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by JackFr 2y ago
> Because that’s what excess wealth is, a power dynamic powered by a suboptimal system masquerading as shades of a meritocracy that does not exist. What does that mean? It's millenial Marxism unmoored from any specificity or facts.
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There are interesting situations with multinational banks where actual requirements of the regulator in one jurisdiction are illegal in others. (It used to come up a lot with tax compliance in Switzerland though recently they’ve normalized
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IANAL, but I know you cannot hide criminal activity with an NDA. Making people waive rights to Federal whistleblower compensation, doesn’t quite go there but comes pretty close.
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You know Chevron won Chevron v. NRDC, right?
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Let's refresh everyone's memory. Chevron won Chevron v. Natural Resource Defense Council. The case focused on what was meant by a 'source' of pollution as used in the Clean Air Act of 1963. The EPA was on the side of
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"Sticking Crayons Up Noses: A longitudinal study"
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> For a period I had no FICO score, yet I was able to secure a loan from a Credit Union. The credit union was content to use its own capital and hold your loan to maturity on its books. (I'm presuming you were probably a banking cu
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In those cases where the government handles recording all transfer, there is typically a fund which covers loss due to fraudulent or erroneous transfers. Thus there is still title insurance, it's just hidden from view.
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xroach - little cockroaches that would hide under your windows. When you closed a window, they would scurry around to hide under other windows.
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> I am pretty sure people in some distant future will think about us as heathens for eating meat, driving cars and wearing plastic. I hope they will be wise enough not to cancel us complete for this and hear out other wisdom we might wan
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Search Stories by Popularity for All time 23 results (0.02 seconds) War Is a Racket (1935)( https://archive.org/details/WarIsARacket ) 383 points|pasquinelli|1 year ago|534 comments War Is a Racket (1933)( https:/&#
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Doesn't this paper make a fairly straightforward claim, which is either true or not? Hasn't there been any further research in the past 22 years to either effectively support or undermine the conclusions?
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> No side effects, no mock to maintain, it also test your auth and permissions, almost 1:1 with prod. Can also be used to test version updates of your DB.
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What resource’s depletion do you imagine is going to do us in? I’m somewhat skeptical of climate change causing a civilization ending process, yet I find that vastly more likely than us running out of something.
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Work from home any two days, and come in the other three days? That is both hybrid and flexible. You may find it depressing but it's not 'newspeak'.
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bookmaking != bookmarking
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Misread it as “federated bookmaking software for the independent web” and thought “Yes, a useful application of blockchain!”
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Insurance is not always a for profit enterprise. There are very many “mutuals” who are literally owned by their policy holders.
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https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/51/Saturn_v... Saturn V slight larger than Statue of Liberty. I never realized that.
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I largely agree with you, but when it comes to evaluating competing methodologies, what you refer to as “agile in spirit” turns quickly into No True Scotsman. “If you project failed you mustn’t have been doing agile correctly.”
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Never new about that. Fascinating https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cod_Wars
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> Eg the US is just coming off of 20+ years of riding on China’s back. That China’s per capita GDP increased 4x over that period — was that because of, or in spite of the US ‘riding on their back’?
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That is the point. I'm paying to sit at a place that's not work or home (or a bar.)
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> 'true' (unrestrained) R&D is only possible if you have a monopoly * Bell Labs * IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center * Xerox Parc I always felt when DoJ was suing Microsoft for antitrust the best evidence of their monopol
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scam A scam, or a confidence trick, is an attempt to defraud a person or group after first gaining their trust. Other terms for scam (aside from confidence trick) include con, con game, co
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Trying to type in search box causes screen covering popup with a ton of latency, and typing in that box has crazy bad keyboard lag. Not a persuasive demo.
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The bargain used to be, I overpay for coffee because I’m renting the seat. Without a seat, why am I paying?
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> where they run the ships aground at high tide. Read an article about this years ago. It seems they had special pilots to do this. Like wetting the bed on purpose, trained ships captains had a very hard time intentionally running ships
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I love SPECULOOS as a network of robotic telescopes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speculaas
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Fuller is probably one of the more overrated intellectuals of the 20th century. His greatest talent lay in self-promotion. He was not a competent engineer, architect or scientist. His one good idea wasn't really his (geodesic domes

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