pharrlax

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by pharrlax 10y ago
Great, fine, you can have that if you want it. But no one's trying to make that illegal. On the flip side, dense housing and tight residential-commercial zoning is illegal in most places.
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The problem is that homeowners see their house as an investment, and therefore expect it to accrue value at a predictable rate, and so they'll fight tooth and nail against housing availability in the city. We basically need to bring th
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Memes, seems like
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>If you look at polls that go issue by issue, you inevitably come to the conclusion that the "US population" at large (55-60%) would support a broad agenda of social democracy . . . the Democrats, who refuse to push for anythin
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>I am of the opinion that India is better off spending that money by identifying all the organizational systems that it lacks like waste processing, water purification, security, monitoring, etc., and funding several startups in those ar
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I don't understand how this relates to whether broadband is a natural monopoly. Certainly it's one that demands more frequent upgrades, but that seems to be missing the point.
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>Of course, Ajit Pai will have a lobbying job earning well north of 400K the moment the Trump administration runs out the door Hahahaha, 400k? The man is the Chairman of the FCC. Try well into seven figures
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by pharrlax 10y ago
This is one of the biggest reasons it was refreshing as hell to move to the big city, as paradoxical as that sounds. Rural/suburban life is like living in a barren wasteland marked by occasional oases you have to travel between in a m
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by pharrlax 10y ago
Have a casual look at Glenn Greenwald's Twitter feed and then come back and tell me his news organization is partisan.
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by pharrlax 10y ago
>Droids seem to largely hold the same position in Star Wars that slaves did, except nobody seems to be worried about a Droid rebellion Obi-Wan actually touches on this briefly in Episode II: "If droids could think, there'd be n
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by pharrlax 10y ago
Ideology is basically meaningless. American politics is entirely tribalism. The Democrats spent 8 years decrying the myriad ways the executive branch violated the Constitution under George W. Then Obama takes power and basically continues o
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by pharrlax 10y ago
Science's default position -- the null hypothesis -- is that there is no relationship between two phenomena. In this case, the phenomena are "administering treatment" and "seeing positive results". If the null hypot
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No Westerner wants to be the one to call Chinese people racist
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>you're risking your health Really? How so? What health risks come with microdosing LSD? Are they comparable to the health risks of Adderall? Or nicotine? Or even caffeine? >Of the 20 drugs ranked harm to individual and societal
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by pharrlax 10y ago
LSD is one of the safest drugs around, in terms of health effects, at recreational doses (let alone at microdoses). Unless there are some mystery side effects I'm not aware of, I'm not sure how your analogy makes any sense.
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by pharrlax 10y ago
It's also become substantially cheaper as fuel prices have tanked over the last few years. Lower fuel costs means budget airlines can compete more aggressively, and major carriers have to lower their own prices to stay competitive. So
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Or if it has failed silently.
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Because that's a simplification of what certain drugs do to the mind. A consenting adult might be able to make the rational decision to do or not to do MDMA. But when someone, say, becomes addicted to heroin, their mind changes so dram
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by pharrlax 10y ago
9.4% tax on $8 a month is around 75 cents. People will complain about anything.
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>If your house's foundation (the Constitution) is crumbling, do you continue to build on top of it (laws) to keep the house from collapsing? Obviously a country is not a house, and countries have been very successful with only a sin
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Do stocks count as "something"?
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There just aren't enough eggs shouting into the void at random celebrities.