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by kortilla 7mo ago
Agree except for the meals. They are just OK. The experience of talking to other people on the train can be nice but the food itself is not “delicious”. If you really like to have good food when you travel, the dining car wears thin quite q
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by kortilla 7mo ago
Distributed float math is not deterministic without introducing total operations ordering and destroying performance
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by kortilla 7mo ago
Yeah, but that’s strictly worse for some of these examples. You can’t overcome the loss of energy just going into the battery and getting it back and the there is the huge cost of the battery itself. The freezer example would require like $
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by kortilla 7mo ago
Don’t call them therapy sessions. They kind of look like it but ultimately these are smoke blowing machines, which is very far from what a therapist would do.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
That would only work if there was something damning to Trump or someone in charge of Iran negotiations. Trump has no problem cutting people loose otherwise
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by kortilla 7mo ago
Definitely. They are the reason republicans spend time trying to make voting difficult
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by kortilla 7mo ago
“Could rebuild” is not congruent with China having “no problem getting oil”.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
You suggested voting for a Democrat, which would be a ridiculous betrayal to any single issue voter Republican voting for something like stopping abortion because they think it’s murder. It’s so ridiculous on its face that I put in quotes w
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by kortilla 7mo ago
You cannot vote for someone in a representative democracy that will enact things against your principles. Voting Democrat, regardless of the quality of character of the representative, would be a betrayal of principles for the people who be
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by kortilla 7mo ago
Because China has a controlled currency and can lock flows back out. Please do enough research to at least get the right currency before engaging in these discussions. The forex markets are so extremely liquid and deep that trading in USD i
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by kortilla 7mo ago
“You don’t need a TV”
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by kortilla 7mo ago
That’s false. The petrodollar is irrelevant because two non-US companies trading using an intermediate currency like the USD create a balanced buy and sell of the intermediary.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
Yes, given that there is no evidence to the contrary.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
“It’s not that complicated. Give up your principles for short term house cleaning.” People with strong political beliefs are going to turn their head to keep their side in power rather than put someone in power that will push policies they
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by kortilla 7mo ago
How is China getting that oil without problem? Something like 90% of it when through Kharg island which is now rubble.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
It already looks like the US is sending marines over. Any excuse to make it more politically palatable would be latched onto.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
Intent is literally the difference in terrorism though. The US hitting 500 targets in Iran and one of them being a school is the exact opposite of a strategy of terrorism. With terrorism you explicitly target civilians to drive fear. Trying
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by kortilla 7mo ago
housing isn’t an inefficient market. It’s surprisingly liquid for how large the purchases are
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by kortilla 7mo ago
Food supply is most definitely maximized
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by kortilla 7mo ago
“People like to drink certain kinds of beer” and “some people don’t drink beer often” are not arguments against supply and demand driving beer prices.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
Chinese names at American universities
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by kortilla 7mo ago
A protected area like a national park is pretty much the opposite of what op is talking about.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
The electrical system is unrelated to oil for transportation.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
You don’t put stop losses on retirement positions. That’s an incredibly dumb thing to do for long term investors. It’s literally a “sell low” policy.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
You missed the point of that comment. Nobody at your bank is trading for you or themselves at 3am.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
But that doesn’t matter to your retirement. Don’t sell your retirement at 3am and the liquidity at 3am isn’t your problem.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
No, there is no proportionality aspect to the law. Once you’re in the support and software subscription realm, quite vast amount of “value” can be charged for with nothing being done.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
> I sense a large number of Polymarket apologists in the comments. This is a bad faith start to any argument. It speaks past the conclusion that one side needs apologetics/advocates in the first place.
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by kortilla 7mo ago
Rules out a bunch of cases where your hands are busy handling ingredients in the kitchen, etc
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by kortilla 7mo ago
No it doesn’t, the petro-dollar isn’t a real thing. Forcing USD denomination for a transaction doesn’t help USD because there is a buyer of USD and an equally sized seller of USD.

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