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by ghastmaster 3y ago
I have a Greek friend who's family goes into the mountains and picks it. There is no market infrastructure in the villages, similar to how venison is expensive at a restaurant, yet poor rural hunters kill and eat it all the time.
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
You are conflating prosecution communications with interrogations. It is not legal for a police officer or detective to say what you quoted. It's akin to legal advice, which they do not do anymore if they are smart. This bill does not
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
This explains why I have seen so many tech companies doing layoffs. They layoff now, wait for the fix(hopefully), then hire people again(hopefully). And here I thought it was AI replacing the workers.
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
I had a surgery that I had years to prepare. I did much research into costs. There are surgery centers that have transparent pricing all over the US. Surgery center of Oklahoma is one. I used them as baseline to consider local costs. I was
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Ask HN: What/Where Is Your Personal Fan Page?
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US Postal Service has new policy for change of address(foxbusiness.com)
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
> If I'm remembering long-ago reading on the topic, 5% is near the point at which interest service on debts exceeds all government revenue A key thing to note here is that the US government typically holds shorter term notes which h
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
Additionally, the image is I presume, used without permission from the creator.
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
> Anyone who has no income, and relies on savings, is acutely aware that printing money risks inflation, and that inflation will destroy their savings. Most whom I talk to think the president causes inflation, seemingly out of thin air.
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
It was literally unsustainable then as it was in 1933. Unsustainability, now that it is pure fiat, has to be defined in order to answer the title question. The definition of such, may differ from person to person or entity to entity. In my
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
I have only told two people this trick. You have now told considerably more. I am truly hurt.
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Two photographers captured the same millisecond in time (2018)(dpreview.com)
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
I have installed the apk directly right now from an old old source. I am going to try the f-droid version again soon and see how it goes.
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
I have installed them from F-droid with nagging and the thank you installed.
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> Then, in 2018, the author decided to develop "Pro" versions of the most popular apps... That's when I started getting notifications to get the pro version every once and a while, even though I had bought the thank you fo
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
This is what civil courts are for. Otherwise let the market determine which manufacturers or products are reliable. This is nonsesne.
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> Under that opinion, is it equally fair to ignore the law... Law is not this simple. What the layperson understands as "the law" is what is written in statutes. To a lesser extent they understand case law is a thing. Case law
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
Jury nullification is a legitimate practice in the United States, which is a democratic republic. There are stupid statutes, case law, and situations that nullification can protect the citizens from a potential overreach of government.
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
As a native english speaker, I interpret it literally, "On the day no government employees... ...minimum wage becomes a living wage".
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I agree with your sentiment, however, there are many cases where the federal government has intervened to regulate employer/employee relationships at great expense to corporations. Why this one particular issue has not seen interventio
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
In this case, the potential employee would be setting the price of their labor and trying to sell that to the employer. While typically the employer does make the offer, it is akin to going to a market and advertising that I(employer) would
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
The article does not answer the question(implied) it poses in the title. There is barely an attempt to answer the question. It is a bait and switch. > Lonnie Golden, a labor economist at Penn State, said in survey after survey, American
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
Tragedy of the commons is precisely what I have used to argue that prices will go up because the resources are being depleted. In this case, oil/gas is being over harvested by the individual. However, other energy sources are relativel
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
>The free market might over time get us cleaner engines when interests align but in all honestly the biggest factor driving cleaner engines has always been regulation... One scientist learned that smog was a result of automobile emission
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Are we talking about pollution or CO2? Pollution from vehicles is largely controlled. It is not perfect by any means. CO2 is not pollution. It is a necessary component of plant growth and animal life. > Why did they lobby against polluti
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>If there is no incentive or motivating market stimulus Is the depletion of oil and gas reserves not enough incentive? They will not last forever. In the grand scheme of things it is a small amount of time before we have to convert to nu
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
> Hoping the market will solve this problem without imposing reasons for it to do so is basically how we got here in the first place. Humans inherently seek technological advancements. We have been extracting CO2 from the environment fro
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>Before 'onerous fees', how many large-scale polluters were taking some of their profits and investing in researching how to reduce CO2? Here is one example: >Patent records reveal oil companies actively pursued research int
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An alternative to taxing or fees, is to allow the free market to utilize the capital that would have gone to fees to further advance our understanding and capabilities. The technological advances lost due to onerous fees across industries c
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by ghastmaster 3y ago
Qualified immunity does not protect government employees who break the law. There are laws/rulings that specifically disqualify them from using qualified immunity as a defense. The problem is prosecutors, judges, and juries who allow g

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