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naturalauction
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Small nitpick but French Guiana isn’t its own country, it’s a part of France. That being said their population does seem to trend young when compared to the rest of France or other western countries.
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5y ago
Very specific question but how much is a replacement screen and can you do the repair yourself with just a screwdriver? I’ve somehow broken my screen twice with each of my last two laptops and at least for the MacBook, screen replacements w
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>I would love to know which countries allow real estate purchases like we do? Both the UK and Canada for sure. I think Canada is considering a foreign buyers tax but I don’t think it has been implemented yet. In the UK, property taxes do
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5y ago
Slightly different but I remember viewing the subways in Athens and seeing the ruins that they had discovered while just digging subways. I know the tube in London has run into similar issues. In the UK, a lot of archeologists are employed
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“All 29 people who survived their suicide attempts off San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge have said they regretted their decision as soon as they jumped.” https://ennyman.medium.com/a-lesson-from-29-golden-gate-suic... Sure
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Sure but the guards likely overhear all the external insights given out in tours and when subject matter experts see and discuss the piece.
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> https://bedrock.substack.com/p/bedrock-ai-vs-activist-shorts How often are companies rated with a risk factor this high. As in does a risk factor in the 80s mean that fraud is extremely likely or is it just notifyi
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5y ago
I don’t know how much you have taken the bus but it is truly abysmal in the Bay Area. Not to mention the VTA is cutting a bunch of stops due to low ridership (it’s a chicken and egg problem). Additionally, the buses are slow and rarely go w
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> is that pressure, high expectations etc. do have a devastating effect on teenagers' mental health and mental wellbeing. Having grown up in the South Bay and then having moved to Europe myself I think that lots of parents in the Ba
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That foreign adversary would have had great timing then. > The selection of Indian numbers largely commenced around the time of Modi’s 2017 trip to Israel, the first visit to the country by an Indian prime minister and a marker of the bu
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/b-c-first-nation-can-hunt-at-... Not the case in this example at least, some of the judges saw it as a natural evolution from hunting by torchlight.
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>you can send text, audio, pictures and video, and links get nice previews. Not pdfs or other files though! >you can react to messages with the full emoji set. Only on mobile for me
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> Having a for-kids course isn’t bad... forcing your kids into it sure is. As anyone who has been to one of these Bay Area high schools can tell you, it’s not so much forcing your kids into something that is the problem (plenty of parent
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I think the GP was invoking the fact that a cheque can be written on anything in the UK (though not true anymore for all banks I think) - see https://www.theregister.com/2010/04/09/plywood_cheque/ . Not
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I used freefillableforms (mentioned in the article) this year to file an extension. I submitted it and got the error "Issue : Business Rule FPYMT-051-01 - If IRS Payment Record is present and Form 4868 Line 8 checkbox or Line 9 ch
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>There would be very possibly some money and influence involved from countries that do not share Swiss people values. But then why not address that by banning foreign funding of construction of religious buildings? If Swiss Muslims want
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But even minarets that don't make noise are banned. I also would not want to live next to a mosque that played loud noises 5-times daily as is done in many countries. But here in the UK most Mosques don't broadcast any noise at al
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Perhaps, but I would cite some of these issues as examples of "populist tyrannical capture" that were not prevented by the Swiss system.
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>citizens don't want more noisy minarets The referendum wasn't on noise or the legality of minarets broadcasting sound though, it was on the structures themselves. Churches can still build steeples (or even noisy belltowers). I
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>The only democracy is Switzerland. Switzerland solves the problem of populist tyrannical capture by having an Executive Council instead of a President. But women weren't allowed to vote (in every canton) until 1991. There is a ban
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Are you sure? Like the Black Lives Matter protests over the summer were about broad structural issues in policing. Unless you meant even bigger structural issues such as systemic racism which they were only tangentially about but definitely
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American living in the UK here, try buying the huy fong brand on Amazon and see if you like it. I think it's far superior.
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Are there actively managed ETFs with target dates? That way when you are still working you are purchasing shares of the ETF that are investing in a more risky strategy. However, by a certain date the ETF shifts to a much more conservative f
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I'm not sure that is the "right" way (if there is a "right" way), because ideally you would find the expected utility of that equity. What I mean is that a scenario with a 100% chance of making $10 million and a sce
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Additionally, the FAA only regulates buildings that are 200ft above the ground or more (unless they are near an airport), see [1]. It seems ridiculous that the FAA doesn't care if you build a 200ft tall tower and fly a drone inside it
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It's possible he already had 500k in his Roth by 2004.
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I think you slightly misunderstood my point. I'm not talking about kids who are considering college, or even know about college. I'm talking about children who are in elementary school or even younger, before they can take care of
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The oped touches on one thing I noticed during my time at the University of Cambridge. Almost everyone I talked to there had parents who invested heavily in them either monetarily (hiring nannies, intensive pre-school/after-school care
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Anyone know why there are so few investors from Asia? Asian-based investors make up 4% of the DAX and at least 3.5% of that is sovereign wealth funds. For context Norway’s SWF alone holds more than 4% of the DAX.
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>I have the same question. Why not aggressively pay of the existing debt and reduce borrowing, when the sate has enough money in general budget. I don’t know about this specific case but it can make sense for a state to borrow if their r
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