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by jellicle 7y ago
As this caucus was administered and paid for by the Iowa Democratic Party, a private corporation, this is not a classical example of government waste and corruption, unless you're making the subsidiary argument that government shouldn&
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Yep. They've obviously had much longer than needed to simply report the values via paper and telephone calls, so the only reason you don't know those numbers now is that the party possesses them and is declining to release them.
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by jellicle 7y ago
Climate action has a net negative cost; spending $10 will get you more than $10 of benefit for almost any intervention you'd care to name. So it's not expensive in any long-run calculation, only the short-run.
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by jellicle 7y ago
So close, but not quite. The oil drop results (Millikan was less than 1% off, by the way) show the pressure on scientists to conform with the current status quo, the pressure NOT to release shocking or unexpected results. In climate scienc
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by jellicle 7y ago
You seem to think that lobbying involves persuasive speaking; using the power of one's words to convince legislators of the rightness of one's position. That is not the case.
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by jellicle 7y ago
Somewhat amusingly, the list highlights the Achilles heel of journalism by omitting one simple rule: "tell the truth". Not lying is not at all the same as telling the truth. Modern journalism, at best (very rarely seen), tells you
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by jellicle 7y ago
Drug smuggling planes might not be in full compliance with every single regulation.
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by jellicle 7y ago
I was interested in DNA analysis until I realized that doing so meant giving my info to law enforcement and to all the world's corporations who would use that info against my interests, and it couldn't be undone. I would probably
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by jellicle 7y ago
After account closure: "23andMe and our third party genotyping laboratory will retain your genetic information, date of birth, and sex as required for compliance with applicable legal obligations, including the U.S. Federal Clinical La
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by jellicle 7y ago
General advice for mariedm - be prepared to ban quite a lot of accounts at their first offense, think about IP bans, email verification, banning proxies, etc. If some of the various online communities of, um, hard to pick a term here that s
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by jellicle 7y ago
Slimy anticompetitive behavior from Doordash, Postmates, Grubhub, and whoever else SHOULD be punished with extremely large fines from regulators. It won't, because the USA doesn't do regulation any more, but it should.
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by jellicle 7y ago
ALL of the autonomous driving experts say that level 5 is, at best, 50 years off. Unanimous. They don't know how to do it, see no path to doing it. It's hard! Maybe we'll make real AI and we can enslave our human-level int
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by jellicle 7y ago
Can you explain more about how the electoral college is supposed to combat a state with corrupted elections?
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> exactly when I want to What about everyone else and their cars?
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Right, but Toronto's would be a real subway and this is just a joke.
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by jellicle 7y ago
> A global reforestation project is how we fix climate change It isn't. Besides being inadequate even on its own terms, creating large and flammable forests in a time of increasing droughts is just going to lead to megafires, which
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by jellicle 7y ago
How many of these have anything to do with Softbank? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_gig_economy_companies
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The only real application here is killing people with drone-launched missiles.
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I shouldn't need to attack my car with a soldering iron and wire cutters because I don't want to be tracked by it.
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by jellicle 7y ago
The typical factory design was always a two-story-high room, large and open, with the manager's office on the second floor and having large windows looking out over the factory floor. Manager can see you, but because of the angle, you
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by jellicle 7y ago
Not sure what relevance that might have. It's antitrust law, not "monopoly law", and there's no legal requirement that no competitors exist in order for the law to be involved. Antitrust law is about market power, not
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by jellicle 7y ago
Visa is 54% of all card purchases, Mastercard is 23%, and together they're 100% of debit purchases. Waaaaaay past any reasonable threshold for market power scrutiny. But antitrust is currently dormant in the USA.
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by jellicle 7y ago
In general in Canada, any care you receive at a hospital or doctor's office is free to you. However, drugs you purchase at your local pharmacy are at your own expense. The provinces all have plans to cover drugs in certain situations
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by jellicle 7y ago
For a single individual, if you make $18K gross you make too much for Medicaid. In 14 US states, if you make $0 you make too much for Medicaid.
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by jellicle 7y ago
The fact these these comment threads are only about WWII, ignoring the dozens of other wars the US started, should tell people something. The US military is killing people in, what, 7 or 8 countries right now, today? Afghanistan, Iraq, Syr
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But there isn't any win. The US is switching from coal - which emissions are known and reported - to fracked natural gas, where the emissions from directly burning the gas are better but the overall emissions from producing it are muc
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by jellicle 7y ago
Having a noxious gas sensor in a coal mine is not at all the same as tracking methane emissions from a fracking operation, which can occur over many square miles of the surrounding countryside (the whole point is to fracture underground roc
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by jellicle 7y ago
As a reminder: every business, everywhere, already gets a 100% tax exemption on every cent spent on hiring employees, buying new equipment, etc. ANY money invested into ANY business equipment, hiring more staff, or whatever you might do to
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by jellicle 7y ago
Like every time this comes up, there are 7.5 billion humans on the planet and thus no need to only do X or only do Y. We can and must reduce every aspect of our global pollution problem, right now, or it will kill the majority of humanity.
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That's like making banks illegal because you discovered bank robbery exists. The obvious solution is simply to get rid of the laws that allow and encourage corporations and courts to collude in stealing employee pensions.

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