hughprime

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by hughprime 17y ago
The Pak N Save in Emeryville.
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by hughprime 17y ago
I'm just saying that taxes tend to head towards a level somewhere between the economic optimum (as flat as possible) and the political optimum (all taxes paid by a tiny minority).
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by hughprime 17y ago
For what it's worth, the "local supermarket" I was talking about is on the border of Oakland, and the area is so ghetto that they keep not only the liquor and razor blades, but also the toothbrushes and condoms, in locked cabinets. I see pl
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by hughprime 17y ago
Subway tastes bad because it is junk food. Make me a sandwich with decent quality bread (not the spongy, sugary stuff at Subway), some nice roast beef (freshly sliced off a hot roast directly out of the oven), some decent-quality cheese (I
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by hughprime 17y ago
Some poor people have too little free time (the ones working two minimum-wage jobs) while others have too much (the unemployed). It would be interesting to compare the obesity rates of the two groups. I doubt you'd find that the unemployed
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by hughprime 17y ago
I hate these articles which pop up every week or so, trying desperately to make the claim that fat poor people are the victims of anything other than their own lack of self-control. We all have to make decisions in life. Do we go to school,
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by hughprime 17y ago
Australia hardly imports any food at all, because it's large and climatically diverse enough to support just about every crop in the world. And yet people are still fat. Y'know why? Because they eat too much. Do they eat too much because th
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by hughprime 17y ago
Where do people keep getting this idea that healthy food is expensive? Do they live in areas substantially different from mine? At my local supermarket most fruits and vegetables cost between $1 and $2.50 a pound. A whole head of lettuce is
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by hughprime 17y ago
Not really. The main reason we'll never see a flat tax is because as soon as a flat tax is enacted, a politician can easily gain votes by promising to lower taxes for 99% of the population by raising them on the top 1%.
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by hughprime 17y ago
Is that hypothesis backed up by any data? Australia and New Zealand have (almost) no agricultural subsidies, and yet have the sixth and seventh highest obesity rates in the world.
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by hughprime 17y ago
In fact, starting now I think I'm going to start using "I could care less" liberally to communicate its literal meaning. Frinstance: "My car broke down, and I could care less!" "I broke my finger, and I could care less!" "My girlfriend left
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by hughprime 17y ago
Worthless list. All over the place, from "non-IT people don't understand that the screen isn't the computer" (Really? How many people are still confused about that?) to "non-IT people don't understand how to set up a network" (yep, I have t
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by hughprime 17y ago
It's not quite as bad as homeopathy. DNA evidence is worth something in these cases, but it's not conclusive -- the main problem is that government bureaucrats are too dumb to understand this and would treat it as conclusive. If we knew t
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by hughprime 17y ago
I'm not sure that Elizabeth Saxe-Coburg-Gotha would approve of that plan.
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by hughprime 17y ago
True, but the real villains here are the non-refugee immigrants who lie about their country of origin in order to get refugee status.
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by hughprime 17y ago
A book was worth the modern equivalent of tens of thousands of dollars -- that was what it cost to assemble the materials and then copy out the writing by hand. A scholar would count himself well-off if he owned two or three personal books
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by hughprime 17y ago
Hmm, nope, don't think so. I picked my words pretty carefully.
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by hughprime 17y ago
Come to think of it, the differences on the race graph are amazingly small, given how strongly race is correlated with certain religions -- (e.g. middle-eastern people are much more likely to be Muslim, and almost all Hindus are Indian.)
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by hughprime 17y ago
It's like soccer in that it's an outdoor game that we play on an open field in winter. Doesn't rugby displace soccer? The only place I know where rugby is taken seriously as a spectator sport is Australia (maybe NZ and South Africa as well?
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by hughprime 17y ago
But is there anything you can replace "ice cream" with to make it a workable example? What _real_ questions are you likely to see this kind of Hindu-Hindu antimatching behaviour on?
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by hughprime 17y ago
The differences on the race graph are so small as to be insignificant.
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by hughprime 17y ago
I'm sorry, that game is called "Grid Iron". The word "football" is reserved for Rugby League. (Not to be confused with Rugby Union, which is "rugby" or Australian Rules Football, which is "footy". And definitely not soccer, which is "soccer
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by hughprime 17y ago
Right. Likewise, American football and soccer are substitute goods as well. Americans don't dislike soccer because of any particular quirk of its scoring system, they just dislike soccer because they already have another sport which fulfill
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by hughprime 17y ago
Deport everybody. I'm not too familiar with Greek politics, but I'm sure there's a sufficiently large bleeding-heart constituency which would oppose any cruelty to the huddled masses just offshore. I wouldn't be surprised if they had par
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by hughprime 17y ago
I know Greece has insane immigration from illegals and it's not going to stop. Imagine they take some barren Agean rock, ~ Manhattan sized and allow free immigration with no minimum wage or constraints on voluntary contract for people over
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by hughprime 17y ago
A pretty good analysis. The Senate system is slightly crazy and often somewhat random in the way the last senator from each state gets elected, so they do have a chance. The only big problem is that the "respectable" parties may not like th
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by hughprime 17y ago
And the lesson is that we should discard our obligations by moving back in with our parents and getting them to pay all our living expenses? Kids make great entrepreneurs because the standards for success are pretty low. This kid is spendin
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by hughprime 17y ago
I disagree -- to me, signal-to-noise looks somewhat lower. I also found a thread which seemed to have devolved into the trading of personal insults without getting greyed out. I didn't like that.
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by hughprime 17y ago
This brings up the interesting question of "how is this different from denying evolution"? The relevant question is, I think: if the theory turns out to be wrong, how hard is it to explain the data? If the theory of evolution turns out to b
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by hughprime 17y ago
Huh? Stop inferring things. If you really want to know, then I'd say funding alternative energy research, clean coal research, and probably building more nuclear plants are a good idea. Giant mirrors are worth consideration, just in case --

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