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BitPay, among others, has a debit card that pulls from your crypto wallet instead of your bank account, using the current exchange rate. You can use it just like any other debit card.
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Someone sick walks into a building with central air/heating without HEPA filtration or sterilization, walk past a return vent, and the virus gets sucked in and sent out throughout the whole building.
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Ask HN: Can the US insurance industry afford to pay for Covid-19?
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There is at least one other way to look at it. These loans will primarily, if not exclusively, go to large financial institutions. Due to the wonders of fractional reserve lending, those institutions will get to loan out several multiples o
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Two sentences later in the paragraph your quote came from: >As an independent institution, the Federal Reserve System has the authority to act on its own without prior approval from Congress or the President. And later: >The twelve Fe
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The Federal Reserve is not a government entity and has nothing to do with the budget, which is set by the US congress.
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Researchers Rush to Test Coronavirus Vaccine in People- No Animal Trials First(scientificamerican.com)
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Or, what if we're the first. Someone has to be the first. The Universe is devoid of intelligent life, and we're without technological peers. A billion years pass, the Universe is rich with intelligent life. And they can still dete
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This version shows cases by state in the US: https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.h...
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If Merkel's assertion that 60%-70% of the population in Germany will be infected is accurate, and we end up with similar numbers in the US, the math is pretty stunning.[1] With a US population of 330,000,000, we end up with 198,000,000
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>Virgin Media said in a post that unauthorized access was to a marketing database that included “limited contact information such as names, home and email addresses, and phone numbers” for about 900,000 subscribers. If I have your name,
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Porn, gore, and gambling habits aired in Virgin Media breach(arstechnica.com)
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Might want to have a look at the return address after they show up.
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Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or a
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That's just an average deductible, too. If the cost is $100,000,000, they could still say "effectively charge patients who go to the ER $1,000 or more.” and not be wrong. It also doesn't include the cost of coverage. I have a
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‘Astounding new finds’ suggest ancient empire may be hiding in plain sight(sciencemag.org)
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There are political entities which exist solely to provide an online presence for their clients. It's no different than "Russian trolls", except they're being paid by campaigns and committees instead of the KGB. It is my
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I've been asking that question since 2015.
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I'll put my "hat" on for a moment and ask: Why doesn't the FEC enforce its policy on the identification of political advertisements and who paid for them when it comes to social media activity? Why is it that a 30 second
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>Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html Just a reminder.
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Apple to pay up to $500M to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones(finance.yahoo.com)
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Congressmen Seek to Lift Propaganda Ban (2012)(buzzfeednews.com)
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That's because they'll tie you up and beat you with a stick if you don't obey the rules. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caning_in_Singapore
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At the federal level, republicans, and at the local level, democrats. There's plenty of blame to go around without being partisan.
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You can open it in a private tab.
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There were stockpiles of supplies in Puerto Rico, too, but that didn't mean it was successfully distributed to the people who needed it.[1] Is there a secret plan for disbursing this stockpile to 300+ million Americans? If so, why wasn
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https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/11/18216134/reddit-tencent-i... "Reddit gets a $150 million investment from Tencent and users are posting memes to mock the deal"
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You don't say what type of visa your friend has, but if he's on a H1B, he (and you) should be aware of the reasons for its existence, and how it's abused. "The H-1B visa program should help U.S. companies recruit highly-
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>With a minimalistic welfare state The US spends nearly 20% of GDP on welfare. More (as %GDP) than Australia, Canada, The Netherlands, Israel, Switzerland, and many others. In terms of total spending, it's #2 in the world. https:&
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There are two morals to the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".

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