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901.
by thfuran 2y ago
You should've seen the size of it. More of a USB baton really.
902.
by thfuran 2y ago
Taxes can be assessed as a percentage of production and collected as goods rather than collecting money amounting to the value of those goods.
903.
by thfuran 2y ago
It doesn't seem surprising to me. It probably ought to print ought a warning that head has detached though, like some other commands already do. That error message on the other hand seems very unhelpful. It's lingo that only makes
904.
by thfuran 2y ago
Couldn't head just detach without any consistency issue?
905.
by thfuran 2y ago
A system can break without crashing. Incorrectly processing financial transactions due to a bug in price calculations would be a good example of a serious breakage that may well be worse than crashing.
906.
by thfuran 2y ago
Lead chromate is a really great color that's not in the food supply (except occasionally illicitly in Bangladesh) largely because it's illegal. Regulation is why food is safe.
907.
by thfuran 2y ago
Possibly while being a rat.
908.
by thfuran 2y ago
Why should the population of the country even be a factor in deciding how many immigrants we'll accept from there?
909.
by thfuran 2y ago
Well, we might be winning when it comes to food dyes but I don't think it's a clear victory overall.
910.
by thfuran 2y ago
Should all things that have only benefits that you don't care about and which aren't proven to have no downsides you care about be banned?
911.
by thfuran 2y ago
Possibly, but dairy processing is heavily regulated.
912.
by thfuran 2y ago
Less cancer, mostly.
913.
by thfuran 2y ago
Isn't whisper sync the current version that relies on owning both the ebook and audiobook?
914.
by thfuran 2y ago
>If I have permission to do 150 Doing ~100 over the speed limit probably isn't considered safe, so I'd guess you don't.
915.
by thfuran 2y ago
What do you mean crashed cars from people who didn't make it? The sign is basically a "minimum speed 40 mph" sign routinely seen on the interstates but with a bit more teeth. The sides of highways aren't usually lined wi
916.
by thfuran 2y ago
Well, the other ticket was less unreasonable and there are other political discussions than US presidential elections.
917.
by thfuran 2y ago
I did last week, before I added the first contact.
918.
by thfuran 2y ago
>Nearly all political statements are violent or are calls to violence Maybe if you only listen to extremist diatribes instead of reasonable discourse.
919.
by thfuran 2y ago
No, that's a different word that doesn't work in that context.
920.
by thfuran 2y ago
We need to be building a mountain range out of diamonds.
921.
by thfuran 2y ago
I think the subsistence farmers cutting down the Amazon are doing more burning than construction.
922.
by thfuran 2y ago
Especially if the problem was due to a lack of electric grid as they're suggesting.
923.
by thfuran 2y ago
Decades of public support for treating housing as an investment shaping zoning and other related policies, the relative profitability of constructing budget vs luxury housing, and more recently, inflationary monetary policy,
924.
by thfuran 2y ago
If you're putting more of one ingredient in, you're either giving a larger product or putting in less of another ingredient. If that other ingredient was more expensive, you have decreased costs.
925.
by thfuran 2y ago
Glass can be economical to re-use, but I thought recycling it uses nearly as much energy as producing it in the first place.
926.
by thfuran 2y ago
How can you tell it isn't actually a Bic?
927.
by thfuran 2y ago
Occupant safety in a car/pedestrian collision is basically a solved problem, especially at relatively low speed.
928.
by thfuran 2y ago
Way more than 2% of software engineers in the us are earning at least two or three times the local median income and, barring lifestyle choices that prevent it, that's enough for very early retirement.
929.
by thfuran 2y ago
>Sure, like women getting educated, working, and having equal rights? That only took a few thousand years and still isn't really there yet.
930.
by thfuran 2y ago
There's something like 170,000 car fires per year in the US. It's just one of those things that's bad and too common to really make the news except maybe locally.

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