mkautzm

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by mkautzm 10y ago
"But today, in a period when employment and earnings are vastly better than what they were in 2010, the delinquency rate for student loans is more than 11 percent..." Might wanna check your crystal ball on that one: https:/
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by mkautzm 10y ago
That'd be a pretty neat trick considering the world record for a basic cube is 4.73 seconds.
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by mkautzm 10y ago
Scott has some really weird alt-right tendencies that make me pretty nervous. Rationalizing xenophobia as doing what's best for America (with absolutely no evidence to back up his actions) isn't, 'wanting to be right'.
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by mkautzm 10y ago
In the extremely unlikely event that CA actually attempts to secede from the States, I'd say there is a non-zero chance that WA and OR will probably come with. That ends up being about $3,000B of GDP lost, and more importantly, it mean
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by mkautzm 10y ago
If you think 'millions' of parents have that kind of wealth, you are sorely ill-informed of what the socio-economic state of the country is. What irks me, like I said before, is that so much of this is attributed to 'individu
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by mkautzm 10y ago
The family's achievements are 'having lots of generational wealth'. If you are suggesting that having a lot of money growing up, whether or not you have direct access to it, isn't a Very Big Deal, then I will gladly pres
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by mkautzm 10y ago
> actually, I think a lot of the points he makes about raising kids are applicable to less-fortunate families. Doing chores, their approach to schooling, food, family vacations, community service, backpacking and camping and in general s
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by mkautzm 10y ago
Then why write it at all? The entire piece is structured as a piece to inform. It's not written as a piece to entertain -- That structure would include things like anecdotes, stories, little events that happened that reinforce or expr
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by mkautzm 10y ago
It's great that a wealthy family tries to instill good values into their kids, but the idea that this kind of model could translate to everyone is a prime example of socio-economic ignorance. The thing that actually sets kids up to suc
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by mkautzm 10y ago
Workstation with 4 monitors, but I truthfully use only 3 almost always.
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by mkautzm 10y ago
k. http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/
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by mkautzm 10y ago
> Do you just blindly take whatever the doctor prescribes to you without doing your own research? Yes. I'm do not have a medical background and at best, I could gain a surface-level understanding of the drug, which is not useful to
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by mkautzm 10y ago
For nearly all the products I buy, I'm definitely 'dumb'. I have a narrow expertise that gives me insight into a narrow set of consumer products where I can effectively evaluate product quality and value. For nearly everyth
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by mkautzm 10y ago
That's not at all true, and that level of ignorance is actually quite dangerous. Scientists in no field are punished for disagreement. Even in really fringe science, disagreement is not only well-funded, but encouraged. A great examp
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by mkautzm 10y ago
The science behind nutrition health is extremely complicated and expecting it to remain constant represent a total misunderstanding of how nutrition research is done and how results are determined. > The history of medical reversals -- a
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by mkautzm 10y ago
Carbohydrates are not a bad thing and are indeed an important part of health. The current suggested diet doesn't say, 'bread'. It specifically calls out Whole Grains, which a great deal of evidence suggests are a Good Thing
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by mkautzm 11y ago
Ayn Rand was wrong about a lot.
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by mkautzm 11y ago
The problem I foresee with Thunderbolt 3 is that it's serving a use that few people need at a price that no one wants to pay. The price-point issues might disappear with the USB-C compatibility, but even then, the only time I can ever
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by mkautzm 11y ago
I was going to write this up as well. Also, you can probably extrapolate as far as, 'Most people's politics don't make sense.' The general electorate is extremely uninformed and disinterested in the details of policy cr
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by mkautzm 11y ago
Close, but more something like: "Liberals seem to universally believe that the status you are born into will probably be the status you stay in your entire life." The important distinction here is that competence isn't a fact
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by mkautzm 11y ago
> Do you consider losing %98 of its value "stable"? Yeah, I don't understand how inflation works either.
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by mkautzm 11y ago
That's the American dream if you were born into the means of achieving the American dream. Libertarians seem to universally believe that everyone is just born with wealth, or that if you bootstraps hard enough, you are just bound to tr
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by mkautzm 12y ago
Dedicated Bitcoin News site says, 'Bitcoin's future is Just Fine!' Dedicated Alternative Medicine site says, 'Homeopathy is A OK'.
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by mkautzm 12y ago
If your job sucks and makes you depressed, you probably should quit. If you can't quit, you should re-examine your values. If you are willing to give up your happiness for someone else's more power to you, but then you better be
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by mkautzm 12y ago
It's less about the customers and more about the folks that work there. "Getting a different job" is not always an option.
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by mkautzm 12y ago
Regulations are great for libertarians, but only if it makes them richer! If it makes anyone who's not in the rich people's club richer, than it's 'redistributing wealth' and 'big government getting in the way
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by mkautzm 12y ago
John McAfee: "I'd really like some more attention please!"
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by mkautzm 12y ago
You are the person I'm talking about when I say that people that blame Windows for problems are their own worst enemy, and it's way worse when Dunning-Kruger is in full effect as well... > Inexperience with a computer doesn&#x2
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by mkautzm 12y ago
So, this kind of list of complaints seems to be really common among folks who don't like Windows. Some times the list varies and wonders from one category of problems to another, but the core theme is still the same: The end user isn
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by mkautzm 12y ago
Yeah, that is not at all how taxation works, or how the reserve works, or how really anything works at all...

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