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by droopyEyelids 11mo ago
You can trace all their problems back to the 1979 Islamic revolution. If they would have simply kept the Shah as the ruler and stayed a client state to Britain, they wouldn't need to fund any of these militants, and would probably be a
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by droopyEyelids 11mo ago
It depends. If your employer is part of a self-funded group of other employers, then there is a group of trustees from all the employers that can approve. If it's a 'fully insured' group plan then the insurance company is tec
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by droopyEyelids 11mo ago
In a monarchy all justice, authority, and moral order are centered on the person of the monarch, symbolically and legally. In medieval and early modern English law, the “King’s peace” was the fundamental idea behind criminal justice. The Pe
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by droopyEyelids 11mo ago
Here's a point about all the insurance companies: UHC administers the medical plan on behalf of your employer . For all practical purposes, they are a whipping boy for the real 'man behind the curtain' (your employer). Yo
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by droopyEyelids 11mo ago
There are all sorts of ugly industrialized systems required to support our world of 8 billion people. It's incredibly difficult to square them with how we want to perceive life. Your brain immediately wants to slip into a counterfactua
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
It's too big of a topic for a HN comment but do a google or LLM search and see. One widely-accepted aspect is that a child can not "self soothe" until 5-7 years. It's not developmentally possible, and using that language
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
May our children live to use high-end diamond cookware
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
Are there any other animals that have a system of writing?
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
Vices like gambling are not about one person’s money— they create addiction, crime, and family harm that spill over into society at large.
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
Could you explain more about it? I assumed the maintainers are doing it as part of their jobs for a company (completely baseless assumption)
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
Where did you find De Mysteriis? Any edition you recommend?
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
>math-based cryptography is becoming very vulnerable Can you explain this a bit more?
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
I hope you are making a humorous understatement
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
Im not sure we were on the same page. I'm saying that the importance of these agribusinesses is similar to the importance of the military- so something like insect damage or hormonal disruption, soil erosion, etc don't rank as fac
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
The highly optimized manufacturing operation has made farming into a powerful tool of statecraft internationally. Other countries become dependent on our beans and corn to [indirectly] feed their people or for inputs for their own industrie
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
The way I'm interpreting what you said, it feels like you're dismissing the state's role in protecting the health of citizens. Especially children, who are known to be deficient in their judgement and decision making. It&#x27
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
"Connecticut already uses the common three-class system that codifies legal e-bikes as up to 20 mph (32 km/h) and 750W (one horsepower) for Class 1 and 2, or up to 28 mph (45 km/h) for Class 3 e-bikes. But now the state is up
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
I’m having trouble distilling the essence of your message in a way that leaves us with any common moral ground. Would you agree that “an eye for an eye” type justice is undesirable? Because it seems like you are advocating for genocide as a
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
This is what it means to own
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
DALY - disability adjusted life years. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disability-adjusted_life_yea... Thanks for helping people understand this concept!
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
Would love to see examples of what they were posting
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
First off I just wanna say awesome and I send positive energy to you and you’re gonna do great. But then I just wanna talk about how long life is in terms of weight gain! Even two years is an “short” amount of time! Last month, I looked ove
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
People make noise about a lot of subjects, but money is what really talks. Whatever is cheaper will end up gaining market share until it wins.
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
Don’t know what part of the country you’re in, but in Chicago even the basic chain grocery stores carry fresh unprocessed turmeric now. There’s basically no reason to ever use powdered or dried.
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
In most companies the CI/Dev Tools team is a career dead end. There is no possibility to show a business impact, it's just a money pit that leadership can't/won't understand (and if they do start to understand it, t
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
In the USA we have huge waitlists for most all types of healthcare. Private healthcare doesn't provide surplus capacity either.
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
There was a finance charge on your loan that was probably around $1k so that's 5% the dealer made right there instantly for no work
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
This happened to me and the water itself caught on fire somehow
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
This is a real Rip Van Winkle style take (posted with gentle humor)
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by droopyEyelids 1y ago
“Our study suggests that policy efforts should move away from generic limits on screen time and instead focus on identifying and addressing addictive patterns of screen use,” said Yunyu Xiao, the study’s lead author and an assistant profess

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