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by hx87 10y ago
I'd be satisfied if I could just query the price of the flight by entering my preferences on a form.
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by hx87 10y ago
Fats are pretty damn filling, even when caloric density is accounted for, at least for me.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Soda tax: no Soda tax is a way (albeit a somewhat flawed one) for state and local governments to nullify the effects of agricultural grain subsidies, which is something I wholeheartedly support. If rural constituencies have a right to
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by hx87 10y ago
Most of the GDP doesn't go to wages, so it's silly to tax wages to fund a UBI. UBIs are only necessary because more and more GDP goes to capital gains, so capital gains, not labor should be the tax base.
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by hx87 10y ago
A communist society where the government owns all the means of production and everyone gets a $60,000 UBI can still use markets to allocate resources for production.
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by hx87 10y ago
Paying people is acceptable. Paying people to make me miserable is not acceptable.
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by hx87 10y ago
IMHO, the solution to the "Winner Take All" economy isn't to prevent the winner from taking it all, but to make the "all" smaller so lots of people and companies can be winners of their own nonfungible markets. In e
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by hx87 10y ago
> So you also dislike bonuses for white collar professionals? Do white collar professionals always expect to get a 20% bonus, no matter how well the company does?
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by hx87 10y ago
AFAIK, there are no smoking bans on people in their own homes, and even in that case it might be reasonable in apartments without airtight party walls.
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by hx87 10y ago
Pure brutalism is bad enough, but in Boston (and to a lesser extent, the rest of the US) we just had to muck it up with fake-traditional touches like brick facing that make it look so much worse. IMO the worst part of City Hall isn't
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by hx87 10y ago
As long as there was a standardized, transparent way to emancipate yourself and prove your readiness before that age, I'd support your proposal. In fact, why not get rid of the "automatic adulthood at given age" system at all
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by hx87 10y ago
Higher speed limits for separate highways that would require a special license to enter? I'd support that.
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by hx87 10y ago
Methane still forces you to run on the Otto cycle or a variant thereof, not the more efficient Diesel cycle, so unless engine makers get HCCI right, renewables-to-diesel would still be a better choice.
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by hx87 10y ago
The cost of education isn't a obstacle to people getting into medicine, except indirectly by slowing down the opening of new medical schools or expansion of existing ones--otherwise we'd be seeing lots of open spots in and reduce
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by hx87 10y ago
Use a variety of research groups with different political leanings & reputations?
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by hx87 10y ago
Quote from paper: > The amount paid for “don’t know” responses was also assigned randomly, and was a fraction of the amount offered for a correct response: 20% of the payment for a correct response with probability .33, 25% with probabil
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by hx87 10y ago
The water pumps in trees are solar-powered, and not efficient ones at that.
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by hx87 10y ago
10MW passively fail-safe nuclear power plants are feasible and have been designed, so in countries where nuclear regulation is less-than-paranoid they might be an option in a decentralized grid.
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by hx87 10y ago
> Every bit of heat that leaves the system is lost efficiency. Storing air underground absorbs heat, or at least results in less heat loss than storing it above ground.
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by hx87 10y ago
> The goal for every company should always be to maximize revenue and minimize the cost of doing business. Startups don't forget that--they just focus on the former whereas established companies focus so hard on the latter that anyt
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by hx87 10y ago
Wouldn't, say, a Paleo or Atkins diet be even better for them if bread & pasta were the source of their problems?
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by hx87 10y ago
What would be a food that, for you, is cheap, healthy, tasty, and slow?
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by hx87 10y ago
As a taxpayer I'd rather pay people to stay happy than pay police to beat them down when they get uppity.
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by hx87 10y ago
> It's amazing if Finland has solved poverty to the level that every household can afford to set aside the space for a sauna and costs of running it. If you live in an apartment building, not every unit has a sauna--there is one sha
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by hx87 10y ago
Depends on how large the Nordic/Russian population in your area is--in Boston, New York, or Chicago there's plenty of options.
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by hx87 10y ago
In my experience, differences of degree matters far more than differences of kind.
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by hx87 10y ago
Rampant fanboyism isn't uncommon either.
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by hx87 10y ago
Get more people (and a greater variety of people) to invest in Amazon, and other companies who displace jobs, perhaps?
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by hx87 10y ago
It's not the kids that cause trouble--it's the carts with 250 items, the arguments over price, and the paying by check.
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by hx87 10y ago
Chemically, they're identical. They might be taxed differently though.

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