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by learc83 7y ago
>To be fair this is a pretty small sample to draw conclusions from. I think it's pretty likely given that statement and the small population of home-schooled kids to begin with, that confirmation bias explains your entire experience
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by learc83 7y ago
>An Associates degrees is college, and is normed at two years It's not what people mean when they ask if you went to college though. >Many engineering programs, for instance, are intensely focussed on the central focus from day o
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by learc83 7y ago
>Every kid I knew in University that had been homeschooled had pretty serious issues with social skills There's a lot of confirmation bias going on here. How many homeschooled kids with good social skills didn't you notice? The
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by learc83 7y ago
>Efficiency is the only mediator of resource accumulation in an economy... There are no completely free markets in existence though.
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by learc83 7y ago
Not these days. There are so many home school groups that it's very easy to replace the social component.
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by learc83 7y ago
Not to diminish the argument that it would cause huge problems. But federal law limits wage garnishment to the lesser of 25% of disposable income or income over 30x the minimum wage.
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by learc83 7y ago
Doesn't Dart have generics and a lot of other language features that Go chose to omit?
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by learc83 7y ago
Mexican cartels are much closer to terrorists, rebel groups, or rival states than they are to businesses operating in a functioning country. The difference in what's basically a warlord who already has loyal troops to command, controls
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by learc83 7y ago
No Jeff Bezos doesn't have the liquid assets to recruit and equip 100,000 mercenaries. Not even close. We've seen billionaires go to jail before btw (without raising a private army to protect them). The comparison of his total net
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by learc83 7y ago
California already has such a law. It's in the state constitution.
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by learc83 7y ago
Yes there is. Just look at the average property values of beach front property, riverfront property etc... There are other "special" types of land as well with additional value that governments have decided to regulate differently
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by learc83 7y ago
If someone owns the encircled piece of land they can sue to force the owner of the surrounding land to allow access to the property. Usually they will be granted an easement to allow them to do so. If you're interested, it's commo
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by learc83 7y ago
>but there is no reasonable effort being made to avoid this problem for a product that BK advertises as "0% beef Adding an extra grill to the restaurant isn't reasonable. Apparently they will microwave it if you ask. However, t
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by learc83 7y ago
It's cooked on a grill that is used for meat. How much animal fat it picks up is to be determined, but my guess is that by weight it still rounds down to 0. From my experience with grills I doubt it's very much at all. Clearly the
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by learc83 7y ago
If it rounds down to 0, most marketing is allowed some margin of error. You can put 0 grams fat per serving on a product that actually has 0.01 grams of fat. If a vegan restaurant advertises 0% animal products I guarantee that is also incor
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by learc83 7y ago
Because the article was specifically about a vegan?
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But what percent? I mean if a fly lands in it? Human sweat? What about insect parts in grain.
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by learc83 7y ago
Why in the world did the family pay for the spoon? I mean I might have offered if someone had politely informed me about what I'd done. But I'm certainly not going to of it's a demand.
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by learc83 7y ago
No because 1. It only impacts a small percentage of workers. 2. It's a wealth transfer--money isn't created to pay it.
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by learc83 7y ago
I'm sure more people could live with a subcompact car than currently do, but it's nowhere near 99%. I can drive a subcompact but they aren't made for tall drivers and anything more than 20 minutes or so hurts my knee. People
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by learc83 7y ago
>so you'll get some air cooling you wouldn't get if you were just walking. 39C is well above skin temperature so you're only going to get evaporative cooling and the effectiveness of that depends on humidity. It's pos
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by learc83 7y ago
Because that's only a few months out of the year, and even during that time it's better at night. Also people live in cities up north that are much closer to living on the moon in a pod during the winter months. People live near j
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by learc83 7y ago
It's all relative. You could build something that weighed 100kg, so anything heavier is a waste of energy if we only look at ability to go from point A to point B. But it would be a death trap to drive around other 2000kg vehicles, and
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by learc83 7y ago
The top end model S weighs about 2300kg, so it's not really much of a difference.
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by learc83 7y ago
Basically the entire world except for China including independent non profits is reporting on the internment camps. At this point you have to be actively trying to excuse them to believe they are fictional.
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by learc83 7y ago
There is plenty of non US media reporting on the camps in Xinjiang. Why don't you travel to Xinjiang and do some investigating. If the camps there are really fabricated by the US media, surely the government won't mind you traveli
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by learc83 7y ago
>Doing business with a fascist state or in a fascist state is deplorable >While I completely agree with you, YC is a private organization and not a political If you agree that doing business with a fascist state is deplorable, it does
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by learc83 7y ago
>but it is true that this article may prevent the company for ever filing a patent application for this idea (unless they have already filed it) No the inventors generally have a year to file after disclosure. There is a 1 year grace per
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by learc83 7y ago
It's not that simple, but it's not as bad as the article you posted makes it sound. He's a patent lawyer trying to convince you that you need to file as soon as possible. It's in his interest to convince you that the gra
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by learc83 7y ago
>I don't know why AmericanChopper keeps getting modded down They're getting modded down because the argument is: people don't complain to me about open offices, therefore everyone is happy with open office layouts except p

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