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by forum_ghost 4y ago
"end up on regular business bullshit"? CRUD webapps?
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
>Nobody cares where you graduate from school in engineering. I have witnessed numerous times hiring managers that would request that HR only sends them resumes from 1-2 target schools, specified by name.
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
not at all uncommon with other highly specialized professions either. MD's kids are 24x more likely to become MDs as well.
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
has been reflected in the student body as well in some ways? tia
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
it doesn't remove all minerals. Flouride isn't removed, unless the unit also has an alumina filter.
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
Didn’t he score first in a California-wide math contest? How many people on this board can claim the same?
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
Why is a nuclear reactor in the sky "renewable", but a nuclear reactor in France isn't?
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
Why then Turkey lira isn't very valuable? Turkey demands the lira for taxes too.
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
How do you measure "cheaper than nuclear"? How much is a life of a dead 10 year old cobalt miner worth in accounting terms? Whatever the price of a coffin is in Africa? What about the ecosystem destruction such mining causes, who
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
My comment was specifically about "Why bother with nuclear". I'm not getting into discussions about climate. You may not like it, but the Earth is kept warm enough for life to exist by nuclear reactions deep inside its molten
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
Bigger platforms advertise on Google and have all kinds of partnerships. Some podunk vBulletin? Might as well not exist, as far as Google is concerned. Makes zero difference to their bottom line.
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
I second systemvoltage's lived experience. I've seen the same across two continents. Sure, it could be a bubble, just big enough of a bubble to envelope the entire West.
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
Why bother with nuclear: 1. fields belong to trees, grass, animals, not to some ugly panels that were produced with millions of tons of toxic waste that was then dumped into the ocean. 2. windmills are ugly, kill birds, ruin microclimate. 3
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
>we can't get food, fuel or basic medicines what developed countries cannot get basic medicines?
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
That would depend on the facts, and who made what decisions, and who had what control when. at this point, all of that has been scrubbed for good, and nothing factual will ever come out.
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
Nigeria, just one country, has 34 million crypto users. mpesa has 30. 34 > 30 is that much adoption?
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
are you open to new information? 1. Nigeria has 30 MILLION people that use it. Most of the usage is for cross-border transactions. 2. transaction rate limitations only apply to the settlement layer. retail does not need to use it, only ve
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
> I asked what would happen when the underlying asset values went down There are no underlying assets. You are literally conflating one tokenomic example to the entire space.
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
An open and permission-less global monetary network that does not exclude anyone at all, is about as valuable to you as malformed viagra emails? 4 billion people today live under less than ideal circumstances. Spending a fraction of a perce
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
> Whether it's open or not is a matter of policy If you have to rely on some policy - it’s not censorship free. You propose we literally rely on a trusted third party to adjudicate things. AKA a literal censor? To make things censor
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
So you are proposing we just mail some camcorders to North Korea to end their tyranny?
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
It’s very disturbing to read comments on an allegedly techie forum that insist the expansion of energy capacity is somehow bad. What, we will be the first spacefaring, Kardashev Type 2 civilization that is powered solely by windmills? Why i
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
How do you create an “open and censorship resistant system” that blocks only a specific category of people? First we start with scammers and crooks, then fast forward a little, and suddenly now we are doing civil forfeitures? Either somethi
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
Yes, the supply is capped by residency spots available. They reason they became hyper-supportive is because admissions have become insanely brutal, most poor performers have been screened out before they even apply. The marginal benefits of
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
these days as in this decade, or right now? Apparently VCs are clamping down on loose funding in the current climate, or thats not the case in biotech?
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
...but VC and private equity funding for biotech has been available in the 90s too?
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
what made you think it's fungi exposure?
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
dollar value is only one part of valuation. a ranch somewhere vs a shoebox in the middle of manhattan quite likely will not be considered "equal" by prospective owners, even if the dollar valuation is exactly the same.
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
What's a "very high LVT"? Estonia has an LVT of 0.1—2.5%. https://www.emta.ee/en/private-client/taxes-and-payment/othe...
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by forum_ghost 4y ago
>your equal share of land value what's an equal share? land is not fungible.

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