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by soundwave106 8y ago
For a little bit of context, from what I recall, the real push towards electronic voting in the United States came after the 2000 presidential election and the controversies that happened with paper ballots and the tight recount in Florida
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"Wealthy American buys large swaths of land and donates them for preservation" is a model that happens in the United States even today, actually! And... it can be controversial, as you suggest. One recent example I can think of in
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There's enough exceptions to this broad constraint though that partisan lean may not be a terribly relevant factor. As an example, Kalamazoo, Michigan is one of the cheapest cities according to several surveys, and the city is a modest
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The less empty detail is regulatory. "Big tech" is getting increasingly scrutinized over both monopoly abuse and privacy issues. Certainly this is another piece of evidence to regulators that Google is abusing their position.
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BMI is a measurement. The ill effects of obese BMI on health is pretty much settled. The main thing I know there's been some recent controversy regarding the health risks of the edge cases of the "overweight" category. ( http
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The toxic stuff is a relatively small percentage though. If you look at Reddit's top subreddits by subscribers ( http://redditlist.com/all/ ), the biggest subs are by far dominated by general interest stuff -- humor
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That used to be the case, actually life cycles in earlier years were sometimes even shorter than that (apparently it was only a year and a half back in 2007 -- http://reconanalytics.com/2015/02/2014-us-mobile-phone
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Most music outside of the Western classical realm has heavier reliance on improvisation. Music notation there is often simplified as a result. "Chord charts" or "lead sheets" are common in jazz where only the melody is n
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But that's not the survey they used. A search on Mintel reveals surveys on pet ownership that seem targeted for consumer research and pet industry (eg: https://store.mintel.com/americas-pet-owners-us-august-2018 and h
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Tight media bubble? Hmm. If I made an equivalent comment similar to coldtea's, one detailing a list of China's sins, on Chinese social media... place your bets on whether or not this post would be removed by the government censors
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My understanding is that it is possible, but involves a lot of bureaucratic red tape. ( https://www.factcheck.org/wp-content/cache/wp-rocket/www.fac... ) I imagine that in some locales, the political climate
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"Consonant" and "dissonant" are words that are indeed a bit too specific to the European music pedagogy as a whole. But I would argue that the "whole integer ratio" principle does actually extend a fair bit bey
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Bison's probably the best example I can think of regarding an animal, whose population recovery has hugely been driven by that purpose. There are small select herds of wild bison in protected areas, and I imagine that would be the case
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One crucial thing I think colleges often offer that helps, on top of the education of course, is the college connections with the business community... which for the student may gain you access to things like employment internships and post
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The only foolproof-ish way of knowing what is inside a tablet is tests done by some rather precise, expensive equipment that separates elements into their component parts (chromatography), and then analyzes the mass of the separated compo
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From what I'm seeing, moving from terrible insulation to decent insulation is an excellent idea. Moving from decent insulation to excellent insulation... maybe not so much. There is a point of diminishing returns where more R values in
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My only personal thought is to use as many resources as you can to plan. A lot of places have Tripadvisor forums as well as other old school forums or other pages on the Internet where you can get deeper options than many guidebooks can pro
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The specific use case for equal temperament is more or less how do make a fixed tuning instrument sound "good enough", without resorting to a very large amount of keys or buttons to adjust the tuning so the chords sound right. Alt
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First Google I came up with the psychological profile of a conspiracy theorist is here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5724570/ Lots of interesting points IMHO. It is mentioned that those who &q
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by soundwave106 8y ago
...and although this doesn't show the nitty gritty details, that certainly explains why Microsoft is interested in this sort of thing. Four fake sites do look like government or think tank domains. But the other two reference OneDrive
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Now that's a funny drive-by down-vote. Normally (rant mode on) it is my opinion that most drive-by down-votes are by lazy cowards who think someone's opinion is wrong, but is unwilling to debate (probably because their counter-arg
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Yes, this is because, a small restaurant can use just Spotify or another music service and not have to pay the license fee. This doesn't apply to larger establishments. ( https://www.restaurant.org/Manage-My-Restaurant&#
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Although no law will prevents all scams, some European governments do have much stricter laws on when you can "cold call" period. In Germany, for instance, thanks to legislation passed a decade ago, I believe the customer needs to
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I'm not sure why you were downvoted, this isn't entirely incorrect per se. In political dialog, too often "socialism" and "communism" are equated together in this country incorrectly. Venezuela and Sweden usual
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There's actually a technical difference between tube and transistor amplifiers in the way they overload, which is probably the primary reason why musicians might "prefer" tubes, actually. (I wouldn't call it necessarily
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From a business point of view I'm sure they would prefer no minimum wage at all. But there are obviously more factors to consider besides business. Obviously there is such a thing as too high of a minimum wage, that will severely dampe
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However, governments these days provide a safety net to guard against poverty (because, based on Gilded Age history, the alternative is worse). Employees who are paid substandard wages often simultaneously qualify for the government safety
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A couple of qualifiers: A) This only refers to income tax, and does not count more regressive federal taxes (FICA) or state taxes (sales tax). It's interesting that I can easily find sites with aggregate tax distribution by income leve
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This isn't really a good argument for the parent IMHO, which deals specifically with middle income workers. Unfortunately I can't find an exact chart with details on the % of transfer payments devoted to each category, but my best
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From an attendee perspective I do remember those all night events to be quite fun, so I suppose that's why people do this. :) Honestly when I was younger, I was able to handle odd hours easier (that, or my tolerance for being sleep-dep

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