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by dahdum 8y ago
India is already firmly in the Western sphere of influence, and I still don't see how America "lost" any bet. A strong India is absolutely in our favor given it's a democracy with fundamental rights and rule of law. The
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by dahdum 8y ago
I don't understand your point, how did America lose when India grew quickly after investing in infrastructure with the help of American capital? Furthermore, I'm unaware of any real adversarial relationship between the US/In
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by dahdum 8y ago
They continued flying after the first crash for that exact reason, even though that took the accident rate an order of magnitude above the regular 737 fleet. After the second crash, it's not worth the risk in lives to carry on before i
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by dahdum 8y ago
The obsession is because the plane is new (<2 years) and there have been two fatal crashes in the past 6 months, making it by far the most dangerous plane in the skies today.
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by dahdum 8y ago
While I understand your point and appreciate your knowledge of the situation, I’m left with the idea that while the rest of the world is grounding these planes until more is known Southwest is flying them anyway. The only motive I can see f
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by dahdum 8y ago
That would mean Southwest strongly believes the lack of "AOA DISAGREE" caused the crashes, so they are safe to continue flying their fleet. If so, they should come out and say it. Right now, 737 Max Fleet is the deadliest plane pe
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by dahdum 8y ago
American and Southwest Airlines are still flying the Max 8/9, and are refusing refunds (Southwest/American) and charging change fees (American) for customers concerned for their safety. I don't understand this logic. They are
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by dahdum 8y ago
It’s very smart, her ad campaign people must have known misusing the Facebook logo would get them denied, but now she gets press for being the victim. You or I couldn’t run those ads, this is special treatment for her.
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by dahdum 8y ago
It was actually common, they still do business here, before the tax law change they would do an inversion so they'd no longer be taxed by the US on their foreign profits (US had worldwide taxation while most every other country did not
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by dahdum 8y ago
Seems like Democratic candidates are clamoring over each other to be further left, and I don't quite understand it. I supported Bernie in 2016, and even he is now too far left for my tastes. Democrats lost the centrist vote in 2016, no
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by dahdum 8y ago
Their response gave some light on the action, they say they didn't create the list until after the violence broke out. Seems pretty logical that they would attempt investigate who was there at the time. Not sure it's justified, bu
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In most situations I'm a pretty impatient person, but coding never seems to try my patience. Getting into the flow and working the problem is what I enjoy doing.
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The committee wasn't asking for all the information to be available, just specific information on some group promoting an idea they oppose. If the UK wants everything to be public they need only pass a law to do so and Facebook will co
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by dahdum 8y ago
From the article, Facebook already disclosed this information to the government via the Information Commissioner's Office who is free to share with parliament. From their refusal letter: "You will appreciate that it would be inapp
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by dahdum 8y ago
Why shouldn't the richer states pay more in taxes than the poorer ones? Our entire income tax system is progressive. Are you proposing that poor states tax their citizens more when they already have less?
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by dahdum 8y ago
The underlying theory is that the corporation generating those gains or dividends was already taxed on that income before distribution. Most economists love the idea of a 0% corporate income tax, which would likely be paired with LTCG going
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by dahdum 8y ago
The fact they sell and promote that garbage is far more telling of their corporate values than avoiding HFCS, IMHO.
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It won't at all, but never going to happen. Legislators know full well this will happen again, they need a "bad guy" or they'll take the heat themselves.
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by dahdum 8y ago
There was widespread abuse and the expense kept going up, laws were passed that curtailed involuntary commitment (based on civil rights, not expense), and we are left with what we have today.
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by dahdum 8y ago
Most European countries also allow involuntary psychiatric treatment and admission, while the US does not. If you started forcibly hospitalizing the mentally ill homeless in SF you would "solve" the issue pretty quickly, but that
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by dahdum 8y ago
Not the OP, but probably from here: https://projects.sfchronicle.com/sf-homeless/2018-state-of-h... $300M / year is spent and there are 7,500 homeless in SF. I believe a good chunk of the money is spent on housing
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by dahdum 8y ago
How on earth was this an "algorithm glitch" or anything close to "black box"? It's how they calculated pay, by setting a minimum hourly rate and subtracting any tips from that before paying out themselves. This repo
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by dahdum 8y ago
I see this behavior constantly in autocomplete. Search for [flights to london], then start typing [things to do] and the first suggestion will be [things to do in london].
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by dahdum 8y ago
Mechanics are often required to buy their own tools. Higher end chefs are expected buy their own knives. Machinists are expected to buy many of their own instruments. It’s not universal but definitely not uncommon.
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by dahdum 8y ago
My thought is that the text from the walker saying the dog was home safe wasn’t the actual person who took the dog. In that case the vetted person subcontracted to someone else, and perhaps didn’t know the dog had died at the time of the te
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by dahdum 8y ago
80% of McDonalds are franchise, so it’s often a similar situation. 2/3rds of locations are owned by McDonald’s and leased by the franchisee, who also pays royalties and purchases from corporate affiliated suppliers. Ripe for abuse if M
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by dahdum 8y ago
I think you are underestimating the impact drastically of California seizing and nationalizing PG&E, or even trying to.
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PG&E can’t afford to do that without raising capital. CPUC won’t approve rate hikes to finance that capital. Legislators pass no new laws or regulations. Then when it goes awry CPUC and legislators stand far back and decry PG&E for
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by dahdum 8y ago
PG&E is a pawn of the legislature, they follow all the regulations as best they can and don’t exactly mint money. They cannot unilaterally decide to do “more” to prevent fires without CA allowing them to raise rates to pay for it. It’s
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by dahdum 8y ago
California has $63b and growing in unfunded pension liabilities. The surplus is only a cash cushion. The problem is vastly reduced if you can shift healthcare costs from the unfunded pensions to single payer or Medicare for all, I think tha

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