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> 3. Partner with a Chinese assembly house and suppliers. Alibaba is your friend. Oh, if that’s how you build hardware then sure, hardware isn’t hard to do at all.

No, it’s not a quantity issue, it’s a quality issue. DAs used to go after particularly egregious offenders and throw the book at them. This creates incentive effects for all the ot…

If they can do this with traffic, imagine what they’re doing with YouTube ads…

Buyers discount the equipment price based on the expected cost of repairs, and manufacturers capture more profit when they consistently produce equipment that is more reliable or e…

Fifty years ago the average guy buying a tractor had a family farm with a few hundred acres. Equipment was smaller and had less frills because the John Deeres of the world were cat…

I’m not sure why the military running it makes this project inherently bad. You can always point to some geological or ecological reason why a resource shouldn’t be developed. Here…

Can you link to the portion of the debate where everyone agreed on what “under the jurisdiction of” means? The issue was contentious then as it is now. They wouldn’t have spilled s…

The fact that a guy like Trump was ever elected in the first place would imply it is not working fine. Half of the electorate supports his anti-immigration policies. In an alternat…

Despite all of those things people still travel across the world to give birth in US just so their posterity can become a part of our country. What other metric do you need?

Imagine a country extending citizenship to a whole group of people for no reason other than the location of their birth, and then allowing said people to access the benefits of cit…

I can imagine a compromise that exchanges a path to citizenship for DACA kids for restrictions on birthright citizenship. What is missing from this debate is the practical side of …

Members of American Indian tribes were born in the United States after the 14th amendment was passed but it took an act of Congress to make them citizens. The question of jurisdict…

Is he wrong though? Lots of bad precedents were set during that emergency, the consequences of which were still living with. The Overton window moved in a deeply authoritarian dire…

I’m unsure what you mean by gated free speech zones. Sometimes specific areas are closed to vehicle traffic for a protest, but that doesn’t mean those locations are exclusively for…

I mean this in the kindest way possible: if you're not from the US and your only window into our country is TV and the internet, consider the possibility that your assumptions abou…

Yes, that was the defense’s argument, which was ultimately unpersuasive to a jury. Rehashing it here doesn’t make it more persuasive or effective. I’ve been to several protests ove…

The Wikipedia link I posted should answer your question comprehensively.

He was charged with 37 felony counts, the most serious of which carried a maximum sentence of 20 years. Had he been convicted he would have surely gone to prison for far longer tha…

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The activity in the body does not align with the title. Even putting aside whether such activities are justified in this case or acceptable in general, people do not commonly attem…

Estrada was convicted of "intending to conceal the box’s contents and impair its availability for use in a federal grand jury and federal criminal proceeding," not for just moving …

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People have difficulty visualizing large volumes of water. A square mile filled up to one foot with water is 208,544,914 gallons. 2.5 billion gallons of water would fill up this sa…

Occam’s razor would suggest someone at Google took it down. I’m not sure we need to reach for convoluted explanations to explain things.

The effort required to maintain the orchard when its fruit would go to waste would be even more destructive and wasteful, no? Which is really the greater injustice?