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há 9 anosdiscuss

I have no idea why an American should care one iota about some abstruse ethnic conflict literally on the other side of the world. You are spectacularly unlikely to be able to figure out based on thirdhand reporting who is metaphysically in the right, if there is such a party, and almost anything you do is likely to make the situation worse.

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That ignores the role of actual social networks and social proof in the construction of consensus reality. "Our" AI says it's real, and "your" AI says it's fake, and one can debate the margins - just as one debated whether it was metaphysically true that Clinton didn't have "sexual relations" with Lewinsky, or that Bush "lied" about Iraq.

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The other thing is that because of CAFE standards, there is convergent evolution towards maximally aerodynamic blobs.

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The point is that after you have requested a lawyer they are obliged to refrain from questioning you.

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It appears by "safety concerns" the author means "right wingers might be able to chat on the platform". I'm not sure Discord wants to put themselves in the position of weaponizing their platform to suppress particular kinds of private political speech.

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Depending on how underwithheld you are, you can avoid tax underpayment penalties.

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Be less sensitive. The role of manichaeism in art is underappreciated.

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The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon.

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Approximately zero of those are unlawful. "Off-year elections"? Really?

A high vote count is not an unmitigated good.

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Single family homes are historically how populations insulate themselves from the consequences of the policies the NYT advocates. On a macro scale, they're a defensive architecture. They make your neighborhood expensive enough that the population is (by selection) wealthy enough to ensure sufficiently low crime rates and sufficiently Good Schools, with enough geographic buffer to survive natural population movements.

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Not that surprising; can you recognize random Bollywood stars?

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Exactly. "We don't store your picture, we store an abstracted entity that allows us to recognize your picture in the future." The latter part is what people are concerned about anyway - the abstracted representation of "their face", not some particular photograph.

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There is also the fact that Tesla purchasers tend to be from high socioeconomic classes, even more so than the baseline (extremely predictive) education / occupational category / credit score triptych would indicate. Most insurance risk predictors map directly to SES.

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Source? Noncompetes are disallowed in CA, and federal (and probably state) law prohibits a ban on employees sharing salary information amongst themselves. But AFAIK there is no direct prohibition on a contractual obligation not to disclose salary to a third party. You could of course be cute and merely disclose 1040 income or somesuch.

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How is "software to run dollar stores" different from generic retailing software?

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It's far from "government barely existing". They exist in minimal form solely to extract resources from any remaining piece of value in the city. Eg:

"Then earlier this year, he got a letter saying 333 Midland wasn’t up to code and it would have to cease operations immediately. He took care of the minor matters the fire marshall requested, like installing exit signs and extra fire extinguishers. But he still can’t get a clear answer from the building inspector about what else needs to be taken care of"

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Hand-harvestable-only crops like lettuce and tomatoes. Basically the CA Central Valley.

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We are absolutely not. Productive farmland in the USA is fairly expensive and farmers are extremely interested in preserving its value. Most "destroyed" topsoil is due to eg suburban developments spreading into former agricultural areas, but it's still minimal in the grand scheme of things.

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The amount of labor involved in grain crops like barley per dollar of output is minimal already - the guy running the tractor/combine/etc is mostly making sure nothing breaks and keeping an eye on things (which is important when you're operating $N00,000 worth of heavy equipment on open ground). You do need guys, however, for when things do go wrong, and for all the other farm tasks (equipment maintenance, fencing, maintaining irrigation, and so on).

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So do most contractors.