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by zuminator 10y ago
That's not entirely true. President Elect Trump himself spent the greater part of a month prior to the election claiming repeatedly that the election was "absolutely" rigged and, if you remember, predicated his unconditional
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by zuminator 10y ago
Fun, but I'd find this information more useful if juxtaposed with an analysis of the livability and practicality of the various McMansion species. After all, a person spends a lot more time inhabiting the home as opposed to looking a
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by zuminator 10y ago
They didn't give Bill Clinton a check for $1m. They contributed $1m to the Clinton Foundation in honor of his birthday. Contrary to what some alt-right sites maintain, the Clintons derive no personal income from the charitable founda
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by zuminator 10y ago
The first paragraph mentions that it was spotty part-time work only available when the Washington Redskins are playing. The Redskins are an American football team. They played a total of 21 games last season, including pre-and-post season
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by zuminator 10y ago
Although I agree it can be <i>perceived</i> as disingenuous, I think it's perfectly valid to clarify areas of common thought before trying to adjust someone else's way of thinking. Furthermore it doesn't just
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by zuminator 10y ago
A couple comments here are somewhat conflating dark matter, in general, with non-baryonic matter, which is what we presume to be the primary component of dark matter. Dark matter theories arose because the Milky Way and other galaxies are
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by zuminator 10y ago
I've heard that mobile phones are filthier than toilet seats, and plenty of young children have them these days. I've seen babies too young to walk or talk given electronic tablets to distract themselves with. I wonder if the tre
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by zuminator 10y ago
Wanting to kill as many whites and police officers as possible isn't a motive, it's a description. True motives means, what triggered this previously law-abiding man to go off like that?
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by zuminator 10y ago
The rule isn't that it's illegal to take money. The rule is that “unfair or deceptive acts or practices” are illegal with respect to advertising. Obviously that's a very broad stroke, so there are guidelines[1] put out by t
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by zuminator 10y ago
It's also the same rationale behind the rude "construction worker" catcall. Although you can tell quite a bit about a person by their gait and attire, the false positive rate is high, so it's doubtful a man will learn en
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by zuminator 10y ago
To be clear, Meyer does not allege anything of that sort in the clip. He says, "Bo Davis is a lawyer in the Eastern District of Texas that represents patent trolls and their victims. Bo Davis is Judge Leonard Davis's son workin
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by zuminator 10y ago
No contradiction. It's talking poor neighborhoods, not poor individuals. It's claiming that if you're black, there's about a 66% chance you grew up likely living in a neighborhood which is at least 20% poor. That doesn
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by zuminator 10y ago
What you're saying may be true in general, but the numbers here are saying something different. MV just wasn't that popular on the Android platform to begin with compared with its popularity on iOS, about a million Android users
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by zuminator 10y ago
The analogy fails there because our 3manifold space isn't necessarily "embedded" into a higher dimensional construct the way the surface of a sphere is embedded into our 3 dimensional universe. So there isn't necessaril
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by zuminator 10y ago
Bottom line is that this could've just been a billing error from the outset that it took Apple two years to correct. Howells is making the assumption it was a school district with no evidence whatsoever. If it was Apple's policy
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by zuminator 10y ago
The typical way to picture the universe is like the surface of an expanding balloon, a 2-manifold which happens to be embedded in 3-space. If you picture galaxies as spots on the balloon, there's no "last" galaxy, they'r
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by zuminator 11y ago
My experience is that a great many people with the type of depression and anxiety disorders that get them placed on SSI are really not capable of holding a full time job. Many of them are prone to emotional outbursts, can't follow sim
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by zuminator 11y ago
I believe the intent was that despite the flaws in Fry's character, it doesn't make his argument any less compelling.
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by zuminator 11y ago
It's a book review. Presumably the derivation of those numbers is in the book itself.
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by zuminator 11y ago
"Far more likely"? That's quite an assertion to make. Do you have a link? I'm genuinely curious. Also, as Apocryphon mentioned, "actual practical value" is a problematic phrase. If you mean "economic va
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by zuminator 11y ago
No. You're being at the least inconsistent when you on the one hand claim that it's wrong to push for a higher minimum wage (because the free market should decide what low skill jobs are "worth") and on the other hand d
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by zuminator 11y ago
More precisely it's US style. British style puts the full stop outside the quote unless it's part of the quotation. http://www.thepunctuationguide.com/british-versus-american-s...
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by zuminator 11y ago
The part that grandparent is overlooking is that while luminosity decreases as to the square of the distance, the number of stars in a given angular diameter of space increases as to the square of the distance. The two effects cancel each
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by zuminator 11y ago
If it's a wash for the middle income household, that's fine. The UBI would primarily help those at the very bottom, people with essentially zero income. They can't afford anything now, but with the UBI they will be able to p
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by zuminator 11y ago
Several years? Classic Shell came out contemporaneously or nearly so with Windows 8.
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by zuminator 11y ago
Agreed. PG is in the business of helping people move up the wealth ladder, which is laudable and pretty much the opposite of preventing other people from moving up the income ladder, which is what rent seekers, wage thieves and tax dodgers
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by zuminator 11y ago
To some extent this sounds similar to how people treat public transportation buses now. Drivers and pedestrians behave more recklessly, knowing that the bus operator will go through great lengths to avoid a collision. But you raise the int
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by zuminator 11y ago
> How does this work, generally? Sure, there are people with "so much wealth they don't really know how to allocate it sanely," as you say. But ultimately what happens with it? The "super wealthy" don't have