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by jtuente 11y ago
You wouldn't happen to have a breakdown of the $412M spent by the Koch brothers would you? Like who, what, where, how much. Because that number includes $5M spent by the Koch brothers PAC and $407M spent by undisclosed campaign entit
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by jtuente 11y ago
Would you mind clarifying a few points with examples: * political alliances they have formed in the past 20 years * sentimental platitudes they pretend to believe in I generally agree with the sentiments that you've portrayed, but this
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I imagine that his basis point is among consumer electric vehicles, which is an admittedly small pool to work from.
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Okay, excusing how bad the analogy is on a practical basis, let's look at what's going on here. 1. The pirates leave port to plunder, commit general acts of piracy and get that booty. 2. The pirates contract cholera and half the c
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The moral hazard is that it contributes to stagnation, something like the spaceship in "Wall-E". Social activity isn't much of a substitute for knowledge progress. I'd argue that improvements in the quality of life wou
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Thank you, you have more courtesy than the people who simply downvoted my question.
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There's some critically missing information here that muddies the water and I would like some clarification. >there was a "Do Not Call list" of companies Google would avoid recruiting from. >no-cold call agreements with
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That would be pushing it for powering through just the RPi. Webcams are typically rated for 500mA each and the RPi has been running around 700mA usage. So with the recommended increase, I'd wager their power usage may have gone up to
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> You can generally do far worse, say french fries and slushies and Oreos. Yes, the breakfast of morbidly obese champions.
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Phelps is more analogous to having a nitrous injection system in a super-tuned competitive racecar, as opposed to a typical high-powered sports car.
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The strategy is far from invisible to an informed viewer; many viewers are very vocal of their opinions of the topic, too. The reason chess isn't a popular spectator sport has more to do with the fact that all of the moves are very cl
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by jtuente 11y ago
Do people not understand the safety part of the safety net? It's not there because you expect to fail, it's there for if you happen to. I don't keep a fire extinguisher in my kitchen because I expect to set it on fire, but
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by jtuente 11y ago
BMI is far from useless. Unless you're sporting a six-pack, over 6'4 or under 5'1; BMI will fairly accurately gauge your overall fitness level. The range for a normal adult is absolutely huge. Small-fat and body-builders a
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As a healthy, single, white male who hasn't had a threatening reason to visit a doctor, This. I probably wouldn't have health insurance right now if it weren't for the Affordable Care Act (even though my employer pays most o
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So I think most people completely miss this when they see it, but I love it when people call "socialist" things selfish. It's the very definition of irony that something done "for the benefit of others" is deemed t
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Snowden was their source for this information, how is he not responsible for revealing this to the public? He wasn't telling the reporter this information in confidence. What he did do, is simply turn over non-redacted documents and
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by jtuente 11y ago
>IIFYM is probably not a bad diet for a teenage boy or steroid user trying to pack on weight while doing a high volume of work. Everyone else will put on a lot of unwanted fat. That would depend on both your total calorie count and your
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Allergens, minor genetic mutations, mouth feel, flavor, aftertaste, scent. Me? I just buy the prettiest box, not necessarily the shiniest.
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That's why it's called risk. An able-bodied person can injure themselves by taking risks just the same. Why should disabled persons be subject to limitations decided by someone else that are designed for the lowest common denomi
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>decentralized immutable ledger and global consensus These aren't problems, they're potential solutions to problems. Bitcoin and Blockchains are solutions to specific problems in currency and trust.
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I think that just exacerbates the problem though as the "power users" of reddit move away from the vitriol of the default subreddits, the vitriol becomes more visible on the surface. So the larger subs end up less and less attrac
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Neither of those were small when they started to show up on the frontpage. /r/fatpeoplehate was definitely growing very quickly in the six months leading up to it's demise.
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>a baker refusing to make a cake for a gay couples wedding. >This is an example where government enforced capitalism has been enshrined in law and it is a good thing. No, it's a government-enforced liability, it has nothing to do
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The new Vaios? Vaio recently announced their newest offerings and they look, to me, like they're still in that high-end business offerings bracket.
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Due to some physics things that I don't understand, it actually ends up proportional to the cube of your velocity. source: presentation by Dr. Rizzoni at Center for Automotive Research at OSU
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But it's updated on, at least, www.google.ca
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My favorite part of QtCreator is that I don't have to type that awkward arrow ->, it will convert my dots . for me when I'm working with pointers.
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Actually wealth is another factor for FAFSA, it's just so seldom that a family has wealth but not income. Things like college savings accounts are actually factored against FAFSA applicants.
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TBH, as soon as I saw the change from a Wacom digitizer to N-Trig's I cringed. I don't know what differences there are between the technologies they each use, but Wacom's is definitely more responsive on the whole. I like t
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Think of it as a fee for the fact that 10TB HDDs don't exist yet.

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