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by head_stomp 12y ago
This isn't about your friend specifically. In elementary school, it's common for kids to only have two teachers for the entire school year. My sister, on one occasion, moved up in the grade she taught and ended up teaching the sam
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by head_stomp 12y ago
Have you considered that those rules and regulations will cause people to optimize PEDs for undetectablility rather than effectiveness leading to people taking even more dangerous drugs than if they were legal? You see a similar thing with
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by head_stomp 12y ago
Not every detention encounter with the police results in a citation. If it does result in a citation, they have preformed a non-custodial arrest. If they want to search you, they can perform a full-custody arrest even if it's for a mis
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by head_stomp 12y ago
Receiving a citation is a non-custodial arrest. edit just to make it clear: This is not my opinion. This is the legal definition. The study includes citations as arrests. This is why they make sure to point out that they do not include mino
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by head_stomp 12y ago
I'd call it overturning the first amendment. Freedom of the press specifically concerned a few wealthy guys printing and distributing pamphlets to unequally influence politics. There is no loophole. I very strongly oppose your politica
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by head_stomp 12y ago
Given that the DOJ harnesses people engaged in legal activities under the guise of operation choke point that is of relatively little relevance.
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by head_stomp 12y ago
@2 Not really a coherent argument there. Hoarding due to appreciation is balanced by the wealth effect. You can't just assume catastrophic runaway feedback due to upward price trends. That kind of human behavior is unknowable a priori.
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by head_stomp 13y ago
Absolutely, it would be awesome if people utilized voluntary collective action rather than coercion or fraud to assert their preferences. But why create a new, coercive tool that carries additional negative consequences instead addressing t
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by head_stomp 13y ago
My response is, statutory regulation usually doesn't allow this, and they flaunt the rules anyway. I don't see how statutory regulation solves the problem you're arguing it's supposed to. Is your concern that courts do n
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by head_stomp 13y ago
Why is this person renting or buying an apartment in a building whose management allows their residents to rent their apartments out like hotel rooms? Why can't this function through contracts with disputes being adjudicated through a
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by head_stomp 13y ago
That's incorrect according to your own link: Illegal Units are covered by rent control. Illegal units, such as in-law apartments, are covered by rent control. Tenants can only be evicted for one of 15 "just causes." Most of t
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by head_stomp 13y ago
Historically, the largest debtors are governments followed by corporations, the rich, the middle class, and then the poor. You may be thinking of net worth as the poor and middle class are more likely to have negative net worth due to debt
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by head_stomp 13y ago
This is such an asinine argument against loanable funds theory and is equivalent to saying, "Actually, it's the other way around. People drive their cars first. Only then do they worry about the amount of gas they have in their ta
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by head_stomp 13y ago
According to every small-time musician I've spoken to, piracy energized the indie music scene. In particular, I have a lack of anecdotes about Boston. This is because how piracy changes the behavior of consumers toward searching for mu