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901.
by twelve40 4y ago
shrug why is this so surprising? it was never a well-off society, most people in Kenya today for example probably have to bust their ass their whole life and still may not be able to get a car. but hey, if you want to keep believing that th
902.
by twelve40 4y ago
sure, the next line after your quote says they realized it's not enough and massively ramped up production in the 70s. there was never a ban or stigma on private cars, it's simply a very expensive and wasteful way to move people,
903.
by twelve40 4y ago
17 million privately owned cars in 1991, about 1/5 per capita than Europe at the time. Unless you are talking about 1948, when the country was a burnt-out desert recovering from 30 million war dead.
904.
by twelve40 4y ago
no, I did not commit that fallacy because I haven't made any claims whatsoever, just asking a few questions. As it happened, I don't even have any strong opinions on this, just curious. To me, trying to cover up a (beginning) rece
905.
by twelve40 4y ago
Surprisingly, I don't think I would do anything much different but double down. List the companies you like, throw out the ones that have a freeze, start from the bottom for practice, double down on prep.
906.
by twelve40 4y ago
like acting out what the others wrote in parables? he does have a point begging from a statue, for example
907.
by twelve40 4y ago
But she also doesn't look stupid, PhD in economics from Yale. Is she purposely misleading everybody then? but why? is she afraid to get fired from secretary of treasury job (after many decades of top gov jobs) for reporting accurate in
908.
by twelve40 4y ago
there is no hypocrisy, here is the deal: I hate it when manufacturing jobs get cut. I hate it when warehousing jobs get cut. But these numbers do not directly relate to what happens in my field, so in order to understand what happens in my
909.
by twelve40 4y ago
does fed base their mandate on u3? which you are saying is inadequate. If so, why would they do that, they don't seem stupid, for the most part.
910.
by twelve40 4y ago
it's so vague it's useless. Bill Gates technically had "everything handed to him" before the age of 20, Larry Ellison otoh I would imagine had to struggle harder. But both are great at what they do, so what background d
911.
by twelve40 4y ago
> according to new national recommendations that say zero alcohol is the only risk-free approach TFA says this right at the top. Not that i'm too happy about it.
912.
by twelve40 4y ago
why are all these people so up in arms about this?
913.
by twelve40 4y ago
I'm not op but pretty sure that he wrote that "from within" thing assuming all those things you talk about are already there. After all, we're discussing a blog post of a young bored top-earner from one of the most impre
914.
by twelve40 4y ago
you're probably right (and thanks for breaking it down), but it's more fun to engage in doom porn!
915.
by twelve40 4y ago
well, they did show up deep in Europe and murder a lot of people, more than "usual", right? Sure the Europeans next showed up all over the world and did more things, but at least that would explain the shock?
916.
by twelve40 4y ago
Hunter-gathering? you missed by 4+ish millenniums. These were people who had written laws and express mail relay system across the entire Eurasia.
917.
by twelve40 4y ago
tfa says "slaughtered", no idea if it's accurate, but scary if it is > Ogodei's armies slaughtered an estimated 1 million Hungarians: Troops, clerics, nobles, knights, and peasants.
918.
by twelve40 4y ago
the Black Death is understandable (although hard to imagine such scale) but it's a pandemic, it happens. But how do you kill 1,000,000 people in a couple of years visiting Hungary when you don't even have any real guns? How do you
919.
by twelve40 4y ago
they still managed to kill a million people in hungary alone, crazy! that's like ww2-level loss of life...
920.
by twelve40 4y ago
now I really don't want to read it, sounds pretty depressing : (
921.
by twelve40 4y ago
Wikipedia on Ogedei: > he developed ortogh trading systems, instituted methods of tax collection, and established regional bureaucracies which controlled legal and economic affairs just collecting the taxes on such a huge territory sound
922.
by twelve40 4y ago
... except when those payments that stay paid were fraud or theft, then we have a problem
923.
by twelve40 4y ago
Stripe doesn't know you or what kind of customers you will bring. So you're still on the hook to monitor fraud among your customer base, and they give you a few options to do that, like the zip code check. If your fraud/dispu
924.
by twelve40 4y ago
This is awesome! Didn't make it to London this past year, but everywhere from Paris to Barcelona to Istanbul had space invaders painted on houses. But i guess it doesn't count as "look down"
925.
by twelve40 4y ago
I thought for sure this would be about Lucretia.
926.
by twelve40 4y ago
Maybe but it's not the OP's fault? I think it's still fun to read and try to imagine what it was like, even if it's speculation.
927.
by twelve40 4y ago
haha the other thread said the real culprit is the vegetable oil, not sugar. Twenty years ago it probably would have been fat. Too many things to ban!
928.
by twelve40 4y ago
Cuba is definitely an outlier specifically for that among developing countries and therefore not a great comparison. I hate the US healthcare experience and try to avoid it, but somehow after all the craziness you hear about half the countr
929.
by twelve40 4y ago
> One of the worst parts of road trips this, so much > how you were really able to use cruise to follow another car at all before? not op, but you probably just don't, you disengage, cuss out loud and follow them manually until t
930.
by twelve40 4y ago
Ironically, unlike getting decimated Google and Facebook-style, IBM's stock went up in the past year and they seem to be doing ok (hundred plus years into it). Some parts of IBM are still very relevant, many others are depressing, but

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