flachsechs

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by flachsechs 9y ago
your argument begs the question of whether or not we can successfully test for this trait to begin with. i don't think we can. the outsized productivity impact a good person can have far outweighs the statistical probability of gettin
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by flachsechs 9y ago
just a note: as with all wolf-looking dogs, the biggest risk is unscrupulous breeders who will sell you something much more ... shall we say "authentic" than just a big friendly dog with some wolf phenotypes. buyer beware.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
the biggest dealer at my college went to a "very good" law school and is now working in DC. go figure.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> less likely ... to engage in drug abuse. i really doubt this.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
google absolutely sucks at it, probably because they don't see any value in it given their user base (everyone) and lack of competition. i.e. my youtube front page just shows the same 100 video links over and over and over. there isn&#
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by flachsechs 9y ago
it's amazing how much the finance industry can get away with. like honest-to-goodness amazing. it's really impressive how these people can have such a death-grip on society. honestly, i'm more curious than mad. how is such
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by flachsechs 9y ago
read my post again carefully. my point is actually that _no_ non-white american people would be shocked. i'm not really talking about white people at all, because obviously there are some who would be and wouldn't be shocked at w
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i didn't make any of those points, but you just did, and then ascribed them to me, which is pretty typical of online discussions. it's called a straw-man argument. the reason it's so widespread is it's so easy to do. a
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by flachsechs 9y ago
if every white american spent a week as another race, i don't think a single one would be 'shocked' or 'flabbergasted' about any of this.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
me too, my tax guy is great at that. here's his number.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
yeah, wow. since i own a small business i just tell people i work in finance now. less questions and comments and more quiet, inaccurate assumptions of wealth and power which i am happy to let be.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i drive it less than 5000 miles a year. insurance rates aren't determined by how much you drive a car, that's just meta-information the ins. co's collect. theft, crashes, and zip code (for full coverage) are far more import
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by flachsechs 9y ago
it costs me $120/month to insure a high end 911.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
they're also involved in far more accidents.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
if you have good enough credit you don't need anything down.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> American Southern-style fried chicken & BBQ this will make a killing even in the US, anywhere but the south. people just can't seem to do this very well anywhere else, for whatever reason.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
uhm, a lot of people do. some people love numbers. also, medicine, law, automotive engineers, pilots, merchant marine, musicians, actors... people are passionate about different things. maybe you haven't heard people talk about their
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i have no idea what you're trying to say, because you keep making typos in critical words.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
for you to say something like "bumpers aren't a safety issue" pretty much discredits you immediately, but i'll answer anyway, for posterity. "actual bumpers" are quite likely the single most extensively regulat
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by flachsechs 9y ago
i'll go out on a limb and agree with you. it's not "obvious" that obesity is linked to cancer unless you view the world through hindsight-glasses. skinny athletic people get cancer too. it wasn't even "obviou
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by flachsechs 9y ago
nearly everything people find 'wrong' with modern cars is done for passenger and pedestrian safety. even the phone integration and annoyingly bad electronic gadgets and infotainment software are designed to get you to put down you
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by flachsechs 9y ago
a lot of doctors and especially surgeons are closet smokers. bad habits picked up during residency and ER/on-call work die hard.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
that's because everywhere else people will just break them open during an emergency. which i think is probably the more reasonable thing to do for everywhere else.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
came here looking for a story like this. i had a 2-digit id that i coincidentally sold for exactly $150 on ebay also. college beer money. don't regret it at all. cmdrtaco announced his site on irc and i happened to see it in the fir
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by flachsechs 9y ago
sure, but i'm going to have to charge you a royalty of $5 per use.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
well why not extend the analogy further? it's worth noting that in this arrangement, the natural is order is the parent eventually dies after a long and possibly painful period of decline, while the child rapidly develops into an adul
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by flachsechs 9y ago
you can just run the application if you have an old OS installation on another volume.
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by flachsechs 9y ago
and of course, just like real money, it's in the interests of those holding large amounts of it "go along to get along". the big banks know that, that's how they operate. this announcements almost seems like a dog whis
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by flachsechs 9y ago
> All that said, I went to Berkeley and I use their School of Optometry wait, can you expand on that? i went to ucsd, is there some uc program where alumni get some kind of benefits from the medical programs? or is it just cal?
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by flachsechs 9y ago
every weekend? that's self medicating.

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