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by mech1234 7y ago
We live in a time where small community organizations are on the decline. These organizations exist in the form of clubs, athletic leagues, religious organizations such as churches, and others. Churches provide an emotional support network
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by mech1234 7y ago
What is the main thesis of the particular video? It is that the spread of the British Empire spread Western democratic norms. This particular facet is well-supported by the facts. I agree that it fails to be sufficiently critical of the Bri
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by mech1234 7y ago
The larger you grow the set of rules the more precisely you can apply selective enforcement.
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by mech1234 7y ago
Your solutions can exist. Whether they should or not is an economic tradeoff problem. Production is not free, storage is not free either. Neither one of us have been arguing with hard data yet regarding total $ costs, or evaluation of long-
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by mech1234 7y ago
I agree that the video "Evolution: Bacteria to Beethoven" is misleading and serves a religious agenda. The video accepts natural selection, and references real research data, which is nice, but it asks too much of science. The imp
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by mech1234 7y ago
If you are referring to to the video "If you Live in Freedom, Thank the British Empire", it is factual regarding its objective claims but heavily spun in its subjective claims and in which material it chooses to cover and omit. It
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by mech1234 7y ago
Yes, it is sad that Fox doesn't have enough left-leaning commentators. Media producers have realized that consumers self-select into viewing distribution channels that appeal to their existing beliefs. It creates a feedback loop where
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by mech1234 7y ago
There is some margin in food inventory, but food lead times are long (several months) and stocks (grain silos, grocery store inventory) are small relative to the rate at which they are consumed. Increasing production capacity also takes tim
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by mech1234 7y ago
Your statement seems confused. The food production system as a whole produces more food than humanity as a whole consumes. If you can and freeze your leftovers as an individual it does not change this. At a system level- farms, silos, and g
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by mech1234 7y ago
Grits are made of dent corn.
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by mech1234 7y ago
If we lived in a world where 0% of food was wasted, we would be living in a world with 0% safety margin for a supply shock (aka famine). For this reason alone, I don't mind food waste too much. It's also a reason (although I think
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by mech1234 7y ago
The world is a better world when reasonable opinions are well-considered on all sides. Prager U's videos are not hate speech. They are reasonable opinions voiced in a calm manner. It is sad that YouTube chooses to de-promote Prager&#x2
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by mech1234 7y ago
I wasn't aware that this claim was central to the suit, thanks for that. Many people here are not focusing on that claim. EDIT: Per other replies, it seems like that claim has a large amount of direct evidence against it. I think it is
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by mech1234 7y ago
Do you accept that increasing the size of a local factory creates local jobs? Why would an airport be any different? >50% of the employees are going to be ground crew, security agents, etc.
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by mech1234 7y ago
On the margin, compared to the alternative, this will: 1. Make flights to and from, and connecting flights through, Heathrow more expensive. 2. Move more flights to other neighboring airports. 3. Reduce the volume of people flying to/f
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by mech1234 7y ago
Yep, and they come up higher on the search results in bing and google. Not sure if I really recommend them, but their dang domain name sure is a hell of a lot easier to remember. Maybe I would recommend them on that fact alone- in a public
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by mech1234 7y ago
Referencing the http://coronavirus-realtime.com/ website, the graph of the number of infections over time is suspiciously non-exponential right now. I think China and the rest of the world are both struggling to collect dat
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by mech1234 7y ago
Why is it already the government's money?
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by mech1234 7y ago
The precautionary principle seems to be thrown to the wind here. The unintended consequences of such a policy are far-reaching and poorly understood. UBI has seen a lot of coverage in the media recently and gets a lot of people excited on s
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by mech1234 7y ago
This bill will not pass. Its introduction is primarily a signalling exercise and a populist rallying cry.
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by mech1234 7y ago
You do not actually disagree with dcolkitt.
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by mech1234 7y ago
You are being needlessly contrarian. Fiscal policy comprises both borrowing and taxing; the two are fungible as far as spending is concerned.
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by mech1234 7y ago
I'm getting strange vibes for how people must be reacting to this. Your idea of a possible better world is so bad that you should feel bad! /s
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by mech1234 7y ago
I think that billionaires' wealth is justified, with the exception of criminal billionaires. Assuming that they pay all taxes that they are legally required to pay, why do you think that they do not have a right to their own personal p
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by mech1234 7y ago
This language misunderstanding took longer to clear up than I thought it would.
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by mech1234 7y ago
Get a firm or very firm innerspring mattress from IKEA. You can do this for less than $300 and it will fit in the back of a sedan in it's roll-up-package. Sleep on it for a bit. If you don't like the feel, which you probably won&#
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by mech1234 7y ago
Are you implying that public equity is some sort of government-owned entity? My best guess is that you are confused as to what the term "private equity firm" means. Your post is so entwined with implications that I have no idea wh
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by mech1234 7y ago
I doubt facebook committed a crime here. The right way to address tax avoidance is to change the law, not to punish companies that comply with the law through arbitrary levels of complexity. Even if everyone in the room is aware that facebo
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by mech1234 7y ago
Did you eventually get paid? Sounds like the old phrase "you can't understand something if your salary depends on not understanding it" applies. If the boss of the company spreads misinformation that impugned you, his reports
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by mech1234 7y ago
Kickstarter prints money, so I don't think they'll be hurt too much by this. I think that Kickstarter as a company could exist in its current form with little change for a long time. I wonder how the culture works around there.

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