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Comment #23132222
It is quite possible that people agree with you that source code should be first and foremost useful, but disagree on compactness vs airiness.
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Comment #22994212
No, but unless the French decide that they can force others countries to follow their laws, the only choice is between [French protection laws applied in France; French protection …
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Comment #22986523
The order specifically singles out Amazon categories for products. I am not a software engineer, but something along the line of: > if item.category is not in authorized_categories…
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Comment #22986493
How is that odd? The issue was the safety of its French employees, and therefore the order from the French court relates to the Amazon facilities in France.
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Comment #22985913
This does not address my points. - A large chunk of the Fed liabilities are coins and bills. What does it mean for the Fed to "default" on those coins and bills?
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Comment #22985882
"Free markets, except when the markets do not work" is not particularly specific - I fail to think of any mainstream party in the West that do not agree with this principle. The di…
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Comment #22977693
Well Amazon has been sued by its workers' representatives, lost in the first trial and lost again in the appeal trial. It is of course possible that other delivery services have si…
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Comment #22977576
The liabilities of the Fed [0] are money in circulation, reserves accounts of banks (mainly to meet requirements) and the deposits of the Treasury. Besides the fact that it is not …
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Comment #22969273
Defaulting on the debt means anyone owning treasury bonds lose their money.
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Comment #22967082
Should every message be written with all possible audiences in mind?
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Comment #22956829
This plan is supported by the region (~ state) rather than the city of Paris. Next regional elections are in March 2021.
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Comment #22948758
The strongest plausible interpretation of what the previous comment said is that it refers to the Fields medal, which has been described as the mathematician's Nobel Prize [0]. Ass…
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Comment #22933162
We can only assume that if the author of previous comment actually missed them and not their faces, they would have said so.
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Comment #22915238
Would that mean that any assassination done with a weapon is a failure?