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Gifford

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    Comment #9287297

    A slave master is highly motivated to invest in a slave's skills, because the master extracts the profit of that investment.

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    Comment #9287202

    That's called a fried apple pie in the USA.

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    Comment #9254768

    Two of the A endpoints are the same,so don't need to be encoded twice.

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    Comment #9254744

    With good lighting control, you could set up he checkerboard illusion in the real world. That's part of he point.

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    Comment #9248417

    The point of ACA was to make not being insured more hassle than being insured, to motivate you get insurance, not complain about the hassle of being uninsured. Maybe you philosophi…

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    Comment #9248400

    You may be confusing "isn't interested in disucssing it with you" with "isn't up for discussion at all". Maybe you bring less to the conversation than you think you do, in some cas…

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    Comment #9248386

    On some topics of debate, as it goes, they say, "the Devil has enough advocates already".

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    Comment #9248380

    But computer programmers are logical by training and profession, so we can trust that our own analyses are always correct.

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    Comment #9248369

    Try putting as much effort into correcting your own mistakes as you do into correcting others. Being correct but in a biased way is practically equivalent to being wrong.

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    Comment #9248297

    There aren't enough free ranges to product the eggs people want. Does everyone want tl pay $1 per egg? The answer is to be less greedy about animal produce.

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    Comment #9248273

    Ultimately all you can do is gently guide the world toward secular humanism, as people raised under the irrational tribalism of any religion struggle to writhe out of the pit they …

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    Comment #9247763

    Not really. SV employees pay 40-50+% income in tax. The founders, maybe, are at threat.

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    Comment #9247745

    The easy way fight this is Schindlers List style: just fail to deliver quality when you work overtime. They won't fire you, because a priori they can't find anyone better.

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    Comment #9247741

    Full time "benefits" (vs part-time hours) didn't exist in 19th Century USA wen Kellog practice changed.

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    Comment #9247720

    After you slept, did you remember what you had previously forgotten, or was it a loss?

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    Comment #9247714

    Why do you believe it's not an army of real people all burning themselves to the ground?

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    Comment #9247241

    What else is in the "environment" that could be helping? It's made of people.

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    Comment #9244248

    I though monoprice just sells out - of - tolerance factory seconds, and covers the high failure rate which a free-replacement. The MicroUSB cables I got from them were junk.

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    Comment #9244225

    An athlete can't exercise all day and week long, their body would collapse. During the downtime, they can party or they can study.

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    Comment #9244203

    There is 0 enforcement of this.

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    Comment #9238579

    Yes, private parties stated, smd government partnership made it actually happen

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    Comment #9238575

    99pi did a story recently on how the auto industry fabricated the crime of "jaywalking" to get people out of the streets and seize the streets for cars.

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    Comment #8908843

    Is this a fabricated controversy to drive readers to medium? The author of the rebuttal is a medium employee, and the original article was utter drivel to begin with (and completel…