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by vba616 4y ago
>Like, it's not unusual for the state to make more in sales tax from an order than we're taking in margin Is that supposed to be notable or surprising? I've assumed lots of retail businesses that sell to the general public
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by vba616 4y ago
>So the elite can shave precious hours off of commute times? If the planes will be "nearly empty of passengers" and only carry "elites" then the impact on global fossil fuel usage will be insignificant. Like the Conco
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by vba616 4y ago
>It looks like there aren’t many great results for this search "The lamps are going out all over [the Internet], we shall not see them lit again in our life-time"
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by vba616 4y ago
If you're talking about the hypothetical group of people that paid $10K extra specifically to get all that stuff in the beer ads, like an option package for their beer, then what most reasonable people expect is beside the point. Dumb
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by vba616 4y ago
Two way city streets don't have to be, and often aren't, wide enough for two lanes of traffic to pass at once. A thing that narrows the effective width is people parking on both sides or double parking. Anyway, are you saying that
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by vba616 4y ago
I have the impression IBM started doing this sort of thing with its mainframes, oh, a half century or more ago?
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by vba616 4y ago
Is it really possible to pursue a claim, if nothing you find in discovery can possibly be relevant to the case? The experts seem to think that it's virtually impossible a hypothetical misrepresentation rises to the level of a "mat
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by vba616 4y ago
An expert commenter on the topic (not me) wrote that there is only one potential step in the appeals process, and that is a "Supreme Court" which is in Delaware, not the famous "US Supreme Court" you may have heard of. F
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by vba616 4y ago
I think your intuition that the SEC passes judgement on reasonableness of made up metrics is...doubtful.
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by vba616 4y ago
"When Tad Dominiak, the inspector assigned to our case, called me back, the conversation did not go well. Dominiak told me every plant on the slope longer than 12 inches would need to be removed. He threatened me with a fine of $50 per
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by vba616 4y ago
You can't feel derisive, he said derisively.
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by vba616 4y ago
Have you experienced both being a renter and a homeowner? If you haven't, owning a home will open your eyes. Should, anyway.
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by vba616 4y ago
>Is ok as long as landlords are building new property and not competing with existing stock Think about the reasons why you rent an apartment. One is that you can't get a mortgage. Another is that you can't assume you will stay
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by vba616 4y ago
> The supply is restricted due to lobbying by home owners and landlord associations The supply of rentals is restricted due to lobbying by home owners. Not sure if you are agreeing. Have you ever rented an apartment under your own name o
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by vba616 4y ago
Converting more properties to rentals is bad for rents? Increasing the supply...of rental housing...makes the rental market worse for renters? It doesn't provide value to NIMBYs who don't want those people in their neighborhoods
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by vba616 4y ago
Yes, I'm not sure of the year we got it, but it was definitely when I was between 7 and 17. It was a 2-stroke Stihl, probably the smallest they made, with an automatic brake in case of kickback. And a manual explaining how to avoid it
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by vba616 4y ago
Rental real estate is bad? Rental properties increase the supply of homes to people who don't have the credit or income to own. Homeowners freak out at someone buying a property to rent out because they don't want poor people arou
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by vba616 4y ago
What's all this, then? Programming was automated 65 years ago. The "Formula Translating System" introduced in 1957 eliminated the drudgery of programming by allowing users to simply enter equations into a computer directly. S
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by vba616 4y ago
I remember reading somewhere about a theory that there might be a scientific explanation for disease cures allegedly produced by bathing in the holy waters of some rivers in India. The general idea was that that the amount and diversity of
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by vba616 4y ago
In the late 1900s, I believe I used the "Rand McNally Road Atlas and Planner" to go across the country.
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by vba616 4y ago
When I was a child, my mother always told me "read the manual" before using her power equipment like a tractor or chainsaw. Which I did. She grew up on a farm in the 1940s, where she got to use potentially lethal machinery as soon
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by vba616 4y ago
No credits transfer from a "top ten" college to "the best"? This made no sense to me (especially because who agrees on "the best" college) but then I realized you probably aren't talking about the US. So I
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by vba616 4y ago
>"Oh, yeah we reuse the references after about 90 days... And, no, we don't have any globally unique references." The minute a simple unique identifier is established for something, someone who is just important enough n
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by vba616 4y ago
This is a thing I hadn't thought of. I've tried taking photos and bagging things, and it's not great because it doesn't preserve relative positions or angles that could be informational. Going back through the photos is
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by vba616 4y ago
>Buying crypto (like Dogecoin, for $DEITY's sake!) at some ATM-like terminal There are literal ATMs (not "ATM-like") in government buildings that say they do Bitcoin transactions. I haven't investigated exactly what
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by vba616 4y ago
I think the financial industry jargon goes something like this. "Mom and pop" traditionally run a small family business. The small investors that need to be protected from scams are "widows and orphans". The people that
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by vba616 4y ago
>Come now, did you really take that to mean I had to imagine the bookstore and not the customer? If you went in bookstores all the time and never ran into customers behaving that way then why would you be imagining it and confirming a
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by vba616 4y ago
Efficacy is not the word that should go in that spot. I don't know what should, but a job is not something that has efficacy.
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by vba616 4y ago
If people were faking research suggesting a cure for MS or Crohn's, then there would be (alleged) cures to discuss, no?
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by vba616 4y ago
I kind of see the point of those who think this is obnoxious and damaging to the rule of law, even if what Grewal says is perfectly true. Just because one part of the government thinks something is a security, even for logical reasons, do

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