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fsckboy
1y ago
the flavor enhancement of the maillard reaction does not mean that searing is not also sealing the meat. I'm not saying it is either, just, saying your statement is not an answer to his question, as anyone can see. almost anyone.
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fsckboy
1y ago
ambiguous? I'll take the compliment, but there is no "us"
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fsckboy
1y ago
"It's not evenly cooked." -- Wolfgang Puck
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fsckboy
1y ago
> and is set to do so until July 2029. However, depending on whereabouts, it may or may not be visible as it can only be viewed from certain locations each month.
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fsckboy
1y ago
the quality of that original photograph (the protograph by the photographUr) actually looks better than the photograph of that photograph on that web page.
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fsckboy
1y ago
the stock market returns on average 7%. a 50% tax on on income means the stock market effectively returns 3.5% a wealth tax of 1% reduces the return on the stock market for that year to 6%, but it compounds onto follow-on years; if you &quo
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fsckboy
1y ago
> Yes. This means that if we double the taxes on the wealthy we will roughly double our total taxes collected. A neat trick. no, you won't, people change their financial decisions in the face of taxes. increasing taxes will slow th
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fsckboy
1y ago
> Eventually the interest payments crowd out most other government spending false. you are neglecting economic growth which increases tax receipts but does not increase the debt. if government expenditure grows faster than economic grow
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fsckboy
1y ago
vat is simply corporate income tax, it's a tax on "value added", i.e. profit or income. I don't know in europe whether that is on top of other corporate income tax or not.
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fsckboy
1y ago
the rest of the world is complaining bitterly. they would not be doing that if their solution was as simple and painless as you like to think
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fsckboy
1y ago
you can't actually argue that the retail channel will eat the difference. that would be arguing that the financial market would eat the difference, and that's exactly what financial markets will not do. nor do you want them to, si
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fsckboy
1y ago
> without really generating much money for the government it's been reported that tariff collections have soared to the point that the budgeted spending is no longer in the red. this article is written in a confusing way, but your
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fsckboy
1y ago
and China is therefore punished in the context of treating US imports to China in an unfair way; this was one of the goals, so you're saying "policy win"?
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fsckboy
1y ago
have you followed the news? it's been reported that after the period of changing tariffs, agreements have been reached for more US manufacturing, said agreements providing the certainty you are seeking.
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fsckboy
1y ago
tariffs that apply to crops we don't grow in the US still discourage purchase of those crops, making the sellers unhappy. if the seller country has been putting tariffs on US goods, the seller country is now incented to bargain on the
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fsckboy
1y ago
sales taxes are based on the value of the goods. value added taxes are paid on the profit made on the good, and are paid by the seller (because the buyer doesn't know what the profit is). value added taxes are basically corporate incom
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fsckboy
1y ago
what would make a "word of the day" stream compelling to me would be a word that reflected recent news. William Safire did this to some extent in his weekly column in the NY Times and it was usually pretty interesting. a way to in
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fsckboy
1y ago
prices are more stable when there is a liquid market
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fsckboy
1y ago
in the middle ages, a matter before a court was called a "thing"
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fsckboy
1y ago
I have flown "first class" on flights that turned out to be small airplanes and there was not much to the first class distinction, seats only slightly bigger, no special food, etc. I'm confused a little by what you are saying
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fsckboy
1y ago
wealth inequality does not make the economy worse anyway. economies are always better where more wealth is created, and wealth is never created "evenly" across the population; however, the rising tide does lift all boats, that
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fsckboy
1y ago
what you have quoted leaves the wrong impression, a clearer picture emerges describd thus: The breakthrough, detailed on July 15 in The Review of English Studies, involved working out that the manuscript refers to 'wolves' not &#
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fsckboy
1y ago
"non shale drillers turn on each other as toxic waste..." would that headline surprise you? it has nothing to do with fracking. The news is that there is a fracking related toxic water issue, one entirely similar to what we are ve
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fsckboy
1y ago
> you might squeeze a tag bit for the deck out of the 7◇ awww, youuuuu!! hugz! "The Seven of Diamonds meaning in a Tarot reading can show that you will be surrounded by love." (i was looking it up to find what the different
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fsckboy
1y ago
> Unsurprising. Over a decade ago I was searching for a dissertation topic and a self-reporting fracking site... it's unsurprising because in all human endeavors, success has many parents, while failure is always an orphan. Has not
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fsckboy
1y ago
> email / gmail is not case sensitive Jsmith@gmail.com is the same as jsmith@gmail.com gmail is not case sensitive. email systems are allowed to be case sensitive, most choose not to be. This used to be an issue to deal with when p
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fsckboy
1y ago
> Electronics also don’t trickle down when you toss your old phone in a drawer rather than passing it on people sell their old cars because their economic value is high and storing them is non-negligible expense-wise also. The economic
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1y ago
you've lost the plot > There's just a handful of audiophiles that would be replacing their speakers every year then the carbon footprint is negligible also, which is what this discussion is about, not total sales of high end s
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fsckboy
1y ago
> As written, this only applies to nation states. if you're quibbling about legal definitions, your "nation state" is used incorrectly. A "nation" is a large ethnic group, for example the German nation, the Cher
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fsckboy
1y ago
a roach in your soup is not a bug if the recipe says it should be there, it's just something you have a preference against. "You can cook them in numerous ways, from boiling to toasting. An especially delicious cockroach delicacy
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