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by newbie12 13y ago
In my experience, the closer you are to action the more swearing (sales, press, front-line dev) and the polite stuff is more for the office bureaucrats who aren't critical to the success of the organization. There's something ref
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by newbie12 13y ago
The "family farm" defense of agricultural subsidies is dead wrong. In fact, most programs are price subsidies, so the more you produce, the more you benefit, and as a result most of the subsidies go to the largest producers-- we
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by newbie12 13y ago
That's right, HFCS is slightly cheaper than raw sugar in the US because the government has extremely protective import quotas against world priced sugar. The invention of HFCS in the 1980s is a direct result of the U.S. sugar program.
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by newbie12 13y ago
It is a human condition to have endless wants. The genius of the American experiment was that the Founders understood this, and created institutional checks on the size and power of government-- after all, governments are made up of people
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by newbie12 13y ago
The Netherlands doesn't have a sizeable auto industry with politically powerful unions in key political states. Unfortunately, the American auto industry bends government at all levels to its will...cars own the road and everything is
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by newbie12 13y ago
The same self-interested political forces that keep the number of doctors low are also fighting against automation.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Yeah, this study is a joke-- Berea is really atypical, I've visited. The town is charming with a serious mountain artistic vibe. The school has a religious mission and outreach to non-traditional students in Appalachia.
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by newbie12 13y ago
So true. There was another plane crash that killed ten people in Alaska over the weekend...even though it was more deadly it hasn't gotten the same coverage, in some measure because there's no video of the accident.
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by newbie12 13y ago
>people who only counted as 3/5ths of a person for the sake >of increasing the slave states' representation in Congress. You have this backwards, please read the history. The 3/5's compromise was an initiative by
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by newbie12 13y ago
It was months or years in some cases, and there's also evidence the IRS leaked private donor lists and audited donors.
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by newbie12 13y ago
These decisions are being made in the Oval Office-- President Obama is directly supervising the manhunt. He's even talked publicly about his approach in a press conference.
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by newbie12 13y ago
"The real Reagan record on AIDS is different. AIDS funding skyrocketed in the 1980s, almost doubling each year from 1983 - when the media started blaring headlines - from $44 million to $103 million, $205 million, $508 million, $922 mi
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by newbie12 13y ago
Describing someone as a "denialist" is a demonization, it is designed to connect the person to absurd Holocaust "deniers".
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by newbie12 13y ago
You should learn more about the FDA. It kills many Americans by slowing down the adoption of new drugs, and by adding serious cost to the development of new drugs. In other areas, the FDA is "captured" by industry and offers no
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by newbie12 13y ago
To be fair, in the case of the Tea Party they delayed applications through the election, and there's also evidence the IRS handed donor information to outside groups.
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by newbie12 13y ago
I don't think Snowden is going to make it out of Moscow as a free man, but if he does, the US will orchestrate political change in Ecuador and eventually get him that way. America is Ecuador's biggest and most important trading p
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by newbie12 13y ago
Actually adding "under God" happened in the 1950s and was about the Cold War and the fight against godless Communism.
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by newbie12 13y ago
It isn't that simple. The government's programs are kept secret, even from most of Congress and most of the courts, and certainly from the public. It is very hard to square the sweeping NSA programs with the plain language of th
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by newbie12 13y ago
From Wikipedia: "philistinism describes the social attitude of anti-intellectualism that undervalues and despises art, beauty, spirituality, and intellect; ‘the manners, habits, and character, or mode of thinking of a philistine’.[1] A
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by newbie12 13y ago
This dead zone is, in large measure, the result of US agriculture and ethanol subsidies, which encourage expanded and more intensive production than would otherwise exist.
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by newbie12 13y ago
The performance differences between all of the major scripting languages -- Ruby, Python, PHP -- are insignificant, unless you are operating at Facebook scale (and Facebook, which still uses PHP, supports the HipHop project). Your web app
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by newbie12 13y ago
Indeed, many of the "homeless" may have access to shelter-- it is more of a vagrancy problem. Vagrancy is an issue with any free public service or public space, from parks to libraries to train stations to free buses. You'd
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by newbie12 13y ago
You obviously don't live a region that's at risk for Lyme disease. The disease is seriously bad news if it is left untreated, as the bacteria invade the nervous system.
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by newbie12 13y ago
The problem is that insurance companies and governments stand between health care and consumers. So the incentives aren't as strong as other markets. Purely market-based health care, like eye lasic or breast implants, have seen remar
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by newbie12 13y ago
Just do the antibiotics and don't worry about it, it will kill the bacteria if it exists. The standard lyme test looks for the antibodies, which won't exist if you take the antibiotics within a few days of the bite.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Do you still have the tick? You can send it to a lab for analysis, it costs just $60. The human lyme tests are very inaccurate, especially within two weeks of the bite-- you might not have formed antibodies yet.
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by newbie12 13y ago
The right to bear arms is also, explicitly, a protection against tyranny BY the government. Thomas Jefferson: ""When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. The strong
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by newbie12 13y ago
The Tea Party faction of the GOP is a pretty vigorous libertarian movement-- Rand Paul is the most libertarian elected official of either party.
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by newbie12 13y ago
Your speculation about the GOP primaries is mis-informed. In 2010, Rand was an insurgent "tea party" republican, as was Rubio -- both men were officially opposed by the party in their primaries and defeated the "generic&quot
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by newbie12 13y ago
Only five states require firearms registration (as opposed to the near-universal, one-time federal background check at purchase).

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