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by paleotrope 5d ago
I would agree except we still live in a world where making a few dollars more a day is a perfectly valid way to make money in alot of places. A bunch of guys in some electronic sweatshop in Vietnam or Indonesia working on pis is a reality.
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by paleotrope 8d ago
I wonder if they could even unwind the fortune to pay 40% in cash.
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by paleotrope 10d ago
"The solution was what we now call the rules-based order, and means that European-style legal systems control business across borders, so armed force need not be used to enforce contracts." I wonder how Europe got there? Maybe the
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by paleotrope 11d ago
So rich but nobody has any money anymore.
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by paleotrope 19d ago
"US officials also acknowledged that they had initially provided inaccurate information, and that her husband's last pay cheque had included – but incorrectly itemised – "combat pay", which amounts to $225 a month, and w
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by paleotrope 19d ago
What's ridiculous is Canada Goose being in that category.
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by paleotrope 21d ago
All the stated problems are just problems in peacetime; Pay and bureaucratic red tape.
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by paleotrope 24d ago
But which party (or faction of it) is at least talking about it? You can find corporate rent seekers in both parties sure.
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by paleotrope 26d ago
It's easier to understand when you know that the decisions that Americans and others have made over time were never designed to be covered and taught in a Capitalized Theory of A Particular Time Period academic subject. Historians like
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by paleotrope 1mo ago
We are on the tail end of a 75 year old experiment in the West of divorcing where you live or were born from any sort of responsibility for anything in either direction, except for paying taxes to government and fees to your patron.
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by paleotrope 1mo ago
Well that's an opinion.
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by paleotrope 1mo ago
This is what happens when you sacrifice a generation of people to make a "soft" landing for the rest.
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by paleotrope 1mo ago
Police overtime is quite complicated. Assuming 23 hours of work represent actually 23 hours of work will lead to confusion. Alot of these overtime jobs are where the government mandates that a police officer simply be on site. Regardless if
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by paleotrope 2mo ago
That's interesting because it's way more complicated than that. Boston had the 128 loop and Digital. TI in dallas. Simi valley. I think it's more like the end of defense spending in the late 80s early 90s winnowed down the s
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by paleotrope 2mo ago
Americans needing fresh bananas did it.
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by paleotrope 2mo ago
Nope. THe story doesn't make any sense at all. They stole about 5 milion dollars worth of computer equipment, which depending on how it's purchased is either a single cabinet of storage or a few cabinets of compute, which is large
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by paleotrope 2mo ago
It's probably obvious to say, but I think a nation's most important resource is people. And if you can just order them around and kill the dissenters and not care about what individuals want, then you can achieve quite a bit, be i
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by paleotrope 2mo ago
"Grocery store tourism is the practice of visiting local grocery stores while traveling as a way to experience a destination's everyday culture rather than just its tourist attractions."
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by paleotrope 2mo ago
I got it from this RAND survey. https://glp1newsnow.substack.com/p/how-many-americans-are-ac...
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by paleotrope 2mo ago
12% of the adult population. I think it's a good theory.
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by paleotrope 2mo ago
That review is hilarious. "To summarise, then: George Orwell in 1984 was, in my opinion, engaging in a private feud with Stalinism, rather that attempting to forecast the future." He really got it! And shows how fundamentally Asim
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by paleotrope 3mo ago
Haha you can tell I listen to a lot history podcasts. I won't fix it.
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by paleotrope 3mo ago
Well at least we can filter out the Jeffrey of Monmouth's though.
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by paleotrope 3mo ago
California is not a great place to build data centers. If you need to service CA, there are better options
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by paleotrope 3mo ago
History doesn't stop. Majority Muslim states in Europe might have different priorities.
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by paleotrope 3mo ago
How does this change affect food waste by consumers?
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by paleotrope 3mo ago
I remember the good ole days when the White House would coordinate with former employees that got jobs with SV companies in their "online safety" orgs and would just ban or shadowban people. Less legally suspect because it was act
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by paleotrope 3mo ago
She claims that the post with his name is the one that triggered the visit.
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by paleotrope 3mo ago
You have to compare Europe to California.
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by paleotrope 3mo ago
It was released a few days ago.

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