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18 Spectacularly Wrong Prophecies from the First Earth Day(fee.org)
3 points by jayess 10y ago|1 comments
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by jayess 11y ago
* Courtesy the American Society of Civil Engineers
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by jayess 11y ago
Getting rid of lead pipes would do little. Flint is a special case because the city did not add the proper anti-corrosion chemicals to the system when they switched water supplies. Probably every old city in the nation still has lead pipes,
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by jayess 11y ago
Spending on make-work projects would probably be GDP negative at this point. The diminishing returns on such projects have probably completely diminished. Everyone has roads, electricity, plumbing, etc.
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by jayess 11y ago
I'm not sure what European values even are. Europe used to be the land of the enlightenment. That seems to have regressed substantially lately.
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by jayess 11y ago
Nice cherry picking. According to Pfizer's actual SEC filings, for 2015, 2014, and 2013, the company paid 22%, 25%, and 27% respectively. http://services.corporate-ir.net/SEC/Document.Service?id=P3V...
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by jayess 11y ago
Aren't outlets of the free press primarily corporations?
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by jayess 11y ago
Told by whom? An Indian online chat customer service rep? Some sort of account executive?
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by jayess 11y ago
"Resource Action." That's even worse than my previous corporate cog job where they called it a RIF, "Reduction in Force." Who sits around and justifies themselves by coming up with idiotic terms like this?
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How Hackers Stole $100M from the New York Fed(zerohedge.com)
185 points by jayess 11y ago|84 comments
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by jayess 11y ago
He probably got reprimanded for interrupting some general's solitaire game.
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by jayess 11y ago
According to the Paul Krugmans and other neo-Keynesians, it would be an economic boon. Imagine all the destruction that would need to be re-built!
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by jayess 11y ago
So media companies (corporations) shouldn't have freedom of speech?
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A Teachable Moment: To the Young Person Who Complained About Her Job/Pay at Yelp(charleshughsmith.blogspot.com)
5 points by jayess 11y ago|4 comments
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by jayess 11y ago
True, but with the addition of the second amendment through DC v Heller, all of the bill of rights now applies to the states (expect, maybe, for the third amendment).
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by jayess 11y ago
Still works for me.
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by jayess 11y ago
Yet US policy makers thought that "this time it'll be different."
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by jayess 11y ago
Really? Kicking the hornet's nest didn't cause the problem? The hornets are the problem?
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by jayess 11y ago
Losing love has been the most unexpectedly devastating thing I've experienced.
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Flint Officials Could Have Prevented Lead Crisis for $80 a Day(mintpressnews.com)
11 points by jayess 11y ago|4 comments
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by jayess 11y ago
"People today are unhappy. Our working conditions are deteriorating and we are starting to feel like slaves. Our rents or mortgages are massive and we cannot afford to lose our jobs. People are no longer allowed to be themselves becaus
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by jayess 11y ago
It's easy to take five minutes to search the online US trademark database before settling on a name. Of course that's not exhaustive, but it would have avoided this situation.
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by jayess 11y ago
Authoritarians like control just for the sake of control.
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by jayess 11y ago
So if someone is willing to teach a class for $2000 per semester, they shouldn't be allowed to? I've tried to get into adjunct teaching, but there are so many applicants that it's almost impossible. Supply and demand. Adjunct
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by jayess 11y ago
Futurist.
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by jayess 11y ago
But of course your experiences and hardships shaped who you are as a person too.
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by jayess 11y ago
With the happy side effect that $billions are not going to Saudi Arabia, the ISIS that succeeded.
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by jayess 11y ago
"Throughout human history, the old have subsidised the young." Is that true though? Having lots of kids so they can work on the farm and mom and dad living with you until they die?
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by jayess 11y ago
The unemployment rate of those 55+ is 3.2% while the rate for those 20-24 is 9.4%. God help you if you're a teen, where the unemployment rate is 16.1%. http://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea10.htm
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by jayess 11y ago
"Its investment in Ravel, a for-profit corporation, via its XFund venture capital arm, and its subsequent contract with Ravel to earn "proceeds" (HLS’s term) from that relationship, involves profit." Unrelated Business I

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