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cik2e
3y ago
>> Atleast SBF took the extra step of first funneling money to Alameda and then directing Alameda to send it back to him and then send it to his dad as a tax free gift. I am pretty sure it's the source of the money that matters m
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4y ago
Not sure what you're getting at but 400 mph is 0.178816 km/s. Off by two orders of magnitude from 11 km/s. I am sure everyone has seen a shooting star. Planes don't move like shooting starts or whatever is in this vide.
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4y ago
So this can't be a meteor then. That's not 11 km/s unless the video has been drastically slowed down.
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4y ago
>> So instead of allowing the disappointing truth to come out, the Bank of England secretly funneled money to hide the gap. I believe that's what was meant by "fake". In other words, inauthentic . As far as the trans
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4y ago
I'm only suggesting that the official story doesn't stand up to any sort of critical analysis. Yes there were many witnesses. I don't know what all of the witness accounts were and how those filtered down into the official st
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4y ago
But the story is that he WAS injured. So fine, let's say it's minor and he's jacked up on adrenaline and doesn't notice. And as Booth is being a Marvel action hero (a man in his 40s), everyone is standing around twiddlin
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4y ago
So he was given more time to limp around and retrieve the knife while not being apprehended or shot at?
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4y ago
You are kidding right? Of course Lincoln had bodyguard. Maybe they weren't called the Secret Service but he had bodyguards. This was a time of war and the president is going about unprotected? Guarding your most important politician is
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4y ago
I am not a lawyer either, but we can deduce logically that Walmart's lawyers approved it, so it's cool. If companies are "allowed" to lay people off, then why not this? I'm pretty sure this is within the boundaries
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4y ago
>> Restaurants can be forced to limit portion sizes (which might also have side effects to improve public health, aka obesity epidemic). Pricing out poor fat people from restaurants will not solve the obesity epidemic. It will drive t
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4y ago
>> wasted because restaurants prefer to deliver too large portions because they are afraid of bad Google/Yelp/... reviews... Not everybody eats restaurant food for entertainment. Sometimes you can't cook and a larger po
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4y ago
That sounds like some good practical advice, but also slightly vomit inducing. >> Economists such as Lord Adair Turner, the former chair of the British Financial Services Authority, have argued that innovation in the financial industr
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4y ago
Great read. The real problem with "the skin in the game argument" is that it's a matter of opinion, but one opinion is more likely to be right. >> Raising capital to do a startup reduces skin in the game (you’re spendin
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4y ago
Probably, UBI is the best first solution. In the sense that it acts as a collective bargaining system for all citizens who are forced to trade their time for income.
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4y ago
What exactly are you even saying? What is "rubbish" and what do you mean by "certain sounds"? People have been paying for live performances of music, i.e., "certain sounds", throughout all of recorded history.
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4y ago
>> Because the creator of crypto concept never understood why there are centralized institutions in the first place. You are totally missing the point. Having to rely upon central banks was the fundamental problem being solved. >
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4y ago
I don't think "expected" is the right word when a) it's the only option and b) women suffer most of the consequences of unwanted pregnancies. I guess there are child support for males wrt to (b), which could very well in
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4y ago
Western Europe, the US and China are already below replacement. If you have bought into this line of thinking then you should be saying: >> Right now the absolute worst thing you can do for the environment is to have a child as an Af
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4y ago
I pictured a whole live cow covered in breadcrumbs instead of fur when I read that. The southern US would be a huge importer.
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5y ago
Too many people have let their vision become consumed by the fact that Trump was an insufferable asshole. A nuanced discussion can be had about his time in office and his actual actions, without giving undue weight to the shit that comes ou
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5y ago
Chrome loves to eat huge chunks of available CPU on my MacBook while watching YouTube videos. I use ublock origin so my fans are basically never running otherwise, even on other streaming platforms. Netflix does tend to run the fans continu
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5y ago
I have been in this situation myself, but my former boss has a conscience, as it turned out. My wife and I were on a vacation that was timed to celebrate an important birthday. I had spend days during the preceeding week training up two peo
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5y ago
Just a wild guess, but it may have something to do with the federal government having the sole power to regulate interstate commerce. Which makes me wonder if weed sold in a state has to be grown in that state.
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5y ago
Which leads to deforestation, the depletion of ground water supplies and still produces CO2 on both then front end and back end. Renewables aren't interesting just because they are renewable. We're not going to run out of fossils
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5y ago
The car beeps and by the time the driver returns to earth and figures out what the fuck is going on, it will almost certainly be too late. What you're really asking for is a car that predicts when it needs to beep. I'd imagine tha
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5y ago
I think Cold War 2 has already begun. I just don't see how the pre-invasion state of affairs could be restored in any realistic scenario. To hit the undo button Putin would have to stop the invasion, profusely apologize, pay reparation
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5y ago
Brain-computer link bypasses the gorilla arm problem entirely.
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5y ago
Kids like princes and princesses, I would guess. It's a theme that goes way back in children's literature.
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I've noticed this to be especially annoying with recordings that artificially inflate the bass. Yay for earbuds but it's a real pain in the ass when my car speakers rattle until I have to turn the sound down so low that road noise
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5y ago
It's not clear to me whether Russian-issued cards will still work within Russia. VISA: > Once complete, all transactions initiated with Visa cards issued in Russia will no longer work outside the country and any Visa cards issued by
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