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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Exactly. They spent Trillions which is insane. What I was referring to is like 12 billion just unaccounted for! https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_misappropriat... .
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
I don't know whats a more intractable problem making the government more efficient or taxing "wealth". I'm open to both but my gut instinct tells me that there would be less unintended side effects by just making the go
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
The United States makes an astounding amount of money in taxes already. Why isn't the emphasis on using the current tax dollars more efficiently? Every government institution that I have been a part of has massive amounts of waste and
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Would their kids inherit the thank you notes or would the kids have to start getting thank you notes on their own based on what they provide to the world??
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
That seems easy to work around. You could write it in such a way that it would have a live cache of peers ready to go plus also the centralized peers would always be available. I personally suspect that having centralized repos is a legacy
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
I think that hundreds of thousands of peer machines would be way faster than a few centralized repositories... right? It seems you would have essentially unlimited bandwidth.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Theres no trade schools for medicine.
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Us can certainly afford to support both Israel and Ukraine says Janet Yellen(cnbc.com)
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Thats weird thinking people work "hours". Many professionals work 50 to 60 hours a week in America or more. Their profession is essentially their life.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Are you prescibed any medications from doctors in the past? Either youre trolling or you have some delusional thinking which is a symptom of schizophrenia of some other form of thought disorder.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
> I'm currently in a hotel that lacks basic anemities like a functioning shower, paid monthly by family How does a hotel not have a shower? You sound depressed and you need to get numb and stoic and practical and focus on survival.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Makes you wonder how long theyve been able to do this
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Anecdotally: I havent changed diet one bit, actually I eat way healthier than when I was younger. And still weigh much more than when younger.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Crazy how much money these companies have to just be able to keep hiring and hiring then just cut 20% suddenly.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Theyve been advertising theyre hiring on HN for years lol
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Domesticated cats and dogs I mean.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
They both die almost immediately in the wild. lol
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
I think dogs are much smarter than cats.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Oh I didnt realize in modern times numerous cultures practiced the caste system. I thought it was just the Indian people. What other cultures in modern times practice the caste system? Sorry Im not knowledgeable about such things.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
More that the population of 5 US states. Interesting.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Wow so Cali has a higher Indian population than the population of 5 U.S. states. Guess it makes sense that they have Indian specific legislation. As the Cali Indian population grows I imagine more will begin to enter politics and well see m
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
How populated with Indian people is California if statewide legislation is being written for this?
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
so what happens?? it just hang up on the foo??
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
you either let a company like eBay manipulate prices or you have to put up with some of the human element of a marketplace which does include scams. I have never once been a victim of a scam because I'm smart enough to identify them an
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
The problem with using the government to socially engineer society is that you even if you have good intentions one way or another, you end up playing whack-a-mole with infinite possible unintended consequences. Its also like 300,000 dollar
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
I have a sneaking suspicion it could easily be done but then the big smartphone dealers wouldnt have you captured on the new phone treadmill.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Craigslist exists and used to be the main go to for stuff like that. We gotta get the eyeballs back on craigslist
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Like the Oscars and Grammy's, the Nobel Prize is based as much on cultural significance as it is on the quality of the product. Lobotomies also won the Nobel Prize because they were a cultural phenomenon of the day. JFKs sister got a l
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
Wow, thats kind of mind blowing. If the cause has been as simple as fungus this entire time. Looking forward to seeing more research on this.
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by strangesmells02 3y ago
just divide by 1000 until x < 1000 and return int(x) plus a map of number of times divided by 1,000 to MB, GB,... string. Its a O(1) operation because of limited size allowed for numeric types

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