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by gottorf 2y ago
> It's like gas stations that sell food. The bulk of the profit margin for gas stations come from things other than fuel sales, i.e. the convenience store.
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by gottorf 2y ago
> 1 EUR = 1.95583 BAM/BGN, so just multiply/divide by 2 Why didn't they just set the peg to 2?
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I don't know much about this, but based on your description, it sounds like nothing stops state laws from restricting gambling?
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> the history and origins of the modern police > in the US they first emerged as 'slave patrols' > Sir Robert Peel and his version of the 'police service' I assume that prior to the "modern" police, po
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by gottorf 2y ago
Your statement is trivially true in terms of market mechanics, but considering that $400k/yr for an individual puts him in the 99th percentile of all income earners in the US, the argument gets a little harder to make.
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by gottorf 2y ago
I moved from a string of coastal metropolises to a much smaller city in Alabama, voluntarily. Pay was not a factor, since I kept the same remote job; but obviously my purchasing power is higher here, especially for housing. There are certai
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by gottorf 2y ago
Please keep to the HN guidelines[0]: > Please don't post insinuations about astroturfing, shilling, brigading, foreign agents, and the like. It degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about abuse, email
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by gottorf 2y ago
> I'm guessing it has to be a case of code inspectors not particularly caring or knowing about the DC side? I don't know what you saw, but it could have been a "homeowner's special", or some kind of proof-of-conc
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by gottorf 2y ago
> vote for a serial sex offender promising to execute his political rivals and purge America of immigrants > Something is very wrong with the calculus being used by a great number of Americans I'm sure a lot of people, especially
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by gottorf 2y ago
I've seen people asking why car insurance doesn't cover oil changes the same way dental insurance covers cleanings, so be careful what you wish for, I guess.
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Do you have recommendations for an alterative good budget domain registrar?
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State-level Secretaries of State has basically the same meaning as the UK one. Most states' business incorporation happens under the SoS's administration. They also usually manage elections and other public-facing interfaces of th
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by gottorf 2y ago
That's too bad; I'm a fan of Namecheap as well. This sounds like a breakdown in process. I hope you at least get your $31 back, even if you aren't able to buy the domain for that amount. Pricing mistakes do happen, and Namech
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by gottorf 2y ago
> Trump did something so illegal that twelve people grabbed at random off the street are convinced beyond any reasonable doubt that the crime was committed It seems like you're calling my point irrelevant by side-stepping it entirel
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A presidential pardon is an enumerated power of the office under the supreme law of the land, so it's hard to argue that it isn't rule of law.
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by gottorf 2y ago
If we're talking about the rule of law, there is no law against a convicted felon from either being elected President or being the commander-in-chief. There is only the irony (as the GP brought up) of someone who cannot legally possess
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by gottorf 2y ago
> The case you listed isn't even the case he has been convicted of so far The source I cited refers to Trump's "hush money" convictions (over falsifying business records), which to my knowledge is the only criminal ca
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by gottorf 2y ago
> Because states do have rights, they just don't have absolute sovereignty. This would be more meaningful if the federal government wasn't involved in everyone's lives to the degree that most people's idea of state so
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by gottorf 2y ago
I assume your point is that a felony conviction is evidence of an unsound mind that justifies prohibiting someone from owning a firearm, and that this translates to leading our military. The analogy falls apart if said felony conviction is
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by gottorf 2y ago
That states' rights were used to fight for the right to maintain slavery does not mean that the concept of states' rights is wrong. It is slavery that is wrong.
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> It's funny that any time there's a judicial ruling we like, it's fair and impartial, and any time there's a judicial ruling we don't like, it's judicial activism. It is funny, but at the same time I absolu
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by gottorf 2y ago
> You’re effectively subsidizing the acquisition of power by interested parties with taxpayer money, while simultaneously cementing an additional incumbent advantage for those already seated and able to write the rules for the public fun
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by gottorf 2y ago
> Neither system is perfect, but the latter captures a wider range of views within society. In the FPTP system in the US, you end up with two "big tent" parties with broadly opposing views. What makes you suggest that this mode
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by gottorf 2y ago
The commander-in-chief isn't leading a charge at the front lines, so whether or not he can legally own a gun has no bearing; otherwise, we'd have to demand that every elected official has direct, hands-on experience in everything
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by gottorf 2y ago
> This is ludicrously off-base for fossil fuels, even if we're only talking about local pollutants from the plants themselves, nevermind things like Exxon Valdez or the pipelines or the act of mining. The energy density of fossil fu
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by gottorf 2y ago
I used to be a customer of Hivelocity with dedicated servers in their Tampa facilities. Top notch operation, never had an issue. Supposedly they remained unscathed through Milton: https://www.hivelocity.net/blog/hurrica
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Then the same "implicit subsidy" goes for literally every facet of human activity. Do builders of wind turbines and solar farms also pay commensurately for the pollution in the manufacturing and development process? Everything is
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by gottorf 2y ago
> stop subsidizing fossil fuels to 7 trillion a year globally We need to stop bandying about this $7T figure. 80% of it is "implicit subsidies", meaning made-up numbers based on carbon pricing and environmental impacts and what
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Economies of scale are real, but there are also diseconomies of scale. Machines are often more efficient the larger they are, but organizations tend to become less efficient the larger they get!
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> don't say liquidity in the market cause that's a line of bullshit It's not a line of bullshit. For every notable prop shop (that is, attempting to trade one's own money for profit, which you may view as an illegitim

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