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by tbihl 10y ago
I guess the flip side of this is that we can have access to so many things, so affordably. I don't need an industrial-grade waffle iron, but it's kind of fun to have for the occasional weekend if I've got space. Having said t
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To say nothing of beans, which are incredibly healthy and absurdly cheap.
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To add on, we spent our savings, then we maxed out adults on debt, and now we've nearly maxed college students. Unless we start being more OK with children carrying large debts, I think we have to come to terms with the fact that our t
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by tbihl 10y ago
In first generation post-WW2, we built out productive infrastructure, and started to do so with our savings. In the second generation, we expanded with debt spending and started to increase consumer debt. Now, most well-educated new entrant
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Along the same lines, I'd recommend 'The Rickover Effect'.
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In my mind Apple does great hardware, but that only matters for mobile. I would've gotten a MBP if I hadn't wanted a stylus. If you're doing a desktop with OS X, you overpay and have no flexibility compared to what you'd
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by tbihl 10y ago
I had probably about the same Thinkpad, and I was amazed at how much faster Windows 8.1 and 10 were. Granted, I was also making a huge upgrade because some tech-illiterate person bought us 32-bit Windows licenses and 4GB RAM (2.9 usable.) I
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'nuke buddies' as in submariners?
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No more than three consecutive letters. That's when things get tedious.
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I can't speak to Chicago specifically, but the problem in tons of places is that there's enough of the transportation budget spent on roads that you can never achieve a decent level of service.
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I suspect that the driver of a new car will never recover in gas savings the negative impact of harvesting resources and building an additional vehicle.
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Slowing cars down is huge. First of all, probability of someone dying when a driver hits a person dips below 5% right around 20mph. At that point you already invite life back onto the street. Then once you have it there, drivers learn that
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Southeast Asia, Central America, and Eastern Europe.
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Theoretically, gold has more robust ties to reality, so it would have value elsewhere; this is in contrast to the Venezuelan currency, which I expect (though don't know for sure) is inflated like crazy. If that's true, then it cou
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If memory serves, it's 14. The last 4 Ohio boats (Ohio, Michigan, Florida, Georgia) are converted for missions other than strategic deterrence.
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People have done what you're describing. They've moved into the city core. A lot of the outer stuff, at this point, should just be considered ruins. The problem is that it's hard to write people's long-term residences of
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by tbihl 10y ago
I don't think that the facts you point to are lost on anyone here, though certainly some have a different interpretation. I sometimes agree with this interpretation of 'positive human rights.' But I'd encourage you, in t