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formerkrogemp
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formerkrogemp
4y ago
Not if you're conserving battery life I suppose..
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There are a couple of supreme court cases that could dramatically impact the internet as we know given the current composition of the court..
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I've had my in-laws download malware onto their android devices multiple times, from the play store. Anything is a threat if you're paranoid enough with your threat model, debilitatingly so.
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formerkrogemp
4y ago
We're all on a spreadsheet or database elsewhere.
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4y ago
> The dot com bubble forming and then popping is a notable one, Enron's fraudulent ascent is another. Let's not forget WorldCom and Arthur Anderson, who later formed Deloitte if I'm not mistaken. We have them to thank in p
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4y ago
Populations living near past conflicts continue to pay the price of that conflict to this day. Mines from the world war, Vietnam, etc continue to harm people today.
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> If you are serious, I have bad news for you. The situation is going exactly as expected. That’s the traditional Tory plan. Defund, complain it doesn’t work now that it doesn’t have money then make private. > British voters can only
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4y ago
That's a verbose and roundabout way of calling yourself a fan, friend. :)
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I don't think the expression applies to harder physical limits such as gravity or exists as a statement of epistemological nihilism in most cases. I don't doubt that inductive reasoning is useful however. It's difficult to im
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Past performance does not guarantee future results.
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> If you're knowledgeable in one field primarily, I think it's likely you have some bias towards that field. 'It is ever the domain of specialists to overstate their domain.'
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> A Tory government apparently can't achieve much. You could just stop there. I've yet to see, in decades of Tory rule, much but decline, neglect, and scandal. Tax cuts and service cuts. That's all everyone needs apparent
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4y ago
If you need vital goods to run your day to day operations, you'll be willing to overpay off it means you don't have to shut everything down even more than you've had to do so already. Your net benefit as China might outweigh
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4y ago
Believe in the false dilemma or else?
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A lot of the billions of dollars earmarked over the decades for telecom and cable companies was spent on dividends and buybacks rather than fiber rollout as intended.
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Most people on this site don't know and don't care externalized cost of dollar denominated currency and reserve currency status so long as their goods and vacations come cheap.
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Adversity most often instills trauma. Character is entertainment in works of fiction. Character is not often a healthy, well-adjusted person.
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I work in tax. Yes, you need to be able to read and write well to understand the changing tax law in the US. The tax code is also used as social policy in the US, and it's important to know for liability reasons that even the person yo
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I worked in grocery for a decade until going into accounting. The labor saved by self checkout is ridiculous. The hours for front end staff were reduced by an order of magnitude in my time there. They were always pushing us to pull people t
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Fascinating. I knew of this in general but never had a term to attach to it. Thanks the link.
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> I live near Carmel, Indiana, the roundabout capital of the US. Small ones, large ones, figure 8's, figure... double-peanut-looking things with elevated crossovers near interstate junctions. They work well and keep traffic moving.
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> And what happens should they theoretically fail to pay? They pay more or lose access to billions in sales. It's both as complicated and as simple as that.
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I think you'll find that's not true either. If you accept littering as a crime, multiple items have been left on the moon.
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>cats would definitely survive due to their excellent hunting skills in a world without humans. I don't know about yours, but my cats would not adjust well.
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Hey, accountants aren't economists..
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> In fact, of the countries that usually make up the global leaders in health/medical innovators, all but 1 (the UK) engage in price controls ( https://immigrantinvest.com/insider/the-best-healthcare-coun ...), a
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Nice work, Any plans to tackle any other Nietzsche works in the future?
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The pattern continues onwards. Compliance orders usually have an expiration date, and companies usually go back to the same behavior after the compliance order expires. It's similar to catch me if you can except it's billions of d
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> You could live with dignity here in France on minimum wage, how about the US? In my experience there's not much dignity in the US working for minimum wage.
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> Don't pay the people who are already getting a good deal less; pay the people who are currently getting a bad deal more I can agree with this, definitely. I still don't think that it's that easy to start a semiconductor
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