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811.
by hx87 10y ago
> Well you are in the significant minority. Do you have evidence to back that up?
812.
by hx87 10y ago
The original source was written by a journalist with (presumably) no military, science or engineering background, so "one tonne of explosives" probably means one tonne of artillery shells, most of which is steel. Still, 1.2 billio
813.
by hx87 10y ago
It is you who seem to have a gross misunderstanding about time and suffering. The dead don't suffer.
814.
by hx87 10y ago
You seem to be confusing the Eurozone with the EU. The latter has its problems but is a basically sound institution, whereas the former was and remains a terrible idea without a fiscal union.
815.
by hx87 10y ago
I'd rather not sacrifice people on the altar of a single study, no matter how significant the results. Down that path lies atrocities, too, albeit of a quieter sort.
816.
by hx87 10y ago
I don't know what the hell you've been reading, but the consensus in western media about the coup appears to be, in order of best to worst: no coup at all > failed coup > successful coup Sometimes the latter two are switched
817.
by hx87 10y ago
The legal cost of committing a crime is something like (severity of punishment * likelihood of punishment). I suspect that the latter term is far, far more important to the legitimacy of a government, since it indicates competence whereas t
818.
by hx87 10y ago
The only way we "understand" the natural world is by making verifiable predictions. If those predictions can't be consistently verified, then we don't understand the relevant phenomenon at all, and we haven't learne
819.
by hx87 10y ago
> But under current medical practices, if a drug trial saw this sort of effectiveness, the trial would be stopped and everyone in the trial offered the treatment. To do otherwise is immoral. As would repeating the same trial. Then perhap
820.
by hx87 10y ago
Given that the noise from electric vehicles is intentionally generated, it can be much more pleasant than ICE noise while still being audible.
821.
by hx87 10y ago
It does not give you license to do the same.
822.
by hx87 10y ago
It's less of a problem in dense urban areas, where distances are short and there are many opportunities for regenerative braking.
823.
by hx87 10y ago
Because there are far, far too many counterexamples for the hypothesis to be true in any useful sense.
824.
by hx87 10y ago
Shouldn't the drop in revenues be balanced by the decrease in payouts?
825.
by hx87 10y ago
I'll bet that if you look exclusively at descendants of 1914 Americans, they would be in the top 10, or at least close to it.
826.
by hx87 10y ago
How about a compromise: make some form of lithium available OTC, without any patents involved?
827.
by hx87 10y ago
> Because I can't pay taxes with my home "value". Then your home (and those of everyone else in the same situation) is horribly overvalued. Property may be atomic, but their ownership can be split. Walmart is pretty damn u
828.
by hx87 10y ago
> supply has tracked population growth, demand has outstripped population growth That implies that demand is still outstripping supply, and thus "increasing supply doesn't work" isn't a good conclusion to draw from th
829.
by hx87 10y ago
A perfect source of tax revenue? Or, if you look at it (and implement it) the right way, a perfect way to take back the wealth that was transferred from working class people in western countries such as Canada to China over the past generat
830.
by hx87 10y ago
Then the problem isn't GM technology itself--it's an economic system that considers taste to be worth little and diversity nothing.
831.
by hx87 10y ago
A white noise generator placed over the microphone, perhaps?
832.
by hx87 10y ago
> If ATM or teller handed out cash, you can't simply cancel that. I wonder if it's possible to specifically cancel the serial numbers of the cash that was fraudulently withdrawn. In other words, make it no longer legal tender.
833.
by hx87 10y ago
We don't need a global government as much as a global reputation system, and we're slowly moving towards that direction. It's especially true of the United States and Europe--if you screw up big time there, it's easy to
834.
by hx87 10y ago
Even then, VR will eventually be as good for "less savory reasons" as the real thing.
835.
by hx87 10y ago
It's because terror organizations tend to be quite civil on Twitter, whereas political trolls tend to be...trolls. The former isn't inimical to the proper functioning of the service, whereas the latter is.
836.
by hx87 10y ago
> Other people like to live in the caves of steel, with a seething mass of humanity flowing all around. Funnily enough, that's what every suburban Walmart feels like.
837.
by hx87 10y ago
Yep, $25 safety razor + 25 cent Feather blades are the best value for shaving bar none.
838.
by hx87 10y ago
If the world was an action movie, there would be no heroes, period.
839.
by hx87 10y ago
If people can vote in officials who favor restrictive residential zoning, they can certainly vote in those who favor restricting business investment.
840.
by hx87 10y ago
Still better than no development at all.

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