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by three14 5y ago
Rich people don't usually get handouts from the government, but they get something more valuable - a social order, enforced by the government, that allows them to be rich. Suppose you were rich, but you lived in a place where rich peop
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by three14 5y ago
This is not a good-faith simplification of the situation in Gaza.
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by three14 5y ago
You are arguing that bombs killing less than 0.02% of Palestinian children is going to solve Israel's demographic problem and Israel would like to do that despite all the abuse they will receive from the rest of the world for doing so?
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by three14 5y ago
I don't understand your argument. You want to point out that this is terrible, and in an ideal world, no one should be bombing anyone? Of course! That doesn't mean you should say, e.g. that Israelis are cannibals just because cann
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by three14 5y ago
I'd like to think I would have resisted responding, but I see another response that doesn't answer your question, so, oh well- The dictionary seems to use "murder" for premeditated killing. Even if you think Israelis are
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by three14 5y ago
Whatever criticism Israel may or may not deserve over its current bombing campaign, you aren't going to convince anyone if you misuse phrases like "murdered in cold blood". That's just not what those words mean.
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by three14 5y ago
Google Docs seems so bare-bones. I recently couldn't find a way to format a series of chunks of text within a Google Doc as code, and I'm pretty sure that it simply doesn't support styles for anything but headings and body te
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by three14 5y ago
Normally I wouldn't comment just to say the equivalent of +1, but I hadn't encountered "The Inner Ring" before, and it's great! Thanks for the recommendation.
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by three14 5y ago
I didn't notice the contrast problem until seeing the GP comment, but I suspect that speckled backgrounds are worse than a solid #E8F7FA because they mess with people's ability to do edge detection when trying to see the shapes of
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by three14 6y ago
I thought that making concrete releases a lot of CO2, at least while making cement. Why do concrete producers want to buy CO2?
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by three14 6y ago
No. I think I covered that with "the markets are so large that it's usually hard for a supplier to form a monopoly or a few to form oligopoly."
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by three14 6y ago
If you found yourself in a situation where getting food or shelter now was a matter of life and death, and you effectively had only one supplier, it would. But you usually have time to find alternatives, and usually can skip the shelter a
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by three14 6y ago
Since half this thread gives workarounds, and since I had the same problem, I'll share my workaround: you can tell Google that a particular contact is your wife. There's a "relationship" field in contacts. Now I can say
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by three14 6y ago
The linked analysis is rather outdated - it mentions that if video over IP becomes popular, perhaps the conclusions might change. And the article itself points out that it might be important for ISPs to feel the threat of net neutrality r
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by three14 6y ago
Prices are still associated with the prices that a local will pay. Money launderers don't want to lose dirty money any more than anyone else wants to lose clean money. They depend on there being a buyer at a price near what they paid.
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by three14 6y ago
> 3. If the asset being purchased is a home, incentives between buyer and seller are aligned and prices are higher than the non-laundering market would support (esp if there's another launderer who's interested). This is true b
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by three14 6y ago
On the one hand, this is a fascinating perspective. On the other it's clearly historically incorrect. The Bible already talks about land ownership, and at least by the time of the Talmud they had rental and sharecropping, long before f
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by three14 6y ago
> To take the simplest idealized example, if the production of goods and services is unchanging, and people's needs are unchanging, the only possible source of price changes is a change in the money supply. There are other possibili
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by three14 6y ago
Wikipedia seems to think that Azolla might be neurotoxic.
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by three14 6y ago
This doesn't look to me like a dynamic typing problem. All the types are Javascript numbers. The issue probably stems from Math.pow's flexibility; it can even accept fractional exponents. The more general algorithm is probably slo
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by three14 6y ago
Because you don't directly set real estate prices based on the buyer's income. You simply sell to the highest bidder. The bidders look at their own income and decide what to pay. If all the bidders have more money, the price will
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by three14 6y ago
The real arbitrage opportunity is for a competitor to DoorDash to place orders through DoorDash, and pay the delivery person a small fee plus let the delivery person collect the DoorDash fee. You could scale this up to huge numbers. Curious
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by three14 7y ago
The article explains - in the US, the eggs are washed, which removes a protective layer from the eggs. They are therefore less safe when kept at room temperature than in other countries.
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Mapping Coronavirus, Responsibly(esri.com)
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by three14 7y ago
It's actually discussed in the manual - see https://apps.ankiweb.net/docs/manual.html#catching-up The basic idea is that Anki lets you create decks using search terms, so you create a deck of cards that came due i
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by three14 8y ago
I think your math is off. If I have a $100 endowment, I have $4 to spend. If I have $1500, I have $60 to spend, 15 times as much as $4.
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by three14 8y ago
I am suspicious of the 12,000 snail number. I see that people nowadays who make a similar dye from snails called tekhelet need around 30 snails for each yarn they dye, which I would guess would extrapolate to the 12,000 being for an entire
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by three14 9y ago
You only can switch like that sometimes, and it would have been more intuitive if there was an implicit per-branch stash and stash pop when switching branches, which would always let you switch. See https://stackoverflow.com&#x2F
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by three14 9y ago
Thanks for explaining this. Until this comment I hadn't understood why LEED should be expected to have a real effect.
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by three14 10y ago
Note that if you click on the time next to the comment to open the page for the comment, you can click "vouch" and at least help save the individual comment.

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