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by dwater 4y ago
Matt Levine at Bloomberg has been talking about it frequently as the deal evolved. You can read back through the articles that reference Musk or Twitter in the headline and get a good idea. "The Wall Street banks involved, led by Morga
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In the Mid Atlantic region you have to pay 20% over MSRP to buy an ordinary Toyota Corolla off the lot right now, it's not limited to new technology or high demand units.
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People in other parts of the US joke about how the deep south is backwards and give facts like the lack of quality education as examples, but fail to realize this is intentional. The working class in the deep south may be "backwards&qu
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This was originally a series of posts on the Something Awful forums. The first 2 parts are gone but the later parts are still available: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=26... The author acknowledge
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What 4 sides do you have?
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In the past few years bodycams have become ubiquitous, and they haven't reduced misconduct. I wouldn't be surprised if they've increased civil payouts for police misconduct, but I'd rather have my life and health than my
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One man's pandering for votes is another man's fulfilling of electoral mandate and promises.
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OK, assuming you are correct, what's the root cause of difference in time spent studying? If the primary cause is less study time spent by black and brown students, how do you address that?
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Well, if you are concerned that this series of books might be inappropriate for the target audience you could perhaps read one? The first book is 144 pages that are 8x5.5", you could probably finish it in an afternoon and then you woul
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Let’s see a list of the best air passengers as well. I guarantee Americans aren’t at the top. The US carriers cater to their customers. We get treated like cattle for good reason.
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Comcast rebranded as Xfinity because they knew everyone hated Comcast. Now everyone also hates Xfinity. It's fine.
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They mostly phased out in the 80's because banks wanted to make more money from fees and rising interest rates. The main reason a buyer would choose to assume a mortgage is because rates have risen, which means the bank would get more
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To be fair, the GI bill was originally passed in 1944 and HUD was created in 1965, so the GP's statement "I've never seen any policy actions in the US that indicate housing is supposed to be affordable" could still hold
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I haven't worked in the home sales/mortgage industry, but I bought a house in 2006 and what I remember was the huge number of people getting into the industry in the boom years and then a mass exodus after the crash. It felt like
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I had a stats professor theorize that at some point all stats calculations would be done with simulations instead of formulas, since formulas are simplified models of reality whereas simulations can capture much more of the complexity if pr
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You will not be surprised to learn that tipping in the US started with racial oppression after slavery was abolished. It created a way to employ people without paying them wages. https://time.com/5404475/history-tipping
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The reason I haven't deleted Instagram yet is because the algorithm is so bad it's as if there isn't one at all. It makes it much easier to break the dopamine cycle and not feel addicted. I spend half my time on there telling
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"Wasson's 1956 expedition was funded by the CIA's MK-Ultra subproject 58, as was revealed by documents obtained by John Marks under the Freedom of Information Act. The documents state that Wasson was an 'unwitting'
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Let's not forget perhaps their most famous alumnus, Ted Kaczynski aka the Unabomber [1]. It's not clear whether or not they dosed him with psychedelics, but the records of the research done to him were sealed [2], so we only know
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I like about 2/3 of Stephenson’s novels and Anathem took some work for me to get into. It really gets moving several hundred pages in and then the last 1/3 makes it all worth it.
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I am guess that’s a typo because a cord of wood is 128 cubic feet, which would be a real big furnace.
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There's not nearly enough context here to give a meaningful answer. Is this a 10 person company and you have a personal relationship with the CEO? Then say whatever you'd feel comfortable saying in a private meeting (within reason
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It's complicated because the SUV label is arbitrarily used by manufacturers and consumers, but many/most SUVs are classified as light trucks for safety and emissions purposes. https://www.energy.gov/eere/vehic
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And if you exclude the black swan event of 9/11 which the US was unprepared for, the numbers get a lot smaller, e.g.: "According to the GTD, 80 Americans were killed in terrorist attacks from 2004 to 2013, including perpetrators a
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I've built a few bicycle frames and it's a known issue among framebuilders that you should point the opening of the front dropouts rearward a bit on disc brake forks. Disc brakes can generate serious torque.
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Are any of them under 40 and completely self-supporting? Most of the coworkers I had when teaching who weren’t bothered by the money had an external source of financial support. It took me a long time to realize it because those who are sup
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Comparing teacher pay to the median wage isn’t an apples to apples comparison because the average teacher has between a bachelor’s degree and a master’s, a state certification with regular training and renewal requirements, and a good amoun
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55% of Americans have hourly jobs, most of which do not control their hours. There are many polling places, particularly in underserved communities, where it can take multiple hours to get to vote. Elections are nearly always held on workda
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I can't, because every American city I can think of experienced redlining and white flight, which led to the loss of population, business, and investment.
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That was my experience as well in the 90's. The biggest difference was the behavior of the students, which allowed the class to move at a faster pace. Gifted and Talented was certainly a misnomer, but the environment that behavior enab

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