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by justin66 10mo ago
Look at the chart representing the US national debt (or debt to GDP) and pick a point at which you say "wow, that's when we started borrowing beyond our means." I rather doubt the date you pick will be anywhere close to the t
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Good stuff. I followed the link to Good Scott's wiki page and learned he helped out on a text adventure as recently as 2018. That's pretty interesting.
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"Propping up our allies" in Europe and therefore having a great deal of sway in international affairs netted the United States a great deal of money for a very long time. There's a longer argument to be had (one directly rela
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What's different legally about the publications prior to 2000?
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The reason what you're doing here - pointing to the national debt as a reason not to spend on a particular thing - is so fallacious is twofold: 1. There is always a national debt 2. There are always things we spend money on, neverthele
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His podcast is really good. Its strengths are that he gets really interesting programmers and basically lets them talk.
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In protest at the suspensions, over 120 out of the 400 Metropolitan Police officers authorised to use firearms handed in their firearms authorisation cards, with Glen Smyth, a Police Federation spokesman saying, "The officers are very
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I could be wrong! It seems to me like the terms of his options and his trade restrictions (he was a director of the company, he couldn't sell his shares willy-nilly) are important here, but I don't know the specifics. He has, ahem
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To make money he would have needed to sell his shares, and they became worthless before the post-IPO lockup period ended.
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> That's on you. And now that you've brought this to my attention, the weight of this responsibility - that I didn't like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang in elementary school - weighs heavily on my heart. Thanks a lot.
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In the aggregate your comments provided an informational response to that. Thank you!
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You've done the arithmetic on that, have you?
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You brought some important points to this discussion, but needlessly also a “from my parents basement in Montana I stab at thee” vibe.
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Thanks for the total return chart. Comparing XRX to IBM was interesting. A long term XRX investor who was perceptive enough to get out before the 1999 crash would have been very happy indeed. Something like three fourths of the S&P 500
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Ugh. I didn't realize until looking at the "US Tech Force" FAQ that USDS is now "United States DOGE Service." Somehow I assumed it had just faded away when all the good people left.
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What companies are participating in Tech Force? The initial roster of private sector partners includes Adobe, Amazon Web Services, AMD, Anduril, Apple, Box, C3.ai, Coinbase, Databricks, Dell Technologies, Docusign, Google Public Sector,
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Is there anything on that site that would, as I asked, factor in dividends when analyzing the company's performance? It's a classic problem when comparing stock charts with one another (or against the index) that they don't t
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> newspapers were a natural monopoly I don't know why anyone would believe that.
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For someone not inclined to dredge up all that data and do the calculations to factor in dividends, where can we take a look at it? It's a bit of a miracle any technology company that old is still going after all these years. "Dis
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> It's no wonder that morale among journalists is at an all-time low. Is any other profession held to such an impossible standard? Morale is not low amongst journalists because the job is tough, it's low because they're be
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> If you have never seen this film, I don't care how old you are, you should watch it. I’m not sure about the all ages part. We watched it in first or second grade and I can still remember wondering how a movie with a flying car c
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> Name an operation that is more targeted. Literally any operation that doesn't involve dispersed high explosives. I can't imagine why you're being so obtuse about it, it discredits anything of worth that might be buried i
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> Hezbollah's own actions are significantly more targeted They literally fire unguided rockets in the general direction of populated areas.
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> you cannot be more targeted than this operation You've posted this in multiple places in this conversation, and it's just sort of strange. A sniper shooting a uniformed enemy is "targeted." A thousand little bombs t
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> Not a single person criticizing the pager bombs mention the reason for the operation. I'd enter into a conversation like that assuming the other parties in the conversation were aware there was a war going on.
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> The idea that in a war there can be legal and illegal actions established by international treaties to protect civilians as much as possible can only work if two (or more) legitimate states are fighting each other This is not true (the
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Interestingly just nine days ago someone here shared a link to the US's Law of War manual for military personnel. It's pretty good for what it is. Since countries base this stuff on the same international treaties they've all
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As AIs get good enough, dealing with someone struggling with English will begin to feel like a breath of fresh air.
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Berkeley professor's camera caught student allegedly sabotaging another student(mercurynews.com)
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> They’ll meet often at the beginning to relive the glory days of pre-acquisition and recount times where they went went above and beyond for that important early customer. Yeesh. Which level of hell is that?

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