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by avar 3y ago
> outright support of listed > terrorism organizations is > not a grey area. It's not? I think you're right after having read the law [1][2] it outlaws any expression of support. In the case of a gover
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by avar 3y ago
Because at the end of the day, marriage is primarily about economics. You can be in love, be in a stable long term relationship, raise children together etc. without being married. Being married means entering a trilateral pact between two
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by avar 3y ago
> was it really worth the effort just to get those stones? It wasn't just to get building materials. You don't want a giant monument to gods that demanded human sacrifice as a prominent part of the skyline when you're tryi
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by avar 3y ago
The articles up you're both linking to describe people hiking a small portion or part of the length of the overall gap, after which they'll presumably take a boat to continue their journey. So it's not comparable to driving t
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by avar 3y ago
> “Panama and Colombia are the only neighboring nations on the globe without a single road link of even the most primitive kind.” It probably doesn't really count, but via OpenStreetMap I found that they have a joint military base t
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by avar 3y ago
Wikipedia isn't a primary source, and it needs to be verifiable. So by definition it's not exposing any information you can't find in other public sources. Whether it's notable and something that should be included is an
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by avar 3y ago
An actress notable enough to merit her own Wikipedia article didn't want her name known, but her name was a matter of public record? I don't know about this case, but it seems entirely reasonable that to argue for including the na
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by avar 3y ago
The protagonist (and presumably Milton) has 8 different bosses. Even if doing this would result in a lawsuit against the company, it's unlikely to impact those middle-managers personally. Which is a key takeaway from the movie, it cons
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by avar 3y ago
Have there been studies on the potential advantages of loss of smell and/or taste from COVID-19? Westerners are too obese, and presumably part of that's to do with the enjoyment people get from unhealthy foods. Whereas if you can&
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by avar 3y ago
There's the completely reasonable compromise of continuing to conduct this research at an isolated Antarctic station, at a quarantined oil platform etc. Instead these labs are all near major population centers, with researchers freely
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by avar 3y ago
Wouldn't it be better to rush to a country without an extradition treaty with the US?
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by avar 3y ago
There's an alternative universe where Feynman came of age in the 90s. Instead of learning to play the bongos he dropped a series of EP's detailing how he really felt about the opposite sex. We'll never know what we missed in
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by avar 3y ago
Is imminent domain when the government's in a real hurry to grab your land? :-)
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by avar 3y ago
I'm not suggesting that Apple has egregious hardware or software problems, but (as a fanboy of neither company) that you're cherry-picking by claim that Apple isn't "ship[ping] 90% solutions to learn very early what does
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by avar 3y ago
> I don't understand how this relates. I'm agreeing with you (along with the "heartstrings" comment) that all land is going to have both objective and intangible value, e.g. the view, and that someone grew up in that
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by avar 3y ago
Indeed, and the mechanism for adjusting any unfairness in assessment you encounter there is always going to be more byzantine than a fair self-assessment, and probably impossible in practice. E.g. let's say you live in a neighborhood w
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by avar 3y ago
I'm not proposing anything novel, just describing the Harberger Tax ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harberger_Tax ), or a variant thereof. In particular the book by Glen Weyl mentioned in that article describes how
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by avar 3y ago
You can pull on those heartstrings in either direction, as it were. In economic terms what you're arguing is that investment efficiency should always outweigh allocative efficiency. > pay [...] much more than your neighbor, who obje
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by avar 3y ago
You can trivially structure such a tax in such a way that going through a "forced sale" is going to be very lucrative (edit: elaborated in a sibling comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37909570 ). > It
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by avar 3y ago
> difficulty in valuing the land. It's rather easy to value the land: Have the owner decide what it's worth, then they pay a tax as a percentage of that valuation. Now, obviously given that system everyone's going to value
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by avar 3y ago
Usually, but I'm referring to the broadcasts that have a live sign language interpreter on-screen.
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by avar 3y ago
Also Stars and Stripes: https://www.stripes.com
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by avar 3y ago
You must not recall Antennagate.
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by avar 3y ago
There must be a huge corpus of TV broadcasts, filmed live events etc. where a person speaking is being translated into sign language in real time.
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by avar 3y ago
That Apple doesn't ship 90% solutions is laughable. The initial versions of OSX, iPhone etc. had a lot of rough edges, and were practically public betas. The only difference is that Jobs and later his deciples were able to blow smoke
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by avar 3y ago
> The same story is behind coal, except it is not possible to generate any more coal deposits naturally. New coal is being made every day somewhere on the planet. > This explains why ALL coal deposits in existence are older than somet
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by avar 3y ago
All of those are supported by TAP, they're just not top-level keywords. Just start your test's description with your "CUSTOM-KEYWORD", then aggregate on that, instead of "ok/not ok". You can even easily pl
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by avar 3y ago
An "emergency stop" button on a car would be dumb, you don't want to e.g. lose power steering on a vehicle in motion. A working break pedal is sufficient and safer.
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by avar 3y ago
They're in a relatively flat field and can rely on the ground being frozen solid sometime soon. If its insufficiently flat wouldn't it make more sense to smooth out those parts of the field, rather than "paving" the whol
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by avar 3y ago
The question isn't what the current usage pattern of these reactors is, but whether they'd be amenable to different usage patterns. Just like you might only use your car for 2 hours every day, but using its engine for 18 hours per

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