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bhelkey
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bhelkey
5y ago
> Please search instead by 'COVID app mandatory for'; In case I can save anyone else the time I spent, I initially read this as op saying that I should search for the phrase 'COVID app mandatory for' in one of the two
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bhelkey
6y ago
Searching for mandatory and required turned up Hong Kong (required the app for entering restaurants) and Qatar (mandated when leaving the house). I don't think this is what OP was refering to.
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bhelkey
6y ago
> The EMA is there to make it easier for pharma The highest vaccination rate of any EU country is Hungry with about half of the US's rate which in turn is a bit behind the UK[1]. In light of this, I am curious how you see EMA making
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bhelkey
6y ago
> There are likely issues with the data, which is not easily solvable given that complete databases are expensive. >> cFIREsim uses historical stock/bond/gold/inflation data from 1871 to present[1] I am not an expert
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bhelkey
6y ago
> Facebook has created a ”playbook” to help its employees rebut criticism that the company’s products fuel political polarization and social division. In my opinion, this is the core of the story and the title is misleading.
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bhelkey
6y ago
> Right, that works in theory, but in the real world it’s not happening. This is a fair reasonable and response to the article. In essence you are arguing: the housing market can act irrationally and is seemingly disconnected from the un
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bhelkey
6y ago
> The population of Germany is declining, Germany's population is increasing over time. In fact, 2020 was an all time high [1]. > Berlin population has been stagnant since 1950 Between 1980 and 2020, Berlin's population incr
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bhelkey
6y ago
I think you have the articles argument twisted. > If you’re going to argue that supply will only go up if you allow price to rise infinitely, you’re getting it backwards- the increase in supply is supposed to make the price go back down,
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bhelkey
6y ago
From the article: > New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Thursday showed that life expectancy in the U.S. dropped by a full year in first half of 2020, yet another reminder of the devastating toll Covid-19 has exa
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bhelkey
6y ago
I would be interested in this as well but I believe that the omission was intentional. In cases like this, enumerating the precautions one is taking (and by extension the precautions one has rejected) would be unwise.
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bhelkey
6y ago
In your opinion, should bakeries be allowed to refuse to make a custom wedding cake for the wedding of a gay couple? (e.g. Masterpiece Cakeshop v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masterpi
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bhelkey
6y ago
> Robinhood agreed to pay $65 million to settle the charges. ... Without admitting or denying the SEC’s findings, Robinhood agreed to a cease-and-desist order prohibiting it from violating the antifraud provisions of the Securities Act o
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bhelkey
6y ago
> I deleted Instagram months ago and I have friends that have routinely told me that profile is still up, just in a limited capacity. How is this opt-in? Did you temporarily disable your account instead of deleting it? Deletion appears t
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bhelkey
6y ago
While this is a far out of reach idea, Venus' atmosphere has some advantages over Earth's atmosphere. From a link in the article: > On Earth, we know to get something to lift, you need something lighter than air. Well, on Venus
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bhelkey
6y ago
I believe this is an old submission. Should '(2018)' be appended to the title?
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bhelkey
6y ago
In the US it is common for businesses to offer unlimited free refills on soda.
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bhelkey
6y ago
> Finally, Ruppert stresses there's a big difference between the American and Polish work cultures, and that "no one I spoke to over there saw it as crunch." Is anyone familiar with Polish work culture or more specifically
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bhelkey
6y ago
It sounds like you are interpreting Paul Graham to mean, 'if one of a person's ideas is conventionally accepted, then the source of that opinion is whatever it's currently acceptable to believe'. I interpreted this to me
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bhelkey
6y ago
I see these methods as a way to capture in depth contact between strangers (Public transportation, Lyft/Uber, ...) and to double check our memories.
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bhelkey
6y ago
Do you have a suggestion as to how to filter such a word? It has 64 results on Google 2 results on DDG/Bing. And no matches on any online dictionary that I could find (Merriam-Webster, Urban Dictionary, ...)
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bhelkey
6y ago
I am unimpressed with this site. It seems to use a large number of made up words (risittle, ...). The words it chooses can even be one letter off of a common word (itsell -> itself).
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bhelkey
6y ago
I believe the above posters point is that, though a tremendous number of housing units are being developed, the demand for housing is increasing faster than this development. I don't have a stake in this matter but there appears to be
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bhelkey
6y ago
Oh? Then what is the reason?
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bhelkey
6y ago
Oh, and why is that?
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7y ago
> how could they expect to distribute it in a way that a bad guy was more likely to download than by going to the official site? Man in the Middle attacks work even if one goes to the official site. It could have looked something like t
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bhelkey
7y ago
> Because we disproportionally fund schools for rich people's kids I was under the impression that such kids disproportionately went to private school. With a some exceptions (disability programs, ...), private schools don't re
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7y ago
The article mentions, > "informed employees at the six French fulfillment centers that they’ll be on a partial unemployment program with full pay." As another poster mentions, I see this as a loss to the French consumer at a ti
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bhelkey
7y ago
The article mentions, > The $1.1 trillion company was given 24 hours on Tuesday to comply with the ruling to sell only essential items such as food and hygiene products, and to upgrade its health-security procedures.
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bhelkey
7y ago
Just FYI, the guidelines for this form mention: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article? It mentions that" can be shortened to "The article mentions that."
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bhelkey
7y ago
The issue that is occasionally brought up is that Wikimedia's expenses are growing exponentially[1]. This is a somewhat old graph but the trend appears to continue. Their total expenses in 2019 was 91.4MM[2]. [1] https://w
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