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by cascom 8y ago
article seems to be lacking in a great deal of detail - I'd imagine the soil composition of the areas where the bore would vary fairly significantly? what type of binding agents need to be used? what is the energy usage for the baking
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by cascom 8y ago
Which is the model for volunteer firefighters in the US (minus the hourly compensation/annual stipend) otherwise its essentially the same.
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by cascom 8y ago
It’s also a function of the job - people don’t hate them because the vast majority of their work is non-confrontational and they don’t pose a risk to citizens (write tickets, arrest people etc) so most people are happy to see them when they
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by cascom 8y ago
I know lots of people who do this - but in most cases it’s about frugality - for a family of four with two grown children paying ~$100/month (4pp family plan) vs. $220/month (2pp family plan, and two individual plans) it just make
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by cascom 8y ago
For most small towns I think its more the fact that a fire is a pretty rare occurrence (a couple call outs a year with a major fire every few years) so its more of a cost/benefit decision - they're willing to add ~5 min to the res
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by cascom 8y ago
yes - in many American small towns there is a what's often called a fire district that levies a small tax (often a property tax)that funds the fire department (which typically a volunteer force)
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Like Your Steak Aged 36 Months? Try 17 Years(wsj.com)
1 points by cascom 8y ago|0 comments
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by cascom 8y ago
Edited my comment - I was referring to farmed oysters hence the oyster-culture (vs aquaculture) comment
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by cascom 8y ago
Eat more oysters! It blows my mind all of the ecological (and gastronomic benefits) of oyster-culture - especially in contrast to a report like this! Edit: Farmed oysters
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by cascom 8y ago
I have a pizza steel and love it, so that’s pretty interesting - but regardless I think most home pizza cooks really can get the most bang for their buck focusing on their dough (e.g. multiple days of cold ferment). I thought this looked pr
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by cascom 8y ago
If the housing market is so overpriced you should short it - CME has futures. But my main point is that it seems unfair (for lack of a better word) to force someone to have to sell their home because it’s paper value has increased.
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by cascom 8y ago
Not mentioned here but relative cost of transport is an issue for CO2 - It’s pretty cheap on a nominal basis ($/CF) so transport becomes an issue. Which means it’s a local market, also since it’s a small market - transportation infrast
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by cascom 8y ago
How many people would no longer be able to afford to live in their home if prop 13 were to be repealed?
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by cascom 8y ago
That’s a very fair point - and while with exception of lithographs, photography, etc. most art really is unique, but there are loads of artists whose art, while unique, would be hard to identify as a stolen to us layman - for example Monet
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by cascom 8y ago
While I agree that the title is less than ideal, the premise of the article seems to be that its paradoxical that people steal art given the authors premise that it would appear to be fruitless endeavor
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by cascom 8y ago
I would have thought that art theft looked a lot like high-end auto theft - where the cars are stolen in the high “rule of law” countries and sold in low “rule of law” countries...whereas a stolen car kept in kept in a high “rule of law” co
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by cascom 8y ago
Terrifying thought - given their small size and the porosity of U.S. borders one would have to imagine it would be pretty easy to accomplish - on the other hand if the weapon were attributable to the host country it and discovered one would
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by cascom 8y ago
more aggressive surveillance - there is a ton of gas leak detection technology out there, but its use is optional in most places...
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by cascom 8y ago
good catch - though at least in my defense it looks like it was "little-known and widely ignored"
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by cascom 8y ago
You might have to rethink your math, here in the U.S. property taxes average 1.15% already, and would need to go up to like 8.2% just to account for personal income tax (not including payroll taxes, social security, Medicare/Medicaid,
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by cascom 8y ago
It’s not that they don’t know who the owner is, they just don’t know who the owner’s, owner’s, owner’s owner is
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by cascom 8y ago
This is an advocacy group for Americans living abroad that has a bunch resources. https://www.americansabroad.org/about/
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by cascom 8y ago
100% - except what’s extremely frustrating is the [willful] ignorance of the press in reporting on the issue. There are some people in these documents that should be named shamed (and probabaly prosecuted) but most of the “celebrity” client
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by cascom 8y ago
Corporations are not about trust - they are about risk. Most simply the ability to pool and share risk among a group of people and in most cases limit the extent of of personal risk when undertaking some activity.
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by cascom 8y ago
Technically I think the more correct response here is that the U.S. is one of two countries in the world (Eritrea being the other - and never a good country to be compared with) that have a Citizenship based system of taxation. Secondly - a
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by cascom 8y ago
thank you - this is what i was looking for
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by cascom 8y ago
anyone care to expand on the practical applications/implications/threat model where this makes sense?
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Norway Wants Electric Planes by 2030 but Norwegian Air Has Reservations(flyertalk.com)
2 points by cascom 8y ago|0 comments
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by cascom 8y ago
I don’t think the OP was being completely literal, and your point about language barriers is well taken, but in the context of America, Switzerland is the state of Virginia in terms of population (and about 40% of Virginia’s land area). In
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by cascom 8y ago
Not to mention that in the U.S. there is Federal, State, and typically multiple leveles of municipal bureaucracy to contend with. However, you also have to remember that in the typical American’s most of the services that they consume are a

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