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by fxd123 3y ago
> Food in the US isn’t central to our identities, not yet at least. It is still largely a utilitarian and transactional thing— something necessary to get enough calories, hopefully tasty ones, to stop being hungry and keep working. Food
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by fxd123 3y ago
> Wouldn't it be more effective to pursue criminal charges against the individuals directly responsible? No, since criminal conviction has a higher threshold
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by fxd123 3y ago
The names are redacted in the charges because they don't want to continue spreading them. The original info was not redacted
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by fxd123 3y ago
The Inspector General for Tax Administration is part of the treasury > Was Cheney not a war profiteer? It's not illegal to be a profiteer
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by fxd123 3y ago
He released all the info publicly...
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by fxd123 3y ago
Why would the Inspector General for Tax Administration go after people involved in the Iraq war?
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by fxd123 3y ago
But as the article points out- some of the people are techies trying to network and find success in SF's tech scene, and others are people struggling to get by working at Carls Jr...
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by fxd123 3y ago
> so that other programs don't suffer Other programs wouldn't suffer. CA had a large surplus. No cuts would be made...
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by fxd123 3y ago
> had the foresight to prepare its systems for a once-in-ever event in advance As I already said, which you ignored: "California received $15.3 billion in federal Coronavirus Relief Funds, but allocated none of it to repaying its o
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by fxd123 3y ago
Paying off debt is not retaining or spending.
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by fxd123 3y ago
https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/02/24/opinion-california-sh... And an older WSJ article, before CA's default, that was critical of CA's decision making: https://www.wsj.com/articles
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by fxd123 3y ago
> it implies that employers wouldn't know that they'd be on the hook for unemployment deficits, despite it being an explicit part of a pretty-well trodden piece of federal law. This is misleading- employers know they would need
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by fxd123 4y ago
Hospitals are required, under federal law, to list all their prices publicly.
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by fxd123 4y ago
Things change over time. Do you also complain that Apple doesn't actually sell any fruit?
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by fxd123 4y ago
> And Coinbase's position is that none of the crypto assets it lists meet that test Because the aspect that the SEC is going after is not any crypto asset it lists- it's Coinbase Earn. Staking-as-a-service products are securiti
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by fxd123 4y ago
> the number impacted in the past year seems to be between 100-250,000 tech employees That's because companies announce layoffs but they usually don't announce mass hiring. While cloud sectors are laying off, healthcare and def
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by fxd123 4y ago
Just as it has always been, and always will be. This comment is not as deep as you think
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by fxd123 4y ago
Yeah. Most people are not CEOs of multi-billion multinational corporations. Shocker!
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by fxd123 4y ago
Ok. And?
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by fxd123 4y ago
> The survey asked about “any leisure travel” and did not differentiate between domestic or international travel plans That's different than saying "Not domestically or internationally"
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by fxd123 4y ago
They are studying both equally. The official term is "dual-use" technology, which is a major focus at all national labs.
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by fxd123 4y ago
4360 TRY is equal to $313 USD using the conversion rate from 1 year ago.