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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
The purchase price is not above the market. It is the market.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
There is NO light rail link from Denver to Boulder, only buses. The money raised from Boulder residents via sales tax increases was spent on other lines.
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The Case Against Sugar(theatlantic.com)
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
1,500 of 94,000 What do the other 98.4% think about silently paying millions of dollars in exit packages to male executives accused of sexual harassment?
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
This is not a rational fear. There are at any time an average of 10,000 planes in the sky, carrying 1m+ passengers. These 12,000 satellites will each have more space available and very regular trajectories, without ever converging on major
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
People make mistakes in all avenues of life, including hiring. It's important to be able to make amends, or change paths, without being blocked by (inimical) others or by (excessive) regulation. In some parts of the world, firing is ne
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Do you believe nobody at SpaceX, or their direct competitors, has thought about it?
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
I'm glad employees can be fired at will, in this country, and I'm glad he takes that part of SpaceX so seriously. On the other hand, hiring managers from Microsoft and Google does not seem to be a good match for the type and pace
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Any plan to massively capture CO2 should take into account that removing too much CO2 from the atmosphere would cause a mass extinction of land-based plant life if CO2 levels fall below 150 ppm.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Note that phytoplankton accounts for 50% of photosynthesis on the planet, already capturing 50 GtC/year.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
This is so incredibly stupid. You and a bunch of down-voters are so ideologically fixated that you can't handle a simple, factual description or chronicle without launching into sophistry. I'm not a politician. I don't work f
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Ballon sur bitume (2016) -- French documentary about street football culture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FhW2CwKXsfE https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/dec/14/balllon-sur...
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen (1965): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv4J7sID3Pk
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Anything by Werner Herzog [1]. These are my three favorites: - Encounters at the End of the World (2007) - Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) - Happy People: A Year in the Taiga (2010) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wer
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
As you can very well see, I answered one very specific false claim about price transparency in healthcare. I did not intend to suggest I am interested in otherwise discussing your personal interests in the political deceits and failures of
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Because they didn't and don't have a sufficient majority in the Senate to repeal and replace Obamacare. And my understanding is that they would no longer have sufficient popular support to do it, either.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
You're right, the Democrats did not require full price transparency when they had overwhelming majorities in the House and Senate, plus the Presidency. Also, the Democrats later managed to block the repeal of Obamacare, which would hav
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Bah, I'm not interested in your goalposts. I replied to someone who falsely claimed that "Republicans who are supposedly for markets don't push for price transparency". We all know that Democrats are the party entirely r
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Everything by David Attenborough, starting with his "Life" series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Attenborough#Return_to_b...
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Down-voting won't erase the fact that this was the Republican platform in 2016: "Require price transparency from all healthcare providers, especially doctors and healthcare organizations like clinics and hospitals." [1] [1]
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
It was a major element. See point 5: "Require price transparency from all healthcare providers, especially doctors and healthcare organizations like clinics and hospitals. Individuals should be able to shop to find the best prices for
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Strange, in 2016 the Republicans ran on a platform of full price transparency in healthcare.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
The link I provided documents the 2016 Republican platform of full price transparency in healthcare. You quibble about how they failed to repeal ACA and follow up with new regulation. Factually, Trump and the Rs failed with their 3-step pla
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
It's a fact that Trump and Republicans ran on a platform of free-market healthcare and full price transparency, unlike their opponents. The article I linked points out that this price transparency could not be achieved in the very firs
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Actually Trump and the Republicans ran on a platform of price transparency, but Senate Democrats can block and have effectively blocked (assisted by now-deceased McCain) any non-taxation-related changes to Obamacare. Reference: https:&#x2F
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Unfortunately medical doctors are not scientists. They do not collect new evidence, they just try to fit their observations (the symptoms) in the straight-jacket of the catalog of drugs or surgery they are aware of (the cure). Sometimes the
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Career is not the most important thing to worry about in your 20s. - Travel a lot, to all continents. - Start systematic, long-term investment portfolio. - Reduce romantic entanglement with attractive, psychotic girls (s/girl/boy&
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
Ok then, where's the next frontier? I can't see myself happy while continuing to work in an increasingly oligopolized, regulated industry. I'm young enough that I can switch to another career if it's worth the personal s
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
The Inquisition was evil. The people running it tortured and murdered countless individuals simply because they wanted to think and speak freely. An agnostic-sounding perspective does not reduce that evil in any way.
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by ilove_banh_mi 8y ago
There is a difference between the "evidence" invoked by the Inquisition, and the actual reasons they felt they needed to torture and murder a loud defender of free thought, free inquiry, free speech, and the Copernican model.

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