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by TeaBrain 2y ago
I read the transcript also, and from what I read, I don't disagree that Francisco answered competently, but he may have been given an impossible task. The law was upheld, as I suggested the justices were leaning towards. I didn'
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Did you read that blog post? Despite the post being titled as it is, the post contains more examples of justices voicing skepticism to the TikTok lawyers' arguments than it does examples of justices who were voicing skepticism to the
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>The nuance of claiming that constitutional rights do not apply to a company legally operating within the country, because of its nationality, has extremely broad implications as a precedent The law (PAFACA) doesn't directly apply t
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>This is not an actual argument because you can make it about anything. >Like to ski? Your injuries have a societal cost. >Like to cook? Your inefficient use of energy costs society. This assumes that fairly standard activities are
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
Acts of congress can only be blocked by the supreme court's power of judicial review. The supreme court held a 2.5 hour hearing this past week and the only two justices who voiced skepticism of the law were Gorsuch and Thomas.
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>Fewer than 5% of climbers have died on Everest Those two figures show how the number of deaths is less than 5% of the count of those who actually made it to the summit. The death rate would be less than that due to the large number of
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Cordyceps are also a major plot device in the novel Cold Storage, which is being developed into a film.
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Real median wages for full time workers are up a little less than 2.5% since Q4 2019. It could be worse, but it's not really something worth getting excited over. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LES1252881600Q
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The Soviet party is translated as it is traditionally spelled in Russian.
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CCP is a closer translation of how the party name is written in Chinese. It has never made sense why they decided they would be referred to as CPC in English, when the original party name in Chinese reads as CCP.
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Do you have any brands in mind? In the bagged tea with cellulose tea bags that I've bought, they are typically held together by just a staple. I've found this to be the case since I occasionally empty the tea from the teabags in
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by TeaBrain 2y ago
"To such end, three teabags of different chemical compositions were used in this study: (1) empty nylon-6 (NY6) teabags (as a model of polyamide), (2) empty polypropylene (PP) teabags, and (3) commercially available teabags containing
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Mesh tea bags, like are used at Starbucks, are plastic.
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It wasn't a perfect example, which I borrowed from my recollection of The Book of Why (Pearl, 2018), but your response is besides the point that saying "these studies don't prove causation" is saying nothing. It is the
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The endlessly repeated truism that "these studies don't prove causation" isn't really saying anything, as the same could be said for every long term human drug study. This line of thinking was the reasoning behind ignor
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Management calls out employees for not using LLMs due to believing that once LLM use becomes prevalent throughout the company, then they'll finally see the productivity gains they are betting on. Only once the productivity gains materi
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If fully invested in just the S&P 500 with 10x leverage, it seems less mathematically possible to have lost just 52% unless it was an very short time horizon. If fully invested, A 5.2% decrease in the value of the S&P 500, with 10x
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That tax case didn't concern their alpha. It was a result of the ruling body deciding that they had inaccurately grouped short term profits with long term profits, through the use of basket options. The ruling in this case was simply t
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>They're pointing out that seven of their products have more than 2 billion users. More specifically, they are trying to emphasize the point that gemini is being used with seven products with over 2 billion users. However, the abov
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It's a weird phenomenon whatever the correct terminology may be.
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I was more commenting on the first line of your comment, where you said that they were changing sex, but I don't think intersex is accurate either, as intersex traits are present at birth. In the study, they raised the male frogs to m
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It looks like it actually reverses sexual characteristics without reversing chromosomes, meaning the males that have reversed sexual characteristics are still technically genetically male. "The resulting larvae were all male when raise
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Apparently Atrazine has been shown to suppress the oxytocin receptor in cows. "Atr decreased the mRNA expression and protein level of oxytocin receptor (OTR)" https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35193057/
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The truth in this case is even more strange than the conspiracy theory though.
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At the end of 2023, there were still over 4000 commercial banks in the US. https://banks.data.fdic.gov/explore/historical/?displayField...
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As long as the market maker is executing orders at the NBBO on their ATS, they shouldn't be in conflict with Reg NMS, even though they are the only operator with the ability to market make on their ATS. Paying for order flow allows mar
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According to the chart, the American scores amongst the internationally high performing demographic categories are exceptional. The overall score is only dragged down due to demographic categories that perform low internationally.
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It's more like paying for the privilege of operating a monopoly on poker tables, with the guarantee that the rake will be kept low, so that the operator is not competing with other entities for the customers' rake. A market maker
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>I don't know why so many commenters are stubbornly refusing to understand a relatively simple point. It is not that people are stubbornly refusing to see it a certain way, against the more obvious interpretation, which you seem to
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>I said that our government is for sale to the highest bidders, plural. This is what they were pointing out was incorrect, since the highest bidding faction didn't win.

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