tthomas48

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by tthomas48 12y ago
Good point. If you think about it, due to the distribution of guns and the fact that the majority of gun deaths are suicides, accidents, or domestic violence - living in a gun-free household should reduce your risk even more dramatically th
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by tthomas48 12y ago
I think that's built into this, though. People don't have to "believe" if it's cheaper.
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by tthomas48 12y ago
I think if you read the article more closely using those examples was supposed to be pointing out lazy thinking, not actually advocating those as legitimate answers.
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by tthomas48 12y ago
The way you check Google, before you look like an ass on Hacker News.
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by tthomas48 12y ago
Yes I suppose it is. I guess I should say it the other way. I'm impressed with the long-botheredness of people in power regardless of the intent of the people wearing the fashion. Most of the time parents, clergy, etc give up after a d
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by tthomas48 12y ago
This is pretty much the longest ongoing trolling effort in existence.
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by tthomas48 12y ago
Have we considered there's actually a hiring and management problem? That we have organizations ill equipped to find and train new employees and thus they only go with proven candidates?
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by tthomas48 12y ago
It also includes far more writing and communication than it does mathematics, and yet we don't tend to talk about it as a part of Liberal Arts (or specifically Philosophy) much at all. I feel like the biases come from the origin of pro
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by tthomas48 12y ago
Another way to phrase it is libertarians should focus on the heavy lifting of reforming small pieces of government where they are likely to have success rather than focusing so single-mindedly on issues they are unlikely to have much impact
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by tthomas48 12y ago
Actually one of the things that gives me the most hope is the fact that Godwin's law is so much less frequently invoked. I think after a couple decades of being able to vomit up the first thing on our minds, many people are learning to
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by tthomas48 12y ago
Interesting I wouldn't have counted them twice, as my instinct is that we're talking about an adjective and an adverb - BUT - flouncing is also a noun that is the material that is used to make a dress flouncy. Sewing definitely ha
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by tthomas48 12y ago
This is one of the frightening thing about ADHD prescriptions. With children with ADHD the amphetamines are supposed to work as a depressant. If your kid is getting focus from the drugs they don't have ADHD. You have a kid on speed.
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by tthomas48 12y ago
Do you realize that by excluding someone who considers themselves a white male from being a "white male" you're proving that the construct is entirely about privilege and discrimination?
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by tthomas48 12y ago
This isn't "American Schools" these are the ultra-competitive "good schools". Put your kid in a normal school that has experienced teachers and is closer to the average for output and you'll probably find all t
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by tthomas48 12y ago
It just means that they don't include buildings that are falling apart, nor do they include penthouse flats. Texas and Louisiana both have lots of dark purple and have the very worst public schools in the nation. It's really just
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by tthomas48 12y ago
There are a lot of us with kids in the cities, though. Many of us think the schools are good enough and don't want the super-stressful "good" schools of the suburbs for our kids. If my kid can read, write, and get into a good
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by tthomas48 12y ago
In the US voting is not guaranteed to be anonymous. It's protected and (mostly) un-traced to prevent coercion. But the fact you voted is recorded. If you live in a district with few enough voters (or voters who all vote the same way) y
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by tthomas48 12y ago
Do we though? I think we need to fight to keep speech in the open. There's no constitutional right to free speech that can't be traced back to you. If we're going to equate money and speech then we have to equate the fact tha
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by tthomas48 13y ago
By participating in test prep isn't the College Board basically saying their test has no value? It's supposed to test if your education has prepared you for college. They're now basically saying the SAT is a test of how well
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by tthomas48 13y ago
I plan to organize with my neighbors and cooperate to survive doomsday. It has been a proven effective method in the aggregate for the history of the world. Lone survivalists have a pretty dismal survival rate.
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Right, and when you make $10k per year a hamburger costs $1, and when you make $50k per year a hamburger costs $5, and when you make $100k per year a hamburger costs $10. In the real world everyone pays the same $5 for a hamburger, A single
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Those historically low tax rates really show the muscle of the poor.
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Sure, I was trying to create a simplistic system here though. Clearly if we spent years we might come up with something sort of elegant and sort of fair, just like our tax code. The point is it's easier to figure out what you're c
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Because consumption drives the economy at its most basic level. You can have the rich invest in companies they like or you can have consumers "invest" in companies they like through consumption. Clearly the consumers are going to
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Clearly it's a thought experiment and you can't actually include real details in this example though. It pretty much falls apart from 1000 different directions.
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Funny how people always use this example as the poor voting themselves largess out of the treasury. The rich do this too in the form of ridiculously low taxes relative to the amount of money they have. Just because the number on your tax b
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Nice he's buying into the stupid "people who don't pay income tax in our progressive tax scheme don't pay tax" narrative. I don't like this idea, but it would be interesting if the tax we're talking about
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by tthomas48 13y ago
Does the phrase "bank grade security" actually inspire confidence in anyone? My bank still doesn't have 2-factor auth.
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by tthomas48 13y ago
This also doesn't get into the fact that transportation is a huge part of this. If you can't get to your job then you can't work it. Many minimum wage jobs are in strip malls with no public transportation. You can't affo

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