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by xref 5y ago
Make Opium Great Again Seriously though both tobacco and a lot of other “whatever they want” crops have mountains of externalized costs and societal consequences
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by xref 5y ago
Abigail’s film reviews are almost always on point and add a ton of details and context
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I’m not sure Jordan’s books can be ruined, if anything I’d hope a TV series can correct a lot of his fatal flaws like truly awful writing of female characters. Sanderson tried to fix some of that after Jordan’s death, but when did he come i
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by xref 5y ago
For that to play out: are you planning one doing one enormous index fund purchase and never investing again? If you’re talking IRA, we’ll you could have only put in $6k. Market dumps and the following year you can put in another $6k at a mu
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by xref 5y ago
So if instead of measles vaccine people started taking root beer, you’d want the reporting to be “humans have been safely drinking root beer for decades”?
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And yet it happens so little. See: Turkey, Armenian Genocide
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by xref 5y ago
Well Reagan breaking the air traffic controllers union in 1981 because it was “a peril to safety” is a famous example of the government saying when and where you have to work https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional
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The speling didn’t go as planned
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Power plants run on about 5% enriched, subs on 50%, weapons on 90%. Any country that can sell you a nuclear sub can also sell you the fuel, non-proliferation doesn’t come into it.
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by xref 5y ago
Definitely sexism, possibly bordering on misogyny. During the Gates era he avoided hiring female execs because “they’ll get pregnant and leave” Not worth standing against a wall, but Gates is a bad person.
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by xref 5y ago
Google kept stripping features and starving reader of development that by the end loving reader was full blown Stockholm Syndrome. I’m glad they killed it or I wouldn’t have discovered Newsblur
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by xref 5y ago
It has been said for criminality, that’s why you can get set aside from society for a 15-20 stretch.
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by xref 5y ago
Broken treaties and the way of life for numerous Native American tribes
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by xref 5y ago
> You would have to raise the price of goods, which then means you have to raise the quality of goods You use the same ingredients as the day before: “This is the price of a steak in Lake Tahoe now.”
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Remember Japan was angling for a peace where they got to keep a lot of their conquered territories, even if the US could manufacture more stuff eventually it doesn’t mean we wouldn’t have settled to end the war. America still takes a lot of
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by xref 5y ago
That’s not what the Ship of Theseus is. The thought experiment is: if you replace 100% of the original object then is it the same object. Not like, if you change the batteries in the remote is it the same remote.
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by xref 5y ago
Because some component bays designed to be swapped out were swapped out? Far as I know they haven’t replaced the 2.4m main mirror or the housing, you know, the “ship”
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by xref 5y ago
It’s a useless tip. If you have the ability to pick a $5bil winner you don’t need an ira. Just keep picking yourself $5bil winners in a regular taxable account and you’ll be fine.
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by xref 5y ago
Same question, we know this cannot be happening in London and Paris?
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Under-reported in a way that couldn’t also be happening in Paris or London?
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That’s a great writeup, thanks for all the detail! I was always worried about something like this happening so only ever provisioned (via ansible) one server at a time. When the logs showed it was fully synced, we provisioned the next node.
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From their Twitter feed: mongodb is just RSS feed data, personal data is in postgres and wasn’t accessible to the script kiddy
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by xref 5y ago
Who said that? Guess it’s not as famous as Michael Dell’s 1997 advice to Apple https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cultofmac.com/448147/today-...
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Supposedly he owned 49% when they went public in 1986, down to 24% in 1996, down to 1.3% in 2017, for anyone interested. https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/15/16148370/bill-gates-micro... https:/&#x2F
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by xref 5y ago
Crossposting from yesterday’s thread where Phoenix is somehow getting held up as the platonic ideal of water responsibility: > Phoenix has made strides, but largely because it started from such a low, low bar. Exemplified by the Navajo G
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Phoenix has made strides, but largely because it started from such a low, low bar. Exemplified by the Navajo Generating Plant, one of the largest coal fired power plants ever built, just to power pumps for lifting Colorado River water 2900f
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by xref 5y ago
Yes, any exchange of coins is a taxable event. Going BTC->USDT is the same to the IRS as going TSLA->AAPL. It’s a sell and a buy on the books.
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Yeah just a tangential observation, not knocking the article
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There’s no “us” in team There’s no “u” in team There’s no “I” in team There’s an “M and E” in team Just realized there’s so many permutations of that phrase you can use it to mean anything
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Huh I’ve only watched like 10 of his vids but he hasn’t mentioned it once, he just smashes with a Chinese cleaver and minces in all the ones I’ve seen. What’s the benefit to dirtying both a spoon and a knife to mince garlic?

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