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961.
by tsotha 12y ago
Most people are smart enough to know the money has to come from somewhere. Over the long haul a country's budget isn't that different from that of a household. They voted for ever increasing levels services - if they didn't
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by tsotha 12y ago
I don't know why you think they can't win seats in those areas, particularly as anti-EU sentiment increases.
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by tsotha 12y ago
>Neither FN (Le Pen) nor UKIP has any chance of winning power in their respective countries regardless of economic conditions. I wouldn't be too sure about that. I don't know much about FN, but it isn't at all inconceivab
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by tsotha 12y ago
>The problems facing you (rhetorical 'you') are mostly due to corruption in your own government... If that were the problem the solution would be fairly straightforward. But it's not corruption that broke the bank. Greec
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by tsotha 12y ago
Oh, I don't doubt financial institutions benefited. But the idea the average Greek was just standing there minding his own business when a wall of debt washed over him is patent nonsense.
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by tsotha 12y ago
Worth more than what? Than all the money the government borrowed? Not a chance.
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by tsotha 12y ago
>I am hesitant to introduce what may seem like class warfare, but if you separate those who benefitted the most from European policies before the crisis from those who befitted the least, and are now expected to pay the bulk of the adjus
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by tsotha 12y ago
Titanium is no better than aluminum. The reason they use titanium in aircraft is its ability to withstand heat.
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by tsotha 12y ago
>An alloy of iron, aluminium and carbon (steel’s other essential ingredient) is too brittle to be useful. Adding manganese helps a bit, but not enough for aluminium-steel to be used in vehicles. >Dr Kim and his colleagues have, howeve
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by tsotha 12y ago
I went the engineering route and I'm glad I did. Originally it was a toss-up between math (which I enjoyed in high school) and EE, but since a lot of math grads seem to go into teaching and I have nowhere near enough patience to teach
971.
by tsotha 12y ago
I always believed Sun shot itself in the head with Java. They had this idea getting people invested in a cross platform ecosystem meant new software could be run on Sun hardware. But what really happened is people who had been locked into
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by tsotha 12y ago
Well, some of them were right. That has less to do with U3/U6 than it does the way data is gathered and the birth/death model they use. Actually trying to figure out how many people have full time jobs isn't a trivial task,
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by tsotha 12y ago
Adams has a good point relating to alcohol, though. They haven't been unable to untangle correlation and causation. I used to be a "moderate drinker" until I developed (unrelated) health problems that mean taking medication
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by tsotha 12y ago
Heh heh. Economists would have the crown for being wrong the most often if not for nutritionists.
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by tsotha 12y ago
Andrew Sullivan's exit really doesn't mean very much. Blogging is a lot of work and doesn't pay very well, so it's kind of a surprise he lasted this long. I know a whole lot of people who tried to write a blog, but it&
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by tsotha 12y ago
Comments aren't necessary for a blog. Most people who are trying to make money allow comments because the same people hit the blog over and over when they're bored at work. Pageviews = money. But comments are a double-edged swor
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by tsotha 12y ago
>Well...that and statistics. Which are only tangentially related. The contention is there aren't more women in tech because sexism. But there are no statistics that bear on that question directly. All we can say is there aren&#x2
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by tsotha 12y ago
That's every bit as much as people on the other side have.
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by tsotha 12y ago
Nope. If he were attractive all those things would somehow be positive traits.
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by tsotha 12y ago
>The president has always talked the talk on net neutrality and access. But now he’s walking the walk. He can't walk very far without Congress. It's still just talk. Lately Obama's been writing a lot of checks to his base
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by tsotha 12y ago
In what way? What do you mean by "preying"?
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by tsotha 12y ago
You have to understand what a woman means when she labels a guy "creepy". It just means she's getting attention from someone she doesn't find attractive. If spreadsheet guy looked like Benedict Cumberbatch instead of be
983.
by tsotha 12y ago
Heh. I didn't realize that. When I'm evil I don't do it by half measures.
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by tsotha 12y ago
Only if people actually buy it.
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by tsotha 12y ago
Rockstar got plenty of grief for GTA.
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by tsotha 12y ago
It's not really a choice, because in the end you get more powerful by not harvesting the Little Sisters. The only reason to do it is to see the evil ending cut scene.
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by tsotha 12y ago
>But rockets are still rockets, and a messaging app is still a messaging app. I think it's the incredible disparity in total embodied energy for WhatsApp vs SpaceX that makes this intuitively hard to accept. The hardest thing I ever
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by tsotha 12y ago
If I had to balance the scales it would be more by taking from the perceived value of whatsapp than adding to SpaceX.
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by tsotha 12y ago
Whenever you have huge fixed capital costs and high per-unit costs your upside is limited. A 10x increase in the whatsapp user base doesn't increase costs much, while SpaceX probably couldn't deliver on a 2x increase in volume fo
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by tsotha 12y ago
The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich .

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