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6y ago
How do you think that would have improved this situation? Presumably the police would have also considered an open warranty for felony embezzlement to be a "do not hire" situation.
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6y ago
In other news, Consumer Reports demonstrates in a shocking analysis that Teslas can be driven off cliffs, into brick walls, and into crowds of people, and there is NO WARNING LABEL or advisory of any kind alerting consumers not to do this.
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6y ago
Seems like you could do some cool stuff today if you applied this technique using a 3D printer.
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6y ago
What if you switch to Google Ads?
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6y ago
This is incorrect. The new shares were of the same class as the existing publicly traded shares.
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6y ago
It's also from 9 years ago?
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6y ago
It's kind of hard to argue that Facebook has a monopoly on "social media" when there's so much actual competition for attention in the same space. Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, iMessage, Youtube, etc. Yeah, there is no othe
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6y ago
What circumstance do you have in mind in which the person receiving the transaction would A) have reason to believe the payment is valid, B) not be considered a “creditor”?
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6y ago
The question the law asks is whether they knew it was a mistake at the time they received it. Not whether anyone later decided to be a nice guy upon learning it was a mistake. In this case, what happened was, Citibank sent out these payment
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6y ago
In this case - the creditors all expected it was likely that Revlon would default on the loans and never pay them back in full (let alone interest). And there were active lawsuits between the creditors and Revlon regarding financial maneuve
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6y ago
Think about it from the side of the creditor (the person to whom the debt is owed). The point is, if the creditor is owed a debt, and receives payment for it, and A) He has no reason to think the payment was a mistake at the time he receive
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6y ago
This seems more about "fleeing San Francisco" than fleeing California.
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6y ago
I guess if your daughter isn’t yet old enough to realize how infuriating and exasperating Calvin is for his parents, maybe the strip isn’t for her yet.
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6y ago
There are plenty of C&H strips that show his parents love him. This one comes to mind, but there are many others: https://i.redd.it/wgwm23u9k4sx.png Kids are not stupid and you don't need to insulate them from ever
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My understanding is that there’s nothing objectively substandard about it - this is an arbitrary protectionist trade regulation that shouldn’t exist in the first place.
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6y ago
Consequently, he said, I had done what many people with my injury do: I had developed strategies for, as he put it, “speaking around the problem” – retraining my recurrent laryngeal nerve (the nerve that, among other things, controls the t
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6y ago
More like "armwatch" I'd say.
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6y ago
You don’t think the governor completely shutting down restaurants for months on end[1] has anything to do with that? [1] Without evidence that outdoor spread is a meaningful risk at all, I’ll add
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6y ago
The use of the term “code” in this way is universal among the US national laboratories and adjacent scientific computing fields. It refers to a complete software package. So, a “hydrodynamics code” is a hydrodynamics simulation, like Gerris
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Wall Street and a corrupt government trashed America by allowing the industrial base that provided value, productivity and purpose to people's lives to be merged, sold and offshored until all that's left for middle America to do i
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6y ago
"Stripe is the Christian bakery and Trump is the gay wedding."
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6y ago
Did you use it against your political enemies in a public forum with millions listening?
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6y ago
Bannon said on this podcast that he would mount Anthony Fauci and Christopher Wray’s “heads on pikes” outside the White House as a “warning to other bureaucrats.” This was a few months ago. I presume he has been saying similar things since
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6y ago
In what sense is Twitter a "Massive Big Tech conglomerate"? They're merely a successful platform.
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6y ago
Only if you're smart enough to know when to sell and never buy back in.
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6y ago
What about the people who suffer from SAD in the winter when it gets dark at 4:30 PM and they have to commute home from work in the darkness? You can't please everyone.
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6y ago
> Remember: what our bodies consider "early" is dependent on when the sun rises, and not the numbers we put on our clocks. I'm sure there's a contribution, but obviously the effect is small given that the length of th
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6y ago
> "Computerized health monitors built into watches, jewelry, and clothing which diagnose both acute and chronic health conditions are widely used. In addition to diagnosis, these monitors provide a range of remedial recommendations
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6y ago
Oh, is this a parody? It is a little too close to the source material, hah.
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Most of these are silly pedantry of the type that, IMO, turns people away from math and science by making it seem like you have to be interested in pointless, inconsequential distinctions and “gotcha” factoids to be good at science. Unfortu
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