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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
This has essentially been done for the government already, and still these numbers are treated as sensitive.
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
I'd buy the argument made in the article more if they could explain what harm the scammers are avoiding by weeding those of us who can spot a misspelling as early as possible. Do they immediately start investing a great deal of time in
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Most people are terrible at pricing an item over its full lifetime. A smaller cash outlay almost always attracts a sale, even if the item has a much shorter expected lifespan than a more expensive alternative, or will require constant repa
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
> The only difference here is that there’s now the option to change the program over the air. The mutability is the part that bothers me. Remotely disabling features and the option to hike prices for monthly subscriptions to have functio
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
https://www.google.com/search?q=india+total+fertility+rate tells me India's is 2.18, below the modern replacement TFR rate of 2.3 [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_fertility_rate#Replace
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
It's obviously possible to buy gold in non-USD currencies. So I think the gist of your comment applies to the dominance the US has over oil markets. So while the "petrodollar" era is still ongoing but its day seem numbered, e
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
I agree with the general premise of your comment, that this is a small sign of the deglobalization which is _already_ under way. But, what are the UUUGE tailwinds benefiting India? India, even more so than China, seems likely to "get o
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Because you can't get any accurate information out of them?
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
I've never heard anyone from the US or Europe claim that plastic will degrade back into the ground. Somehow they changed their "entire culture" to put trash in cans.
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Is this related to Peter Turchin's book of the same name? I can't tell from reading their site (historiacivilis.com) if that's the case.
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
>Ideas, especially those that stoke resentments, are like viruses. The problem is that people make statements like this but apply them selectively. E.g., platforms like major news networks are happy to give airtime to the claim that peop
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
A very accessible book which discusses exactly the intersection of Puritan beliefs and their treatment of American Indians is "American Nations" ( https://www.google.com/books/edition/American_Nations&#x2F
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
The Puritans were especially strident in imposing their beliefs though. Their concept of collective salvation meant they'd brook no dissent at all. And so _anyone_ not toeing the line was treated as a mortal threat and could be subject
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
That sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox , and in fact the article has this snippet: "The expansion of slavery in the United States following the invention of the cotton gin has also been cited
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
In fact, there were even claims during the 2020 riots that "White silence is violence." See e.g. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSVUrvnJFXs . That's right, even _not_ saying anything at all (including not par
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
https://mobile.twitter.com/StupidWhiteAds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hvNNtBmA3SQ
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Too bad it's not a first-order phase transition so it could have a latent heat of fusion!
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Nazism can't be forklifted into 2020s USA, _even if_ someone texts his mom Hitler pics. That guy is LARPing, like many do, and killed and injured people in the process. It's awful that this happened but it's still not proof t
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
This is typical of Americans' understanding of the events leading up to the Second World War. It seems that a lot of the wartime propaganda still holds sway, reducing many to view this part of history as having an almost cartoon-like s
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
I doubt the complaints would be ignored. It'd be fair to assume that the complainant might face consequences for not going along with the program.
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
One company I worked at in a major US city allowed individual teams to perform their own hiring. The division I was in had employees mostly from outside the US, and the autonomy given to each team led them to form their own to ethnic enclav
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Networking and having a reputation among peers for doing good work is one thing. Ethnic nepotism is a different thing. It's a massive failure on the part of many of these companies that this is allowed to happen.
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
But that could be done by other, less obvious means, if desired. Does this redirect add any new tracking abilities?
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Maybe to prevent harm to their agendas and continued grip on power.
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Is that redirect to avoid sending a referer header to server though? In other words, doesn't it actually prevent tracking?
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Would using a "multiplexing" carrier like Google Fi (I don't know the real term for it) that can switch between several others at least reduce the value of this tracking?
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
When I tried GnuCash, I was bitten by the fact that, although it supports OFX, many OFX servers don't support it. I found in some cases the server expected the client to support QFX, Quick's extension of OFX. In other cases, these
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
> there is/was quite a reaction on China half-ripping off Disney (!) characters in regional parks or goods. I'd argue China making "knock-off"s or "stealing our IP" is pretty close to that as well. Companies
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
Let's apply that same reasoning on a different scale. Rome violently occupied most of Europe and forced its culture on to those peoples. Therefore, most Europeans may eat as much pizza as they like. But if an Italian so much as looks a
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by thisiscorrect 4y ago
This is a really vague answer. Can you elaborate? What happened 500 years ago that explains why the authors are right in their attempt to ban certain ethnic groups from certain ideas?

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