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by rory 4y ago
Thank you for the detailed explanation. This program sounds pretty dystopian.
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by rory 4y ago
Surely you mean _large_ cash transactions. If not, could you explain how this works?
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by rory 4y ago
So you're saying you're "dead certain" that Barbara Boxer, Hillary Clinton, Dianne Feinstein, etc. misunderstand what kinds of laws are and are not constitutional? Where does such a high degree of confidence come from?
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by rory 4y ago
There's really no reason I can think of that the Dems would deem the Freedom of Choice Act "not a priority" other to play political games in future presidential races. I'm convinced they basically wanted to be able to co
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by rory 4y ago
> I'm dead certain Congress couldn't before Roe, between Roe and Dobbs, or after Dobbs, not w/o a Constitutional amendment. Well, they certainly thought they could: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free
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by rory 4y ago
> The reason people are mad is because the court is relitigating long settled cases How many of those same people were mad about Obergefell, which did just that?
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by rory 4y ago
Man, it's really strange that you're spending days late-replying to anyone that voices any idea outside your narrow and unsubstantiated narrative of the pandemic. I'm not going to continue to argue (here or to your replies to
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by rory 4y ago
The horseshoe bat's range spans from Japan to Portugal. That doesn't change the fact that all the closest relatives to SARS-CoV-2 we've discovered have been found in the far south of China and Cambodia, 1-2k miles away, nor d
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by rory 4y ago
The bigger problem there is the response to 9/11, not the response to Covid.
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by rory 4y ago
The change is that western countries could put a halt on transferring incredibly dangerous technology to mainland China, since they have developed a track record of carelessness and coverups. (Wish I didn't have to say this, but this i
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by rory 4y ago
Quality comment. That person is confused about a couple things, but the main point that Wuhan is 1-2000km from the most likely places to find such a virus in the wild. It could have been brought to Wuhan in a human, in an animal to eat, in
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by rory 4y ago
Agreed, the legislative branch should push through a right to abortion matching the European standard (12-14wks). If our politicians were less cynical and self-serving, this would have already happened in redundancy to Roe .
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by rory 4y ago
I used to commute on the Charles River bike paths and esplanade. It is actually pretty great for commuting from the Allston and Harvard areas downtown, but that experience doesn't generalize to other routes around the city. And the las
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by rory 4y ago
For me, splitting the difference between boots and sneakers with hiking shoes or trail runners is usually an acceptable compromise.
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by rory 4y ago
As a fellow bigfoot, IMO for long backpacking: first pair of footwear on feet. Second pair gets tied to the outside of the backpack. Third pair gets cut.
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by rory 4y ago
"Blanketing thousands of people across the company with repeated unsolicited emails and asking them to sign letters and fill out unsponsored surveys during the work day" is markedly different from posting something on your persona
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by rory 4y ago
No need to condescend-- the gap isn't that I didn't read what you wrote, or even that I disagree. Your point is just unrelated to the situation we're talking about. A wallet is not like a bank. It's like.. well, a wallet
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by rory 4y ago
How exactly would regulation help in this case? Most countries already regulate pretty strongly against theft.
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by rory 4y ago
Europeans are very acutely that energy isn't free right now.
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by rory 4y ago
What? If anything, sports betting markets are getting less "knee jerk" over time.
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by rory 4y ago
Inflation means price growth. They are experiencing the fastest price growth.
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by rory 4y ago
At the risk of starting a flamewar... wasn't the difference actually just the pure volume of severe sickness and death? The clinical trials didn't even attempt to test viral spread, they tested prevention of symptoms. If suddenly
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by rory 4y ago
I've got a hot new product that sends a push notification to your minimum-wage caretaker from directly inside your adult diapers!
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by rory 4y ago
This response conflates the current cyclical trend with the secular assertion I questioned, so I'm going to skip over the cyclical commentary. > Going net withdrawal from net contribution with what is currently the largest, wealthi
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by rory 4y ago
That's still not a logical or empirical explanation, it's just an assertion. What evidence do you see that points to a net decrease in early-stage tech investment at retirement?
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by rory 4y ago
> As they retire that money is leaving the market I don't see how this piece follows. Why would career retirement stop rich people from investing (as LPs) in VC funds?
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by rory 4y ago
It's pretty shocking for us, too.
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by rory 4y ago
Several base 2 orders of magnitude :)
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by rory 4y ago
They had a small amount of other "stablecoins" as well [0]. I'm guessing it was some mix of an ideological opposition to holding actual USD and a desire to speculate on the ecosystem, which the market allowed for a time. [0]
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by rory 4y ago
> Nazis (a group of people noted for their desire to commit genocide) Do Charlottesville-type alt-righters actually advocate genocide, though? It seems like their thing is more moaning that they are being genocided.

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