yostrovs

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by yostrovs 8y ago
Somehow America continues to be a world-leading economy, with a growth rate considerably better than that of Europe with its high speed rail. Can you name a large European company formed in the last decade or two that's dominating anyt
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by yostrovs 8y ago
You're conflating all sorts of rich people into a single type and then use that as the universal example. Warren Buffet lives in Nebraska and operates his conglomerate just fine from there. This he was doing before the internet age, so
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by yostrovs 8y ago
In some places, such as New York city, there's also a city income tax. Do the states with such cities allow the writing off of the local tax off of the state tax?
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by yostrovs 8y ago
If HSR would have ever been built in the US, the security measures would have been similar to flying. There's a lot more people on a moving train and it would be moving at dangerously fast speeds. So it's not obvious that getting
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by yostrovs 8y ago
I have been on fast trains in Europe and in Taiwan. My main problem is that they go too fast and you don't get to see any of the countryside. A lake will fly past you in about 1/8 of a second. It's a soulless way to move from
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by yostrovs 8y ago
By that reasoning one should be able to write off federal taxes off of their federal taxes.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Incompetence is certainly a part of it, along with graft, but the train really is something that nobody misses. Going from SF to LA is cheap, fast and easy now. Plus the geography and environmental regulations that pump billions into lawyer
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Israel is actually constantly debated on US news. Yet Israel doesn't indoctrinate Palestinians in giant reeducation camps, doesn't control their speech, and doesn't arrest family for doings of family members, nor punishes for
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by yostrovs 8y ago
It's obviously poor evacuation or, more likely, the evacuation was unnecessary. The fault is of bureaucrats not nuclear technology.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Indeed, particularly in light of how much criticism these gentlemen cast at the useless, counterproductive front lawns of America's suburbia.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Nobody has nor anyone will die from Fukushima. Tokyo wasn't evacuated. I didn't say nuclear is without risks, but it is safer than other methods of producing lots of electricity
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by yostrovs 8y ago
I live near a nuke plant. It pollutes about as much as my BBQ grill. It's quiet, the birds like it, and the fishing in the adjacent lake is excellent. Some people don't like its shape but I'm used to it and the steam rising i
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Nuclear is safe. It's safer than coal, solar, wind, and pretty much every other form of energy. And cleaner too. But it's "nuclear" and "radiation," which means half the public enters a state of paranoia. Do in
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by yostrovs 8y ago
You conveniently forgot nuclear and your percents are off.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Are you comparing this time to some other, better one? If so, which? Just curious when prospects were better for children overall.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Don't forget to credit fungi too!
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Groups of primates grow up to only a certain rough number, depending on the species. After that communication problems, jealousies, etc, prevent the ones on top of the pack from being able to manage the situation. As someone who barely uses
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by yostrovs 8y ago
I bet your friend recycles plastic bags to help save the environment.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Those three aren't exactly everyday places. Everyday food was pretty bad.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
I did too. You couldn't get a meal in the neighborhood, save for awful Chinese or PR food.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
You obviously didn't live in LIC or Williamsburg in the 1990s or early 2000s. Those places were crap for many years without real development. I didn't like the offer Amazon was given but you're wrong to simply assume that som
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by yostrovs 8y ago
They, except us, guinea pigs, and a few others, synthesize vitamin C within their bodies.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
People and countries are different. They spend money on high speed rail and therefore don't spend money on something else. That something else can be a billion different things. I don't miss high speed rail, but I do like owning a
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by yostrovs 8y ago
I was referring to American culture, not human culture in general. North Korea, for example, has the largest sport stadium and their human displays at that stadium are hundreds of years ahead of American ones. But that's North Korea an
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by yostrovs 8y ago
In times like these, just after failure is recognized, the skeptics that have been arguing all these points and more for years should be given some recognition. The libertarians, for example, correctly claimed these points ahead of time bec
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by yostrovs 8y ago
A response I'm imagining you'll get from college administrators today: "To truly teach history, we must first begin with those who were not part of it and understand why they were not. Why weren't there any important ear
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Would be nice to hear your explanation. I've lived in Midwest and both coasts. Haven't noticed a diversity difference. There are fewer Mexicans is the only difference I noticed. Otherwise lots of cultural diversity. Certainly more
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Funny how you lump the Midwest "flyover" here, the one that elects minorities to Congress, that has giant populations of immigrants from Somalia, middle East, etc, and that doesn't live gated in or secured by a doorman. Maybe
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Not exactly reversed. A clean Chinese guy never comes out of the laundry. One additional note: you will not see a gender reversal for these ads, where a men gets himself a more attractive girl. At least in the West.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
24x2=48. Plus the bezels and your setup is at least as wide as this one monitor. I'm like you and like the bezels that are good for separating contexts.

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