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by areyousure 4y ago
> The lack of a constitution is in some ways a good thing Out of curiosity, when you say "THE lack of a constitution" [emphasis mine], where are you referring to?
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone was curious, the following was part of the request: > Please provide the number of Facebook posts your department has accessed through the portal, or at least an indication of the scope of interference.
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Industry_Regulatory_... > The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is a private American corporation that acts as a self-regulatory organ
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by areyousure 4y ago
> That's why Google pay Apple >$100bn pa to be their default search engine. In case anyone is curious, reports of Google's payments to Apple have been in the range 8--20 billion dollars/year. The highest estimates appe
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In case anyone is curious, I believe the acronyms used here are the following: SDR: software-defined radio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio CFAR: constant false alarm rate https://en.wiki
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone was curious, United States federal tax receipts were $463 billion in FY1979 and $3.33 trillion in FY2018, a growth of a factor of ~7.2 = ~5.2%/year. The population has grown by a factor of ~1.44 = ~0.95%/year and t
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In case anyone is curious, here is what some of my research has found: The empirical rate of bank failure in the last couple decades has been slightly over 1 in 250 banks per year (that is, ~0.4%/bank/year, or "40 basis point
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> To give an example, the city of Indianapolis is 'commited' to maintain a road that could go from Indianapolis to Alaska. Can you say a little more about this example? I tried about a dozen Google searches (unfortunately on m
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Brown v. TGS Management Co., LLC is an interesting court case involving a "noncompete" from California: https://law.justia.com/cases/california/court-of-appeal/2020...
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In case anyone is curious, the article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am... linked above suggests that the NSPA's goal was in fact to hold a march in Chicago and following the Skokie d
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, one of the largest numbers claimed by Adrian Zenz is "1.8 million" in the following article: https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/07/01/china-documents-uighur-... > Since 201
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, there are multiple different kinds of California ballot propositions. Some are constitutional amendments; some are statutes; some (like the subject[s] of this particular comment thread) are a combination of both.
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In case anyone is curious, the following are translated quotations that people have interpreted as nuclear threats: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-24/full-tran... > I would now like to say
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> A high-filtration mask costs $1-$2. Multiply by 350 million people, and you're at $12B to give everyone a new mask every day for a year. $1 times (350 million) times (365) is $127.75 billion.
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by areyousure 4y ago
> > The problem of relying on Russia for energy was obvious. > Put together, 6.5% of gross available energy in the EU was from Russian gas. In case anyone is curious, the sources I find suggest the following about the sources of
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https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/2/do-not-call-ukraine-...
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In case anyone is curious, Canseco played in the MLB from 1985 to 2001. It is unclear when the MLB banned steroids, but some possible years include 1990--1991, 1997, or somewhere around 2003--2005. Note, however, that steroid use was made
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by areyousure 4y ago
In case anyone is curious, the starting times for the first five runners at the 110mH event at the 2022 World Championships were (in milliseconds) 99, 108, 109, 124, and 126. While I personally disagree with the comment I am replying to reg
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Perhaps an even nicer equation: 1^x = ncos(x) + i nsin(x) using a multi-valued definition of the exponentiation on the left hand side.
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Is Google/Alphabet a software company? Sundar does not know how to program.
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In case anyone is curious, the Spearman rank correlation coefficient between these two provided lists is ~0.32.
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> zero https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/us-tax... https://www.irs.gov/compliance/criminal-investigation/us-acc...
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In case anyone is curious, there have been a variety of different estate taxes at a federal level in the United States from 1797 through the present. https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-soi/ninetyestate.pdf The "mod
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Here's a curious moment from your linked video: https://youtu.be/KILAY2miQdI?t=373 > I believe -- and this is a personal belief here at MFAN [the channel name] -- that the United States is actively flying both F-22s
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In case anyone is curious, the relevant clause is the following: > The number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative
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https://www.allianceofceos.com/assets/forum/2008-10-Sequoia%...
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In case anyone was curious, here are the numbers from the provided link around a couple of the time periods indicated: > 1960Q2-1960Q3 - GDP grew, yet this is flagged as a recession. 1960-01-01: 542.648 1960-04-01: 541.08 1960-07-01: 545
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In case anyone was curious, this paragraph > After the bombing ended, US Special Forces and Dostum’s troops herded 3,000 surviving prisoners into sealed metal containers and drove them for 20 hours to Sheberghan prison. Most of the priso
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In case anyone is curious, the monthly change was 1.3%: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/archives/cpi_07132022.htm
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In case anyone is curious, the second-largest economy in the OECD (which also has a 2% inflation target) reports inflation of 2.1--2.8%: https://www.reuters.com/markets/asia/japans-may-consumer-inf... https:&#x2F

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