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by jqm 11y ago
"United States is the worst place to live if you are poor" Uh, that's not even close to true. Not even close.
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by jqm 11y ago
I think OP is saying the money used to buy the tickets is taxed, then the payout is taxed again (at a higher rate). Not that the lottery itself is a tax.
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by jqm 11y ago
Boys have trouble being ready for kindergarten and having self discipline. But those that do make it, even though they are fewer, tend to do better than their female counterparts in later life. Kindergarten activities and society's ide
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by jqm 11y ago
Imagine you had spent years and a lot of money studying 1'st normative forms. You have a lot of pride in in this knowledge... it represents a significant investment in time and money and makes you feel special. Suddenly, a 3 month boot
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by jqm 11y ago
Well, banning the plow would also have saved a lot of topsoil. http://world.time.com/2012/12/14/what-if-the-worlds-soil-run...
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by jqm 11y ago
Real question: First they had the electric chair, now exotic mixes of drugs. Whatever happened to the gallows? How come we have to do this (if we do actually need to do this... I don't know about that part) with fancy expensive tech?
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by jqm 11y ago
I've done two sessions in one of these and can't recommend them highly enough. For me, two hours is the appropriate minimum time (and I'd like to try longer). The first hour seems to be getting settled down and in the zone, t
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by jqm 11y ago
You do have to be careful though. VPS offering is a pretty easy business to get in, and there are no shortage of people operating out of the proverbial "parents basement". I've had some weird stuff from cheap providers includ
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by jqm 11y ago
That might really suck in your 60's. Age has a way of happening to us regardless of our preferences and expectations.
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by jqm 11y ago
This is way cool. I've been wanting to play w/ Postgres's new(er) json features but haven't had use case to set up server and do so. But this can be tried out really easy. Oh, did I mention how much I love SQLite? Not be
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by jqm 11y ago
you are talking about the studios not the actors right?
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by jqm 11y ago
Is what you are saying a value judgement or is it factual? :)
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by jqm 11y ago
"The poster claimed that they would be restricted in how much energy could be expended elsewhere due to the amount energy expended acquiring income." Wait...how exactly is that different from "working too hard to exercise&quo
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by jqm 11y ago
I don't know how much nature/nurture is involved. I assume some percentage of each in most cases. And, I'm not blaming victims nor suggesting people pull themselves up by their bootstraps in the face of massive adversity (whi
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by jqm 11y ago
I always find these type of questions specious and entirely dependent on frame of reference for both question and response. Our language and conceptions evolved specifically to do important things like inform companions under which trees th
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by jqm 11y ago
While not necessarily "excuse making", the original poster gives a reason he thinks poor people don't exercise (because they are working too hard). I believe, in general, the reasons poor people don't exercise are not th
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by jqm 11y ago
That is a very good analysis and I agree 100% having seen no shortage of both types of people you mention.
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by jqm 11y ago
It could be that, but it could also be a general approach towards life. Certainly people are born into poor circumstances and have many misfortunes. At the same time some people (for whatever reason) are just lazy, sloppy and don't tak
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by jqm 11y ago
Well I don't fully disagree, but then there are the "enlightened" rulers of ISIS trying to do the "right thing" for humanity...
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by jqm 11y ago
I live on a few acres about 15 miles outside a small town in rural New Mexico. The closest big cities are 3 hours away and those cities aren't actually very big. We (SO and I) grow a nice garden and have a well, but go into town for wo
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by jqm 11y ago
Except the term "enlightened" is most often relative to a groups desired outcomes...
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by jqm 11y ago
What wires/wavelengths is this free internet going to run on?
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by jqm 11y ago
While I don't disagree government has been at time effective (in making life better and improving the world), one doesn't have to look very hard to find to find instances where they have not been effective or even counterproductiv
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by jqm 11y ago
Amazing. Apparently crazy cat ladies have been a feature of western civilization for a lot longer than I realized.
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by jqm 11y ago
Free public transit and easier restaurant ordering with wearables? India dominating the world? Little college campus utopias were everyone is smart and rides bikes? Sounds like someone has spent too much time in the tech industry in San Fra
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by jqm 11y ago
I adopted siestas years ago. When I worked at companies I would often take a nap at lunch in my car parked in a shady spot. Now I have my own office I still take a 15 minute- half hour nap most days (but on my own time). I'm a firm bel
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by jqm 11y ago
Boarding schools and forced adoption weren't was OP mentioned though. What he mentioned was having friends and family killed and land stolen and being forced onto reservations. That stuff hasn't happened in a very long time so I h
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by jqm 11y ago
That stuff happened generations ago so I don't think it's the main reason there is such a drinking problem among Natives today. Having spent some time around Native Americans here are some observations. Often when they drink they
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by jqm 11y ago
"a regular expression system hooked to a 1970's user interface" + a whole lot of awesome plugins! Incidentally, there is nothing inherently wrong with 1970's user interfaces. My car still has a steering wheel just like c
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by jqm 11y ago
China isn't the only place with rare earth elements. Molycorp mine in Mountain Pass California for instance. The mine has been plagued with legal/financial problems, but the existence of rare earth elements that the US doesn'

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