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by robocat 1y ago
> I would assume TXSE would want quick access to that order flow Perhaps Texas could use a different trading model that doesn't require ultra high speed trading. Matt Levine often mulls the idea of a system with a trading window tha
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by robocat 1y ago
> fantasy addresses Highly unrecommended if it's important or you're a repeat customer. It is easiest to pick a consistent generation scheme that helps you to remember the email address you gave. Obviously record it somewhere t
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by robocat 1y ago
> liability insurance in order to drive a car. Do you think that is justifiable? New Zealand doesn't require car insurance, and I presume there are other countries with governments that that don't either. I suspect most people
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by robocat 1y ago
Feel-good article. The idea seems like an environmental abomination. Anything can be recycled if you are willing to waste resources to do it. In this case the main waste appears to be indirect through money spent on mail and wages (and so
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by robocat 1y ago
> vanity project > trust fund baby It is rather objectionable to label people with your assumptions. Unless you have some inside information you are just making shit up based on your own judgemental bigotry. People start "hobby&q
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by robocat 1y ago
> modern death of democracy The primary key to democracy is that it allows voters to vote out unpopular autocratic politicians. Politicians don't want to give up power, but must be forced to (as seen in previous US election). The us
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by robocat 1y ago
These are usually designed for wealthy people. The benefits might only accrue to the wealthy in the target country. For example my government in New Zealand keeps talking about being able to sell land to foreigners if it's more than 2
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by robocat 1y ago
> if you can afford to pay $1 million, then you are almost certainly going to be a net benefit Have a look at the outcomes in other countries that do this. There's usually so many loopholes that any economic benefits just don't
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by robocat 1y ago
"Economically developed" doesn't imply race: you are the one bringing white up... Or perhaps you are projecting your bad impressions onto others? Developing is a fine word, with little taint. You remind me of a lady who objec
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by robocat 1y ago
Whom would care fewer?
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by robocat 1y ago
> hypertension is not contagious Common causes of hypertension are "contagious". Summary: spousal concordance: one partner’s chronic disease raises the odds the other has it too. If one spouse has hypertension, multiple stu
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by robocat 1y ago
I have yet to see my government subsidise dangerous recreations based on a cost benefit analysis. I think government costs for a retiree are about NZD27000 a year. A government should be subsidising a good deadly recreation for say NZD10000
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by robocat 1y ago
s/collision/collusion
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by robocat 1y ago
https://archive.ph/Ggc8J Personally, the forced sale appears to be a form of blackmail... US politicians want to own Tiktok so they can control influencers for their own benefit. Similar to how Musk bought Twitter (smart IM
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by robocat 1y ago
Daily limit for ATM withdrawals exists in New Zealand (NZD2000 I think). Why did they visit multiple ATMs?
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by robocat 1y ago
> "greedy" insurance companies: any major improvements will have to come from employers or government Pointless blaming employers or governments - their pockets aren't unlimited. The problem is the greedy insured. The insu
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by robocat 1y ago
Nice article about the "Honesty Tax" that you are complaining about: https://www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-honesty-tax
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by robocat 1y ago
Middle of the value chain: getting profits relentlessly squeezed if you're inbetween powerful players. Farmers have no monopoly power (and any collision would be difficult or illegal). Amazing to read it so clearly - although we see i
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by robocat 1y ago
Interesting that she saw antivax as another factor within an identity group (maybe labeled alternative or woowoo by outsiders?) I joke now about how anti-vaxxers put out feelers, little social cues that help us recognize each other at p
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by robocat 1y ago
It also selects dishonest people for honest jobs. Some of the questions as part of entry requirements for the police in NZ are too strict. The article touches on this: anyone who admitted to using marijuana — even if it was many years b
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The Honesty Tax(theargumentmag.com)
2 points by robocat 1y ago|1 comments
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by robocat 1y ago
Thanks. I've tried to encourage him to learn it. He's stubborn and isn't interested. He's had physio do it when he was hospitalized... He's mentally sharp, and has a science background, but nope!
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by robocat 1y ago
I highly recommend this to anyone who admires his writing. I read this a few months back (random find in local library) and it was fascinating to get a glimpse of the man behind the books (my favorite of which is Seeing Voices). The weirdes
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by robocat 1y ago
Summary: Fructose interferes with ATP, decreasing our metabolism https://archive.ph/lxkTL
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by robocat 1y ago
Rubbish. TDR is not a Murray loop. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_loop_bridge Spread-spectrum time-domain reflectometry (SS-TDR) is often used to locate and characterize a fault on active cables. Traditiona
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by robocat 1y ago
> home geothermal More than 900 shallow wells have been drilled at Rotorua for space and water heating for private homes, hospitals, schools, motels, hotels, and other commercial and industrial uses. At peak use, around 430 wells wer
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by robocat 1y ago
I disagree. The last sentence kinda strongly implies that there was no redundancy: "the existing brakes does not constitute a redundant system" Or from the Portuguese report: Desta forma, não constitui um sistema redundante à
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by robocat 1y ago
> In railway jargon "brake configuration" refers to "how much are you braking" I presume the quote in English is translated from the original Portuguese. I would hope it was carefully translated but I wouldn't pe
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by robocat 1y ago
Key lines: > the air brake and the manual brake were quickly applied by the brakeman of cab #1, but that in the current configuration, the brakes do not have sufficient capacity to stop the cabins in motion without their empty masses bei
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by robocat 1y ago
Humans have been refining their gibberish for centuries. I admire your idealism that "the real thing" is coherently different from good gibberish. The poisoned version of the same article is great: https://heydonworks.c

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