lintiness

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by lintiness 10y ago
"under" and "over" fund are subjective measures of nothing. the us spends substantially more per pupil than it did 40 years ago with roughly the same results. further, we spend more per pupil than other developed countr
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by lintiness 10y ago
plenty of home schooled kids do just fine without attending "good schools".
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by lintiness 10y ago
sorry, but schools are a lot less important than families.
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by lintiness 10y ago
property taxes in the suburbs of denver are on the order of .5% a year. compare that to the suburbs of chicago where they're north of 2% a year. the school quality and education provided are AT LEAST SIMILAR. the difference in cost i
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by lintiness 10y ago
people pay for weight watchers because it systematically manages their caloric intake, not because they believe the food is healthy.
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by lintiness 10y ago
if you're allergic to pineapple, then not eating pineapples is healthier, but it says fuckall about the general "health" attributes of the "diet".
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by lintiness 10y ago
... and a $2 bag of celery will consume your stored calories for you! edit: is hn the no joke zone?
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by lintiness 10y ago
"There are certainly categories of food where healthy is more expensive, such as some organic and gluten-free products, Reczek said." there's basically zero evidence organic or gluten free are "healthier".
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by lintiness 10y ago
i thought you people were computer programmers for fuck sake. saying someone's "nice" for "doing something" isn't the same as saying they're "nice" generally. where'd you learn to logic?
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by lintiness 10y ago
just calling it like it is. how many of them would be open enough to call trump in if the positions were reversed?
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by lintiness 10y ago
tech could do a lot of things, but this isn't one of them.
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by lintiness 10y ago
thanks for including some fiction! so many "data" people miss out on so much because they mistakenly assume something that "didn't happen" can't help or enrich their understanding of what is.
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by lintiness 10y ago
amazing what kind of bias exists in headlines alone. when you filter down, it becomes so much more obvious.
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by lintiness 10y ago
OH NOES!
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by lintiness 10y ago
so all of a sudden from 2014 to 2015, obesity?
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by lintiness 10y ago
a good idea: let's put our 2.5 yos in the overhead!
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by lintiness 10y ago
hahaha, an infant? ANY DAY. try a 2.5 yo.
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by lintiness 10y ago
if they offer a checked bag free, they can't quote a ridiculously low fare on the popular travel search sites.
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by lintiness 10y ago
bill, and most people, should read and recommend more fiction (there's a little bit of fiction in every one of his recommended books i'm sure).
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by lintiness 10y ago
anthony bourdain was in rome telling an apolitical friend how america had embraced "fascism" by electing a leader who "promised to make america great again". she quickly reminded him that the last leader we elected did
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by lintiness 10y ago
the "tax" part is obviously important (dividends are taxed while unrealized gains are free until security is liquidated). what most people ignore when doing these types of analyses is that a bird in hand is worth two in the bush:
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by lintiness 10y ago
how about when said brave superstar LEANS IN and delivers a lecture to the planet via book (sheryl sandberg)?
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by lintiness 10y ago
my dad has lots of advice for me and my wife about the correct parenting of our kids (his grandkids). he usually gives it to us over the hour dinner we eat with him once a week.
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by lintiness 10y ago
if money solved the public school system problem, chicago would be cranking out nobel laureates left and right (rather than sinking under the economic burden of insane pensions and accompanying property and sales taxes --- AND mass exodus o
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by lintiness 10y ago
http://www.macrotrends.net/1381/debt-to-gdp-ratio-historical... you think leaders from the early to mid-80s are responsible for debt levels more than doubling over the last 2.5 decades? put down the partisan pills.
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by lintiness 10y ago
this place is so stiff, i think you and i are the only ones laughing. cheers.
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by lintiness 10y ago
most cable tv bills come bundled with internet which is half or more of the cost. the best internet provider where i live just so happens to be the cable tv company, so there's not much choice.
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by lintiness 10y ago
most sitcoms on tv worth viewing have adult themes / content, not available to large networks.
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by lintiness 10y ago
i didn't qualify their "ability" to govern; i suggested a poor use of money spent campaigning MIGHT be indicative of one's poor use of money governing. do you have a logical counter, or are you and everybody else aroun
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by lintiness 10y ago
uh, dunno ... maybe yield on dollars spent is indicative of, say, their ability to manage our tax dollars.

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