing the minimum wage is so extreme it's barely even under consideration [...] And it always has been." Then you disagree with Eleanor Roosevelt on history, who, speaking of the Republican party's desire to end
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>"So you list a number of hyper-extremist radical points [...] then you complain the country is leftist?" No. I listed a bunch of things which were not extreme positions 50 years ago to show that politics is indeed becoming mor
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>"The individual mandate for purchase of private insurance + subsidy system adopted as "Obamacare" was first proposed by the Republicans and insurance industry lobbyists in opposition to healthcare reform efforts under the
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That's good to know. A lot of what we hear about European opinions are by way of France.
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Progressives move forever more to the left, and then accuse the right of "moving right" because we didn't move to your new definition of center fast enough. Excuse me, conservatives have not actually managed to get signed an
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Yes
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Oh, I'm glad you know more than I do about this thing I lived through, so you could correct me on it.
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The government was immensely paranoid about it, insisting it had to run on site, and be completely configurable by their tech staff, who were not themselves engineers.
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A number of African nations are currently struggling with this -- attempting to bootstrap nationwide networking from zero, while having economies which are very much command economies (although in Africa, that's due to corruption, rath
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by hodwik2 10y ago
> "My point is that with some larger solution space, the question doesn't matter anymore." The question still matters ethically. If they're not aware, should we put their rights over the rights of humans? Probably not
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So if someone engineers trees to grow CDs you still wouldn't protect their intellectual property? How amazing does an invention have to be before you guys will let a company protect it?
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They can with a modified copy of Windows. Is that what makes or breaks it from being intellectual property theft? I ask, because it would be pretty easy to add a jump in the Windows binary to skip the EULA -- Free Windows for life!
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The problem is, for organizations like Greenpeace, they require that their supporters think the opponent is evil. When you can't engage your opponent on the facts, engage them on an emotional level, and accuse them of moral decrepitude
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Extend this logic to other intellectual properties, and explore the consequences. PC-Company-A signs no license with Microsoft. An employee of theirs finds a copy of Microsoft Windows laying on the ground. Having no agreement with MSFT, and
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Most of the world is already running that experiment, and the answer is clear. Research of this kind doesn't come from there.
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Monsanto is absolutely using legal avenues. International shipping companies are subject to international law. Monsanto is threatening them with international law. That is fully within their bounds. Argentina is operating outside of the int
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That was thoroughly disproved. They sue people who have ~90%+ Monsanto crops on their fields who aren't paying royalties. You can't get 90% of a different cultivar from pollen blowing multiple miles into your field. It doesn'
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by hodwik2 10y ago
I believe Rabies inspired vampires as well: from wsj "The roots of the vampire myth stretch back nearly as far. Tales of vampire-like creatures, formerly dead humans who return to suck the blood of the living, date to at least the Gree
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First hand, the atelier program can kill your joy. That said, knowing how to render is the only way to get any good at representational art.
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It's a lack of control, which produces the happy accident. Accuracy is the problem to begin with. Either I'd learn to pretend to lack control, or I hope my left hand doesn't gain control. That said, again, I no longer enjoy i
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by hodwik2 10y ago
I'm someone who fervently studied classical drawing, painting, and sculpture, against the advice of my friends and professors (they told me to stop studying so hard and to start an art career). The problem with over-practice is that yo
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by hodwik2 10y ago
There are, but they're harder to count. In most studies the Chinese investors are counted by their foreign names. There is no public data on nationality of real estate owners.
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The irony being that Vancouver real estate is only a great investment vehicle because they've had such strict building regulations, with the view corridors law. Other cities are not such a sure investment, a spike in supply could des
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In London they currently have 230 buildings 20 stories or more being developed, or planned for development. It looks like the investment capital is doing wonders there.
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That's the same thing in the US. "Libertarian" is just what Republicans call themselves when most of their friends are Democrats, and they're worried people will think they're racist. https://en.wikipedia
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As the supply increases, and a greater proportion of demand is met, the cost will decrease. Remember this from Econ 101?
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If 8 families want to live in a single family home, it must be an exceptionally desirable area, with very little housing. It stands to reason there are probably many more people who want to move in to the area, but who aren't willing t
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I can put cameras outside of my home, I can have cars towed away, I can find the ripped up bill in their trash bag that tells me the perpetrator is John Q. Badguy. But that is neither here nor there. My desire for comfort is nullified when
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Could you please explain why the foreign investment is a problem? Every time I've heard this discussed, it's mostly been people saying "The CHINESE are buying up houses" with a racist glint in their eyes. I don't
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The students escaping the ghetto will still be getting a measurably better education on the strained suburban school than they will at the ghetto school they're currently stuck in.

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