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by tsotha 11y ago
That's sort of irrelevant, though, if drug companies in other countries are supporting their research through high prices in the American market.
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by tsotha 11y ago
In general I agree, but in the case of a medical problem it's probably relevant. She's trying to point out not all subpopulations have been studied extensively.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I honestly can't figure out what the guy is thinking. He seems to feel the US has been a negative influence, in general, so it's time to pull back. Which is fine... except that wouldn't explain military adventures in Libya
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by tsotha 11y ago
I really hope he can get SpaceX back on track this year. If they have another failure we'll see an endless stream of stories about how Musk should have known better than to split his efforts over two companies, and how rockets that do
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by tsotha 11y ago
Is there a "da da da da da da" sound when you focus on something? The article makes the thing seem like 100% upside. While that would be great, I'm wondering things like "How long does it last," and "What&#x27
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by tsotha 11y ago
Yep. In my state to officially change your name all you have to do is start using the new name, though you'll end up putting both down on the "AKA" section of official documents.
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by tsotha 11y ago
I agree with this. Facebook is a service with a business model. I'm all for people who have legitimate concerns trying to convince the company to adjust policy, but I don't like the way pressure groups try to strong-arm companie
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's what I think the end game will be. Either this or some later standard will catch on worldwide for consumer electronics, and at that point it'll be a lot cheaper to standardize the higher-wattage.
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's the way he's always been. Remember the "bitter clingers" remarks?
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by tsotha 11y ago
Oh? What about Libya?
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by tsotha 11y ago
>The best possible tax scheme for poor people would be a simple flat tax that is impossible for rich people to avoid. You're looking at the wrong end of the telescope. It's really not that difficult to look at a tax table and
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by tsotha 11y ago
100% agree, and this has been very frustrating for me over the last decade or so. Elected reps (in the US, at least) are barely going through the motions of obscuring the quid pro quo any more, and it seems like nobody really cares.
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by tsotha 11y ago
That's still not the right usage. You could say university executives peddled influence, but you can't say the Koch brothers or their money peddled influence because they're the buyers.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Great attempt at a moral hazard. It's a business contract. Default on the contract, face the consequences. There is no "right" or "wrong" about it. You can't default on student loans, right? So we're
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by tsotha 11y ago
Public prisons have the same problem. Where I live the prison guards donate enough to politicians new prisons are always built in lieu of sentencing reform.
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by tsotha 11y ago
We have those in California. New houses are generally built in "Mello Roos" districts, in which bonds are issued to cover things like new schools, streets, and sewers. Homeowners in those districts pay extra property taxes, whic
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by tsotha 11y ago
Getting the police involved based on someone's emotional state seems like a mistake. How could you possibly measure such a thing with any objectivity?
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by tsotha 11y ago
I don't think the "suburban party" is denying any such thing. In cities like San Francisco people who paid a million plus for their townhouse don't want new highrises blocking their view or their light. People who live
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by tsotha 11y ago
She was... intimidated? Seriously? You think it's reasonable to curtail free speech in other people to prevent intimidation?
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by tsotha 11y ago
I don't know how this squares with Google's research on self-driving cars, say, or IBM's efforts in solid state physics.
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by tsotha 11y ago
The problem is there are some religious leaders telling everyone westerners are trying to sterilize them under the pretext of administering a vaccine. It will be many years before polio is gone from Pakistan and Afghanistan. If ever.
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by tsotha 11y ago
>In short, your example is incredibly ridiculous and has no theological basis. That's really beside the point, isn't it? If they believe something, however wrong it is in your eyes, it's still what they believe. Of cours
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by tsotha 11y ago
"she feared... she felt..." What actually happened to her?
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by tsotha 11y ago
Not just adding and commenting - the users also moderate. IMO reddit users, particularly people who post topics and/or moderate, have every reason to feel some ownership. Not that they own it technically . But like you say, reddit d
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by tsotha 11y ago
>Or, better still, don't unsubscribe, and instead challenge the intolerance and prejudice. Good lord, no. 99% of the "intolerance and prejudice" is from out-and-out trolls. They're posting because they want to see a
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by tsotha 11y ago
#3 and #4, yeah. A lot of people (myself included) felt she was the wrong person for the job. Not everyone is receptive to the constant speech policing that invariably results when you put an SJW in charge.
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by tsotha 11y ago
Here's a good example of cash equivalents: Families in Appalachia who convert their entire TANF deposit to soda pop and use that as cash. http://www.nationalreview.com/article/367903/white-ghetto-ke... &quot
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by tsotha 11y ago
This. If you stay out of subreddits specifically devoted to that kind of stuff (plus a handful of others), you're not going to see it. I'm amazed at the extent to which people are willing to attack posts they have to go out of t
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by tsotha 11y ago
Still... no logical connection there. Are you cutting and pasting this from somewhere else?
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by tsotha 11y ago
It's in no way a straw man. That doens't even make sense in this context.

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