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by newbie12 14y ago
The auto industry is saying that fully self-driving cars will be on the market in ten years. The safety and entertainment benefits are enormous. Bullet trains require an entirely new track infrastructure, whereas self driving cars are an
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by newbie12 14y ago
First we need to fix regular passenger rail in this country. As long as interstate passenger rail is controlled by the Amtrak monopoly, and its attendant unions, rail travel in America will continue to fall behind the rest of the world.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Actually apocalypse did come-- in the last century there was mass starvation in Russia, China, Ukraine, Ethiopia, North Korea and more....literally tens of millions of people starved to death within living memory. Plus, large scale factory
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by newbie12 14y ago
Not a cynic, a skeptic. And that's pud, who's a pretty major hacker.
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by newbie12 14y ago
The Point was nothing like Groupon! It was more of a goofy political/community action site. Social deals were a pivot as The Point failed.
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A Factory on Your Kitchen Counter(nytimes.com)
4 points by newbie12 14y ago|1 comments
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by newbie12 14y ago
Not even close. First of all, mining and burning coal is far worse for the environment than oil. Mining is destructive, impacts water tables, and burning coal produces lots of toxic byproducts like mercury and other heavy metals. Further
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by newbie12 14y ago
Unfortunately, because Estonia derives almost all of their electrical power from coal, this is a wasteful setback for the environment. http://www.tradingeconomics.com/estonia/electricity-producti...
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by newbie12 14y ago
This is an indictment of the U.S. legal system, not the U.S. healthcare system.
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by newbie12 14y ago
They should if he leaves them an inheritance.
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How Obama's content distribution network overwhelms traditional media(politico.com)
1 points by newbie12 14y ago|0 comments
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by newbie12 14y ago
The author's father, Bill, around age 76, never paid taxes while living for decades in the UK, but was still treated, and died there. The author assumes he wouldn't have had care in the U.S. That's wrong. Even though he never held a recog
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by newbie12 14y ago
The presence of pharma in our water supplies is a huge problem. None of the U.S. clean water rules address this. We don't even really know the extent of the problem, because there is no testing regime. Here on the upper Potomac my town d
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by newbie12 14y ago
From the Federalist Papers 62: "In this spirit it may be remarked, that the equal vote allowed to each State is at once a constitutional recognition of the portion of sovereignty remaining in the individual States, and an instrument for pre
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by newbie12 14y ago
No the goal is to have some regional balance, so one region of the country can't use the reins of power to exploit another region.
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by newbie12 14y ago
"Rural bias" is a feature, not a bug. In allocating power in Congress and the Electoral College, the Founders wanted to give weight to geographic region as well as population. Obviously this benefits lower populated states. America was f
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by newbie12 14y ago
The Nordic super nanny state is something of a myth. All three have very open markets and size of government that is 50% of GDP or less (US is 42%). http://www.heritage.org/index/country/sweden
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by newbie12 14y ago
The world did! 36,000 Americans died trying. The UN, led by the US, fought a brutal war in Korea from 1950-53 that nearly liberated North Korea...until Mao's Chinese army crossed into North Korea in overwhelming numbers in a surprise atta
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by newbie12 14y ago
Gulag view -- they should smuggle cameras in!
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by newbie12 14y ago
It isn't "injustice" that he's born into privilege. That affluence is the result of sacrifice and decisions made by his family and his larger community/nation. The injustice is that other families and nations are various degrees of corrupt
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by newbie12 14y ago
Rep. Amash is a Tea Party libertarian up for re-election every two years, had no primary challenger in 2012 and it is unlikely he'll be primary challenged next cycle either.
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by newbie12 14y ago
See any study on micro- particulate matter.
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by newbie12 14y ago
The full $200,000 would cover, literally, 1.8 seconds of federal government spending.
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by newbie12 14y ago
PayPal doesn't give a shit about claiming the money for the government and they damn sure don't care about his immigration status. They just don't want to get ripped off.
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by newbie12 14y ago
Proper capitalism doesn't involve violence-- all market actors are participating out of free will. The government should be a referee to keep the playing field level, but usually the government is busy transferring resources from the gener
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by newbie12 14y ago
Her call to action is really misguided. She's making it personal and obviously (and understandably) is out for blood. However, restrain is called for. Instead, she should be focused ONLY on getting public access to the materials under pr
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by newbie12 14y ago
Here's the Games Workshop customer support email: CustServ@gwplc.com Can't hurt to let them know we aren't pleased.
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by newbie12 14y ago
UPS and FedEx also have complete nationwide delivery that includes unprofitable places. In fact, both private delivery companies come to my rural doorstep while the USPS won't deliver to my home at all.
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by newbie12 14y ago
USPS needs to fund the promises it is making to its employees, especially when those promises will eventually cost nearly $50 billion. The retiree health care benefit is unique to postal workers, which is why USPS claims the burden is uniq
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by newbie12 14y ago
Completely wrong. The requirement is to pre-fund their unique retiree health care benefit, not their pensions. (Everyone has to pre-fund pensions.) This special health care benefit was "pay-as-you-go" and has over $40 billion in unfunded

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