imnotlost

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by imnotlost 5y ago
NATO membership is entirely voluntary. As such, there haven't been any "pushing of boundaries" unless you presume Russia gets to decide what independent nations like Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine, Georg
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by imnotlost 5y ago
It’s an advertising business. They sell advertising. Everything else is filler between the ads. Network news runs on the same model. Sometimes the filler (news or other content) is good but not always.
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by imnotlost 5y ago
If it’s that serious and important - nationalize them and have the federal government run it. Or you could call your congress people and ask them to increase funding for PBS or NPR or whatever. Or start a tax funded service. Or start your o
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Fine. You can’t force people or businesses to listen to you or broadcast your speech. That’s American liberty. That’s freedom. You can’t claim that a business is “the public square” and then force them. If you do want a digital public squar
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by imnotlost 5y ago
More than half of seafood is now produced from farmed fish so my guess is that it is possible. The fish farming industry has a wide range of serious problems but maybe it could save ocean wildlife? https://ourworldindata.org&#x2F
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Re. big pharma, imagine how weary the roughly 400k families of people who dies feel. "Three major drug distributors and the pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson have agreed to a $26 billion settlement with states to resolve thous
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by imnotlost 5y ago
https://www.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2013/investing-n... My point being, this went on for a long time before they got "busted" and the bank people knew who they were dealing with. They didn't
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Or you can just be a known drug lord, launder billions of USD through a respected international bank, no one goes to jail, small fine, and they're probably still laundering 10 years later and no one cares. No one is anonymous. They&#x
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Another way to deal with this in addition to vehicle related pollution and safety issues is a good technical vehicle inspection program through the state DMV to get or renew the vehicle registration.
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Dependencies are a fact of life. Question is, does Europe really want to depend on journalist/dissident-murdering Russia?
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Privacy is a political/legal problem, not a technology problem.
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Things would change if overtime was paid at a mandatory 1.5x and 2.0x. The true cost is always hidden because people "eager to please" work overtime for free (or for a slice of pizza).
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by imnotlost 5y ago
How about public housing in DC for congress critters and senators? Windowless dorm rooms so they're tempted to go outside and do stuff instead of sitting inside watching tweets or whatever.
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by imnotlost 5y ago
The land is still there - that's the value. With an NFT, the image is gone and what's left? Some bits on the blockchain.
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Maybe Dr. Oz can help! (joking!)
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by imnotlost 5y ago
The offshore platforms are in federal waters.
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by imnotlost 5y ago
This kind of reporting is of course standard practice in the banking industry and has been going on for 20+ years.
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Did someone take the database computer home?
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Either cars or pedestrians go - nothing else is safe.
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Point taken, I don't know enough about individual solutions on the ground but fatality numbers are better, not just in Sweden but in multiple European countries. Ideally pedestrian and cycling should be prioritized and vehicle traffic
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by imnotlost 5y ago
No academics or research papers needed... Double-click on the error-message, look at the code, fix the code, recompile. Can't understand what's wrong with the code? read the error message for clues. Maybe SDK or language docs, may
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by imnotlost 5y ago
It's still worse than any human should put up with
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Let's see, off the top of my head... Turn on red while the pedestrians get the signal to walk. Drunk driving is very common. Driver licensing requirements are extremely low (you have a pulse) and driver education is ridiculous compared
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Philip Glass talks about this exact thing here: https://thecreativeindependent.com/people/philip-glass-on-co...
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by imnotlost 5y ago
Maybe if it happened on a random Tuesday in April or whatever, but it did happen at a very specific time, didn't it?
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by imnotlost 5y ago
If you want me to ride my bike more on the street I need physical barriers between me and the people who happen to be driving a car while texting, tweeting, snapping selfies, napping, etc.
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by imnotlost 6y ago
Charity is great but... None of these issues will be improved, much less solved, through shaming and moralizing, hoping 330M individuals will make charitable contributions and recycle. Give a can of food while doing your Christmas shopping
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by imnotlost 6y ago
Highly unlikely, that’s just a lie marketeers tell themselves so they can sleep at night.
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by imnotlost 6y ago
Regarding 3; are there examples of stimulus causing run-away inflation? Or has it usually been a political event, a complete loss of trust in the system?
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by imnotlost 6y ago
> Are you willing to have 5% of the population end up like me... short of breath, and pretty much unable to do more than 1/2 hour of physical labor per day? I can do grocery shopping, and that's it for me. 80% of the US populat

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