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by jacalata 10y ago
There are inarguably items that should be held"just in case", like an epipen. The interesting discussion is how to identify those items - factors like cost of acquisition, immediacy of need when it occurs, cost of storage, etc.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Depends how much damage they can do
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by jacalata 10y ago
Vouchers are central planning (each person should spend this much money on this particular good). Cash is distributed planning.
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by jacalata 10y ago
It's not "on the flip side" at all. On a highway, a cyclist and other slow vehicles are obligated to use the turnouts. But in the city, there are no turnouts or "slow vehicles must use turnouts" signs. So cyclists a
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by jacalata 10y ago
Because they were commenting on the fact that it isn't offered in the UK in schools at all, which the author didn't appear to realise. I don't see anyone calling it an "issue" at all.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Some of them believe this kind of thing: http://www.hipforums.com/forum/topic/350512-i-have-the-secre...
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by jacalata 10y ago
"in schools" doesn't have to mean "compulsory"
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by jacalata 10y ago
Yes. Your bad. When you are using a term with a common meaning to say something completely different, you should say that up front.
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by jacalata 10y ago
I might. I might also be interested in just the initial delivery and web interface to remind me when to replace things, with an option to order the replacement from you or just buy it myself.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Bizarrely, none of the phones I know of that died from water damage were being used in a shower. We must move in different circles.
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by jacalata 10y ago
http://worldjusticeproject.org/rule-of-law-index
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by jacalata 10y ago
WTF? Yes, collecting income taxes from people who live in your state is how you finance the operation of the state, and is why Rhode Island will still benefit from spending public money that makes it easier for their residents to work in an
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by jacalata 10y ago
That's the problem state income taxes are supposed to solve, isn't it?
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by jacalata 10y ago
You must play the wrong sports then. Check out the private school badminton teams, for example.
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by jacalata 10y ago
I don't know how he justifies using the US as a yardstick for humane employment practices. Why should Apple be allowed to have employees anywhere work longer than they would be allowed to in France?
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by jacalata 10y ago
Did I miss it saying whether this effect was equally strong for the middle school and high school children? From what I've read previously I'd expect it to be a bigger factor for the older children.
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by jacalata 10y ago
What construction is needed to create the superblocks? The first steps should literally just be road signs and speed enforcement.
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by jacalata 10y ago
Pretty sure we're not saying the same thing when your comment was "there's not much you can do for them" and mine is that there is plenty you can do that doesn't rely on them giving up everything they do have to tak
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by jacalata 10y ago
It's a failing strategy to build your social services around some kind of condescending shit around "maybe homeless people should be better and mentally stronger and then they would see the cornucopia of opportunity that is availa
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by jacalata 10y ago
"Manna", http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm
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by jacalata 10y ago
Of course there is, it starts with not pretending that just because they're homeless they must have no commitments, no attachments, no fear of new and unknown scenarios etc. If the only possible option you can think of is "let&#x2
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by jacalata 10y ago
> people who have mid-level skills and salary expectations. The really difficult homeless population doesn't have either of those. That aside, to make Bendigo attractive, you need to move/duplicate all of the social services i
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by jacalata 10y ago
I don't know the numbers for Australia since we don't have the same healthcare issues, but there are a lot of studies in the US that have said that: this article contains several examples http://www.motherjones.com&#x2
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by jacalata 10y ago
It's a quote, although I don't know where from.
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by jacalata 10y ago
The argument is that there are thousands of eligible candidates who simply haven't chosen to apply for your company because they are happy at their current position, and Apple/etc are choosing to focus on increasing the pool of ca
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by jacalata 10y ago
No, these loans involved actual fraud. It's more like Toyota removed every form of safety testing from their manufacturing process and changed it to a 'wave at the foreman if this car has any defects' policy. The specific lie
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by jacalata 10y ago
Sure, the individuals committing crimes with easily provable signatures were small fry. But the instructions, incentives and 'wink wink you know' practices were coming down from the management. Nobody believes that all the mortgag
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by jacalata 10y ago
> So what law was broken exactly that these bankers should go to jail for? I have no doubt they've been investigated. Well, you could start with the widespread falsification of income documents, etc, to make people qualify on paper
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by jacalata 10y ago
Even in the Pleistocene humans were hunter-gatherers, and signs point to a lot more gathering than hunting. Gathering food is a remarkably steady exercise. Have you ever tried picking berries for a day? Have you ever tried doing so while &#
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by jacalata 10y ago
"Aside from that Mrs Lincoln, how was the play?"

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