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by liber8 8y ago
Interesting, thanks for the explanation. In your example of what it took to change the system re smoking, you've described the effects of the "levers" that I listed above. In other words, Donella's list is better viewed
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by liber8 8y ago
That is a helpful explanation of Donella's thought process (thank you), but it doesn't really get to the heart of my question: how do you cause a cultural change or mindset change? There are a limited number of ways to have any
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by liber8 8y ago
Serious, non-snarky question: WTF does this even mean? How is "the power to transcend paradigms" the most effective way to intervene in a system? How do you create a policy or a set of actions to actually influence an economy b
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by liber8 8y ago
I'll second this, The Box is fantastic. It sounds like a dry subject, but Levinson did a fantastic job of telling the story of how containerized shipping changed the world.
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by liber8 8y ago
Not sure if you're being sarcastic or not, but the Toyota issues were not caused by any software bug. Most cases were caused by people hitting the wrong pedal. The others were caused by floor mats that were a bit too long, causing the
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by liber8 9y ago
You should, the street food is one of the best parts of Bangkok!
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by liber8 10y ago
Interesting. I'm using a VPN so GeoIP didn't occur to me.
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by liber8 10y ago
The footer on the subscribe page quotes Jerimiah 29:11 (" For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.") and lists this coordinate (32.766
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by liber8 10y ago
Define "closing". None of the banks I represented "closed". They have all been swallowed up by larger banks.
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by liber8 10y ago
That's certainly an interesting take. In all of my dealings with small banks, it was always easy to get an EVP on the phone to sort out problems. That's now virtually impossible dealing with large banks. Frequently I find that e
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by liber8 10y ago
There's no question the CFPB has helped some consumers resolve disputes. The parent's complaint was about the death of small banks. That has been caused directly by the cost to comply with new regulations.
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by liber8 10y ago
The reason there aren't more regional banks is precisely because of all the regulations. I have represented numerous small banks over the last decade. Every single one of them has been sold to larger banks because they cannot compete
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by liber8 10y ago
It's not that osteopaths were so well organized. It's that John D. was a devoted Osteopath for most of his life. If you haven't read Titan, it's a fascinating bio.
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by liber8 10y ago
>> BUT my claim is that you have MORE monopolies in (certain) unregulated markets. I can very well be wrong...do you have any evidence to that point? << Not to be too cheeky, but do you have any evidence to support your claim th
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by liber8 10y ago
I just read the the first 5 results of your google link. There isn't any outrage in any of them. They are actually fairly unbiased news reports about court rulings on the illegality of various NSA programs, not opinion pieces criticiz
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by liber8 10y ago
Please show where I said anything about "support of the NSA programs in the past." Please show where I said anything about the "left". This is a problem that both democrats and republicans suffer from. Remember when the
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by liber8 10y ago
It amazes me that journalists publish things like this with a straight face, then don't understand why nobody trusts the media. "Well, sure, unconstitutional power grabs are tolerable when someone I like is in power, but this new
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by liber8 10y ago
Can the monthly donation amount be lowered in the future?
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by liber8 10y ago
Everyone looks at this ass-backwards. Foreign buyers who park their money in unoccupied real estate are not a problem. These are essentially ideal owners from the city's perspective and what every city council should be courting: peo
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by liber8 10y ago
Ordinary people, particularly young people, clearly care far, far, far, far, far less about privacy than you think. The average middle-class ten year old literally has more pictures of herself than the number of days she's been alive,
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by liber8 11y ago
Let's assume you're right, and that many poor people have no opportunity to better their situation. That doesn't change the fact that some people absolutely do have the opportunity to better their situation, but choose not t
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by liber8 11y ago
"you could be sitting alone in a dark room with nothing but a lottery ticket in your hand and be perfectly satisfied with fantasies of winning" This is one of the biggest reasons I dislike the lottery, from a societal perspectiv
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by liber8 11y ago
Its not a tragedy of the commons. Charge market prices for water and this goes away.
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by liber8 12y ago
This is one thing I love about macs. Click help, type in the first word of the command, and it will highlight where that command is in the menu. No more hunting or trying to remember seldom-used shortcuts. Apple has had this feature for
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by liber8 12y ago
Got it, thanks for the explanation. Keep up the good work!
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by liber8 12y ago
I'm a little confused. For many months now, Watsi has charged my card each month for the amount I specified whenever I first signed up. Each month, I get an email explaining which patient my recurring donation was directed to that mo
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by liber8 12y ago
As with nearly all of our problems, California's water shortage is really an energy shortage. If we had cheap, abundant energy, desalinization isn't expensive anymore. Figure out fusion and our water problems are solved. Of cours
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by liber8 12y ago
This isn't true. 11 USC 523 contains a long list of non-dischargeable debts, including child/spousal support obligations, certain taxes, and debts incurred by fraud or willful injury.
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by liber8 12y ago
You're right, government officials never support programs that are economically inefficient. Especially large, sexy programs that get tons of media coverage and often get a politician's name associated with them. Nope, those are
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by liber8 12y ago
>>I suspect a THAT is the heart of capitalism<< I'm assuming this is a typo, but I can't quite make out what you mean. Are you saying that inheritance is the heart of, presumably, the capitalism in practice today? E

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