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Borrow money from a community-owned credit union that exists for exactly that purpose to give interest-free loans (using the money the community aren't presently using for anything else, that they have saved with the credit union)? That's just off the top of my head, I can probably do better. Also:...

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Weirdly enough I feel like small brick and mortar stores can be doing better sometimes. Will elaborate as needed.

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I think people are seriously underestimating how hard it is to relocate?

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I was thinking in terms of 'changing the rules'

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Pastrychef is correct; also emotional distress is in fact a tort iirc, and you can most certainly sue over it. Also it's a pretty fucking gross premise.

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I was actually thinking of "kill the power of the Speaker of the House(would literally only require minor internal rule changes), axe the filibuster or revise it to require that it only be one person talking and it has to be both continous and on-topic, and maybe dump the Hastert Rule, also inc...

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I mean, you can't reasonably compel someone to provide services for you. Compel a refund if services paid for aren't rendered(although you could just bill for time), but I think this a case where compelling services rendered is pretty awful.

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Aren’t there some simple fixes?

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Minor note per the earlier discussion that there are times when inflationary policy makes sense. For example, if you have a massive savings glut that's restricting investment/economic activity. The post recovery stages of the aftermath of a bubble bursting maybe, or for a concrete example Japan in t...

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Right, it looks like the distinction is "are you in some fashion showing (insignia, command, etc-following orders from someone) that you are a military individual or a combatant or under someone's orders". The thing about disguising I think is more for military personnel or non-military pe...

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You guys keep assuming I'm having good ideas, when I already said I don't. In any case, I never said outlaw these pieces of writing. I said curate, and notify, and provide more information. Well, they are already offering to do that, but it's very tricky. On what basis are "they" qualifie...

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You guys keep assuming I'm having good ideas, when I already said I don't. In any case, I never said outlaw these pieces of writing. I said curate, and notify, and provide more information. Well, they are already offering to do that, but it's very tricky. On what basis are "they" qualifie...

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Or of compromising methods that are still in use-the information is outdated but how we got it would key someone into that we've got a specific design for bugs, eg.

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FWIW, PR does ensure you have someone "Representing your views' in the sense that 1) party discipline is more important, so if you see a label you have a good idea what they'll be voting for and 2) at least one party is liklier to align more closely with your views(even if it's a small one). I ...

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Well there's a lot of rabbits in DC so who knows. Of course the strip mentions a governor so it's probably a state capitol.

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FWIW's homeownership=! detached suburban houses with two-car garages. People do buy condos/apartments/rowhouses/terraced houses, after all.

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Have states been sovergin entities since 1789? I'm quite serious, given the limited reach of doctrines like nullification and the existence of the Supremacy Clause.

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http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/14/congress-stock-trading-conflict-of-interest-rules-238033 Congress brazenly does insider trading and nobody cares. But what many saw as a scandal, others saw as an opportunity. On the very day that Wyden was decrying Price’s bad judgment, Rep. Doug Lamborn, R...

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How do people feel about either a non-majority but non-current EC system? Say the various systems where state's electors are divvied up proprortionately, or going for IRV? There's also the issue of balance. If you push too far in one direction, you get straight majoritarianism with no veto or checks...

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What's so special about rural areas that they should have more power in a vote, again? What's so special about rural areas that they should have no power whatsoever in a vote? Even with the electoral college, politicians focus an inordinate amount on heavily populated regions. Without the electoral...

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He didn't speak to the why of celibacy. His claim was that church members of superior intelligence fell out of the gene pool by not reproducing. Which is a reach given that avowing celibacy and actually being celibate are two different things. On the other hand, church members of inferior intellige...

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That includes territory Egypt got ceded by Israel as well as territory outside of Mandatory Palestine; I don't think even the nuttiest revisionists claim that much.

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The long term trends indicate that both economic struggles and racial equality are drivers of Trump voters. Racial equality is bad in their eyes because Trump voters think if the other groups are rising up, then white males must be dragging down. As usual, it's more complex than initially posted th...

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Incremental adjustment to match real world price granularity is more practical than overhauling the system and being stuck with it when the granularity is too little or too big. Fix problems that actually exist. Yes, but with my solution, nothing actually changes. Let cents circulate until the twen...

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Jeopardy however locks you out until the host is done talking. Its primarily a reaction game. Everyone there knows the answer to virtually every question, its simply who can buzz in after the lock has been released. And computers are mind-boggling good at that sort of timing. The fact that Watson w...

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Neil_Boekend wrote:That should be solvable with a timer switch that you set the day before, or good night vision so you don't have to turn on the light in the first place.

Those are actually pretty common; possibly this was someplace where he couldn't install them?

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It seems like both Sardia and morriswalters are correct-Sardia is talking about international bans and morriswalters is talking about regulations within the US. I personally would support a program of buying out the old units. This does seem to be more of an issue in developing countries though.

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About the only things which can be produced that literally have nothing to do with bodies are products relating to pursuits of the mind, arguably including computers and definitely including art. But the point of art is that it triggers emotions, and those are physical feelings. I don't think disem...

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The "compensating" being taken literally rather than symbolically is the gag of the strip. With that said, the associative link I usually make is middle age or midlife crisis, where a sports car (generally not a particularly large one, but quite often red) is meant to directly compensate ...

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Isn't this why most people who look at long-term crime statistics use homicide, since it's less subject to revision in its definition and harder to cover-up/conceal?

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Modern reasearch on present-day hunter gatherers mentions them breastfeeding 3 years or longer and some quick and dirty googling suggests 2-3 years for full weaning. And of course there were other ways of preventing birth: abstinence, oral and anal sex, herbal contraceptives and abortifiacients like...

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I made a claim about 2015 homocides, so I'm taking the 2015 homicides and comparing it to 2014 homicides. Even apart from any other errors or deliberate misrepresentations you may be making, that decision right there is cherry-picking. The projected 2015 data that I've seen still comes in below the...

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The solution of course, is to create a US Agency and mandate them to produce rare, unprofitable drugs at a low cost. </sarcasm> The US is allergic to socialism. Such a setup will never happen in this country. ACA is allegedly 'evil socialism', so I have no idea what an actual socialist idea would d...

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That looks like a "Swim with the Alligators!"-type attraction. Unless that's the joke you're making?

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I've often wondered why you don't see more thermite volcanoes. Thermite's easy to make and it's far more geologically accurate. You could easily mix it with other common substances to create a chemically accurate lava of whatever variety you wanted - for example, quartz sand, quicklime, magnesia, a...

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Actually, mustard on chocolate cake might be worth trying... You can get wasabi chocolate cake in Wagamama, though these days they only mention the wasabi in the smallprint. I keep meaning to try it. Of course, as I've mentioned before, the whole sweet/savoury dichotomy just isn't a thing in Asia. ...

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It's up to those arguing there's a pattern to make the case for why it's a meaningful one No, it's up to the people making today's dire predictions to make the case for why their dire predictions are more trustworthy than the similarly dire predictions people have been making for centuries. Exactly...

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We may not be able to defeat militarily at all. Improve the economics of the region however and you could remove the base of poverty that helps drive ISIS. I love how much you've bought into this social justice bullshit narrative that the jihadis are the "real victims" of crushing poverty...

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I was hoping he'd also asked the guy whether he ate grasshoppers or locusts, which of course the Bible explicitly lists as being on the good-to-eat list. But the religious guy changed the topic as quickly as he could. I wonder whether there are Fundamentalists who insist on eating those large, nutr...

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So, umm, capture him and offer "leniency" in exchange for providing good intelligence on other ISIS members? I was thinking more or less this-"Surrender, let us debrief you for intelligence, and we'll give you a false passport, a one-way ticket to Aruba or someplace else suitably ple...

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