jrock08

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by jrock08 10y ago
This appears to be from 2014. Prior to 2014, using GMO seeds "required" farmers to plant an in-field refuge of non-resistant crops. Since farmers could, short term, get better yields if they didn't plant these refuge plants
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by jrock08 10y ago
REITs are traded on the market, (pretty much) just like a stock. So you don't have to worry about liquidity being too much of a problem. One example of a REIT is [1]. However, if you really just want to park money for 20 years, you p
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by jrock08 10y ago
There's a lot of space between the conflict of interest that arises when you lobby congress for a change that would help the company you are the CEO of while your father is a senator and not working.
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by jrock08 10y ago
Examples of some obvious things that really shouldn't be too controversial: Showing pictures of a massacre Showing pictures or video from a war Reading a graphic account of a soldier from war Showing pictures of mass graves (esp where
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by jrock08 10y ago
Set up a distribution center on I90 30 miles outside Chicago (e.g. Gary Indiana) set up a distribution center on I80 30 miles outside New York (e.g. Paterson NJ). Use human drivers for the last 30 miles, and automation to drive the rest.
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by jrock08 10y ago
More good examples of variance in the artistic style and implied meaning are the various non-people emojis. In general, google has "cuter", "friendlier", and more anthropomorphized versions. http://emojipedia
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by jrock08 10y ago
Because voter impersonation (which is the only thing voter id laws catch) is incredibly rare. [1] [1] http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/OTUS/voter-fraud-real-rare/st...
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by jrock08 10y ago
I think the video and website are pretty obviously parody. But, if you are having a hard time discerning it as parody, don't you think that's the NRA's fault?
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by jrock08 10y ago
Poverty in parents is highly predictive of poverty in children. Single motherhood is also correlated with poverty. It's possible that single motherhood increases the chance that a child will also live in poverty as an adult, but the
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by jrock08 10y ago
> Consider African Americans: 73% of kids born to single mothers Why the value judgement on single mothers? Also, the 73% is out of wedlock, not necessarily single mothers. Single mother numbers are actually 67%. >and huge level of
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by jrock08 10y ago
If only home ownership weren't correlated with generational wealth. Then we'd have a meritocracy, and you could dismiss people renting as bad decision makers. In the real world, people rent because they can't afford to buy
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by jrock08 10y ago
> Any policy that would cause people to be forced from their homes just because should be viewed as a failure. I have a really really hard time feeling bad for people who bought homes in the bay area in ~1980. They won the lottery. The
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by jrock08 10y ago
> Maybe these landlords have historically had issues with [black people] and prefer not to rent to them. Yeah... that's called racism: the belief that all members of a race possess characteristics specific to that race. > They ow
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by jrock08 10y ago
Except that consumption based taxes encourage wealth hoarding, and are extremely regressive for families that spend most or all of their income. A better format would be a "average middle class household cost of living" adjustmen
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by jrock08 10y ago
If any part of the site is meant to assassinate my character, I could sue you for defamation in the necessary jurisdiction. Alternatively, I could work to improve the SEO scores of my personal and professional pages, acknowledge that you
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by jrock08 10y ago
I'll copy-paste my reply to every comment you make, since you seem to really like making this non argument. Gawker could chose to relocate it's business outside the US, but as long as they are a US corporation, they are bound by U
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by jrock08 10y ago
Gawker could chose to relocate it's business outside the US, but as long as they are a US corporation, they are bound by US laws and rulings handed down by US courts. Furthermore, defamation laws for publishing content are very diff
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by jrock08 11y ago
While I understand what you are getting at here, basically, this is still just a complete information game, and didn't solve AI. You are drastically understating the complexity of Go. It isn't actually possible to evaluate a sig
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by jrock08 11y ago
Except that we are talking about why women on average don't make as much during their careers. You are punting and saying, well men have pressure to work more. You are absolutely right, and it should be part of the conversation, but
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by jrock08 11y ago
Tram lines are expensive, and require that the city (population, economic, and social centers) remain largely static. If you predict wrong, you can end up spending millions on a tram line that doesn't get used.
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by jrock08 11y ago
Which actually says.... Women aren't paid less because they take jobs for less money, women are paid less because men are promoted more, men dictate the location of families more, and women are encouraged to take on more of the homemak
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by jrock08 11y ago
So, I'll admit that I don't understand the details of how vanguard is paying employees or the external people that actually manage the money, but presumably, they pay a fixed fee to someone to manage the money, and that fee is sig
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by jrock08 11y ago
I'm not sure if this is a valid comparison, but imagine that a group of doctors got together and founded a hospital, and decided that they would run the hospital as a co-op, where employees would buy into the co-op rather than receivin
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by jrock08 11y ago
Lets, be honest, it's not like academics is the only place this happens. CS labs are essentially small companies (1 CEO, 2-3 senior members, and 5-10 junior members). The only difference is that the company produces papers, producing
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by jrock08 11y ago
If you live in a suburb you have far bigger problems. It's no way to live. (see, I can say the same low quality thing you did and replace city with suburb) Living in a large city has many huge benefits. Density of people leads to div
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by jrock08 11y ago
The interned Japanese received 1.6 BILLION in reparations after WW2. Try again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_America...
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by jrock08 11y ago
You mean, except for Marco Rubio who was the 3rd largest spend per vote, and a total spend of 11.8 million to Bush's 14.9 [1], and likely placed 3rd at least partially because of his ad spend. Bush is ultimately just not well liked by
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by jrock08 11y ago
Let me try to explain with a very very simple example why the average person might pay less, even though the average tax might be higher. Person 1-10 make $10. Person 11 makes $100 Case 1, a flat tax of 30% Person 1-10 pay $3, person 11 pa
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by jrock08 11y ago
If you can't hold a company liable for the behavior of their employees, the company, in lieu of liability, could easily decide that it's too expensive to do things like background checks or training.
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by jrock08 11y ago
Could you please respond to my whole comment rather than cherry picking one thing I said. > wealth doesn't beget wealth The return on an investment in the S&P 500 over the past 50 years undermines this. > absence of it does n

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