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by raincom 5y ago
Lebanon imports food. Who will provide them USD or EUR? Sure, exporters can. However, whatever they export accounts for 10% of imports. Basically, other countries have to donate food to Lebanon at this moment.
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by raincom 5y ago
That’s one way to look at the phenomenon. Parents want to have their kids achieve what they could not achieve due to mistakes or because of bad mentoring. They want to give a leg up for their kids. If one wants to win a game that has outsiz
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by raincom 5y ago
As long as the third-party doctrine exists along with privatization of surveillance, "privacy is dead".
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by raincom 5y ago
There is a third question, which is mixture of both of your questions: are local weather systems impacted by global warming?
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by raincom 5y ago
Not that interesting. The gist of the blog is this: "I know some code is wrong, and I want to avoid it in production. Code that doesn’t typecheck doesn’t run. Therefore, I write types so that this code does not typecheck." This re
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by raincom 5y ago
Just based on the summary, it is an interesting book. Learning is involved even in perception.
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by raincom 5y ago
Many drug cartels in Mexico get their training from the retired army personnel from Israel, USA. So, what can the USA/Israel do in such a case? Either ban any training given by retired folks; or give fat pensions to such people and mak
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by raincom 5y ago
>The current engineers have 0 incentives to help the new ones. Most people don’t have the chops (technical or emotional) to go up against a whole team. This is why companies want to hire rockstars who can be productive in a couple of mon
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by raincom 5y ago
it is not as easy as it sounds. When your farming land is next to forests, you get these wild pigs. You can't hunt them at nights every day. And your digging option or building a 6 foot wall is not profitable. In India, people just set
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by raincom 5y ago
Exactly. In the third world, politicians demand at least 10% cut.
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by raincom 5y ago
Those (in this case, the general) who implicitly consent to doing wrong, should not preach others. If this said general had resigned to protest the USA's support for Saudi, yes, one can listen to his 'sayings'.
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by raincom 5y ago
Why should Israeli weapon manufacturers be held to higher evaluative standards than others? Whataboutism is useless to answer this question; it is a stick to beat your opponents in order to stop pursuing this line of questioning.
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by raincom 5y ago
That's what the third-party doctrine is. It is a legal way to circumvent the fourth amendment.
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by raincom 5y ago
“Used to”, because Fry’s electronics does not exist anymore. Fry’s management did not have MBAs, btw.
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by raincom 5y ago
Fry's electronics used to schedule their workers like this. - Either Saturday or Sunday off - No consecutive days are off - two openings (start around 7 or 8 am, end by 3 or 4 pm) - two closings (start around 2 pm, end by 10 pm or so)
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by raincom 5y ago
Do you think these $500 homes are habitable?
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by raincom 5y ago
When PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional) ruled Mexico, things were stable. There was a plaza system. Whatever you see in India today is a microcosm of such a plaza system in Mexico. As PRI lost power, also because of the kingpin str
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by raincom 5y ago
Great example. This is also an issue many doctors treating terminally ill patients. Of course, it is true that the patient will die in a month or two. What should a doctor do? Tell the truth to the patient to screw him emotionally? Or keep
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by raincom 5y ago
Legalese: "Asked about the new DNA evidence, Rutledge repeatedly insisted Lee was "lawfully executed" and pointed to the testimony of an eyewitness who purportedly saw Lee enter Reese's home that day and then leave, &quo
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by raincom 5y ago
It is real, not fiction. Oliver Sacks' "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain" contains a similar case, read "In the moment, music and amnesia". In one of the Sack's talks on youtube, I heard his hypothesi
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by raincom 5y ago
It is called "third-party doctrine". It is a loophole for "fourth amendment".
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by raincom 5y ago
Usually, life experiences along with learning impact how one control their feelings. The more one lives, the more one experiences, the more one learns.
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by raincom 5y ago
A similar analogy from MacIntyre's After Virtue is also apt: "Imagine that the natural sciences were to suffer the effects of a catastrophe. A series of environmental disasters are blamed by the general public on the scientists.
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by raincom 5y ago
Here is a book that describes various 'corrupt' schemes: Corruption and Racketeering in the New York City Construction Industry: The Final Report of the New York State Organized Crime Taskforce Here is a pdf the report: https:&#x
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by raincom 5y ago
This percentage scheme is there forever. Even L&T IDPL has to pay kickbacks; here, L&T pays to Chief ministers, etc. However, if one wants to pull off 2000 crores ($300M USD) scam, it is done through banks. Here are two recent examp
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by raincom 5y ago
Very true. One launders money when the money is dirty. Money laundering requires placement of "raw cash", which is dirty. In this particular cash, the source of money is NOT "raw cash". Sure, Ihor took loans with the int
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by raincom 5y ago
Banks don't benefit from these schemes. Nor do they sell these loans to third parties either in bulk or in tranches. In India, major banks are partly owned by the government, even though these banks are listed on their stock exchanges.
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by raincom 5y ago
The scheme Ihor Kolomoisky perpetrated is very popular in the third world countries. In India, for instance, many politicians and industrialists take loans worth hundreds of millions of dollars from the public banks for their supposed proje
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by raincom 6y ago
There are tons of chicken farmers in the world who love to exchange their chickens for the US dollars. However, the same farmers don't want to sell their chickens for Zimbabwian dollars. USD has the world reserve currency status, that&
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by raincom 6y ago
That's why scientific revolutions happen, since researchers in the existing research program(paradigm) don't want to give up the core hypotheses, by protecting these core hypotheses by auxiliary hypotheses to withstand any critici

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