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"I don't want to pile on, except to note that how weird it is to assume that the world is coming to end as a result of road-to-hell behaviors which were themselves quick adaptations to new conditions, and then not to assume that the new challenges..." [
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"Hipster is a way of being cool, that's all.
And like all ways of being cool, it is exclusive. You have know / do / look / be some way that most people cannot.
The base of the hatred of hipsters is simply distaste for exclusion, just like any..." [
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"The author projects a significant shift in housing preference from single-family residences to high-density urban living. This reduced demand, he supposes, will permit a lot of nice suburbs to slip into slum status as property owners have no choice..." [
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"If you fear a disaster, being debt-free is the last thing you should be focused on. For worse-case planning cash is king. (For worst-case planning you want to have gold, weapons, and friends in foreign consulates, but that's another thread.)
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"For everyone who rains contempt upon all the bad, stupid, pathetic scam attempts out there, please remember that they serve a very important auxiliary function: they create marks for the good scams. Good scams rely upon your confidence, and what..." [
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"This is true in the U.S.:
It is perfect legal for you to use any name you wish, so long as you have no intent to defraud. Do so consistently for long enough and the law recognizes that your new name is your real name -- this is "common..." [
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"You very much could sue him for assault, which is a civil tort every bit as much as it a criminal offense. Jurisdiction for lawsuits is based upon the location of the defendant, not the location of the tort, whereas the location of the criminal..." [
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"If we have to take Knocked Up seriously (do we?), I still think people are getting it wrong.
First, in the logic of the movie, Heigl ins't supposed some kind of uberfraulein. In important ways she's just as much a loser as the Seth Rogen..." [
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"Don't go too far in the other direction. People do fulfill emotional needs their partners can't provide for on their own and do do practical things for their partners (and for others to whom their partners are obliged) that their partners can't do,..." [
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"The audacity of Chinese go to Africa to sell the goods in which it has comparative advantage and buy the goods for which Africans have for comparative advantage.
How could the Chinese not have learned the lesson of the NGOs that Africa is exempt..." [
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"It's a 19th century fiction convention which (in its original form) was intended to create a sense of verisimilitude. It was used to obscure names to create the suggestion the character was or could be a real person (who couldn't be outed) and was..." [
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"If by "competitive" you mean a scholarship of $25,000 or $30,000 a year, than by all means go unless you're giving up some great opportunities to do so. St. John's is an entirely respectable law school whose graduates immediately (if they..." [
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"You shouldn't worry too much.
Free economies have amazingly strong self-correction mechanisms. As nature abhors a vacuum, economies abhor idle capital and labor, and will quickly put it back to work because it will always be worth more than..." [
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"It's important to note though that any carbon dioxide rules from this (or a future) administration without further Congressional authorization are going to have to follow the rather elaborate rule-making procedures in the EPA. Elaborate scientific..." [
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"A sequential primary and caucus system will always have Iowa and New Hampshire first because by their respective laws they will always go first, even if that means Halloween of the prior year.
Human nature and media narrative gives the first..." [
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"Suedehead, the patronizing (racist?) motivation you suggest for cross-cultural adoption can't drive more than a trivial percentage of adoptions. If there's a political component to some adoptions, it's far more likely to be the "it's a crowded..." [
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"What Pope Guilty said. Taibi seems to be accusing the liberal elite of being bad leftists, when, in fact, they are not leftists and would pale at the suggestion they were.
Hedge fund guys writing $4,600 checks to Barack Obama strongly believe in..." [
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"Writers and writer-producers are paid a cash fee per original episode by the production company. In union productions, the minimum writer fees are set by collective bargaining agreements, but most writers are paid in excess of that amount per..." [
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"Your problem is summed up in your title. You should not be desperate. You're making a living, and at "$20k below market," not a bad living either. Being a lawyer is a job and the only reason why most people do it is because it's a good..." [
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"Cults are as cults do. In other words: forget about the beliefs, because one man's wacky nonsense is another man's gospel. Be on the lookout for radical changes in behavior, especially efforts to isolate your friend from her non-"Light"..." [
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