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by sgnelson 11y ago
I don't think I've ever seen a worse Cartogram. At least they did an animation to make it easier to understand, but a regular map with simple choropleth would be a thousand times better.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mouse_That_Roared
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by sgnelson 11y ago
You have to take advantage of that business traveler who is expensing everything has "has to have internet access for work."
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by sgnelson 11y ago
Yes. I should have added, it's not that I don't have sympathy for Greece and how their debt has been structured. I also don't think Europe should let them fall. It's also not that I don't think Piketty is correct
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I'll put it this way. World War I: Germany loses, is forced to pay not just debt, but reparations. Huge economic and political instability as a result leads to a new leadership which leads directly to World War II. World War II: Ger
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by sgnelson 11y ago
This makes me lose respect for Piketty. There's a very clear difference between a country that comes out of two world wars, with everything all but destroyed, including millions dead. I'm sorry, no matter how bad 2008 was, it wa
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by sgnelson 11y ago
Is there insurance for the payloads? I know very little about rocketry and launching satellites, but with the costs so high, I would imagine that there is some form of risk mitigation, but I've never heard of such a thing. edit: If I
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by sgnelson 11y ago
As to abuse in a typical 2 person marriage, yes, you're right, but this is also something that I believe society tries to deal with. There are always going to be abusive relationships, regardless of how many people are in them, but I
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by sgnelson 11y ago
One problem I have with Polygamy is that I have never seen a 1-woman, multi-husband community. Sure, I've seen a few relationships in which this was the case, but when you look at the historic aspects in the US, it seems a very rare t
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by sgnelson 11y ago
dotFeudalism would probably be a better descriptor.
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Because that age group in the past 100ish years is the group that generally has the most disposable income, simple as that. However, that's probably not so true of the millennial's due to the poor economy for the past 7 years, hi
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Elon Musk is building a hyperloop test track(theatlantic.com)
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What's really sick about this takedown notice is that the Intercept article is almost perfect example of fair use. It's a form of comment and criticism, as well as news reporting. All protected by the fair use doctrine. The lawy
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by sgnelson 11y ago
Hey Now, the US NEVER used torture. We let other countries torture the people for us, while we were in the room asking questions and taking notes. (The fact that somebody in the administration somehow thought that was different and accepta
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by sgnelson 11y ago
I honestly have no idea what the numbers are, it's one of those things I've been meaning to research, but have never gotten around too. But from my experience, a large number of troops coming back from the war enter law enforceme
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by sgnelson 11y ago
Sure, it started (slowly I would add) with the War on Drugs, but I do very much believe it escalated with 9/11, GWoT. If nothing else, look at where all the gear that the police use is coming from? It's surplus from the wars [0].
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by sgnelson 11y ago
This is yet one more of the hidden costs of the Afghan and Iraq wars. You have a large population of soldiers, many who come back home after their tours of duty, where they were in effect an occupying force. And then they get a job in law e
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by sgnelson 11y ago
Like all sciences, it's one thing to "know" something, it's another to prove it. This is simply more evidence. Further, "They offer evidence that the Romans were trading there hundreds of years earlier than previou
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by sgnelson 11y ago
Once the advertisers pay for the bandwidth they use on my mobile plan, they can send me ads.
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by sgnelson 11y ago
To add even more, I'm going to throw out a hypothesis (and fair warning, this is all speculation on my part.) I think what others have said is correct, but I also have to wonder how access to broadband and the internet affected the gam
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by sgnelson 11y ago
I might have missed it somewhere, but I'm curious as to what cities they were flying over. Does anyone have a link/list of the cities that the FBI has been flying over?
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by sgnelson 11y ago
Every few months, the TSA in the fairly large city I live in, with it's fairly large airport, announces that they have stopped 10 guns from getting on our airplanes! Thank God for the TSA. They make it sound as if these criminals tr
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by sgnelson 11y ago
This statement, "Considering the majority of people say faulty intelligence is to blame for the Iraq war, it's difficult for me to encourage less intelligence surrounding foreign intelligence gathering." is incomplete/in
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by sgnelson 11y ago
In terms of Cars, I'd argue the true subsidy is the highway system and every other governemnent built road.
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by sgnelson 11y ago
It's quite fair, year over year is a very normal and usual way of measuring growth. (it helps in that it gets rid of seasonal variations for one, but this is a very minor reason to use it.)
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by sgnelson 11y ago
I currently work for a bureaucracy that requires that all trips to be mapped ONLY on MapQuest, in order to turn it in to be compensated for the travel. I haven't figured out why. (It's a state bureaucracy, logic isn't their
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by sgnelson 11y ago
Directions for friends/parents/other people who don't all have smartphones.
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by sgnelson 11y ago
While I believe you're very much correct in your first statement, I do disagree with your other statements. Some of us believe that the best way of protecting our service members is by not putting them in harms way in the first place.
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by sgnelson 11y ago
As others (and the article itself) note, first define a "city." Is it the arbitrary, and very political boundaries (of which each state, at least in the US has various and different rules how cities come to be, annexation, etc.)
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by sgnelson 11y ago
This quote was one of a few, which made it sound like this guy doesn't get MakerBot/ed printers anymore than any of the other, clueless executives, but when your father is the chairman of the corporation...

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