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sand_castles

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    > During the first eight years that the Pentagon ran the anthrax vaccination program, hundreds of troops refused the vaccine due to perceived health risks or religious concerns — a…

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    So you are saying that the South Korean government will stop providing special subsidies to their Chaebol ? Low tax can be in the form of premium land grant, or govt provided healt…

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    Why is it 'disinformation' when the Iranians do it, but public relations when US companies do it ? or better yet 'spreading freedom and democracy' when the US government does the s…

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    You do know what in 2021, you have to pay for water even water ? Unless you are super rich, you can't afford to do open source.

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    I don't understand why India does not just have a Gitee type separate github. Not like the US gives India much. India should just go it's own way, and use it's use of English as a …

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    would be a good thing IMO. Central Banks will finally get their hyperinflation.

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    why not replace landlords instead of workers ?

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    Are you black ?

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    > Luckily, Canada will be one of the biggest winners of global warming. Most of their land mass is not arable today, but it will be tomorrow. Do you think a lot of plants grow in S…

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    Corruption and QE is wayy more expensive though.

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    I have more respect for Afghan Freedom Fighters "Taliban" than McKinsey and their MBA drones. At least the Taliban stand for something and have the courage to put their lives where…

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    I have implemented C printf in JS, because I don't like console.log so weird.

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    The cost of Real Estate in Russia / Eastern Europe is 20,000 USD / apartment, with 8% central bank interest rates. I see prices in US/UK/Canada dropping to those levels. [ If you d…

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    deflationary / inflationary have precise meaning in macroeconomics. when JPow says deflationary, what he means is general fall in demand. It could "look" inflationary to a wage ear…

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    > There is no built-in fairness Wage equilibrium around the world is inevitable with the rapid increase in integrated markets and improvement in telephony technology. What this mea…

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    Taxes generally distorts incentives and lead to misallocations of resources. It's better to let the prices do the talking with caps on retail prices ( barrier function ). generator…

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    Raising the minimum wage in a vacuum is not doing to do much. The problem with the US is monopoly corporations, monopoly landlords, monopoly banks, monopoly educational institution…

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    > lower GDP growth on average Europe is the largest surplus region on the planet. I don't get where this idea came from, Europe does the most impressive technology, but doesn't con…

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    There is a big difference in power and being helpful. Scammers are always helpful, and PIMPs tend to give gift to their subject. BC like being the PIMP, but won't accept somebody e…

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    how is HCL better than YAML ? people can misuse HCL too, YAML misuse is not uncommon.

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    Does it start with not actively promoting the use of private jet ? and not using private jet himself ?