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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
Wikipedia has a history of how lead was known to cause problems, dating back to antiquity. Some excerpts: > Dioscorides, a Greek physician who lived in the 1st century AD, wrote that lead makes the mind "give way".[121][274] &g
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This MoM increase was higher than about 70% of previous changes on the same interval. It's not so extreme that we can reasonably infer from it a looming disaster. Looking at the 7 month change (year to date), 63% of the time you'd
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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
I don't like the idea of even more expectations for tips, since we're already tip-fatigued. Despite that, I'd rather have less rules and taxes and have them actually enforced than have a situation where people pocket the cash
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Presumably it should have some effect for no other reason than how there's no longer a de minimis exemption.
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This says 1% movements happen in 20% of trading days, or about once a week: https://www.optimisticallie.com/p/running-the-numbers Given that the prior for this is so high along with how many different beliefs there are
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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
Looking at total private jobs over time, growth slowed after the post covid bump, but 2025 doesn't look all that different from 2024: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/SMU36935610500000001SA#
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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
It looks like Norway's oil revenue per capita is somewhere between $20,000 and $90,000, while the USA's is between $200 and $800, depending on how you calculate it.
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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
> If you talk about politics and everyone agrees then you know you are working along side aligned people. Except you don't know this. People depend on their jobs. If they're the only one who holds an alternate view, they may no
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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
> Brazil’s supreme court has ruled that social media platforms can be held legally responsible for users’ posts, in a decision that tightens regulation on technology giants in the country. > Companies such as Facebook, TikTok and X wi
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In this example, what would "including interactions" look like?
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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
> Since it rejects or denies the existence of God, atheism is a sin against the virtue of religion. [Cites Romans 1:18] The imputability of this offense can be significantly diminished in virtue of the intentions and the circumstances. &
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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
You can find it in the list under the heading 'Other statistics".
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Here's a list of cities with per capita homicide rates: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_r... I agree that it would be misleading to judge D.C. based on being at a 30 year low. Of the ci
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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
What makes those two things mutually exclusive?
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> Increasing wealth inequality, drives prices inflation Why?
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> Concerned by the lack of viewpoint diversity, I looked at voter registration for our newsroom. In D.C., where NPR is headquartered and many of us live, I found 87 registered Democrats working in editorial positions and zero Republicans
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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
What makes you sure of that? From the article, > Deep Think pushes the frontier of thinking capabilities by using parallel thinking techniques. This approach lets Gemini generate many ideas at once and consider them simultaneously, even
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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
Much more efficiently. Carbs and protein rely on de novo lipogenesis to convert into fat. But you're right in that a surge of insulin from carbs ensures that the available dietary fat will prefer to go to storage instead of being used
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Calorie restriction, logging your calories and eating a deficit everyday, actually works for many people who can't figure out how else to lose weight. It also teaches you about how to eat healthy: portion sizes, how caloric each food i
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by bitshiftfaced 1y ago
I'm imagining a website that functions like a commodity trading website that allows anyone to buy and sell tickets for a given airline/time/location. Airlines could buy back tickets if they wanted.
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> You should also know that I learned to read early and skipped first grade. Consequently, I was the perennial runt of the classroom and spent all my time reading as a child. I’ve gotten perfect scores on every reading test I’ve ever tak
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It looks like it's more about the technical limits that create uncertainty about how this could be enforced. From Google's article on it, > For example, the TTPA defines political advertising so broadly that it could cover ads
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If only there was some way people could collectively choose who they elect in a democracy.
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I don't see anything to indicate that Mindless2112 is "lying," but it does look like they might be a bit confused. BBB really is just another review website like Yelp and Google reviews (with the added step of sending the bus
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We currently have about 800 times the population as we did during the time of hunter gatherers, so we can lose quite a large portion of our population while still greatly exceeding the previous levels. It could be that we are seeing the end
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The idea is not to disincentivize developing on the land. To me, it only really works when you remove the friction/gaming of all the other taxes and put it all into LVT, but that will never happen of course.
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Isn't this case just revealing the opportunity cost of keeping the land as a farm in that location? For example, what incentive is there to buy an acre of downtown Miami and convert it to farm land? Should we lower that acre's pro
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There's a big gap in the market for someone to do for Aesop's Fables what was done for the "New Revised Standard Version" of the bible. They went back as far as they could to the source material and did a high quality mo
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In many cases, the POS software would have to go out of its way to share the itemized receipt details with the credit card processor. There's probably an incentive to get paid for that data elsewhere that overshadows the benefit to the
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These bonds were a consolidated, tradable asset. They were likely traded many times over the centuries. They could end up in things like pension funds after 200 years.

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