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by praxulus 5y ago
>“If the public health professionals, if Dr. [Anthony] Fauci, if the doctors tell us that we should take it, I’ll be the first in line to take it. Absolutely,” Harris said during the live debate in Salt Lake City, when she was asked if A
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by praxulus 5y ago
Distraction-free is not just an excuse, it's absolutely a valuable feature for me and a nontrivial number of other people. It's fine if you don't like that feature, but not every customer would like them to "finish the s
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by praxulus 5y ago
The central bank is the part of the government that can issue money, and it's included in the explanation. With regard to its effect on the money supply, the rest of the government is no different than any other borrower since it can&#
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by praxulus 5y ago
I suspect the number of troops needed to keep a facility secure depends not only on the size of the facility but also on the scale of the threat.
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by praxulus 5y ago
Downtown cores have the highest population density, and thus the lowest average commute for a typical set of workers distributed around a metro area.
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by praxulus 5y ago
If grandma loses her private key, or dies without sharing her key's passcode, what happens to her property? If the county has a mechanism to fix that anyway, how is that blockchain any better than a county-run, publicly readable databa
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by praxulus 5y ago
Even ignoring per capita numbers, India emits less CO2 in total than the United States. How could you possibly classify them as a bigger problem?
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by praxulus 5y ago
I want to participate in a market where businesses typically offer refunds. When too many people use refund policies in that way, businesses stop offering them. That makes things worse for me, so I wish they wouldn't do that. I don&#x2
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by praxulus 6y ago
>Like if I can see someone screaming up behind me in the fast lane, there’s a car next to me that means I can’t move out of the way, so I need to accelerate to get past that car and move out of the way. Sounds like that guy's car sh
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by praxulus 6y ago
That applies to bitcoin too, but gold doesn't also become twice as hard to dig up just because mining equipment became twice as efficient.
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by praxulus 6y ago
It matters less for internal meetings (maybe improving audio quality could help meetings run more smoothly, but that's just a microphone issue). If any of your employees talk to external clients, I can absolutely see value in getting t
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by praxulus 6y ago
What should we do about actions that aren't malicious, but are nevertheless harmful or put others at risk? Littering, mild traffic violations, etc.
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by praxulus 6y ago
While not guaranteed, it's pretty likely that you'll be able to get your $16M back if you lose it to identity theft or a compromised online account. You may have to escalate from customer service to legal action, but there are usu
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by praxulus 6y ago
I don't think the claimed findings of the marshmallow test were relevant here, just the fact that some kids managed to avoid eating the marshmallow while others did not.
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by praxulus 6y ago
The seigniorage profits are made by the fed, and mostly paid back to the Treasury. Only a tiny portion is paid out in dividends to member banks who are required by law to own non-voting shares of the regional reserve banks.
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by praxulus 6y ago
"Direct report" does make some sense, because everyone under a higher level manager would be their subordinate, but it would be strange for them to be trying to individually influence the behavior of an indirect report. Leave that
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by praxulus 6y ago
If the top 10 bidders are all Americans (which is plausible, given America's wealth and inflated healthcare costs), the U.S. government could use price controls to drive the price down from the 2nd highest to the 10th highest bid witho
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by praxulus 7y ago
If grocery stores run out of 2-ply but still offer 1-ply, people will buy 1-ply for home.
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by praxulus 7y ago
If you have a typo in the name, Google will fix it for you, whereas your browser will happily take you to a domain that is probably owned by a scammer.
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by praxulus 7y ago
There's room for debate, but that doesn't mean there's any actual debate going on. I.e. scientists are free to publish papers showing evidence that climate change isn't happening or not caused by human activity. Where th
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by praxulus 7y ago
Right, but there's no way to separate out personal events when you subscribe to someone else's work calendar if they put personal events on their work calendar.
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by praxulus 7y ago
Not exactly a clone, you had to pay to get answers on Google Answers.
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by praxulus 7y ago
Well, we live in age where rapid technological progress is considered normal, or even mundane. I don't want to imply that there was no new technology developed in the middle ages, but I don't think your average medieval lord expec
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by praxulus 7y ago
Scott Manley is a Software Engineer, currently at Apple.
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by praxulus 7y ago
The word "qualified" is pulling a lot of weight in your argument. You can absolutely hire a programmer for $70k if you're willing to significantly relax your standards. On the other hand, you probably wouldn't be able to
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by praxulus 7y ago
You might be right for private individuals, but it's much harder for a business, let alone a municipal government, to pay a ransom under the table and get away with it.
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by praxulus 7y ago
If a wealthy, influential person is not convicted of a murder they clearly committed, does that mean it's grossly unethical to hold anyone else accountable for murder?
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by praxulus 7y ago
Netflix and HBO don't have advertisers (well, except as providers, but not as customers).
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by praxulus 8y ago
The demand for, and thus price of, feed crops will decrease if we largely switch from real meats to plant-based substitutes, so there will be less economic incentive to grow crops on those rolling hills, not more. They could still be used t
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by praxulus 8y ago
Spending an hour in traffic each day is not exactly my idea of a high standard of living.

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