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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Where do the migrant workers normally sleep? Answer: In the cities they chose to leave.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
I have an old copy of Word.
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by pinkfoot 6y ago
Are food and construction standards cooercive? Are you seriously arguing for an economy where anyone can build a skyscraper out of any material?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
> I have no inside knowledge as to AWS chose Cape Town. Well its public knowledge that Amazon has had a dev team in Cape Town for many years and they were part of the initial ECC efforts.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Then why have any immigration laws at all? If every possible immigrant is a positive contribution. But… if some are a drain on your limited resources, unhealthy competition for your most vulnerable, or just plain dangerous to your values, t
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
12 October 1492
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
The problem then comes (regrettably) when national/regional/local government next tries to get another round of capital-intensive fixed investment form the captains of industry. They find themselves talking to themselves for the m
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Ok, but surely thats true with the dollar too? Some states depress the value the dollar would have if only NY and California were in the Union?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
How is the value of the Euro depressed? It was launched at 1:1 parity with the dollar. $1 now buys you a mere €0.92
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
It is. Extensively.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Since the NZ government gave Peter Thiel citizenship after spending just 12 days there - instead of the three years residence it takes mere mortals, I am pretty sure a large cheque will open the airport. [1] https://www.theguardi
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
You will also note that Dr Burry doesn't live in Italy or NY and has enough money to escape to NZ in a private jet if he turns out to be wrong.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Don't be naïve. 1. the telcos have months - if not years - of LAC update data stored for every phone. They know where you sleep, who visits and where you work and shop; 2. they analyse the CDR for every call/SMS send and receive
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
I wasn't prepared to find out when they setup the SAMHS - I have a small phone. It turns out it was 1979. Which for HN is nearly a billion years ago :) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_African_Military_Healt
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Not absurd at all. Since a billion years ago the South African (National) Defence Force has always had four equal branches: - Army - Navy - Air Force - Medical But the USA is already mostly there: there are eight uniformed services. One is
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
What is an independent judge? The government selects the judge and all proceedings are in camera and you cannot event tell anyone that you ever got the NSL. There is a lot of theatre to look like judicial independence, but at the end the US
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Perhaps you could make it a ‘listen to the professional epidemiologist’ thing?
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
You need to include in your evaluation of the state of the rule of law that in 2013, a top-secret order issued by the FISA court, which was later leaked to the media from documents culled by Edward Snowden, required a subsidiary of Verizon
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Now go read the USA Cloud Act.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Yes, you are not allowed to take any action to circumvent the gag order. Changing the status of the canary included. [From memory from some ancient HN thread]
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
A bigger scandal is why in almost all countries the financial industry uniquely requires one to go through private companies to access government resources. Its as weird as if their were no government run schools.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Wait until you find our how little of the world's population builds and maintains the telecommunications, liquid fuel, and pharmaceutical ecosystems that we also reply on. Yours, David Ricardo
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
A country that forgets that government was best at solving its biggest problems in the past is equally dangerous.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
He wants a ML project on his résumé.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Accounts receivable.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
And the CCP an Iran are a human rights paradise compared to Saudi Arabia. If we are talking about principles here.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Noone does that. What large companies do is hold a large minority stake in their group companies. Then they shut down the 'programme' in one company and move it, modulo some cosmetic changes, to another group company. Bitter exper
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
In a previous life we we also able to identify the owners of anonymous (burner) SIM cards. Even crooks and anarchists lead very predictable lives.
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
Drive them into self-isolation for months. Unless you think soccer-moms in their SUVs are going to be leeting their children and breadwinners out into the public when the infection rate is above 50%. These things take on a life of themselve
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by pinkfoot 7y ago
NOx - NO and NO2 http://www.icopal-noxite.co.uk/nox-problem/nox-pollution.asp... N2O is nitrous oxide. Laughing gas.

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