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by yostrovs 8y ago
I attribute the highly expensive nature of NYC subway to politics, since similar services don't have overall cost anywhere near what New Yorkers pay in fees and taxes. The new chief of the MTA is asking for $40 billion to upgrade the s
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Too late for the Village Voice. It has been effectively shut down. Will there be any real reporting left once Google and Facebook are finished organizing the world's information?
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Yes, please try that. That includes saying something new in your comments instead of simply lecturing others how to behave.
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It makes buying solar panels cheaper, installing them cheaper, and the required batteries cheaper because the trucks that mine silicon use diesel and the people working at the dollar panel factory get there by petrol.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
You may have skipped the lecture on democracy and its advantages and drawbacks.
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Is the housing stock growing or shrinking or staying the same?
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by yostrovs 8y ago
I've yet to see a single individual lead a life like the one you and everyone screaming about global warming is calling for. Not Al Gore, not the science guy, not the astrophysicist, no one. There is no one. Please stop looking to aver
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by yostrovs 8y ago
I assume by "political will" you mean the will of the politicians to do the opposite of what the people that elect them want. Otherwise, considering Paris Accords and such, one would imagine the French are all for green policies.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Fracked gas has replaced conventional oil in the US as the default heating fuel. This is the reason why America's carbon output is falling faster than anywhere else on Earth.
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Everyone has been squabbling everywhere. Until the 1970's the Middle East squabbles had little effect on people in Appalachia, Ecuador, and Mozambique.
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Nor will those generations enjoy having their everyday lives turn on the religious squabbles in the Middle East. Sadly, their futures won't be run by Putin, Maduro, emirs, ayatollahs, shakes, and imams thousands of miles away with apoc
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by yostrovs 8y ago
At the very least it'll be another item to fear the government over, as things like this can be used in the future against you. I agree with you that it won't foster a positive IP system. In China, instead, it will create more ave
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by yostrovs 8y ago
As one of the Arab leaders said, something along the lines of "my grandfather rode a camel, my dad a Jeep, I a Mercedes. But my grandson will ride a camel."
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by yostrovs 8y ago
It's worth noting that NYC, SF,LA, Chicago are the cities that were always the ones doing the most fighting against inequality. Their policies of rent control, demands for "affordable" housing from developers, neighborhood pr
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The rest of the Nazis mostly stayed in Germany, mostly unharassed and given jobs like running the foreign ministry.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Yes it should. It made it happen because instead of having endless meetings and brainstorming sessions in Lesbos or Johannesburg, the heartless ignoramuses of Texas figured out how to drill for clean energy. What really did the brainstormes
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Israel defends itself, though, unlike Japan, S. Korea, or Germany. The tens of thousands of troops in those countries are not counted as foreign aid. But having them there, their guns and equipment, food,etc, is a lot more than direct aid t
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by yostrovs 8y ago
It depends who the press is talking to, whether they generally agree, and therefore listen as students, or whether they generally disagree, and therefore act as being part of a debate.
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The "government" is the same people that live in those single family house and they like that their value is 10 times what it was 20 years ago
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Nonsense. Grazing animals are part of the natural cycle that has produced grasses, the topsoil, and nutrients that tie them together. Vegetarianism breaks that cycle and leads to use of chemicals for growing edible plants.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
What about the other elections?
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by yostrovs 8y ago
I think it's just too easy to write "republicans" in a comment. For a good chunk of the population that's enough to convince them that it's "republicans". Even for the author of the comment, once it's
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by yostrovs 8y ago
True that. Before Chobani Americans had yogurt, but it was all that runny stuff that people from other countries wouldn't call yogurt. So same situation basically. The shawarma poutine sounds brilliant! Perfect use case of cultural app
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by yostrovs 8y ago
So I don't understand.. is cotton seed naturally edible, just needs processing? Lots of things need processing but we don't call them inedible. Some edible mushrooms have to be boiled to cook out a toxin. Fish needs to be deboned,
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Brexit would certainly be done by now without the border issue. Maybe painfully or imperfectly, but intractable problems don't even have painful solutions.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Of course they're not exactly the same, but I'm saying you're not going to wow Americans with poutine. They'll look at it and say it's some kind of chili cheese fries. And it kind of is.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
Cotton seed oil is used in central Asia for making pilaf and other dishes. Are they being unsafe or is that oil something else?
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They're called chili cheese fries. And they're popular here and there.
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If there wouldn't be the Northern Ireland/Ireland border, an intractable problem, this would be over long ago.
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by yostrovs 8y ago
What subsidies for gasoline? Here we constantly fight over taxes on gasoline.

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