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He was put to death for being a thinly veiled Spartan sympathizer. Not quite just for being annoying.

Why would you feel safe riding a rocket? "Safe" is not the word.

Plato is, by far, the best philosopher of all time. I don't say that lightly and am open to arguments.

This is a thoroughly modern perspective. Historically, Aristotle was considered "The Philosopher". Plato has staged a resurgence in the discourse (in fact I'm partial to Plato myself), but you're over-stating his historical impact. Which is sort of ironic, when you're discussing historical impact.

Pakistan, not India

Warren Buffet is vertically integrated on Diabetes. He owns Dialysis companies, Dairy Queen, and the insurance companies.

Wait, is pork "red" meat or not?

Good for her for withdrawing. That was the right solution to her issue. It is not a sign of a societal failing. The solution was to withdraw.

Typically the small amount of volume is by the contract owner attempting to pick up attention from momentum trading bots.

This type of contract made a killing a few months ago. Basically miners trade by sandwiching orders in the mempool. You can search the 'salmonella' contract for more info.

Kim Kardashian was Paris Hilton's intern and appeared on Paris Hilton's show. I don't think that was accidental.

This is likely referring to the .npmrc registry field.

This sounds great to me, but could you give an example of the sort of town you mean? I am only really experienced with NYC, which due to geographic and traffic constraints, just seems difficult to dip into more than once a month.

You're right that he shouldn't feel the same obligation to speak out in defense of Tibet. But the issue with James is his history of comments that support the PRC's regime in Uyghur land. He isn't neutral on the issue of China. See: his comments during the Houston fiasco.

Keeping up with the Quatorzes has a better ring to it. Keeping up with the Bourbons would make more sense. But, why shoe-horn your politics into this?

right mix of extracurricular and volunteer activity today

This is close, but I imagine it would be more akin to temporarily relocating to a different school district, then selling / moving out after the children hit college age.

Note that this type of thing does aalready happen, albeit not to the extremes you're imagining. Imagine one parent retiring early or temporarily so that total family income qualifies for certain loans or grants.

Just off the top of my head, Kenya has a KPMG office. I don't think its accurate to say that Kenyans have to be runners for a sniff of opportunity. This is the sort of patronizing contradiction that comes out when white people self-flagellate.

Taking Magnesium supplements can relieve jaw tension.

The souls of 2 individuals?

There are those that receive emergency room care without ever shouldering any of the cost.

I don't think the facts agree with your statement here. The left wing of the Senate blocked the confirmation of Secretary Azar until January 29, 2018. That leaves the Department in control of the DNC.

I do not think it is fair for you to call one base deluded. And I consider it highly ironic that you would use the phrase "art of obstruction" in this circumstance.

The cache is overseen by the Department of Heath and Human Services. The Senate was not able to confirm a new secretary until January 29, 2018. By all accounts, this was in the wheelhouse of the DNC, and they chose to kick the can down the road.

You can read more about the Department's increasing budget here: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R45820.pdf

How is this attack on the GOP a rational response to the article?

From the article:

But about 100 million masks in the stockpile were deployed in 2009 in the fight against the H1N1 flu pandemic, and the government never bothered to replace them.

Would that not make this a bipartisan issue?

NYPD is only 53% white, and has a policy of neighborhood patrols. Are you implying that all cops or evil? That only white cops are evil?

Or would it be fair for me to assume that you also think black cops are targeting white citizens for unfair arrests?

I think the parent comment was referring to Harvard/Stanford's need-blind admissions & full financial aid packages.

Imperial Germany.... you mean like Koenigsberg?

Which definition is that, exactly?

I know this isn't normally the forum for these sort of comments, but is anyone else put-off by how this story occurred the same day as the 'Tesla overtakes Ford' story?

Marina doesn't come across in the best light.

Wow this spawned lots of debate. For my part, I am far happier to temporarily disable an ad block, than to get the "5 articles per month" nonsense from the Economist or NYT.

This is important information, but man, I really applaud the writer for stretching the story "they forgot to redact his email" and repackaging it into 10-15 paragraphs.

Similarly, FB has kept me due to its platform for music. Not music itself, but most artists use FB as a central hub. Further, the events are spectacular for me. I have found no better way to discover events than crowdsourcing it, aka scrolling my FB feed.