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by matt4077 7y ago
That’s wrong. See Section 1017 of the Dodd-Franken act: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-111publ203/html/PLA... The bureau gets its funding from the Federal Reserve System. What the argument may
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by matt4077 7y ago
Sex tape is to whatever you’re talking about as spending money is to bank robbery.
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by matt4077 7y ago
That’s doesn’t square with Amazon’s decision to do the opposite, except in that this “best for the company” argument is so mendable it can be used to argue for anything and its opposite. A company can make moral decisions, and the fiction t
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by matt4077 7y ago
I think society has actually gotten better at this. A strategically leaked sex tape is already an acceptable career move for celebrities, and I don’t think many people would necessary care about it in politics, either.
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by matt4077 7y ago
The bell towers did start burning, and their structure is wood to a large degree. Just the bells dropping could have destroyed all horizontal structures and threatened the towers’ stability. They also literally grabbed and ran out with a lo
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by matt4077 7y ago
Yeah, how dare they call it racism when it’s built into the system, and conveniently uses highly correlated features instead of race itself! We also don’t discriminate against men, only people called “John”, “David”, or “Jack”.
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by matt4077 7y ago
This isn’t from the article. You’re just spoiling for a flame war.
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The endless debate on nutrition is exactly because effect sizes and latency are too small and too large, respectively, to easily establish causality. Without relying on the corrupt narrative by big corporate media, you’d be happily ingest
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by matt4077 7y ago
Dobelli’s drivel is almost verbatim plagiarism of Taleb, by the way. And it’s published by “corporate media” as well.
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by matt4077 7y ago
Great. That way you have absolutely no basis to make any decision on. It’s utterly impossible to verify even a tiny bit of the information you rely on every day from first principle. If you don’t find some way to establish trust, you’re alm
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by matt4077 7y ago
Since paper is almost literally tinder, and old libraries exist, I posit that not burning over a long period of time in no way invalidates characterization as a “tinderbox”. Besides, there’s more to this piece than the title.
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by matt4077 7y ago
That’s pretty amazing work on 24h notice.
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And the spouses, naturally, are supposed to get along with the program.
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When Did the Anthropocene Begin?(theatlantic.com)
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by matt4077 7y ago
It works best if you try understanding everything from the perspective of someone tail’ing Apache logs and fiddling with their kernel parameters.
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by matt4077 7y ago
The whole idea that somebody could be so lazy as to become homeless, without any other issues, is somewhat absurd. Being homeless is terribly uncomfortable. A truly lazy person would find it unbeatable.
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Ted: Facebook's role in Brexit, and the threat to democracy [video](ted.com)
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“Rule of Law” also means following the extradition treaties you signed. And contrary to HN, countries such as the UK simply believe that the rule of law is also somewhat intact in the US, and that therefore claims of political prosecution a
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by matt4077 7y ago
“Virtue Signalling” is a stupid concept and should die a swift death. But apart from that, at least learn to correctly misuse it: if “the costs would make life miserable”, it’s not virtue signaling, by definition.
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by matt4077 8y ago
Well, that’s a conveniently tautological conspiracy theory.
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by matt4077 8y ago
This doesn’t even begin to make sense. First of all, everything a US company works on is “subject to US laws”. Second, where clearance is required, there is a bright line defining the rules, no “isn’t supposed to...”. Third, security cleara
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by matt4077 8y ago
“Not all H-1Bs are incompetent or lazy.” You don’t say!
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by matt4077 8y ago
In the last 50 years, fatalities per miles travelled have been reduced by a factor of 100. If that’s an oligopoly at work, I want to try a monopoly and see if it’s even better.
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by matt4077 8y ago
People seem to have some terrible difficulty of understanding the difference b/w “Most people don’t do <x>”, and “It’s theoretically possible to do <x>”.
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by matt4077 8y ago
I live in Germany. And what you’re saying is (a) wrong, and (b) not even incompatible what I said.
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by matt4077 8y ago
That’s simply not true. Most people don’t even drive 160kph to begin with.
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by matt4077 8y ago
On a similar note, Hearts of Darkness ( https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102015/ ) is among my top movies of all times.
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by matt4077 8y ago
I doubt there was ever much debate that parents are the single most important factor for children. It’s just that, from a policy perspective, it is extremely hard to actually have any impact on that behavior. It’s basically social work, a c
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by matt4077 8y ago
Also no expert, but from the cases I remember, actual construction is rather fast. What takes time is often the financing: there are churches in Germany where, to this day they are collecting money and constructing piece-by-piece. I don’t
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by matt4077 8y ago
Thank you.

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