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by userulluipeste 3y ago
"But selling an expensive ticket to them decreases the supply of cheap tickets they can sell to me... Right?" Yes. But, the tickets are theirs to sell (or give, or withhold). The reason they are selling the cheap tickets to you
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by userulluipeste 3y ago
I wish I'd have such options in other parts of the world, to know that are there for picking if I'd really want them.
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by userulluipeste 3y ago
On the other hand, prices can be risen enough that only people escorted now would still be in them. That prospect makes the current situation a pretty good one.
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by userulluipeste 3y ago
Is paying money to go into Disney that goes out of its way to avoid taxes really «going back into the economy?»." Yes, absolutely! Even without considering the tax contributions, the mentioned money are already circulating (one step
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by userulluipeste 3y ago
The issue here is how our position is perceived, right? If it's about feeling better, we may assume that the operator could have risen the ticket price for all, or did what we see instead - chose to take more only from the willing. Doe
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by userulluipeste 3y ago
"The popular narratives and assumptions about childbearing and family life that undergird anti-reproductive norms are mostly false. The ordinary risks of childbirth are quite navigable and the actual costs of children—instead of those
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
Well, to be fair, Europe is still big on tourism, and these bold projects it dares to endeavor, if nothing else, will contribute to increasing its touristic significance (by setting it even more apart from the rest world and thus making it
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
As others mentioned here, the contemporaneous audience may be unaware of that era's lack of many conventions which are more or less assumed nowadays, including for conflicts/wars, so mentioning (unbiasedly) the brutality of a give
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
Imagine laws that sanction mandatory "improvements" on the future subjects. To me, in that context, this "it's grossly unethical to stand in the way if that progress" is where the true (as in hardcore) politics begi
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
With how things change in EU (i.e. combustion engine ban after 2035), driving for seven hours does not look to be an option for long. At some point the airliners may have to take more drastic emission curbing measures too, so in the long ru
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
"There is not a need for flags, territory or other outdated concepts." Any conflict has reasons behind it, as it is just another enterprise that consumes resources for expected rewards. Given the practical needs to manage the sa
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
That is not "living", that is just getting lucky on surviving/subsisting. There are so many things that even a medium school grader would know to improve on first occasion, like (even with that cellophane) on windows setting
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
I'm just confused about why he didn't followed his train of thought further (i.e. first principles thinking) on that. As I see it, people don't change their mind mainly for two reasons. One is that no compelling new informati
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
There's a lot of range of what constitutes "independently wealthy, i.e. can live off interest of their own savings" when one gets there. Say, you may live a single life of relative leisure for the rest of your days, but if
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
Although I see a lot of sibling comments, their message is about managing the money obtained from previous burst of (one's specialty related) activity, so I'd add something different. There are also cases when one may have another
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
Weren't your purchases impacted the quality of life you had at the moment? I don't know your particular context, but living in the moment vs. preparing for future is an old and common theme to many (i.e. almost all) of us, and buy
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
Not OP, but having some similar experience I'd say being more grueling, it forced the writer to accumulate experience faster. I'd add that besides the management of the aforementioned snippets that could be copied in at same point
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
It's true that there is no similar city advertisement anywhere in Europe, at least nothing on a level close to New York. Funnily, that doesn't prevent however some of the employers to sometimes try presenting their locations (say,
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
"History has shown us time and time again that the best governance system is a bunch of elder statesmen who are terrified of being judged harshly by their peers long after they are gone." Those elders have a hard time steering t
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by userulluipeste 4y ago
Well, technically speaking, war requires opposing sides. If there is no opposition (say, like the bloodless annexations before the start of the WW2, or the relatively recent annexation of Crimea), there is no war, isn't it? Of course,
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"just stop buying people until you need them. They're the expensive bit." If only they could be bought that easy right when you'd need them. At least in a corporation, the HR will tell you "50 engineers? That&#x27
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"when your company is doing poorly financially or is having issues it's the government that is going to pay your worker's salaries" If true, it rather looks to me like a recipe for zombie enterprises than for healthy o
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"temperature at Russia’s Vostok Station sunk to minus-110.9 degrees (minus-79.4 Celsius) on Thursday (Sept. 30)" I just realized that at this temperature it should probably start snowing with carbon dioxide.
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
In case you weren't joking, no, that's not "better" at all. Even when it's about your own life at stake, and therefore an argument for overriding your decisions may have a better standing, you are still allowed to r
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
One is class¹ inheritance, the other one is (most likely about) wealth inheritance. They do, however, both respect the notion of inheritance, I don't see why anyone's sensibilities would be affected. But then comes "local uni
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
A better call would have been "nearby part of the universe", with "the" being the most important word that should not have been left out. It may not have been as terse/catchy as "nearby universe", but it
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"there weren't a lot of opportunities for anyone to get American plants back to Europe prior to Columbus" Thinking about this myself a while ago, I wondered - even if someone went there and back, and even brought something
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"the English phrase like looking for a needle in a haystack" That's not that (particularily) English, you know? As many other expressions that crossed cultures at some point, which (in some cases like this it would) most li
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"I'm all for studying dead and dying languages in all ways possible. What I'm strongly against is forcing kids to learn an impractical language because old people can't let go of the past and/or want to win politic
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by userulluipeste 5y ago
"When I want to wake up, I direct my attention outward and take a deep breath." From this, I very much doubt you had an experience of waking up in a sleep paralysis of a meaningful degree. I'm talking about when you realize

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