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by shpxnvz 13y ago
While this is undoubtedly true for some senators, Paul seems like quite a poor choice of target for this criticism. He has been very vocal in opposition of governmental encroachment on civil liberties during his senate term. He was, in fac
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
"There is no such thing as luck; there is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe." Heinlein captured the essence succinctly. Luck is nothing more than a label people use to describe probabilities they h
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
Because Obamacare is funded by progressive taxation, as are most programs in the U.S., and the benefits of Obamacare are not equally distributed - an example of the very inequality Hayek was admonishing against in the first quote I posted.
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
"Obamacare" is not socialist, it's liberal, as a core concept of liberalism is that the state should fund things that people cannot or will not fund for themselves, like roads and healthcare. "More doubtfully compatible with the liberal c
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
It's worth noting that with a basic milling machine (about $400) an individual in the U.S. can legally manufacture for personal use an AR-15 lower receiver from either a bare or partially machined forging ($50) in as little as a few hours.
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
English can be really inconsistent at times: "lose" and "loose" are pronounced exactly the same yet have different meanings. Not to be pedantic, but they are not pronounced the same in American English. http://www.englishpage.net/showthr
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
> many of them so tightly constrain what the people say, you might as well be talking to robots I worked for a company (they were the U.S. market leader in their online communications niche) who took this to an extreme. They outsourced
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
So, the incidence rate for accidental overdose is something like .048 per hundred thousand persons, compared to murder which is 4.7 per hundred thousand persons. You are 100 times more likely to be murdered than accidentally overdose on Ty
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
> you can buy paracetamol in packs of 200? jeez. isn't this one of the main killers, though overdoses (many accidental)? Do you (or anyone else) have some concrete data for incidence rate of fatal overdoses in the U.S.? I'm curious if
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
Boston has about 60 murders per year. 56% of murders in Massachusetts involve a firearm. Therefore, Boston sees about three murders involving a firearm per month on average. This does not, of course, include justifiable homicides. ETA: So
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
Given the nature of JVM agents, this means that the Tikipi backend, should it choose, may access all the data in the production application. Correct? ETA - Thanks, missed that page on the site.
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by shpxnvz 13y ago
Signup is broken right now, so maybe someone else can answer. From the website it appears that the debugger is a SaaS app that connects to the agent on your production box from their servers... is this the case?
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
When I lived in Santa Barbara we had a gas furnace. I'm surprised that, given the cost of electricity out there and the moderate temperatures which are nearly ideal for heat pump efficiency, that the financial incentive isn't there to conv
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
Invisible damage of the type people driving rental cars tend to impart (largely excessive wear) may be manifested as premature parts failure and expensive repair bills years after the fact. Is this something that the insurance policy and c
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
Does your home have a heat pump? If so, your house heat pump is 3 to 4 times more efficient than the waste heat produced by your computer, and you are using 3 to 4 times more electricity compared to the same heat output from a heat pump.
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
I understand, and it's a good point. That statement was just a personal lament based on my observations of the community of 2nd amendment supporters over the last few years. I am in Maryland, Carroll County specifically. I'm a member of M
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
To be clear, I was not referring to you in any way. I was just positing why the above poster may have concluded that those who speak out in support of the 2nd amendment are marching to the parchment. Maybe it's polarizing, but there really
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
> The problem with hand loading is that you just have inconsistent results... That's a pretty ridiculous statement for them to make. A person who drops $17K on a precision rifle (and you can drop a heck of a lot more than that on a qua
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
> I don't understand the point of this rifle. Is it to enable non-shooters to shoot? It's not hard to learn how to shoot. With an afternoon of instruction and a few practice sessions, you can hit 1000 yd targets with a normal scoped pre
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
> I think for myself. You get your marching orders from some parchment. It's people like me who made this country. It's people like you who bowed to King George. I won't speak for bmelton but it's disingenuous to label second amendment
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
> We all draw a line where we think something is too dangerous to be legal. No, not everyone does. There are quite a few of us who conclude, as many of the Founders and their contemporaries did, that the government has no ethical autho
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
> ...means that it requires everything, including ammunition, to come from the company who makes the rifle. This is baffling... what on earth makes the ammunition proprietary? Does the chamber or priming system deviate from the SAAMI/C
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
To be accurate, there are no weapons features that have been banned from private ownership and use in the U.S. at the federal level. Certain weapons fall under regulation of the National Firearms Act and require payment of a tax before tra
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
That's not right, or at least not nearly the whole story. Of course use of automatic fire is discouraged for situations where it's not effective , such as engaging point targets with aimed accurate fire. For other tasks, the most obvious
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Hood also sees potential for using nanoparticles with melittin as therapy for existing HIV infections, especially those that are drug-resistant. The nanoparticles could be injected intravenously and, in theory, would be able to clear HIV f
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
You're missing the critical aspect of these interactions: one of the persons is an agent of the state acting under the color of law. The victim is not being nice out of courtesy. They are being nice to avoid having force against them esca
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
> The lobbyists are going to be the death of the United States. I can't blame the lobbyists either, they're just looking out for themselves the same as the rest of us do. I can blame the legislators. They're the ones with a monopoly on
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
Oh, just look at the pictures! Look at the fiberglass seams on the body and the shoddy finish of the skin and moldings in the cockpit. Look at the edge where the canopy seals. See any structural attachment points for the canopy? Compare
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by shpxnvz 14y ago
> The question is, how much of this deal is government subsidy? From the original article: "When you add in the incentives, the PPA value becomes more comparable to rates we’ve seen signed in California," said Kim. Apparently nearly a
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