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by refurb 7mo ago
62% of adult Americans own stock.
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by refurb 7mo ago
How would a wiretap work if you sent the person notice you're listening to their phone? Clearly some criminal investigations require not notifying the suspect.
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I mean clearly that has to happen otherwise people could just refuse to participate in court hearings and be exempt from laws.
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If you work in a PE shop you’d know it’s not riskfree and that the PE firm also puts their own money up plus money raised through LPs (hence “leveraged”)
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by refurb 7mo ago
I mean, just getting new management, improving efficiency and raising prices of any business is… normal business? Whether a PE firm decides to buy it and do the same isn’t some nefarious act or special in any way, it’s just new owners. Let’
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by refurb 7mo ago
It’s a ton of work to put together a case and bring it to court - we’re talking months of research and writing for complex cases. It’s not realistic to assume the courts can strike down something days after it happens if it takes months to
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by refurb 7mo ago
I think research ranges from this paper to ones more rigorous, but the problem of "adjustments" is consistent. And the issue is not so much the research is being done, but rather how it's reported on. Scientists know the lim
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by refurb 7mo ago
This has always been the big issue I have with the conclusions draw in climate publications. I encourage anyone with strong opinion on climate change to do a deep dive on the temperature analysis. The best example I can think of is the &qu
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by refurb 7mo ago
> Someone can understand morality inherently without ever thinking about it; How so? This would infer some universal set of morality, which doesn't exist. > Anyway, this is tiring. Philosophical discussions are not something to
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by refurb 7mo ago
I'm just having an intellectual argument with you, so thanks for sharing your thoughts. In a non-theological world, the source of ethics can be anything - parents, community, study of ethhics. None of them is more valid than another -
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by refurb 7mo ago
> No, that isn’t what my comment suggests at all, on any level. I don’t think you can have intelligent ethical opinions if you disparage and ignore the field that studies ethics (philosophy.) You're not suggesting that, but then put
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by refurb 7mo ago
It's not unchecked power. The very fact the courts overturned it proof the power is checked.
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by refurb 7mo ago
Your opinion seems to suggest that unless someone has the same moral view as you they must not have any morals at all? What if their morals are “I am not responsible for how my products are used?” You may not agree, but it’s a valid ethical
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by refurb 7mo ago
It’s like cheating on a spouse, it’s not much of a claim to say “id never cheat” when there are zero opportunities to do so. Same with the claims from companies like Google - “dont be evil”. Easy to say when there is nothing on the line. B
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by refurb 7mo ago
You want to put politicians I. Jail when the courts find their action violated laws? Thats pretty much every President in the last century. They all lose court cases.
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by refurb 7mo ago
Anyone can have a Wikipedia page? There is no hurdle.
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by refurb 7mo ago
I wouldn’t assume some any index from a magazine is the end all authority on what a nation state is. I mean I can start my own magazine and create my own index however I want. Doesn’t mean it’s right.
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by refurb 7mo ago
Indeed. The Gulf states didn’t want to get involved in this war for fear of upsetting local groups, but after the attacks have now jumped on board. Iran basically has no state allies in the Middle East. Russia and China don’t seem any mor
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by refurb 7mo ago
What is rubbish is your inability to see the subjectivity in “bad actor” and “influence campaign”. I can wave my hand and make that claim about anything . “Oh those evil Americans and their influence campaign on free speech rights!”
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by refurb 7mo ago
Oh come on. Saying “no” is not eroding trust, it’s taking a stand. When the US banded human embryo research did that erode trust? I didn’t hear anything about that at the time.
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by refurb 7mo ago
I’m going to doubt your claim. Texas alone has a similar number people employed in manufacturing as CA. How CA can manufacture more when you add all the other SE states? And your statement is like saying “sure the food has poison in it, bu
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by refurb 7mo ago
I worked at a plant and the answer is yes. The EPA requires it. It can range from overflow tanks to capture spills to concrete “pools” around the entire operation that capture any catastrophic leaks and direct it to underground holding tan
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by refurb 7mo ago
The original Terminator movie doesn’t seem so far fetched now (minus the time travel).
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by refurb 8mo ago
94.5% is actually terrible. If you have a prevalence of 10 in 1000, how do the numbers shake out? Well, you test all 1,000. If we assume a 95% accuracy for false-positive and false negatives? Of the 990 that you test that don't have t
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by refurb 8mo ago
Huh? Voice of America is a basically a government organization blasting out US propaganda. The president runs VOA, it's not some separate entity he decided to censor.
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by refurb 8mo ago
I find it hilarious when people who are pro censorship bring up Karl Popper and the Paradox of Tolerance. You can tell they've never read his work because his conclusion in the end is that you should tolerate intolerance up and until
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by refurb 8mo ago
> Censoring foreign political influence and misinformation campaigns is just sane policy. That would be true if there were objective definitions of "foreign political influence" and "misinformation campaigns". But the
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Softwood lumbar from Canada. US stumpage fees are set by the market, while Canada sets a below market fee. Tariff adjusts cost of softwood lumbar from Canada to adjust for this. Where is my prize?
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Since the government controls the supplies of HDBs, it controls the price inflation. So it would be more accurate to say “housing prices are inflationary because the government wants them to be”. Yet this introduces a ton of new problems as
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by refurb 8mo ago
Huh? Article is about facial recognition. Comments says "I'm scared to go to the US because of...<article>" I response with a comment about the facial recognition and how every other country I've been to does it, b

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