trappist

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by trappist 7mo ago
"Admitted" as the verb in a statement like this is blatant editorialization. Did they just finally "admit" what they had been reluctant to reveal? No doubt with their heads hung in shame? Maybe this bothers me more than
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by trappist 2y ago
The only problem I can actually name with vigilante justice is that it can be error-prone. Otherwise it's only an encroachment upon the state's monopoly on the dispensation of justice, and I'm not seeing a moral objection to
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by trappist 2y ago
I can't even count the number of ISPs I can choose from, because my city, county and state have no "franchise agreements" i.e. licensing programs i.e. monopoly grants for ISPs. Cable, DSL, fiber... I have multiple choices for
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by trappist 2y ago
This was a subsidy paid to participating providers in high-cost areas to support the discount. Charter, a participating provider, said it lost customers when the discount ended. That is not the same as saying those customers lost access to
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by trappist 2y ago
Do you think that the world is a better place if ordinary Russians can't access their own money?
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by trappist 2y ago
I have often been described as oblivious (I prefer "focused") and I have yet to encounter someone with a worse sense of direction/orientation than mine. I could tell endless funny stories about how bad it is. OP mentions a st
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by trappist 3y ago
If a hacker could withdraw to this wallet, it stands to reason he could withdraw to his own.
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by trappist 3y ago
I hope they encrypt passwords and are unable to do this.
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by trappist 3y ago
I'm not seeing any attempt here to control for obvious confounders such as the relationship between this exposure and the climate you live in. I think I'm also not a fan of the (editorialized) verb (implies causality) used in this
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by trappist 3y ago
So it's defined as policies expected to produce affordable housing, whether or not housing turns out to be affordable under those policies. And it's not affordable without those policies in place, regardless of price.
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by trappist 3y ago
I think that it is, but I perform a lot better when I pretend that it isn't, probably because it imposes some discipline, however arbitrary.
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by trappist 3y ago
This would defeat the entire purpose of incorporation. Not to say you're wrong, but incorporation exists to prevent this.
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by trappist 3y ago
It seems to me every licensing regime begins with incumbents lobbying for protection from competition, then goes down in history as absolutely necessary consumer protection programs.
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by trappist 3y ago
This change doesn't prohibit hearing-impaired patients from seeing an audiologist to get set up with a hearing aid. It's just no longer compulsory. I can't imagine understanding that this requirement is an encumbrance, and be
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by trappist 3y ago
If something is not OK, can there not be a penalty for it which is also not OK?
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by trappist 3y ago
I think #1 is more attributable to the rising minimum wage. I read the other day that the one job that automation did successfully eliminate was the elevator operator, but I'm quite certain that - like the gas station attendant in stat
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by trappist 4y ago
Production happens over time. Businesses pay for their inputs at one price level, do production things, then sell their final outputs at a higher price level, resulting in higher margins than would be possible under stable prices.
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by trappist 4y ago
FTA: > This credit line is funded by 3rd-party capital (and not Brex directly), who are working with Brex to minimize the impact of this event to the startup ecosystem.
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by trappist 4y ago
> It's about a couple of small groups getting to choose what content you do or don't see See I think this is a big part of why this died out. The boogeyman NN was to save us from was corporate censorship, which is now widely re
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by trappist 4y ago
Trump was a stopped clock on this. I don't think that's paren't point. The point, to me, is that the entire establishment treated the lab leak hypothesis as misinformation for no better reason than that Trump had endorsed it.
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by trappist 4y ago
Wikipedia: > The Australia Institute is a left-wing public policy think tank... This is the only conclusion this organization could ever be expected to reach. In any case inflationary environments tend to be good for profits, because pro
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by trappist 4y ago
> promoting heavy meat diets The ones not promoting heavy meat diets are generally recommending (and/or shilling) supplements of nutrients you get for free on a heavy meat diet, such as protein shakes and creatine powder.
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by trappist 4y ago
The only reason to hold money is for future consumption. Every dollar you spend today is a dollar you can't spend tomorrow. The only person harmed when I save my money is myself, and only because inflation is eroding its purchasing pow
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by trappist 4y ago
Headline might as well end in "and that's a good thing." Why can't they stop editorializing everything?
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by trappist 4y ago
Known for: Not discovering Neptune https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Challis
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by trappist 4y ago
Of all the possible reasons, the ROI is why it should be banned?
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by trappist 4y ago
NIH budget has increased over 40% since 2015. https://officeofbudget.od.nih.gov/pdfs/FY22/spending-hist/Me...
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by trappist 4y ago
47m. This time of year (in Texas) I lay out 30-60 minutes a day in a tiny speedo to maximize exposure, and walk shirtless in shorts another 30 minutes, no sunscreen. I'm pretty tan by now which affords significant protection as I under
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by trappist 4y ago
> Also those sales were pretty much required for taxes His reason - or at least his public justification - for that sale was to deliberately generate a tax liability. If you recall people were getting pretty bent about him not having suc
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by trappist 4y ago
Not just working on it. We use Storj in production and it's dramatically cheaper than S3.

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