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by jfnixon 8y ago
No, you aren’t arguing the union has a different idea who has higher performance. You are arguing the case that everyone should be paid more regardless of performance.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
So you are going to tax the necessities? Right, only the 'rich.' How do you define 'rich'? High income? What about the small business owner who retires, sells, and gets that one large payday? You gonna tax her like she e
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by jfnixon 8y ago
"Such people tend to single-mindedly vote for anyone who says they'll (sic) lower taxes..." Proof, please. A cite or three to peer reviewed studies will do.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
One plausible physical explanation for IF is it promotes autophagy. 18-22 range probably doesn't gain much if any AIUI since you system is already running near optimum if you just eat regular times and don't snack around the clock
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Disagreeing with me produces stress hormones which cause actual harm to my body. Ergo, you commit violence against me when you dispute positions I hold. Stop the violence, confess you are wrong, and agree with me before I have you arreste
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by jfnixon 8y ago
It is also the answer today for originalists. The standard interpretation is the 2A applies to any weapon which can be carried by a common soldier. It doesn't cover a F22, nor a battleship, nor a tank (although you can buy a tank, but
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Or you get two crops instead of one during the growing season. And you get more to eat. If protein is down 10%, but plant growth is up 15%, it would be possible to eat 10% more. For people getting barely enough food, that might be a good th
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by jfnixon 8y ago
The 'likability' factor is the strongest evidence of racial animus by Harvard. From the NYT: "Alumni interviewers give Asian-Americans personal ratings comparable to those of whites. But the admissions office gives them the w
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Using race as a proxy for "access to resources" or socio-economic background is almost certainly a suboptimal idea in the 21st century. Geographic proxies are probably better (think rural Appalachia or poor areas of Detroit), but
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by jfnixon 8y ago
Yes, yes, just look at the world today, built by Harvard graduates. It is the best of all possible worlds, isn't it?
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by jfnixon 8y ago
In the US, the Constitution is the law. In China, the law is set by the party in power. Apple has to respect the law in China to sell in China.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
I think the PISA tests disprove your hypothesis.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
It is normally a Bad Idea to invest heavily in your employer due to the Putting All Your Eggs In One Basket principle. If anything happens, you lose your job and investments.
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by jfnixon 8y ago
The debate should not be about existing nuclear plants. The debate should be about using modern passive safety designs for plants yet to be built.
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by jfnixon 9y ago
"we've yet to encounter anything in the so-called Steele dossier, that's been disproved." I have a tape of politician X performing unspeakable acts with a killer whale. Can you disprove my claim?
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by jfnixon 9y ago
No one can prove a negative.
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by jfnixon 9y ago
How is this less intrusive? I'd just reimport the hell out of drugs from the cheapest country I could find.
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by jfnixon 9y ago
Why is a poor family in Appalachia less deserving of inexpensive drugs than a poor family in, say, Venezuela, or Somalia?
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by jfnixon 9y ago
If only this were reflected in the US Climate Reference Data, with the gold standard stations, carefully sited, equipped with the most accurate sensors, properly calibrated. There are 29 of these stations in Alaska, one at Barrow, in fact.
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by jfnixon 9y ago
Cooperate fully, don't talk, and sue everyone involved--especially the local government--afterward. No one cares until it costs money.
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by jfnixon 9y ago
You are correct, and there is something the US can do about high drug costs. We pass a law requiring Big Pharma to sell drugs in the US at the planet's lowest negotiated price. This will help shift R&D costs onto Europe, Canada, an
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by jfnixon 9y ago
Sure they pay for it. It is called taxes, and it does come to thousands of dollars.
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by jfnixon 9y ago
Baker Hughes is in the oil services business, a separate GE business unit from Power.
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by jfnixon 9y ago
Fair enough. Still, I'd suggest that the wealthy group indicate opiates scratch an itch which is probably unrelated to inequality. Even if we drastically reduced inequality, that itch would likely still exist. I'd also find it int
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by jfnixon 9y ago
Interesting hypothesis. How does it explain the doctor in the article, or the lawyers, entertainers, and other wealthy people who wind up addicted?
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by jfnixon 9y ago
I'm not rejecting the IPCC estimate. But I want to see this conclusion--obviously a very important one--in actual scientific papers. Is that too much to ask?
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by jfnixon 9y ago
Not interested in an IPCC estimate by itself, although you are welcome to cite it as one of the papers if you give me a reference to where I can find this in the IPCC report. I want a few papers, peer-reviewed, which go through the facts an
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by jfnixon 9y ago
Put the universities on the hook for that $6K. Universities make a killing off grad student labor. Make the university pay the piper.
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by jfnixon 9y ago
Major universities are basically investment funds that maintain a side business in education for the tax break. Sure, exempt actual research (the PI, the lab, the grad students) and actual education (professors, classroom physical plant) bu
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by jfnixon 9y ago
>> How much of the warming is down to CO2? Contentious, >> again >Sadly, not contentious at all. Excellent, then you can give me the percentage of warming which is CO2 driven, with error bounds, and references to 3 authoritat

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