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by pbourke 6y ago
So a payday loan with a fancy name?
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by pbourke 6y ago
> If people want to "invest," they'll figure out more pro-social ways to do it than the stock market Here are 99% of the things you can invest in as a person without a very large amount of capital: - real estate (your own
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by pbourke 6y ago
And they charged the people a dollar and a half to C them
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by pbourke 6y ago
Doesn’t the need arise from the constrained supply of MDs?
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by pbourke 6y ago
The terms have lost all meaning in contemporary American discourse. “Socialist”, “liberal”, “leftist”, “progressive” are just used either as a pejorative or arbitrary categorical unrelated to any prior representation. To a “progressive”, “l
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by pbourke 6y ago
I would not be surprised if there’s a "roaring 20’s" effect after the pandemic is done (in a number of ways).
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by pbourke 6y ago
NG is the previous generation to the MAX.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Not just the US - Berlin, Ontario was renamed to Kitchener (after British WWI general Lord Kitchener) in 1916.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> nobody has blogged yet about having crushed themselves. “Hi HN! (waves). It’s Johnny from Loggr.me (formerly timbr.ho). We’re building the world’s first platform to connect loggers (who can chop down trees) and loggees (who have no bus
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by pbourke 6y ago
And yet there are many software and tech people who are part of unions such as in the public sector or specialist unions like SPEEA for aerospace.
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by pbourke 6y ago
The market can leak memory longer than you can stay solvent. Or something.
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by pbourke 6y ago
I hear those things get a lot of blown transaxles
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by pbourke 6y ago
> I have an Oshkosh P19, an aircraft/structural fire truck Cool! What do you use that for?
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by pbourke 6y ago
The Grumman LLV postal vehicle weighs 2,700lbs: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV The "ton" truck rating persists, but it's mostly outdated. The F-150 is a "half-ton" truck, despite hav
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by pbourke 6y ago
And have you been following people into their homes to see if they meet indoors, maskless, with those not in their household?
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by pbourke 6y ago
Covid-19 is the disease. SARS-CoV-2 is the virus.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Is N years of opex not part of the budget in grant applications?
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by pbourke 6y ago
> taking generational wealth out of the working class. Do you have a source for that claim? Household savings were up across all American income categories in 2020. The $600 / week federal unemployment benefit that ended in July 202
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by pbourke 6y ago
“Small-business owners have also been an engine behind the effort, said Randy Economy, the spokesman for the Recall Gavin Newsom campaign.” Economy decidedly un-randy, declares Randy Economy.
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by pbourke 6y ago
This is a tremendous non sequitur. Being a world power and the level of poverty within a country have little to do with each other.
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by pbourke 6y ago
What do you mean? There was ample poverty before the advent of Capitalism.
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by pbourke 6y ago
That is easily remediated by washing cloth masks after use.
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by pbourke 6y ago
It seems like wearing a mask in some environments (public transit, crowded shops, etc) might be a good practice going forward. I wonder if it will be normalized? Will you stand out if you choose to wear a mask to the mall 5 years from now?
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by pbourke 6y ago
Many of us do not want to enable activities or messages that we are morally opposed to.
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by pbourke 6y ago
Very interesting - thanks for posting this. > By enforcing immutability on the domain services, we ensure discipline with how the UI state services must consume the model Could you expand on that part? Do you mean that your domain servic
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by pbourke 6y ago
If you vote for the right people, and advocate enough, you can get a congressional inquiry into the issue, a change in the law, or a precedent-setting court ruling. Point me to analogous outcomes under the Chinese system.
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by pbourke 6y ago
> Culture fit is code for specific gender/race/socioeconomic level. And age
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by pbourke 6y ago
Early in the evenin' just about supper time Over by the courthouse they're starting to unwind Four kids on the corner trying to bring you up “Headphones, please” you shout at them “and kindly shut the fuck up”
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by pbourke 6y ago
It’s company scrip backed by tulip bulbs.
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by pbourke 6y ago
It’s one thing to do it with fiat currency, because ultimately there’s a central bank involved as the first lender. With “fractional reserve crypto” all hell seems like it can break loose - much like the pre-central banking era of monetary

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