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by stvswn 11y ago
That's a good way to use debt, but far from the only rational one. The best reason to use debt is for consumption smoothing. For example -- a car breaks down unexpectedly, and now the owner can't make it to work. They won'
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by stvswn 11y ago
Please, Dianne Feinstein is equally supportive. This doesn't align well with the parties -- hawks in both parties are bad about it, while each party has factions that are pro-liberty on this issue. Ted Cruz, for example, took a lot o
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by stvswn 11y ago
No, they're not "legally people," they're "legal persons," and that was true before Citizens United. They are capable of suing and being sued, and capable of committing crimes. Under the doctrine of respondeat
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by stvswn 11y ago
Your #1 hits home for me. Similar timeframe -- met at 16, married at 23, have been married happily for 7 years. We aren't the same people as when we first started dating. It's hard for me to argue, rationally, that I happened to
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by stvswn 11y ago
"had some traumatic event and fell into alcoholism and drugs" This phrase is doing a lot of work for your argument -- the implication is that alcohol and drugs are like open manholes, and people are just falling in. I believe in t
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by stvswn 11y ago
The M113 heyday was already over in my time but they were still around, especially in training brigades. Fun to drive? They were so, so slow compared to Bradleys and Strykers.
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by stvswn 11y ago
Nope. The ads team at Google has been actively working against these types of ads for years. No one at Google wants to serve bad ads.
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by stvswn 11y ago
What you are describing is already against Google's policies for advertisers, and they do implement it in a very thorough review process for all ads: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/6020955 Do
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by stvswn 11y ago
Your question is answered explicitly in the press release, if you wanted to Google it. But are you instead making a point about how that's bad or something? The business model is to give away services for free and then show ads to
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by stvswn 11y ago
I really can't make any sense of this. Is it supposed to make sense? How can something be part of a nuance? What is the nuance you're talking about? And if ignoring the nuance means ignoring the "larger problem," how
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by stvswn 11y ago
Ha. This is precious.
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by stvswn 11y ago
I forgot to answer your question. Yes I've been to a poor area before. I also forgot to apologize for mentioning Uber, organics, and engineering. You're right, but acknowledging the existence of those concepts I'm totally i
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by stvswn 11y ago
Thanks, it's interesting that I simply asked "what are the problems?" and that offended people so much that they downvoted -- but then I got three different answers. One person says "collective values, worship of the fre
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by stvswn 11y ago
Being forced out of their neighborhoods is a housing issue. I think I agreed that housing is a problem. I totally agree we need much, much more housing in the Bay Area. Of course reasonable people can disagree about whether rent control
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by stvswn 11y ago
Wait I'm missing something. How does largesse in the Bay Area cause poverty elsewhere?
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by stvswn 11y ago
Wait, what are the problems? "Everyone rides an Uber" is great for the Uber drivers. "People spend too much on organic produce" is great for the farmers. "Even bad engineers are in high demand" is great for t
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by stvswn 11y ago
Nope, that's not what I'm referring to. This is in the public domain: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2010/10/delta-fo... I called them "CAG" in 2008. I'm willing t
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by stvswn 11y ago
I don't think CountSessine was asking for parenting advice.
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by stvswn 11y ago
Your argument is: 1) George W. Bush went to Yale and Harvard Business School (not the other way around, btw) 2) George W. Bush is not intelligent Therefore, one need not be intelligent to graduate from those schools You may be right about
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by stvswn 11y ago
FWIW, this phenomenon is not a "US National Security Community" thing, it's a government thing (although quality control can vary). I saw it in the Army -- enlisted Soliders get a certain number of "points" towards
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by stvswn 11y ago
>there is something deeply wrong with capitalism Really? Current stock prices reflect the expected future cash flows and the cost of capital. When new information changes the expectation of future cash flows -- like, say, a quarterly rep
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by stvswn 11y ago
"Delta Force" is not what it's called, either. The Army cycles through bureaucratic sounding names -- "Combat Applications Group" for example -- in order to keep it confusing. "Delta" comes from one of t
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by stvswn 11y ago
With that in mind, maybe the government should seek to warn us that we're being monitored, even if/when we aren't in reality. Just to keep us on our toes. To be really effective, it would be seem specific and personal: text
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by stvswn 11y ago
I know. Really makes you think, right? Think of all the bad things that have happened in the past 16 years. Now imagine they didn't happen. Wow. Just one vote.
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They'd have evacuated New Orleans before Katrina hit. They wouldn't have canceled Firefly. Steven Avery wouldn't have been convicted. Imagine.
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If money wins elections, can you explain why Jeb Bush isn't polling first in the Republican primary process right now? Can you also explain why Bernie Sanders is within single digits of Clinton nationally, and beating her in Iowa and
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That book argues that mass media are biased because they are beholden to for-profit corporations, advertisers, and large-entity sourcing. I didn't read it, that's just in the outline that's in the link you provided. I think N
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by stvswn 11y ago
The premise of your hypothesis is that resources are zero-sum, when globalization, modern capitalism, and scientific progress have made this moment the greatest for poor people in all of human history. At the same time, the rich have gotte
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by stvswn 11y ago
As long as we're throwing out unproven but provocative theories along these lines -- I think I read something about how residual compounds from birth control passes through to urine and then into our water supply in trace amounts, trig
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by stvswn 11y ago
Exactly -- who are you to judge? When you say that you're white and middle class, are you implying that perhaps non-white and lower class parents aren't as responsible, and therefore need the police to step in? I have an issue wit

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