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by mason240 11y ago
That sounds about right though. The developers are really just building a CMS that should be able to in theory handle an infinite amount of cities, while securing a new sale for one city every day could be a full time job (and probably done
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by mason240 11y ago
I'm not trying to be rude, but I can't fathom how you can think running a public utility like water treatment and capital intensive research and development are in anyway comparable to each other.
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by mason240 11y ago
Anecdotes aside, they still require massive amounts of capital in order to create useful applications. Hobbyists tinkering in a hanger did not create modern airlines - giant corporations like Boeing managed the capital required to make it h
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by mason240 11y ago
>After all the open and free Internet Yes, the dumb pipes of internet are. The applications, like this website, that actually make use of those dumb pipes are not.
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by mason240 11y ago
I'm confused why would think that roads (a basic network utility) are comparable to IT applications that use use a basic network utility. IT applications are to the internet what food delivery, personal transportation or freight transp
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by mason240 11y ago
They are directly comparable. New drugs don't materialize out of thin air any more than the iPhones or any other applications of basic internet protocols did. Imagine if in the early 90s we had stiffed cellular phone technology because
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by mason240 11y ago
It's really shocking to such an anti-technological development comment on site about technological development. If the federal government had locked down all IT development in the 1980s as you proposing they do for pharmaceuticals, we
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by mason240 11y ago
>Tax collected on marijuana sales came to $70 million (does not give the time period) How much does Colorado collect in taxes on cigarettes and alcohol? I can't find any numbers to put this into context.
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by mason240 11y ago
I am the person you replied to and I implied no such thing. Some reading comprehension is in order.
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by mason240 11y ago
I'm not talking about the well being of people in solitary. I am talking about the well being of OTHER inmates. >Yes, people would rather be with people even if those people aren't perfect. So, yes or no, you would want to be i
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by mason240 11y ago
And that's why most inmates are not in solitary confinement. You are not understanding my comment. If the violent inmates are not solitary, they are in a cell with YOU. Do you want them in a cell with you, or in solitary?
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by mason240 11y ago
Most people in prison are not in solitary confinement.
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by mason240 11y ago
The court is an inefficient way of providing the state with free labor. He could have skipped the court and just gotten a job and started paying income taxes.
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by mason240 11y ago
If they are not in solitary confinement, they are being confined with other people. Would you want to be the confined with someone who has a history of being violent with his cell mates?
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by mason240 11y ago
Come back tomorrow and you can experience it again!
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by mason240 11y ago
Yes, I know what meme the means. They are making fun of people who use the meme as a way of defecting criticism from the President, especially in light their sudden reversal from blaming the President for everything from letting the 9/
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by mason240 11y ago
They making fun of how the "Blame Bush" crowd immediately converted to "Thanks Obama" in 2009.
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by mason240 11y ago
I believe most gray-water systems are internal to individual buildings. For example, a house would fitted with a storage tank for shower water, which is then used for flushing the toilet, or even watering a yard. The toilet water is sent to
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by mason240 11y ago
>seems to be a strange desire by some people to try to make things not about race, gender or sexual preference as much as possible. This is something that Western Civilization has been working towards for well over a century now.
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by mason240 11y ago
Is this comment supposed to be sarcasm? I can't tell if you are making fun of the type of person who say that, or if you actually are saying that.
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by mason240 11y ago
There was actually just an AMA on Reddit from a scientist whose research group was being harassed by an organic food lobby called "US Right to Know." https://www.reddit.com/r/science/comments/3g8l2h&
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by mason240 11y ago
>In Germany we have a welfare system that requires you to take on pretty much any job if you become unemployed. If you only qualify for low-income jobs this can mean you end up taking on a job that pays you below welfare and welfare actu
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by mason240 11y ago
Wouldn't the simpler solution be to simply reduce the pensions by the amount of UBI? For example, a pensioner gettin $40k/year would get $25k under a $15k UBI. You would have to get them to agree to the renegotiation, so I suppose
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by mason240 11y ago
I'm addressing your "anyone defending themselves (and thus anyone who has revived criticism) is automatically wrong" argument. You're defending yourself right now, so by that argument it "says a lot to me."
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by mason240 11y ago
It's a big world, someone will criticize you no matter what you do.
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by mason240 11y ago
Will you be making a version for amateur/semi pro race car drivers? They are always looking to shave off weight so it can be redistributed in the way they want. Being able to cut 30lbs would be a big deal.
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by mason240 11y ago
>The point of being a hacker (in the traditional sense) is that your utility function is completely wack. You prefer to make the lights on the screen (and by proxy, the state of the registers) Acquiring money is not the only way to profi
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by mason240 11y ago
There is certain irony in a group of people who favor open borders, open and anarchist societies, ect, trying to erect physical, social, and "legal" barriers to keep undesirable people out.
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by mason240 11y ago
Are the studies still producing valid, peer-reviewed results?
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by mason240 11y ago
Woah, yes I did.

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