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541.
by garmaine 5y ago
As an everyday heuristic, sure. But when it comes to matters of national importance we all deserve better.
542.
by garmaine 5y ago
No, it is not. Judge ideas on their own merits please. These same people ridicule the Space Force, for example, despite it being a reorganization of US Space Command that had bipartisan approval years before Trump even ran for office. A bro
543.
by garmaine 5y ago
FYI for the past year or so you could get a lifetime ban from YouTube (and Facebook and Twitter?) for discussing the lab-leak hypothesis. It was an outrageous overreaction.
544.
by garmaine 5y ago
Context.
545.
by garmaine 5y ago
Blow up that report card and frame it on your wall. That's high praise.
546.
by garmaine 5y ago
On the other hand, the meaning of art is determined by what you bring to it. If you find a self-consistent interpretation that is not or perhaps even contrary to what the author had in mind or the classical analysis, that interpretation is
547.
by garmaine 5y ago
> It quite reliably took people who absolutely loved reading and made them hate books. I'm not quite sure the point of it, really. It took me a decade after high school to read a fiction book again, and this is far from uncommon amo
548.
by garmaine 5y ago
While I myself am a strident atheist, I must point out that your comment demonstrates a profound ignorance of the history of both faith and logic. In the premodern era it was through logic that the faithful intellectuals discovered “the min
549.
by garmaine 5y ago
That's not nearly the same thing. The capability to kill based on the identity of the target is transformative.
550.
by garmaine 5y ago
Automated targeted killing devices have not existed before. That distinction is very important. The difference between "randomly kill some person in the future who goes through this area" and "upload picture to kill target&
551.
by garmaine 5y ago
And it’s one of those articles I read which had the tidbit about the books, and even some choice quotes. Not sure which article it was, but google should find it for you.
552.
by garmaine 5y ago
A single quote? There are whole medieval books about what to do “between the sleeps.”
553.
by garmaine 5y ago
Yet somehow returns end up back in the warehouse where they are picked as "new" sales to other customers.
554.
by garmaine 5y ago
> I wonder actually where this stuff happens typically. Clearly some seems to happen before things even get to Amazon, that whole counterfeit commingling thing you hear about, where the 3rd-party stock gets used even if you buy from Amaz
555.
by garmaine 5y ago
> Given the risks associated with buying online, some customers are resorting to filming the process of unboxing expensive gear in order to create proof in the event that an order has not been correctly fulfilled. I don't know why t
556.
by garmaine 5y ago
Why? Make the patient catch Covid… so that they don’t later catch Covid?
557.
by garmaine 5y ago
No, the post I was replying to was talking about his wife’s company.
558.
by garmaine 5y ago
The amount the US government has spent on pandemic relief is 20-30k per American, depending on how you choose to count. (Edit: I’m aware TFA is about about European pandemic relief.)
559.
by garmaine 5y ago
Inflation is regressive. The rich don’t literally hoard cash, and their investments are likely to appreciate, or at least not suffer as badly as real inflation. Have you seen how much the stock market went up in the last year?
560.
by garmaine 5y ago
What did they do with the regular income they had during that period that would have gone to rent, salaries, etc.?
561.
by garmaine 5y ago
The Canadian Bank Note company, the company that makes Canada’s physical currency, has for the last few years employed Ralph Merkle and Robert Freitas, ina division called “CBN Nano.” They have recently filed patents on techniques for atomi
562.
by garmaine 5y ago
It’s positive energy, not negative.
563.
by garmaine 5y ago
That wasn’t the question.
564.
by garmaine 5y ago
It's not a law so much as a governing principle.
565.
by garmaine 5y ago
Hard real-time operating systems?
566.
by garmaine 5y ago
Labeled data is easy to come by in popular language though. Just get an Audible subscription.
567.
by garmaine 5y ago
Doesn't even have to be paper shares. You can call up your broker and ask them to transfer X shares of ABC company into someone else's account. It is useful and essential to be able to transfer shares from one person to another wi
568.
by garmaine 5y ago
If I have a stock certificate for AAPL, and you have a TSLA stock certificate (I’m talking about actual paper certificates), we can trade them and it is a taxable event.
569.
by garmaine 5y ago
Why? If you trade Apple stock for Tesla, it’s a taxable event. There isn’t any requirement that USD be involved.
570.
by garmaine 5y ago
…why? It ought to just mean they had their ID verified. That’s it.

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