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by maratd 13y ago
> It is possible there is a reasonable explanation Ok, I'll bite, what could possibly be a reasonable explanation for excavating a man's anus half a dozen times?
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by maratd 13y ago
> I don't understand why the market doesn't demand this either. The only time I ever used a removable battery is to cut power to my phone to do a hard reboot because it stalled. While this is useful, I wouldn't pay extra f
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by maratd 13y ago
> If I added up the sum of everything my family spends on every brand appearing in this infographic, I would be surprised if it exceeded 2% of our gross income. Same here, probably less. Not a huge fan of things that come vacuum sealed.
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> The fact that it sees the pain and dysfunction as symptoms of a systemic/endemic flaws is telling Indeed. One of the greatest strengths of the US Constitution, one of the reasons it is the oldest constitution in use to date, is th
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Yours is the sole intelligent response, so I'll comment here. > Autonomous taxis will rewrite the economic rules. You're absolutely right. However, that technology isn't here yet and there is no guarantee that it will arri
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> Is there really any downside to banning personal cars from the city? The fact that you're stomping all over a person's right to own property and use it as they wish? Oh sure, the city will prosper as a result, but when you st
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by maratd 13y ago
> libertarian obsession with the gold standard I think it's more of an aversion to fiat currency, than an obsession with the gold standard. The jury is still out on that one, we haven't even broken the century mark on that.
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> The Economist, simply put, is liberal in the sense that it tends to favor less regulation on both these fronts: it favors legalization of drugs and gay marriage, but also less regulation for markets. Wouldn't that make it libertar
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by maratd 13y ago
Is this really surprising? Who doesn't know this? My wife was in labor for a bit less than a day. Baby was fine, everything good, but apparently we were taking too long. Doctor demanded we do a c-section. When we said we wanted to wait
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by maratd 13y ago
> in order to play second fiddle to github Depends on which sector. All of the open source projects are on Github, absolutely. However, all of my closed-source professional work using git has been exclusively on Bitbucket and that was th
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by maratd 13y ago
The problem isn't density, as some have mentioned. It's structure. In the US, the pipes are owned by the providers. Those pipes were built out with subsidized funding or exclusive contract guarantees. In other words, it becomes ve
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by maratd 13y ago
> and I'm a right wing pig here if you'd like to call me that I have far worse things in mind. > USSR as bad as it was it took responsibility for the Charnobyl catastrophe. The most horrific aspect of how it was handled was
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by maratd 13y ago
> The emergence of USB as The Way Phones are Charged didn't happen as a magic emergent property, but via considered government regulation. Government: it can actually work. This is such nonsense, I don't even know where to begi
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by maratd 13y ago
Costco is the way it is, not because it's a saint, but because of the market it occupies. It is, for all intents and purposes, a wholesaler. They sell things in bulk. That's their thing. And they don't hold your hand while do
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by maratd 13y ago
> So Walmart cares about the health of it's employees, just not enough to provide them with a reasonable health care option. Walmart is not a person. It does not care one way or another. Not because it's evil, but because it&#x
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by maratd 13y ago
> What's the solution? I'm not exactly sure, but the list includes term limits Sounds like a good solution to me. With term limits, you restrict the benefits of lobbying, reduce corruption, and bring a new vitality to the polit
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by maratd 13y ago
The education market isn't magical. You can make the same critique about any industry, but when we do so, the reality of the situation is that we are far better off with for-profit enterprises. As consumers, workers, and investors. The
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by maratd 13y ago
I meant "burst your bubble" as an idiom, not as an insinuation that there is a bubble in economic terms. That said, gold's price is determined by supply and demand, just like for any other good. Certainly part of the price is
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by maratd 13y ago
What horrific consequences do you imagine will manifest themselves from the government spending only what it takes in?
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by maratd 13y ago
> Hoarding gold since 2005 and tell you one thing - just can't wait. I don't want to burst your bubble, but if things go tits up, it will affect the demand of useless shiny metals and as a consequence, their value. If I were yo
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by maratd 13y ago
> We're talking about A because Israel extends certain privileges only to A-jews. Orthodox jews only accept A-jews. No. If you convert today by Orthodox standards, then you will be recognized by Israel and Orthodox jews as a jew.
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by maratd 13y ago
So let's say the builder is a dumbass and placed it incorrectly. What homeowner is going to move it? I would guess the percentage is something along the lines of 1%. I would. You would. But we're not the norm. Not all products are
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I'm very curious about this as well. Are there any provisions in ACA for those living abroad?
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> I don't think anyone who knows anything else would ever choose PHP for a fun personal project. I would. For every job, a proper tool. If my project is client-side heavy and only needs a thin layer between the client-side and the d
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by maratd 13y ago
As much as I agree with you, the judge in the case is just bigoted, not stupid. Judges frequently punish individuals they don't like by putting them last on the docket. Somebody has to go last and it won't be recognized as punishm
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I will always choose care from my children over professional care. Easy choice. Even a few hours of time with them will be much more enjoyable than days or weeks with a stranger, regardless of how wonderful the stranger happens to be. Not e
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by maratd 13y ago
> It saddens me to see one of the last first world country coming closer to the universal health care trap. We're still quite a ways off and there's been quite a bit of pushback on the small steps Obama took. It's entirely
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by maratd 13y ago
> I were to be of retirement age today, I'm having trouble thinking of a reason NOT to do this. Family? Helping your children with their kids instead of selfishly running away to some tropical destination? After you get past a certa
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by maratd 13y ago
Bingo. You see a bunch of guys with machine guns coming out of nowhere, you may spill your beans right there and all of that is admissible in court.
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by maratd 13y ago
> Yeah, we have historically low tax rates for the modern era. This is false. The charts frequently used to support this all conveniently exclude the 19th century. Yeah, after socialism became a fad, we began to tax the living daylights

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