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Why is a private company responsible for the failings of government?
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> China no longer deserves its "developing economy" exemption Which exemption? The Paris Accord had China reducing their emissions by 45% on 2005 levels. The US agreed to 25%. That's the two biggest polluters on Earth. Las
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In Australia they can revoke your driver's license for various unrelated issues. Regularly happens over unpaid fines.
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How many would benefit vs how many are inconvenienced? Seems like the beneficiaries easily outnumber the few who lose out.
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You can cause harm to others laptops without this device? The consequences for both parties are the same.
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How does it compare against a placebo in a double blind trial? This is simply a single case report with no comparison. Chiropractic remedies have a long history of being questionable. Wikipedia provides many sources: > Systematic reviews
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You essentially point to a very large reorganisation and say all the tx's on the global chain will disappear once the GFW opens up again. All orphaned transactions go back in the mempool as unconfirmed and will be processed later. Simp
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Are the US going to go after the European officials/ companies who are actively working to sidestep Iran sanctions right now? It's the exact same thing yet on a far larger scale. This whole case has nothing to do with enforcing sa
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This reads like an ad for a closed source messenger only available in a few countries. Have no idea how its related to bitcoin. Clicks perhaps? I have plenty of criticisms for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general but some of the claims h
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Meme replies don't really belong here, you could easily copy your general argument or paraphrase it instead.
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From the comment guidelines: > Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something. Handling 30k passengers per hour is manageable for most rail lines around the
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It doesn't need to be implemented anywhere else, the wording of the legislation specifically says they can ask on behalf of other nations.
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I can't grasp the centrifuge option, won't there still be two forces? It'll be more like those carnival rides than artificial gravity. A dropped ball won't fall straight "down".
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They are exporting more petrol vehicles than ever before.
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Those same countries have the option to go to the World Bank for loans, the problem is the World Bank is used to enforce Western ideals onto different cultures in return for the loans. The Chinese loans come with no strings attached other
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The middle Eastern wars since 9/11 have killed more civilians than Pol Pot.
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Which two? Mali is a few hundred troops assisting the government. Not sure if that qualifies as an invasion. Vietnam the most recent in 1979 and lasted for two weeks in response to the Vietnamese government attempting to annex Cambodia and
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Humans are terrible with evaluating large numbers though. A square kilometre is far easier to visualise than 1 million square metres.
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Sensors fail daily on hundreds of planes. Virtually everything down to radios is able to be switched off at the circuit breaker level. The responsibility is on the pilot to identify and switch off anything malfunctioning.
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Communication probably isn't the right word. The pilots are given the logs for all recent issues. The prior flight called in a panpan distress signal for the exact same sensor failure and subsequently disabled the system to continue fl
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> this is textbook journalism The line between editorial and news has become so blurred I'm afraid you're right.
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> All real estate is local. > The flood of expat money (foreign investment) these two statements are contradictory
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Not sure about perfect but it's probably close. If you can solve any of the outstanding problems no one is going to care where you come from, gender, political views, socioeconomic status etc. That seems quite meritocratic to me. Compa
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Using a one time pad isn't "rolling your own crypto". It is also provably secure unlike every other cryptosystem.
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> takes enormous amount of time to go through each line and each file >My thesis is that there are lots of folks out there just trying to brag to be "contributor" for popular open source projects Do you have an example of th
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When was the last time a banker was put in jail for money laundering?
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> as long as those countries play fair Which outsourcing destination has the same environmental and worker safety protections as the in the West? A western factory polluting rivers and freely harming employees could compete quite well o
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The preliminary investigation report is due out 29th Nov. Boeing is already being sued. A bit OT but how hasn't the cockpit voice recorder been found yet? It's been weeks while giving off a detectable ping and is in 30m of water,
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I use grab extensively in SEA and they have a rewards program built in. Generally shun company rewards but I didn't mind their system. Sample size of one but having gold status did seem to get quicker rides in peak hours. The points yo
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I'm not sure I'd call that an invasion, it was a 3 week assualt on the border in response to Vietnam deciding to go overthrow and occupy Cambodia and Laos, both of whom were supported by China. There's not enough room in the
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