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Fair enough, but I think most people buy crypto because they think the (dollar) number will go up
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Crypto Currency is fundamentally flawed because all people care about is its value in more useful and understandable fiat currency (dollars)
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The joys of the human memory
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I think I actually ran into that exact search issue and was confused why my onions were not cooking well, lmao
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1: ban new housing from being built 2: a supply shortage develops 3: prices rise, and we don't build more housing I think the tax policy is prop 13, which is a handout to rich homewoners that means they will never sell their houses (ve
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Which itself gets parasitized by other fungi
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The housing crisis is caused by government policy voted in by locals who dont want their neibhorhoods ti change so block new housing that would lower prices. Which can just as easily happen in a Socialist country since I assume there is sti
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If you have every company owned by its employees, it can cause big problems for society. There are many arguments to make, such as how investment and hiring would decrease but an interesting one is that it prevents people from de risking th
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Some of the longer lived of the manufactured elements have medical uses. There's a chance the elements in the island of stability might have interesting properties
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Notably Lead-208 has magic numbers of protons and neutrons so is extra stable, with lead itself representing the last stable element
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They hope it will make them money
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Toyota is extremely strong in the hybrid car market, and with ravenous competition for electric cars and slowing demand Toyota may have made the right decision after all
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My impression though i that most of these firms are highly correlated with the market despite their attempts at otherwise
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The article mentions that GitHub copilot has been trained to avoid directly copying specific cases it knows, and that although you can get it to spit out copyright code by prefixing the copyrighted code as a starting point, in normal us cas
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There is a chart floating around showing the mean age increasing the but the 99% age has been completely flat for at least a century
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> The anonymous programmers have repeatedly insisted Copilot could, and would, generate code identical to what they had written themselves, which is a key pillar of their lawsuit since there is an identicality requirement for their DMCA
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As opposed to your alternate view that is...? I feel like its objective fact that Russia is doing whatever is can to undermine the west, considering that they are currently committing industrial sabotage in Europe on a large scale.
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Many of these emails promote products that can inly be described as scams
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The bakers cannot eliminate the risk of certain production lines from having cross contamination with any reasonable amount of money (like they would need to redo entire factories). So, for those products they introduce the contaminant on p
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Yeah his father probably had been receiving lowball and unserious offers for years if one were to find the right email folder
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I'm pretty sure someone did experiments with a microwave trying to reanimate life but that was well after it was invented.
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Yeah you're right here, but its up to the employer to keep good enough records to defend themselves in such a case, even if they are in the right its is often easier to settle considering the chance of loosing anyway and going to court
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I'm sure what I said about 5 hours is mostly accurate, the specific rule in California labor law mentions the 5 hour requirement. > In compliance with California labor laws, nonexempt employees are entitled to an unpaid meal or lunc
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Additionally California PAGA lawsuits are notorious for nearly bankrupting small businesses. This case wasn't PAGA, but still people need to realize that sometimes these things are more nuanced than they appear. Infractions are 200 dol
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I guess my point is that the USD has many other reasons for being the world currency, (firstly the lack of alternatives) and the money that was spent on Saudi Oil and would partly come back due to the petrodollar now stays in the US on US o
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A key thing is that the US is now the biggest oil producer, so the exact agreement is less important since the US uses more of its own oil, with the money never having left the US in the first place
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Probably because this case can have a lot of impact on HN readers lives. But I agree with you it's definitely out of scope, and seems to have been flagged already.
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> For a wild animal, the default state is health. In normal times, wild animals are an appropriate weight. In the wild, animals don’t become obese. They don’t become depressed or suicidal. They don’t exhibit behavioral disorders. Animals
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If you are talking about China, they have financial markets with private share ownership, a large percentage of their economy is private businesses, and their state owned companies are run for profit, with said profit retained by both priva
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I would rather we don't have to spend precious emergency responder time on preventable injuries and deaths that occur at much higher rates by people not wearing seatbelts. If we can require you wear glasses to drive, we can require you

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