Aloisius

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by Aloisius 1y ago
Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo on his second day in office. Congress passed a bill with overwhelmingly support that prevented it.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
The wheels of justice turn slowly, but grind exceedingly fine.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Indeed, Wikipedia says the term was coined by a Spaniard: > According to veteran spaghetti Western actor Aldo Sambrell, the phrase spaghetti Western was coined by Spanish journalist Alfonso Sánchez in reference to the Italian food spagh
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by Aloisius 1y ago
The correct answer is to not drive so fast (or at all) in conditions where braking might lead to a skid. I'd expect an autonomous vehicle to be rather better at this given they can hook directly into the electronic stability control sy
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by Aloisius 1y ago
This level of applicant checking at a financial institution does not inspire confidence. At a previous remote job for a financial institution, they required a full background check with fingerprinting, reference checking, past employment ve
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by Aloisius 1y ago
That the majority has replaced their computers with smartphones. That link though doesn't say that. It simply shows global ownership of smartphones is higher than computers which is rather different altogether.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
> and you'll pay more than the house is worth in interest alone And you'll pay most of it in the future when when money is worth less than today.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
> The majority of phone users replaced their computers with a phone Source? I can't find anything that backs that up.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
The first tariffs went into effect nearly three months ago.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Em. The first tariffs went into effect nearly 3 months ago. https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/business/china-us-trade-retal...
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Domestic investment spending, including retail inventory, was up quite a bit, so that seems unlikely. What dropped like a rock was consumer spending growth.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Imports don't count against GDP growth. GDP is only calculated that way because the numbers for consumer, investment and government spending includes spending on imports, so it has to be subtracted out in order to get only domestic spe
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by Aloisius 1y ago
> I wonder what might happen if I was to feed it twice a day at room temperature for a month or so. If that S. cerevisiae is from accidental contamination from commercial yeast, it'll probably stay dominant. Commercial yeast is a
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by Aloisius 1y ago
What person diving into their shell's source code on Linux doesn't read manpages? Or even man's manpage at least once?
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Indeed, I did copy that out wrong, but I don't think your argument that housing is substantially higher today than the 80s or 90s stands. Nor does today surpass all of the 80s. As I stated before, the ratio of units to households was a
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by Aloisius 1y ago
VAT is only levied if it doesn't get exported within a certain amount of time (6 months from the scheduled delivery date). I knew someone who tooled around Europe for a month before dropping it off to be shipped to her without having V
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by Aloisius 1y ago
It's still a thing in bash 5.2.37. It's just how bash works. If there's an entry in the session cache, it uses it. Since executable paths only get cached when you run a command successfully, this only happens when it gets mov
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by Aloisius 1y ago
But the man page section tells you which one is is a a kernel syscall (2) and which is a C library function (3)...
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by Aloisius 1y ago
From the 2025 Part 583 for this year: - Tesla model 3 - 70-75% US/Canada content - Tesla model Y - 70% US/Canada content - Tesla Cybertruck - 65% US/Canada content - Tesla model S - 65% US/Canada content Perhaps it is ca
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Sure it's 85% now, but what about tomorrow? Next week? Next month? This administration's policy decisions aren't particularly stable.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
Yes. Volvo has had a program for decades where they fly you to Sweden where drive a vehicle around long enough for it to be "used", buy it then they ship it over to the US to avoid US new car import tariffs.
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by Aloisius 1y ago
> Stories with child ignores parents and they get hurt were made of adults ? Yes. They're not stories about their children after all. And of course, most of them didn't involve children getting hurt because they ignored the
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by Aloisius 1y ago
You're using old housing and household estimates. They get revised after the decennial census to correct for errors. 1998: Total housing unit: 117,282, Total households: 102,528, Ratio: 1.1439 From the last housing inventory for 1965 -
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by Aloisius 1y ago
GitHub is subject to US law. Some European would need a law forbidding companies doing business in their country from complying with this US law for there to be any question of legality.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> The number of units per household is near the historical highs, and it dwarfs the numbers seen in the 80-s and 90-s Your link appears to only goes back to 2001. Looking at Census data, it appears the reverse is true. Every year from
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Having read the Senate debate on the amendment to grant citizenship to what would become the 14th amendment, I can't disagree more. They were absolutely aware that is what it. Indeed, they stated it outright: > The proposition befo
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by Aloisius 2y ago
> there were few non-British foreigners in the US People born in the Germany made up about 3.5% of the US population (1.11 million) in 1860. While they were one of the largest groups, many states/territories had large percentages
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by Aloisius 2y ago
Sure, but classic folktales weren't intended for children. They were stories largely for adults. Indeed, the Grimm brothers did not intend their books for children initially. They were supposed to be scholarly works, but no one seems t
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by Aloisius 2y ago
The entire House is up for reelection. They are who impeach. The Senate is who convicts.
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by Aloisius 2y ago
This Congress probably won't, but the next one might.

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