tmnvix

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811.
by tmnvix 9y ago
Reduce the number of guns in the US. People should still be able to own guns, but they should need a valid reason (such as hunting or farming). Shooting people (this includes self defence) should not qualify as a valid reason. This is how i
812.
by tmnvix 9y ago
NZ has a minimum 4 weeks annual leave (20 days not counting weekends) plus 11 statutory public holidays. Australia is basically the same.
813.
by tmnvix 9y ago
Do you agree with any form of wealth redistribution? If you don't, I have nothing more to say. If you do, I would have to ask to what extent, and how do you arrive at this amount if poverty plays no part in your estimation?
814.
by tmnvix 9y ago
Regarding (2), it is probably worth noting the following from the Oxford Dictionary definition of socialism: > "The term ‘socialism’ has been used to describe positions as far apart as anarchism, Soviet state Communism, and social d
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by tmnvix 9y ago
> Punish the decision makers and the ones who knew about it. I agree. Though I think there is also a case to be made for punishing further up the 'chain of responsibility' - ultimately including the shareholders (who were pun
816.
by tmnvix 9y ago
In Australia, the government has been issuing debt notices[1] to some of the poorest citizens (beneficiaries) without first confirming the debts actually exist. It's been called the 'Robodebt scandal' and it's been going
817.
by tmnvix 9y ago
In our moral crusade against impending environmental disaster, it astounds me that packaging is still given little thought beyond what we should do with it once we already have it. I think it would be a good idea to place some kind of ratin
818.
by tmnvix 9y ago
I don't think this is OS specific. I came across this problem a while back and had to revise my approach because of it. I can't remember the exact circumstances only that it involved chrome and transform:translate() along with som
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by tmnvix 9y ago
"Every time my friends succeed, I die a little." - Gore Vidal
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by tmnvix 9y ago
My memory on this is a bit hazy, but I seem to remember reading that the nuclear family and tee-totalling were related social developments that were in part motivated by social isolation. If I remember correctly, the story goes that in Scot
821.
by tmnvix 9y ago
I think you might have it the wrong way around. Gold is valuable despite being used in electronics. Unlike most other metals, gold is suitable as a currency partly because it doesn't get 'used up' in industrial processes in
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by tmnvix 9y ago
People often move not for cultural reasons, but because of resources. An example would be Nepalese migrant workers moving to Saudi Arabia - they aren't doing that for the culture.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
> The average sub-saharan IQ is around 70, the SD 15. That is the kind of statement that really, really needs a citation.
824.
by tmnvix 9y ago
Wouldn't that be the Atacama?
825.
by tmnvix 9y ago
Actually, what I had in mind when I wrote that was a situation where total economic activity was sufficient to meet everyone's needs (as I believe it currently is) and each employee was working 1/10th of the total time expected of
826.
by tmnvix 9y ago
Unfortunately, at this point I am just too comfortable with Chrome's inspector. It might seem like a small thing, but I have a dozen other 'small things' to familiarise myself with every day, so reacquainting myself with Fire
827.
by tmnvix 9y ago
> I feel deranged pointing this out, but hiring triple the headcount you need to run your business is not a progressive social value. I don't know what it is. From an investor's point of view this would not be ideal. Having sai
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Until you start buttering your bread, I have no desire to eat an American sandwich (with the obvious exception of the excellent reuben).
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by tmnvix 9y ago
> Would we have the same warm fuzzy — "That guy's got it aaallll figured out" — feeling if NatGeo wrote the article about the once-owner, Michael Harte, bivouacking on his private island? Probably more so, and it would be
830.
by tmnvix 9y ago
> Framed less generously, you could be reading about a squatter on public land supported by bi-weekly food shipments. You could, but that description sounds misleading enough to be verging on dishonest. He is not simply squatting, but ha
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by tmnvix 9y ago
> The "control sweat" ad is worse because the word "sweat" is right there in big letters, and that's distasteful. The more successful alternative had "my armpits are always wet" in the equivalent locati
832.
by tmnvix 9y ago
World maps without NZ are such a common occurrence that I cannot be sure if NZ was left off of this map deliberately or was just forgotten.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
If you were prohibited from building a 20 story apartment block on your land but your neighbour was not, then your land would be worth less and subsequently you would be taxed less.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
> ...if I'm poor, or become poor, I still have to pay the assesed property tax on any property I own. Are you really poor if you own valuable assets?
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by tmnvix 9y ago
I think the point was there is no reason that would benefit US citizens . On that point I mostly agree, though I'm sure there are some small benefits that accrue - almost certainly cancelled out by the disadvantages though.
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by tmnvix 9y ago
Discreet hardware switch?
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by tmnvix 9y ago
I don't think you can put a price on it. The price is dictated more by the context than the resulting mockup. In one context someone might have paid a few thousand for this design. In another, a few hundred. It is valuable as a solutio
838.
by tmnvix 9y ago
OP was implying that because the US property boom and bust involved deception ("scam driven") that it wasn't a real bubble - only close to a bubble. OP never mentioned Aus - only that they had heard a lot of talk of bubbles b
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by tmnvix 9y ago
And Sydney... and Auckland...
840.
by tmnvix 9y ago
I think it's pretty solid. One small nit-pick though... you are using purple as a link colour. This goes against the universal browser design language (i.e. purple link is a visited link).

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