marcusgarvey

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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
I can think of at least two scenarios where that doesn't quite hold: in times of war and also in times when austerity-espousing politicians "have" to make budget cuts and focus those cuts on social welfare programs. Then come
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>A promise to cut subsidies was first made at a G-20 meeting in Pittsburgh in 2009, but since then very little progress has been made So seven years and counting. >[U.S. Secretary of Energy] Moniz said the United States would eventual
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Can't help but wonder if this has something to do with the recent allegations against them of having a bias against certain kinds of news.
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
I think it's time for the powers that be to activate Plan B. I would prefer Plan B to be something like a basic income. But it could also be out-of-the-box ideas, like "let's have a major war to distract the homefront and foc
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Combine this current sentiment with the results from the job losses to come from self-driving vehicles and automation...volatility ahead.
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
For everything there is a season. Globalism had a great reputation at the turn of the millennium. Then we had Iraq, the Great Financial Crisis and Syria, which damaged the credibility of the leadership class. So now status quo in the west c
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Nice to read about a new breakthrough in botany. The field doesn't get much attention at all. Maybe now it will benefit from the popularity of Martian, the movie.
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
What's their pricing model, if you don't mind my asking? They provide very little info on their website.
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Who else has used Ample Market? Pros? Cons?
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Google Is the EU Remain Camp's Secret Weapon(theregister.co.uk)
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>"I don’t know how to make a little girl happy the way I fundamentally know how to make a boy happy, so I worry I’m going to somehow screw that up.” I hate that so many fathers who think raising a daughter is some kind of minefield,
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Mentioned is the GAO's finding -- all the way back in 1979 -- that the secrecy had no legal basis. Reports from the GAO, the Government Accountability Office, are a great way to keep an eye on all sorts of wonky, provocative investigat
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Nice tidbit: >the Department of Defense uses 8-inch floppy disks in a legacy system that coordinates the operational functions of the nation’s nuclear forces.
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Some investors like Calpers, biggest pension fund in the U.S., are falling out of love with hedge funds. http://wolfstreet.com/2016/04/21/whats-hammering-hedge-funds...
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>Other areas are known drug zones and you can be arrested for going there without a clear purpose. How could this be a lawful arrest?
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>Are the people who blame "black culture" right? No. Those people are at best misguided, at worst, racist. If white American culture is the standard against which black American culture is judged, I am still waiting for the evi
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>was authorized do you have a source for this?
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
>storing emails on a personal server @ her house has precedent? other Secretaries of State have done so? who?
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
Portugal has a lot to recommend it.
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by marcusgarvey 10y ago
This is off topic, but while we are on the subject: does anyone regret having children because of issues like lack of sleep, etc? Did that feeling change after the baby stage?
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
>Hilda is considered one of the patron saints of learning and culture, including poetry. Interesting detail. I always enjoy learning about who's the patron saint of this or that. Why did the tradition start, and how does each saint
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
I appreciate your observations. I may be defeatist it seems too late to stop climate change. The last time political gridlock at the federal level was this bad, the U.S. had a Civil War, so I find it hard to envision a federal solution that
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
Paraphrasing the lede here[1]: Hedge funds produce little to no alpha and investors have known that for quite a while. 1 - http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/02/the-financial-times-r...
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Squarespace staffer: Exec told me, “You’re so black, you blend into the chair”(boingboing.net)
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
http://www.isittimetomovetocanadayet.com/
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
The Venice Architecture Biennale will also have a focus on Nazi Architecture. >The Evidence Room was the combined effort of a team of students and faculty of the University of Waterloo School of Architecture headed by Anne Bordeleau, Sas
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
thanks for saying this. it's shocking to see the cesspool that the comments become whenever gender and race issues are raised on this site. are people really this clueless?
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Yes. We're being censored by Twitter(guerrillasocialists.com)
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Miami, US city most exposed to rising sea, is having a beachfront building boom(prospect.org)
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by marcusgarvey 11y ago
But according to the article stress hyperthemia is one trait used to identify consciousness. Is consciousness the same as "having feelings"? >One particular trait used to identify consciousness, which was previously thought to

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