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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Far better and simpler than flat taxes would be to eliminate all income taxes, both business and personal, and depend entirely on tariffs, excise taxes, and fees. Arithmetically this is completely feasible. Imagine if outside of import an
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> usable by "normal people." I haven't owned an iPod, but I remember setting a couple up for my family on a PC. It was NOT some cakewalk. I hit problems and syncing later broke. There was never anything notably usable about the ipod
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People said it was just another uninteresting mp3 player. They were right, no? Didn't the iPod rise to market leader have far more to do with marketing than any performance merit?
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This is a good and somewhat famous short story, pre "Catcher": A Perfect Day for Bananafish http://www.freeweb.hu/tchl/salinger/perfectday.html
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
>>And, boy, was I hungry at first. >That's the real secret, and it could use some expansion Spending time hungry is totally unnecessary to achieve low body fat. It's about insulin management. If you eat a high saturated fat die
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He's talking about the uniquely hepatoxic properties of fructose vis-a-vis other sugars. I'm talking about the metabolism damaging insulin responses triggered by all carbohydrates, regardless of whether it's a piece of whole grain bread or
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> no butter and other dairies except for yoghurt Nonsense. I'm 8% body fat and eat loads of butter (almost a stick a day) and whole fat yogurt. I don't exercise that much either. Dairy fat is one of the best possible foods. Excellen
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You have to say specifically "carbohydrate" and not single out sugar. People try to make this false distinction between "complex" and simple carbohydrates and sugar. ANY starch is broken down rapidly in the small intestine and absorbed as
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
C++ with a decent dynamic language beats the crap out of C with a decent dynamic language. Chaiscript is a great project. You would take your C+Python app and rewrite the C bits in C++ and find it shorter and clearer and the same speed.
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Labor costs are lower in much of Asia, but it's not that simple. Shipping costs, risks to IP, loss of flexibility and accessibility to the manufacturing operation all factor into the picture. There are plenty of examples of manufacturing
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Tax rates and government interventionism are major forces driving business overseas. A government "five year plan" to "refactor" the manufacturing industry is the poison not the medicine.
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Perhaps this will help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pot_calling_the_kettle_black
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Regardless of precedents I see no justification for taxpayer dollars.
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I hope you realize the US also has extensive cyber espionage efforts.
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Why is a federal agency developing this? How is this in the national interest?
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Everything in from East Falls Church on the orange line is walkable. It was car dealerships and gas stations 25 years ago. Silver spring on in on the red line is walkable. My point about DC was more that the district itself has tons of gh
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
Privatize the road system. Completely private public transits will emerge to compete. It's really that simple. People don't use public transit because they're already paying for the roads with their taxes. If they had to pay tolls reflec
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> reorganizing a major urban area to be walkable takes decades It seems to take about 15 to 20 years. The dense walkable urban areas in Northern Virginia and Maryland grew up around the metro system in that time frame. Large areas don'
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> Buses are also generally unpleasant, usually populated by people with vast, on-display, personal problems like drug addiction, homelessness, mental health problems, etc. Mostly because people without these problems have cars and simpl
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Are you a bot? It's like eliza wants a citation. How about the city of Los Angeles, for starters.
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I don't know about any lumps, but common sense and history dictate that when 100,000 low skill laborers show up in a city inside a few years it will cause a lot of problems. Especially when they are not culturally assimilated. School budg
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> "voting with your feet" is a powerful tool for helping the poor and disadvantaged improve their lives Trouble is what happens to the poor and disadvantaged already in the destination countries. Wages are suppressed and other resource
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
I would find it almost impossible to eat low carb without dairy. But it's fairly easy with whole fat yogurt and half & half.
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> bread is the foundation of western civilization Yes, and there is a panoply of diseases only people eating grain get. They're referred to as the "diseases of civilization." Do your own reading. I did mine and concluded bread intake
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New Guniea tribes are post agricultural. They indicate nothing about "paleo" tendencies. There are no living or even especially recent hunter gatherer models to look at. People sometimes point to african bushmen, but they're stunted refug
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> cheese Cheese is OK as long as you have no casein allergies, which you probably don't. Wine is low on the list of things to eliminate. This article painted a picture of some wacky lifestyle built around a paleo canon. I suppose with
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Yes we can digest fructose. And when people found honey (basically pure fructose) I'm sure they gorged on it. But as a few links on the front page of this site have explained in recent days, fructose is borderline toxic. Anthropological r
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> UVB is needed to make Vit D from sunlight Actually, it's UVA. To make appreciable vitamin D you have to be out in the midday sun when there's plenty of UVA, not after ~2:30pm.
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> Iranian officials say years of veiled bombing threats prompted their country to exercise its “sovereign right” to protect its nuclear facilities by hiding them underground. Sounds far from unreasonable to me. Man, this article reads l
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You're probably being facetious, but I suspect that University of Phoenix and similar programs are, as an idea, higher education done right. My bet is the for-profit colleges will give establishment education a serious run for their money

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