megapolitics

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by megapolitics 2mo ago
Does that assume that you're able to perfectly time the investment with the market bottom?
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by megapolitics 3mo ago
What relevance does your quote have here? The area in question has no civilians to speak of.
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by megapolitics 1y ago
Why would there be a privacy-respecting free option? The content is not free to produce.
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by megapolitics 1y ago
I don’t believe the courts would rule such a loan to be a disposal given the trend towards judicial activism in the UK.
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by megapolitics 1y ago
I think a loan of the Parthenon Sculptures within the next few years is more likely than you think. Both Kier Starmer and George Osborne are keen for a deal, and the majority of the British public are in favour of the sculpture’s return. It
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by megapolitics 1y ago
Both. I have to look at a GUI to use it.
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by megapolitics 1y ago
It’s probably excluded because TFL don’t classify it as an Underground line. Similarly, hovering over the DLR will produce a tooltip but the line is excluded.
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by megapolitics 2y ago
> I believe in reality a not guilty verdict is, we didn't have the evidence to prove beyond a reasonable doubt this person committed the crime. That’s a description of the Scottish “not proven” verdict, not a “not guilty” verdict.
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by megapolitics 2y ago
I don’t see King’s Road as being a good example. King’s Road has a lot of traffic and the pedestrian experience is very poor.
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by megapolitics 2y ago
>Let's not criticise Japanese law without acknowledging that US law is also fucked up. This doesn’t need done at all. This is just whataboutism. This story does not involve the USA and the discussion about other countries does not n
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by megapolitics 2y ago
That’s just not true. The violent crime rate in Russia is many times that of any Western European country, and their intentional homicide rate is slightly higher than America’s. In terms of murder rate Belarus sits much closer to Western Eu
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by megapolitics 3y ago
> But it’s still investing in oil companies and giving them more money. Buying shares on the market from third parties does not give the company more money.
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by megapolitics 3y ago
My observation has been that the comments on high engagement TikTok posts are generally quite pleasant, whereas the comments on high engagement Instagram posts feel like a KKK meeting.
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by megapolitics 3y ago
It’s a flawed democracy, but it’s on a consistent upward trajectory.
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by megapolitics 3y ago
>consumer rights only kicks in when you "take ownership" of something No they don’t. Consumer rights law in the UK applies to services too.
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by megapolitics 3y ago
>NSDAP were in power for over a decade before the first concentration camp was ever built. The first concentration camp, Nohra, opened in 1933, the year the Nazis took power. The more well known Dachau was also opened that year.
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by megapolitics 4y ago
>if someone saw my laptop and a mac laptop left alone in the same room, they would try to steal the Mac, making my laptop even safer by virtue of not being from Apple. That might be true now, but it might not be as time goes on and this
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by megapolitics 4y ago
That’s more of a problem of a lack of cases brought by the government than a problem with the courts. The courts have generally seen through such things quite well when the government actually brings forward cases.
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by megapolitics 5y ago
I think the parent comment was saying that Iraq was invading a sovereign country in the Gulf War. I can see how the comment could be parsed as saying America invaded the sovereign country of Kuwait, but given the third example is Ukraine I
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by megapolitics 5y ago
>I'll stop you right there because the major producers of greenhouse gasses aren't third world countries. Historically, the majority of greenhouse gasses emitted comes from industrialized nations. That doesn't mean we shou
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by megapolitics 5y ago
The consent form situation did not get this bad until GDPR was passed. Prior to GDPR cookie-consent forms were simple "Yes" or "No" buttons without all the insane pages of toggles.
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by megapolitics 5y ago
>one of whom was the Chief of Staff the army Vitaly Gerasimov was the Chief of Staff of an army (41st Combined Arms), rather than the Army. The similarly-named Valery Gerasimov is the Chief of Staff of the Russian Armed Forces.
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by megapolitics 5y ago
>Same UK that said it would back Ukraine if Russia invaded? The UK was always very clear that the backing to Ukraine would be in the form of the supply of weapons to Ukraine and sanctions on Russia. Nothing more was ever promised.
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by megapolitics 5y ago
Sanctions can be implemented with a "wind down" period for companies to gradually come into compliance with the sanctions. In the UK, for example, there is a wind down period expiring at 23:59 tonight for sanctions relating to &qu
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by megapolitics 5y ago
That may have been accidental. The array used to store valid guesses did not contain any of the words from the result array. Both are checked when you make a guess to determine whether it’s a valid guess. Removing a word from the result arr
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by megapolitics 5y ago
>I suppose that's why it has grown in price in spite of its supply slowly increasing. Because it's unusable! The fact that the price is consistently increasing is what makes it an unusable currency. A deflationary currency is a
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by megapolitics 5y ago
>What are some strategies you could use to insulate yourself from this, even a little? Don't inflate the value of real estate deals in exchange for kickbacks.
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by megapolitics 5y ago
That sounds indistinguishable from forums or subreddits, which are usually touted as superior alternatives to Discord. Your final point actually makes Discord look preferable to the other two, as Discord servers have found a solution to a p
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by megapolitics 5y ago
A previous employer of mine gave all devs the title of "Technical Specialist" as opposed to some variation of "Software Developer." They also had a progression system where "Junior" was not actually the lowest
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by megapolitics 5y ago
This looks very useful, I'm looking forward to playing around with it. Do you have any plans to add support for Plan 4 (Scottish) student loan repayments?

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