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by TeaBrain 2y ago
That link doesn't communicate what you seem to think it does. A rank of #10/11 puts their reliability in the upper third amongst major manufacturers, above every American auto manufacturer, as well as above every European car man
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That is a single article. Are we really supposed to call into question the entire credibility of the past and present of a news organization because of a single questionable article from years ago? Bloomberg is great at breaking financial
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In short, that wasn't my meaning. My line about the quality was in response to the first line of the comment I replied to, where it was said "Even worse, Charles Dickens mostly wrote serialized novels", which makes it seem as
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
The suggestion that serialized/installment novels are similar to your analogy, or a reflection of their quality, is a misconception. Serialized novels were often completed before being released in installments, unlike a so-called comi
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To be a commodity, there has to be a constrained supply. So-called AI is just software and the replicable nature of software means it cannot be a commodity. I'd agree on your other point that the competitors have done a great job of c
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
This is a very good point, which I brought up in another comment. Arguing on the basis of broad genetic ancestry to establish ownership of ancient artifacts can quickly get murky and nonsensical, when considering nations that exist today w
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
> That's fine, but the world disagrees with you, by and large. I honestly don't like the way I ended that last sentence. If I could re-write it I'd replace "merit" with "basis in cultural lineage". I w
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
It's not simple quid pro quo between the universities and the government like you are trying to portray it. The grants primarily benefit the students and researchers who wouldn't have been funded otherwise. The private universit
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
From what I've read, the Egyptian genetics are still relatively similar to Egyptians from several thousand years ago, due to the relatively small number of Arabs involved in the Arab conquest of Egypt. However, the only kinds of inher
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Passenger trains are more energy efficient on a passenger mile basis.
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The more direct route from Chicago to St Louis is via the Lincoln Service. Planning a little ahead, a trip next Tuesday from Chicago to St Louis on the Lincoln Service can be had for $30. You generally don't want to schedule at the l
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
This can be true for cross country rides, but riding Amtrak is cheaper than flying for some regional corridors. This goes for Chicago to St Louis($30), Chicago to Kansas City($80), Chicago to Milwaukee ($19), Philadelphia to Boston ($55), B
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>Maybe having their artifacts back The idea that modern Egyptians have any claim over the artifacts when they don't share a culture or civilization with those who created the artifacts is tenuous. The artifacts don't belong to
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Repay what? The people of modern Egypt have no connection or inheritance claim to the ancient artifacts, other than their having been created in a similar place where the modern Egyptians are currently living. They don't even share a
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Both of those articles reference only a single historical quote using the term, that being the 1938 song "Scottsboro Boys". The way the term is used in the song also isn't the way that is used today, but as a way to communic
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
>There wasn't a time "before we had technology" Well, this was nothing if not besides the point. Anyone on this site should recognize that when people like the person you responded to use the word "technology", e
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
The decrease in the number of Swiss banks prior to the UBS-Credit Suisse merger was largely a product of Swiss bank consolidation in the 1990s, not the US shutting them down. UBS and Swiss Bank Corporation were the first and third largest S
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Novel where? I don't think this is a good explanation. Japan has had department stores for the better part of the last century.
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Mexico is doing everything the US did of what? This isn't an explanation, but just a random idea.
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When I used to drink instant, I'd drink either a Nescafe light roast instant or Jacobs Cronat Gold, also a light roast instant.
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Also odd was the comparison to France, considering that France's great depression was arguably much less severe than in the UK, as it experienced less industrial decline, less unemployment and no financial crisis.
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I completely understand the point of your comment. My comment was on how yours was only tangential to the wording of the parent comment, which used the wording price of "admission". No-one is obliged to finish a game that they st
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Video games are simply artistic creations meant to entertain, as are other forms of entertainment media. Were you formerly under the impression that video games were a portal to another reality?
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There in an opportunity cost in playing free games, but I wouldn't consider any considerable opportunity cost to have been incurred at the time of "admission".
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Besides June of 2022, the savings rate is the lowest since 2008.
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
You've misread the comments above. The above comments are all referencing Hezbollah, not Hamas.
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Slack may not have lost existing business, but they have fallen far behind Team's market share.
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Which is the reason for the h1b fraud, but this also begs the question of why amazon has been able to get away with this strategy for so long.
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A study cited this month in a Wall Street Journal article has the IT unemployment rate at 6%. https://www.wsj.com/articles/it-unemployment-hits-6-amid-ove... .
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Why "personalized to" doesn't work is because that line is referencing the text, not the author. If he would have preferred to have used "personalized to" he could have done so, as long as the subject in that line

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