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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
> Yale and the like were the only real universities in the country That is not true. The many colleges originally founded on agricultural science curricula were started from the 1860s onward. Students were middle class. They were ver
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> Student loans are some of the least-risky loans to give You can't shed student loans through bankruptcy, which is another big problem in the same vein driving up costs. > there is a thriving private market for non-government guara
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I couldn't figure out what exactly he did from the article. Set black and white photo paper on top a metal table and fire up a van de graaff?
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> You are making an effort to eat cheaply It's more about convenience and I what I like, actually. No real effort to each cheap. I like eggs and I like whole fat dairy. And in truth I do often eat cod or flank steak or whatever, so u
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
OK, let's allow $4 for dinner: frozen chicken, bagged frozen vegetable, bagged frozen squash; takes about 15 minutes to nuke up. $2 for breakfast. Three eggs scrambled in plenty of butter. Some nuked frozen berries in half a cup of whole
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I'd have to make an effort to spend more on groceries than eating out, and I eat zero rice & beans. A diet of nuked frozen vegetables, eggs, butter, yogurt, and various cheap meats/fish costs me I think a few bucks a day. Prep time is
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> But I think the normal way countries get out of it is through war, which isn't terribly rosy either. The idea that war has worked to end depressions is well debunked. In any useful measure economies always deteriorate through war. L
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You can boil much of the Japanese bubble and persistent malaise down to pervasive fraudulent accounting. Fictitious book values and profits were and are everywhere. I dare say it's more common to Asian cultures than Western, as the 1997 c
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The increase in two income families much more than offsets that. Where one income used to be sufficient two are now necessary.
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Try a lost three decades. Real median household income hasn't increased since the 70s. http://mwhodges.home.att.net/family_a.htm
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There's an inverse correlation to early rising and income, so I guess no. But that probably boils down to low wage people waking up to do shift work. Also, to my observation, less well off middle class people wake up early to commute in f
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The substantive political environment is identical now. The study already indicates that people in areas with winning sports franchises are less happy, so there goes the "in power party makes me happy" explanation.
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You basically just restated the article without contradicting it. The whole point is that striving harder to afford a comfortable standard of living in a higher tax, higher cost environment reduces happiness.
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The stats the government already provides are baked to hell, and manipulated to suit the political cycle. It's a stupid idea. The government shouldn't even be in the measurement and statistics business. We need a census and that's about i
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by kingkongreveng_ 17y ago
I haven't seen it yet, but I assume it's just a regurgitation of a "noble savage" story. I want to make a movie about a technologically and culturally advanced people who encounter a primitive race. The primitives have high murder & in
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District 9 is a movie about refugees made by a refugee.
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Always remember: There is no sex in the champagne room. None.
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Well, I just googled the peopleware citation and it seems the study backing this often repeated claim is from the 1960s and people have plenty of questions about its methodology. I'll easily buy 2X or 3X productivity difference. I'm not
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> The most productive programmers orders of magnitude more productive than average programmers This is often repeated, never meaningfully demonstrated. I doubt it is true if we are excluding unqualified programmers.
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Go try and find a randomized intervention where more vegetables improved health. Many have tried, all have failed.
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I assure you "mostly plants" has no scientific backing. There are plenty of randomized intervention studies introducing more fruit and vegetables into diet and they all show a null result. Well controlled studies within populations also d
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Just post a normal ass link to a regular video file. Let the user's file type preferences and video player take over. Do the same for PDFs and audio. Why are people going through conniptions trying to get a markup reader to be a video pla
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The fiber does not compensate for the high levels of fructose in modern fruits. Modern varieties are much sweeter than they were even thirty years ago. Modern seedless grapes are basically candy.
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The whole video is about how fructose is toxic. Many, many plants are rich in fructose. It's not as simple as "eat plants." A modern variety apple or orange is a blast of fructose. It's also perfectly healthy to eat predominantly meat, o
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I'm not sure what convenient means to you, but I'm thinking it means near jobs and culture.
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> Most likely no convenient place to buy groceries, poor communications, poor amenities generally. Incorrect on all points. We're not talking about a remote place. We're talking about a one hour drive from a major city. Come off it.
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They worked much less, for sure. http://www.stateofworkingamerica.org/tabfig/2008/03/SWA08_Ch... And this ignores that one income supported a stay at home wife.
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You are missing the general point about quality of life and cost of living. Also, I might add, about income inequality. Conveniently located housing or easy access to nature is now more something for the rich where-as it used to be for ev
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> most people don't get a whole month off in the summer This is directly related to the population and labor supply issue. I call hooey on your claim it's still possible. Quintupling the drive and substituting for nice house right on t
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Slums of Manilla, Bogota, Delhi, Rio relocated? You really don't get that we're not talking about a bunch of guys in khakis and polos showing up ready to pitch in at the office on Monday? Believe it or not, the well educated and accomplis

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