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>how does the linked NYT article support your position that fraud was committed at that site? I never affirmatively said fraud happened. I have no idea. What the link proves quite conclusively that there is the appearance of some BS goin
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5y ago
>Your comment was about three brothers where the third was complaining that he was working too much and that the first was working too little. To demonstrate the progressive tax system. Completely valid to the real world. >All the exa
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5y ago
>Of course it's a gaffe. I don't see it that way. Let's discuss the gaffe deeper, as I said it requires significantly more explanation. >Biden is visibly affected by senility. I'm not a doctor and haven't diag
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5y ago
>What happens? Everyone works 40 hours. The people who work 20 hour weeks are upset and certainly dont work any additional amount. Daycare probably booms as a business. Productivity plummets to tremendously low levels, economies collapse
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5y ago
>Long before we get to something like a 90% tax bracket, we could have the very wealthy pay the same rates as regular folks. Flat tax for all! >Anyway, I don't see why a billionaire shouldn't have a 90% bracket. Lets ignore
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5y ago
>This is insane. One side is doing everything they can to rig elections The democrats? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGRnhBmHYN0 that's not a gaffe. If you assert it's a gaffe, you must now explain a ton more
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5y ago
>From an outsider's perspective, the leadership of one party recently tried to hang on to power by a variety of underhanded means, and in fact continues to deliberately undermine faith in US democracy itself. I am also an outsider.
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5y ago
They were anticompetitive using multiple illegal tricks. Their competitors like dailymotion or vimeo couldn't compete for years. Now that google is under antitrust investigation around the world. They have started operating properly an
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5y ago
>housing is not stocks, thus you cant think like a house is a stock. They are a leveraged investment that lacks the price discovery and liquidity stocks provide. Even better :) >imagine a 1m$ house. you have to put 200k$ down into a s
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5y ago
>The moon is a harsh mistress by Robert A Heinlein That looks good, haven't read it. THANKS!
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5y ago
I feel like in situations where you say 'propagate' you understand it's wrong but it's going to translate to other people well. Those other people also understand it's an impossible question to truly answer. If DNS
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5y ago
>I’ll start off by saying that I work 60 hours a week, at least. Too much, even if you want to work that much. Do 40 for your primary and then 20 where you are your own boss. >Based on the neighborhood I live in and my compensation, I
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5y ago
Here's my recommendations without any particular order and just books ive read recently and havent sorted into the library. Factfullness by Hans rosling: The world is awesome, stop focusing on some tiny negatives that are being mispres
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5y ago
>And I've also seen that diet and lifestyle choices can definitely affect the severity of a flare, especially the feelings and symptoms. Which diets have you tried? >But they cannot 'cure' Crohn's or put it in remi
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5y ago
Interesting idea, but very difficult to account for so many other major factors. First time i've read about the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yersinia idea. Flipside, I feel like the theory is just finding a sidel
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5y ago
>I'm not advocating bullet but perhaps they could try 30 minute matches instead? Other time controls is already a thing. Personally a huge rapid fan. I think Fisher was right. The problem is just prep and theory. If we still have cl
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5y ago
Oh wow this is the Syriza minister of finance. >In other words, I shall argue that Bitcoin is not fit for purpose under capitalism, or as a vehicle toward transcending capitalism, but something like Bitcoin will characterise monetary sys
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5y ago
>I'm all for reduction in the size of bureaucracies and addressing financial issues realistically. I feel people misunderstand these issues so often, everyone just wants bigger government always. What happened during Mcguinty was we
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5y ago
>Wow, why is there the wage cap when nursing has long been an issue in Ontario? I wonder who thinks this stuff up and thinks they are somehow saving money by doing this. It just generates inefficiencies and unintended side effects. Bill
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5y ago
>What we're seeing here is one of the wealthiest countries in the world with a population of > 80M people crumbling over a few thousand ICU patients because of long-standing issues that were never addressed. So I'm kind of s
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5y ago
22 degrees? celcius? Currently im trucking 4 monitors. I am planning to buy a 43" 4k tv and drop down. Anyone else try this? Does it work out?
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5y ago
Something that blew my mind. https://www.yahoo.com/news/kyle-rittenhouse-says-andrew-yang... Rittenhouse stayed out of the politics for the trial(very smart) and later he revealed that he was in the "Yang Gang&quo
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5y ago
>Yes. And that might suit a (hypothetical) hidden agenda. I just don't think the authorities are smart or cynical enough to foresee and plan something like that (in Denmark) What is hidden or hypothetical about it? https:/
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>the lab leak hasn't been disproven yet. I was kind of unclear here intentionally. The source being wild has been disproven. This leaves lab leak as the only viable theory. So while it hasnt been proven, it sure as hell is the curre
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5y ago
>Another article ruined. I can't read further after that, if the author is wrong about that, he might also be wrong on things i'm not an expert on, so i won't be able to take anything i read on this seriously. People shoul
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>Yeah I'm OK with Wikipedia being biased against misinformation. Early in the pandemic, a conspiracy theory emerged that the virus had been bio-engineered by China at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. One early source of this theory
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5y ago
Here's a pretty good article from US point of view providing many examples: https://larrysanger.org/2020/05/wikipedia-is-badly-biased/
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5y ago
I've considered going to ergonomics and/or dvorak and such but is it really going to help? I need a better desk, better chair, better posture. You know what we need to do instead? Brain computer interface. Remove the whole keyboar
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5y ago
I can't even get to self-publishing. I'm not going to spend money on editing something that probably will never recoup the cost. If I don't pay for editing, it's going to be trash. Been considering throwing my books in a
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5y ago
Good article by paul krugman: https://outline.com/FTZ8eN Basically in the article he outlines what the economists didn't get right and then pointed out that globalization caused virtually all income inequality. That th
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