viking1066

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by viking1066 2y ago
[How is scrapping publicly available data "hacking"?] If only someone had told the person that may have caused the death of Aaron Schwarz!!! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Ortiz
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by viking1066 3y ago
FTC is misguided. They just punish Amazon for being successful. On the other hand, they (DOJ) should use the maximum might of the criminal law to prosecute using fraud statutes for sellers (and Amazon itself) when ratings have been manipula
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by viking1066 4y ago
It would make sense to correct for home ownership rate. With higher rates of home ownership, a higher debt is justified. For example USA and Germany seems to have about the same level of household debt, but USA has 65% home ownership rate,
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by viking1066 5y ago
Sorry I can't find the article, perhaps drowned in covid articles however: There is a well known research paper from years ago showing that both exposure to cold temperatures and exposure to cold virus could cause cold symptoms, if I r
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by viking1066 5y ago
China is "Hotel California" for investor money!
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by viking1066 5y ago
Most Indians would be thrilled to become US citizens. So this is not a good analogy.
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by viking1066 6y ago
Compare wealth and life expectancy of any ethnicity living in USA with the population living in their previous habitat, and the US population comes out on top. Japanese Americans for example have higher life expectancy than Japanese in Japa
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by viking1066 6y ago
This is how the divorce lawsuit in America works. Typically a husband must pay a high powered lawyer for his wife, if his salary is higher.
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by viking1066 6y ago
Tyfyc2!
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by viking1066 6y ago
I need to take a slight exception to "did not lose respect". In an interview, Lee Kuan Yew said he felt very pained with Clinton's lack of dignity in interjecting himself into something as petty as a vandalism case, and as a