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by mamon 6y ago
> How has the USSR ended up in horror? By killing roughly 20 millions of its own citizens? By forcibly deporting the whole nations from their homeland to a different part of the USSR? By forcing the surviving rest into poverty? By ensl
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by mamon 6y ago
Reports about what's happening in concentration camps had been coming to Allied intelligence agencies since 1941 ([1]) but obviously they did not include any video footage, so they were hard to believe. [1] https://en.wikipe
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by mamon 6y ago
When supply is fixed the price gouging serves as an important mechanism promoting efficient use of it. If a 30 oz bottle of hand sanitizer costs $50 then everyone would ask themselves: "Do I REALLY need 5 bottles of it?"
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by mamon 6y ago
Usually this is not true: they are not employees at all, contracting company also hires them as subcontractors, each of them running their own sole propertiorship (at least that's how it works in my country). But even if they were empl
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by mamon 6y ago
One of the reasons for conflict between ancient Egyptians and Jews (as reported by the Bible, iirc) was that Jews had their Sabbath every 7 days, while Egyptians would get their free day every 10 days. That's part of the reason why Jew
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by mamon 6y ago
First of all, it's not just that he selects what songs enter the voting. He manipulated results afterwards, with the stupid excuse of "just removing fraudulent votes" As for "he was State Security informant" - that&
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Exactly, and it was also suggested that for years the show producer would take bribes from artists for placing them at the top of the list. The song in question here actually ended up in the fourth place, was placed on 1st deliberately - it
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by mamon 6y ago
In my country workplace regulations forbid working on laptop screen anyway - if a worker is supposed to work on computer for more than, iirc, 4 hours a day, then external screen is mandatory. And it's not really about a screen size, it
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by mamon 6y ago
Usual explanation is that doing census by place of birth was actually Jewish idea - because the "12 tribes of Israel" concept is so deeply ingrained in their culture, so whey Romans requested census Jewish leaders simply tried to
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By reducing number of apartments from 18 to 10 - I assume that by this time the garage had already been built so downsizing it was not possible. Also, I've just noticed: why on earth would they build affordable housing next to the beac
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by mamon 6y ago
Facebook has network effects: you use it because all of your friends are using it, making a cost of switching high. In the ride sharing business however, there is zero consumer loyalty - installing a new app in your phone takes one minute.
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And when they do raise prices another competitor with loads of VC money will appear, trying to "disrupt" them. The barrier to entry in ride sharing business is so low it's almost non-existent, which makes the whole strategy p
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by mamon 6y ago
In some sense yes, you're paying rent to your bank. But the difference is: with a landlord you would pay that rent indefinetely, with mortgage you pay it for 20-30 years and then the house becomes yours.
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by mamon 6y ago
>> In the USA, over 60% of housing units are owner-occupied Does that include houses with mortgages? Because in my opinion if you're not really the owner until you've paid off your mortgage fully.
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by mamon 6y ago
Because AMD is a company with a long history of making crappy processors, that only recently created a decent one, by lucky coincidence. Intel is exactly the opposite. Even now Intel architecture is still superior in some areas, the biggest
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by mamon 6y ago
I'm still thinking about my cheap Ryzen-based PC only as a stop-gap solution, until the "real deal", aka Intel 7nm CPUs, premieres in 2021 (fingers crossed) .
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Free markets are pretty close to democracy, except instead of voting with ballots people vote with their money.
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Government officials currently in office are probably excluded from the dataset.
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UBI will be introduced, just not in the way most of us would like. It will be throught Quantitive Easing, as currently done by FED. What QE does is - it concentrates the wealth in hands of 0.1% of society. Each financial crisis (2008, 2020)
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by mamon 6y ago
My rough estimate is: 2cm finger movement per 800px scrolled.
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No, they are in "move fast and break things" camp.
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by mamon 6y ago
Touch bar is stupid idea because it is so narrow,and located in such place that it is hard to see it clearly due to the angle. If they really wanted to add touch capabilities to MacBook they should have put touch display in place of TouchPa
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by mamon 6y ago
>> I use the VGA port in many conference talks I give. Modern, digital projectors are still not a guarantee and it is very awkward to go ask around for another laptop or a dongle Ever thought about buying your own dongle? Sincle you g
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by mamon 6y ago
>> There are apps in use now that monitor drug use for psychiatric patients by trying to detect that a drug was ingested using a sensor inside the pill that can be detected with a patch placed on the abdomen Wouldn't that be easi
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by mamon 6y ago
Plumber's job with a single customer usually lasts one or two days, so the plumber's income is not dependent on any single customer. They might be willing to risk it and take a job without a price set beforehand, because the worst
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by mamon 6y ago
For me as a developer it makes perfect sense: top of the range is equal to company's budget for that position, and if they are not willing to give you top of the range salary then the changes are that some other, more skilled candidate
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by mamon 6y ago
So, in response to epidemic cities are limiting the only transportation mode that is safe during the epidemic - yes, that makes perfect sense :)
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And if it doesn’t grow you can repeat the test in a week or two - even modern tests have this issue since early in the pregnancy hormone levels might not be high enough yet. Regarding false positives - since you’re detecting hormones that
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by mamon 6y ago
>>> Sweden's death counts are the most statistical precise ones so far, exactly because every death from someone tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 is counted as a death from CoViD-19. So if the 95 years old who already withstood
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by mamon 6y ago
So far the net result of Sweden's strategy is that they have 2,021 coronaviris deaths, more than 4x more than Poland, which also has almost 4x bigger population - so Sweden has 16x more deaths per 1M of citizens than Poland.

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