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by mason240 10y ago
Which is something to keep in mind when people talk about blue states being net Federal tax payers and red states being net Federal tax receivers. The interstates and railways through ID, WY, or NE aren't there for the people of those
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by mason240 10y ago
The guy was troll looking for a reaction.
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by mason240 10y ago
> Going to college poor (actually poor) is nearly impossible. This isn't true at all. I speak from personal experience.
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by mason240 10y ago
This is also true of email.
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by mason240 10y ago
>When you post on Facebook or Twitter, you're publishing content in the public sphere, deliberately. I would argue that Facebook is private, Twitter is public.
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There is a non-zero chance you get a substantial appointment.
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by mason240 10y ago
According to click bait media outlets with nothing to base it on.
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by mason240 10y ago
They seem to go back and forth on that every couple of months.
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by mason240 10y ago
That would be huge win for Microsoft, presumably if Android apps are written in C# they will be easy to port or have shared libraries with windows apps.
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by mason240 10y ago
It depends if we remain individual nations that chart different courses, or if we are conglomeratized into trans-nation states like the EU.
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by mason240 10y ago
I think the "average" person on earth is 35 year old Indian male.
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by mason240 10y ago
Predicting advances in technology are easy. What's hard is predict is it's impact on society. How many people in 1950 would have guessed that social media would be a thing?
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by mason240 10y ago
When I was a middle schooler in the 90s my grandpa would bring over stacks of old Popular Mechanics magazines from the 50s-70s that were predicting what life would be like in future decades. I think it gave me a good perspective when readin
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by mason240 10y ago
Is it legal in any state?
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by mason240 10y ago
And hyrdo power. I've seen zero discussion on building new dams. The PNW is bragging now about their clean energy, but they spent decades trying to get all those dams removed.
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by mason240 10y ago
Or you can live with better standard of living in the Twin Cities suburbs with a house and a yard, as I do, for less cost than living in small box in Minneapolis.
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by mason240 10y ago
In this case, people without cars benefit from parking lots at stores, because store wouldn't be able to stay open if they only catered to people without cars. You still enjoy the benefit of a society where people get to choose their t
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by mason240 10y ago
Randomizing the top three comments. Have three categories: New, Best (up:down ratio is high), Controversial (up:down ratio of 1:1). Pick one from each category and then randomly make them the top three. For larger threads you can salt them
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by mason240 10y ago
Can you?
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by mason240 10y ago
>discredited outsiders like Newt Gingrich and John Bolton --- are getting the most important positions in the United States government for kowtowing to Trump? Has he actually announced this yet or you just assuming?
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Oh boy, an online poll.
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by mason240 10y ago
UBI can't work with the open border situation we currently have.
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by mason240 10y ago
I don't mean to sound offensive but, how could you possibly draw that conclusion from what I said? It seems like rather than address what I said, you decided to make baseless attacks against me.
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by mason240 10y ago
Now that religious social issues like gay marriage and abortion have been essentially settled, we have been in the beginning of a trend where left-wing politics begins to align with religion. We are already seeing with people using religiou
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by mason240 10y ago
Sure, that's true if you completely ignore all context.
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Of course they are, they have to spin it to get their base to believe they've been cheated. The results will come in eventually that she lost the popular vote, but that feeling they cultivated will remain.
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by mason240 10y ago
Except this person appears to be innocent.
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by mason240 10y ago
>First of all, the US had a signed a agreement, breaking that would have been terrible The agreement was perused because the US government wanted to withdraw. I have no idea what you are trying to argue here (aside from circular logic).
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by mason240 10y ago
That advice is what lead to ISIS in the first place, when the US withdrew from Iraq too early before it was stable enough.

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