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wang_li

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    Comment #49214733

    Are you thinking specifically of the US or you thinking of all the countries that were part of the data they reviewed? Also, how does leaving the wealth in the hands of citizens pr…

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    Comment #49214514

    The question I have is that at some point X taxes are collected and the economy is growing at Y, then the policies change and now X-5 taxes are collected and the economy grows at Y…

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    Comment #49197635

    I think that solving a problem they have that has a side effect of generating more revenue is not lost on them. Particularly in the situation where the cost to improve the models g…

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    Comment #49197370

    "Let's make sure our model fails sometimes so that we can bill more for a second agent to validate, sometimes correctly, the work of the first model."

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    Comment #49185063

    I would think that it means they have an offering that you won't be charged for, not that they will offer the exact same thing perpetually. Like Red Robin has free refills on many …

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    Comment #49157111

    There's not enough salt to sterilize the land where dumped. The salt in fish sauce preparation may be as high as 20% initially but by the time it's done, after having been drained …

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    Comment #49156665

    Citizens most certainly do own the country. It comes directly from the fact that all government power is granted to it by the people. >That to secure these rights, Governments are …

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    Comment #49156423

    This stuff is barely pollution. Everything there is a natural part of the environment and biological processes. Literally the only issue here is the concentration of it. Dumping it…

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    Comment #49155459

    There should be some sort of defamation lawsuit possible when people publicly publish trash repos or reports like this. If you were writing a competing product in a safe language y…

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    Comment #49146924

    So these plug in batteries are only functioning as "time shift" of power usage, but not as a mechanism to go supply standby power to the house?

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    Comment #49140883

    If one is not modifying the house wiring how does this prevent backflow into the grid? Does it shutdown completely on power loss from the mains?

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    Comment #49125375

    The policy being argued exempts such people from the work requirement. People who are not exempt can meet the work requirements through a variety of different activities from part-…

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    Comment #49125217

    HIV is literally called out in the subhead of the linked web page. If you bothered to read the article and get a sense of what is being argued in court, you would understand that t…

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    Comment #49125118

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    Comment #49124470

    The reason you vouch for someone is that you get the benefit of their contributions to the project and, assuming the person you are recommending is good, you get an improved reputa…

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    Comment #49030445

    The emulator on that page gets an error when booting, but I think the content is the same as this: https://archive.org/details/riag_004_051_-_MECC_Assembly_Lan... Which was awesome…

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    Comment #49000418

    No part of Europe has “simply banned guns”. Some countries have stricter policies but it’s possibly to own a gun in every country. Some countries are famous for gun ownership, eg s…

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    Comment #49000374

    The second militia act of 1792. Though that required you to have a gun. Which in some fashion required monitoring. In modern times many states require you to have a permit to own a…

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    Comment #48979967

    This wouldn't be a bill of attainder, it's simply an infinite assessment against the criminal's estate that can't be discharged in bankruptcy. I don't personally think that people …

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    Comment #48979517

    Property is not fluid and doesn't change hands very often. Sure, in a large enough market lots of activity happens every day, but any given property is only involved in a transacti…

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    Comment #48974428

    George Gershwin for his musicals. George Lucas and/or Spielberg for Indiana Jones. I considered loughead for publishing Paul Bunyan or Jack London for the likes of Call of the Wild…

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    Comment #48929330

    It’s curious how many people don’t understand what SQLite is and its intended feature set. They get huffy that it’s not a full client server model with multimaster clustering acros…

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    Comment #48908608

    These feels like bribe seeking behavior. Pol sees an industry that likely will have a lot of potential market within the pol's jurisdiction, pol publicly puts a speedbump or roadbl…

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    Comment #48908533

    I feel like we are past the point where using an AI tool to translate some code, to write some code, to copy some code, is considered interesting or novel.