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by utexaspunk 8y ago
My experience is similar- It makes me fascinated by things and creative in a way that I was when I was a child. It's like it turns off a part of my brain which years of experience has taught to filter out many ideas before they even re
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by utexaspunk 8y ago
So you need absolute income minus housing costs [PPP]?
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Probably! On the plus side you'll be shielded from radiation while you sleep!
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Definitely. You know when you get an x-ray at the dentist and they put that lead blanket over you? I love that thing. I wonder if they make those in a king size...
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
I live in Houston and there may be something in the works but if so I haven't heard about it yet. I sure hope someone is working on it...
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
One tunnel isn't going to solve all flooding problems in a huge city like KL. It's a step in the right direction, though.
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Houston didn't. I live here. Our freeways fill up with water but don't channel it away.
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
One way to deal with flooding is to build highways in a manner where they become channels in such events. Kuala Lumpur, for example, has their SMART tunnel[1] which acts as a roadway normally but can be turned into a stormwater drainage tun
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
...are those not related to the State being corrupt?
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
I think Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels wrote a thing or two about it...
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Maybe I'm weird, but I don't find figuring out which product to buy a painful or emotionally draining experience. I rather enjoy researching different models and features, comparing and contrasting. How hard is that?
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
I think the bigger issue is why FB hasn't been able to create the kind of conversations that reddit does- the lack of real threading and the lack of a true downvote (preferably anonymous) keep conversations on FB abysmally superficial.
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
It is, however, really obnoxious when you click on an ad once and then are subjected to ads for that same product everywhere you go for months. I clicked on an ad for a Purple mattress a while back and now that's what I see on half the
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Even if that "content" is boilerplate drivel like "25 Ways to Drive Him Wild in Bed!"?
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
So hormones are like the body's proof-of-work system?
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Can I get a bank account which works like a normal bank- accepts EFTs in dollars, has a debit card which pays in dollars, but where my balance is stored in BTC and everything is exchanged to/from BTC at the current rate on the fly? Wit
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
>And finally, because it's entertaining to think about, Crypto could drive the biggest pyramid scheme the world has ever seen. There is absolutely no SOFTWARE of structural limitation to running a $1 trillion dollar end game pyramid
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
I don't know about the day/night thing, but we could definitely get used to more gravity. When coming in for landing you could decelerate over the course of the last year or so at a slowly increasing rate to an effect of slightly
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Right- what I'm saying is we keep taxing capital gains upon conversion to currency, but tax them the same as any other income.
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
True- Capital gains should just be counted as income, IMHO.
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
It's more like "tax the guy whose work is being disproportionately rewarded in comparison to everyone else". I wouldn't argue with the idea of a doctor making more than a dishwasher, or possibly even a good hedge fund ma
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Our top marginal tax rate starts around $418k(single) to $470k (joint). It seems ridiculous to me that every dollar beyond that amount is taxed at the same rate, whether it's dollar 500k or dollar 500m. IMHO, we should have several mor
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
>Now these are people like us The top 0.01% has an income over $8m/year. I dunno about you or anyone else here, but I'm in the top 5% and that is still light years away from being "like me". The problem is that people
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
We have similar drainage fees here in Houston, based on the amount of impervious ground cover on the property. We've had a lot of flash flooding in the past 20 years because of the growth of neighborhoods and commercial properties with
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Is there an independent body that certifies that a site uses good practices? I mean, I have no way of knowing whether a website is storing my password in the clear (unless they email my password to me), using a symmetric cypher, a site-wide
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
I second that- when I was a kid I had tons of common bricks (1- and 2-by- N 's) and regularly built decent-sized houses with full-height walls and multiple rooms and such. My 5 year-old daughter recently graduated from Duplo to Lego an
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
>Taxation is more of a tricky topic, but yes, we all agree everyone owes taxes so not paying them is a crime. So... If someone does (perhaps completely legal) contract work, accepts payment in BTC and makes their purchases with BTC, how
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Yes, the anonymity (most) users enjoy on Reddit is interpreted by some as freedom to be assholes or trolls. Even then, especially in the more heavily moderated or off-the-beaten-path subreddits, you get some very high quality conversations.
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Yeah, none of those are very good options.
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by utexaspunk 9y ago
Not to mention that in the USSR and East Germany the process, while the attempts may have been earnest, they were still heavily politicized and often unscientific in their approach. Aside from the lack of computational capacity, there was s

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