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by slv77 20d ago
It is amazing that humans can communicate at all given the variance. Visualization is also tightly tied to the emotional centers of the brain and serve as an emotional amplifier. Visualize a scenario and you’ll get an emotional reaction on
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by slv77 20d ago
This is a blog post from someone who had aphantasia and was able to develop a minds eye. https://photographyinsider.info/image-streaming-for-photogra... Severe stress and emotional trauma is also known to result in acquired
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by slv77 20d ago
PayPal also allowed internet payments without requiring handing over credit card details to a third party. Handing your credit card number to every two-but e-commerce site pretty much guaranteed your card would be compromised. Today PCI re
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by slv77 4mo ago
There are many of parents who are good at running activity programs for youth but there aren’t many parents who are good at running a youth leadership training program. The article rightly points out that the Eagle Scout project, which is s
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by slv77 4mo ago
As a scoutmaster you have probably noticed the problems go much deeper: 1) The BSA national organization sized itself in the 1970s based on the idea that membership would continue to increase forever. The national organization is grossly ov
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by slv77 10mo ago
Bots use sites like this to validate lists of stolen cards with low dollar donations to validate the cards before using them on the target site. Without some one of protection sites like these are quickly flooded with fraudulent transaction
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by slv77 11mo ago
Maybe if moral virtues can be purchased they were never moral virtues to begin with? Many moral vices naturally decline with age as physical senses and hormones dull and life loses novelty. It may be a comforting fantasy that we can someho
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by slv77 1y ago
People have different preferences, some people are going to be more productive at home and some less. Some people simply can’t work from home. I think the challenge is that leadership isn’t coherent when it comes to RTO: 1. Leadership has l
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by slv77 1y ago
If all the drug cartels in the world were limited to pawning copper scrap it would make me very happy indeed. I am also sure that it would benefit a large number of people who live in countries where cartel money dominates the economy.
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by slv77 1y ago
I wouldn’t want to live in a world where the equivalent of the life’s work of its average citizen are traded causally like chips on a poker table and the only option to opt-out is to barter or starve. It would be hard to see the difference
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by slv77 1y ago
All of the other items you mentioned are things that society attempts to regulate against as well. And while there are an infinite number of ways to exchange value it stays between those involved. If the drug dealer is happy to trade heroi
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by slv77 1y ago
Money is a call option on the labor of its citizens. When money accumulates to people who operate against the best interests of its citizens more and more of a countries labor and future is traded for less societal value. There exists some
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by slv77 1y ago
There have been proposals to inject sulfur into airline engines at high altitudes so this approach has been well studied. The first challenge is that even if it addresses the problem of global temperatures rising it does nothing to address
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by slv77 1y ago
I’m not arguing for or against the merits of the recent strikes. I am disputing the notion that Iran’s anti-US stance is purely rhetoric for domestic consumption. One of the arguments against limited strikes against the Iranians was that i
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by slv77 1y ago
Iran sponsored insurgents in Iraq and provided the training and means to build explosively formed penetrators that killed 196 US troops: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2020/01/03/... T
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by slv77 1y ago
North Korea had enough conventional artillery to level Seoul with an estimated 1M casualties. That was why Clinton decided against attacking North Korea as they moved towards building the bomb: https://nationalinterest.org/b
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by slv77 1y ago
This paper from 1999 provides some context about the US and Israel relationship in the context of nuclear weapons in the Middle East. The third temple's holy of holies : Israel's nuclear weapons https://dp.la/item&
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Exodus of IPv4 from War-Torn Ukraine(kentik.com)
4 points by slv77 1y ago|0 comments
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The Effect of a Swimming Pool as Tuned Mass Damper [pdf](ijert.org)
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by slv77 2y ago
Housing prices have historically been highly correlated with income and interest rates. That correlation seems to have broken down. There are areas where it still is sane but much less of them than historically and concentrated in areas wit
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by slv77 2y ago
Housing prices relative to income have gone up pretty much nationwide: https://www.jchs.harvard.edu/blog/home-price-income-ratio-re...
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by slv77 2y ago
Much of the US housing stock includes homes built before 1990 (30 years ago). If most of the median home price increase was due to build quality there would be a bimodal distribution of housing appreciation with newer homes having appreciat
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by slv77 2y ago
Spanish scholars have speculated that Columbus was a crypto-Jew. The DNA analysis could have potentially ruled out that theory. https://www.cnn.com/2012/05/20/opinion/garcia-columbus-jewis...
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by slv77 2y ago
Business expenses must be ordinary and necessary to be deductible. A roofer would have a hard time justifying deducting a boat under the rule but a commercial fisherman wouldn’t have trouble. Entertainment expenses are no longer deductible
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by slv77 2y ago
Others have tried and the IRS has even provided a helpful guide on if your endeavor is a hobby or a business ( https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-news/fs-08-23.pdf ).
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by slv77 2y ago
Monsanto engineered several crops to create their own insecticides with genes from bacillus thuringiensis (BT). BT corn was approved by regulators for corn not intended for human consumption. In practice it became impossible to keep BT corn
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by slv77 3y ago
The Federal Reserve is paying 5% interest on $7 trillion of reserves held by banks. Since this is in excess of what the Federal Reserve is earning on the assets on its balance sheet they are booking the difference as “deffered assets”. Litt
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by slv77 3y ago
This author is essentially arguing that the security of his garden shed is equivalent to the security of most banks because statistically banks get robbed more often. Spammers and scammers have a fixed cost to initiate an attack and the pot
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by slv77 3y ago
A lot of those regular folks could have kept their money in US Government bond funds or in FDIC backed bank accounts as well. They invested in commercial real-estate paper because they wanted higher returns than those bonds funds would prov
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by slv77 3y ago
Economic incentives aren’t aligned between cow-calf operations and feedlots. There may be a significant difference in feed efficiency between calves. Some may turn grain to meat at a 2:1 ratio and others at a 4:1 ratio but ranchers are paid

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