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by 988747 4y ago
They love wars against small third world countries that are easy to win. War with China is probably the only one that US can actually lose.
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by 988747 4y ago
Imagine government-run employment agency setting you up for a job interview at the brothel. And if you refuse that interview you lose your unemployment benefits, because you turned down perfectly legal job... That's reality for women i
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by 988747 4y ago
How about EU-issued "right to be forgotten"? Is it possible that Arnie requested being removed from all the search results?
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by 988747 4y ago
Small-scale economic downturns did happen once a decade, because that's natural in a healthy economy. Federal Reserve tried to prevent a downturn in 1929, but their misguided monetary policies made it two orders of magnitude worse inst
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by 988747 4y ago
"Rich Dad, Poor Dad" good parts can be summarized in one sentence: "Start saving money and invest what you save". The rest of it is just bullshit.
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by 988747 4y ago
That's the thing: taxes should NOT be about wealth redistribution - that's Marxist thinking. They should be about financing basic public services, like justice system, military, or possibly healthcare and education.
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by 988747 4y ago
Yes, it does at least for those of us who are not US citizens. You can never be sure that one day the US won't sanction your home country in the same way, for some weird reason. Of course for some countries the risk is greater than for
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by 988747 4y ago
Property rights and such are secondary. The primary issue is: who has the power? Right now the answer to that question is "US", but since China is catching up on GDP, and, unlike US, actually manufactures things. If China decides
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by 988747 4y ago
> Ukraine means "borderland". Historically Ukraine was in a constant state of wars between Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, Swedish Empire and Russian Empire since before USA even existed. Don't forget Turkey. Ukraine was a
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by 988747 4y ago
And I always thought that wolves live in families, not packs, and what it takes to be a "pack leader" is being the father of other wolves.
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by 988747 4y ago
That's provably false - I witnessed it many times when solving the cube myself. Colored faces determine orientation, in addition to location. In the Rubik solving method that I know (a simple method for amateurs, not remotely close to
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by 988747 4y ago
If I understand it correctly, this visualization does not take into account the constraints of some faces being physically tied to each other, by being on the same cube. So, while it can show the process of solving cube, it is not a replace
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by 988747 4y ago
Center cube is not moved, but it is rotated. However, since it does not have any colored faces then it's rotations are meaningless.
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by 988747 4y ago
As long as technology and human society progresses, then yes, GDP is guaranteed to rise, and stocks are guaranteed to rise a bit more than GDP, because they represent the best, most innovative part of the economy (mom and pop's grocery
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by 988747 4y ago
Yes, but the point is: even with the worst possible timing you still get ahead of inflation ($1.1M from $184k invested). With regular investments you could double the profits. Also, 1970-2015 period includes three big crises, with crashes o
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by 988747 4y ago
I always thought that "house wine" is just an euphemism for "whatever we could get our hands on" - a workaround for the restaurant so that they do not have to list a specific brand on the menu.
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by 988747 4y ago
I meant "desirable" as in "there are many millions of people trying to get there, every year". Some of those people even risk their lives for it. How they are treated after they get there is a completely separate topic.
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by 988747 4y ago
> I've long been embarrassed that US immigration law so often errs on the side of xenophobia and cruelty. That's the effect of being the single most desirable target for immigrants. If US immigration laws were any more lenient,
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by 988747 4y ago
Are you from the US? US public bathrooms are especially bad for privacy, because they only have thin wooden walls that start about 15 inches above the floor (so that anyone passing by can see if someone is laying on the floor, passed out).
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by 988747 4y ago
I guess they did not mean the linked site itself, but most of the linked sites. They seem to be personal sites of individual people (developers, bloggers), and typically contain few paragraphs of unstyled text (Black font on white backgroun
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by 988747 4y ago
Define "obscene amounts". Ukraine shoots like 6.000 155mm rounds per day. US manufacturers can't produce that much, US government is currently doing market survey for potential new manufacturers, because Army reserves were se
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by 988747 4y ago
> Then explain to me why the US would not blow up both pipes of NS2? Maybe they wanted to, but simply failed? One of the bombs did not go off, or something like that.
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by 988747 4y ago
But if you lack technology to detect fakes how can you ever prove perjury? Photographer would then risk nothing by lying.
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by 988747 4y ago
There's not enough lithium on planet Earth even for all the electric cars we'll need, don't even start on using lithium batteries for large-scale storage. The only hope here is that Magnesium-based batteries will become a thi
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by 988747 4y ago
Solar power also has a decades long history of only working during a day.
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by 988747 4y ago
Well, if they choose Infosys as a company to implement CBDC then at least we are safe for the next 20+ years, because there's no way they complete the project before that time :)
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by 988747 4y ago
The perfect command for deleting remote tag would be "tag -d(elete) -r(emote) <tag>" The existence of "remote refs" is an implementation detail, and git bothers you with it unnecessarily. And if you really need a c
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by 988747 4y ago
Yes, but this rebellion is against the PARENTS. Teenage kids typically seek for the new meaning and purpose in their lives, that's why so many college students join charities, or civil rights groups, or cults... And they do not join th
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by 988747 4y ago
No, no one is forced to sell. The two available options (depending on some nuances of how your loan was actually set up) are: - Your loan is converted to PLN, you get a refund of all the extra costs incurred by the currency exchange rates,
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by 988747 4y ago
That would create a weird dynamic: is it more beneficial to the airline to issue refunds to passengers, or is it better to give money directly to the DOT, which, as most government institutions, is probably underfunded and will appreciate t

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