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vixen99
2,427karma·3,106submissions·February 19, 2008
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This phenomenon is commonplace on HN. It brings to mind the shrieking lady in this Monty Python: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-51DhOzHE …
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Who can argue with that? Surely attempts are being made to find other freshwater locations where they can prosper?
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Too true!
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You mean these 'liars': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Austrian-school_econom... .
NB 'principles' and 'rebuttal'.…
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You have a view and it informs your rhetoric. I hope it's not a disservice to you to suggest this is standpoint where essentially 'we' know all about the universe and everything in it.…
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There are zero rights without obligations. Why do we never hear about the latter? To read about people standing up for their rights in a Marxist State read Robert Conquest's 570 pages of 'Th…
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And it all amounts to a bag of beans. If it's so impressive they can support Ukraine and render irrelevant any contribution that the US might make? One wonders why Zelensky is in the US pleading …
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Irrespective of political leanings, a lot of British people are saying this. They stand for it because they have to. It's a government that was voted in by a large margin only six months ago. Dis…
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I have no idea about this but am curious to know if the wealthy Engels family who 'owned large cotton-textile mills in Barmen and Salford, England' showed the way for your other 'mighty…
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Of course some level of bureaucracy is essential for any human society but your generalization takes us nowhere because it's riven with assumptions about that 'human element'.
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Let's not ascribe the possession of higher level concepts like a 'promise' to abstract entities. Reserve that for individuals. As with some economic theories, you appear to have a zero …
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More tellingly it betokens a lack of critical thought. It's just silly.
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NOAA updated Sea Level Trend Map (US)
https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/sltrends/slrmap.html …
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You're right, no competition. Let's face it, your President is a loser who can't even manage a simple insurrection; no proper planning I guess. Fortunately not much bloodshed though the…
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You're in the wrong place for a comment like that. Don't even bother.
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Seems a reasonable question to ask what's fair about the US paying out some $850 billion for defense when it seems pretty damn nigh impossible to get partners to pay their share? In some cases po…
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For a wonderful biographical take on this topic try "The theory that would not die-how Bayes'rule cracked the Enigma code, hunted down Russian submarines & emerged triumphant from centur…
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It's possible you might adopt a different attitude if one day you're diagnosed with rapid onset Altzheimer. At that stage you'd be forgiven for muttering 'basic science be blowed&#…
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There are other sites where you can deliver this kind of homily to your heart's desire.
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Yes. https://microbiologyandnature.com/PUBLISHED_ARTICLES/Couliba... …
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What's the surprise? Not easy to have the time and place to write interesting stories and adventures if you're preoccupied with a physically demanding job so that you can keep warm in the wi…
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Depending on the amount, if landing on solid earth, the effect of dust ejected into the atmosphere might be critically significant in terms of energy dynamics and solar energy production.
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Apology: It is paywalled but at least the 'free bit' of text we can read underlines the point.