mason240

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by mason240 9y ago
One of President Obama's last acts was to expand and entrench mass surveillance by the Federal government. >New rules issued by the Obama administration under Executive Order 12333 will let the NSA—which collects information under t
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by mason240 9y ago
The Independent had an ownership change recently and dramatically shifted from journalism to click bait.
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by mason240 9y ago
Thanks for admitting you were lying, and now you are moving the goalposts from you original claim (which also appears to be untrue).
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by mason240 9y ago
That is completely false.
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by mason240 9y ago
>If a feature is what a product does, then isn't making quarter inch holes a feature of drill bits? I would say yes, and the benefit with the drill would be final product the user is building. "They don't want quarter-inc
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by mason240 9y ago
>I have a pedal-powered bicycle that dusts ICE cars at stop lights. For, like, 5 metres... But wow do I feel great for those 10 seconds before they catch up.
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by mason240 9y ago
It's going to be interesting watching everyone flip sides on this from where they were 4 years ago.
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by mason240 9y ago
Manning was not a whistleblower.
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by mason240 9y ago
I wasn't aware the school's president was just an activist.
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by mason240 9y ago
As if people don't lose real money everyday in bleeding edge investments. This is HackerNews, born from the tech startup/VC culture, right?
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by mason240 9y ago
That doesn't sound too unreasonable. Some shoes like heels are made for fashion, not function.
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by mason240 9y ago
It's getting more common to get a DNR/DNI (Do Not Resuscitate / Do Not Intubate ) put into a "living will" that goes to into effect if you are in a situation where you will no longer be mentally cognitive.
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by mason240 9y ago
The problem isn't necessarily that it's a semi-private market, it's that for the vast majority of people it's tied to their employer. The only for most Americans to have a choice in their health insurance is when they ge
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by mason240 9y ago
There are many Protestant churches believe it is.
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by mason240 9y ago
Some did yes. Protestantism was a very diverse collection of sub-theologies. Based on these replies, I'm wondering if there wasn't pop-history hit-piece on Protestantism that I'm not aware of. Just for for the record, I'
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by mason240 9y ago
>One of the main accusations the Protestants levied against the Catholic Church was that Catholic Church was too liberal and too willing to be flexible in its theology. Some did yes. For others the appeal of Protestantism was flexibility
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by mason240 9y ago
The argument that because no market is the theoretical, textbook prefect market means we can ignore market forces and supply and demand is dubious.
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by mason240 9y ago
>And with respect to treating workers terribly, there was no concept of treating workers well, for the most part. This isn't really true. The rapid industrialization that happened in England led much contemporary criticism. It'
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by mason240 9y ago
People believe all kinds of crazy things, but it's undisputed that Protestantism has been generations ahead of Catholicism in social change. Even today, protestants have been accepting of same sex marriages, female clergy, birth contro
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by mason240 9y ago
Protestantism was a phase we needed to get from Catholicism to secular humanism.
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by mason240 9y ago
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RodentsOfUnusualS...
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by mason240 9y ago
Why create a bureaucracy to monitor the incomes of of 330 million, and then force them to prove they are poor enough for a check just to exclude Bill Gates? Gates is paying at least 8 figures in Federal taxes a year, just send him a check l
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by mason240 9y ago
>UBI is a form of welfare. It's not. It's fundamentally different from current welfare programs. that are complete with shortsighted baggage like income caps that are either so low they screw over the middle class, or so high t
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by mason240 9y ago
>Why not discontinue basic income after someone makes, say, $50K per year? Then it's no longer UBI, it's just another wage/welfare cliff.
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by mason240 9y ago
Just to put $3T in context, the total expenditures for 2016 where $3.5T. Of course this is counting defense and health spending as well.
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by mason240 9y ago
Sure, but it's another barrier. Every time you put a group of people though a barrier, you lose some.
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by mason240 9y ago
Bikes too. Mountain bikes are currently banned from Federal lands. There's an uphill battle right now to open it, and I fear that e-bikes are going to kill it.
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by mason240 9y ago
That sounds like a great arrangement, as long as I get to be be patriarch, the boss, or the moderator who has dictatorial authority over who stays and who goes, and what the rules are. Sound good?
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by mason240 9y ago
I agree completly. Not having a car or space for camping gear is a huge barrier to getting outdoors. Imagine two groups of people: 1000 suburbanites with SUVs and garages, and 1000 urban apartment dwellers with no car at all. Which group is
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by mason240 9y ago
They haven't started selling. This is in response to the failed attempt you mentioned for federal government to give control of the land to the states. However, that was a bill in Congress that withdrawn after a very bipartisan outcry.

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