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by sb057 5y ago
I'm not quite sure that's the best equivalence. The political status quo (generally accepted by the populace) before the Russian Revolution was also extremely religiously conservative and nationalist.
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The Islands with Too Much Power [video](youtube.com)
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When the world still operated on the gold standard, gold bullion was the perfect hedge against inflation. Dollars (and pounds et al) were priced in gold, and so any inflationary measure that devalued the dollar would have a theoretically pe
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by sb057 5y ago
Interestingly, there was talk after the American invasion of re-instating the (then-still living) former king of Afghanistan who ruled the country from 1933 to 1973 when he was overthrown in favor of a democracy. It's impossible to say
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by sb057 5y ago
Sounds like a rather cannibalistic model if you ask me.
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by sb057 5y ago
From what I've heard, EBT fraud in California is incredibly simple[1], so I wouldn't be surprised if a serial arsonist wasn't also defrauding the government for kicks. [1] See also: https://www.latimes.com/cal
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by sb057 5y ago
>If I had to offer an alternative, SAMHSA, the government org focused on substance abuse seems to be under-funded and highlights numerous ways additional dollars can save lives. >So rather than scrape the bottom of barrel on making ca
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by sb057 5y ago
There's a natural predilection for some people that, when presented with bullshit (in this case "5g mIcROchIPS"), go in the complete opposite direction and start spewing bullshit themselves, but based on the opposite underlyi
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by sb057 5y ago
>Is the restriction on making bullets for sale the same as making guns? For domestic production, it's basically just a different ATF permit. The reason why there's so many shortages is because the cost of setting up a new produ
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by sb057 5y ago
>Although, I'd still like to know how "required FBI background check", which I bet all are tracked and cross-referencable with the requestor, thereby giving a synthetic key to "gun purchase" does not translate to
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by sb057 5y ago
I found this fact sheet more useful than the order itself or articles about it: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases... In the Order, the President: * Encourages the FTC to ban or limit non-comp
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by sb057 5y ago
Sounds like a general CYA license so that developers can try it out before an actual product is rolled out with a proper commercial license.
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by sb057 5y ago
Vote for politicians who will pass laws that dictate how they are to operate. Alternatively, if it is an avenue in your state, start a referendum to pass a state law calling for a Constitutional Convention (requires 34 states) to pass an am
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by sb057 5y ago
>during periods when the Romans were more racist/classist/etc they had trouble I'm afraid you might be attributing some false causality. It seems more obvious to me that during periods of peace, any social rifts are unprob
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by sb057 5y ago
>Safety is the modern day god. Modern day? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salus Fun fact: the words "Salus" and "safety" are, in fact, cognate!
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by sb057 5y ago
From what I understand, promotions at Google are largely granted at the completion of leading some kind of initiative; for example, launching a new product. The problem being that once the project lead has been promoted, they are no longer
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by sb057 5y ago
The author seems to have forgotten about YouTube Messages: https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/12446824/heads-up-...
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by sb057 5y ago
"Preliminary investigations conducted by the Chinese authorities have found no clear evidence of human-to-human transmission of the novel #coronavirus (2019-nCoV) identified in #Wuhan, #China." https://twitter.com/
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by sb057 5y ago
https://www.fiercebiotech.com/biotech/merck-s-must-do-a-new-...
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by sb057 5y ago
More than the Bible; the cedars of Lebanon were perhaps the single-most famous natural land feature in the ancient near east. You'll find references to them in virtually every ancient text of the area that has any length, including the
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by sb057 5y ago
Gold's value, however, is not derived from its industrial and other such uses. If it was, the price of gold would be somewhere in the $200/oz range. Gold is valuable because of its historical role as a monetary metal. So while gol
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by sb057 5y ago
No, but people invest in dollar-denominated assets that, should the USD become worth less, would cause a corresponding decrease in the value of said assets.
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by sb057 5y ago
While physiological effects are doubtlessly a part of it, how much of the increase is just down to the fact that driving at night, when it is hard to see, is more dangerous? According to the NHTSA, the odds (per mile) of dying in a car cras
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Siphon(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sb057 5y ago
>So out of that deal I (as a user) have gotten pretty much nothing - the developer is constantly taking my money with nothing to offer in return. If I stop paying, they'll take away the app I've paid for. That's a feature,
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by sb057 5y ago
Billions of dollars and years of financial planning were done based off of those unnamed forecasters.
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by sb057 5y ago
In this context, "currency in circulation" refers specifically to coins and paper notes, not electronic or accounting forms of dollars.
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by sb057 5y ago
Money supply is a functional equivalent of market cap and is a rather common economic measure.
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by sb057 5y ago
>Of those who switched, over 70% lacked access to Level 2 charging at home, and slightly fewer than that lacked Level 2 connections at their workplace. What in the... A Level 2 charger is less than $500 online, and requires some rather s
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by sb057 6y ago
To be fair, the ones that died weren't alive.

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