mkempe

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by mkempe 8y ago
Natch.
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by mkempe 8y ago
nit: "pore over"
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by mkempe 8y ago
What a sad spectacle: the delirious lashing out at modern machines, the sarcastic capitals, the unhinged cries of "religion". Next time I chat with Richard we'll have a laugh as I mention how his name is invoked as a shibbole
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by mkempe 8y ago
Sounds like you want to smash capitalism! more than you want to destroy Google and Facebook. I did notice you're not explicitly opposed to reusable rockets; although you seem to have a special place in hell reserved for Elon Musk. Ov
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by mkempe 8y ago
Kudos! If you have a chance to visit their building [edit: in Colorado, near Boulder], and even to take a class with them, it's impressive and great fun.
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by mkempe 8y ago
Please get a grip on reality. The average American has access to vastly better products, services, and health care than past kings couldn't even have dreamt of. Even the amazingly wealthy Rockefeller did not have access to the modern b
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by mkempe 8y ago
Your diatribe is a complete distortion of economic history and facts, best crystallized by your use of "concentrated wealth" when what we have witnessed is an enormous creation of wealth. Search engines, social networks, mobile
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by mkempe 8y ago
Mueller appears to be a modern Torquemada. Should every politician be hounded by a nemesis of their own? In the spirit of "Quis custodiet ipsos custodes" -- politicians should be under constant surveillance and at risk of removal
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by mkempe 8y ago
If you are interested in the truth, how many of their Democrat colleagues have been shadow banned? Answer: none. But according to you it "certainly doesn't seem to be based on political affiliation".
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by mkempe 8y ago
So, a group of notorious Republican congressmen are trolls and scammers? that's how you believe Twitter makes decisions?
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by mkempe 8y ago
Make it a high karma cost. E.g. you must have been upvoted 10 times to be able to downvote once. That cost can climb up for people who generally don't significantly upvote more than they downvote. [added] I've noticed that sometim
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by mkempe 8y ago
You are claiming that, in response to a news story, the intent to remove a shadow ban applied to notorious Republicans but not to any Democrats is "favoring" Republicans. [added: And you've been upvoted]. Natch.
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by mkempe 8y ago
Ok, what do the shadow-banned Republican representatives Mark Meadows, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, and Devin Nunes have in common?
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by mkempe 8y ago
I'd like to understand what reasoning one goes through to embark on such an illiberal path. (Note: not arguing that they can't legally do it, obviously a private business is free to promote or hinder various messages on its own pl
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by mkempe 8y ago
US government subsidies to airports and highways haven't stopped. They dwarf public subsidies to railroads.
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by mkempe 8y ago
Have you inquired into why they became unprofitable ? Have you considered the massive government investments into and subsidies for the two other modes of transportation following WW II?
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by mkempe 8y ago
Nope. I'm saying that Americans are unfortunately missing out on what is elsewhere a great, modern transportation system. If the federal government hadn't used massive war-driven budgets to replace rail with highways, and continue
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by mkempe 8y ago
Indeed, I've travelled from NY to SF in both directions by road, rail, and air. The only experience that was much worse than my travels in Europe and Japan was by rail (namely Amtrak). There are more people in Europe, there is more lan
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by mkempe 8y ago
For our American friends who constantly claim that the USA is unique because of its size, or because of lower population density (whether the subject is Internet connectivity or railroads) -- Europe is 33% larger than the USA (contiguous 48
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by mkempe 8y ago
You are deeply wrong and need to look at proper maps. Europe is 33% larger than the USA (contiguous 48). [added] Note sure why this fact would be down-voted. We don't include Greenland or e.g. French Polynesian dependencies in the Eu
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by mkempe 8y ago
Down here we'd do it with geology, up there it will be done with selenology.
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by mkempe 8y ago
Great to have access to that information. - Empire Builder near Minneapolis: 10h late. - Empire Builder near Kalispell: 6h late. Passenger train service in America needs to be returned to the private sector, without any interference by Cong
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by mkempe 8y ago
Natch.
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by mkempe 8y ago
Looks dead. Last updated 4 years ago.
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by mkempe 8y ago
You're providing a textbook example of pragmatism -- the rejection of principles in the name of arguing about minutiae and acting on the range of the moment, refusing to consider first principles in the name of expediency. When Trump i
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by mkempe 8y ago
False alternative. Maybe it is none of the city government's business whether a corporation provides on-premise food to their employees, regardless of what you may imagine consequences might or might not be to the aspirations of other
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by mkempe 8y ago
In the US zoning laws are an early-20th-century creation, initially ruled unconstitutional but eventually unleashed by the Supreme Court in 1926 under the cover of police power. [1] However police power was not conceived so broadly at the t
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by mkempe 8y ago
Instead of quibbling about the choice of means in social engineering, maybe the first question to consider is whether such interference is a legitimate power of government.
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by mkempe 8y ago
What are the effective limits on these local tyrants? I've heard many people watch movies at home instead of going to the theaters. Surely these home screens could be eliminated with some clever zoning restrictions.
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Introduction to the calculus of variations (Byerly 1921)(archive.org)
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