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by hx87 10y ago
Except, you know, we don't have an Article 48, any proposed Enabling Act would be filibustered to hell, and our society is nowhere near as authoritarian as it used to be, much less 1930s Germany.
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by hx87 10y ago
Yes to basic income--if democratic socialists and Milton Friedman can agree on an idea, it's worth trying out at least.
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by hx87 10y ago
Trump doesn't strike me as a culture warrior, and since MJ's relevance to law-and-order issues is rather low compared to stop-and-frisk or BLM, his approach might not be all that different from the present one.
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by hx87 10y ago
IMHO, "contains GMO" isn't particularly useful either. If I'm going to be notified that something is GMO, at least tell me what modifications were made. If it takes up too much space, then slap on a QR code or something.
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by hx87 10y ago
A <5 minute LinkedIn lookup should suffice.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Genetic modifications through hybridisation and other traditional methods are protected by cellular mechanisms that are bypassed in GMO. If they actually are bypassed, the modifications wouldn't give rise to any viable organisms.
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by hx87 10y ago
I'd argue that in a time when everybody has a LinkedIn account, putting your name on the article is a form of disclosure.
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by hx87 10y ago
> I'm not sure how we do that GMO milkweed, and other weeds, I presume. Perhaps Monsanto can create and patent an entire polyculture to be grown as a unit?
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by hx87 10y ago
> In science, the burden of proof is on the new thing to unequivocally prove itself true...not 'harmless until proven harmful.' The former statement does not imply the latter--it depends on whether you default to "we assum
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by hx87 10y ago
That's an intentional product in central Europe, believe it or not.
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by hx87 10y ago
> but I tend to regard the latter as a bigger problem simply because the amount of money and lobbying involved As the current US presidential election has shown, when money and lobbying collides with emotions and FUD, the latter wins eve
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by hx87 10y ago
True, but today many cars have A/C and car feature controls integrated with the entertainment system, so unless the aftermarket system can replace that somehow, replacing the factory system will be troublesome.
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by hx87 10y ago
> The good news is that there's plenty of aftermarket in-dash displays. Only if your existing display is in DIN format, which is extraordinarily rare these days. Of course you could rip the whole thing out, but then you'd have
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by hx87 10y ago
It's not just that a lot of his theories were wrong (something he had in common with Galileo and Newton), but that his wrong theories were taken far too seriously for far too long by certain sectors of the humanities ( cough critical
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by hx87 10y ago
> if a model is too complex for humans to reason about, then a business could encode any kind of illicit behavior in the form of model parameters they like If a model is too complex for humans to reason about, how would a business encode
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by hx87 10y ago
Not terribly good, but certainly /better/.
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by hx87 10y ago
Religions are more than their holy books. The Old Testatment preaches a hateful and parochial worldview, but the vast majority of Jews and Christians are perfectly normal human beings.
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by hx87 10y ago
With few exceptions, human life is better in 2016 than in 1966.
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by hx87 10y ago
It's one thing to have a vested interest in an event happening, another to be competent (and lucky) enough to pull that event off yourself. Nudging is easier, but then you can't put 99% of the blame on the nudger.
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by hx87 10y ago
There's this weirdly common idea that density = skyscrapers, which ignores the fact that a community of 5-story walkups can easily support 70,000+ people per square mile.
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by hx87 10y ago
That's the conspiracy theory narrative, and it's the real real absurdity here. US ambassadors don't have the power to raise hell on the streets of any given country, especially in one where a significant portion of the popula
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by hx87 10y ago
> In Auckland, New Zealand, investors are buying property and houses en masse. That isn't exactly a bad problem to have--if free construction is allowed and property taxes (or better yet, land value taxes) aren't constrained, i
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by hx87 10y ago
The currency doesn't get devaluated in this case because the supply of Euros doesn't increase--the ECB is only replacing the money supply lost when the banks collapse.
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by hx87 10y ago
> It's been known for 3000 years what the consequences of that situation are - the borrower becomes the lender's slave (Proverbs 22:7) What Proverbs failed to mention is that if the debt is big enough with respect to the lender
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by hx87 10y ago
> For much of Western human existence, families could own, inherit, and stay in one place for generations. ...if they weren't expropriated by their overlords, driven off by war/disease/famine/poverty, etc. Staying in
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by hx87 10y ago
I'm not sure how redistribution of wealth in case of a financial crisis counts as "absolution" from the ECB--if your 1000 person firm causes a 5000 Euro per capita loss in the money supply, your company is busted and everyone
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by hx87 10y ago
Uncertainty would be less of a problem if the ECB's stated goal would be to defend the money supply in the Eurozone through mass distribution.
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by hx87 10y ago
If estimates are not okay and the true cost of shipping cannot be calculated in a short period of time, then why is it okay to display a shipping price during the checkout process right before I click "submit", since this price is
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by hx87 10y ago
What if I just want A, and there is no B? It's straightforward to add a caveat that the shipping costs are for that item only and are not additive.
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by hx87 10y ago
By "sandbox" I meant that the central banks dealt directly only with major banks, who benefit and profit from being at the top of the money-creation chain.

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