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by tropo 8y ago
Precious metal is a terrible choice because inflation is then determined by the random occurrence of discoveries of new mines and new mining technology. The federal reserve is a terrible choice because unaccountable bureaucrats with their o
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by tropo 8y ago
My sex ed class taught me to use a dental dam for protection while kissing. I guess some people got abstinence-only classes, but most of us were taught how to stay safe. I've also known multiple people in the USA who actually succeeded
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by tropo 8y ago
I think "lots of executive and political experience" means he wants the incumbent. The only other eligible person with comparable experience is Bush Sr.
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by tropo 8y ago
Usually you need that ID to exercise your constitutional right to bear arms. If we can demand an ID for a right that is actually listed in our constitution, then surely we can demand one for voting. If requiring the ID is really so discrimi
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by tropo 8y ago
Nuclear can be cheap. We have decided to make it expensive. We throw away 95% of the fuel. This is because Carter gave an order to not reprocess old fuel rods. Well, we would throw away 95%, but actually we just keep it sitting around for p
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by tropo 8y ago
Enjoy that basement with haphazardly placed shelves while you can. Before long, an ADA lawsuit will wipe it out. Lawyers and disabled people team up to do this on purpose, searching for places to sue. It's not normally a disabled perso
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by tropo 8y ago
The real win here is toxins and sanitation. A big dirty secret is that organic crops fail at both. Farmers buy special organic pesticides, for example toxic plant juice. The fertilizer is often poo. These indoor farms are kept bug-free. The
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by tropo 8y ago
The review is pretty simple. They were welcomed to apply for asylum in Mexico and refused to do so: case closed. The administration is not trying to prevent them from accessing that offer. Clearly, it is not asylum that they seek. At best,
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by tropo 8y ago
Well, that isn't how the treaties define a safe country. Mexico is not trying to exterminate anybody from Central America. Mere crime, even highly organized or widespread crime, doesn't disqualify Mexico. The country is safe by th
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by tropo 8y ago
International treaties covering asylum seekers require that they apply for asylum in the first safe country. Mexico might not be the most wonderful place, but it is considered a safe country. (the government is not genocidal) It is therefor
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by tropo 8y ago
It's a strange test, giving credit for being able to show a distracting background image under the test or letting the desktop bleed through, but failing to check that both copy-and-paste systems are correctly functioning. Performance
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by tropo 8y ago
Your claim of "whataboutism" is a tired old attempt to dismiss your own hypocrisy. It's not fooling anybody. The moment you mention it, you have confirmed what is obvious: you don't actually care about the issue, except
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by tropo 8y ago
Adjusted for inflation, that is probably just a day worth of peanuts for Pan Am. It's also far less than the cost of having Bill Clinton give a speech in Moscow to bankers who are lobbying his wife in the State Department. That happene
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by tropo 8y ago
Lighting matters, and thus Daylight Saving Time matters. Could it be racist to make one choice or another for Daylight Saving Time? Background matters. Should be use concrete roads or asphalt roads? Could that choice be racist? Maybe we sho
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by tropo 8y ago
Put some sort of access, such as an unfinished closet, behind every place where plumbing is installed in the wall. Get access to the shower valve without ripping out your tile. Get access to the back of your dishwasher, along with the water
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by tropo 8y ago
It seems you think that the president and his family must not engage in any sort of business. Are there any exceptions to that? I don't see anywhere in the US Constitution where a vow of poverty is required. If this were the case, then
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by tropo 8y ago
I think we might just barely be able to build a piston engine large enough to make use of that. It would have cylinders capable of swallowing container ships whole. You'd want at least 4 cylinders of course, maybe more. It'd be so
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by tropo 8y ago
Suppose the road leading you to safety is not direct. It is at an angle, for example 70 degrees away from the desired direction. You'll need to exceed 112 MPH to outrun that pyroclastic flow. To escape the tsunami, you first have to dr
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by tropo 8y ago
The key part: "those who previously worked at Hacking Team (despite the fact that they have no current affiliation with Hacking Team), will transition out" To earn a living, I suppose they will have to go back to hacking. Maybe th
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by tropo 8y ago
You might need to escape a tsunami, pyroclastic flow, forest fire, or hurricane. The road might not go in the ideal direction, so being just a bit faster might not be enough.
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by tropo 8y ago
Higher tariffs would make it possible to reduce other taxes, and that would help the economy. With lower taxes and more jobs, US consumers buy more, consumer confidence rises, etc.
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by tropo 8y ago
There are some great pictures in this PDF, entitled "Bomb Damage or Rent Control?". You really can't tell! http://www.walterblock.com/wp-content/uploads/publications/R...
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by tropo 8y ago
There's a lot of literature that repeats a harmful misnomer. The register is always an instruction pointer, even if the hardware incorrectly calls it a program counter. The processor that matters most, by far, is x86. At one point Powe
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by tropo 8y ago
There is no program counter. Computers don't normally need to count programs. ("let's see, I have calc.exe, that's one, and notepad.exe makes two...") There is an instruction pointer. Note that it doesn't count
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by tropo 8y ago
The lungs originate from the intestinal tract. Some fish would gulp air. This got better and better... and hence became lungs. (FYI, the gills turned into various features of the neck and lower face including ear bones and the jaw, with som
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by tropo 8y ago
An easy way to encourage unthinking hate towards a group is to falsely tag them with the term "nazi". Be careful here.
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by tropo 8y ago
I guess $600 is outside that range, but it looks like fun: https://shop.tesla.com/us/en/product/apparel/tesla-model-s-f...
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by tropo 8y ago
I assumed that you are nearly fit for the Olympics, probably around age 30, because riding slower than traffic would be extremely rude. Most of us are not so athletic, and we don't wish to be extremely rude. It's like taking a For
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by tropo 8y ago
We have the same cultural reservations about shrimp. We do not normally eat the head, tail, exoskeleton, legs, gills, or poo-filled gut. It's pretty similar for chicken; nobody eats the feathers and beaks and poop. Shrimp is neverthele
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by tropo 8y ago
There is a legit explanation for this. Sometimes recruiters just want to remove your contact info. The idea is that this makes it harder for companies to avoid paying the recruiter. You could offer to make the edits as requested.

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