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by brmgb 8y ago
> Tariffs are paid by the consumers in the country that has the tariffs (ie Tariffs on China by US is paid by people in the US). It primarily hits those that spend most of their income on consumption, which is those that are poorer. But
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by brmgb 8y ago
> In the US, it's standard for a rental agreement and/or state law to specify that the landlord can enter your property with 24 hours notice even if you're not there, or to enter immediately in case of an emergency. As a E
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by brmgb 8y ago
That was considered. A study was commissioned and concluded [1] against for several reasons : - the projected impact on car use was negligible (around 2%) ; - the projected increase in the number of users (between 6% and 10%) is above the
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CLIP OS – France’s cybersecurity agency’s open source, secured operating system(ssi.gouv.fr)
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by brmgb 8y ago
Because there is zero market for it especially after Fukushima. It was tried by the recently privatised French military shipyards as a way to diversify (that's the Flexblue project mentioned in the article) and just couldn't be so
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by brmgb 8y ago
Deflation is not a viable strategy for a currency. It's bad because it makes hoarding a valuable strategy and hoarding reduce the amount of currency in circulation leading to even more deflation. Who wants to use a mean of exchange act
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by brmgb 9y ago
Does ESL stand for English as a secondary language ? Is that in common usage ? I have never seen it used to designate a group of people.
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by brmgb 9y ago
> honored him with a PhD in the subject Just to precise if you were confused like me, Cambridge gave him an actual PhD in Biology based on the book - meaning the book satisfied all the prerequisites of a PhD at Cambridge and he had to do
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by brmgb 9y ago
> I wonder what is preventing them from doing that The 1948 USA vs Paramount antitrust decision might play a role. Content producers used to own theaters until they were forced to sell them to avoid excessive vertical integration.
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Most likely because there is plenty of actual production code using modules written in Ocaml and modules are such a key part of modern idiomatic Ocaml no one seems to think that writing blog posts and exemples outside of teaching material i
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by brmgb 10y ago
That's not a particularly fair presentation of the events of 1958. There was indeed a coup but De Gaulle became prime minister and was given emergency power for six months by the national assembly all according to the Constitution of t