jfnixon

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by jfnixon 9y ago
"We don't have such a society that has generated much wealth for the many; rather, for the few." You really should get out more. Go visit some countries around the world. Study history beyond the 4th grade level. Your claim i
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Musk has 5 kids and 2 ex-wives. How many ex-husbands does our lawyer have, and how many of her ex-husbands themselves have an 8 figure net worth from the divorce?
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I'd say most web app developers can keep the toilets sanitary, if needed, with little training.
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Bernie Sanders has the 3 houses part of it. Dunno about the boats or cars, but he has the houses. Why don't we ask him why he needs 3 houses?
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Technically, it was the 2002 AUMF, passed by large, bipartisan majorities in Congress.
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"Politics [isn't] innate." That isn't at all clear. Jonathan Haidt has some very interesting research on those lines, showing evidence human moral sense may be genetically based. Our moral sense informs our politics. Hav
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https://stanmed.stanford.edu/2017spring/how-mens-and-womens-...
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If the various diversity initiatives were about culture... but they aren't. How culturally diverse is a 50/50 gender split along with a great match to general population racial percentages? I'd say you can't tell. Cultur
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We already have something that can be made secure, anonymous, and auditable, and yet is easy to understand and relatively inexpensive. It is pencil and paper ballots, with multiple interested parties observing the entire process.
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I've never heard of a district that didn't make ballots publicly available some time before the election. If you don't know what is on the ballot before going to vote, it is your own fault.
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I don't think you can prove that assertion. The personal physician to the King of Olde would not know about Germ Theory, nor about the importance of basic hygiene and cleanliness. A modern poor person at least has a chance to learn abo
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It is entirely possible to believe "regulations are strangling business" and that some regulations are necessary. For example, it is reasonable to require fire suppression systems in multistory buildings and reasonable to mock the
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"The current constitution... incorporated and institutionalized racism to appease a certain local (regional) advocacy." You do know that the anti-slavery advocates were the source of the 3/5ths compromise, right? Anti-slavery
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"But we do know that overall, climate change causes stronger hurricanes" How do we know this? I can find all sorts of papers predicting stronger hurricanes, but just like the predictions of more numerous hurricanes, there seems to
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"As a matter of fact, you can't express any serious idea in 140 characters." Everything is made of atoms. The sun is an ordinary star. Infections are caused by germs.
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Please define "better for everyone" as I think this is the source of much of the liberal/conservative split.
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Watch network traffic from a box with LS installed.
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Absolutely. Every now and then I have to click a few buttons, but that's OK. I like knowing what installed programs are doing.
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"Lots of voters are convinced public health care is a disaster." Maybe we could, I dunno, create a government run health care system to show everyone just how super-awesome healthcare can be when DC runs it. We need a demographic.
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The Senate voted down a specific pre-existing conditions protection plan. The final bill is likely to contain a pre-existing conditions provision.
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Heh, negotiated leverage. Providers aren't stupid, and they jack up the "rack rate" so they can offer the demanded discounts to insurers. The main result of this is cash patients pay through the nose. If you really want to fi
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If we are swapping anecdotes, my experience is the opposite of yours. I'm paying almost double what I paid 10 years ago, and my deductible is four times higher, with separate deductibles for drugs, and a smaller network of providers. A
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Buy the music, not the live performance. A live performance is usually suboptimal because the audience is noisy, the venue's acoustics aren't wonderful, the performers have done the same sets for the last three weeks, and you have