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by dwater 4y ago
This is stats 101. Mean and median are measured of central tendency, and the median is generally better for skewed distributions. The 5 number summary (or your 5 percentiles) gives slightly more information, but ultimately you are summarizi
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The reason saffron is exotic (for Americans) is because Iran produces 90+% of it, and the US government wants to punish the Iranian government with trade sanctions.
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Those are mostly HOT lanes - High Occupancy Toll. If you have the correct EZPass they are free with 3+ occupants. The toll is for drivers with less than 3 occupants who are willing to pay the premium, which scales with traffic and has a &qu
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The way people in the US plan for old age and retirement, and the way they are treated by society, is terrible and property taxes are aspect of that. But the only way you should be able to own land tax free is if there are no government ser
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Yeah, when I visited Cairo a while back, the corner markets usually had a boy that would deliver whatever you wanted for a tip, but they were never going more than a couple of blocks, you could only buy what they had in the shop, and if the
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This article appears to have a picture of the house in question: https://ggwash.org/view/74166/dc-preservation-hprb-denies-fr... As someone who has lived nearby, I can say that this house is not rare nor remarkabl
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by dwater 4y ago
And it's still happening. America is, compared to other first world countries, not the easiest to immigrate to. So out of all immigrants, who would choose to go to America (appreciating that many immigrants don't have much choice)
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If Celsius was backed by the full faith and credit of the US economy and war machine then those Celsius Bucks would probably still have value.
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> Different people living in different parts of the city is just natural evolution. A claim like that needs supporting evidence. I see no reason why segregation among different members of a single community is natural. > Why should th
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by dwater 4y ago
I just started playing and I'm already engaged. This is clearly based on Oregon Trail, with different choices for how you start the journey and what your goals are. And for me it has the same historical intrigue of "what was this
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by dwater 4y ago
Perhaps not, but energy is the "everything killer" of inflation since it's a major input to nearly every business that happens in the physical world (and it's non-trivial for the virtual world as well).
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For context, U.S. News and World Report used to be a trusted periodical that reported national and international news. In the 80's they started ranking colleges and selling it as a separate publication, which turned out to be pretty pr
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As a non-economist, that's one of the basic things about trade that was surprisingly hard to wrap my head around. Your currency is high, that's good because you now have much greater buying power outside your country! Everyone els
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by dwater 4y ago
It’s a magnet for people who want to make a lot more money than they are qualified to get through salaried positions. You don’t need education, specialized skills, credentials, status, or connections to succeed. But you do have to be savvy
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by dwater 4y ago
Can you link to some examples, because I have not seen any videos like that.
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That may have been part of the original reasoning, but now Delaware has built up the world’s most reliable corporate legal system, and companies like a reliable legal system very much.
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Housing values are strongly correlated with the local economy. By and large, the areas with cheap housing have weak job markets and low wages, and vice versa. Remote work may change this some, and it's great if you have the privilege o
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by dwater 4y ago
I recently switched from Volumio to Logitech Media Server for playing audio over a couple raspberry pis and like how simple it is. It's GPL and if you install the Material Skin add on it looks nice enough. Volumio was too complex for s
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by dwater 4y ago
> Even Ruth Bader Ginsberg argued roe v wade was a mistake because it placed abortion rights into constitutional law rather than letting democratic institutions decide an issue like this. That's an oversimplification of a very nuanc
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The majority also said in congressional testimony that Roe was settled, and then changed their minds when they had the power to overturn it.
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> There is an interesting ideological reversal here with regard to the recent vaccine debate with liberals arguing the government should be able to compel vaccination, and the conservatives against. My interpretation of that ideology is
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by dwater 4y ago
That's a strawman. The difference in the taxes paid by a middle class homeowner under standard property tax schemes and LVT is much less than the difference in taxes paid by the parking lot owner. In practice LVT is usually set up so t
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by dwater 4y ago
Both directions meaning buying and selling, not active market and dead market like the parent comment is talking about. What's their cut of trades on Terra today?
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30 years ago was the end of George H W Bush’s era, who among other lies was wrapped up in the Iran Contra affair under Reagan; and the beginning of the Clinton era who famously lied about his personal life but certainly had his fair share o
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Not if it ends up costing more in the long run, like when instead of spending money on prevention it must be spent on disaster recovery. If the agreement was "We won't give you this money now, and we won't rescue you later wh
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I'm still seeing businesses close because their staff are out sick and I have more personal contacts who've taken sick leave in the past month than any time I can remember in the past 2 years. In my mind that's still in a pan
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No, it means lower prices on the limited number of goods which were oversupplied that nobody wants right now. It doesn't mean lower prices on the stuff everyone is still buying like food and gas.
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Yes but it also adds an entry to a mail list update dataset that USPS sends out. I worked at a company that had a magazine and every month USPS would send a CD with an updater. I never looked into how the technology worked but it allowed a
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To clarify, there is only one route in the US that has an auto train. It goes from Lorton, VA (about 30 minutes south of DC on I95) to Sanford, FL (a suburb of Orlando), and in the other direction. It has sleeper berths or regular coach cla
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Well, it would be great when we wanted to get rid of those items. It would be less great when we wanted to preserve those items, like the massive amount of goods and infrastructure that are constructed out of plastic. The insulation on powe

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