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>how can we find 1.5t in the budget Central bank ≠ treasury.

>How does this exonerate him if he has no lawyer to go thru the procedural efforts? Because police would likely not even contact him in the first place once they see that there's n…

I am of the opinion that the very concept of commissioned sales is cancerous, because of the obvious perverse incentives it sets up. Whenever I am forced to buy form commissioned s…

>It might be the case and even likely that Hohn does not achieve the first step, but if he can convince a few large investors the effect will be much bigger than 5.01%. No, not a f…

>Your argument does not show that it won't go up, but only that it won't go from 5% to 15% but rather find some balance at, say, 8%. Mission accomplished, coal is now at a disadvan…

It's self-correcting. At 6%, more interest will be shown by other sources of funding, who will then enter the game and lower the interest rate as a result. The world is awash with …

I don't recall any anger. Hacker News is in the 'focus on facts' phase of responding to mass panic, and I believe we won't move on to the 'resignation' phase anytime soon.

If it inconveniences a lot fewer drivers than the number of cyclists and public transit users who benefit, then it's a clear-cut and uncontroversial net win, isn't it?

>people with disabilities, older people with problems with walking, pregnant women Are precisely the kinds of people less likely to be able to drive. Accessible and convenient publ…

King St. in Toronto is a kind of hybrid project[0] where cars have local access, but must turn either right or left at a bunch of intersections. On-street parking is gone. It's bee…

It's you. That half the world has no better healthcare system than Iran is a sad reflection on the state of healthcare in world, not an implication that Iran's dilapidated and over…

These numbers have been revised substantially upwards in the last few decades. I think the estimates were closer to 10-15 million in early 2000s.

I don't think that calling the numbers unreliable implies incompetence or even worse, malice, on the part of the reporting country. It's simply difficult as shit to come up with re…

Asking if it's 'bad' is an excellent starting point for an ethics discussion. It reveals pre-existing biases and emotional responses to a topic, which must be taken into account as…

They tried the drug using brother, that didn't work out too great. So they decided to go with the drug dealing brother[0] instead. [0] https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/toronto/…

Yep, add a layer of salt in winter and the plates are often completely, 100% not readable even if you're standing 2 feet from them in broad daylight, leaning over to try to discern…

Stickers that didn't even stick right (very poor adhesive). This from a premier who ran a sticker and decal company.

That's immaterial, because your potential adversary isn't going to want to find out what your nuclear rules of engagement really are. Possessing nuclear weapons raises the threshol…

I don't see how normalizing or not normalizing it will have any effect whatsoever on its proliferation. No country acquires nuclear weapons to actually use them. Instead, it is (ri…

Or drop charges. This is clearly a what-if that's been taken into account, the implication being that these people either are in fact military intelligence or otherwise very valuab…

You are guessing that they are guessing, and don't in fact know that. Your opinion has the right to exist, but I'll choose to believe that they identified actual military intellige…

I think their point is that with such a high reproduction number, the impact of anyone slipping through is amplified so much that reduction in travel alone will not do much to stop…

You're being a little hard on the Bible.

>The cost savings comes from the fact that instead of having to hire independent auditors to verify the paper trail, the blockchain serves as an immutable audit log and can be veri…