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What makes you think the SEC can find the ‘guilty’ parties and that the company (i.e. possibly the very same people) would willingly cooperate with them and not just find a scapegoat to push under the bus? And just repeat this process every
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It depends, if you’re earning 200k (or even 100+) private health insurance is probably quite a bit cheaper than ~10%. Obviously for an average person you’re probably right.
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_rates_in_Europe#/media/F... The average in Belgium is around 45k, in Germany 47k, France is ~40k. So aside from Belgium if by close to 60% you actually mean close to 50% th
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They are mainly slow only because the developers don’t care about performance not because of Electron
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Several minute long pit stops don’t sound too exciting, they might just split into multiple races with a normal start (which they did).
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I think they are purposefully confusing to obfuscate the fact that offsets are primarily a PR mechanism
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Because besides being significantly slower and inferior in almost every conceivable way Formula E cars would run out of power after 1/3 of an F1 race (Formula E races are under 90 km while the minimum required distance for an F1 race i
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4y ago
Is Lee that different from Washington or any other officer in the Continental army who served in the British army prior to the war? Or do you think there is no distinction between being a rebel and a traitor?
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We already know that governments are likely to just start throwing loads money in every direction if they believe that things are going to go ‘really south’.
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Having a king didn’t help Italy too much. However Churchill probably had a point conservatives and monarchists weren’t really ever wholeheartedly committed to the survival of the Weimar republic. They might not had been as keen to undermine
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I doubt Chrome would be in a position it is if it wasn’t open source. After all blink just started off as a fork of webkit (which was a fork of KHTML..). Had they had to build a browser from scratch it would had taken them years to have som
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Did WhatsApp have Ads? I thought all their income was from subscriptions? If it’s only for verification they, yeah, they might be fine as long as the verification fee is optional.
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5y ago
I just reported every post FB recommend to me (not from someone I’m following) as spam and blocked the user. Over time it stopped showing crap to me (at least it seems so..).
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> That was the norm I don’t think you should blindly trust everything you see on TV. I doubt being able to afford a 4 bedroom while working in a low skilled job was ever the norm (even without being an idiot). In any case Homer was an en
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Surely Canada must be worse? At least for consumers.
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American cities are not very dense (with a few exceptions) compared to most cities in Europe, though.
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Name a single developed country where to high birth rates are an issue? What? You can’t?
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But it’s still not profitable, unlike slavery which was extremely profitable. So how can it be more effective?
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And with all this power these companies still somehow never manage to become profitable. It seem to that the consumer is benefiting the most in this situation because both the VC and labor keep having to subsidize him
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> is setting up shop exclusively in areas with high unemployment, How is that a negative? Would you prefer for those people to stay unemployed?
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> Because manufacturers will earn more than your 100$ with ads and all other Is there any evidence that this is the case?
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5y ago
Why no just MDN then? From my experience it’s much better in 95%+ of cases.
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Is anyone in Russia at the risk of starvation? Also The leader of Russia was elected. While their elections were not exactly fair (then again US presidential elections are also a complete shit show) I’m not sure many doubt Putin wouldn’t ha
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I personally found the improvements between the original iPhone and iPhone 6/6s or especially the X much (of course it took 10 years so I’m stretching it a bit..) much more impressive than the step up from an Symbian/Windows smart
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Minneapolis to Seattle is around the same distance as Madrid to Warsaw. And for that trip you’d need ~4 transfer and it would take ~30 hours in total. So it doesn’t seem that much better.
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Giving the same to him as anyone else at a similar income level would be just fine. Assuming he can get any other job requiring a similar skill level the market wage for ‘cleaners who have start work before public transport starts’ running
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How is replacing wood with coal going to result in a decrease in emissions? That doesn’t make any sense.. wood/biomass is at least sort of renewable.
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The US administrative and political system is objectively older and more archaic than the ones in almost every European country (besides Britain, Switzerland and maybe(?) Scandinavian countries). Germany was established in 1949 and Italy is
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Well supposedly over 200,000 left since the start of the war. If true, while it might not seems like a lot in relative terms, this is still a pretty huge deal. These people are likely generally more productive and educated than an average R
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Generally I don’t support limiting free speech or even banning Russia TV channels in this case. But let’s not pretend that quasi independent government propaganda department are equivalent to western media companies.
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