researcher88

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by researcher88 11y ago
Isn't there a difference though? If I want to have a Scandinavian child, I just reproduce with someone from Sweden. If I want my child to be immune to the sun and skin cancer, I just add a gene from the leaf of a tree, inject it into h
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by researcher88 11y ago
Rand had a cool limited bumper sticker silhouette with just his first name, like this. Seemed like good branding- http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5522b0ec6da811ae3f3...
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by researcher88 11y ago
Her Facebook page is working now. Earlier when I clicked on it, it would just go back to my newsfeed. (She was on my friends list prior to this story. She already had 5,000 friends.) Perhaps some bug or automated restriction, maybe from
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by researcher88 11y ago
I was friends with her prior to this. Her profile is working now. Not deleted but something was broken with it earlier.
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by researcher88 11y ago
Terrence McKenna's lecture on McLuhan is also excellent- https://youtu.be/9dROH6aOIUc
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by researcher88 11y ago
Her profile appears in my friends' list but when you click on it, it goes nowhere and opens back up my feed.
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by researcher88 11y ago
Reminded me of George Carlin's last standup special, where he said "it's part of their [cops'] job to commit perjury whenever it helps the state's case": https://youtu.be/jgxyCudDiM4
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by researcher88 11y ago
As a metaphor, it will get you to outerspace but you may miss your target. You don't actually need to guide it, there's so much thrust/traction that you'd have to be super talented and purposely trying to sabotage it fo
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by researcher88 11y ago
Child abduction by strangers is extremely rare and around 100 per year in the US although that may be an outdated number. The one stat I just checked said 515 stranger abductions between 1990 and 1995. And that was when free range childre
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by researcher88 11y ago
Evan Spiegel is clearly smart but it's weird to hail him as some visionary when someone else came up with the concept and someone else coded the app. When an app takes off like that, is it even possible to fail running the company? Y
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by researcher88 11y ago
I think you are overreacting. Maybe he does have a better grasp on a few areas in life than you or I do. It's just a book. One that might make people think a bit and question their own life more. What I find gross are people scared o
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by researcher88 11y ago
Seems related to why I feel compelled to say "ummm" or "uhhh" before responding to a Subway employee asking me what I want on my sandwich. It just feels like I am being nicer and not barking out commands.
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by researcher88 11y ago
Well you can't really be a Keynesian and think inflation is bad. Who does it favor? Governmentts and the rich who get the new money first. For regular people, it encourages them to spend money now and not save. And the only way arou
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by researcher88 11y ago
No, just highly educated. I meant that he is less likely to use religion to define his beliefs. He is a critical thinker and a smart guy, so he surely recognizes the contradictions and problems with religion. He can call himself a Christi
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by researcher88 11y ago
I think it makes him a politician more than anything. The guy has an MD from Duke; I doubt he is as religious as he seems. The reality is, there is little upside in a Republican primary for saying he thinks gays should marry or for promoti
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by researcher88 11y ago
Don't you mean federalism? A lot of people seem to use it to signify states rights and a balance of power. Such as the historian podcaster Dan Carlin. Edit- I can't reply below but you are using the term incorrectly and in the c
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by researcher88 11y ago
If anyone is a threat to the Establishment, it is Rand Paul. He is not perfect but he can't be if he wants to win. He has a serious chance of getting the nomination and will help propel the conversation on surveillance reform and cri
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by researcher88 11y ago
Can you elaborate? Private prisons do spend millions lobbying- http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2011/06/23/251363/cca-geogr...
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by researcher88 12y ago
If a prosecutor thinks they will lose a case and the defendant rejects all plea deals, the prosecutor will sometimes dismiss the case citing lack of evidence. Preventing an accused person the ability to be found not guilty.
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by researcher88 12y ago
Even Justin Bieber took a plea deal in his DUI case when it appears his BAC was .014 and the cops lied or exaggerated the facts during the arrest. Perhaps he was still guilty of reckless driving but there's no consequences for the cop
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by researcher88 12y ago
And my friends would be amused by your friends. I know a few DoD-type guys who operate in these informal government contractor circles. I have seen some wild stuff involving private companies, NASA and intel agencies. Lot of these CIA th
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by researcher88 12y ago
A few years ago the EU proposed banning cars in all major European cities by 2050. And they wanted to restrict 50% of all trabel over 186 miles to trains. The plan was rejected by the UK and was criticized as draconian.
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by researcher88 12y ago
Why is this so easily accepted? In Denver, the weed sales tax is upwards of 21% with a previous 15% excise tax from cultivator to retail outlet. In Colorado, it's less than 8% tax on a 6 pack of beer and the great majority of this is a
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by researcher88 12y ago
Even married couples with kids who make $100,000 a year and live in the midwest couldn't intelligently afford to use this service regularly. This is just my experience with a family that is able to cover expenses and put $500 in saving
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by researcher88 12y ago
True. 6,000 people died of cocaine abuse in 2006. Another statistic said 17,000 died in 2000 from all illicit drugs. Now surely moderate cocaine abuse is causing deaths in people who aren't known addicts. But tobacco is certainly fa
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by researcher88 12y ago
President Bush gave Charles Colson the Presidential Citizens Medal. All Colson did was conspire to kill a US journalist while working as White House counsel. And conspire to firebomb the Brookings Institution and orchestrated the Watergat
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by researcher88 12y ago
In Citizenfour, Snowden had a copy of the sequel, Homeland, while he was in Hong Kong. Kind of a surreal moment.
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by researcher88 12y ago
People buy that stuff just to help out kids though. Going door to door selling a 'magical candy bar' that can radically change someone's life for eternity would be much harder. I guess part of that is also conviction in wha
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by researcher88 12y ago
Schneier said there are three. The 2nd leaking the Merkel and X-KEYSCORE and the third connected to NCTC. Also one was supposedly raided by the FBI at the end of October but that story was never updated.
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by researcher88 12y ago
When I read about FanHero on techcrunch, I thought it was a good idea despite the article's tone. Mainly because I watch a lot of alternative content and listen to podcasts, and I want a way to support what I like. It wasn't an o

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