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by bwanab 7y ago
Maybe that's why no matter how good my son got at the game, he always found himself with negative points in every session.
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From the article, which otherwise was good, this line "Both nations had spent so much money on their battle-fleets that they could never bring themselves to put them fully at risk" really doesn't capture the mindset of the an
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Are you sure you want to keep valuables in a safe deposit box? https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/19/business/safe-deposit-box...
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Go there on any Saturday night and it won't feel car-centric or cut off from the city. Very robust pedestrian night life. I'd be the wrong person to ask about Fort Point Channel. I love it and it's full of history which in Bo
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I'm looking out my window at Boston's seaport. It has been under heavy development for over 10 years that continues. It's like a new city within a city. You may find that attitude in some places, but here in America's ol
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Does one really need to be incentivized to stop living on the street? I would think the incentives are obvious. The problem is the means.
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As an American who lived in Switzerland for a couple of years, I agree with all these points. If I could have, I would have stayed there. Edit add: On the other hand, at least when I was there, the wages weren't comparable to US wages
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You could return the favor and call them English.
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Not only that, but he OSM maps of the White Mountains in New Hampshire, USA have trails that the official maps don't have.
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When I first got into finance, it was working for a professor who'd come up with one of, if not the first, reasonably good fixed income option model. Our original implementation allowed for negative interest rates since as he put it, t
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by bwanab 7y ago
Presumably it's because if a bank goes under, the economy can quickly nosedive (see 2008). If you can't get lunch, you're hungry for a couple of hours, but the world pretty much goes on unscathed. It's hard to make analo
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That, and being caught between the superpowers of the post war era.
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This is the right way to think about it. EVs are a transitional technology. They allow us to maintain the current lifestyle choices while simultaneously empowering the reduction of reliance on fossil fuels. One can make no further statement
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It's worth pointing out that concurrently with the breakdown of Bretton Woods agreements were the OPEC oil price hikes. The change in price of energy contributed a huge amount to the change in price of everything else. In addition, in
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Right, but consider that the sub-prime mortgage market was a tiny portion of the overall mortgage market in 2007. Derivatives written against sub-prime holdings tipped the balance when the fan was hit. There are tons of derivatives written
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They worked hand in hand. In other words, given the 3/5s compromise, how to you implement it from a voting perspective? For example, if your state has a population that was 50/50 slave/non-slave, then each non-slave vote was
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by bwanab 7y ago
I've read almost all of them. They're all excellent and some are great. To me, he writes tragedies disguised as spy novels. My nod goes to "The Little Drummer Girl".
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I think you're missing the two words before militia: "Well regulated". Who is going to be doing that regulation if not a governmental body?
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by bwanab 7y ago
Not every year. Given the article's assertion of the 103 tons per acre per year, your Alaska of Empress trees would do it until they all die and presumably those forests will be maintained into perpetuity.
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by bwanab 7y ago
This is a replay of a comment I wrote several years ago to the same topic: I'm 60+. I've been coding my whole career and I'm still coding. Never hit a plateau in pay, but nonetheless, I've found the best way to ratchet u
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by bwanab 7y ago
The Roman republic had a concept of a temporary (usually one year) appointment of a dictator to handle some situation (usually an existential threat like a war) in which more immediate decision making than the Senate could do. It generally
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by bwanab 7y ago
It used to be common to refer to politicians by their initials. JFK, LBJ, FDR for John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson and Franklin Roosevelt. It seemed to go out of style when we started knowing them by their diminutives. E.G. Jimmy Carter, Bill C
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by bwanab 7y ago
I highly recommend Frances Moore Lappe's book Diet for a Small Planet to anybody who's interested in eating inexpensive, nutritious food.
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Butter can make cheap, nutrient dense food palatable.
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Except - Tesla has a real product that has a real demand. Enron's smart guys transformed the company from a traditional energy company which met that criterion to a financial engineering company that didn't know enough about finan
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This argument has been made before e.g.: http://harvardpolitics.com/united-states/the-pro-business-ar...
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Not to mention that it makes it prohibitive to start a new business for anybody with dependents.
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As one in that (>65) bloc, I highly encourage younger people to 1) out vote us and 2) vote us out. I'm not one who believes we've single generationally screwed up the world, but we haven't done a lot of things we could and
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I'm not sure it makes no sense. I bought a Model 3 because I didn't see enough of a price difference to be worth the difference in the cars. I would have been willing to go with a less capable car if I'd felt the price was ri
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I lived and worked in Geneva for a couple of years as an older adult. While I went to the trouble of learning written and spoken French (which I love as a language), I was really surprised at how little I ever required it in everyday activi

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