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by Booktrope 6mo ago
Whoever wrote this article seems to think a strong dollar is fundamental to a strong economy. But, notice where it is on this timeline the only prolonged strengthening of the dollar that shows up. Yep, you've got it, the depth of the
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by Booktrope 11mo ago
Hmm. According to Indiana University, 5.4 million cats are killed by cars every year. https://blogs.iu.edu/sciu/2022/11/12/the-perils-of-outdoor-c... Normally none of these make national news. Each story
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by Booktrope 1y ago
Except, all its rulings are reviewable by the courts. In judicial type cases, results can be reviewed by US Court of Appeals, and appeals courts do overrule the NLRB not infrequently. Rule making is reviewed by courts under the Administrat
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by Booktrope 1y ago
Yeah, and there seem to be at least two ways to measure heat death. One is to measure "excess deaths" meaning, increase in death rate as temperature increases or exceeds some statistical measure of base death rate. The other is to
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by Booktrope 2y ago
I think of far-centerist as extremely unideological. To me, ideologies are systematically organized collections of ideas, often hierarchically, with core ideas (or assumptions) given a paramount or supreme position. They almost all provide
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by Booktrope 2y ago
> It's a completely generic algorithm. If the school had a uniquely high percentage of any "group" of people, whether based on race, region, hobbies, interests, literally anything, ads for that school would be more likely
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by Booktrope 3y ago
Understandable in this context that comments would be very negative about looking at statistics relating to race, gender, national origin, etc. of how investors place money. After all, the start-up world is economics at its most meritocrat
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by Booktrope 3y ago
Well, the article says, Amazon already charges this wherever Amazon Publishing Services is available. The change is to extend this charge to places where Amazon Publishing Services isn't available. Then the article provides some backg
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by Booktrope 3y ago
Big news, automobile manufacturer inflates gas mileage! Really! If anyone here has had a car that actually got the stated mileage in real world conditions, please let me know. I live on top of a hill and every single car I've ever owne
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by Booktrope 3y ago
So, if this project were to be successful, it would replace news media as the outlet where people would look for news, thereby, reducing audience for the news media it's using as the source for it's information, which will provide
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by Booktrope 4y ago
Yeah, bankruptcy basically does not let anyone off the hook who owes the bankrupt company or person a debt. But collection is overseen by a court which definitely can mean that efforts to collect debt owed to the bankrupt party can intensif
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by Booktrope 4y ago
So, for all the many things in the world that cannot be defined in "a reasonably concrete and provable way" or where a statement cannot be "falsified", no study is worthwhile. More or less this position: nothing worthwhi
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by Booktrope 4y ago
Wait! Contingent was just defined as everything that's not necessary. Not contingent with its normal meaning of dependent on something else. Like, a square has 4 sides, that's necessary for it to be called a square, but it might o
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by Booktrope 4y ago
On the other hand, much of what passes for "reputable" brands is just reselling the crap from the same sellers, but with a "trusted" name on it.
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by Booktrope 5y ago
Still the supreme source of free public domain ebooks https://www.gutenberg.org/
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by Booktrope 5y ago
libravox.org A great source of free (public domain) audiobooks, mostly read very well.
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by Booktrope 5y ago
The responsibility is to figure out which is which, if you're the one choosing what to amplify.
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by Booktrope 5y ago
Not FB responsibility if they set up and tuned an information spreading system that promotes stuff that's inflammatory over stuff that's informative? Users of FB only see what FB feeds to them, and that's all about how FB al
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by Booktrope 5y ago
One alternative to fluorine that has been shown clinically to be equally or more effective is nanohydroxyapatite, which was developed by NASA some time ago to treat astronauts for loss of tooth enamel and bone density. (Some background info
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by Booktrope 5y ago
I hope the article isn't accurate, because if it's only "tech giants" to be prohibited from store brands, that would mean, Congress has decided, it's only brick-and-mortar giants who can use sales data to grind prod
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by Booktrope 5y ago
Whatabout those other flawed journalist? Well, they're flawed. But Wikileaks, high standards? You must have missed the exposes in The Intercept of how they were actually working in 2016!
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by Booktrope 5y ago
Nice hypothetical for some political ethics class, but nothing to do with what actually happened. Assange wanted to influence the US election, specifically, to defeat Clinton and elect Trump. He worked with the Trump campaign and the Russ
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by Booktrope 5y ago
You won't because Wikileaks refused to release them. Their stated justification for this was, so much bad stuff had already been revealed about Trump that there was no need. Reallly.
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by Booktrope 5y ago
Small point, but the average household size in the US is 2.5, on half of the 5 people in this household, so you really can't compare their family income to family income statistics for much smaller families. https://www.stati
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by Booktrope 6y ago
Yeah, why wouldn't a company want a workforce full of yes-men and engineers who care about nothing but making shareholders money and making executives look good?
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by Booktrope 6y ago
Google and FB have a huge share of the internet reading market; polls repeatedly show that over 30% of the population gets its news from Facebook posts, and another large share get info from Google searches. Twitter also plays a huge role,
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by Booktrope 6y ago
A shallow, one-sided take on what happened to the news business. I mean, here's a guy who quotes himself (!) saying, "I’d go further: I think we as a society are in a far stronger place when it comes to knowing the truth than we h
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by Booktrope 6y ago
A recent study by Ohio State University found that nearly 50% of athletes who'd had mild covid showed some evidence of heart damage (specifically myocardial inflammation) afterwards. It's a small study and so shouldn't be ta
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by Booktrope 6y ago
True, these founders are dead. But Ford's family still owns a huge share of the company and has never renounced the patriarch. It's not just testing fraud with Volkwagen, that's just a symptom. Check out, for example, recent
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by Booktrope 6y ago
All this stuff about Elon Musk. Well, I hope you aren't gonna decide to buy a Ford (Henry Ford, who found time to distribute the world's largest antisemitic newspaper between his auto magnate duties), or Volkwagen (pet project of

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