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by rrggrr 8y ago
Chinese leadership doesn't want Meng Wanzhou to talk, revealing the full extent of Huawei misdeeds. The new sentence for Schellenberg is - I believe - a message of solidarity for Meng's consumption and less an attempt to manipulat
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The data does not support OP's article. Here's a good synopsis of what the data does say courtesy of Joe Rogan's show. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI6rX96oYnY
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Just looked at a WeWork space today. The use case is an attractive place for a remote employee to work for us in a job that attracts (and is best done) by a highly social person. I can't get the right person leaving them at home, and I
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I'll never talk my friend and vendors into pay up front for an app, and that is why this isn't likely to succeed. You need to change the purchase model - perhaps allow an individual to buy several licenses they can distribute with
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> Military action, with its inevitable consequences to civilian populations, creates and fuels deadly threats, and therefore increases the danger that our country faces. Wrong. The United States is inexorably in conflict nations whose do
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They are NOT turning copper in to Gold. They're altering the properties of copper using a process a little like sputtering to make it resilient enough for use in applications where Gold is currently best utilized.
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Does this include state and muni debt? I imagine not.
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Fully compressed I believe the opposite poles fields begin to attract each other, counteracting the matching poles repelling one another, and explaining the alternating pull force.
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by rrggrr 8y ago
I continue to believe - as I've said in prior HN comments - that the Chinese leadership welcomes this slowdown and the related trade dispute as a means to rebalance the domestic economy, while placing the blame for the rebalancing on t
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by rrggrr 8y ago
https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/c... Let's not forget that Rome was broke when it met its demise, having debased its currency as tax revenues declined, and after taxi
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In 2006, during my second of many trips to China, I had the chance to have dinner with a banker in Beijing. A quintessential 洋鬼子, I was stunned to learn at the time that many of the loans being underwritten were based on valueless collatera
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Hypercard Harpoon (game) Drop.io Quickkeys
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I don't go anymore and here are the reasons why: 1. Arbitrage gone. The China arb on price has largely closed (as it should have) and its not a viable business strategy anymore for the markets I serve. 2. Vendor disinterest. Again, as
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Q: I'm willing to pay you $100,000 to sign a non-compete to work on the project with my company. If I don't pay, the non-compete isn't valid. Okay? A: No. Q: $500,000? A: No. Q: $1m? A: No. Q: $10m? A: Yes. The point being...
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The only counter-measure that works against polluting the polity with influence operations is earnestly educating people to be critical consumers of information. Why? Because one cannot empower government to counter-message influence operat
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The article and other sources report the majority of bankruptcies are in the dairy industry. It’s the result of US-Canadian trade disputes and overcapacity in the dairy industry which precedes the dispute. The CAD-USD exchange rate doesn&#x
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by rrggrr 8y ago
My company pays for MixMax, Zapier, Slack, Mailchimp, AWS, RingCentral, Gsuite, and more. Our purchase decision-maker (me) evaluates and buys the product, while our users are along for the ride, reserving their judgment until the merits of
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by rrggrr 8y ago
Accessing the clinician menu on most machines is accomplished by a quick Google search. I've adjusted my pressure several times to bring down AHI, or to reduce some side-effects of higher pressures as my weight comes down. Most machine
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by rrggrr 8y ago
The cold distance of virtual connection works as much against Facebook as its similarly cold, calculated attitude toward its users (and their data) as its product. Meetup (and its parent company WeWork) are every bit as for-profit as Faceb
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by rrggrr 8y ago
The diagnosis is not arbitrary and the lack of self-awareness those suffering from NPD experience places them at a disadvantage at self-diagnosis. DSM standards have moved a lot over the years, but NPD has remained largely the same. Ask a c
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"Kerr suggests allocating H-1Bs not by lottery as they are now, but by salary — the more that a company is willing to pay for a foreign worker, the quicker they can get a visa." Would need to be artfully worded so that sign-on bon
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Relevant link: https://abc7chicago.com/man-uses-blowtorch-to-kill-spiders-s... The Fresno Fire Department said a man who was house-sitting for his parents set the home on fire after he used a blowtorch to kill black widows.
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I wouldn't want to be navigating critical transportation during a dispute between China and the United States with this track record (would you?): http://fortune.com/2018/08/28/china-has-been-withholding-
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Must disagree. If you have money it is easier to find equality/justice. My favorite example: If you can afford it, you can get a license plate expressing your support for the state police (or your state bird). You can add to that frate
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by rrggrr 8y ago
How much should the federal government subsidize the continued gentrification, inequality and inflation in home prices? On the one hand liberals decry inequality. On the other hand they rage against tax reform that made it MORE costly for w
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Late 40's and above... the reality isn't pretty in tech. I'm pretty sure I've missed out on two positions because age. On the one hand, we need to protected classes to prevent discrimination. On the other hand, bad faith
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Yeah, if an adversary's missile launch has been detected. Absent that the President is required to consult with his command authority. He can then be stopped by the 25th Amendment and/or a refusal to obey and unlawful order by his
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Really? Because the South China Sea dispute is an excellent example. Nobody supports China's sovereignty claim over the disputed islands. International law and custom does not support China's claim. Who is standing up for rule of
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One can pathologize almost any President and be right. Kennedy, Roosevelt, Clinton, Reagan... from drug addiction to senility something has afflicted all of these men. Its not led to nuclear war precisely because there exists a command auth
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Which "worst impulses" are you concerned about controlling "right now"? Because the only impulse providing a check against Chinese and Russian national interests globally, is the current administration's readiness t

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