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by dwater 4y ago
Yes, almost daily. When I'm going somewhere new, what does the front of the building look like? Where is there parking? How do I access the parking? What are the parking fees and restrictions? How visible is a landmark from the street?
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by dwater 4y ago
I don't have the time, but I'd love to see someone rewrite "Reminiscences of a Stock Operator" as "Reminiscences of a Crypto Operator". I don't think you'd have to change any of the scams, only the co
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by dwater 4y ago
Yeah, as someone who didn't know about Luna or Terra a week ago I think he did a good job of explaining the system, and the way it would fail, pretty well 2 days ago on Wednesday: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/
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by dwater 4y ago
A small dataset is not statistically insignificant. It changes the calculations, but it is possible to make significant conclusions from small data. Whether this situation is significant or not depends on the underlying data you first asked
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by dwater 4y ago
The Taylor Rule does that. "According to Taylor's original version of the rule, the nominal interest rate should respond to divergences of actual inflation rates from target inflation rates and of actual Gross Domestic Product (GD
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by dwater 4y ago
Pensions do have risk, but you act as if 401(k) style plans don’t. Imagine how difficult it would be to plan fastidiously for your retirement and then have the stock market collapse and wipe out 1/4 or 1/2 of your savings. Yes, yo
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by dwater 4y ago
Generally, European colonizers imported their anti-dark skin biases (colourism) to their African colonies and they persist to this day among the black populations. https://www.e-ir.info/2020/04/11/critical-ref
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by dwater 4y ago
That is incorrect. ~200 bank accounts were frozen for refusing to follow police orders to clear illegal blockades. Accounts were not frozen for speech, but for unlawful actions.
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by dwater 4y ago
Those are scenarios where the bidders are experts who participate in the market every day, which are very different from the home selling market where the average bidder will have participated never, once, or maybe twice in their lives (and
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by dwater 4y ago
It was the location of the movie "Sex and the City 2". The UAE has put a huge effort into internationally branding themselves as a luxury tourism destination. I imagine there are loads of visitors who have no idea what the laws or
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by dwater 4y ago
I have worked with .mil customers who paid us to scrape and index their website because they didn't have a better way to access their official, public documents.
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by dwater 5y ago
Most private schools pay teachers less than public schools in the same locale and have overall worse benefits as well.
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by dwater 5y ago
No, the legal system in the US absolutely does not have the resources to give a jury trial to everyone charged with a crime. "According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics (2005), in 2003 there were 75,573 cases disposed of in federal
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by dwater 5y ago
This appears like a strawman argument against single payer healthcare. Hard to tell since it's only a single sentence. But if it is, the majority of single payer supporters have no interest in mandating government healthcare for all, m
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by dwater 5y ago
I had a startup give me 2 interviews and a paid coding exercise before making an offer, but the compensation was below market with some long shot equity comp. I had a large consulting company give me one recruiter screen and a series of 3 2
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by dwater 5y ago
I'm not surprised. Lena Trudeau served at GSA and stood up 18F, did a 3 year stint at Amazon, and then went to the Canadian Digital Service. https://www.linkedin.com/in/ltrudeau/details/experience/
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by dwater 5y ago
I imagine in this context conservative refers to members of the conservative political class and not conservative-voting citizens, who are mostly irrelevant to the goals of the conservative political class.
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by dwater 5y ago
I agree. I didn’t want to go to in depth, but I imagine many people who grew up in the suburbs wouldn’t consider the quality of well water when looking at a rural home. How many would research nearby industry to see what might be polluting
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by dwater 5y ago
> * crumbling infrastructure in rural areas, from closing supermarkets and schools to deficient roads and services I expect many the shine of many of the "pandemic homesteader" stories we've seen will tarnish pretty quickl
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by dwater 5y ago
I'm sure consumers will love "Pork Chops: Designed in Texas, butchered in USA from components sourced in USA and elsewhere".
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by dwater 5y ago
I was a high school math teacher for 9 years and taught classes with high stakes state administered tests at the end, and the content of the curriculum was the least of my complaints.
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by dwater 5y ago
Russia's economy, and the nation's well being as a whole, is dependent on selling gas to Europe. Europe doesn't want to support the regime and would prefer to buy elsewhere. Ukraine found lots of oil and gas reserves in the p
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by dwater 5y ago
When I first heard the term ~20 years ago, there was speculation that we would use up the easily extracted oil, and it would just get more and more expensive to produce as we were driven to more challenging sources, to the point that consum
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by dwater 5y ago
> In Canada, we just went through a 10-day period where, in an afternoon, the government casually made it retroactively illegal to have supported a peaceful cause -- and began locking up peaceful, law-abiding citizens' bank accounts
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by dwater 5y ago
According to Wikipedia’s history of nails, wire (round) nails came out in about 1860. I’ve lived in 4 houses built before 1930 That were all full of them. Cut nails continued to be used for masonry through the present.
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by dwater 5y ago
I get your point, but the house you live in is an expense, not an investment. The fact that for a long period of time it seemed like an investment because home values kept outpacing inflation made this common thinking, but there's no r
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by dwater 5y ago
This took a lot of my mental energy when I was a teacher. I didn't have any of my bills on autopay because I had to constantly manage when I would have enough money in my account to pay any given bill. Even now that I'm much more
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by dwater 5y ago
Flare guns are also allowed and treated as firearms, so anyone can go to Walmart or an outdoors store and pick one up without any legal requirements and then use that to improve the security of their luggage. One of the first hits I got sea
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by dwater 5y ago
Any evidence that this represents the common man freeing himself from the economic authorities and not just the privileged class using it for capital flight and tax evasion?
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by dwater 5y ago
The word conman comes from the phrase "Confidence Man". They generally use charisma to gain the confidence of others and then exploit that confidence for personal gain.

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