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by lg 10y ago
it's also the same economic system that saved american seniors from dying destitute before SS and medicare.
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by lg 10y ago
who are these countries that make big investments in science and not in sport? pretty sure politicians everywhere love funding big spectacles over backroom things like research
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by lg 10y ago
i wonder what they'll say about the first city enclosed in a climate-controlled glass dome
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by lg 10y ago
you also shouldn't be credited for the investment decisions of a predecessor
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by lg 10y ago
competition?
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by lg 10y ago
i know they are working on this. but as a member of the subway-riding public, far and away the number 1 thing I have a strong opinion about is delays, which almost always are blamed on "signal problems"
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by lg 10y ago
don't forget NYC wage tax...
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by lg 10y ago
the government does not need private funding when it can just reach into your pocket, in this case to collect the September 11 Security Fee which airlines attach to your ticket on behalf of TSA.
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by lg 10y ago
that pressure comes from shareholders who want to make money on their ownership stake, whether the company is traded on public markets or not. it's not carl icahn pushing 5-year exit strategies on startups.
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by lg 10y ago
that's when you voted, not who you voted for.
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by lg 11y ago
i'm guessing it's invested or deposited in a bank, and banks loan money out against their deposits, so still productively used.
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by lg 11y ago
maybe the analogy runs further than you think.. there's a lot of natural complements between these products, one is a runaway moneymaking success while the other product is more niche, but they can be sold/advertised together for
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by lg 11y ago
if you want to keep up wages, then why artificially inflate the price of going into business (which just prevents potential entrants from offering a better product than incumbents) when you can instead.. artificially inflate wages directly
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by lg 11y ago
If it's only 5 years you will feel pressured to find a conventional job that would look good to whoever would be reading your resume if/when you apply for a new job after the experiment is over. If it was guaranteed for life you m
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by lg 11y ago
Yeah if it's 5 years i would be very worried about finding employment the day after and having a 5-year gap in my resume. Would the hiring manager care that I was working on my art?
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by lg 11y ago
community service?
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by lg 11y ago
it's strange that these agencies are lamenting their loss of access to "telecommunications data" that they needed so badly... can't they get a warrant?
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by lg 11y ago
https://nccih.nih.gov/research/results/gems
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by lg 11y ago
lots: http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Unicode_variable_names
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by lg 11y ago
My pay stub helpfully lists my 'pay rate', that number * 40 * 52 = my salary. If my employer expects me to work 168 hrs/week then I'd certainly be willing to have that conversation but I expect the appropriate change of
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by lg 11y ago
there's a chicago office, fwiw...
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by lg 11y ago
a company did conduct clinical trials of a helminthic therapy for crohn's, it didn't do well: http://www.drugs.com/clinical_trials/coronado-biosciences-ha...
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by lg 11y ago
I don't know about the values (though buying less and repairing more seems smart to me?) but I think the popularity is more because patagonia was the first company to make down coats that actually fit people nicely and didn't look
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by lg 12y ago
I only work on a remote 'server', by which I mean my ubuntu desktop. I hate linux gui's so I use a mac laptop and ssh into the linux box, and run emacs in Terminal.app. For the occasional times that I need to step through jav
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by lg 12y ago
I think you'd need some reason to believe people are unconsciously signaling it. The author seems to be quite conscious of his own signaling. Personally I was never into watching sports, even as a little kid when I don't think I w
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by lg 12y ago
thanks to the sodium-potassium pump you are already sending current through an organ as sensitive as the brain :)
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by lg 12y ago
Not much, lay them on a couple pieces of wasa bread drizzled in yellow mustard, makes a good quick breakfast.
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by lg 12y ago
i eat sardines a couple times a week. they and other low-food-chain fish are apparently overpopulating the oceans right now due to overfishing of predators, which is having bad knock-on effects on zooplankton.
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by lg 12y ago
I don't think the frozen block view of time necessitates a belief in anything traveling along a world line (how would you express the speed at which it travels?) At any given point on your world line your brain is in some state and you
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by lg 12y ago
alternatively a desire to abuse cannabis might be a warning sign that you're developing a psychotic illness.

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