willurd

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by willurd 13y ago
Let's be honest with ourselves. There are plenty of Democratic politicians who, also, have never produced anything and are paid by the state.
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by willurd 13y ago
I wish I was surprised. Frankly, I've come to expect that type of reaction to anything that challenges the establishment.
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by willurd 13y ago
I've seen this in the US, too. It's on the labels, typically listed in price per ounce/fluid ounce for smaller items. Maybe it's a local law (Los Angeles) because it's that way at every super market I go to.
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by willurd 13y ago
> Lobbying isn't really a thing here, and is actually considered to be corruption. As an american, I would agree wholeheartedly that lobbying is most definitely corruption. > Whenever that sort of thing happens (which is pretty rare
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by willurd 13y ago
Can we please stop using "tea-party" as a derogatory term? Not only is it needlessly offensive (and I'm not even a member of the tea-party), it doesn't even make sense. Since when did "strict adherence to the United States Constitution" and
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by willurd 13y ago
"hyperbolic scream fests" Hyperbolic, you say? "tea-party style paranoid right-wing anti big evil government organization" "culturally insensitive American douchebags" Also, thanks US government. Because of you, this is what the rest of the
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by willurd 13y ago
Morality is such a loaded word, which is why I didn't use it. But yes, another day, another thread.
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by willurd 13y ago
Your sarcasm is duly noted, sir.
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by willurd 13y ago
In this case you could make the argument that it's the right thing to do because it's (I'm assuming) what you would want done to yourself.
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by willurd 13y ago
Not everyone knows they have these rights. I remember in high school being told repeatedly that I had no rights as a minor. We never actually learned about our constitutional rights; I had to find those out on my own. Also, people have a na
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by willurd 13y ago
I was answering the question as to whether he/she should care. If they don't already care, it's clear they have no regard for anyone else but themselves. I was giving them the selfish reason.
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by willurd 13y ago
"My take is that people want to short circuit the justice system and I find it appalling that such a tendency is even remotely commonplace." Agreed. The whole point of treating suspects with respect is because they are just that: suspects!
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by willurd 13y ago
Because one day it might be you who doesn't get read their rights.
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by willurd 13y ago
Theory A has probability X of occurring. Another possibility is that theory B is what's really happening, but that has a much lower probability Y of occurring. X > Y, ergo A must be what's really going on. QED.
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by willurd 13y ago
It's been over 10 years since we've had an impeachment. I'd say we're overdue.
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by willurd 13y ago
Surely no sane person would wish to inflict such pain upon themselves.
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by willurd 13y ago
"I genuinely didn't think there was still that much debate on this" You'd be surprised. Many people will deny anything happens until CNN/NBC/Fox/Insert-Big-Media-Company-Here tells them otherwise. Because of that, we need more things like t
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by willurd 13y ago
300 years in the future kids will be in school, uploading into their brains the story of how in the early 21st century leading psychiatrists and willurd independently discovered the fact that ADHD is actually a super power. Or so I imagine.
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by willurd 13y ago
After speaking with a couple of people that have ADHD (I've never been diagnosed, though I probably would have been with my behavior and inattentiveness during my school years), I've worked up a pet theory that so-called "ADHD" or "ADD" is
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by willurd 13y ago
Maybe you're right :) I really only have me and my best friend to go on (who is exactly like me in this regard).
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by willurd 13y ago
"Coincidentally, you'll find that it is impossible to spend more than ~6 hours of focused time on a single type of task" I'm not sure who did this research, but I can tell you from personal experience that this is simply not true. Maybe I'm
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by willurd 14y ago
"what are you using to measure the "volatility" you claim fiat money has so much of" Inflation. And 'unchanging' wasn't the best choice of words, but my point is that gold is not subject to the whims of monetary policy makers because you ca
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by willurd 14y ago
Because you're comparing the value of one thing over time against the rate at which you would gain value in a different investment over time. I can see an argument for why you might say tbonds have been a better investment than gold, per
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by willurd 14y ago
You can't compare gold just sitting there with USD gaining interest in an investment for 90 years. Well you can, but then you'd be making a ridiculous comparison.
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by willurd 14y ago
"the power of the US government backs the dollar" How exactly is it doing that?
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by willurd 14y ago
"The USD has the US government behind it" What does that even mean? Also, the US government doesn't really have anything to do with the USD; the USD is managed solely by the Federal Reserve, and the Federal Reserve is not a branch of the
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by willurd 14y ago
There are a couple of digital music courses on Coursera, one that just ended (but is archived) and another coming up in October: * Introduction to Digital Sound Design ( https://www.coursera.org/course/digitalsounddesign ) * Introduction to
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by willurd 14y ago
Also: https://www.khanacademy.org/ (don't know how I forgot this one!)
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by willurd 14y ago
"But unless you apply, you don't find out whether or not you could've got that position you liked. So code some stuff up, put it online and start applying." Nicely said!
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by willurd 14y ago
I could see how that's the case. If you're referring to what I said, you'll note that I said nothing about my own recruiter other than that he lied to my parents to increase the chances of them agreeing to let me go, because I was a minor.

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