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I routinely got 500+ miles range out of my diesel TDI Jetta... I believe it was a 2002.
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I'm a geek working at a nontechnical nonprofit, outside the US, and I don't even have a 6-figure annual salary. And yet, I was reading a book about capitalism and democracy in my current country, and I realized that my salary, whi
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> Every municipality all over Europe has control of some of its local laws, too. Unless I'm mistaken, that's not true in France. Its a unitary state, where each region and commune is simply an administrative subunit of the stat
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How is a laptop an investment? Its a tool one uses, but it doesn't generate a return, properly speaking. Or would you say that all tools are investments?
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Also a longtime Linux user here, and I have the same question: why do people keep using Windows? Everything I hear about it sounds superb frustrating, while for me, Debian stable has been rock-solid for me for years.
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I just looked at GitJournal now, first time hearing of it. Would it be able to support other note-taking formats, such as org-mode, or is it tied to Markdown? Cheers
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No. A passport says what country must take you when other places decide to deport you or refuse you entry.
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This raises the question of how we start planning now to build more appropriate institutions to avoid societal failure.
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Isn't some of the futility if that struggle due to the theft-by-design that central bank led inflation causes, along with their reliance on the government education systems continuing to fail to educate people on his money actually wor
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But could one simply take the secret when initializing the app and stick it in another, like andOTP? My employer told us that the corporate intranet required we use Google Authenticator, but when I try other OTP apps, it still works.
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I bank with a major European bank, and they still rely on SMS for 2FA for every online transaction, except for logging into their website. They offer 2FA through their app, but that only works with iOS or Android with full Google Play servi
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But weren't the British Empire's undersea telegraph lines all copper? They lay the first transatlantic cable in 1858, connecting Ireland and Newfoundland. By 1911 their worldwide undersea network was completed, with so much redund
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Or encrypt the boot partition. Libreboot supports this. (Though to be fair, Libreboot only runs on a very limited number of old devices).
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Your statement was only true prior to the invention of capitalism. After capitalism, its possible to gain wealth without stealing it from workers. Capitalism is more nuanced than many say it is---see the Rerum Noveram by Pope Leo XIII for a
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Maybe he enjoys playing basketball.
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This sounds a lot like my own experiences growing up. We started homeschooling when I was in 3rd grade, and I used Saxon math. When I reached highschool, in nearly all my subjects I had weekly classes taught by other parents with specific d
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Actually, before the modern 5-day week, many Christians, Jews, and Muslims worked 6 days but had off on their respective holy days--- Sunday, Saturday, or Friday. Not sure what historical period you're referring to with broad 7-day wor
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On my smartphone, a simple doubletap on the body text and it zooms in to the text, full-width on the screen, and is thus readable and beautifully typeset.
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Didn't McCarthyism rely on or expand domestic spying? And didn't they extend suspicions and charges against far more people than the evidentiary basis would have supported? According to Wikipedia, the FBI's ranks nearly doubl
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Wouldn't another analogy be knowing how to navigate a boat with a sextant and a chronometer versus modern radio and GPS maritime navigational aides? The latter's more efficient, but those with deep knowledge of navigation understa
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No real surprise here, considering that over 90% of existing USD money supply has been created since 2008.[1] Unless the real economy grew 90%, that monetary creation must necessarily push prices up, but due to information assymetries, pric
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Doesn't Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto argue that property rights or the lack thereof are one of the main contributes to keeping people poor?
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How will voluntary bitcoin adoption affect this? In other words, once economic actors have a currency that can't be manipulated by government, want changes?
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What did Venezuela change about their money in the 1970s? Follow the money.
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The Federal Reserve is a pretty centralized banking system. To your point, however, the US has had prosperous period of its history with free (I.e. no central/federal control) banking. See Rothbard's "The Mystery of Banking.&
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Thanks. Yes, off-topic. Particularly considering that according to Genesis 13:2, Abraham (key for Paul's argument in Romans 4 for justification by faith) was "very rich in gold, silver, and cattle", and that in 1 Timothy 6, P
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Do you have a citation where US (federal) law requires one to have a foreign citizenship in order to renounce US citizenship? Or, would it be possible to renounce US citizenship without foreign citizenship, perhaps while maintaining citizen
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What biblical reference are you alluding to? I'm not sure how its relevant to the question of where the rich who leave the USA go?
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However, a far larger portion of illicit drug transactions are for cash dollars than for bitcoin; estimates are 2-5% illicit transactions globally in fiat currencies, and about 0.34% illicit in bitcoin in 2020 (a rate that's fallen sig
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I wonder also if he had the constraints of traditional obligatory schooling, or if he had the freedom of home education to pursue his incredible interest and self-education in piano crafting and entrepreneurial activity?

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