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by lg 9y ago
Could the fact that a lot of US companies book profits overseas and keep them there for tax reasons foil your assumption about the meaning of a high US market cap:domestic GDP ratio?
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by lg 9y ago
just flew last week and yes it did include cameras.
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by lg 9y ago
"regular buses" don't exist here outside of large cities.
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by lg 9y ago
i'll take the opportunity to plug my wife's hand-fabricated jewelry :) https://www.etsy.com/shop/PhetteplaceStudio
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by lg 9y ago
this article is from 2012 and its prediction did not come true: http://www.realclimate.org/images/Vahrenholt_en-600x452.jpg source is this solid rebuttal: http://www.countercurrents.org/2016/11&#x2
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by lg 9y ago
if we lift the tax cap, can we also lift the benefit cap?
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by lg 10y ago
Alden in MA makes really great shoes and of course the 'indiana jones boot'.
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by lg 10y ago
it's helpful to distinguish intentional community from commune. the amish have private property so there is maybe more incentive to accumulate intergenerational wealth. they also withhold secondary education from their children and pre
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by lg 10y ago
if the contents of that fool's head were soon to be snapshotted and uploaded into the minds of hundreds of millions of drivers, it'd be headline news for months too.
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by lg 10y ago
you can't sue. but you can file charges with the EEOC, and if they want to they can sue on your behalf.
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by lg 10y ago
right. so i work, pay taxes and those get distributed to my neighbor's UBI. what i have passed on to someone else still has value.
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by lg 10y ago
... which also disincentivizes work more than UBI, because why work a low-wage job for that minimum income when you can get it for nothing instead? whereas with UBI it's always in addition.
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by lg 10y ago
I don't know about the UK, but in the US, you effectively have a choice between getting welfare and working. So people have the option to take some low-paying job, but they don't do it because then they lose welfare benefits that
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by lg 10y ago
southwest is profitable. anyway uber does not have to deal with pilots' unions and the faa regulations: http://philip.greenspun.com/flying/unions-and-airlines
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by lg 10y ago
why leave your desk?
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by lg 10y ago
> they are within a level that society tolerates For now, because there are no alternatives so we've all gotten used to ~31,000 annual US motor vehicle deaths. If self-driving tech drastically cuts down on that, society's toler
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by lg 10y ago
if self-driving cars will be as safe as people say, manual driving should have the same legal status as drunk driving due to the unnecessary danger it creates.
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by lg 10y ago
for our cat it was two simple solutions: 1, feed her about 1/3 of her daily food right before I go to bed; the later she eats the later she gets hungry. 2, when she cries for food before feeding time, I chase her around the apartment w
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by lg 10y ago
everything from our pets to our lawns to our roads and farms does damage to biodiversity though, which ultimately makes all life less resilient.
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by lg 10y ago
i don't see what's irrational about it. as for polite, excuse me, whether we're warming the earth is an issue that has been discussed quietly and politely for 30 years and evidence for disaster piles up and up. when polio was
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by lg 10y ago
> Perhaps global warming produces net long term benefits to humankind. we know the costs of sea level rise: mass displacement of hundreds of millions of people and the destruction of the world's most productive economic centers. the
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by lg 10y ago
i wore contacts up until age 26 or so when they became unbearable due to dryness and worsening astigmatism. optometrist told me the same happens to a lot of people. I can handle certain brands of dailies for about 4 hrs but just way more ha
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by lg 10y ago
deflation is tricky... if oil gets 10x cheaper because there's lots of new sources, it's great. if oil gets 10x cheaper because after the nuclear holocaust people are living in caves and don't have the refineries or machinery
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by lg 10y ago
maybe most arrests happen that way, but you need to be prepared for any reasonable eventuality. apprehending people can be very dangerous. I see no reason why an officer would willingly go into that situation unprepared to defend him/h
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by lg 10y ago
agreed. if they are unarmed then they can forget about arresting people and bringing them into jail and in front of a judge. plenty of people are willing to kill to avoid that outcome.
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by lg 10y ago
(and cats, they have much better hearing)
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by lg 10y ago
it's actually two mechanisms hand in hand: - require an ID to vote; - make it difficult to get an ID: https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/alabamas-dmv-shutdown...
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by lg 10y ago
google provides all of these benefits.
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by lg 10y ago
long but good article on why land/natural resources probably does play a major role in the economic disparity: https://www.stratfor.com/analysis/geopolitics-united-states-...
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by lg 10y ago
> As San Francisco becomes more like Manhattan, would people want to stay? i don't know if the existing residents will want to stay, but i think many more people overall would want to live in a manhattan of the west coast, as eviden

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