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by graeme 3y ago
Ah, very neat, thank you!
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For one thing there's a much higher opportunity cost to having a child. Econ 101. Both in that workplace opportunities are greater while also there are now added domestic costs.
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It would also make a big difference to their future demography. If a country kills off its young women then you can't birth the next generation. Both Russia and Ukraine have abysmal demographic pyramids.
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Those are all true, but: >For a lot of people, if you get a positive result from a test that a doctor brushes off that's not going to go well. This is precisely because of the rarity of testing. Suppose the cost of testing dropped 1
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That's still the response though. You can simply say "Well, we expect an error rate of X with this new test, so in the absence of other risks factors we predict the actual odds of the condition are Y". Then you can decide whe
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to be clear this isn't reversing T2 diabetes. Rather, it allows you to manage it. But the physical damage causing T2 diabetes generally remains
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>Ezra Croft has never filed an insurance claim, and his house in Raleigh, North Carolina isn't close to a stormy coastline or a fire-prone forest. >So Croft was surprised when his annual homeowner's insurance premium shot up
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In America the most common cooking oil is now soybean oil. Canola and corn are the other popular ones. Olive and sunflower both have similar small shares. However, for home cooking in the university educated set olive is probably predominan
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Monty never shows the car. That was stated in the original reply from Marilyn, and it should be obvious to anyone who's watched a game show. Why on earth would monty open a door, show you the prize (which you now can't get) and th
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Ah my mistake, didn't read your final line properly.
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All of the tests have fee waivers: https://satsuite.collegeboard.org/sat/registration/fee-waive... The alternative to testing is looking at resumes and various resume-boosting extra-curriculars are substantially m
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Everyone will have their own solution dependent on their own habits and brain quirks. But, some things which worked for me which you might wish to try. I found some things are useful to have, but distracting in other contexts. As an example
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Your comment doesn't address the parent comment's point though. You'd have to make an argument that the chip factories won't get built at all.
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>Is there some part of the DMA which demands full feature parity? Very likely the EU wouldn't like them prioritizing their own browser for a feature
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If you made a "Microsoft Windows Desktop Citibank App" from Edge, and then in stall Chrome, and the Uber app now uses Chrome, and a bug in Chrome lets someone steal your Citibank info, yes, the user probably would blame Microsoft
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Would you believe that passengers frequently do not appear at pick up spots? Or that some pickup spots in some geographies in crodwed cities are unclear? Some drivers call proactively to avoid issues. I’ve had multiple calls from Uber drive
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Indeed. Hospitals and medical providers almost always call from unknown numbers, and if they leave a message the person leaving it may not be reachable easily for callback.
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If google expands its market share they don’t have to pay apple as much. The payments are based on safari usage. Google has enormous incentive to expand android share
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The likeliest explanation is something on your profile makes MDs interested. For example a professional photo or something in your bio. Dating profiles have a limited set of info. Tiny tweaks can generate massive filter effects.
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It's a reference to this Simpsons bit. The idea being it is not a good joke https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llE7wT1BKt8
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If this is true, why does Android not set their pricing at 5-10% or less, get more developers and outcompete apple? Google would then pay apple less in search default fees to boot. Android has been losing market share to apple globally for
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by graeme 3y ago
If you’re a Netflix customer you just log into the app. There’s no issue. The debate is around people who are Apple customers but not Netflix customers, and who download the Netflix app through the App Store.
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But can’t you carry forward the loss? With current capital rules at least in Canada you don’t have to claim capital expenses in a given year. Politicians often grant accelerated depreciation rates as a tax incentive. Also with inflation t
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by graeme 3y ago
Glad to help! I should have added I started light, then added in some more stuff once I had a working system. I had tried RSS years ago and my feed then was unwieldy enough I never checked it. This attempt is smaller and stuck
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Because it’s impossible to tell if it’s in earnest or satire. If earnest: why anyone would want a public record of everyone’s transactions is beyond me. The opposite of privacy If in satire: people really do post comments like yours in earn
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For anyone not using rss and wondering whether to get into it and how, this is what worked for me over the past year. I used to have 4-6 sites I would check regularly. A couple occasionally had a news update article I liked reading. A coupl
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My guess is this is actually an accelerated capital loss. From a profit-loss perspective the net loss is the same whether they release or not. But the accounting net loss is smaller initially because the movie is on the books as having capi
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Those gdp measures are just transfers of money. They don’t add to net productivity. More productive workers produce more and generate more wealth, the real thing you want to measure with gdp.
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But the restrictions are on this very same group. They can’t sell or develop their property as they choose. In practice it is governance by those with the most time on their hands. Why does this small group get to restrict property rights f
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Certainly, but how many software businesses are built on non-play store android apps? There just isn't that much of a market there. Contrast with, say, Adobe, which makes computer software not distributed through any App store and is a

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