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by rpiguy 6y ago
Large accumulators of wealth simply dodge estate taxes all together. They put the money in a foundation and their heirs get a draw on the foundation for the rest of their lives. Whatever reforms are put in place should focus on minimizing t
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Antibodies don't determine your immunity to future infection. Memory B cells determine whether or not your body knows how to respond. This has come up every time an article on antibodies has been posted. If antibodies stay in your syst
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by rpiguy 6y ago
The return we gave gotten out of the military industrial complex is enormous. Without it there would have been no Silicon Valley, no Fairchild, no Intel, etc. It has been money well spent, but I agree with you and President Trump that we sh
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Same in Bangladesh and other countries.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
No, the court's opinion specifically stated they never weighed whether or not DACA was legal. The decision was purely based on the fact that the administration failed to address the effect on the 650K DACA recipients already living her
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by rpiguy 6y ago
It wasn't even really about justification, the court refused to allow the law to be rescinded because the administration's executive order did not address the potential effect on the 650K DACA recipients already here.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Nearly as tedious as listening to experts in lab coats make wild projections that were wildly off and basing policy on it. I’m very happy that we get lots of opinions from non-experts.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Because Nike doesn't want you to think about the person working for $2 dollars a day to make your shoes in a sweatshop.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
The TL:DR version of this is quite simple. Trumps poll numbers actually do not move all that much. They change because the ratio of democrats:republicans change in every sample. In effect, the pollsters are creating the illusion of movement
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by rpiguy 6y ago
It is sort of a meaningless number unless it could be broken down. Who was injured by police? Who was injured by rioters? Who was driven over by a vehicle because traffic was blocked? I imagine it will be very hard to know for sure because
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Given time all parody becomes reality. Almost exactly 20 years ago I wrote a parody article claiming that "motherboards" should be called "mainboards" because the term motherboard is offensive (it contains slots into whi
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Enhance!
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by rpiguy 6y ago
You know what is nuts is that I first learned about this on Watchmen (the HBO series). At first I was enraged, because I thought that liberal Hollywood made it up to stoke racial resentment. Then I looked it up and was even more enraged tha
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by rpiguy 6y ago
This is not true we have a pretty good idea of where the A13 stands. Anandtech has run SpecInt and SpecFP on the A13 and shows it to be in the same range of performance as a Xeon Silver 4112 (2.6ghz base/3.0ghz turbo), which is a 14nm
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Hospitals have millions of dollars worth of equipment, contain huge amounts of narcotics, and deal with psyche patients. They need to be armed. My mother was a nurse and had guns drawn in the hospital by opposing members of a gang there to
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Evidence? Statistics? Most cops are not ready for gun battle at any second.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Unfortunately, items 1, 3, 4, and 5 are all extremely dangerous. The Not Police would be in grave danger. There is a reason that the Police Police are armed. That guy on drugs could stab you, you could pull a car over and that person could
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by rpiguy 6y ago
This is very enlightening and would explain why some regions were hit much harder than others. The title is misleading, the thesis of this professor is that different areas have differing amounts of immunity to the virus (up to 80% in SOME
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Damn it I thought they were going to resurrect the Mindset computer from 1985. Such an awesome machine.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
That is a different debate entirely. To what degree people need to alter behavior to "fit in" varies widely. To be an executive in corporate America, you need to learn corporate speak and use it, for example. No one running a Fort
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Good point!
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by rpiguy 6y ago
There are a few BIG differences. * Today you can be smart and popular. There will always be smart kids that get picked on, but there used to be pure, outright hostility toward the smart kids as recently as thirty years ago. This is especial
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by rpiguy 6y ago
They also forgot to mention a huge one - supports suppressing the political speech of your opponents. Both parties are guilty of this, but the Left is outright determined to regulate speech, shut down the sharing of information they conside
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Not so much in the US.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
And after the revolution the government immediately cracked down on similar tax protests like the Whiskey Rebellion. So what? On its own I agree the Tea Party is wonton vandalism. The patriots knew that too. They wanted to start a war. They
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Fully Agree. The press should not be attacked. There is no excuse for it.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
But rioting doesn’t work. The first comprehensive study of riots was just done at Princeton and riots are found to result in crackdowns, not reform. Occupy Wallstreet, Ferguson riots, 1968 riots, LA Riots, Camden riots, all had opposite the
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Yes they are. Rioting is not protest. It is criminal activity. Your right to protest, assemble, and speak does not include setting buildings with children inside on fire, murdering pawn shop owners, killing federal officers. I fully support
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Women didn’t shoot cops in the back of the head, burn down city hall, steal and loot stores. These aren’t protests they are riots.
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by rpiguy 6y ago
Because rioting isn’t free speech. All conservatives support peaceable assembly and protest. They also fiercely believe in property rights as inherently tied to the concept of liberty. It is right in the Declaration of Independence. No cons

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