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by topmonk 8y ago
> Do you think a politician is going to deny access to a company if it costs them nothing and makes their constituents happy? If it's risky proposition, then yes, it's better to refuse. If he accepts it and things go wrong, it&
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by topmonk 8y ago
The judge can oversee it, and if it appears anything illegal was involved, he can disallow it. With money, this is much harder, because it's difficult to determine where money really came from.
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This sort of thing seems really sad to me, From the site linked in the article, "Proper Etiquette for Quitting Your Job in Japan": Show your appreciation to every member of the company, or at least those you have been working wit
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I always thought it was a way to hide bad smells and dry out the place.
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It would easy for people to coerce others into giving up money for bail, as well. How is this worse in that aspect?
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I'm not blind, last time I checked, and in my opinion, Trump isn't racist. That whole theory seems to hang on Charlottesville and him saying there were good people on both sides. However, people forget the original purpose of the
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Do you regret anything? I'm at crossroads relationshipwise myself.
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I can see that's true, but what are you trying to get at?
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> So there is still people believing that alcohol may be healthy. It is good to understand that it is not. And that to decide to drink will have consequences. From the article: What's more, any protective health effects of alcohol
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I think the “customer being the product” happens regardless. Take a look at how credit card agencies sell people's purchase habits, or grocery store loyalty cards that do the same. It's naive to think that not every economic niche
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I don't have any hard and fast rules, but if it is a big complicated project I don't usually try and come up with a single coherent diagram of my thoughts. Instead, I start out with a node for the date, and a child node for a subj
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I agree here, but keep copious notes. I've found mind mapping software, like freemind is good for this. It will help keep you sane. Without that, IMO trying to internalize large amounts of badly written code can negatively affect your
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To contrast with the parent poster,I've had lucid dreaming before and it was a quite boring actually. Everything was muddled and blurry, nothing comparable with the real world. It felt like I was telling myself a story and my unconscio
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by topmonk 8y ago
Here is what Neil Degrasse Tyson has to say about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NEcxhPh7js And another interview: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/neil-degrasse-tyson-space-force-22253
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> Narcissism blocks profound insight How would you even measure what profound insight is, nevermind determining whether something causes its absence?
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I think you might be over generalizing. Not all jobs are like that, surely. Also, any employee who thought that way would probably never rise far in their company, hence a self fulfilling prophecy.
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I'm in my 40's and have only once received a correction that was an error on the IRS's part. I wonder why you receive so many, is your tax situation rather complicated?
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The thing that seems to be missing from this article is that even if existing customers didn't notice the gradual decline, how would they ever expect to get new customers?
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Aren't you asking Western companies to take a stand, in place of yourself? Even if your moral position is correct, there should be a law made in the USA to do what you're talking about. Otherwise, less well known companies would b
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by topmonk 8y ago
In the USA it's 98.6 F. I just converted it to Celsius and it comes to 37.0. It's interesting it's different in different places. (That's probably also why Europeans are so cold and snobbish... I kid, I kid)
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36.8 C is less than normal human body temperature.
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How long do you think it will take for our coastal lands to be flooded or our farming lands to become deserts? 10, 20 years? What do you think we'll be doing during that time? Just sitting around? > Will anyone help the US, knowing
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I disagree. Whether we record a temperature on earth or estimate the temperature of the big bang, we are dealing with the same class of rules and laws, of physics, and performing the same basic task of coming to a conclusion about the some
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> Kill off the entire species, probably not. Kill off a good percentage of us, most likely if nothing is done. What do you base that assertion on? It sounds chicken-littlish to me.
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I think Scott Adam's has the right idea on this. This is a slow moving disaster, and we can easily defeat those. If and when it gets to a breaking point, humanity will put their attention to the problem and come up with a solution. Thi
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I would think the Big Bang would probably hold the record for that...
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> It's not changing the goalposts to point out that these are not journalists, and they themselves would not call themselves journalists. What? You asked “could you easily find 5 articles or clips that are genuinely supportive and p
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No true Scotsman, eh? I didn't know the author mattered, but now it does. What's next? Written at the wrong time? Then at the wrong place? Not long enough? Too obscure? Sigh... I'm done with your treasure hunt. Now, if you&#x
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Sure, easy: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/commentary/ct-per... https://www.indystar.com/story/opinion/nation-now/2017/12/20... https://www.pol
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> <insert giant leap of logic> The justification is first mover advantage

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