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by bmh_ca 11y ago
> That seems like a false dichotomy to me, and what you're really suggesting is that monetary policy should encourage the accumulation of debt(spending) rather than careful insulation from chance(saving). I do not believe my stateme
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> I think he doesn't mean money itself but the monopoly of money definition and creation by a small set of people (state or central bank). He's not wrong in thinking that in practice people who are close to the money supply do
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> Going right to the root: it's the monetary system itself. Please pardon me for being pedantic, but there is distinction worthwhile, here. The monetary system is a mechanism of liquid exchange for goods and services. It is largely
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> As far as taxation and shipping go, not really. The Law of the Sea grants the right of innocent passage to all ships, so a country can't tax or harass ships merely passing through its waters. This holds for territorial waters as w
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
The reason most of these islands are of such importance is because territorial waters, customs zones, and exclusive economic zones are extended by any sovereign land permanently above water, according to the United Nations Convention on the
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> >> behavioural correction requires a certain percentage of individuals to bring and succeed in their cases > No it doesn't. It is necessary for class proceedings to induce behavioural modification, which is what we are ta
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I was a class action lawyer for several years. There is a great deal of definitive evidence that arbitration clauses undermine the purposes of class proceedings, those purposes being: 1. increased access to justice (i.e. one may be automati
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Goals, rules, skills, and feedback.
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Most folks do not know the history of the sovereign state, but the version that we have today is a descendent of the Westphalian State ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westphalian_sovereignty ). Even fewer people know why
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Uber is a dispatch and marketing system. The vehicle and driver are fungible parts of their machine. Autonomous vehicles can enhance Uber's ability to offer travel with lower pricing than traditional vehicles and dispatch. Especially
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... but that's just a theory.
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Curious how the spec compares to existing implementations, especially knockout observables
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One of the primary reasons we have a criminal justice system is to curtail vigilantism.
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For those interested in Python 2 string encoding, I've spent some time writing about it, here: > http://stackoverflow.com/a/6539952/19212
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♥️ the wire cutter
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Family. A life partner, one not afraid to get their hands dirty doing what needs to be done for a vision outside the mainstream paths, grow with them through the fails and the folly, and experience two lives in one lifetime. Find someone to
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by bmh_ca 11y ago
(In no particular order) - HiFiMan - Grado - Sennheiser - Beyerdynamics - AKG - Philips - Marshall - Audio-Technica - Brainwavz There are many other/niche brands as well. There are several great audiophile magazines that can help sort
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Rationally priced assets are valued by their prospective value. In principle, the valuation seems overly simplistic. Corporate stocks — the combination of people and entitlements that can be wielded to generate revenue – should be more than
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Indeed. Where any real amounts of money are involved, unwary arbitrators can offer their services below the cost of insurance.
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I was burned by this as well. The breaking code would look like this: ``` a = (@arg) -> console.log(arg) # Used to print arg. # Now needs to be: console.log(@arg) ``` The problem was particularly exacerbated on our end b
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> No, if you buy a company, you buy it lock stock and barrel - that includes outstanding debts, existing deals, and obligations. It depends on what you mean by "buy", and what you mean by "company". Companies can assu
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I would imagine that TDP/industry could work with GitHub directly (as opposed to search engines like Google), and GitHub themselves would be conscious to this sort of thing themselves - it being contrary to their terms: > We may, bu
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A letter I wrote them (as a collaborator on Knockout, one of the referred-to repositories): https://github.com/knockout/knockout/issues/1674#issuecommen...
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The commerce clause may be violated if the effect is discrimination. "It is the effect upon commerce, not the source of the injury, which is the criterion." - N.L.R.B. v. JONES & LAUGHLIN STEEL CORP., 301 U.S. 1 (1937) [ http:
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Opinionated modals with Knockout.js(brianmhunt.github.io)
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I can't speak for Vancouver, though I hear it is great, but some may also consider Niagara fairly mild. Probably not as nice as Vancouver area, but still not bad.
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Believe it or not... this is not true. I talked to a former chief-level fellow at Tims after he gave a keynote at a conference I attended. He said they still make more money per unit on donuts. It's where they started and it's whe
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> OpenSSL isn't going to go away This reminds me of XFree86. Some said XFree86 would still be around after the X.org fork. The culture of XFree86 was so bad though that the project was effectively abandoned by everyone except for th