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by tareqak 7y ago
Could you please be a bit more specific about what you are trying to say?
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Facebook Hit by Apple’s Crackdown on Messaging Feature(theinformation.com)
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Japan's FTC investigating Apple over pressure on parts makers: Mainichi(reuters.com)
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Florida boy calls 911 to order pizza, gets lesson and a pie(apnews.com)
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There is still no link between video games and violence(apnews.com)
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by tareqak 7y ago
It is not as simple as you make it out to be. United States v. Microsoft Corporation, 253 F.3d 34 (D.C. Cir. 2001),[1] was a noted American antitrust law case in which the U.S. government accused Microsoft of illegally maintaining its monop
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by tareqak 7y ago
You could say the same about a state or municipality not having a sales tax: it has has an effect on interstate commerce, ergo the federal government is allowed to force each state or municipality to have a sales tax of some kind. (Or, I’m
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by tareqak 7y ago
It’s so that a future government can’t sell that land to someone else to cut down the trees and develop it. That can still happen with private ownership, which is why I had the idea of giving concessions that would have to be paid back to d
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by tareqak 7y ago
It would, but China might be close to the point where it wants to start to transition to a more service-based economy. In that case, they can use the stronger currency to buy the resources they require and establish favourable trade agreeme
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by tareqak 7y ago
If something like what is described in the article ever became true, then I really hope someone invents something like APR for credit cards for these kinds of arrangements.
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by tareqak 7y ago
Google’s main source of revenue generation wasn’t happening in China, and Google still had room to grow in other countries around the world.
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China can start selling their U.S. treasury bonds, no?
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OK, how about mandatory cash prices for non-emergency care?
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by tareqak 7y ago
No problem. A lot more Canadian engineering undergraduates find the whole Iron Ring and ethics stuff to be some kind of Koolaid than I'd like to admit. I am interested in learning more about that team that won a prize for the cellphone
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I personally think ethical behaviour needs to be rewarded and unethical behaviour needs to be punished so that the cost-benefit analysis fits what we all want to see in the world. Otherwise, we get what we don’t want.
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I graduated from a Canadian engineering undergraduate program in software engineering, and I have my Iron Ring. The ethics in the more established branches engineering (chemical, electrical, mechanical) are definitely not pretend, and are m
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Aggregating results of computation performed via standalone complex [0]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_in_the_Shell:_Stand_Alon...
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by tareqak 7y ago
The best thing that I can think of is to reach out to all the different colleges and universities and see if and when they hold any sort of career fairs / career information sessions for their about-to-graduate students. There are also
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by tareqak 7y ago
N.B. Crazy idea follows: I wonder if there would be a away for the government to allow people to purchase land at a reduced cost and tax-free (sales and property taxes) for the sole purpose of planting trees. Land purchased this way would b
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Pay out several months of severance to each innocent employee.
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by tareqak 7y ago
For 4., I’m pretty sure Canada has a similar verification process. It’s whether or not the U.S. considers that process to be the same with in terms of standards, or a threat to whatever vested interests the U.S. verification process protect
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by tareqak 7y ago
From your comment, I’m not sure if you are downplaying the high price of medication in the United States or simply stating a fact, so I’m going to clarify (apologies on my part). Reducing 1.6% of the aggregate healthcare spending isn’t the
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by tareqak 7y ago
It is not twenty weeks to see any doctor: it is twenty weeks to go from a referral from a general practitioner to receiving treatment from a specialist [0][1][2]. I’m not sure if things like consultations are counted are as treatment or not
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As crime dries up, Japan’s police hunt for things to do (2017)(economist.com)
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Loophole allows families to get aid meant for needy students(apnews.com)
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Chrome 76: Flash blocked by default, detecting Incognito mode disabled(venturebeat.com)
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I agree: there is no such thing as "the perfect crime" and the use of end-to-end encryption does not make it so. What there is a however is a lack of good, old-fashioned police-work in criminal cases where the police run up agains
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Section 2 Reporting to the FEC b) Reporting meetings with foreign governments or their agents doesn't specify who had to have initiated the meeting, only that a meeting took place.
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It's an extra check on the whole system with a known cost. People could voluntarily go on exchange trips to other countries when they have their elections. If foreign election monitors state that some places didn't have enough bal
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I might be in the minority on this issue, but I personally think it is reasonable for a political candidate to be investigated prior to running for office once they publicly announce that they are running . Tax returns, felonies, misdemean

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