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by hugh4 11y ago
I'm missing why it's a loophole. Under what circumstances would both parties agree to a sale at an unreasonable price?
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by hugh4 11y ago
No, the opposite of stability is heamorraging money. Layoffs may enable them to stop doing that.
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by hugh4 11y ago
The situation is one that you would expect to lead to sour grapes. The criticism of the school is rather nebulous. Can we at least say that sour grapes does appear to be a strong factor?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Most people outside New York have multiple children by the time their oldest goes to school, so there's opportunities to learn these things at home by playing with your siblings. I'm guessing that only children are a lot more comm
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by hugh4 11y ago
Well there ya go, anecdotes both ways. Shall we just declare it a common potential pitfall then?
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by hugh4 11y ago
Couldn't cut it, dropped out, parents wrote sour-grapes article, the system works.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Then I'm still only saving a few percent on the large amount of money I'm spending. And in return I not only have to deal with the risk of buying a hundred aircraft designed and built by people who were pushing plows a couple of y
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by hugh4 11y ago
The actual wording was "nothing good". The goodness or badness of the various revolutions going on is, at best, debatable. I suggest waiting 20 years to collect more data before attempting to debate it though.
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by hugh4 11y ago
We're not talking high levels of reality-manipulation here, we're talking careful poses and taking lots of shots to pick out the best one. The reason that most girls will never look that good in photos isn't because they don&
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by hugh4 11y ago
Certainly it beats Draw Something in sticking power, but are people still going to be playing Candy Crush in five years, ten years? There's a lot of other companies I can buy for five billion dollars and be confident that they'll
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by hugh4 11y ago
Meanwhile you, who argues that arguments are useless, are arguing. On the internet, no less!
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by hugh4 11y ago
As it happens, Doctor Who is right in the middle of a story about this. What's really surprising is that as of the first part of the story, Doctor Who seems to, for the first time ever, be taking a more right-wing than left-wing approa
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by hugh4 11y ago
> The idea that you can't value growth companies because things change too much, is nothing more than an attempt to get investors to pay outrageously high multiples for the same earnings they can get elsewhere for far cheaper. Not n
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by hugh4 11y ago
The Supreme Court's job is to decide what laws are legal, not what they think the law ought to be. Deciding what the law ought to be is Congress's job. Do you suppose that nine Supreme Court justices might have considered and al
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by hugh4 11y ago
The Supreme Court has held that it is, and if you want to argue against it then that's fine, but you need a better argument than "nuh uh". How many of the folks who argue against the Citizens United ruling have actually read
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by hugh4 11y ago
If I could have a gun that only I could fire, and which I could fire with 100% reliability, that would be something I'd want. But I've never seen a particularly fast or reliable fingerprint scanner, my hands might be dirty or grea
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by hugh4 11y ago
Perhaps the rural areas can make up some of the shortfall by selling water to the cities.
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by hugh4 11y ago
For all you hear about the Salem Witch Trials, it was a surprise when I found out that the total number of people who wound up killed was only nineteen. The amount of emphasis put on this one event, compared to many others long forgotten, i
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by hugh4 11y ago
On the other hand, people in rural areas tend to be on friendlier terms with their neighbours than people in high-density areas. For various reasons, including the fact that it's much easier to be on good terms with your neighbour when
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by hugh4 11y ago
Of all possible secessions, the secession of the big cities from the country that surrounds them is probably the least practical, even if it would probably be welcomed by rural residents.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Idea for solving two problems at once: require every prospective college student to spend a certain term (six months, whatever) performing agricultural labour in order to qualify.
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by hugh4 11y ago
I always preferred Yogi Berra.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Poor Chevy. It's a good car by all accounts, but the sort of people who gain social status among their peers by owning an energy-efficient car are the sort of people who lose social status among their peers by owning a Chevrolet.
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by hugh4 11y ago
>There are two main theories of why women are competitive in indirectly aggressive ways. Evolutionary psychology, which uses natural selection to explain our modern behaviors, says that women need to protect themselves (read: their womb
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by hugh4 11y ago
>how can it be the worst if it makes 1/3 of the advertised formula? Same way that "keep your face in the water and breathe every fourth stroke" is good swimming advice but if you leave out the last bit it becomes terrible
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by hugh4 11y ago
>E.g. it is much better than "work with the intent to cause as much harm as possible to yourself and those around you" The badness of advice is surely also a function of how likely people are to actually follow it. Nobody'
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by hugh4 11y ago
Neither is evil, both are great. Both have pissed off some monied interests though. Uber gets more bad press because they're actually an existential threat to the taxi industry. Airbnb isn't an existential threat to the hotel indu
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by hugh4 11y ago
But in that case there'd be so many people in the wronged party that some enterprising law firm would be very happy to set up a class action, if there were some point they thought they could win on as being genuinely unconscionable.
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by hugh4 11y ago
Because the newspaper regularly needs to discuss numbers on the order of billions, and it's nice to save a couple of syllables over "thousand million" every time. The newspaper only occasionally discusses 10^12s (mostly in th
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by hugh4 11y ago
That's precisely the sort of thing we have courts, and vast quantities of precedent, to decide. Don't make the classic programmer's mistake of expecting everything in the law to need to be as well defined as things are in mat

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