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by vivekd 9y ago
This seems a little premature as the model 3 is not in production yet. The article claims that the model 3 sales projections are optimistic, I disagree. The model 3 is a fully electric car for $ 35 000, my brother just bought a Camry recent
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by vivekd 9y ago
There's no reason we can't have an accreditation program to ensure that only reputable schools can get access to GI bills. This whole problem of predatory colleges doesn't seem like an insurmountable one. It seems more an is
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by vivekd 9y ago
Solar sail technology seems so promising as a means of allowing our species to take our first steps into space. It's a shame that more isn't being put into it, as far as I am aware, the first test on it was done just two years ago
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by vivekd 9y ago
>Teaching people to interpret everything as discrimination by default I don't see any evidence of anybody doing that. What I see is people complaining of discrimination and it being waived away and dismissed. In a normal, non-sexi
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by vivekd 9y ago
I think you are missing the point of the article. The article is not about initiatives to get pre-set numbers of people of a certain race without regard to merit and qualification (which is what your comment is about). The article is abou
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by vivekd 9y ago
When you think about it, that's a horrible standard for hiring isn't it. Hiring someone who just follows the grain, does as they're told and doesn't complain despite the ridiculousness of the process. It seems to ensur
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by vivekd 9y ago
Just because I can only have a few meaningful relationships doesn't mean that I don't like to keep track of what's going on in the lives of my friends and family that I've met over the years. That's a great service
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by vivekd 9y ago
When the "white power" symbol looks exactly like the "O.K." symbol, it seems like it's best not to jump to conclusions. I'm not fond of the alt right, but it's not fair to jump from "alt-right"
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by vivekd 9y ago
Caffeine is an ubiquitous substance - so I wonder if these performance tests were done on people who had never used caffeine before, or at least use caffeine only rarely. I'd assume the study would have told these people not to consume
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by vivekd 9y ago
>Comparing taking someone's life or, less importantly, their property to getting high shows a terrible lack distinction But that's not what I'm doing. >Don't forget, societies have become better places by breaking
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by vivekd 9y ago
Every law is enforcing morals. Why is it illegal to murder, because society considers it immoral, why is it illegal to steal, because society considers it immoral. One of the costs of being a social creature is the willingness to circumve
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by vivekd 9y ago
that's like saying people die from car accidents and coal power so why not legalize assassinations. Just because there are drugs with potential negative effects being sold legally for medicinal purposes is not a good argument for lega
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by vivekd 9y ago
The idea of "getting rich" as a sign of gods favor was probably started in modern USA by the Pentecostal and charismatic movements probably around the 50s. It is called prosperity theology and Calvinists have been some of it&#x27
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by vivekd 9y ago
isn't it, I mean it lets off a strong order to warn us. Are there people in the world who don't realize that poo is bad for you?
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by vivekd 9y ago
I don't think that really answers the parent's point. The connection between cholera and shitting where you drink is an obvious one. The connection between putting kids in daycare and polluting the ocean and whatever bad things
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by vivekd 9y ago
from the link >IB accrues interest on a daily basis and posts actual interest monthly on the third business day of the following month. from investopedia >Interest accrues on loans, such as a mortgage, or on savings accounts and inves
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by vivekd 9y ago
No it wasn't robin hood, it was just basic rates charged by another firm. I figured robin hood is going to charge the industry standard. But that 2.4 % interest rate is being charged daily on those loans so that's even scarier.
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by vivekd 9y ago
So lets look at the evidence: OUTLIER DATE: This site is an outlier among archaeological sites in terms of the date. The date given for Californians according to this research is 130 000 year ago. As far as I am aware, the earliest recorde
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by vivekd 9y ago
As a small investor, borrowing money to invest is almost invariably a terrible, terrible idea, because any return you make on the investment will likely be cancelled out by the interest paid to borrow the money. I just looked up margin inte
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by vivekd 9y ago
But what rule or law exactly, I don't see anything in the internet freedom act of 2009 or anything else that would prevent them from taking these steps. Is this whole net neutrality debate a case of legislators not understanding techn
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by vivekd 9y ago
>Do you want an Internet provider charging you more for using your preferred streaming service over using their video streaming service? In a world without net neutrality that's what you will get. You will end up paying for the inte
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by vivekd 9y ago
>What definition of hedonism are you using that necessarily involves marriage, eating meat or being a sex maniac? the google definition: the pursuit of pleasure; sensual self-indulgence. The sex maniac part was from the article.
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by vivekd 9y ago
the article was about definition #1, the Greek philosopher
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by vivekd 9y ago
Am I missing something about the title - because I've never seen Epicurus associated with hedonism until I read this article. In fact, I don't think anything about his philosophy or lifestyle can be associated with the term hedon
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by vivekd 10y ago
>What if your blog were blacklisted, because you were accused of being a "Nazi" Why is the assumption always made that censorship will be applied in this crazy random arbitrary fashion. Is there any evidence that censorship al
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by vivekd 10y ago
>It's almost childish how people use the same tired arguments about fringe activities Fringe activities exactly what we are talking about censoring. Google is not talking about censoring eveyrday speech, they're talking about
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by vivekd 10y ago
Not more than they would if they weren't persecuted. I am certain neo-nazis would much prefer to spread their hate as publicly as possible through Sunday morning cartoons and flyers and ads, and the fact that we as a society have rest
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by vivekd 10y ago
It's almost childish the way certain people seem to think the words "free speech" constitute an argument in themselves. Videos of child rape "free speech", watching people be tortured for fun "free speech.&quo
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by vivekd 10y ago
True but the incentive system which gives people points for content tends to create an environment where people try and say what is popular or will get high karma instead of what is insightful and avoid what is unpopular or will get downvot
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by vivekd 10y ago
>Why do I read physical books? I like all of the things you mentioned people shouldn't care about. The look, the feel, the physical manifestation, and most of all the smell of a stale book after a few decades. It's lovely. I do

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