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Rationality is the hand calculator. Emotions reflect the goals one solves problems with the calculator to reach. It's these values that give any direction to rational thinking, that allow one to assess costs and benefits of various approaches.
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Fuel rods can be switched out, so they could just remove all of them and leave the core empty.
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It would be extremely amusing if after the next major election, only those people who voted would be forced to pay for whatever they voted for.
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[quote]They do not believe that in a free market a voluntary exchange benefits both parties equally.[/quote] It doesn't necessarily benefit both parties equally, it just benefits each enough that they voluntarily choose to go ahead with the exchange. Since it's voluntary, each party can decide "actually, I'd rather keep this since I
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I believe that reality is far stranger than anything at all we can imagine. I don't think we can even imagine the nature of reality. So aliens, reptilians, etc. are tame compared to what I believe is.
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Those... those are weapons of PEACE. Duh.
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Reminds me of the scene in Atlas Shrugged II where it's explained that it shifted to whom you have connections with determining what you're allowed to do.
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Visa/Mastercard/Debit/Paypal are means of online payment, but aren't any kind of currency/investment entity. And something like physical money isn't very useful for online payment, since you have to mail it and it's insecure. One can't "hold on to" a visa card payment for very long; it turns into money in a bank account. Vendors
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Since bitcoin is a means of online/semi-anonymous transaction, and an investment/currency-like entity, when one is criticizing one aspect, people sometimes defend the other aspect. It reminds me of when someone is criticizing how people are being mistreated, someone always brings up people who are being treated worse, or the starving kids in <third
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Where I am, if one is to have electricity and water service, one must pay over $20 a month for weekly garbage collection, even if one doesn't generate that much trash. So not only is there monopoly, but you're effectively forced to buy it even if you don't need it (I generate very little trash, and put my cart out every two months or so