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by spacehome 8y ago
You're 100% correct. Rationing by wealth leads to equal misery as rationing by who happened by the grocery store sooner. However rationing by wealth is the surest way to increase supply quickly.
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by spacehome 8y ago
Wow. Thanks.
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by spacehome 8y ago
> the federal government doesn't allow a state to permanently be in PDT. I don't recall this part of the enumerated powers of the federal government from when I read the constitution. Has there been a recent amendment?
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by spacehome 8y ago
Which outlets pass your filter?
65.
by spacehome 8y ago
Torrents and Usenet. Prices are competitive, too.
66.
by spacehome 8y ago
That's disgusting. I wish this were illegal, because people deserve to be in jail over this.
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by spacehome 8y ago
unvote
68.
by spacehome 8y ago
It's only fraud if you take out the loan with the intention of not repaying it. sigfubar never says when he came to the conclusion that repaying the loan is a bad idea. If it's any point after he took out the loan, it's not
69.
by spacehome 8y ago
The difference is that coffee will actually very minutely increase your risk of certain cancers (and reduce your risk of others). Microwave radiation on the other hand won't.
70.
by spacehome 8y ago
Monogamy was your first unrealistic assumption.
71.
by spacehome 8y ago
If you're that paranoid, why would you trust Google?
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by spacehome 8y ago
That’s bizarre. Lots of countries have postal services. Does USPS think they have a monopoly on the concept of delivering mail?
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by spacehome 8y ago
They’re also a transfer of wealth from shareholders to employees (who have kids).
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by spacehome 8y ago
That's what you want it to be. Not everybody wants to live in that world.
75.
by spacehome 8y ago
Maternity leave policies are a transfer of wealth from people who have fewer children to people who have more children.
76.
by spacehome 8y ago
"Welfare rights"?! That's a great neologism. It's now a right to take other people's paychecks?
77.
by spacehome 8y ago
I agree. Yet people keep voting for socialism.
78.
by spacehome 8y ago
If an employee is pregnant, no one is forcing the employee to show up for work. When people talk about maternity leave, they usually don't mean the ability to not show up for work (which is a given in a free society), but rather the o
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by spacehome 8y ago
That's fair.
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by spacehome 8y ago
That's a fair point. But I don't think you can use this paper as evidence to make a big change when the issue is marriage or kids, as jedberg did.
81.
by spacehome 8y ago
Is that really your takeaway from the paper? It depends on what the change is. Look more closely at the sixth column of Table 3 in your linked paper. If the question is "Should I get engaged?" or "Should I have kids?"
82.
by spacehome 8y ago
We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.
83.
by spacehome 8y ago
En passant comes up a lot more often when you don't know the rule.
84.
by spacehome 8y ago
Nonsense. Bannister ran a mile. I've made lots of programs that were under 1K. They weren't chess, either.
85.
by spacehome 8y ago
It's hard to reconcile this: > It was the smallest implementation of chess on any computer until its record was broken in January 2015 by the PC-compatible BootChess. with this: > 1K ZX Chess uses only 672 bytes of RAM,[2] but im
86.
by spacehome 8y ago
You will hear cases of the tips+$2.13 not making the minimum wage, but it's very rare. Americans generally tip quite well.
87.
by spacehome 8y ago
It's probably not the same sand, or at least not very much of it.
88.
by spacehome 8y ago
Surely we can trust Google.
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by spacehome 8y ago
He's probably referring to Indians. But thinking all Indians are the same ethnicity is just betraying his own biases.
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by spacehome 8y ago
Seriously, though, what would you have the cop do in that case?

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