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by finiter 9y ago
Related: http://braythwayt.com/posterous/2014/10/04/i-dont-hire-unluc... And HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3804134
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by finiter 9y ago
Could I interest you in a bridge? Probability being on SSI makes you a millionaire: 0% Probability playing the lottery makes you a millionaire: Very close to 0%. Probability being on SSI makes you poorer: 0% Probability playing the lottery
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by finiter 9y ago
I read somewhere that they are working on behalf of the lizard people.
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by finiter 9y ago
In particular, see their wiki page for exactly this question: https://www.reddit.com/r/boardgames/wiki/wsig
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by finiter 9y ago
Gilfoyle would point out that it's $6 of copper and rare-Earth metals. (I have no idea what the actual number is.)
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by finiter 10y ago
[On the one hand, maybe Trump's false claim of illegal voters is wrong. But on the other hand, maybe he's right that ISIS and genocide are Obama's fault. So does it really matter if Trump is wrong?]
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by finiter 10y ago
The 46% of the country that gets to decide who runs the country hates doing that.
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by finiter 10y ago
If you don't want a thief to steal your TV, marking the 'Don't Rob Me' box on your Driver's License is not a useful protection.
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by finiter 10y ago
Help me figure this out. Romney earned $13.7 million and paid $1.94 million in taxes. That's 14% (1.94/13.7), but you're saying doesn't account for the charitable donations. So then the formula would be 1.94/(13.7-4
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by finiter 10y ago
>So it would have been a publicity disaster, enough to hurt him badly. I think he'd just come off as an every-day man-of-the-people who understands the economic fears of rural whites but also a savvy businessman who's too smart
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by finiter 10y ago
>What bit the DNC in the ass in a big way last night was that they completely miscalculated the importance of a large portion of the electorate that Trump actively courted, nominated a candidate that had almost no chance of swaying these
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by finiter 10y ago
>but whats the alternative. The status quo of doing nothing? I will almost always side with action vs. inaction. What if someone said the reported problems are overblown and immigrants actually help our economy?
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by finiter 10y ago
>People don't want to go on welfare, they want a job. People LOVE welfare as long as you don't call it welfare or give it to someone else. It's those other people that don't deserve it.
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by finiter 10y ago
>"Lets sit down and look at these, and take out the ones that are just not applicable nowadays?" That's corruption, or the Establishment, or something.
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by finiter 10y ago
Being that specific is harmful to parties. Better to just always say there are "too many" and stop there.
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by finiter 10y ago
>Everybody knows that there are too many government regulations, people across the whole political spectrum agree on that But they don't agree on which ones should be removed. It's why "everybody knows" Congress is te
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by finiter 10y ago
>how could they not see that Clinton was a fatally flawed candidate Interesting theory when she got more votes.
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by finiter 10y ago
I feel like you're inventing a story here where one candidate talked to people but the other talked about them. It doesn't hold up. Not just beacuse none of your quotes were actually quotes. Nor just because Trump voters had a hig
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by finiter 10y ago
Your statement does not provide support for their being a silent majority for Trump. But I hope people consider what you said when someone talks about how Hillary or the media or whatever is part of the corrupt "Establishment".
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by finiter 10y ago
I don't understand what you're saying. Are you agreeing with me that your previous statement is wrong?
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by finiter 10y ago
Psh. Lots of politicians have said far worse and been elected. Example: Donald Trump.
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by finiter 10y ago
I'll agree that she worded that poorly and was unkind. Even Clinton apologized for that part. " “I regret saying ‘half’ -- that was wrong." [1] That's one of the differences between the candidates. In support of her defe
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by finiter 10y ago
Be sure to also read her State Department emails that were leaked. Paints a very different picture of her than what headlines do.
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by finiter 10y ago
Robert Byrd left the KKK in the 1940s. Then he spent decades apologising for it, saying he had been wrong, and fighting FOR Civil Rights. THe NAACP said this of Byrd when he died: "Senator Byrd went from being an active member of the K
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by finiter 10y ago
You have it backwards. She was trying to differentiate his racist support from his "we're worried about our jobs" support. Read the text of her speech. "You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put half of Tr