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by jdhn 5y ago
>Look, this issue of social reproduction is the biggest threat to liberal democracy, This is absolute alarmist nonsense. If you believe this, do you think that Europe is further down the path of moving away from liberal democracy than th
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In my experience, it replaced Craigslist. Now that Craigslist charges for listing items, why not use Facebook where listing items is free and you can at least vet the persons profile before going to meet up with them?
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What's the difference in cost between a cable that can do the bare minimum, and a cable that can do everything, assuming they're the same length? Just seems like the USB committee is unnecessarily complicating everything.
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I personally believe that out of all the electric car startups that have sprung up after Tesla, Rivian and Lucid are the 2 that are most likely to put out a product and potentially have some staying power, or get bought out. It's also
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Kentucky already has a Ford truck plant, which is why they're building a plant there. I believe F-250s/F-350s are made there.
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There are lots of jobs outside of DC, LA, and NYC where housing is significantly cheaper than the housing in those cities without being in "the sticks".
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>The American Dream may no longer be about buying a home, but renting one There should be a stipulation that if you see this line or one like it, you append "in high value areas where there are lots of high paying jobs". If the
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Unless all the heat in Europe switches over to electric powered, you're still going to have natgas crunches from time to time during the winter.
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This isn't going to start a boom in flaring. If anything, it'll start a boom in using natgas that otherwise would be flared to mine cryptos.
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>You know, if it was that easy then central banks would have raised interest rates a long time ago. Probably shortly after 2008. The Fed attempted to raise rates in 2011 which lead to the so-called "Taper Tantrum" where stocks
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What I'd love to see is a reissue of Phantasy Star Online. I loved that game, and it was super ahead for its time. Sadly, PSO2 seems to have really strayed away from the originals formula.
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>Ferrari 355 challenge Didn't they basically take the arcade version and put it on a disc? I vaguely remember reading somewhere that the arcade hardware was very similar to the Dreamcasts hardware so it took comparatively very littl
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Pretty rich that the same organization that figured out that its own product was hurtful to teen girls (and promptly did nothing)[0] is now shutting down anti-lockdown accounts because of "social harm". [0] https://news
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There also would've been a concerted push for obese people to lose weight. My hot take is that the deaths in the US have been higher than in other countries due to obesity, and that many lives could've been saved if they weren&#x2
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Is this because of a lack of competition from other legacy manufacturers, Tesla is being uniquely greedy, or a mix of both?
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Pretty interesting how the day that it become legal tender in a country, the price goes down by 10%. The more conspiracy minded would say that this was done on purpose to convince people not to use it.
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How does this compare to the myocardial infarction risk that occurs in the same population due to cigarette smoking?
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>but you can get more out of college than only a job. You can actually learn things that you wouldn't have learned otherwise. I hear this line parroted all the time, and it just rings so hollow. I can't remember any optional cl
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This just happened to me. Recruiter reached out, asked for my resume because he had a job that looked good. I gave it to him, and 2 days later he called back saying that while they liked me, they were going with an internal candidate. Why b
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>Instead, a bundle of new innovations in mass coordination, remote work, and digital currency allow us to sidestep politics and create independent and competitive cities. I'm what you could call bullish on bitcoin, but I'm not
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>It's just one of many of my own custom list of red flags I'm curious, what else is in this list?
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>If you use the same book of tricks (i.e. ignore a myriad of local taxes and taxes collected on goods sold) that people around here typically use when trying to make certain high tax states look not too out of line with the national aver
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I don't know why you're getting downvoted. I remember reading a story about a woman who thought she had worsening allergies before getting a covid test, and then going to the hospital. With the way this spreads, if you have any br
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I'm curious, what rules exist? Are they at a federal or state level?
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>BC's health officer, who everyone has listened to during this pandemic, has begged the Federal government (the Province and City of Vancouver also begging) to decriminalize drugs to help with this issue, but the Feds have done noth
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LA never felt like a city to me because of the sprawl. I remember driving into downtown from the airport, and thinking to myself, “This is a suburb with tall buildings in the distance”. I chalk this up to me being from the East Coast and go
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> breakthrough infections were always expected That isn’t the way it was portrayed. The way that it was initially portrayed by the media is that these would be 99% effective and that after getting the vaccine you could go back to normal.
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I'm curious as to what the rules on foreign ownership are. Is it an outright ban, or can it be circumnavigated by having a Japanese lawyer draw up some sort of agreement where they are the owner, but the foreigner pays them $X a month,
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Absolutely wild to see how quickly prices have completely collapsed. Perhaps this will lead to lower housing prices?
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We've been told that come October, we're going to be doing "flex-work", i.e. you can basically work remote as long as your boss says that's ok. I had my doubts about this long before delta became a thing, mainly bec

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