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For the benefit of others, it appears that "WRA" refers to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Revenue_Act_of_1917 This was surprisingly hard to determine, as it appears this is one of very few such reference
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In case anyone else was curious, I found this webpage about the limits of free speech in Belgium very helpful, particularly the examples: https://www.unia.be/en/areas-of-action/internet/the-limits-o...
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> Several of them died on the tour essentially of exertion and dehydration. In case anyone was curious, four cyclists have died during the Tour de France. One drowned during a rest day (in 1910) and two crashed in different ways (in 193
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In case anyone else was curious, the relevant paragraph in the guidelines appears to be the following: > Please don't impute astroturfing or shillage. That degrades discussion and is usually mistaken. If you're worried about it
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> a business situation requiring an escort https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17453554
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In case anyone was curious, https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/literally states R"(This type of usage is common in informal speech ("she was literally in floods of tears") and is attested since 1769.)&quot
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For some context in case anyone was curious, this New York Times article from 1991 discusses the collusion this post is presumably referring to: https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/23/us/ivy-universities-deny
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The phenomenon you describe is not new. Discrimination law differs by jurisdiction, but there are various protected classes that may be seen as " optional things people choose ". People will not agree on precisely which such cla
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The use of the word "equal" is reminiscent of the most famous of the seven commandments: "All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
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I can imagine a Democrat saying "Barron will be this country’s first homeschool shooter".
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This page makes the case that Boeing's large commercial aircraft division is subsidized in some detail: http://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/html/146484.htm
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> Apart from the British, which other country has contributed to more invasions in foreign countries for the sake of purely economic interests? The "purely economic interests" qualifier makes your question difficult to answer,
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The post in question includes the following: > When asked in the earning call last week about reservations and how many people chose to cancel/take up their car once offered, Musk stunningly called the question "boring" an
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Your parent comment used a definition of four people shot. If you use the number of people killed (excluding the perpetrator), then depending on how medical care goes, the YouTube shooting today might involve 0 deaths. Nonetheless, it re
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For some context in case anyone is interested: the most recent prominent mass murder in Australia was indeed using a vehicle rather than a gun (6 people in January 2017), but there have been mass shootings in the last 30 years as well.
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In case anyone else was curious about the statistics quoted in this post, they do not match the references cited by the post itself (nor other sources). For example: > Niger's populations has doubled from 11 to 22 million over just
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The threshold was $100 in Louisiana in 1996 for the case referenced: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16607471
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> have been stripped of constitutional rights, often for infractions as minor as stealing a coat For some context in case anyone was curious, please see the page numbered 116 (but 118 of 240 of the PDF) from this report from the ACLU: h
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For some context in case anyone was curious: according to old news articles, the average weekday ridership in 1989 was ~3.7 million rides per day. It is ~5.7 million rides per day now. Ridership in the past few decades has increased faster
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For some context in case anyone is curious, two sentences later the article reports that "Bouncers opened it immediately after the fire broke out". The door in question's main problem appears to have been that bouncers wouldn
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For some context in case anyone was curious, my calculations suggest that ~3/4 of China = ~1 billion people are in the main band of GMT+8 (or slightly east), ~1/4 = ~300 million people are naturally in GMT+7, and only ~2% = 25 mil
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"Do no evil" has never been part of Google's motto. "Don't be evil" was and still is: https://abc.xyz/investor/other/google-code-of-conduct.html
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In case anyone is interested, Google's latest (2017 Q4) earnings press release is here: https://abc.xyz/investor/pdf/20171231_alphabet_10K.pdf They quote, "Effective tax rate 138%".
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In case anyone was curious, Wikipedia says Trump received 37,688 votes in (the city and county of) San Francisco, which was 9.3% of the votes counted. The 2010 Census counted 48,870 African Americans in San Francisco, which was 6.1% of the
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In case anyone is curious, the sentence spoken by Hillary Clinton on December 8, 2016 is "Bipartisan legislation is making its way through Congress to boost the government's response to foreign propaganda, and Silicon Valley is st
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However, you need to receive a text message to use the free Wi-Fi, rendering the service less useful for tourists. So it's for some valley where you have a cell plan including SMS, but not decent data.
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> Actually there are plenty of companies who are both larger and wield considerably more power/influence [than Apple]. Apple has had the greatest market capitalization of any publicly traded company for the past five years (with a f
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In case anyone is curious, https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2015/04/30/balti... appears to be the source (or something similar) for the final sentence.
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The New York Times is happy to make that "heck of a leap" as well, albeit with slightly more cautious wording: https://nytimes.com/2017/12/21/technology/eric-schmidt-googl...
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For some context, this article in the New York Times presents essentially the same theories/discussion: https://nytimes.com/2017/12/21/technology/eric-schmidt-googl...

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