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by jleyank 9mo ago
Some of the HN community have lived in multiple places - look where they end up not where they go at the start of their career. Such people don't have to sweat families, health, ...
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Note to readers…. The NDP uses orange as their team colour.
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So you say the highs aren’t as high and the lows certainly aren’t as low as in the US. Given that few really experience the highs, I think the Canadian choice is correct. It’s a stereotype, but the people do tend to be friendlier and the
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Farming. Animal husbandry. Stirrups. Government. Language. Money/credit/bookkeeping/stocks. Gunpowder. Steam engine. Science. Mass production. Transistor. Logistics. Also mass communication although that hasn’t turned out
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Given the magnitude of “science” today, I’m not sure there’s much that can be done in free time. Perhaps a math savant can help out with theoretical difficulties, and amateur astronomers have always played a role in seeing “interesting thi
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Losing WFH puts pressure on two-professional couples that limits geographic choices. A job switch tends to become two… It also loses access to talent that for whatever reason doesn’t like where you’re located, but is willing to work for y
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Do they realize who actually lives in Greenland and that it’s not green? Or do they think they’ll just deport them all back to where they came from (sigh) and warm the place up?
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by jleyank 9mo ago
It’s a big ask for a national team to stay home. It’s more likely that a player or two might “be injured” and miss the games. However, there’s far more chance that the fans will stay away. It’s expensive getting there, and access control
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As long as regrowth can be controlled. Otherwise we call it cancer. Would be amazing to get a treatment for osteoarthritis.
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The US is the only country who has triggered Article 5 (9/11). The US then refused what was offered, choosing to go it alone. Although NATO eventually took over in Afghanistan.
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Puerto Rico is not a country, today, but is analogous to Greenland. They could vote to become closer to the US or vote to distance themselves. Similar to all less-than-independent regions held by larger countries. Remnants of the age of e
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FWIW he was bank head of Canada before being bank head of uk.
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The HN community is going to have to adapt to having difficulties getting the people it wants into the US to work. Or, it has to figure out how to operate with the flexibility of US-based companies elsewhere. But the changes underway are
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Yup, the middle powers have to organize and work together to avoid being chum. The economic power is there, and they can shift from purchasing US weaponry (thus paying US workers) into purchasing middle-power weaponry (thus paying middle-p
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by jleyank 9mo ago
6 decades before NATO was formed, Britain was the largest economy and financial empire. The US was up-and-coming but had not yet had its war with Spain to demonstrate their arrival. Nato was formed "To keep the US in, the Germans dow
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Countries should speak the languages that reflect their composition. Ideally, there is either a common tongue or education that shares the dominant languages. People who feel they're not really a part of where they live tend to want
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Depends on where the 11 Airborne goes. Most places outside of existing training sites break treaties or cause civil unrest/volate posse comitatus.
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by jleyank 9mo ago
Yup. There were supposed to be 3 separate, contentious arms of the government: executive, legislative and judicial. The problem, and I honestly can't see a solution to it, is that the same party/group controls all three and no
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The economic power of the EU >> military power of EU. If it's combined with Canada, Korea and Japan, it's pretty significant and basically self-sufficient for food and materials.
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Diplomatic solutions are only possible when all sides wish to have a diplomatic solution. The history of the 20th and probably earlier centuries have examples of appeasing vs. opposing those interested in upsetting apple carts. I think 19
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Great! Burn retirement money propping up house/condo prices...
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Protest is ill-defined and open-ended. The other alternative I didn't mention the first time is to get outta Dodge.
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Yup. Now people outside the US pay tariffs going both ways. Sending a package to the US? Pay the US tariffs for the receiver in advance. Getting a package from the US? Pay any tariffs/duties/taxes as per normal.
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As in any region's system: pay attention, vote, donate, organize even protest. Not voting votes for the winner, which might not be what you want.
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I think the large puddle separating the two will keep troops from each others soil. If you’re blowing the shit out of people, nobody wins. Economically, which group of people is better placed to accept (severe) pain? The US has no practice
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Prussia and Britain defeated France, Austria and Russia in the 1700’s. Prussia and Britain defeated France in the 1800’s. Germany then threw away this association to catastrophic results in the 1900’s. The US is doing such dissociation now.
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It’s repeated over the last several centuries with similar players. Not sure there was a Germany before Freddy the Great. Austria was different and had different concerns.
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Linus was a Finn and Tim was a Brit. So Europe can claim those two innovators - their work's turned out to be pretty useful. Don't know where you can stuff Elon, but he's mostly non-US as I recall (3 citizenships?). I&#x27
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The USD has dropped a few percent vs. world currencies and the US markets have trailed Euro, Canadian and Asian markets. Tariff uncertainty is causing a bit of economic gridlock which coupled with AI is playing havoc with hiring.
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Yes, but in the US system, gridlock can prevent a budget being passed for a year or more. In the Parliamentary system, failing to pass a budget results in an election. Also, in a multi-party Parliamentary system, majority governments are

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