touktouk

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by touktouk 6y ago
It is quite possible that people agree with you that source code should be first and foremost useful, but disagree on compactness vs airiness.
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by touktouk 6y ago
No, but unless the French decide that they can force others countries to follow their laws, the only choice is between [French protection laws applied in France; French protection laws not applied abroad] and [French protection laws not app
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by touktouk 6y ago
The order specifically singles out Amazon categories for products. I am not a software engineer, but something along the line of: > if item.category is not in authorized_categories then do not sell Does not seem too hard to do.
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by touktouk 6y ago
How is that odd? The issue was the safety of its French employees, and therefore the order from the French court relates to the Amazon facilities in France.
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by touktouk 6y ago
This does not address my points. - A large chunk of the Fed liabilities are coins and bills. What does it mean for the Fed to "default" on those coins and bills?
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by touktouk 6y ago
"Free markets, except when the markets do not work" is not particularly specific - I fail to think of any mainstream party in the West that do not agree with this principle. The disagreement is about 1. when do markets fail and 2.
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by touktouk 6y ago
Well Amazon has been sued by its workers' representatives, lost in the first trial and lost again in the appeal trial. It is of course possible that other delivery services have similar safety measures and have not been sued yet, or ha
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by touktouk 6y ago
The liabilities of the Fed [0] are money in circulation, reserves accounts of banks (mainly to meet requirements) and the deposits of the Treasury. Besides the fact that it is not clear why the Fed may collapse when they can create money to
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by touktouk 6y ago
Defaulting on the debt means anyone owning treasury bonds lose their money.
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by touktouk 6y ago
Should every message be written with all possible audiences in mind?
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by touktouk 6y ago
This plan is supported by the region (~ state) rather than the city of Paris. Next regional elections are in March 2021.
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by touktouk 6y ago
The strongest plausible interpretation of what the previous comment said is that it refers to the Fields medal, which has been described as the mathematician's Nobel Prize [0]. Assume good faith. [0] https://en.wikipedia.or
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by touktouk 6y ago
We can only assume that if the author of previous comment actually missed them and not their faces, they would have said so.
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by touktouk 6y ago
Would that mean that any assassination done with a weapon is a failure?