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by barney54 5y ago
What I don’t understand is why Penguin held the copyright in any case. From my experience at looking at copyrights on the copyright pages of books, the copyrights are almost always held by the author or a trust controlled by the author, no
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In the U.S. government. It happens some, but it totally illegal. It’s hard to get fired working for the U.S. government and this is one of the few ways you can get fired.
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The M1 Mac Mini recently was only $600 on sale.
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Norway already is the battery for Denmark and some of Germany. This is exactly how Denmark gets over 50% of their electricity from renewables—they always have Norway to send electricity to when wind generation is high and the reverse when
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I’m a bit confused on the solution she advocates. Does she want government, in her case, Duarte, go tell Facebook how to run Facebook? What is her solution?
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Spending on schools in the US has dramatically increased in recent decades and that money isn’t going to for-profit schools but public schools. The US is investing in child R&D with more money. There is a good argument that the money i
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The problem for NYC apparently is that the largest ethnic group in the program was Asian.
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Now that Elon has extracted a bunch of subsidies from California, he is moving on.
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But how many doses are in men under 30? That is the right subpopulation to look at, not the entire population.
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The energy situation in Europe and Asia is already ugly. The Indians only have about 4 days of coal at their powerplants, China has already had blackouts, and in Europe the price of natural gas is the equivalent of oil at $200 a barrel.
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We don’t know if the bill is revenue neutral because we haven’t seen the final version yet.
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Those were glorious days. To go from buying CDs to being able to find and download almost any song you could think of was amazing. I loved the ability to discover artists I didn’t know about by looking through people’s collections. Such a g
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What are you buying on Amazon? I have had really good success and I don’t feel like I have to wade through too much crap. I just want to understand how other people’s experience is so different from mine and part of it has to be the type of
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While schools might be a major vector for many diseases, the evidence suggest children do not spread COVID very well to teachers. Opening schools is not a joke, it following the evidence. Here's the US CDC: https://www.cdc.
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Ask New York about how things worked out at Gigafactory 2.
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NY York Times Wirecutter to require a subscription and will keep affiliate links(nytimes.com)
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Did I miss the part where they show that pedestrian deaths have actually increased? They show that the proportion of SUVs hitting pedestrians have increased which makes sense because there are more SUVs, but I didn’t see that the actual dea
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Yes, but we’re they making any money on the Volt?
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Yes, but kids are a pretty big reason to have a car. A few years ago I thought about getting rid of a car and I realized that the kids made it pretty hard.
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If companies want you to install certain apps on a phone, then they should be paying for the phone. It's that simple. I had a crazy boss 15 years ago who read our email. I learned after that to separate work and personal email. The sa
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No. An important recourse is to complain. Not engaging is one, but complaining and highlighting the problems is perfectly acceptable.
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Why do you say Duolingo doesn’t use native speakers? Their Spanish speakers for example are either native or indistinguishable from native speakers.
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I disagree that they shouldn’t be able to state their option, they should be able to. But no one should believe them or take what they say at face value.
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It sounds likes you are describing synchronous condensers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_condenser
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I don’t understand this part of the write up, “ I’ve always chosen smaller (<= 14”) laptop screens since I find too much horizontal space disorienting.” I very much understand getting distracted with too much screen space, but I wonder w
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The Nature article this is based on is helpful to read because of the pictures: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-74900-5#Fig1
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William Nordhaus is not a “soft denialist.” He’s the economist that has done more to consider the cost and benefits of climate change than anyone else.
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What mass extinction? From climate change? Has the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said that because I’ve never seen that as a scientific claim.
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If it were possible, it would produce far better outcomes than what we are currently seeing in SF. No chicken farmer or tanner could afford to build in SF, so that’s not much of a concern. And it would mean a far more diverse housing supply
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* There is a limited role for government. For example, government should provide public goods, but should not be in the business of competing with private businesses. * There is no need to have government involved in the provision of broad

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