thowfaraway

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by thowfaraway 10y ago
It would be healthier for everyone if there was less speculative outrage. This doesn't affect anyone in the country. It just says if you are trying to get a visa from a country where we think there is a terrorism risk, that country nee
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by thowfaraway 10y ago
So if we have an http page with a password field that posts via https, it will be marked non-secure?
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by thowfaraway 10y ago
It is juvenile, and hurts the project. Too bad because it is pretty cool.
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by thowfaraway 10y ago
Classic example of what's bad about modern web site design. 1.5MB of javascript and misc overhead with a spinner over a blank page to load < 1KB of text and 5 small thumbnails.
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by thowfaraway 10y ago
Tax receipts are low in the midwest / south also because tax rates are low. This study rewards California and NY for having extremely high state taxes - it doesn't reflect actual federal dependency.
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by thowfaraway 10y ago
That's only 1 of 3 pieces of data. If they only used the one you mention, then you wouldn't get the red/blue divide, you'd instead get a small/large state divide. What this study does to get the red/blue divide
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by thowfaraway 10y ago
Maybe you are being willfully ignorant, or maybe you live in such a monoculture, different ideas are like a foreign language you can;t deal with or understand?
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by thowfaraway 10y ago
Can you show the calculation where subsidies to food are greater than the cost of regulation of food? Sugar is particularly regulated, with the government strict quotas and tariffs on imports, and domestic allotments to produces. If you pro
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by thowfaraway 10y ago
From 1876 to 1992, 116 years in a row, Mississippi had a Democratic governor. Do you think it is poor because The last 2 guys running the state were Republicans, or that 116 years of policy, and the legacy slavery on top of that?
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by thowfaraway 10y ago
Why would you expect them to do better after centuries of being taught to obey The insinuation that a reason blacks don't do better because they are trained or bred to be obedient is pretty gross, and not that different from the raci
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by thowfaraway 10y ago
The main goal of the 1986 tax deal was simplification, eliminating tax shelters was inherent to the plan, not something traded for lower rates. If there was any exchange for lower top rates, it was raising corporate and capital gains taxes