pinkfoot

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by pinkfoot 6y ago
… because in your world it is all factions, no one can make an independent rational assessment of anything, so if they are not on your team you can just dismiss them out of hand?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Yes, it is tricky to get evidence of future events that may or may not happen depending on the collective actions people take. Which is why we build models.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
What if people took their advice so that their accurate prediction never came to pass?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Its still caused by the virus. It counts.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> We need real regulation that penalizes polluters How are you going to penalise the other 7,000,000,000 people that don't live in the USA/EU/Japan? Growing at 3 souls per second. The only way is to provide a cleaner alt
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
"Chips" gets them every time.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
The only man on earth the CCP fears is Trump. What does that tell you? Care to support this - with you know - evidence?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> has stagnated the US went from a GDP per capita of $48,300 to $65,000 . Largely by adding trillions to the GDP via hedonic and imputed contributions. GDP exists these days to show that government debt is below x% of GDP.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Indeed, imagine what the tax rate would be if politicians knew corporations and people had no options. It would ratchet up to strangulation levels. A bit of competition is always sobering.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Of course its relevant: you said the EU intervenes when people complain to stop corporate dominance and abuse. Lots of people complained. The EU did nothing. Truly - Microsoft office is as dominant as it ever was. It the EU has an anti-mono
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
We would also play better golf. Still keen to subsidise it?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Sure… So, how many different word processors and spreadsheet providers does the EU bureaucracy itself use?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Out of curiosity, how does any government detain anyone without - at least as a final resort - lethal force? [I bet I'll get more downvotes than answers].
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
We fight them over there so we don't have to fight them over here." Heard that before?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
SMIC also has a fab in Italy.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
After the pathetic avoidance of their obligations to Ukraine under the Budapest declaration, the USA and its allies wont do anything but more economic sanctions.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
It must be Thursday.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
+1
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Out of curiosity, how many conservatives have made someone lose their job this week for having an incorrect opinion?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> But then there are sentiments that are beyond the pale. A lot of people are working, successfully it appears, to make the pale a lot smaller by publicly destroying reasonable peoples' lives for the most minor infractions as a warn
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Sure, any to answer the more general question in the OP: Russia invented and built and then sold to the USA the RD-180 rocket engines that are used for the first stage of the American Atlas V launch vehicle. Which the USA will no doubt &quo
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> when [was] the last time china, india or russia made a break through in [medicine]? 2015. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2015/tu/facts/ (PS. This took less than 30 seconds to find a
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
This is incorrect, non-competes in South Africa (I got advice on it once for a gig there) are enforcable is they are reasonable. For example, if the company pays you your old salary for a year after you leave, the non-compete with be enforc
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> releasing them as fast as possible Why do you want incentivise a private company to release someone who is so dangerous they have to be removed from society as fast as possible?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> the author calls a sitting President a 'clown' Our of curiosity, are you equally offended when the press calls the sitting presidents of other countries nasty names? If not, why not?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Noted. Very gracious. FWIW Rochus is quite common name on Süd Tirol on the Italian Austrian border. Well, I've met a few.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
> but I just have low tolerance for people with Latin-sounding screen names Did someone scare you as a child?
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Or against Rwanda. Where there was no money involved.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Travel visas based on country of origin - which is really a proxy for race.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
I they are smart they will create an open app store with GMS, etc. compliant services. And use EU competition rules to mandate the the most popular apps must be in there.

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