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571.
by khuey 5y ago
Yeah that's not how commodities with fixed production cycles work in the short term.
572.
by khuey 5y ago
If you have a regular job and maybe simple investments like a retirement account or stocks, can follow written directions, and use a calculator, it's really not that hard to do your taxes by hand.
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by khuey 5y ago
The big ones are healthcare, public transportation, and perhaps childcare (my understanding is that this varies a lot from country to country in the EU). Needing health insurance and a motor vehicle for transportation effectively functions
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by khuey 5y ago
> Stopped their speculative debt fueled housing bubble Have they actually done this? Last I checked the cost to buy a home as a multiple of average income was far higher in China than it is in the US.
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by khuey 5y ago
The credit relationship is between you and your bank (or your credit card issuer), not Leatherman.
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by khuey 5y ago
Docker for factories.
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by khuey 5y ago
They're charged with money laundering.
578.
by khuey 5y ago
Isn't low pressure sodium vapor a dead technology?
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by khuey 5y ago
> The United States military has been all-volunteer since 1973, no? Young men still have to register just in case they change their mind.
580.
by khuey 5y ago
The vaccine is not "completely ineffective" against omicron. Effectiveness against hospitalization and especially death continues to be excellent.
581.
by khuey 5y ago
The FDA panel that approved boosters was waffling on that and turned out to be extremely wrong.
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by khuey 5y ago
That number you're looking at is "total Swiss foreign currency reserves in units of USD" not "Swiss foreign currency reserves that are USD". Switzerland, for reasons that are fairly obvious, holds large Euro reserve
583.
by khuey 5y ago
The USD is backed by the power to tax 330 million people. Bitcoin is not.
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by khuey 5y ago
CHERI doesn't tackle "temporal" safety, only "spatial" safety.
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by khuey 5y ago
> One of my friends was told by his boss: "You are topped out at your level." Ouch. It might be hard to hear but this is a very good answer from the boss. Your friend was told to start looking for a new job if they want to move
586.
by khuey 5y ago
Why? Borders are full of rules of the form "X can cross for purpose A but not for purpose B" for both people and goods.
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by khuey 5y ago
Sure, but the problem there isn't the law, it's the cops and prosecutors.
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by khuey 5y ago
a) that wasn't the governor b) California's felony theft threshold of $950 is still the 12th lowest among the states
589.
by khuey 5y ago
It's a case by case thing. If you live with others they may be expected to do the shopping for you.
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by khuey 5y ago
Worked fine at my apartment building. 123 Main Street Apartment X is correctly recognized as a different address from 123 Main Street Apartment Y.
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by khuey 5y ago
The really big weapons come from an era when delivery systems were really inaccurate and so you'd drop an absurdly big explosion somewhere near your target. Once you can hit your target reliably you go with a smaller explosion that&#x2
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by khuey 5y ago
Ah, so the "Eastern District of Texas" of Germany then. Good context to have, thanks.
593.
by khuey 5y ago
I'm in my 30s and this is how American politics has been my entire life.
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by khuey 5y ago
Sterilizing immunity probably wasn't real, and we just didn't have the technology to know better back in the day: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/09/steriliz... Plenty of after
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by khuey 5y ago
Nuclear weapons are a lot easier than cutting edge semiconductors.
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by khuey 5y ago
The difficulty of keeping it a secret or the failure to do so does drive the plot of several episodes.
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by khuey 5y ago
The 3M Aura N95s are pretty comfortable and cost a couple dollars each at Home Depot. They're also pretty good about directing your breath away from the top so your glasses won't fog up when wearing them.
598.
by khuey 5y ago
Amazon has had a big counterfeit problem for years. And they commingle their inventory so that there's no way for a customer to even buy from a "reputable" seller. I don't think anything short of regulator cracking down
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by khuey 5y ago
It's inflation yes but the solution isn't tweaking monetary policy, it's fixing the supply chains.
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by khuey 5y ago
If you drill into the data you can see that large portions of the measured inflation are driven specifically by sectors like automobiles which have known pandemic-induced supply chain problems.

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