mason240

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   by mason240 10y ago

   Being forced to live in a high rise apartment is very undesirable. Most people would choose to live in a single family house with a yard.
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   by mason240 10y ago

   > We would need to stop the trend of having a small number of large stores and move back towards having a large number of smaller stores. This would be highly inefficient and result in higher costs of goods and reduced options for consum
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   by mason240 10y ago

   What's interesting is that it is the opposite for buyers. So much easier to buy of CL than eBay.
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   by mason240 10y ago

   I have history podcast directory site that I had write my own RSS integration for. As much as I dislike Apple, thankfully there are able to enforce a de facto standard for podcast RSS format that people actually follow. https://w
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   by mason240 10y ago

   This definition so broad that it is effectively meaningless. Every government action that is funded by taxes, from Medicare to road building to national defense, can be considered wealth distribution, and thus socialism.
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   by mason240 10y ago

   I actually see more socialists trying to claim that the capitalist economies of the Western Civilization socialist than anyone else. It's a pretty ingenious tactic: they are literally trying to take credit for the success of the very s
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   by mason240 10y ago

   Still a very small part of the total cost.
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   by mason240 10y ago

   I never said it won't change, just that growing food in a field will always be cheaper than in building. Many people in this thread are saying that advances in automation, GMOs, or energy generation will make growing in a building chea
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   by mason240 10y ago

   Like I said, completely out of touch. You are not going to grow enough to sustain yourselves on 200 square feet, and what ever you do grow will require more resources than growing that same amount on an industrial agribusiness scale.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    Transportation accounts for a minuscule amount of the total resources used to grow food on an industrial scale.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    This is not going replace farming anymore than me growing a spinach plant in a pot at home. It's actually a little disappointing to see just how out of touch the people in this thread are with farming. Growing food outside, in the grou
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    by mason240 10y ago

    You can also retire from the US military after 20 years (so as young as 38), which would be a pretty large population to study.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    I didn't leave it out because UBI isn't means tested or income based.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    >So the "cost of UBI" is clearly not $10k times (number of humans in the USA), but more like $10k times (number of eligible people making under $10k). It is "$10k times (number of humans in the USA)," because the &quo
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    by mason240 10y ago

    So no actual stats, just your gut feelings about how you think things work.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    >why don't we just top up everyone's income to the equivalent of the minimum wage? That's what UBI essentially is, giving everyone about the equivalent of a minimum wage income.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    Absolutely, as soon as you introduce ANY means testing at all, it is not longer UBI.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    I skip blatant clickbait on principle.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    If they have the matching emails, at significant portion of those email/passwords will work for Facebook, and any other site out there.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    It's not like they orbit the same star or anything.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    >Supposedly she got the server set up because the NSA refused to give a politician who travels frequently a secure smartphone. I have a very hard time believing that the 3rd (possibly 2nd) highest person in the US government couldn'
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    by mason240 10y ago

    There simply isn't enough land on earth to support substantial farming for 7 billion people. What you are advocating is to kill well over half the world's population.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    QE benefits everyone who borrows money for anything. We bought a house with a 3.1 rate, something that would have been unheard of in generations past. Same with rates for auto and every other type of loan.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    >Why do we need 2 people (mom and dad) taking up an entire 4k-6k sq ft "single family" dwelling sitting on 1/4-1/2 acre of land? >This country has a housing problem and this is the root of it. This country has prac
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    by mason240 10y ago

    Hillary is a neocon.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    Where?
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    by mason240 10y ago

    Literally no one is suggesting otherwise.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    >the neo-conservative method of government The only use the word "neo-conservative" has anymore is to identify people who only know political buzzwords.
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    by mason240 10y ago

    So you want open borders?
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    by mason240 10y ago

    http://www.mercurynews.com/drought/ci_29826659/drain-hetch-h...