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by dpc050505 1y ago
Also a lot of environmental factors that can cause cancer are out of your control if you live in an urban area.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
A small lock on the browser, something as simple as the math problems some people use to stop their alarm in the morning might be a sufficient stopgap from mindless browser use.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
Go feed some basic undergraduate economics/finance/accounting homework question into whatever cutting edge LLM you have access to and look at the results.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
Didn't facebook already facilitate a genocide like 8 years ago? It's been a while that Silicon Valley has been having negative externalities that delve into the realm of being atrocious for human rights. Not that the mines where t
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by dpc050505 1y ago
There can be more than two sides in healthy democracies.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
The form of government that applies democracy is rooted in the ideology that the majority knows best, which is the ideological version of democracy.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
Fresh water in a reservoir above a water treatment plant is not the same as salt water in the ocean even if it's the same molecule in the same cycle.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
I have two friends who are in trade school after studying physics. They're applying physics everyday. They'll make a perfectly adequate living in a few months and meanwhile they're both getting paid to go to school.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
I had a great time using drugs friends bought on the silk road back in the day and I'd say that particular economic activity being facilitated by crypto while completely hedonistic was a net positive for humanity.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
I'm 2/3 of the way through a degree in business admin with a minor in economics at a provincial university in Canada and I'd say I have a decent layman's understanding of the international monetary system. The place I&#x
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by dpc050505 1y ago
I find it's not the taste but the texture when they get stuck in my teeth.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
Grind them into powder, mix them to melted semi-sweet chocolate at low heat, pour into ice cube trays and let it harden.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
Having experience with a lot of psychedelics it's completely ridiculous to put the personal computer in that category. Timothy Leary might've drawn a parallel on the psychological impact of computers (I have no idea on the exact q
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by dpc050505 1y ago
Pot plants have no bark and a green trunk and can reach heights of like 12 ft.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
Same one that keeps my google pixel 5 in my pocket in spite of getting spammy ad notifications a few times a day.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
Stevie Nicks wrote Dreams hiding in Sly Stone's basement den. He led the first popular racially integrated rock band and is among the 3 biggest stars in funk.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
It's basically old school double entry book keeping, except you've got ballots and votes cast instead of inventory and $. You start with empty ballots and the electoral list. You record every ballot that's used (or damaged) a
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by dpc050505 1y ago
My current tuition is under 500 CAD per class. The opportunity cost of not working full time is the real bulk of the cost of studying in places that have a functional government.
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by dpc050505 1y ago
the commentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ULP0cbGXU8k
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by dpc050505 1y ago
As someone living in a country with common law and having taking business law 101 (so certainly NAL) this sometimes ends up being a bit of a guessing game as to how a judge will interpret jurisprudence. There's a lot of room for improv
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by dpc050505 2y ago
There's always an opportunity cost to making art. Taking your argument to it's extreme people should never paint or make music but instead spend all their time growing food and building homes (and distributing those goods because
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by dpc050505 2y ago
A law only matters when it's enforced. Who the fuck is going to go after me for downloading a few films and songs?
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by dpc050505 2y ago
The French revolution happened because real wealth was basically left untaxed, leaving an enormous tax burden on everyone that wasn't nobility. The situation was not unlike what Piketty described to win his nobel prize.
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by dpc050505 2y ago
What will Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel's wealth look like when the us dollar isn't the main transfer currency, the world sees the biggest financial crisis in the last couple centuries and everyone wants to cash out on t
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by dpc050505 2y ago
Most first nations at first contact had 0 conception of ownership, rather seeing it as some sort of stewardship (or if you put it in modern terms you could use the marxist notion of personal property where it's 'use it or lose it&
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by dpc050505 2y ago
American debt is lucrative as long as you don't alienate the whole world by behaving completely irrationally. The USD being the world's transfer currency means that you can finance debt at the lowest interest rate on the planet an
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by dpc050505 2y ago
Honoré de Balzac has a great bit about cashiers in Melmoth reconciled, basically explaining that it's a useless job that stems from a lack of trust (meanwhile the cashier becomes a trustee, which is ironic as if he had ambition he coul
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by dpc050505 2y ago
The stocks of wealthy people aren't going to see great performance either when margins and sale volume are lowered by the increases in input costs.
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by dpc050505 2y ago
Hydro-Quebec has a web app that works very well to look at outages and service status.
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by dpc050505 2y ago
We cleaned our own classrooms in Canada too and it doesn't keep people from littering.

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