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by xrange 12y ago
On a side note, I met a couple today who decided to go to the super bowl, and claimed that they were dropping $3k per ticket, not including air-fare and hotel. They didn't want to have nose-bleed tickets, but they didn't need to
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Sounds reasonable. The political optics angle might be interesting, since the "1%" is heavily labor based (Lawyers, Doctors, etc.), and the 0.01% isn't labor based, and I wonder how much it is resource based (i.e. Bill Gates
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...after thinking about it a bit more, it could also just be part of an overall propaganda in the "cultural wars". Some people will be against the actions of the government in this case, while others will instinctively defend it.
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It sounds to me like providing foster families for incarcerated parents has nothing to do with this particular case, or child abuse in general, and the best "division of labor" would be to not have those under the same roof. But
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>Reading this, I felt real anger at our society. I think everybody feels this way. I have a hard time imagining that anything but the vast majority of parents would agree. So that makes we wonder if there is some agenda behind this? A
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So, I'm not up to speed on this issue, but can anyone give a brief summary or link describing why we need a special "extra-legal" department like CPS? Extra-legal probably isn't the exact wording I'm looking for, b
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Am I misunderstanding things? From reading the linked article, there was $1.3 billion spent studying whether we should actually undertake the study. Not the actual study itself (which presumably would cost significantly more?)
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To further eliminate the possibilities of confusion, at least in Washington state, there is a state-wide retail sales tax, and there are additional sales taxes based upon the city or county where the transaction occurs. There are over 400
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>Those people are obviously uninsurable. ...if they were born to parents who had insurance they would have been covered. >So health systems that don't leave people to die must involve an element of the collectivisation of risk. .
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I just visited Walmart after about 2 years, just to see what they're all about. What I found was a bunch of cheap stuff, none of which I would ever buy. I tried their fountain drinks and the results were reasonable, but not superior
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Which censors don't claim that the objects that they wish to censor are needless, tasteless, and harmful to the good moral character of the people?
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Extrapolating anything from Iceland seems dubious. Since it is tiny (300,000) and so culturally and racially homogenous (84% of Icelanders apparently belong to the official state Luthern church). http://en.wikipedia.org/wik
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by xrange 12y ago
Actually, I-1351 was a Washington State citizen's initiative, not a bill passed by the legislature. http://sos.wa.gov/_assets/elections/initiatives/FinalText_57... ...whether these citizen's initiat
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>I assume the state will eventually tip demographically in favor of the coast and end up resembling California So do you think that this will be a result natural population growth, migrants from California/Oregon, migrants from othe
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by xrange 12y ago
Another fact that many commenters on this thread have overlooked is that U.S. schools operate about 175 days per year (compare that to 240 days for 52 weeks minus 10 holidays minus 10 vacation days). http://nces.ed.gov/surv
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And of course the vast majority of the world would consider someone with student loan debt to belong to a "priviledged class".
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It is even worse than that. Now you are spending X hours per day being told what to do, instead of spending X hours doing whatever you want.
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I don't know that those two axes are orthogonal. It seems like there is an asymmetry between gaining power and losing power. I think we can agree empirically (if not definitionaly) that there are fewer people with power / status
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>What makes the perspective of someone in a position without power more authentic than the perspective of someone with it... Well someone not in a position of authority or power doesn't have to worry about losing said authority. If
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I guess I'm old-school. Asking questions doesn't discount anything. If people can't ask questions, it seems like conversations become boring one-sided monologues. Your mileage apparently varies.
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From the looks of it, it seems like the amount of racial homogeneity appears to be well correlated to the happiness quotient. Maybe that is the bigger factor in happiness. And a more homogeneous society might be one that tolerates more so
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by xrange 12y ago
Where does one find out what the promises of democracy are?
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Yes, coins only. The title of the article mentions "money".
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As long as we're nitpicking, none of: Benjamin Franklin, Sacajawea, or Susan B. Anthony were president.
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Obviously he is growing trees in all the compost he is creating.
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Here's the section of the text of the bill in question... https://www.congress.gov/bill/113th-congress/house-bill/1422... (a) Independent Advice.--Section 8(a) of the Environmental Research, Development,
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>the "poor people have lots of stuff!" kind of thinking pollutes the discussion. ...doesn't that go right to the core of the issue? Some people think that relative "wealth" is the proper measure of "well-be
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Hypocrite: 1.) a person who puts on a false appearance of virtue or religion 2.) a person who acts in contradiction to his or her stated beliefs or feelings
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Sure they do. Not when they are first born, but later on. Source: Father of four kids who were still nursing when they had teeth.
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>too much sodium we eat. I thought sodium was coming back into style in the latest nutrition fads. http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/15/183883415/eating... https://www.goog

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