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hospes
10y ago
Or Google can sue patent troll for false claims that they own patent on Google Play Store and seek compensation for their financial damages caused by those false claims. In this case "financial damages" may be interpreted as thou
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hospes
10y ago
If you are making let's say 10 mln a year, that means by lying that NV is your primary residence, you did not pay more than 1 mln in taxes. For getting back that kind of money, Criminal Investigation Bureau of Franchise Tax Board can a
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hospes
10y ago
There are studies that show that immunotherapy is effective and safe for certain airborne allergies (some of them are referenced here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allergen_immunotherapy ). Close friend of mine is going
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hospes
10y ago
Normally when you go to the dr's office with allergies none is trying to find heavy metal poisoning. A lot of times they do not even perform regular blood work, they just do tests for allergies and prescribe meds to address symptoms (l
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hospes
10y ago
Where did this 10,000,000:1 number come from? Why 10^7:1, why not 10^100:1? I can't find evidence that men are millions of times more likely to lie in harassment cases.
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10y ago
>> You can be prosecuted in French for ridiculing the Holocaust. I think that is a good thing, especially with rise of anti-semitism in different parts of the world. Ridiculing the Holocaust or any other Genocide is not a free speech,
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11y ago
>> If it is regional, it is not an empire... Armenia was an Empire long before Ani. List of Largest Empires in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_empires If you look at "Ancient Empires
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hospes
11y ago
Only in this case you are not the one who knows. Your electricity provider is the one who knows when your teenager kids got home and if your dog walker is stiffing you.
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hospes
11y ago
Perhaps the reason is that they cannot issue NS letters every time they need an access to someone's iPhone, so they are trying to make Apple create for them a tool that they can re-use in all other cases. Edited typo.
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hospes
11y ago
I think it is even more likely that Vanguard would never gained number of customers it did, if they charged regular market rates. So the whole "if, else, else if" thing in "whistle-blower's" argument is ridiculous.
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hospes
11y ago
I think he is referring to homeowners insurance. Unlike driving a car, you can legally own a home without homeowners insurance. However, if you finance your home with a mortgage, your lender most likely will require you to have home insuran
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hospes
11y ago
Unfortunately in this kind of cases more technical you get and try explain things, more they think that you have something to do with it. If you still want to try to convince her, then ask her to check the same information from any of her
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hospes
11y ago
Can you please explain where 20-24x multiplier industry standard number comes from?
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11y ago
The fact that you did not know about his existence does not change his impact on music and culture or undermines his significance. There are a lot of people that you do not know that had huge impact on different aspects of culture. >>
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hospes
11y ago
You are lucky that you are in Austria and can check prices somewhere. In US It is really hard to get prices for any medical services (including serious and expensive surgeries) before they are scheduled or you already received them. My frie
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hospes
11y ago
Millions of drunk people drive on the roads. People can buy assault weapons, with no training and background checks. People who make self-driving software should be the least of our concerns.
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hospes
11y ago
For vast majority of the procedures and surgeries you cannot get any quote. I tried to get quote for the standard procedure (that they have performed 100s of times) via phone and in person in Dr's office in 4 different hospitals. All o
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11y ago
It says they die from burning wood or dung. When scientists say we need to move away from fossil fuels to renewables, they are not suggesting to move to wood and dung, so your argument is irrelevant.
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11y ago
I do not think you can call Iceland (#184 by population and #106 by area) and Belgium (#76 by population and #136 by area) large countries. >> Centuries of development aren't necessary to achieve it, it's mostly political wi
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11y ago
>> You can't just point to profit as a bad thing. It depends on context. In this context it is a bad thing. I believe that industries like healthcare and prison–industrial complex should not be for profit. The core of the problem
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11y ago
Being an asshole in this context should be criminalized. If company buys a drug (or owns one), which people need to keep them alive, and it increases prices in orders of magnitude without any business justification, other than making profit
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11y ago
Something like this:): http://coolcomputersetups.com/images/037770.jpg
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11y ago
They bill for services they haven't provided. Let's say you order Comcast October 10th and tech arrives and installs everything October 15th. When you get 1st bill, it will include October 10-15 period, when you actually did not h
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hospes
13y ago
Armenian Genocide of 1915 was just the first one committed by Turkish Empire (Ottoman Empire) in 20th century, Turkish government repeatedly slaughtered their own citizens, who were not ethnic Turks. - Greek Genocide that took place from 19
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13y ago
I think Turkey has a lot more complex issues before they can be seriously considered as a EU candidate: - Occupation of Cyprus (EU member state) populated mostly by Greeks (Greece is EU member as well) ( http://en.wikipedia.org&#x