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by larkost 2y ago
What evidence do you offer that there is no chance of SpaceX succeeding in spite of Elon Musk? I really don't have enough detailed knowledge about his actual contributions to the various companies he runs. But given the sheer number of
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When I was a kid my boychoir hosted a choir from Estonia (this was before the fall of the Iron Curtain, so this was a big deal), and I remember when I was trying to help out back-stage at their concert and one of the Estonian boys needed he
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by larkost 2y ago
Having been next to the people working with the FDA at one point, they do tend to give a lot of feedback, especially when they don't like something. And there were a lot of hoops to jump though where the feedback was "you are on t
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I disagree. The final product (the food) is not better in any way for doing this. I do see the value of not making the server lie to the customer by pretending that they were going to get the "stunt chicken", but this whole proble
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The article states that they could not include New York City because they could not make the data comparable, so it is likely that that is concern of the people behind the study.
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I don't disagree that intelligence agencies fail, but I don't think that the attempted assassination of former-President Trump counts. The shooter appears to have acted completely alone, and so far it seems that he did not give ob
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I don't like the killing by a drone (to easy for it to be misused), I am less ok with the killing of his 16-year-old son, and even less so for his daughters killing. But... It seems he was a member of al-Qaeda, and the "Public Law
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I don't think it is the inexperience level in congress that is the driving factor. Ted Cruz has been in the Senate since 2013, and he is absolutely one of the problematic members. Former President Trump is similarly anti-compromise and
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by larkost 2y ago
That is a great argument... but one that has not yet completed its way though U.S. courts. My understanding is that both Uber and Lift vary the arrangement from market-to-market (sometimes within a country, but mostly between countries), bu
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by larkost 2y ago
I think you are missing a part of the Federal Healthcare Insurance Mandate (part of the ACA): the mandate is on the worker, not the employer. Many employers have no insurance benefits for their employers. And then the other part of it: the
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by larkost 2y ago
I think the issue is that in this case the drivers want to work on their terms, and Uber/Lift want to be able to limit the number of drivers at certain times (i.e.: work their terms) in order not to pay minimum wage to lot of drivers w
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by larkost 2y ago
Please don't call this "the correct thing". Please recognize that there are multiple, valid, points of view. What you meant is "the thing I like".
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From the second sentence of the article: "will be made permanent for the 2025 tax season with all 50 states and Washington D.C. invited to participate" It seems very much that this is an opt-in thing, state by state. I would suspe
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by larkost 2y ago
That sounds like you are agreeing with the post you are replying to: the IRS is trying very hard to stick to their rules. You have a deduction that neither you nor the IRS have paperwork for (since the fund is not acknowledging it as a cove
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by larkost 2y ago
I will pile on on MS Teams. I am on a Mac and periodically have to fight it because it went offline on me for some reason and I am no longer getting messages. Slightly less annoying is when my iPhone goes to sleep and Teams on my iPhone the
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I am sure that it has been presented as wester aggression in some circles... but it is not really a great example if look at the whole story: This was (very) late in WW1 and the Russian Revolution turned a solid ally of Czarist Russia into
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by larkost 2y ago
Actually, last year the NIH budget was $48B, 4/5ths of that went straight out as grants for research, and another 11% went to internal labs: https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/budget And you have to be
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by larkost 2y ago
This is true, but it should also be pointed out here that Universities are where almost of all the initial research into finding and vetting candidate drugs happens, mostly on grants from the government. On the whole that is enormously cost
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by larkost 3y ago
Here is Hungary's list: https://magyarnevek.com My spouse is Hungarian, and despite living in the U.S. we decided to pick names off the list for our kids. We started by printing off the relevant list and then crossing out o
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by larkost 3y ago
You are choosing that, and that is admirable. But in a democratic-socialist country (pick pretty much and country in Europe with the possible exception of Switzerland), that is not an employer being nice, but is the law so it is not up to t
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by larkost 3y ago
An escape from something like this is why companies no longer employ their own janitors, but rather contract that out. The IRS rules went in that said that with the exception of your executives (that is a whole other conversation), everyone
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by larkost 3y ago
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay has a semi-tunnel, semi enclosed walkway system: https://www.uwgb.edu/UWGBCMS/media/Maps/files/concourse-map.... It is very close to the eponymous Green Bay and the win
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by larkost 3y ago
The prime reason for the Xserve line was to have a Mac Server that could go into schools' server closet to help manage all of the Macs in a school. It got sold in lots of other places for various things (e.g. that supercomputer at the
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Apple tried licensing once before, and it did not work out very well for them (e.g.: I owned a PowerComputer PowerTower back in that time). I understand how it would benefit a number of people, but Apple is a consumer company. How would thi
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Absolutely food, or at most a hormonal change based on food. Possibly with s side-order of lack of a few of the childhood diseases that have been controlled with inoculations. 30 years is WAY too small a timeframe for human evolution. That
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I have always thought that the phrase that was popular some years ago "science tells us that life begins at conception" was odd, and misunderstands what we know about life from science. Life does not begin at conception because it
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I think that the poster is implying that many of the same people who describe themselves as Pro-Life also support the death penalty, are huge supporters of having a huge U.S. military (much bigger than needed for territorial defense, so obv
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Under water I always imagine that a biological revolution would be more likely, and technologies that evolve (so to speak) out of organisms that make deposits like coral. So you would have a "limestone age", followed by something
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Do you have more information than is in the news article? So far they are talking about this being a storage yard with a lot of wooden pallets, one that already had some (unspecified) complaints against it. While that does not preclude a ho
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I think the argument that this might not be great in the long run is worth considering, but in the short run I think that their results over the last few years are nothing short of astonishing. Specifically their laptops, especially when no

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