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by vijayr02 6y ago
I wonder what the Turkish response to this is going to be? As background: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Cyprus https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/may/20/turkey-insists..
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Apologies if I misinterpreted your comment, but I understood your second point as a risk primarily to the US. My response was that such an act by China would actually help the US economy, not hurt it (while simultaneously hurting China).
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by vijayr02 6y ago
> China owns more than 1 trillion of US debt. In the past the country bought a massive amount of US debt to inflate USD vs RMB and boost their own economy...If the US blocks them they may start massively selling US debt, which would impa
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by vijayr02 6y ago
I think we're going to find out very soon... Edit: not at the presidential level but certainly cabinet members have gone to prison before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teapot_Dome_scandal
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What happened to Anthem? The blockbuster game that failed to find a community(bbc.co.uk)
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Not OP - I don't think this statement needs that phrase. Venice was Venice 500 years ago.
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by vijayr02 6y ago
I think the risk when the sovereign goes insolvent is a bunch of people with guns turn up and take your gold away. Sometimes the insolvent state and the people with the guns may even be the same.
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UK economy suffered record annual slump in 2020(bbc.co.uk)
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Well, we won’t know till we check [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
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by vijayr02 6y ago
(2013)
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Asthma drug may reduce risk of severe Covid if taken early – study(theguardian.com)
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Well, we won’t know till we check [0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schr%C3%B6dinger%27s_cat
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Not OP, but as an example: get lots of 5 star reviews for a genuinely useful product and then on sell the listing to a shady seller. I guess OP is thinking of an even more high profile issue (exaggerated example: you donate to a charity tha
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Or, alternatively, they will spend more (input) to produce the same amount of leads (output)? Practically, their margins shrink while the websites maintain revenue. To be clear, I'm not saying the above effect will definitely happen, o
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The great graphics card shortage of 2020 (and 2021)(bbc.co.uk)
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The homeless drug addict who became a history professor(bbc.co.uk)
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The airman from Sierra Leone who was shot down over Nazi Germany(bbc.co.uk)
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Six brothers – and their lions – terrorised a Libyan town(bbc.co.uk)
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Was I wrong to fall for a cheating cat?(bbc.co.uk)
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Covaxin: Concern over 'rushed' approval for India Covid jab(bbc.co.uk)
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Alarm as South Korea sees more deaths than births(bbc.co.uk)
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A 'tree mortgage' scheme could turn an Indian town carbon neutral(theguardian.com)
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Probably because many fossils have been found showing partially digested juvenile ammonites inside adults, I expect. That’s how they found out placoderms (which went extinct 360 million ya) gave birth to live offspring.
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Another recommended read (which I’m in the middle of right now) is The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions by Peter Brannen. Coincidentally I’ve just reached
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by vijayr02 6y ago
I agree, here is a related story I'd submitted a few days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25460601 This story is about how fire watches are being organised with little to no notice and the costs charged to th
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Grenfell Tower inquiry: key things we’ve learned this year(bbc.co.uk)
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by vijayr02 6y ago
I realise this is an area where exact data is probably not available, but this site [0] says 41.49% of the workforce were employed in agriculture. I've also seen a few pages claiming it's 60%, would like to know which source is mo
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Non paywall link: https://archive.is/8afje
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Cyberpunk 2077 maker Marcin Iwinski: ‘The only thing we have is our reputation’(on.ft.com)
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by vijayr02 6y ago
Surely it's reckmorely?

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