Pyxl101

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by Pyxl101 7y ago
The Federal Reserve is not a private corporation. It is an agency of the United States government, which was established by an act of congress: https://www.federalreserve.gov/faqs/about_14986.htm > The Federal Reser
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It would be hard for the fake profile to get connections with people that he would have had to claimed to have managed or worked with (but was lying about). A fake profile for "Sam" might make it even easier to spot the fraud. Plu
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Lack of capital isn't the only reason to rent. You might also choose to rent because you are not interested in investing a significant amount of your money in real estate, or because you don't want to make a long-term commitment t
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Every game that Zachtronics releases has a gameplay trailer, for comparison. Perhaps it would be useful to look at some of those for inspiration: http://www.zachtronics.com/tis-100/ https://store.steampowere
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The previous owner of the property erected a gate along their private road, posted "no tresspassing signs", charged for access, and opened/closed the gate at their discretion (leaving it closed for months during winter). I do
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
The case is not about the beach itself. It's about land near the beach through which one can travel to visit it. Is Khosla obligated to provide the public with access to the beach by crossing his land? Ordinarily this kind of right is
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
There was an article on HN about how Google leaders have considered shutting down GCP if it doesn't become a market leader: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21815260
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And it constantly annoys you, begging you to use the mobile app. Reddit: Stop it . I'm aware there's a mobile app. If I wanted to use it then I would. I don't need to see an advertisement for it on every damn page .
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Let’s say I have $1m in cash and I want to buy a house worth $1m. I could either buy the house with my cash, or take out a loan to buy the house and invest my cash into another asset. Almost any investment will produce a greater yield than
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
It seems like this idea could also achieve that by providing some kind of union of two taste-graphs. I'll input my wardrobe, then select from a set of pre-uploaded designers, and the algorithms can recommend clothes for me to purchase
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I agree with you - laws should be written in as plain, simple, and timeless language as possible. Idioms are something that I'd try to avoid if I was writing laws today. However, in this instance, the operative clause of the amendment
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The phrase "well-regulated" is an idiom that means something like "working as expected, calibrated correctly, normal, regular". You can't interpret an idiom literally based solely on the words that it's made fr
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That clause simply provides one important reason why "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed". It's not a limitation or restriction on that right. For more an extensive deep-dive on the meaning o
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> In the old days, it was routine for customs officers to search ships coming in to harbor, including the effects of their passengers, to enforce importation laws Yes, but electronic devices can't digitally contain physical substanc
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> So the market goes down 10.0% one day and then up 11.1% the next, an investor in the normal 1x is back to where they started. A 2x investor is still down and a 3x investor is down even more. Can you explain why that is? I would have ex
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
I was curious about the issue and found this article which has some details: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights_in_Saudi_Arab... In Saudi Arabia, women need permission from their male guardian to perform a
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
Why does Tranche B specifically mention Saudi female divorcees? Is the implication that married and single women aren't allowed to purchase shares, or am I misunderstanding?
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Be careful about drawing conclusions about broader nature from the behavior of the domestic cat. The cat’s behavior is, like the dog’s, very significantly the result of human driven natural selection. In the cat’s case, humans have favored
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The benefit of billionaires existing is that they made extraordinarily valuable businesses. Take Steve Jobs or Bill Gates - if they didn’t exist then Apple and Microsoft wouldn’t either. If Notch didn’t exist then neither would Minecraft. I
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> Universities are supposed to educate people The primary goal of most research universities is to conduct research . Educating people is not the goal, or is an auxiliary goal. Related: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/
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> Corporations do not have inherent rights. That's not exactly true. Corporations have many of the same rights. For example, in Citizens United vs FEC, the Supreme Court wrote that: "The Court has recognized that First Amendmen
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The drone needs to land to deliver the package. Most consumers don't have airstrips in their front yard.
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
I'm pretty skeptical of Lazar. See this article for an investigative counterpoint of many of his claims: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/area-51-and-other-strang... > A last item for your consideration to a
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Next time you see it, break out your phone or camera and capture a video. Then we can discuss the actual video!
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If that's the case, why not read the pilots into the test, even at a summary level? If the Navy had told the pilots, "You just experienced an advanced technology test. Nothing to worry about" then they would have undoubtedly
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> with no obvious labor differences for why this is One difference that stands out to me is that the supply of people who can perform the job is constrained. Other professions may be crucial - indeed, the truck drivers who deliver suppli
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Done! Thanks for the suggestion. I've edited my post to include a link to the case on RECAP.
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The complaint submitted to the court presumably has more details. It would have been nice if the blog post had included a link to it directly, but they did include the case identifier. Edit: I went ahead and dug the information up. Here are
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Is there an actual argument somewhere for why these subsidies are desirable for the nation? Let's say, written by people who agree with them. What is the stated purpose? This should be written from the perspective that most industrie
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by Pyxl101 7y ago
It doesn't really make sense to assume that utilization would be abysmal without constraining supply. The people who operate taxis are rational actors. People who operate taxis will simply exit (or not enter) the business if they'

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