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601.
by hx87 10y ago
Fine, but then don't make brazen statements like > but it seems reasonably credible to the layman > proven to contain significantly increased doses of POISON in food on the supermarket shelves
602.
by hx87 10y ago
Are you sure you're not confusing the FDA with the DEA?
603.
by hx87 10y ago
You don't have to be a scientist in order to be well informed about matters that are very important to you.
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by hx87 10y ago
> it's not necessarily enough grounds to use the power and resources of the state to actively ban a substance It's not enough grounds because the cost of enforcement is so high that it is equal to or surpasses the cost of the d
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by hx87 10y ago
Other cities are welcome to more affordable housing and extra tax revenue by introducing the same tax. Win-win for everyone except wealthy foreign buyers, no?
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by hx87 10y ago
> Convicts have absolutely no disincentive to file these suits What if there were a disincentive, such as an increase in sentence if they lose?
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by hx87 10y ago
I wonder how much the prevalence of skinny wood frame walls and sash windows in the US contribute to this issue--if houses were made of 2x6s with continuous insulation, or double 2x4 studs, or masonry, and had casement windows instead, I su
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by hx87 10y ago
Inflation can still happen in sectors that have both investment-like and consumption-like qualities, such as real estate, when massive amounts of investment capital try to look for safe and/or high-yielding havens.
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by hx87 10y ago
It does when you compare it to state and municipal governments.
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by hx87 10y ago
It's "progress" when the larger bureaucracy is harder to regulatorily capture, if only because in larger jurisdictions there are more competitors.
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by hx87 10y ago
And in my experience at least, I have seen and participated in many, many valuable, interesting and enlightening discussions here on HN, and see little evidence that it is going away from that. True, badly made arguments are treated rather
612.
by hx87 10y ago
You know a place is in the sweet spot when people complain about it being too left wing and too right wing at the same time.
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by hx87 10y ago
> However, if you were born 50 years ago, the future has been slow to arrive. I'm guess you've never lived in a world where almost all the information contained therein was in the form of paper documents, and have had to search
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by hx87 10y ago
There is no process for recycling /automotive/ lithium ion batteries, but that's because their use is so recent--the first commercially available lithium ion EV (Tesla Roadster) wasn't released until 2008. However, EV ba
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by hx87 10y ago
Lithium ion batteries have been recyclable for a while now-- Best Buy has receptacles for used ones. It's been slow to get off the ground because virgin production is still rather cheap.
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by hx87 10y ago
OM617s are every bit as reliable as 603s and 606s, but 1) the non-turbo versions are absolute dogs 2) manual valve clearance adjustments are annoying 3) vibrate more
617.
by hx87 10y ago
They can also be recycled almost indefinitely.
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by hx87 10y ago
If the interiors of said cars were built like Honda Elements, Toyota FJ Cruisers, or police-spec Chargers, why not? Any crap that passengers leave can be hosed out.
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by hx87 10y ago
Sure, $9K on top of $80K is pretty steep, but that $80K build is orders of magnitude more comfortable than what an old VW could provide, and at reasonable speeds too. By the time you upgrade a classic VW to similar standards (Subaru engine
620.
by hx87 10y ago
> What I really want is a brand new VW pop-top van, as are still sold in Europe. But those don't go to the U. S. You could probably get a Ram Promaster SWB with pop-up roof for about what an equivalent VW van would sell for, were th
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by hx87 10y ago
Sprinters, Ducatos, Transits, and NVs (not to mention old school Expresses/Savannas) are already available here, so I'm not sure what a VW California T6 would offer that the others wouldn't.
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by hx87 10y ago
If you trade with your own (possibly leveraged) funds, sure. If you're trading with other people's money and rely more on asset management fees than profit-sharing, then your personal expected profits fall when index funds become
623.
by hx87 10y ago
Cars and planes don't "lose" electricity when their engines are running; otherwise their batteries would be constantly overcharged. Hybrid cars just have more powerful alternators.
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by hx87 10y ago
> people are even downvoting my parent comment Perhaps it's because you were trying to shut down discussion on the technical/communication aspects of this disaster for no reason other than it was a tragedy? > it's like
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by hx87 10y ago
Presumably the plane's stability without plasma wings would the same as on previous designs--with the exception of military fighter craft, who face a stability vs maneuverability trade-off, there are no benefits to making a civilian cr
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by hx87 10y ago
> Note that in many "regions" "big pharma" negotiates the price with a penny punching government That's one of the reasons why drugs are so expensive in the US--we are one of the few countries to not have governm
627.
by hx87 10y ago
Surrendering monetary sovereignty can work out as long as everyone also surrenders fiscal sovereignty, with a unified European budget. In the US, that's how states like Kentucky and Mississippi manage to survive.
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by hx87 10y ago
Why the assumption that a view with wind turbines would /negatively/ impact a property's value? If there are enough people who like wind turbines, the property value will stay put and perhaps increase.
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by hx87 10y ago
Of course. Hell, I'd pay extra for a view of Deer Island here in Boston. Yes it's a sewage treatment plant, but it is an exceedingly beautiful one.
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by hx87 10y ago
My best guess is that the line represents the upstream limit of navigability of the Mississippi River's western tributaries. West of this line, it makes less and less economic sense to settle (unless it's next to a railroad line)

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