unit91

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   by unit91 11y ago

   What about the scenario in which a person sees a child being sexually assaulted and intervenes? This is certainly not self-interest on the part of the rescuer, other than satisfying a deeply-held moral conviction. It may also be well thou
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   by unit91 11y ago

   https://xkcd.com/1168/ Had to be done.
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   by unit91 11y ago

   Survivorship bias and structural integrity aside, I suspect it's all about the cashflow. The bank was built in 1891. The FDIC wasn't around until 1933. The appearance of wealth and institutional stability was a very important ma
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   by unit91 11y ago

   Yikes. Glad I live in Texas. Here, that would just be called "burglary". http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/Docs/PE/htm/PE.30.htm
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   by unit91 11y ago

   Agreed. It seems like this particular idea could have been abandoned, without aborting the entire endeavor (or quitting the company). The words "feasibility study" come to mind... As an aside, I ran the names Miles Davis, Ray Ch
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   by unit91 11y ago

   I think the Christian version is new (and uncommon) because it's unbiblical. "Can it be that there is no one among you wise enough to settle a dispute between the brothers, but brother goes to law against brother, and that befor
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   by unit91 11y ago

   There are Christians who believe the neo-Darwinian synthesis is correct [1] and atheists who don't [2][3]. [1] https://biologos.org/ [2] http://www.amazon.com/Mind-Cosmos-Materialist-Neo-Darwinian-...