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Auckland surgeons must now consider ethnicity in prioritising patients(nzherald.co.nz)
40 points by tomohawk 3y ago|10 comments
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Thailand's National Animal Is Pushing Back Against Habitat Loss(spiegel.de)
4 points by tomohawk 3y ago|0 comments
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Starting about a year ago, western news sources markedly reduced coverage. There coverage wasn't that great anyway - mostly people hanging around Moscow, Berlin, or Kiev and reporting what they heard. The few outlets that continued a
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by tomohawk 3y ago
A link from the article says: > A major threat to the cave is that the government plans to commercialize it by installing transportation systems like cable cars. This would take away from the natural beauty and wonder of the cave. The lo
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by tomohawk 3y ago
It's pretty clear that amazon is pretty far down this path. If they cared about their customers, they would stop being a launderer for fake goods and would stop abetting predatory behavior. If they cared about their business customer
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Illustrates how rule keeping in the absence of grace is a dead end.
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IRS Email Corroborates Whistleblower's Claims About DOJ Interference(freebeacon.com)
2 points by tomohawk 3y ago|0 comments
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by tomohawk 3y ago
A family member was a NY fire fighter many years ago. The Soviets had a lot of people at the UN, and they had diplomatic plates. They would park wherever they wanted, often blocking things. There was nothing the police could do. The fire
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Impossible to caricature, but the Bee tries. https://babylonbee.com/news/hunter-avoids-jail-time-after-pl...
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by tomohawk 3y ago
This sort of thing can have a really bad failure mode. If the government is running the utility who do you go to if service is bad? Where we live, we used to have the trash collection done by the government. That did not work. Trash was
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Fraud in H-1B Visa Programs(breitbart.com)
3 points by tomohawk 3y ago|0 comments
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by tomohawk 3y ago
That's a good point. One way to look at Starlink is as a proxy to the cost of government bureaucracy and oligopolies and monopolies that restrain trade. It's actually cheaper and more effective to build Starlink than it is to ar
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by tomohawk 3y ago
If you look at the situation now, there's a small number of plutocrats such as Bezos who have captured most of the important tech workers in a small number of firms. They are building mechanisms that enable control through the smalles
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by tomohawk 3y ago
This is one of many reasons why you should never talk to police. There's nothing you can say that will better your position, and almost anything you do say will hurt your position. Famous video: https://www.youtube.com&#x2
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by tomohawk 3y ago
> increased time to market I've seen people spend days and days trying to save a few hours of paper design time. We often do quick paper or marker board designs, which often have some UML. You don't want to spend more than 10%
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by tomohawk 3y ago
That would explain the Russian ships that were spotted at the location prior to the explosions. https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-nord-stream-putin-ex... When in doubt, trust actual observations over "intelligenc
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by tomohawk 3y ago
I hate checking baggage in the US. It gets lost, stolen, delayed. It's inconvenient. I hate boarding planes in the US. Everyone is carrying as much junk as they can. Japan is the opposite. Boarding is convenient and quick, and most
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by tomohawk 3y ago
The past several years have shown that while the intentions of FISA are probably good, it is too easy to abuse. The FBI and many high government officials have abused FISA again and again. Crossfire hurricane is just one obvious instance.
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Austrian Colonel Markus Reisner Gives Ukraine Brief(youtube.com)
1 points by tomohawk 3y ago|0 comments
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by tomohawk 3y ago
It's pretty clear. There was no love lost between the Jews and Romans. The civilizations developed independently, and the survival of Judaism required rejection of the Roman world view in most things.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Christianity promoted this teaching: "There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free, there is no male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus" This was a radically different teaching from other world view
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Carthage was a Phoenician colony. The Phoenicians (Sidon, Tyre) were independently described by other cultures as having a national cult that sacrificed children. These descriptions are preserved in the Bible. The struggle with this cult
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by tomohawk 3y ago
And not much motive to develop it. Slaves were abundant and the practice was widely accepted in paganism. This skewed the economics to favor making use of them.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
With an abrupt change like this, you can likely quit "with cause" and draw unemployment.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Quote is from Russia representative to UN. Not interesting.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
The Russian takeover of the zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has pushed it to the edge of another catastrophe.
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by tomohawk 3y ago
Who's John Galt?
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by tomohawk 3y ago
It's best not to be there. They will prey upon your (and others) instinct to be sympathetic. If you have to be there, start looking around for a different situation. In the meantime, work on building up allies with others and document
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by tomohawk 3y ago
No clear win - only trade offs. Ultra long range is about 450 - 500 miles for an EV costing $138,000. This range is a normal and expected range for a non-EV car costing a fraction of that. Good marketing, though. Charging stops are still
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by tomohawk 3y ago
The Russian army is infamous for looting toilets. Why toilets? Most likely because the referenced graph is correct. They want them and the government is more interested in war than providing basic things like water. https://eu

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