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by rhino369 7y ago
IIRC, that Faramir plot was cut from the theatrical release and was only included in the extended version. I think I sort of prefer showing him struggle with it and then make the right decision rather than just making the right decision eas
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by rhino369 7y ago
What does a "hard core climate change denier" look like according him though? I took an environmental law seminar at Northwestern, and one of the invited guests was read the riot act by faculty who accused him for being a climate
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by rhino369 7y ago
Part of the reason the telecoms in the US were slow to upgrade was that they were originally forced to do local loop unbundling. Why invest if competitors could use those lines for cheap rates? And the cable companies already had a high ba
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by rhino369 7y ago
Nobody wants to be fat and most are already pretty ashamed about it. The big over-eaters (like myself) are sort of like addicts, but its a drug we really can't quit. It's like trying to manage your alcoholism by drinking 2 drink
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by rhino369 7y ago
The ones that vote in high numbers.
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by rhino369 7y ago
ISPs don’t make 75% profit margins, so that’s really not possible.
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by rhino369 7y ago
Deploying fiber is expensive. He’s going to have to pay for it—AT&T isn’t a charity.
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by rhino369 7y ago
That’s a difference, but they are still analogous. Not realizing the gain is actually a helpful tax avoidance strategy. I’m investing long term, I’d rather not realize the gain.
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by rhino369 7y ago
>Why was it necessary to change student loans to being non-dischargeable in bankruptcy? To keep interest rates on student loans low and to make sure the loans are available to 18 year olds with no credit history. There was a real problem
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by rhino369 7y ago
You are probably also ignoring the cost of getting your house connected to city plumbing. It's thousands of dollars.
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by rhino369 7y ago
And Spanish companies can enjoy operating under America’s new tariff (law).
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by rhino369 7y ago
The underlying individual assets didn't really turn out to be poorly rated. The problem was they assumed a low-level of correlation between the risk of individual assets. Basically, they believed default risk for a house in Milwaukee
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by rhino369 7y ago
>He's saying the fact that Illinois is gradually ramping to a $15 statewide minimum is not evidence that a $15 minimum is nationally appropriate, because the economy of Illinois is not the same as the economy of Kansas or Wyoming. P
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by rhino369 7y ago
I'm sure I could make his job seem easy too.
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by rhino369 7y ago
So you make 600k and you think lawyers charge too much huh.
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by rhino369 7y ago
You don't need to secure all the coast lines. Only the parts that are worth saving.
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by rhino369 7y ago
They'd be better off spending the money on measures to mitigate damage from rising seas (and their sinking city). Venetian impact on climate chance is a rounding error. But they are going to hit worse than everyone else.
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by rhino369 7y ago
My wife hates her unfresh breath so much that she won't eat before brushing. I don't really get it since my mouth tastes like mint for 30 minutes after brushing, which makes food taste gross.
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by rhino369 7y ago
It radically changes the human experience for one. A world without brothers and sisters? Everyone has a single-child outlooks. Sounds bad to me. And how are you going to police that in Africa, India, or any Catholic or Muslim country? It&
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by rhino369 7y ago
>This worldview implies abandoning all coastal cities and several entire countries, correct? Over hundreds of years, yes. Some of the biggest cities in the world didn't exist 200 years ago or were small villages. I lived on land th
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by rhino369 7y ago
Only in the same federal district that issued the ruling. And even then its not binding. A different judge in the same district could come to a different conclusion.
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by rhino369 7y ago
>This. Technical writing is a different species entirely. You know beforehand all of the pieces, or at least reason about them. The advice to "don't edit while you write" usually comes after the advice to "make an out
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by rhino369 7y ago
My municipality cannot even deliver water without making our kids mentally disabled from lead poisoning. Not sure I want them with a monopoly on telecoms too.
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by rhino369 7y ago
Depending on how to define patent troll, yes or no. If you define patent troll as only someone who asserts clearly invalid patents or makes unsupported and unreasonable assertions of infringement? No argument for their existence. But many
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by rhino369 7y ago
Student debt isn't likely to cause a 2008 crisis since the vast majority of it is held by (or backed by) the government.
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by rhino369 7y ago
It's processed cheese, but its still pretty much cheese. And its better on a burger than any other type of cheese because it melts well. Putting good cheese on a burger is a waste of good cheese and makes a worse burger.
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by rhino369 7y ago
Autopilot isn't even designed to be used without a human driver. Which confirms that even Tesla doesn't think its better than a human. It can't even handle intersections.
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by rhino369 7y ago
I've found pretty much the opposite. People don't consider public transit unless its clearly the better option.
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by rhino369 7y ago
I think the fundamental issue Musk has is that his cars can’t drive safer than even a below average driver. Oh wow, it can stay in a lane and match speed! So can every car manufacturer. They’ve got a level 2+ system and cars won’t be safer
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by rhino369 7y ago
PG&E

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