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by lurk2 2y ago
Not presidential elections, no.
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by lurk2 2y ago
If I claim to have evidence that you committed a crime, and announce that I will post the evidence later, should my claims be taken seriously, or dismissed? Even if he's right (and I'm not saying he isn't), this kind of behav
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by lurk2 2y ago
I don't disagree that cutting the program seems shortsighted. The issue I took with the grandparent comment is that it was simply uninformed. > Let's not kid ourselves that this program probably cost upwards of several million
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by lurk2 2y ago
I have a hard time believing a service like this wouldn't have employed at least one person full time. There is no way it cost anywhere remotely in the neighborhood of $10 a day.
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by lurk2 2y ago
The people relying on this data aren't even American constituents.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> This is why this dataset is hard to wrap your head around: there's just sooo much here. It would take a ridiculous amount of time to try to manually read through it all. Also, at a glance at least, it appears that the bulk of it i
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by lurk2 2y ago
Clinton won the popular vote by about 3 million votes in 2016.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> There are also a few who spend all their money they might have on lottery tickets, but those aren't much of the total number of people. Is there any evidence of that? I can recall reading that alcohol consumption, for example, has
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Always works Not even remotely true.
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by lurk2 2y ago
Why would this have any strategic impact on Taiwan's capacity to defend itself?
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Going by past results I'd rather go by future results like Biff Tannen.
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by lurk2 2y ago
You can allow foreign laborers to work on farms without giving them a pathway towards citizenship that will lead to their becoming fiscal liabilities.
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by lurk2 2y ago
There is a long tradition which views Roosevelt's policies as both ineffective and unjustifiable. In 1933, he confiscated privately-held gold by executive order in 1933. That same year, he instituted a policy paying farmers to slaughte
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Subsequent president might realize that America might want allies And to gain those allies they will give them control over these key supply lines so that said allies can dictate America's foreign policy?
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by lurk2 2y ago
I set up Mint for a friend a few years ago and it took me about an hour never having done it before. What did you find difficult about it?
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by lurk2 2y ago
I've had the same experience. MacOS had lots of features intended to make it friendly for casual users, which made it a pain when you wanted to modify it, but if you wanted to modify something, you generally could; it just took some
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by lurk2 2y ago
The last time I had a computer running MacOS, you couldn't even type the directory you were looking for into Finder; you had to use a dropdown menu.
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by lurk2 2y ago
Why would subsequent presidents allow Taiwan to maintain leverage over supply chains crucial to American national security?
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Not the OP but look at the difference between what governments can do when there is a sense of urgency (i.e it is wartime or one is in recent memory) vs what they do when it's not. Every example I can think of involved rushing thr
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by lurk2 2y ago
> Sure there are, but they are very small minority typically. From your own data, 25% of respondents agreed with the statement: Allow none/only a few immigrants of a different race/ethnicity to come and live in [the UK]. This i
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by lurk2 2y ago
Wind isn't going to power the grid by itself.
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by lurk2 2y ago
> because there's gas still on the grid everyone pays the higher gas based price even if energy is mostly coming from cheaper wind You're describing how a market functions. If the gas plants went offline tomorrow, could the win
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by lurk2 2y ago
It's disingenuous to pretend Brexit wasn't at least partially motivated by in-group preference. Almost as disingenuous as implying that there's anything wrong with having said preference. I don't open up my house to peop
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by lurk2 2y ago
There is no way to make fossil fuel more expensive without making energy more expensive overall, because fossil fuel is included in the category of "energy overall." The effect of making fossil fuels more expensive is that energy
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by lurk2 2y ago
If you're cynical about global markets, you can always take profits and build a self-sufficient homestead somewhere remote, or buy a cauldron and fill it with gold doubloons and bury it at the end of a rainbow like a leprechaun. Doomer
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by lurk2 2y ago
It's important to note that a robot gone rogue is still a killer robot even if the robot doesn't hate you.
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by lurk2 2y ago
Mass transit is a non-issue in a functional society which incarcerates criminals and institutionalizes the insane. This does not describe the vast majority of major cities in North America. This is why people move to the suburbs in the firs
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by lurk2 2y ago
1) Buy a broad market global index fund. Put as much money into this as you reasonably can. Do not time the market, just put your money in every month and forget that it's there until you either want to buy a house or start to think ab
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by lurk2 2y ago
I have been struggling with the same problem for quite a while. When I was in high school and my early 20s I had a group of friends I was constantly hanging out with. I realized a few months ago that I hadn't seen or talked to any of t
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by lurk2 2y ago
The numbers I saw were about 400 feet. The bigger issue is that they aren't manned and are presumably flying at a greater frequency than conventional planes. My concern would be that they fail and fly into the side of my house at full

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