seanflyon

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by seanflyon 11y ago
Why would the damages caused by institutionalized racism be anything but ugly?
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Feedback is just as much of an issue whether the relationship is correlation or causation. All correlations are either based on random chance (thus not statistically significant) or based on some causal relationship, even if we can't
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by seanflyon 11y ago
There is a strong contingent that believes that the risk of you defaulting on a loan should be taken into account in the terms of the loan. There is also the ugly fact that the risk of you defaulting is correlated with race.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I don't see where causation entered the conversation. Correlation and causation have the same predictive power. If the water on Mars turns 90% of people into men or 90% of the people that drink said water are already men, either way
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Yes democracy has its problems as well, that's the entire point of that famous quip. Which countries would you most want to live in and how many of them are democracies Nazi Germany accomplished some impressive things, but they were
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others. We have decided that no one is more trustworthy to pick our leaders than large bodies of anonymous people.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Which doesn't really answer the question without knowing how often they were repaired.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Are concert venues public places?
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by seanflyon 11y ago
You don't need to bring prices down to Stockton levels to avoid San Francisco level problems.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Dragontamer is speaking as if Uber's competition is external to Uber, which of course it is. Uber sets its price and then offers services in a free market at that price, just like any other company. That makes Uber different from pla
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Unless they are on your property, in which case you can ask them to leave.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
You have 1st amendment rights everywhere, but a private institution is allowed to ask you to leave if they don't like what you say in public or in private. The only exception to this is discrimination laws: If you can show that they
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I don't think that anything you wrote here makes sense as a response to my comment. Less resource intensive crops grow here, great. If they are cost effective then we should continue to grow them, if they are not cost effective then
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> letting the price of water reflect its supply and demand. Which would force a significant reduction in agricultural water use.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> CA is one of 5 Mediterranean climates in the world, and that makes it suitable to grow all kinds of stuff that doesn't grow anywhere else. 2% GDP is irrelevant because you die without food. You can live perfectly fine without Medi
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by seanflyon 11y ago
It works pretty well for food.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
As far as I'm aware, Mac is just as 'banned' as Windows. Developers have Linux(Goobuntu) desktops and Mac, Linux, Windows or ChromeOS for laptops (which are primarily used as a terminal for your desktop).
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> where another might ding you for not instantly knowing the answer While there certainly are incompetent interviewers, I think ones that extreme are rare.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
For what percentage of your meals do you cook and eat tasty new food in the company of other people?
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> we know people do fine on traditionally healthy food This is a valid point to an extent, but we don't know that people do fine on a particular subset of traditionally healthy ingredients. We may discover that Soylent lacks some s
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I've always seen the value proposition as saving time vs cooking yourself and saving money vs buying prepared food.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I like the way it worked before the Patriot Act: want to search someone's property? Get a warrant. Want to tap someone's phone? Get a warrant. Want to collect whatever private information? Get a warrant with the target's
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I'm assuming that Greece has a fair share of intelligent adults capable of being productive.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> crushing debt payments Growth helps a lot with that problem.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Bank lends farmer money to buy a tractor, farmer doubles productivity.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I agree with a lot of your comment, but this bothered me: > you frankly don't understand the value and purpose of the 1st amendment The purpose of the 1st amendment is to ensure peoples rights to free speech, even if that speech is
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Ablative paint is another option, though it just means that it takes a bigger laser or more time to destroy.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
Or Russia could abruptly decide not to sell us any more. Relying on a foreign government to keep our military functioning is not ideal and our relations with Russia, while generally friendly, are somewhat strained the last few years.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
I'm pretty sure those costs are estimates based on a high production rate.
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by seanflyon 11y ago
> fiscally conservative, in favor of limited government, limited intervention in individual's lives, pro small business > None of these things are necessary to libertarianism. Could you state what you mean by "libertarianism

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