supreme_sublime

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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
It is interesting, it seems like the default position is "Every complaint is legitimate". There are no specifics given so we're left to speculate and land wherever our own bias tends to lean.
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
Not having health insurance is different from not being able to access healthcare. Everyone in the US is entitled to healthcare regardless of their ability to pay. I don't really know if that's the best policy or not, but it simpl
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
>"I can win if I just work harder/emulate those more successful than I -- ultimately I'm in control and nothing else matters" While obviously there are things outside individual's control, is this really a harmfu
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
>It's already had plenty of time to compound over generations, to whatever extent it does. I'm not sure what you mean, most westerners don't make a habit of marrying their cousins. Because of this compounding it means that
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
I did take calculus in high school, but I barely remember it. So I don't understand your notation, if you could explain in a bit more layman terms it would be great. As I understand it, the chance for birth defects goes from around 1%
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
>When I went to school there was a pretty high number of second generation muslim immigrants, but even there you already saw their strict values eroding. I certainly wouldn't take that happening as a given. If you bend over backward
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
My own personal theory is that the GDPR was going through and the big players didn't fight too much knowing this was going to come through soon as well. They have the ability to comply, their smaller competitors don't, or at least
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
Where did you see that Greyhound said no such event occurred? When searching for it all I see are articles that only cite the Facebook post as proof. There are no videos from any passengers, or statements from Greyhound I can find. If you c
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
>But this “believe the victim first” mentality came about as an inverse to the “give the accused the benefit of the doubt” mentality because the latter suppressed the former’s credibility and made it difficult for real victims of real he
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
I don't read Breitbart, nor do I particularly care what they do. I'm not sure what was done by the company that was illegal?
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
Strange that you view it this way. I'm not extremely familiar with the case, but how I remember it is Gawker published a sex tape of Hulk Hogan and refused to take it down. While at the same time lampooning "society" about &q
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
Perhaps they feel an undue pressure to do something like this. There are some people in these threads that definitely find it out of the norm. [0] It very well could be people who simply don't stand up for themselves particularly well.
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
Seems like charging a specific fee might help alleviate some of the concerns about that. Though I suppose you still need to know how much money you should charge. I really hate estimates and have always hated estimating projects. I do appre
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
I'd encourage you to amend "equality of opportunity" to "equality of opportunity under the law". I've seen too many people try to argue that if we want equality of opportunity we still have to actively level op
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
So you don't agree with the Freakanomics theory that it is a result of Roe Vs Wade?
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
By arguing what the role of government should be. If the role of government is to protect property rights, it needs to be able to defend the country from foreign invasion. Typically people in favor of "small government" mean small
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
Yeah, but it begs the question, why would anyone want BAT tokens?
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
As of 2012 food costs as a % of spending are the lowest in the US than anywhere else in the world. [0] During the Obama administration there was a massive increase in enrollment with the SNAP program. [1] Between government programs and cha
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
Sure, that's the ideal situation. Paying no tax and having high property values. Ultimately I'd assume you still want the property to be worth more than what you paid for it. You and the government's incentives are aligned in
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
That's true, it is just difficult to know what level of expertise your users are at and what responsibility do you have to educate them?
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
With property taxes though, don't the incentives for government and property owners align in the desire for higher property values?
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
It is tough because there definitely are people who are very nervous about trying things on a computer. We just had a lady today worried about using a Mac as she is used to Windows. It is a slightly different paradigm in terms of finding pr
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
> eliminating property tax only incentives blocking all new development to drive up property values and encourage rent seeking I'm quite interested to see your reasoning behind that statement. Don't people still want their prop
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
I like seeing people applying science to education. Something I didn't know about until recently is there has been a lot of study done on the other side of the equation; instructional styles. It seems "direct instruction" is
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
>I would have thought this happened because China choose to drift back to free markets instead of improving their central planning. What would "improving their central planning" mean? Force people to study certain subjects? For
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
2 nuclear power plants in the US in the last 20 years. [0] These shills, lobbyists, and astroturfers need to get better at their job for the defense contractors. [0] - https://www.eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq.php?id=228&
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
From my understanding a lot of the reason for this is it only really makes sense to make large scale reactors; mostly due to approval processes and regulations already in place. There's a massive up front cost no matter the scale of th
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
Ah, I don't have kids and have never put in a car seat, I thought they all used seatbelts. Damn my assumptions! Probably one of those problems that might be best served with a simple human solution, like the "bag in the back"
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
It is interesting because you want basically the opposite of a seat belt alarm. If the back seat belt is buckled and the seat contains a certain range of weight (would probably get annoying if it would beep for an adult), it should beep.
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by supreme_sublime 8y ago
You mean a world where women can decide what to do with their own bodies? You are advocating for a world where we have to take care of the poor downtrodden woman who just doesn't know any better. Instead of realizing that she likely kn

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