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by namlem 9y ago
The unfortunate reality is that there is a complete cultural disconnect where many people genuinely cannot fathom that guns have some legitimate purposes and have in their minds that a near total gun ban is a reasonable idea. Then you have
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by namlem 9y ago
You can't be extradited for purely civil matters.
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by namlem 9y ago
Does this violate any EU laws? It's blatantly anti-competitive, but the US doesn't seem to care about maintaining a healthy, competitive market.
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by namlem 9y ago
You can be a center-right neoliberal, a center-left neoliberal, or something in between. The sub leans center-left, while traditionally neoliberals have been more center-right.
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by namlem 9y ago
Or it was due to collusion in a niche controlled by a duopoly (WD and Seagate).
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by namlem 9y ago
Time for land value tax.
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by namlem 9y ago
Amazon is winning because they have realized in the information age, central planning has become far easier and more effective. The bigger they get, the more they'll grow until they take over everything.
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by namlem 9y ago
Why would they give a shit what we think of them? I doubt this even factored into the decision.
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by namlem 9y ago
I'm pretty sure you can't buy that version in the US.
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by namlem 9y ago
Denmark is not the only country we should be comparing to. What about Canada and New Zealand? Both Anglosphere countries with pretty diverse populations.
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by namlem 9y ago
Are they contrarians, or are they simply genuine racists or misogynists?
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by namlem 9y ago
It's considered off label use, so insurance won't pay for it.
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by namlem 9y ago
The efficient market hypothesis is not an example of good science. It's still only a hypothesis because there's so little evidence to support it. The market is rife with failures due to all the quirks of human psychology. Any real
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by namlem 9y ago
Yeah, that's Marx's Labor Theory of Value. The problem is that it doesn't account for the value of risk. It's easy to look at companies making money and assume they're extracting value if you ignore all the failed a
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by namlem 9y ago
There are lots of successful co-ops though.
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by namlem 9y ago
Time to start smearing the mother's poo over the baby's butthole so that the right bacteria can colonize its colon.
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by namlem 9y ago
He reached a pleasant deal with the prosecutor, he wasn't convicted by a jury.
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by namlem 9y ago
That only applies to copyright. Another commenter claims that some buildings have trademark protection.
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by namlem 9y ago
Aside from the weather, Toronto is a much nicer city than SF. Also, the COL analysis fails to account for the value of public services, which is presumably greater in Canada. Probably not nearly enough to make up the difference, but it&#x27
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by namlem 9y ago
It would be done through a public investment bank, so you would be paid for the shares. That, or you pay equity in lieu of taxes.
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by namlem 9y ago
Of course. They're cheaper. Consumers love cheaper goods. Personally, I'm very much in favor of GMOs and think it's a shame that so many countries overregulate them so much. There's no evidence of that the crops themselv
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by namlem 9y ago
This thing pushes almost as many pixels per second as a 4k monitor at 60Hz. A 1070 would work, but it you'd have to reduce some of the quality settings.
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by namlem 9y ago
How would they prove who did it? It could be done with an encrypted message.
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by namlem 9y ago
This was basically Musk's plan. In the long term, Tesla is going to end up making more money by selling batteries to other car companies than by selling cars.
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by namlem 9y ago
A380 sales are also way down. Airlines just don't want giant planes anymore.
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by namlem 9y ago
Copyright should be returned to its original term of 28 years after date of creation.
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by namlem 9y ago
I have all my play lists and albums saved in Spotify. Is there a tool that let's you export all that stuff to another service? If not, then switching would not at all be worth all the hassle just to save a couple bucks a month.
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by namlem 9y ago
No, it's the locals who are intervening in government with their overly restrictive zoning laws. We want to undo that intervention an diet the market set the prices.
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by namlem 9y ago
Oh please. Everyone should have the right to purchase housing at fair market value. People like you twist the power of local government to subvert the market for your own benefit. The price is high because of NIMBYism, not because of the ma
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by namlem 9y ago
You are saying FU to people. You are exactly the type of person who is the problem, and who is causing countless low income people to suffer high rent. All because you want to live in an upper middle class bubble isolated from the real worl

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