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by culturestate 3y ago
I mean so can, like, grams of lead but that’s not really the discussion we’re having at this moment.
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by culturestate 3y ago
I think GP means “exists” as in “doesn’t require a third party to complete the value transfer.” If you give me a $20 bill, I can immediately exchange it for a case of beer at the bodega with no extra steps. If you give me a money order fo
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by culturestate 3y ago
Sure, but burning Teflon and inhaling the fumes is much different from eating pieces of Teflon that flake off in your pan. Plenty of otherwise-harmless things are suddenly not harmless when you burn and inhale them.
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by culturestate 3y ago
> eat scraps of Teflon from my pan I’m sure there’s a doctor or a chemist in here who can correct me if I’m wrong, but I’ve always understood Teflon to be super-duper-ultra inert. They literally make arterial grafts out of Teflon.
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by culturestate 3y ago
I might be wrong, but I was under the impression that eminent domain wasn’t available to states for transactions like this. A quick search turned up this article[1] talking about an attempt to do exactly what we’re talking about here, but
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by culturestate 3y ago
> California has fucked up so badly by not nationalizing PG&E Is this…a thing California could even do? Is there some state-actionable version of nationalization that I’ve never heard of?
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by culturestate 3y ago
> Imagine you live in a community of 1000 middle class people … Suddenly, 10 millionaires move in. I’m not an economist and there are countless reasons for that, but I can’t imagine that 10 millionaires in a community of 1,000 people w
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by culturestate 3y ago
> I am definitely not going to spend $3.5k and still buy a $1k MacBook to do my work. I would happily spend $3.5k on an insanely portable, wraparound, multi-monitor setup for my $1k MacBook. If this thing works anywhere close to as w
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by culturestate 3y ago
Philips has owned Sonicare for as long as I can remember, at least 15-20 years. My toothbrush is actually branded “Philips One by Sonicare,” but I won’t pretend to know what their strategy is with that.
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by culturestate 3y ago
I just went through this too, and I ended up with a Philips One. Its only smart-ish feature is the vibrating quadrant timer, it feels like it cleans more or less the same as my old Sonicare, it uses a normal AAA, and best of all it was like
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The US is building factories at a fast rate(businessinsider.com)
256 points by culturestate 3y ago|300 comments
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Lionel Messi Makes a Deal with Inter Miami of MLS–and Apple and Adidas(wsj.com)
1 points by culturestate 3y ago|0 comments
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by culturestate 3y ago
> in order for a baseball game to be considered valid, both teams must play 5 innings ... if one team is behind and knows there's a high chance of rain later in the day, the pitcher can begin drawing out the length of innings by in
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by culturestate 3y ago
> it just breaks my heart to see our (best-case) pace of construction, especially when I go and look at European and Asian rapid transit projects. It's not a strictly apples-to-apples comparison, but the Circle Line on the Singapo
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by culturestate 3y ago
> the last two generations of Mac Pro systems have been built in their own plants As far as we know, Apple doesn’t own any of its manufacturing directly. The Mac Pro plant in Texas is operated by either Quanta or Flex[1], depending on
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by culturestate 3y ago
If you're concerned about a scenario in which the government can do what it likes and doesn't need to explain itself in any meaningful way, I'm not sure Singapore is the place you're looking for...
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by culturestate 3y ago
> I didn't use my Hong Kong subway card for 9 years and the balance was still there … the NY subway system 100% would have stolen my money FWIW, most Octopus cards do expire eventually. If you don’t use it for three years, it’ll
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by culturestate 3y ago
The ad I most frequently get on YouTube - we’re talking three times per video, every other video - is for a shingles vaccine targeted at adults over 60. No amount of spaced repetition is going to make me, an adult decades under the age of
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by culturestate 3y ago
> She may not be well known… Dooce may not be as ubiquitous as it once was, but as I type this her death is front-page news on the NYT, The Guardian[1], and CNN. She was truly, uniquely influential and her voice will be missed. 1. This
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by culturestate 3y ago
> If framework laptops had a touchscreen, I would have waffled on ordering one. Is there some specific quality-related reason for this? I’m not a fan of touchscreens on laptops but absent some glaring technical issue I can’t imagine th
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by culturestate 3y ago
I lived in Shanghai and Shenzhen, and I think it was mostly indicative of how new the building was. Anything built after ~2000 usually had the option of plumbed gas or electric, but in older buildings I saw a lot of those standalone bottled
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by culturestate 3y ago
I lived in mainland China and Hong Kong for nearly a decade and had electric induction stoves in every apartment. Anecdotal evidence is, as ever, weak evidence.
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by culturestate 4y ago
> For the customer-replacement case, you simply tell the customer to replace just one bulb at a time Just imagining the customer support for this is gonna give me nightmares. “Sir, you need to make sure your vehicle’s ignition is tur
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by culturestate 4y ago
My point is that regardless of the tax regime, America pretty clearly did not run "just fine" in that era.
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by culturestate 4y ago
> It doesn't make sense at all that a revenue department purchases guns and ammunition. Historically, it made plenty of sense. Financial crimes can’t always be solved behind a desk - there was a time when most tax evasion investig
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by culturestate 4y ago
> The country ran just fine with 0% income taxes until 1913. Sure, apart from that whole Civil War fracas in the mid-1800s and the ensuing decades of reconstruction.
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by culturestate 4y ago
> Don't forget that the IRS is one of the largest purchasers of ammunition of any govt agency. “The IRS purchases guns and ammunition for special agents in its criminal investigation division, a law enforcement branch established
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by culturestate 4y ago
Sure it could. There's nothing (other than the government, presumably) stopping them from listing six separate companies with, for example, dual-class share structures that leave substantially all voting power to Alibaba Holdings Ltd.
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by culturestate 4y ago
> I assume the answer is "because they'll make more money selling 3rd-party $THIS in the app store" Apple has a long and storied history of doing almost exactly the opposite - any sufficiently popular third-party utility
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by culturestate 4y ago
https://archive.is/UVTFu

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