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by pinkfoot 7y ago
I am sure the relatives of the mass killings in Iraq and Afghanistan appreciate this subtle difference.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Here is how you approach this: in which scenarios would Canada become a more attractive place for business if it left the USMCA (ex NAFTA) RELATIVE to the USA or Mexico.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
You are uninformed. In fact, if we give it an English name and juice its performance with bi-metallic chemistry you get 'trigger point dry-needling'. With some measurable, reproducible effects: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
What about second order effects? If I ran state security for a poor African dictatorship, I would find all successful expatriates in the .US/.EU/.AU and sell their details to other nasty outfits and offer to "apply my heel&qu
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Verwoed
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Its also telling that the male-dominance of long distance trucking (in air-conditioned trucks with power-steering) is in the same range, but not so much as a peep about that.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Wait until you see the skew in the teaching and nursing industries. Oh, the horror.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
You have obviously never lived through a civil war.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
The USA Cloud Act of 2018. Every US company must hand over any customer data held anywhere, by any subsidiary or joint venture, on earth at the request of the US government.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
So how would anyone ever know that the objection was 1) heard, and 2) upheld?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
From the website: > forbidden from … Agreements to discriminate or actual discrimination against other persons based on race, religion, sex, national origin or nationality. So, to be clear - GitLab can merrily discriminate against Chines
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
And when that happens you will also demand the committee on foreign investments be disbanded to PREVENT any veto of Chinese purchases. To avoid said double standards. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Foreign
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Is the speedlimit where children get off school busses 100mph? I’m sure you can work out the answer yourself.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Unless you are Boeing.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Its always nice to see where my petrol money went.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
As in actual 'whipped-to-death, sold-as-commodities, separated-from-their-children, paid-not-a-single-cent, worked-to-death' slaves? Zero. But you knew this. So one can only wonder what the point of your hyperbole is.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
The entire French and UK nuclear arsenal raining down on Moscow and St Petersburg is not a deterrent? Try not talk nonsense on HN.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Yet Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea managed to get over colonialism in just a few decades. Please try incorporate all the data when formulating a hypothesis.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
How do you know?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
You missed the, admittedly subtle, point of my post.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
And bottled water is stored in sun-lit areas for long periods of time - UV light destroys the hypochlorite (the bacteria-killing stuff). Tap-water is kept in nice dark pipes.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Thanks. PS. What am I to make of the throwaway line: ‘Some studies show its a lot more’ [than 20%]
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> 100 plus people to port Skype in 16 months. To all employers out there: if you put me on a project with a hundred others to port a wee VOIP front-end to another platform, I too can get it done in a year and a half.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Is it really true that all the pension funds in USA - let alone all the foreigners (rich and poor) - together own only 16% of the shares in USA listed public companies. I call BS.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Heresy!
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
You cannot just have an idea. You need to pitch up with either a) statisical data to show evidence of said idea b) a mechanism by which said phenomenon could occur. Like genetics. We knew the 'idea' had merit from Mendel's ex
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Trivially: 100%
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Indeed: stars don't emit radiation per se, the trillions of atoms absorbing and emitting quantised photons do. So, a) they would have to be made of something other than the normal atomic matter normal stars, planets, and rocks, and peo
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> I’m no chemical engineer I am a chemist. :) Its standard petro-chemistry as long as you NEVER put PVC plastic into the digester - then you get dioxins. Which are nasty. In principle, you can distil the diesel and capture the methane ga
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Pyrolysis (at a reasonably large scale) can make acceptable diesel out of plastic, biowaste, or cooking oil.

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