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by mason240 11y ago
Where did he predict that?
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by mason240 11y ago
Sounds like an incentive for more people to commit less crime.
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by mason240 11y ago
I don't think that works both ways.
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by mason240 11y ago
This is sarcasm, right?
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by mason240 11y ago
>You've heard about the 'plastic continent' circling in the ocean, made of a soup of plastic waste that's never going to go away? Do we count those thousands of square miles in the 'landfill equation'? Yes,
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by mason240 11y ago
If they did have bulk data requests from the US Federal government, would be even be allowed to say they have?
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by mason240 11y ago
Even their military was based on the enslavement of children from their conquered territories.
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by mason240 11y ago
Systematic grade inflation across the country has made GPAs a poor indicator, and not all schools have the same grade systems. Some schools even allow students to take AP/college level classes for bonus grade points. It's not fair
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by mason240 11y ago
I'm in the upmarket track with Trek bikes right now. I bought my first entry bike for $450. So far I've gotten several thousand miles out of it and it's gone so well that I'll probably just stick with them for the rest o
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by mason240 11y ago
>But I'll tell you what, we better make mental health care available like going to the supermarket and without stigma in our society or one day there is going to be a mass-murder anniversary for every day of the year. Implying that
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by mason240 11y ago
From the government that would be paying the tuition.
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by mason240 11y ago
>We could just do away with student loans all together. College prices would probably drop. The issue that causing tuition to rise - the injection of "free" money - would still be there and would actually be worse because stude
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by mason240 11y ago
Source: https://blog.kaspersky.com/kaspersky-statement-duqu-attack/
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by mason240 11y ago
Environmentalists have been pushing very hard to block sand mining in MN and WI.
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by mason240 11y ago
So you agree with them?
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by mason240 11y ago
>The "seriously productive" ones you're expecting to leech off MUST have lots of less-but-still-productive people working for them - and you're tearing out the incentive to do so. The situation UBI applies to is in a
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by mason240 11y ago
This isn't socialism at all. The main tenants of socialism are ending profit and private property. UBI embraces the same kind of capitalism we have now with private property and profit. In order to say that UBI is socialist, you also h
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by mason240 11y ago
It's not broken, it's just that reality of labor is changing to the point that the ideas we have about how to create a healthy economy won't work anymore. It's similar to how Marx's theories were only applicable whe
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by mason240 11y ago
Universal Basic Income is the best post-labor system I've read of. Everything is still based on the same capitalism we have now, and the ~20% of people who work will still be able to make income (meaning there will still be incentive f
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by mason240 11y ago
Every election since 2000: "More people voted for {Bush, Obama} than any President in history." There's more total voters, so...
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by mason240 11y ago
It was disappointing to see the amount of FUD disseminated over Romney's 2012 plan simplify, broaden, and flatten the corporate tax code.
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by mason240 11y ago
>Think of it from the point of view of the (often for-profit) prison: Less than 5% of prisoners in the US are in privately run prisons.
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by mason240 11y ago
There is a good analysis of this on skeptics stackexchange. http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/27927/has-the-re... >TLDR: The article has accidentally or deliberately confused the earthquake relief pro
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by mason240 11y ago
In this specific case, it's largely because sending troops back into Iraq would an admission that it was a mistake for President Obama to pull out of Iraq before their military was completely ready.
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by mason240 11y ago
The photo was likely just the lead that tipped them off to building. After that they were likely able to confirm it through other means. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack - the hard part is finding the needle, what's ea
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by mason240 11y ago
How do the people there manage the cognitive dissonance of being extremely inefficient with time and productivity with being a poor country dependent on the EU to keep economy from collapsing?
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by mason240 11y ago
Rand Paul might pardon him.
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by mason240 11y ago
Did he say that he is using the same "just a comedian" excuse Colbert and Stewart used hide from criticism?
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by mason240 11y ago
I swear I have been seeing this average/minimum bait-and-switch everyday for the last 3 weeks now. I don't know how something so false is having such momentum.
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by mason240 11y ago
A single parent would also be getting child support, making it a double income.

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