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kitrose

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    AS400 I think

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    Comment #43145253

    According to Wikipedia, Penn has an endowment of over $22 billion. Not enough in the piggy bank to cover?

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    Comment #35346465

    Happy Pycharm user here.

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    Comment #34575764

    This is cool, thanks for sharing!

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    Comment #33914794

    This is all circular because the treasuries are being priced based on the expectation of the rate changes.

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    Comment #33488212

    Common phrase in the military going back at least 15 years. Suppose “putting on blast” is more common in that context?

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    Comment #31084689

    Not to go in circles here, so the ultimate point here is same as the article: there have and will continue to be a threat / counter threat environment and will continue to evolve. …

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    Comment #31083704

    Price tag is a small part of it. Have you ever humped a combat load? It sucks. You’re rolling out with 40 lbs of stuff hanging off you before we even talk sustainment. Javelin has …

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    I was an armored vehicle officer in the USMC. ATGMs are a long standing threat. There’s no scenario where hundreds of Javelins are sitting in one infantry company. It’s the type of…

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    Comment #31082848

    A tank can engage at similar distances.

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    Comment #30843553

    $1,000 / 20 = $50

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    Comment #30699985

    Works great while your infantry platoon has the missiles to pop one or two unsupported. If they are in force then you get rolled.

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    I don’t get the direct connection between response from a non-NATO country being attacked and a NATO member. If Putin tries to invade Latvia, the default assumption in this analysi…

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    Comment #30430829

    Is art meant to be min-maxed? Perhaps a publisher might think so, but I would suggest the appeal is the unique POV and voice of the author and the choices they make.

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    Comment #30306450

    For someone who hasn’t encountered this before and is expecting their first child in a couple months — how common is this in practice today?

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    Aren’t they bad examples? There’s a distinction between an extremely rare occurrence of biological factors like being 7 feet tall in order to succeed, and that of needing a decent …

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