Youtube comments of seneca983 (@seneca983).

  1. Possible counterarguments: 2) Cyprus's border dispute didn't stop it from joining the EU. Also, Ireland technically claimed ownership of a part of the UK until 1999. 3) Technically, Greece, the UK, Ireland, Sweden, Finland, Cyprus, and Malta didn't share a land border with a pre-existing EU member when they joined.
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  2. Hopefully they will vote the ANC out. It seems that that's at least possible whereas in Zimbabwe they probably can't vote out the ZANU-PF.
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  3. "Otherwise it solves nothing." I disagree. Even a suboptimal policy of building more is better than building nothing.
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  4. 3:30 Housewife: "Hey! Who are you and what are you doing in my house?" Chemist: "Oh, don't mind me. I'm just collecting samples from your oven."
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  5. 2:55 "In Russia the military and the security services are effectively responsible for running the country." I've seen at least Kamil Galeev argue on Twitter that it's only the security services that run Russia. Military is low in the dominance hierarchy and deliberately kept weak so it can't challenge the security services' domination. I don't myself know enough to say whether he's right or wrong.
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  6. If you ever stop your illegal activities and it turns out to be bad advice, remember to sue him.
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  7. 1:45 "nor am I an agent of an intelligence organization" That's exactly what an agent would say!
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  8. One funny detail about the Transnistrian war is that apparently during nights the fighters from both sides would join together in drunken partying.
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  9. 3:00 There was a coin called guinea worth 21 shillings between 1717 and 1816. (The coin also existed before 1717 but that's the year its value was legally fixed at 21 shillings).
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  10. There's also one more way Sweden might get into NATO: Erdogan losing the election. Though, I have to admit that I don't know what the other candidates think of Sweden's potential accession.
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  11. They had to do it because they couldn't figure out how to use tulips offensively.
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  12. Which one is better, eating a surrendered enemy or eating your own population?
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  13. 1:03 "Kosovo is a place" That's a pretty bold statement to make.
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  14. Fun fact: In Finland and Estonia Valentine's Day is called "Friend's Day".
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  15. At first I thought this was a permanent magnet and that that was the reason why it was so difficult to move.
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  16. 9:20 On the other hand, there's another reason why exchanging conscripts can make sense. They can be expected to be on average less effective on the battlefield than volunteering contract soldiers. In theory, the Kremlin could take that into account when negotiating the prisoner exchanges but the political pressures you mentioned might also make them willing to even pay a premium for released conscripts.
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  17. Fun fact: The people of Madagascar are also Austronesian. Madagascar was apparently first settled from what is Indonesia today, not from mainland Africa as one might guess.
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  18. But what language would sound gay to the French?
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  19. Still it means you deserve whatever position you have because, even if you're not the greatest, you're still Goodenough.
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  20. 0:10 "shocking but effective defense mechanism" I see what you did there.
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  21. He's made a lot of correct choices but he's also made one huge error that I would advise everyone to avoid if at all possible. Smoking
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  22. Bulgaria is the poorest EU member.
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  23. How the lawyers in this case get paid seems to give rise to perverse incentives too. Some enterprising lawyers might try to get some random shareholder (possibly by paying him) with 1 share to start a case just so that they can reap huge sums of money if they win.
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  24. It should be noted that some countries, like France, are also in the Red Sea protecting cargo ships without participating in the Operation Prosperity Guardian. Presumably this is, at least in France's case, because they don't want to subject their ships to American command.
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  25. I think one possible game theoretic reason you missed is dynamic inconsistency. If you're invaded then reaching a negotiated settlement with the invader might the lowest cost option for you once an invasion begins. However, what if you instead take the attitude that when invaded you're going to always fight to the bitter end and cause as much damage as possible to the invader regardless of the cost to yourself? If you take that kind of "irrational" position and credibly signal that to would-be invaders then they might rationally decide that invading you is not worth it after all and thus you avoid invasions entirely. However, if you still get invaded then the only way to really signal your "irrational" intention is to fight to the bitter end even though it seems more costly.
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  26. Can it really be called a "bullet train" if it's such a low percentage of the speed of a bullet?
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  27. Red: "I'd like to pitch an idea for a slice-of-life comedy where King Arthur and Fionn Mac Cumhail both rise form the grave due to some potentially catastrophic political upheaval in the general UK area..." Hmm, "some potentially catastrophic political upheaval in the general UK area" eh? How about a story where Arthur etc. rises from the grave to prevent Brexit? :)
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  28. 0:53 "the world's most [...] dangerous national capital" Mogadishu: Am I a joke to you?
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  29. Funny that you showed a picture of Enron. Enron was audited by Arthur Andersen. Arthur Andersen no longer exists because of the Enron scandal. Can we expect the same to happen to PWC?
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  30. However, Legal Eagle himself also made a similar, and seemingly baseless, stealing accusation. He accused Mat Pat of copying his video some subject I don't remember anymore (might have been something about the copyright of some dance moves or something) while it's more likely that Mat Pat's legal expert has simply come to the same conclusion about the subject as Legal Eagle. However, unlike iilluminaughtii, Legal Eagle knew when to stop digging. He just pinned Mat Pat's response under his video and didn't press on and there was no drama of note.
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  31. The present situation where the Palestinians are effectively stateless is rather problematic too.
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  32. I think the US actually does this better than several European countries as the US has decently high property taxes. Now, property taxes aren't an ideal Georgist taxes because they tax both the land and the structures and other improvements on it. However, it still at least captures a portion of the land rent too so I think it's an improvement on just having very low property taxes (as is the case at least here in Finland). A good step would likely be to separate the property tax on land and structures and tax the former at a higher rate.
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  33. About the earlier Lockheed scandal, there is a satire game made of it called "I'm Sorry". The name is a pun as "sorry" sounds similar to the Japanese word for prime minister. In the game you play as PM Tanaka and collect stacks of cash.
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  34. Dracula wasn't a Count. He was the Voivode of Wallachia.
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  35.  @QuestionsIAskMyself  What's so weird about it?
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  36.  @kevinavila9489  Based on watching American movies and TV series one gets the impression that crime is really rampant in the US. While there might be some truth to that I suspect fiction easily gives a very exaggerated picture. I suspect that the same is true for Korea. (Disclaimer: I've never been to the US nor Korea.)
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  37. Note that the ADRs might become worthless even if Sberbank stock doesn't. Though they should represent a claim equivalent to actual stock there's no guarantee that that will be honored during exceptional circumstances like these. That might at least partly explain the ADR prices.
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  38. And lower lip.
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  39. If the UK claimed an area 372 times its current size, that would be more than all of Eurasia and Africa combined.
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  40. Some British politicians have given assurances that the UK would not geographically leave Europe. I wonder if we can trust them.
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  41.  @madsdavidson4292  I'm guessing it's "banned" in the sense that it wouldn't comply with pedestrian safety regulations and therefore couldn't be driven in the EU, not that someone has made an explicit decision on Cybertruck specifically.
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  42. 7:27 "Long gone are the days where you can ambush people at trial." How long gone are they?
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  43. French is the English of Romance languages, and English is the French of Germanic languages.
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  44. 1:30 "If I do the Ramadan fast in this heat I may actually die of thirst." Good thing Babur didn't conquer Svalbard and try to do the Ramadan fast there (in the summer).
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  45. The losses suffered should include some estimate of the profits the investors could have gotten with a real investment. Of course, that's still less than the $65 billion calculated with the fictional 12% return but it should be more than just the $17 billion put in.
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  46. 1:40 "Why would anybody take this bus if it's going to get stuck in the same traffic as a car." I would still choose the bus over a car if it's not slower either. Then I can at least e.g entertain myself with my phone instead of having to concentrate on driving.
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  47.  @dannyvfilms : I don't because it's redacted.
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  48. Uber and Lyft are somewhat different in that they don't actually own or lease the cars in their own name so most of their value is in the technology. I also suspect they made a somewhat bigger change relative to pre-existing taxi services than WeWork made relative to pre-existing real estate services.
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  49. What if it's just Shoigu wanting his own Bakhmut?
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  50. Hasta was a thrusting spear used by triari (and I guess originally by hastati).
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  51. E.g. Americans (who could be replaced by any other nationality here) who come to Japan are a self-selected group who are much more likely to like anime than the average American. The Japanese people you meet in Japan are likely not a similarly selected group.
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  52. What happens if you tell them to design a battleship?
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  53. At least inside Tolkien's world, the etymology for mithril is the following: "The name mithril consists of the two Sindarin words mith ("grey, light grey") + ril ("brilliance")." Of course, it's possible that Tolkien may have gotten inspiration for the word from real-world Latin or Greek.
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  54. Why are people so into cod? Salmon is much better.
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  55. It's "only" a bit over 1% of the whole population.
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  56. 26:23 In case anyone's curious, "pioneeri" is the Finnish word for "field engineer" and "vänrikki" is the lowest commissioned officer rank in the Finnish army, so basically equivalent to a 2nd lieutenant.
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  57. Funny how only intellectual skills were included which means that pro wrestling still off the hook (though in hindsight it's clear that the pro wrestling industry didn't even need to purport to be about genuine contests).
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  58. Would that be period appropriate to include North African corsairs as well? That would add some variety.
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  59. Does tentacle porn that old exist. At least the famous Fisherman's Wife is from the 1800s if my memory serves me right.
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  60. It doesn't rain much in London, it just rains often.
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  61.  @randommodnar7141  It's better than building nothing. That's all I wanted to say. I agree that density and walkability are good.
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  62. Well, Hawaiian has an extremely small phonemic inventory so it's probably easy to write with almost any alphabet.
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  63. I don't agree with this. The proposed BRICS currency wouldn't replace national currencies like the Euro did. It would only be used to settle some international transactions.
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  64. "no speed limits where practical" I'd think it would make sense to have some kind of speed limit, if possibly a high one, so that most vehicles would travel at roughly the same speed.
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  65. 4:55 You're subtracting 10% off the weight on the assumption that Tesla can make these semis with less parts than diesel semis but you're taking that 10% off the weight that includes the batteries and the electric motors. That sounds rather made up.
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  66.  @eldsprutandedrake  "just because the oil that is pumped in Norways isn't burned in Norway it should still be counted as an emission from their country" I personally think that ideally the country where the final consumption happens is where the emissions should count. Barring that, where the oil is burned is a better metric than where it's pumped. If consumers of oil cut down their usage enough that will affect how much it's profitable to pump in Norway and elsewhere.
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  67.  @James-sk4db  "France had 3 times to population of England during the 100year war, and it still took them100 years + the Scots + Barron’s revolt to win." But at least the earlier parts of that war were essentially a Frech civil war. "Big whoop beating Spain, they lost 5 armadas to the English." Spain was a major military power and defeating them was no small feat. Also, at least 2 of those Spanish armadas were defeated entirely by weather without any action against the English (and, as a side-note, the English counter-armada was also a miserable failure).
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  68.  @googane7755  "it was undeniably worth the risk" I think you can still deny it depending on your perspective. Some value those rewards you mentioned more, some value them less.
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  69. One aspect you neglected to mention is that the image looks like a photo taken from above. If the image was somehow produced by contact with the body I think you wouldn't expect the image to look like that. The shroud should at least to some degree wrap around the sides of the body and the face which should result in a distorted image when the shroud is straightened.
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  70.  @edytha2090  Why do you think he's delusional? I suspect he's referring to the Manmasi National Christian Army. What's delusional about that?
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  71.  @samarkand1585 : Maybe the Brits have very high standards so "good enough" means a lot. (Maybe it was quite appropriate that Beatty wasn't named Goodenough.)
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  72. I'm pretty sure a number of nations have had at least a few soldiers like that.
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  73. I've actually heard of this incident before because a Maori mentioned it in a YouTube comment.
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  74. 1:25 Note, the ICJ only ruled that international law doesn't prohibit declarations of independence. It didn't rule that Kosovo has the right become independent by a unilateral decision.
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  75.  @shawnmllr86  "Having multiple sources of energy is a strategic advantage." That favors electric. Electric power can be obtained from various sources. Gas stoves can only be powered with gas and nothing else.
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  76. 1:52 "doctors and lawyers and engineers" I think it's a bit weird to include lawyers in this (brain drain) category. Lawyers' skills and certifications are usually pretty country-specific and thus they can't so easily just seek jobs elsewhere.
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  77. Even if the manufacture of the shade balls consumes more water than the balls save doesn't necessarily mean it's a net loss if the balls are manufactured in a location where water is more plentiful. Also, while I don't know how the manufacturing process consumes water it might be that it can use water which isn't fit for drinking or irrigation.
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  78. "Two people in history" Though we don't know if they were actual people that existed. The Iliad and other such stories might be just stories or partially stories.
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  79. "What exactly is the bank going to do with the loyalty program to turn it into $20 billion?" I suppose they can still be paid of any outstanding points that are spent (even if no one could earn any more points)?
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  80. I wish Nokia had chosen Android instead of Windows Phone to begin with.
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  81. According to CIA World Factbook, Argentina has a real GDP per capita of $21,500 and South Africa $13,300 (both for the year 2021). Thus, Argentina still seems to be about 60% richer than South Africa, at least by that metric.
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  82.  @imagine7964 : It's Graham's cat.
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  83. Wikipedia says about him: "Tuchman is not a fan of electronic trading. He told BuzzFeed News that "we did not become more productive, there is nothing productive about the new technology, in my opinion. There was a lot more communication, transparency, a lot more volume back then."" I wouldn't have expected that.
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  84. In Japan something like 98% of adoptions are adults being adopted. Basically, if someone with a family business doesn't have a son (or at least one that's going to continue it) then they often find someone else to continue the business and also take him as an adopted son.
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  85. I live in Helsinki and I think you're a bit too optimistic on the architecture. In the center you see a lot of buildings in "historical" styles like you mentioned but further out the styles are mostly more modern which too often tends to be a bit boring (though not every example is boring). Apparently architects tend to think that building today in older style is tantamount to a forgery. There's a case from 2018 where one organization wanted to have a building built in Jugend (a.k.a. Art Nouveau) style but the City Planning Department didn't allow it so they built a modern looking building instead. I have once visited Prague and there seemed to be more buildings in "historical" styles, though I'm not sure how old the buildings were. (Finland is further to the east than Czech Republic but the latter is often counted in "Eastern Europe" whereas the former isn't.)
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  86. Flying on top of Mt. Everest with a helicopter isn't easy either because the air up there is so thin that the rotor struggles to create enough lift. At least one guy has done that but he used a helicopter that had been stripped of everything nonessential to save on weight.
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  87. "naxalite movement isn't even the biggest problem" At 7:10 it's explicitly mentioned that according to Manmohan Singh, the Naxalites are a bigger problem than the others you mentioned (or at least they were, according to him, during his tenure as PM).
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  88. I don't think the claim (at least the one's I've seen) are that Soros's trades on their own were enough to move the market. Rather the claim (as far as I've seen it) is that his actions made other speculators believe that the realignment was going to happen soon causing them to copy him. If this is correct, his actions were a snowball that started an avalanche (though that avalanche was coming in any case and if Soros hadn't been the one to set it off someone else would've). Just to be clear, I'm not myself claiming that this kind of claim is true either. I'm just saying what the claim was as far as I've understood it.
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  89. While Morocco's motives might be questionable, is it their duty to control who leaves Morocco? Countries usually want to control who can come in but don't place as many restrictions on who can leave.
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  90. "Bro if you were a good Muslim you wouldn't have gotten into gambling in the first place." When he was "swearing on the Qur'an" he (presumably) hadn't yet talked about the gambling thing so the story wasn't inconsistent in that sense. What about later? Well, now we know he was lying (while swearing) and that's certainly much worse than gambling.
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  91. They actually started by making mechanical pulp. They later moved to cables and rubber and even later into electronics.
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  92. Though Classical India didn't pretend to be a single state.
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  93.  @FortunateSon-mo9zi  You just need to search for some Hetalia fanfic or fanart.
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  94. That effect isn't really that big and it's stupid to resent it. No one is obligated to hold depreciating dollars in large amounts. Also, same applies to any other currency.
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  95. The "genius" was Duke Minks. He was employed as some kind of advisor in the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust and the musical was also written by him (along with 3 other people). Basically he spent other people's money to make his own musical. To be fair, this particular investment was really bad but it was a fairly small part of the total funds invested. Sadly, too many of the other investments failed too.
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  96. About "honorable combat", I remember it being said that in Tsushima they tended to favor a very ritualistic form of warfare where even fights between armies were done by 1-on-1 duels (horse archery duels that is, not sword duels) and that that was a distinct disadvantage when the Mongols landed on Tsushima.
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  97.  @CoolMan-ig1ol  "federal govt has too much power" I don't think that matters here. A Georgist land tax is basically like a property tax except it only applies to the land and not to any structures or other improvements on it. In the US, property taxes are collected by state and local governments, not the federal government.
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  98.  @empress2529  "Entschulden = 7 consonants 3 vowels!" Actually, that's only 5 consonants and 3 vowels. The trigraph "sch" represents a single consonant sound (voiceless postalveolar (sibilant) fricative [ʃ]). That it's written with a trigraph rather than a single letter doesn't matter here because this video deals with the perceived beauty of spoken language, not written language. I don't think German is a particularly consonant heavy language. Also, your example of "Scusa" only has a slightly higher percentage of vowel sounds. In it 40% of the phonemes are vowels whereas in "Entschulden" it's 37.5% vowels, barely a difference.
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  99. Are you assuming Ker-Lindsay thinks those arguments don't apply to Nagorno-Karabakh? At least to me it's not obvious that that would be his position.
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  100. Ironically, Turku used to have trams in the past but they were removed in the '70s (including the rails).
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  101.  @Pilvenuga  "Professional army [...] vs conscript army" Germany's army was also a conscript army.
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  102. 3:52 Automatic captions: "trained in gorilla warfare". :D
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  103.  @hermask815  The word "bullet train" is a general term and not the name of any country's system (as far as I know).
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  104.  @camilledasse4331 : "I think that the reason it disappeared of the map is because it is no longer considered as a colony. It is now a “département”, which could be roughly translated as a “county”" But doesn't that make it even more of a part of France (at least until they possibly leave) since it's at least in theory as much France as any département in metropolitan France?
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  105.  @kevinmsft  If they can successfully flee then they can likely avoid that penalty.
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  106. 2:35 "you know what happens when..." But surely the bailiff will not tackle him because he might get the virus as well if he does.
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  107. It's not unusual among countries in Europe (or most other places). The controversy seems to be strictly inside France. I don't think I've seen all that many outsiders call this wrong or anything.
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  108.  @moira8  What? The real historical character is presented as a count just because of a different fictional character who's just named after him? In this case Voivode meant the ruler so he was basically royalty, not mere middling nobility.
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  109.  @rajavlitra  Yes, of course it's better to pick more density and walkability if that's available. I only wanted to say that "solves nothing" is somewhat of an exaggeration.
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  110. Serbia isn't an EU member.
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  111. Self-determination is one of UN's values but so is territorial integrity. It's not like any arbitrary region has the right to self-determination just because a majority of the population there want it. A single family can't demand that their house and lot becomes a sovereign country even if they all agree on that. So what kind of regions of populations do have a right to self-determination? Solve that problem decisively and you'll be deserving of the Nobel Peace Prize.
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  112. Depends on your definition of "colonial" but here it's obviously used to mean that this atrocity wasn't committed by European powers (or Japan).
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  113.  @ContraPoints  You need to make a video showcasing your bookmarks, search history, etc.
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  114.  @nathangamble125  Or because it's the name of a disliked ride-sharing app.
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  115.  @Flumphinator  什么！
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  116.  @Gothmetalhead13  "And like typical French, they ran away" Really? At least in this case it seems more like the French favored overly brave and brash action over a more careful and calculated approach. It seems to me, a small pinch of "cowardice" would have made them more effective.
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  117.  @tellyboy17  "the Europeans defunded their armies into oblivion" The combined military budgets of all EU members still over four times the military budget of Russia (or at least were in 2021) and that's with the UK gone. Even these defunded armies are more than a match for Russia.
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  118. It's well compared to a civil war.
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  119. I'd say even pro-Z Russians shouldn't be deported in most cases. If they're working age, it's more advantageous for Ukraine if they're not in Russia contributing to the Russian economy. Some countries (e.g. Estonia and Latvia) may have legitimate security concerns when it comes to Russian citizens but that doesn't apply to most countries and certainly not Portugal.
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  120.  @FranzBiscuit  That just doesn't make any sense. Whether quantum computers work doesn't in any way rely on the Copenhagen interpretation. The Copenhagen interpretation is, after all, just an interpretation of a theory. It's not a theory onto itself and you don't need to make predictions.
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  121. 2:25 "They took with them a collection of rural books and items." Rural books? What does that mean? Or did I mishear this part?
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  122. Where were the igneous and metamorphic farmers?
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  123. I still think that the EU is a net benefit despite its shortcomings.
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  124.  @tauceti8060  Turkey's location doesn't seem to have hindered it's ability to join the EU. That has been due to other factors. Also, Cyprus is entirely outside Europe geographically but was still able to join.
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  125.  @SandRhomanHistory  36:55 "Duke of navelless declared that he has been tricked into thinking that the town was defendable" Maybe you should have said that he had been conned into thinking the town was defendable. :)
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  126. 1:20 Tokugawa Ieyasu wasn't the first Shogun. There's disagreement who first held the title but the first Shogun who was also the de facto ruler of the country was Minamoto no Yoritomo.
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  127.  @NullParadigm  The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic is a specific governmental institution which issues the Argentine Peso. Just having currency competition is not the same thing as this institution being closed down or not being able to issue currency.
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  128. I don't know how difficult the questions themselves are but I think the number of accepted examinees was below 0.5% of all examinees. That means you could be really top-notch even among the self-selected group of examinees and still fail.
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  129. It's possible to include almost any information with extra words or sentences. The point with evidentiality marking is that it's compulsory.
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  130. "They just need to store small metadata around the messages that's all." Does that really work? If the content of the messages is encrypted then how do you know which message's metadata you should look at?
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  131. Then he should, in principle, be entitled to a public defender, though it's possible he doesn't want to admit to being that broke.
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  132.  @SchlossRitter  Japanese is helped by the fact that it uses logographic script (kanji) for a significant part of the text. I think Thai is probably an even more striking example because the Thai script is not logographic.
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  133. 8:47 I'd say Helsinki, for the most part, doesn't (yet at least) have all that good biking infrastructure. At least the public transit is good enough that you don't need a car, though.
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  134.  @user-hv6wb5gk8p  "Governments benefit from high property prices due to property taxes and the sale of public land." I don't think they do. In the case of city governments the property taxes per apartment/condo might be higher if the prices are higher due to scarcity but if they allowed more construction their tax base would still likely be higher due to a higher number of apartments/condos even if the prices might be lower (and this is even before considering the possible income tax revenue from additional residents if the city has such a tax). Restricting building new housing is just a mistake for city governments and the incentive for that isn't tax revenue but other things (like the political power of existing resident NIMBYs).
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  135.  @lours6993  "Don’t be that guy who thinks it’s cool to hold a conference call at full voice in the midst of a quiet railway carriage full of people silently working or chilling." Also, it might be good form to talk about your employer's business secrets such that other people on the train can hear them.
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  136. He's not paying one cent for his electricity. He's paying a lot more than that.
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  137. I have a couple of objections: 13:20 I'd say you could also justify changing the model if you can come up with a simpler one (which still fits experimental data). I don't know that much about particle physics but my impression has been that some of these proposed changes could at least plausibly be seen as simpler and/or more elegant. Supersymmetry is presumably more symmetric and therefore arguably simpler in a certain sense. Thus it doesn't seem like an unreasonable hypothesis. How much it makes sense to spend money to test this hypothesis is another question and I won't attempt to answer it here. 19:15 I think just saying "knowing the distribution is enough" falls short. If it's dark matter then we likely care about also knowing its composition and not just distribution. Trying to find its composition certainly isn't an easy task but if according to our observations the dark matter seems to be there and according to cosmological models only a portion of it can be explained by normal matter and/or neutrinos then it at least makes the hypothesis of "exotic" particles more likely than if didn't observe something that seems to imply dark matter which couldn't have a more "normal" composition. I'm not saying you should necessarily assign all that high probability to such hypotheses but it's at least higher than otherwise. Again, we might not care about knowing the composition so much that we would carry out these difficult and costly experiments to confirm or rule out some of the hypotheses we can come up with but I won't try to make that evaluation.
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  138.  @JelMain  "Norway is NOT part of the EU, so they cannot ban the extraction of that mineral." Like mentioned in this video, Norway is a part of the EEA so they are still subject to many of the EU rules (with some exceptions like the Common Agricultural Policy and Common Fisheries Policy).
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  139. Olympics nowadays are a huge money drain for the hosting country with no comparable benefits (other than feelings of prestige for leaders).
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  140.  @drifzy67  More strikingly, one country separates Norway from North Korea.
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  141. ​ @ez4039 : "Goldman did them a favor extending credit when others wouldn’t." I think you misunderstood a bit. Goldman basically helped Greece to "cook the books" and pretend they had less debt than they actually had in order to meet the requirements to join the common currency.
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  142.  @ennui9745  So they're equally good?
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  143. There's also the Council of Europe though it's not an EU institution.
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  144.  @listennow5261  In Siberia there might be too much land relative to the population.
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  145. So, Brits don't eat a lot of fish?
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  146. "makes me fearful" I can understand that but on the other hand, a huge amount of "Now Hiring" banners isn't the worst economic signal you could have.
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  147.  @108chapin  "NATO expansion did precipitate wars in [...] Libya" Wut? How did NATO expansion cause a war in Libya? That makes no sense.
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  148.  @grimgoreironhide9985  But he also ended up also helping Nokia by seriously overpaying for the Nokia phone division.
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  149.  @cauyawolfe4724  "if density is the answer then why does a condo in New York cost the same as an house in the country?" Clearly that condo in New York is very valuable if people are willing to pay so much for it. Thus building more of that adds a lot of value.
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  150. "It wasn't a special experience" Did you mean "was" rather than "wasn't"?
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  151.  @ygotsvlog3762  I think you misread my comment. Check it again. I didn't say the British Empire is larger than Eurasia & Africa.
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  152. I'm not sure about this king but Frederick the Great was definitely gay.
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  153. "That light from the sun will reach the earth whether you install a solar panel or not. The energy has already been added to the Earth's system and will end up as heat one way or another." That's not quite correct. The idea is that a less dark colored object would reflect a higher percentage of the incoming light back into space. So there is a difference from the change in albedo, it's just completely minuscule compared to the radiative effect from greenhouse emissions and can be ignored.
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  154.  @Leo-ok3uj  The population of Ma'arrat al-Numan.
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  155. Next: jreg
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  156. "Nice video, but it doesn't shed any light on "soviet perspective"." Well, I think it's the Soviet perspective in the sense of being the official Soviet perspective (which doesn't necessarily comport with how the Soviet leaders actually thought).
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  157. I suspect where the mistake stems from is that he was thinking about where Iran used to have a border with the Soviet Union.
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  158.  @OverlySarcasticProductions : I might add to the previous comment that in your earlier Ancient India video you showed illustrations of scenes from Mahabharata with horse-drawn chariots, though I guess those could be anachronistic. Btw, you say instances of pre-horse cavalry were usually elephants. If it was only usually and not always, does that mean that non-horse, non-elephant cavalry existed somewhere at some time?
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  159. "I now find the experience dehumanizing and demeaning" However, being less luxurious allows flying to be cheaper. A lot of people prefer to better afford flying over receiving a better experience at a higher price.
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  160. 0:13 "while the Greeks were left ruling Nicea and Epirus" Trebizond: Am I a joke to you?
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  161. 2:00 One thing to note is that a trade surplus is not necessarily a good sign for Russia. It could be but it could also mean that sanctions prevent useful imports. Thus their exports may just cause them to stockpile forex that they can't easily spend on something useful.
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  162. "Very Large Colony". Those ants are as unimaginative in naming their colonies as astronomers are in naming their telescopes.
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  163.  @alyssaheller7860  "It is a commentary about slavery at the time" At the time? Slavery had been abolished in the US about 2 decades prior.
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  164.  @filthycasual8187  "the air quickly becomes stale since most (not all) of what you're breathing after a minute or two is just CO2" That's not the case. The volume of air that fits between a mask and one's face is much smaller than the volume that one's lungs can inhale. Most of the air comes from outside the mask.
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  165.  @black_thunder2159  On the other hand, a pattern where a general first tries to storm a fortification and, after that doesn't work, tries to starve it out, is probably something seen again and again in different parts of the world.
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  166. I think destroying the Iran deal was one the worst things he did.
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  167.  @gj1234567899999  Let's call it un-21st century then instead. ;)
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  168. 1:25 In case anyone's wondering, 180 different currencies means 16,110 different currency pairs.
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  169.  @nettcologne9186  "And if a nuclear power plant explodes in your neighborhood, then we'll keep talking." And if it doesn't, then lets keep building.
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  170.  @concernedcitizens4110  "It’s better to have a coalition government than having 2 diametrically opposed parties that will change policies in 180 whomever goes into power." Having more parties may help with that but it's not a given. Sometimes, what happens is that the parties just arrange themselves into 2 coalitions that similarly take turns in being in power.
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  171. "The Europeans have inflicted a punitive trade embargo on Australia" I don't think it's punitive.
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  172.  @Sprayber  I don't think that's what the USAID does.
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  173. A lot of languages also denote long vowels (and consonants) by duplicating the letter. That should be very easy (if a bit longer).
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  174. The migrants might not be the ones that wanted independence. They might have not even been born yet when Comoros got its independence.
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  175. 2:30 "Olympus is pretty tall and hard to climb." From what I've read online Mt. Olympus seems to be actually pretty easy to scale. You can go most of the way by just walking without the need for climbing (though you can't reach the very peak without some climbing at the end). Disclaimer: This is just something I read on a random website.
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  176.  @Juhani96  My understanding is that the term "Baltic country" was back then applied to the countries that had gotten independence towards the end of WWI. That included Finland back then. I also don't think Finland was called "Nordic" back then. I think that only happened after Finland joined the Nordic Council in 1955.
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  177.  @mq9demo  "Critical Race Theory?" I'm not sure if this is a joke but in case it isn't: CRT = cathode ray tube
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  178.  @Potato_Smuggler  It probably won't vanish completely (unless major infighting erupts) but it might at least be unseated from government or have to form a coalition with other parties. This still poses at least 2 risks as a) the other parties might not have the experience of running the executive branch and b) one of the major opposition parties is Marxist-Leninist and therefore could be even worse. But one can always hope.
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  179.  @sinewave999  "why did this need a 20 minute video?" Because of the interesting technical details of airport requirements and FAA funding?
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  180. 15:45 Aren't you ignoring South Sudan here? It's independence was preceded by a long armed struggle (much longer than the Bangladesh Liberation War) so it's not like it was just granted independence through negotiations. It had to earn it's independence through spilled blood.
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  181. Practical Engineering did a video about it (permeable pavement). Apparently it's used at least in some places in the US.
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  182. 85% legit if done incorrectly.
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  183.  @Hdusiekwbshsjs  <ahem> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon%27s_planned_invasion_of_the_United_Kingdom
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  184.  @prime8nate  Sorry to disappoint you but since this ship would be so large it wouldn't fit the Suez canal it likely would have no reason to come near the Somali coast.
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  185. "just another politician" In substantive terms, he has been quite different from other recent Argentine politicians. He has made sweeping policy changes, for better or for worse. So he's not "just another politician" in the sense that he would, despite talking big about reforms, just mostly continue the status quo.
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  186. I didn't know Dutch was actually a fantasy language.
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  187.  @oovdash  "Japan has an infamously terrible court system. They coerce you into a guilty sentence." That's quite unfair. The conviction rate is quite high but that's at least partially because prosecutors are reluctant to prosecute cases that aren't airtight. I've not looked but I've not heard of similar issues for civil cases in Japan (though I have heard or a dearth of corporate lawyers there).
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  188.  @RedTail1-1  "fuel tanks were filled with water" By "fuel tanks" do you mean the fuel tanks on the missiles themselves or some kind of separate fuel tanks from which fuel can be injected into the missiles? My understanding is that often rockets using liquid fuel aren't kept filled due to how dangerous liquid rocket fuel can be. Rather, they're only filled when they're actually being readied for launch.
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  189. "Noble savage is nothing more than a concept perpetuated by ignorant Europeans" Depends on what you mean by that. For some definitions some groups might fit the description like the Moriori here. One could consider their peaceful culture to be "noble" while using "savage" to mean their relatively primitive technology and/or their "close to nature" lifestyle.
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  190. In Finnish it's "hehkusukka", lit. "glow sock".
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  191. "Poland change the name of Kaliningrad to Königsberg?" Technically Królewiec rather than Königsberg.
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  192. "Rather than opting to pay their workers better wages immediately, the companies basically borrowed on credit - that is the future cost of those pensions. They did this to themselves." I think in the case of e.g. the auto workers, the unions were demanding pension benefits specifically. Also, increasing wages enough to allow the workers to save an equivalent amount would likely have taken away the possibility of profits right away (instead of later) which is something neither the company nor the union would want.
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  193. I'm really surprised that he wasn't sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends.
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  194.  @TheLifesentence2278  Nimitz class carrier has a draft of 12.5 m. There are cargo ships with a higher draft.
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  195.  @spanky9973 : "A court order could be used to compel the 3rd party to give them access to my data or voice/video recordings." Couldn't a court compel you to do the same?
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  196.  @MattCasters  But the cash bonus of $2 million (which was above the minimum wage) was paid to Nelson Peltz, not Elon Musk, so I don't see how you can claim it isn't the truth.
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  197. "Wouldn't trust Tudor age chroniclers/historians either." By watching Blackadder I learned that Henry Tudor, in fact, lost the Battle of Bosworth Field but just falsified the history to state the opposite! :)
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  198.  @Fee581  "Some of the buildings look a bit kitsch, but many of them are nice." I would personally think that even very kitschy buildings would be the lesser evil compared to boring modern architecture, but preferences vary.
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  199. 6:13 "Blank concrete surfaces aren't appealing to anyone." Brutalist architects might disagree.
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  200.  @Potato_Smuggler  From what I've understood, at least so far they have won elections by actually getting people to vote for them and not e.g. by ballot stuffing.
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  201. 35:58 "It's a political question that I will leave to you." Wow! That's a pretty heavy responsibility, especially considering I'm not even an American.
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  202. There's nothing wrong with price discrimination as such. It's the specifics here that are very surprising. Why are they charging e.g. Indians more for certain games?
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  203. I knew of Yan Xishan only because I've watched mapping videos by a youtuber using Yan Xishan as his channel name.
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  204. Malta and Cyprus are islands as well.
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  205. When it comes to Austria, they recently had a dispute with Russia and they were not going to get more gas from Russia in any case.
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  206. Nigeria's inflation rate is still a lot lower than Turkey's. And I don't think they have refused to hike interest rates due to religious reasons.
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  207.  @thecomment9489  That's mostly due Russia being big. E.g. Estonia is a far better functioning country than Russia but it can't realistically have a space program of its own because it's too small.
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  208.  @john_blues  If "5% termites" means that termites make 5% of the combined weight of the termites + house structure, I'd say that's not a small colony.
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  209. 0:14 "Taiwan has diplomatic relations with 15 countries including the main ones: United States, Australia, Canada, European Union nations, Japan, and New Zealand." There seems to be a big misunderstanding here. Since you're using the number 15 you're presumably talking about the countries with full formal recognition and diplomatic relations with the Republic of China. These are mostly very small countries. They are: Belize, Eswatini (Swaziland), Guatemala, Haiti, the Vatican, Honduras, Marshall Islands, Nauru, Palau, Paraguay, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, & Tuvalu. The countries you mentioned probably support Taiwan informally but they don't formally recognize it.
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  210.  @mattbob1995  Is "Citron Research" some kind of reference? What exactly is it referring to? Life giving you lemons or something else?
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  211. 5:05 As a minor nitpick, I don't think it can be called "irredentism" if any kind of Kurdistan doesn't exist as an independent country. It's just separatism.
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  212. One thing to consider is that the emotional motivation for having children probably has (like many things) a genetic component. I contemporary society such genetic trait is probably more evolutionarily favored than in the days of yore. That will likely also put some upward pressure on birth rates, albeit at rather slow rate. At the very least, low birth rates will almost certainly not threaten the existence of the human species.
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  213. "And remember, while Binkov may talk about hypothetical peace, only a real war can tear us all apart."
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  214. Analogies are rarely perfect.
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  215.  @Lightice1  The 100 Years' War hadn't yet quite ended when the Portuguese first came to Japan.
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  216. English spelling is only like 500 years out of date but the Tibetan one is 1200 years out of date.
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  217.  Hunter D  No, likely he couldn't have. Nixon's lawyers thought that it might be possible but a DoJ analysis came to the opposite conclusion. It's possible that the DoJ was wrong but it looks likely that a self-pardon wouldn't work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_pardons_in_the_United_States#Self-pardons
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  218. I prefer the version where it says that imitation is the most sincere form of flattery.
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  219. But that's just "The Troubles". Time doesn't exist in Northern Ireland.
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  220. But didn't Milei say that he also planned to close down the central bank?
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  221. "Made the Mississippi river flow backwards." I thought it was the Delcambre Canal. Or is that a part of the Mississippi river?
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  222.  @emangalea537 : I'm a bit skeptical if a thing like that could be known. Piracy is an extremely ancient practice after all.
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  223. I'm surprised that even some of the insider information was actually correct.
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  224. That's not especially rare. The national anthems of Finland and Estonia have the same melody and the guy who composed it was German born (though he lived the majority of his life in Finland). The anthems of the UK and Liechtenstein share a melody which was originally composed for the French king Francis I (with the name of the song being "Grand Dieu Sauve le Roi"). The anthems of Zambia and Tanzania as well as previously those of Namibia, Zimbabwe, and South Africa share a melody coming from a song called "Lord Bless Africa" (Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika).
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  225.  @thecomment9489  They can still contribute through international cooperation. E.g. Estonia is a member of ESA.
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  226. My guess is that he thinks saying this is better for Trump's election chances.
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  227.  @johnoverton9558  "this random dude named Kyle in the Youtube comments thinks he knows more than some of the world's top engineers and physicists" What? He asked a question. Asking a question isn't a claim of knowing something. It's (normally) the opposite.
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  228.  @dabi2k  "That woman’s surname is SomethingDottir" No, it's not. Patronyms aren't surnames.
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  229. "And it's not a glamorous job, like on TV or in the movies." I think that a "glamorous" portrayal of a law career in some TV series makes it actually seem quite horrible. I love watching Suits, but I definitely wouldn't want to lead the kind of life the characters in that series go through. A more "boring" career would sound more enticing (though possibly not as interesting to watch on TV). But a law career wouldn't interest me in any case.
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  230.  @kalef1234  He clearly stated that it's not just the 1%.
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  231.  @hasinabegum1038  That depends on your definition. Many people in Russia and other former Soviet Republics have mixed lineage and may choose to identify one or another ethnicity based on various different things. There are many such people of mixed decent in Kazakhstan that may choose to identify as Kazakh but then change to identifying as Russian if they move to Russia.
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  232. "Finally Greece gets some recognition" I thought how successful the Greeks were against the Italians is pretty well known.
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  233. Just remove your CO monitor. Then you can rest in peace.
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  234. If that happens, would it be called "Logan's Run"?
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  235. However, that scheme was much more laborious and not as profitable.
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  236. No dislikes from people named "Everyone"?
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  237. "Its not the risky behavior that makes us upset, its the fact that they were subsequently bailed out." What hedge funds have been bailed out? If you mean they were bailed out by private actors rather than the government then I don't see a problem with that.
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  238. Better Call Seoul.
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  239. "Private Pile" Was Pyle supposed to be stupid? I don't remember the film very well but I thought he was just of average intelligence but had problems with the physical aspect of things and poorly coped with the hardship of a soldier's life.
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  240. Have you seen Wallstreet Millennial's video on this subject? He considered investing in the Direxion Daily S&P 500 Bull 3X ETF. With historical data, it would even in the long run greatly outperform the SPY ETF despite volatility drag. It might be worse if only made a one-off investment and the timing was bad but with dollar-cost averaging you'd still be better of than with SPY. This got me thinking, would it be possible to make a leveraged ETF with long-term investing in mind? It could maybe contain stocks from multiple countries for better diversification and maybe weigh less volatile stocks more. Also, it might not need to fully rebalance daily to mitigate volatility drag.
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  241. The sovereign citizens (and freemen of the land) seem to be less problematic. The don't claim themselves to be the legitimate government. They just think that taxes and laws don't apply to them.
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  242. 7:00 The Molotov cocktails Finns used didn't use a rag for ignition but rather two storm matches taped to the side of the bottle.
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  243.  @OldManShoutsAtClouds  "congress needs to step up and do their jobs" Well, one way to do one's job is to delegate and in this particular case it's probably the best option. "You would slate a quarterly review..." I don't think this is a good idea. The legislative process is very cumbersome. Doing this 4 times every single year would be a significant burden on Congress and could easily run into indefinite delays.
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  244.  @timothythorne9464  "English should no longer be considered a Germanic language." I disagree. The structure of the language is more Germanic than Romance. E.g. adjectives come before the nouns they modify, not after, etc. Vocabulary matters less for this and English still has a lot of Germanic vocabulary anyway.
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  245.  @matthewbergeron3641  "A line makes transportation significantly better, both for transportibng people, but also materials and energy." Quite the opposite. A line maximizes the average distance between two points. It's the worst possible layout for transportation.
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  246. She just wants to attend a furry convention.
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  247. He also did a cameo on Potential History channel talking about Greece in WWII.
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  248.  @JelMain  What does that have to do with anything I said? What I responded to was you saying that the EU can't ban phosphate extraction in Norway. It's not clear to me that that's the case because Norway is still bound by the EEA Agreement which makes some (but not all) EU legislation to apply to it. Whatever happened during WWII has no bearing on what the EEA Agreement says.
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  249. It was more the torpedo battery rather than the artillery that ultimately sank her.
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  250.  @escape209  "patronyms internationally almost always get treated as the surname in English speaking countries" That's not true, is it? You don't call the president of Russia Mr. Vladimirovich, do you?
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  251. I think you're ascribing a too far-reaching meaning to the phrase "scientifically sound". I'd say in this context it only means that achieving higher velocities in evacuated tubes is possible. However, the engineering challenge of doing that cheaply enough to make any economic sense is a completely different matter.
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  252.  @Yaaacar  "Honestly Montenegro, Bosnia&Herzegovina, North Macedonia and Kosovo are way too dysfunctional to make much progress. Serbia and Albania could, but their governments are preoccupied with mostly populism to take the admission procedure seriosly." That sounds very strange to me because you seem to be implying that Albania is less dysfunctional than Montenegro, Bosnia, and North Macedonia. I'm not super familiar with these countries but to me Albania seems way less functional. From what I've heard, it's basically a corrupt mafia state.
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  253.  @Liferoad371  Based on the description in this video a suicide seems perhaps more likely.
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  254.  @sirtophattingson8946  I'd say the Greens here in Finland are fairly reasonable. They're hardly flawless, though. They were anti-nuclear in the past but luckily they have dropped that stance.
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  255. The Yemeni and Ethiopian civil wars were already ongoing when this war started.
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  256.  @socialistcatdad  I'd also think a consumer co-op would be better than a worker co-op. The interests of the workers and passengers don't always align and the workers might try to hinder reforms aiming to benefit the consumers if it's seen to threaten some of the workers. Technically, co-ops are also private though they do differ from the more common joint-stock form company.
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  257. I don't know if fall or winter is the best time to invade, but in the case of the famous failures of Charles XII and Napoleon the invasion didn't happen during winter but rather the retreat from Russia.
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  258. Germany is probably a lot less corrupt but not totally clean either. I think in the case of the new Berlin airport there was an incident where someone was literally paid by being handed a suitcase full of cash in an empty parking lot in the middle of the night.
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  259.  @9_9876  Google for: "Drinking with the Enemy – Opponents Fought by Day and Boozed Together By Night in the Transnistria War".
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  260. In WWI a much higher percentage of artillery shells were duds than in later wars.
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  261. But that's not the only issue with them. They also have an incentive to cut costs by taking worse care of the inmates. Since their "customers" can't choose another company to house them they don't face same kind of market discipline a normal company would.
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  262. 6:10 Auto-captions: "Operation YourAnus"
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  263.  @hermask815  Obviously reaching such speeds wouldn't make economic sense even if it were possible. I was just joking and the moniker "bullet train" isn't meant to be taken that literally.
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  264. Well, Mongolia had the largest contiguous land empire and look at them now.
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  265. Or was it an excursion instead of an incursion?
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  266.  @tamaghnachoudhuri8584  That's a bit of an exaggeration. Basically, he's a mathematician and then he started a fund that uses mathematical techniques to invest.
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  267.  @shaungordon9737  The suburban sprawl in the US is really post-WWII. Most US cities are older than that. Age doesn't really explain that.
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  268.  @parvchetri0995  Yes, but back then the value wasn't fixed at 21 shillings because pounds were made of silver whereas guinea was made of gold and the relative price of those metals affected the relative value of these coins.
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  269. People change.
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  270.  @garycrasto1310  "I feel Azerbaijan is right here at taking back what belongs to her. After all they are lands recognized by the international community as part of Azerbaijan." I disagree. Being internationally recognized doesn't make using grave violence justified. Also, Azerbaijan is now also occupying a portion of Armenia's internationally recognized territory.
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  271.  @timosalo5003  Blue eyes (not necessarily especially striking) are far more common than green eyes. I think brown eyes are more common than green eyes too.
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  272.  @TacticalSnapBack  That would sound very surprising to me since India's GDP per capita (PPP) is than 1/8th of that of the US.
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  273. I actually hope the cruising industry declines. It's a surprisingly big polluter.
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  274.  @KateeAngel  Is that [ɬ] so hard (or unusual)? To me, the sound itself feels easy though I've not tried to learn any language that uses it. I've also had a coworker with lisp who pronounced S as [ɬ] (instead of [s]).
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  275.  @TheLRRPS  The power isn't close to unlimited and that power was given to them by elected people. Also, even if that was a problem, isn't it an even bigger problem that e.g. the Supreme Court, which is also full of unelected people, has a much greater power?
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  276.  @sandwarrior5579  "so what's wrong with that?" If you happen to get a leader with stupid ideas (e.g. that interest rates are evil), it may become impossible to get rid of them.
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  277. 1:35 "Right now the United States is not exactly known for passing bipartisan legislation." You need to copy Denmark and pass some octopartisan legislation.
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  278.  @savagecabbage553  One would think that a large volume of traffic would warrant a train or a subway line and it'd be easier if e.g. checking passports could be done at a train station or on the train.
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  279. "It's really heartbreaking seeing people equating Belarus to Lukashenka." My impression has been that people are not doing that.
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  280.  @vidarodinson5246  "most egyptian arab actually not Copts, they are coming in the arab invasion" The army that conquered Egypt was only something like 4000 men strong. They didn't replace the population or anything. Modern Egyptians primarily trace their lineage to the Egyptian population prior to the Arab invasion, not to the population of the Arabian peninsula at the time. Their language and religion* got replaced and culture affected in many other ways but the population wasn't replaced (mostly). *Note: The religion that got replace was Christianity. The Ancient Egyptian religion had already been replaced earlier.
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  281.  @Itriedtobe-wq9lj  "Brish are not Europeans in the strict geographic sense" I would say they are European in the strict geographic sense. Europe doesn't include just the continental part but also nearby islands. Otherwise, you could also e.g. say that most Danes aren't European (except those from Jutland).
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  282. The jury is only supposed to evaluate whether the evidence for the alleged crime is sufficient. Disliking the crime shouldn't lead to jurors thinking that it's more likely that it was actually committed by the accused.
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  283. It's not quite the same as a normal bank account because you're owning reserves (base money) directly. Normally only banks can have digital reserves, i.e. an account balance at the central bank and it's used only by banks in transactions between them. Usually individual people can only own base money in the form of physical cash, not in a digital form. This would be basically digital cash. Now functionally, the difference to most users would be small. However, one difference there is that a normal bank balance is only a promise to pay cash when demanded and a bank may fail to pay if it becomes insolvent. With a central bank digital currency, like the one of China, that cannot really happen because you're owning (digital) cash directly and there never was any promise to exchange it for something else.
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  284.  @annikafrankenstein  Nothing wrong with private homes/apartments/condos.
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  285. Suits makes the legal profession seem absolutely terrible (for everyone involved). It's a good thing the shenanigans in it are not realistic.
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  286. 3:22 "We know that we will have a battery with more than 400 Wh/kg in energy density in around 3-4 years." We certainly don't know that. It's just an empty promise.
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  287. @John Jenkins "Electrician here, good theory on why wires are uncoiled before use but not the actual reason. If youve ever seen the windings inside a transformer or (electric obviously) motor, you can probably reason out why" I'm fairly sure you're mistaken here. A coiled extension cord has a wire running in both directions so they will cancel out unlike the windings in a transformer or a motor. (And even if that were an issue the heat dissipation issue would still also exist.)
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  288. Maybe he could make a second channel titled "Complex Engineering".
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  289.  @MattCasters  "Musk sold all his possessions, paid $11B in taxes and donated over $5B to charities last year" The original comment was about the Las Vegas Loop. Whether Musk is a good or a bad person doesn't change the fact that the Las Vegas Loop is just a stupid idea.
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  290.  @AyamanAmusic  "the hard pushback of the people in Israel by the notion that you don't feed your enemy" I think starving the enemy population probably amounts to a war crime.
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  291. "It is already one of the most expensive areas to drive." But it's still not expensive enough because the negative externality of driving there is so great.
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  292.  @jod125  Coal has radioactive isotopes in it. Some of it inevitably escapes to the air. The much larger amount of fuel used per kWh produced contributes to the amount of radioactive isotopes spread.
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  293.  @Frahamen  But I think that's a point in favor of it being a city-state rather than against. I would argue that Luxembourg is closer to what the "classical city-state" than the so called "true city-states" mentioned. The classical city-states in e.g. ancient Greece were small states centered around a single major city but they were not super small. E.g. Athens' territory was composed of the entire Attica with most of it being rural. The modern region of Attica is 3,800 km² which is over 50% bigger than Luxembourg. Granted, ancient Attica was smaller than the modern region but I think it was still larger than current Luxembourg. Also, ancient Attica also had Piraeus which, at least back then, was a clearly separate city from Athens itself. Modern states like Singapore that are basically all urban area are very different from the classical city states. I say Luxembourg is more of a "true city-state" than Singapore if by "city-state" you want to make a comparison to ancient Greece.
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  294. That doesn't sound very cost effective.
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  295. 6:07 Lol at the captions here!
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  296.  @tellyboy17  A lot of those tanks are old T-72s in storage, not active service. They could not be used very quickly. EU countries have more and better planes and also bigger reserves. A Russian invasion against a combined EU has no realistic chance of succeeding even if non-EU NATO countries didn't get involved.
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  297.  @samuela-aegisdottir  "I think that the GDP is also not a good metric - it correlate with the size of the population and that is not an economic achievment." But it is a good metric for what EE wants to measure here. He isn't only measuring how good the economy is but also how important it is globally and in that regard sheer size also matters.
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  298.  @Mrobedi  At 13:40 they talk about charges filed against Goldman Sachs.
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  299.  @anonymous134y  Does this video convince you to put your phone in airplane mode? It seems you're causing unnecessary interference with your phone.
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  300. I wonder if Ethiopia will soon increase its percentage to similar levels.
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  301.  @slothfulcobra  "It'd be interesting if we started adopting new sewage infrastructure to harvest urine en masse." One possible issue with this is that at any given time some portion of the population is on some medication. Traces of that medication ending up in fertilizer and the food could be harmful.
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  302.  @waxxxi  "Russia is playing defensive at the moment." Russia has invaded Ukraine. That's an attack, not defense.
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  303. "We have a 16 KM Skytrain (subway, not high speed train) expansion project going here in Metro Vancouver which is gonna cost 3B!" But presumably that'll either be underground (=more expensive construction) or take up space in dense urban area (=more expensive land). Rail Baltica won't need much (if any) tunnelling and most of it won't be inside cities were land is expensive (though obviously some of it has to be).
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  304.  @laithlion3482 : And what do you think the business owners' message is going to be? They'd probably want the police to more actively stop looting and property destruction. If they deem the risk of similar events in the future too large, they might decide to not serve higher risk areas leaving them with fewer services.
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  305. I checked the FRED data for "Real Median Household Income in the United States". It has clearly been increasing, not declining, in the last 30 years. Technically median income and median wage aren't the same as falling unemployment could raise the former without raising the latter, but I still think you're clearly just mistaken.
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  306. Unfortunately, at least Helsinki still uses minimum parking requirements for most new developments. I wished they'd let the market decide and not force developers build more parking than there's demand for.
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  307. Why would the police side with the truckers? The truckers broke the law. Also, at least according to one poll about 69% of Canadians opposed the protest with only 27% supporting it. Note, I'm not commenting on whether the truckers were right or wrong in either their goals or their methods. I'm just saying that you don't need any kind of state surveillance explanation for why they didn't get support from e.g. the police.
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  308. I wonder if one could swim with a heavy cuirass anyway.
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  309. And if his father, Sigismund III Vasa, had successfully reclaimed the Swedish throne that empire could have been even larger.
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  310. From a historical point of view it's not a plural you but a singular you that English is missing (due to losing "thou").
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  311. "while ships from other countries have not been targeted thus far" This is completely false. Many ships with no links to Israel whatsoever have been targeted.
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  312.  @chancerobinson5112  We can observe that a lot of people choose to travel in economy class even though business class and first class are available. Clearly, the extra comfort isn't worth the extra cost for many (though for some it is).
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  313. 2:05 "Who hates the Belgians?" The Congolese?
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  314.  @jotfohm4644  In case it wasn't clear, he was just making a Doctor Who reference.
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  315. I'd say "east bank" would be understood correctly at least 99% of the time despite the Dnieper having twists and turns.
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  316. "it won't rust" Yeah, that's the main advantage stainless steel has over aluminium and carbon fiber composite.
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  317. I don't see why couldn't utilize time skips. Or maybe that would affect how the relationships between the characters would have to be presented?
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  318. Our lives are quite luxurious compared to those of our ancestors.
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  319. 11:40 Isn't it a bit strange to say that the UK would be occupying Irish territory? Ireland hasn't claimed Northern Ireland as its territory since the 19th Amendment in 1998.
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  320.  @krampsy  No, I'm pretty sure he meant that he views these Ukrainian attacks in Russia as retaliation for the Russian attacks against Ukraine's power grid last winter.
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  321. In most EU members there aren't significant enough tensions for something like that to happen. The closest examples would probably be Catalonia and Basque Country.
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  322.  @katarzynalpzm0arajko-nenow32  The boom may be just due to the medical profession being better able to diagnose autism today rather than it being an actual increase in cases.
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  323. You can't protect a globe-spanning empire with a small number of ships regardless of how good the individual ships are.
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  324. I wonder if this means that, if Israel hypothetically manages to make a lasting peace with all its neighbors, the Palestinians, and others (e.g. Iran), then future Israeli generations would see their birth rates fall noticeably.
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  325. Which one is better, eating a surrendered enemy or eating your own population?
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  326.  @todo9633  Didn't you dishonor them as well by misspelling their name? ;) (My German is rather rusty but I think it should be "Königliche".)
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  327. If the interest rates fall in the future, that will increase the market value of those bonds but not of your savings account.
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  328.  @thatrandomguyontheinternet2477  "Noob plane : has much larger air resistance" That's not true. Planes fly high up in the air where the air resistance is low. High-speed trains probably face higher air resistance.
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  329. To be fair, navigation technology was less advanced back then and a lot of the bombing was done during bad visibility to make it safer for the bombers.
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  330. Ah, so it was Lithuania that did it. That's pretty impressive.
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  331. Is there any IRA member whose surname is Roth?
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  332.  @catmutterer  You didn't answer my question. What label should I use if not "Palestinian"? I'm not talking about ancient history. It's a convenient label to use in the present day. Most people know what it refers to. Is there a better label to use? I don't think there is.
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  333. One more more factor to consider. It may be more beneficial for el-Sisi to keep the situation unresolved (at least as long as the dam doesn't cause actual damage to Egypt). Having an external threat is something that can keep the population behind him and rein in any potential internal challenges to his rule.
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  334. Gazprom is the state company handling natural gas, not petroleum.
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  335. 2:45 AFAIK, the current theory on why they didn't decompose is that microbes and fungi hadn't yet evolved the ability to decompose lignin.
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  336.  @johnsamu : I think with such pressure gradients the metal will flow like a liquid even if the melting temperature is not reached.
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  337. "airlines have a lot of debt" This is a fair point but the market cap figures still imply that the markets value all the assets of the airlines other than the loyalty programs billions of dollars below their liabilities. I still find that surprising.
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  338. 7:45 Fun fact: To be an "ancient document" (and therefore allowed) the document has to predate January 1, 1998. That makes me feel pretty old.
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  339. 5:55 "Contract law probably doesn't make for great fantasy fiction." Objection! See e.g. this link (which about the contract in the Hobbit): https://www.wired.com/2013/01/hobbit-contract-legal-analysis/?cid=5381194
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  340. "It is just a suggestion" It's not a mere suggestion. After the 2014 Wales Summit, NATO countries formally committed to spending at least 2% of GDP on their militaries. Before that, it had been an informal guideline.
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  341. I have some comments: 1) Putin has less reason/justification to invade Finland. Finland doesn't have a large Russian minority nor any separatist regions and it doesn't hold any territory that used to be a part of the Soviet Union. 2) I think to join NATO you need to have no territorial disputes. At the present moment that would hinder Ukraine's, Georgia's, and Moldova's ability to join NATO (and I think Moldova hasn't been interested anyway so far, though that might change at some point).
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  342.  @karimghandour5998  I'd say Seema Silberstein is on a similar level in terms of looks.
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  343. "over 100% efficient" So how efficient then? 110%?150%? Something else? ;)
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  344. It boggles the mind that a guy called BritMonkey would recognize Gibraltar as British.
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  345. 4:05 Is it really accurate to call it a "civil war"? I thought it was more of a case of an outside power, i.e. the Jurchen/Manchu, conquering China.
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  346. And when large the ship isn't hampered by being partly on land.
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  347.  @shiakas  "Wind and solar are much safer and less harmful." Wind and solar kill more people per kWh produced than nuclear.
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  348. She made the classic error of trying to hide a petty crime and in doing so committed a far more serious crime.
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  349. The Stability and Growth Pact indeed limits the debt to 60% of GDP (and deficits to 3% of GDP) for Eurozone countries. However, this isn't really a hard limit like a limit set by a country's own legislature which immediately has a force of law. Breaching the Stability and Growth Pact limits in practice just means you will be monitored by the EU Commission and maybe sanctioned if you're not doing enough. In fact, most Eurozone countries are in the breach of the limit. The US debt limit immediately prevents the Treasury from issuing new bonds if it is reached which is a much more radical consequence.
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  350. I've heard Austrians do the opposite and want to differentiate themselves from Germany.
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  351.  @amerlad  Grids are good. The problem with American cities is car dependency, not grid layout.
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  352. Medhead101: How could Germany have been in a "very good position"? IIRC Bulgaria had already left the war over a month earlier and the Ottomans and Austria-Hungary (or rather Austria and Hungary) about a week earlier. A loss of all your allies isn't a "very good position". Germany could not fight the whole world alone.
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  353. Remember that snow might get deliberately cleaned from the roof if it's getting too heavy for the structure to bear.
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  354. Of course it should be taxed too. In the EU it's been included in the emissions trading scheme from the start.
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  355. That's basically how these particular bonds were structured. If they were senior to equity holders they wouldn't count as Tier 1 capital under Basel III rules. (Though I obviously haven't read the contracts for these specific bonds so I don't know if the Swiss regulator's decision falls within the stipulations of the contract.)
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  356. They can ask you to point to the NFT to check that you're not just making stuff up. Of course, you can create an NFT for the transaction even though it's not really what you're receiving the money for.
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  357. "If you joined NATO don't expect peace 🕊" So far evidence doesn't support your claim. Georgia and Ukraine, who aren't members, have been attacked whereas NATO members haven't.
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  358. If there were a yellow submarine, we would all have to live in it and that would make it a bit cramped.
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  359. 1:30 "If it were its own independent country this medium-sized island all on its own would the world's 9th most populous." Shouldn't that be 8th rather than 9th because if Java were independent then (the remaining) Indonesia would be less populous than it?
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  360. Why hasn't Jimbo Wales been crowned the Emperor of the World then?
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  361. France has similar problems with Algeria.
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  362. 9:55 "I can't recommend Indochino..." - D. James Stone, Esq., 2019
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  363. Maybe it should be turned into a taxpayer funded government service.
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  364. Title says: "Do This ASAP". However, it's not clear to me what the word "this" is referring to. Is something you said in this video? Could you clarify?
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  365.  @CoolMan-ig1ol  "For instance your state can not tax the value of land, it is illegal." That's not (in general) true. Some state constitutions might prevent it but others do not.
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  366. At least they actually used shields unlike the hastati (spearmen) who didn't use spears after a certain point.
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  367. Even if you don't like the military service, it's only 12 months at most (plus some refreshers later).
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  368. I'm a bit skeptical of whether a system where military units would compete for supplies etc. on a market would be better. Markets are generally quite practical in "normal" peacetime conditions where we have to balance between satisfying various different subjective consumption preferences of many individuals. Running a military campaign with the objective of a victory is a very different endeavor. There's a reason why using markets (with varying levels of freedom and regulation) is common for the former but much less so for the latter.
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  369.  @minestar2247  "absence of evidence is not evidence of absense" This is just a general point and thus slightly off-topic, but absence of evidence is evidence of absence. It may typically be very weak evidence but it is evidence nonetheless.
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  370.  @Bishop0178  The CCP doesn't micromanage every action of every individual. You know, China also has regular criminals. These people are kind of like that though they were breaking Argentine rather than Chinese law. The CCP doesn't have that much of an incentive to actively send people to do illegal fishing because the rewards to them would be insignificant. The rewards to these individual fishermen can be substantial (relative to their normal income), however.
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  371.  @AyamanAmusic  "Do you wanna start to count the war crimes that Hamas did?" It's certainly more than 0 but that hardly means that preventing food shipments from coming in wouldn't also be a war crime. "And what are the rights of terrorists groups by those war rules?" I'm not sure about the terrorist groups themselves but you need to remember that the enemy civilian population does have rights under the laws of war, even if they support the aforementioned terrorist groups.
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  372. Apparently, Eric Dubay claims that Pythagoras was the first Freemason.
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  373.  @gregh7457  I've seen several videos on girls that do this and pretty much always say that it's because they need money for hosts. It was mentioned in this video too. Also, I think this phenomenon is more recent than Japan's economic troubles.
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  374.  @NicolastheThird-h6m  "Mongols weren't muslims in fact they despised them during the siege of Baghdad" Some Mongols were Muslim. There were already mosques in Karakorum before the siege of Baghdad. The reason why Mongols massacred the population of Baghdad wasn't religious. It was simply because the Caliph hadn't surrendered to them.
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  375.  @theramendutchman  He does correctly say "gas" but for some reason the text in the video reads "oil".
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  376. "The problem with the sanctions I guess is that the target I suppose is to make russian people so poor that they will protest harder against the war." That's one possible motivation for the sanctions but it's not the only one. One other possible motivation is that if the sanctions ruin the Russian economy then that economy cannot support the invasion of Ukraine as well as otherwise. It was mentioned in this video that manufacturing some weapons like smart bombs is more difficult without access to advanced microchips.
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  377.  @deltaxcd  You can always use machine translation, especially if you have installed a browser extension for it.
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  378.  @robtoe10  My personal impression is that so called "primitive" people have a wider range of behaviour when it comes to violence. Some groups have been very pacifistic, others extremely warlike, and many somewhere between. More advanced nations seem to have been closer to middle (though obviously this still varies with e.g. time).
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  379.  @Sahtoovi  Do you have a source for that? Just based on my personal observation blue eyes seem much more common than green eyes.
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  380. This should be the pinned comment.
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  381.  @KuraIthys : "1/4th the lifting power so balloon needs to be much bigger for a given payload" But that's not correct. Hydrogen has about 8% more lift for a given volume. Not a huge difference though big enough to have some importance, but still pretty far from the incorrect 2x difference that's sometimes posited (let alone 4x).
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  382. 15:58 "And they have a concrete plan ... or is it an asphalt plan?" Technically speaking, asphalt concrete is a type of concrete even though "concrete" most commonly refers to cement concrete.
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  383.  @alexhumble7653  "14000 innocent civilians were killed in Donbass by Ukraine's artillery since 2014." No, that is just incorrect on multiple levels: -This figure includes people killed both by Ukrainian forces and those killed by separatist/Russian forces. -It includes deaths from all sorts of weapons like assault rifles and grenades, not just artillery. -It includes both soldier and civilian deaths. In fact, civilian deaths are a clear minority. They number about 3k, i.e. less than 1/4th of that estimated total. -Almost all of those deaths happened in 2014 & 2015. In recent years the number of deaths before the present invasion were something like 10 per year and that figure includes shelling by both sides as both sides have been doing that. "How long could it continue and who could stop it?" Due to the points listed above, especially the last one, it hardly makes sense to launch a full scale invasion to prevent deaths from cease-fire violations (committed by both sides, mind you). By launching the current invasion Russia has vastly increased the number of people from Donbass dying.
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  384.  @TheGetout04  Though if Bosnia and/or Albania joins then there will be a Muslim country in the EU too.
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  385.  @tomw0815  Journalists may want to report on e.g. what the police are going to do. They can't simply report based on assumptions. They have to ask this even if they think they know the answer in advance.
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  386. "It was only a fixing operation which succeeded immensely." It doesn't look like that. A lot of resources were spent and casualties suffered. I don't see how it was worth it (at least in hindsight). "If they wanted to the Russians would have brought in more troops and dismantled Kiev easily." They had a lot of problems supplying even the troops that were used. Bringing in more troops would not have been easy.
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  387.  @gov.taxman1533 : "I know some valcanologist and they say unless you can stop volcanoes ,you cant stop climate change." Human carbon dioxide emissions are (very roughly) about 100 bigger than those from volcanoes.
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  388.  @tomlxyz  The payout here is truly enormous, especially compared to the harm suffered by the guy with 9 shares. Considering that, many lawyers might want to try to litigate cases like this even if they think their chances of winning are small; the expected payout would still be large.
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  389.  @vidarodinson5246  "they got replace by arab population that comed from the invasion" They didn't get replaced (mostly). The invading force was only something like 4000 men strong. Their government, language, and religion was replaced but not the population. The contemporary Egyptian population is primarily descended from the pre-invasion Copts (with some admixture from Arabs and others). This goes for both Egyptian Muslims and Christians. They may be Arabs linguistically but (mostly) not genetically.
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  390.  @joshadams8761  Not by definition. Celcius and Kelvin are defined based on water's triple point, not boiling point. Boiling point would be a tricky definition because on a temperature-pressure diagram it's not a point but a curve. I guess you can define a single point on the curve by fixing the pressure. However, the triple point is probably still less ambiguous.
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  391.  @garretttobin7451  "who exactly has China invaded?" E.g. Vietnam? OK, that was many decades ago, but it's not like they've never invaded anyone.
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  392. Other strange words include "corps" (pronounced like "core", not like "corpse") and "victual" (pronounced like "vital").
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  393. "Erdogan is not a Islamist or reformist guy. He is just pure pragmatist leader." At least his monetary policy is pretty much as far from pragmatic as possible. He's to blame for the high inflation.
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  394. "Such propaganda is not allowed in any country in the world, especially in the West." Really? I think you're completely mistaken here. E.g. the US has freedom of speech meaning propaganda is allowed.
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  395. Btw, have you ever considered doing a collab with William Spaniel?
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  396. "As he said, "gypsy here, arian here"" But that part makes no sense. Gypsies are Aryans whereas most Europeans are not.
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  397. "No my man, we do not see the median-voter-theorem play out in the US. The policy positions of both parties shift to the right for decades now." It's far from obvious that that would be an argument against the median voter theorem. It could possibly be explained simply by the median voter (or the politicians' perception of the median voter) moving to the right.
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  398.  @jimpaddy79  I don't know about forex or gold reserves but I don't think that "massive loans" part is right. He turned the budget into surplus.
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  399. Maybe we should try that here in Finland too. So far, we've not have had much luck in getting into TLDR videos aside from a few short mentions.
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  400. "What the hell is wrong with them." I think most likely they just aren't very knowledgeable (or if they are they probably hope that the people who see the video aren't).
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  401.  @poisonpotato1  But conversely with dividends your ownership share of the company doesn't increase unless you reinvest the dividends you received by buying more shares of the same company. Theoretically for an individual investor, reinvesting the dividends into the same company is equivalent to a share buyback if the investor doesn't sell his shares. Also theoretically, receiving dividends and not reinvesting them is equivalent to a share buyback if the investor sells a portion of his shares that's equal as a percentage to the portion of the shares of the company that were bought back. So in both cases, the investor theoretically has the same option of getting cash or not getting cash (though in practice some investors are not active and will not consider those options). When things like taxes and trading costs are considered dividends and share buybacks may no longer be equivalent even for a more active investor who weighs the available options.
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  402. I'd say "just as much" is a wild exaggeration.
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  403.  @gloverfox9135  They did rejoin NATO command in 2009, though.
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  404.  @CovocNexus  "the voting power in a democracy should belong to those who will fight for the country" Why should it? Btw, in the US this criterion would also disqualify most men also.
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  405.  @craigwiddison4118  I wonder how he would have reacted to jello shots.
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  406. Fun fact: the name "Huel" is a contraction of "human fuel".
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  407. "Yes, middle class has grown richer and can afford one or more cars, can get a loan to buy a house or a flat etc etc but that to me is not progress." A lot of people in India have been lifted out from extreme poverty in recent decades. That's real progress, even though a lot of poverty (and corruption) still remain.
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  408.  @knightofficer : Think about how you would universally define north? One possibility goes as follows. First, the cardinal directions have to go north -> east -> south -> west in a clockwise order. But this doesn't pin them down unambiguously because you could still rotate those directions. You could furthermore define that e.g. north and south have to point to the poles based on the planet's rotation. But this still leaves two possible choices because it's not yet obvious which pole is the north pole and which one the south pole. You could then furthermore require that the sun of the planet has to rise from the east and set to the west and thus get an unambiguous definition in many cases based on the planet's rotation. However, what about when the planet is tidally locked with its sun and thus doesn't have sunrises or sunsets? Or what if its axis of rotation is parallel with its plane of orbit around its sun? Then it might not be so easy to define north or south for the planet.
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  409. "This IS legal advice" While you're at it, make it financial and medical advice too.
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  410.  @thomas316  Additionally, the gas pipelines to China and Europe come from different gas fields meaning the current pipes can't in any case be used to divert gas from Europe to China regardless of their capacity.
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  411.  @kenirawadi4689  What do you mean "forgets"? China was explicitly mentioned towards the end of the video.
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  412. But he didn't say that directly and it might have been unintentional. Thus, your logic might not apply in this particular case.
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  413.  @arandompasserby7940  The shape is an important safety consideration. I would put that ahead of aesthetics in terms of priority.
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  414. There's also Blücher. A ship by that name was sunk in both World Wars.
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  415. Partition is something that might happen whether it's wanted or not.
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  416. I feel that this video was a bit of a disappointment. I wanted to know, why Modi might be considered a threat to democracy in India. Starting from 12:40 it was mentioned that there have been concerns about "centralization of power" and "challenges to democratic freedoms" but there was no mention of which policies specifically might centralize power and/or limit democratic freedoms. Later in the video decline in press freedom, crackdowns on civil society, and efforts to limit judicial independence were mentioned but again there were no mentions of how specifically is press freedom, civil society, and/or judicial independence being limited.
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  417. In Finnish "Malta" means "wait" or "be patient".
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  418. In the US it's Social Security (with upper case letters) because it's the name of a particular program (which only forms a part of the social safety net in the US).
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  419. "a rich Scandinavian country" I.e. Norway.
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  420. "a slippery slope and would end up including things like pedophilia and bestiality" Are those somehow more common today? I'm skeptical.
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  421.  @Aneko_Tomo  It's not clear to me that they're accepted more than before either and I don't think that's something most LGBT advocates support.
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  422.  @やる気熱々  I'd imagine that at least some Japanese men also did that sort of thing in some foreign countries. Today, there are many European and American men who visit Thailand for these kinds of reasons. I'm sure some Japanese men did the same (and perhaps still do).
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  423. I think this video used the term "Nordic", not "Scandinavian".
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  424.  @Frexican54 : I'm not sure I believe that. The Entente wasn't backing down and Germany had lost all her allies.
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  425. "Imagine fighting for a general who thinks a 12th attempt at a frontal assault will finally be the one that works." Ackchyually, the Italians "only" launched 11 battles near Isonzo. The 12th battle (the Battle of Caporetto) was an Austrian offensive rather than an Italian one.
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  426. Civil RICO? So you can sue the mafia for damages?
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  427. But Spaniel is from the States and likely a significant chunk of his audience is too so it's not too weird for him to describe the difference from his perspective.
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  428. "How can you sanction Russia if 87% of the population in the world does not sanction Russia?" Many of Russia's exports to Europe cannot easily be diverted elsewhere (gas being the prime example). Russia is fairly dependent on Western technology. Trade with other countries can also be hampered by the threat of secondary sanctions.
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  429.  @johnwalsh4857  Dogecoin is also worth more than e.g. the Japanese Yen. However, that's not a meaningful comparison.
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  430.  @JohnDoe-jp4em  "Just from an economic perspective alone Gas turbines are preferrable to nuclear" They are definitely not, at least not in the case of nuclear plants that already existed. The cost nuclear power is mainly the high capital cost of the plant. For existing plants that capital cost has already been paid and cannot be recovered by closing the plant down ahead of schedule. The existing nuclear plants should've been kept running until the end of their planned lifetime.
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  431. If he starts drilling from both ends he can do it in 250!
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  432.  @pt8306  I don't quite agree. I do agree that in cities it makes sense to increase the share of public transit, walking, and biking of all trips made. However, cars will still likely play a part. Self-driving cars are not a silver bullet but they can likely still be useful. They can e.g. allow car users to more easily also use public transport. A self-driving car can drop you off at a railway station or a bus stop and drive elsewhere. If you're driving the car yourself you can't all that easily do something like that. Developing self-driving cars doesn't come at the expense of investing in public transit.
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  433.  @EstebanRapido  The ancient Attica (territory of Athens) was even larger than Luxembourg today so by that logic Athens wasn't a city-state either. My point was that the ancient city-states were larger than just one city (though they were still small states centered around one major city). In this sense Luxembourg does resemble a classical city-state.
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  434. Kind of surprising that the Japanese learned of firearms from Europeans and not from the Chinese.
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  435.  @Skizzy461  "why exactly are pop-up lights not safe?" I'm just guessing here but one issue that comes to mind is that if you accidentally run over a pedestrian or a cyclist who then falls on the bonnet of your car, you'd want them to fall on flat or rounded features. Pop-up lights that are up are probably a less safe surface to land on and are likely to cause greater injury.
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  436.  @christophertstone  No, that's not the presumption. The idea is that a less dark colored object would reflect more of the light back into space. (Not that it matters much because that effect for the size of areas that solar panes cover is minuscule.)
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  437.  @lekhakaananta5864  Depends on the situation.
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  438.  @Brogenitor  "Something that the capital class continues to get wrong is that allowing labor to have increased purchasing power will come at their profit margin's expense." Higher labor costs will generally reduce profits. That's pretty simple. The pension benefits the automakers gave to their employees proved eventually too costly to leave them with profits. Paying similar amounts but just earlier (i.e. as wages and not pensions which are delayed) probably wouldn't have made it better. They would've been in trouble anyway and possibly earlier. That's also what the unions don't want because that would just mean their members losing their jobs rather than getting higher wages. Thus, delayed benefits were preferable to both of them.
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  439.  @retiredrebel  "the English Royal Family had pirate origins" Which royal family are you talking about?
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  440.  @hunterlogan7378 : Because businesses buying ads on YouTube don't want their products to be associated with bad things like that.
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  441. They should've made a gravity-powered pickup. Then it couldn't have caught on fire.
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  442. They did offer online therapy too.
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  443. Isn't he? He might be a bad journalist but that's not the same thing as a non-journalist.
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  444. Well to be fair, the Hundred Years' War also lasted longer than 100 years.
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  445. Where exactly would you use them?
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  446. Similarly, Austria and Australia should form a union to avoid confusion. Same could go for Sweden and Switzerland.
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  447. "Fiat currency is inherently deflationary" Well, that's a first. Usually I hear anti-fiat cranks saying that fiat is inherently inflationary rather than deflationary. In any case, I don't think it makes sense to defend Turkey's policy of printing a lot of fiat currency by criticizing fiat. Turkey's current monetary policy is just plain too loose and thus harmful. It cannot be reasonably defended.
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  448.  @kjeldschouten-lebbing6260  "Because project developing firms can cramp more row-houses and small appartment complexes in the same footprint [...] Result: Only row and mid-rise and almost no R1." Is that a bad outcome? If potential occupants aren't willing to pay enough premium for that R1 to make it more profitable for the developers then it seems that R1 isn't in high enough demand to make economic sense.
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  449.  @TheJoelef  Propably a large portion of the French speakers in France can trace their lineage to Gauls even though their language was supplanted by Latin long ago.
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  450. 11:14 "The Russian army never really recovered from this defeat and the situation only worsened for the Tsar from then on." What about the Brusilov offensive?
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  451.  @hamzamahmood9565  I'm pretty sure some large conventional explosions had also had mushroom clouds before. If you meant that he didn't expect the mushroom could to be as big as it was that's more plausible.
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  452. "their only end point is a bloody war that leaves both sides worse off" Perpetual limbo is another possibility (though that's technically not an end point).
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  453.  @garretttobin7451  China also invaded South Korea in the later stages of the Korean War.
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  454. Can those go toe-to-toe with towed artillery?
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  455. 13:00 This isn't necessarily surprising. It might be that already having a favorable view of the EU causes a person to seek more information about it.
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  456. But has he committed any laws?
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  457. I think he's redoing some of his earlier videos. The earlier version also didn't have a sponsor IIRC.
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  458. "If a language is used by malwares, you know the language is a real deal." I suppose that must then include Visual Basic since it used to be used for a bunch of macro viruses back in the day.
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  459. Then they went to war over a wooden bucket.
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  460. 6:08 "The Iraqis lost fewer than 100 fighting vehicles." Nonetheless, the graphic says ">100 Tanks Lost", a clear contradiction.
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  461.  @taiwanisacountry  "that is what aboutism" No, it's not. Whataboutism is when these kind remarks are used deflect or distract from criticism. Just noting that similar problems exist elsewhere is not whataboutism. "The topic is Japan and Korea, not France and Algeria." The OP in this thread specifically talked about how he as a Frenchman sees a stark difference between the European post-WWII relations and Japan-Korea post-WWII relations. I just noted that in some cases the difference isn't as large as he let on because similar cases exist.
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  462.  @Fruzhin5483  I think a big part of why Bulgaria is poor is much more recent than 600 years ago. It's because it was held back by Real Socialism. Though that's not the whole story because it doesn't explain why Bulgaria is poorer than other former Socialist countries (in the EU).
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  463.  @CuriousCrow-mp4cx  "only measures one thing - market cap. It doesn't measure fundamental performance." Yes, but fundamental performance (or estimation and prediction of it by active market participants) affect the stock price and thus also the market cap and share in the index.
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  464. 10:45 Missile weapons don't necessarily require less body strength. Warbows likely require more of it.
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  465. But to be fair, lawyers are probably far more willing to rat out misbehaving lawyers.
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  466. I think one could argue that at the time the French conquest could possibly be justified because of the incessant piracy they and other Barbary States engaged in (though I'm not saying ending piracy was France's main motivation). Of course, the brutality (and possible genocide) may be a point against that. In any case, France should have let Algeria become independent far earlier than it did.
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  467. Though it can be noted that the justification for intervening in Libya was a bit different. In Libya there was an internal conflict that had already begun before intervention. In Iraq there wasn't any kind of acute crisis that might prompt an intervention. Thus the decision to invade Iraq feels far more unusual.
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  468. I suspect where the mistake stems from is that he was thinking about where Iran used to have a border with the Soviet Union.
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  469.  @InqvisitorMagnvs  Definitely better than in South America. In Africa, there would probably be a lot of variation depending on who you were enslaved by (assuming you would be staying in Africa).
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  470.  British Patriot  "Albania is 60% Islamic meaning 60% of the country is against atheists, freedom of speech, gay rights, womens rights, and so on ." Not really. Many of them aren't very religious.
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  471.  @safe-keeper1042  Doesn't Sweden have some gated communities? I think I've read of at least one called Strandudden.
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  472.  @Bald_Zeus  Though I think Åland has been demilitarized since the Crimean War.
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  473. Have they accused the South African parliament or president of interfering with ministerial appointments?
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  474.  @modash1231  "The implied suggestion that the semis can achieve roughly the same range with 6-10x battery capacity (weight) of model 3 while weighing close to 20x (with load)" I would add that the claimed less than 2 kWh per mile energy consumption is less than 10x that of Model 3. With 20x more weight one would expect it to be more.
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  475. It would have been epic if Denmark had sought vengeance over the Second Schleswig War and marched on Berlin.
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  476. I think the history section of this video should've mentioned the invention of the intermodal cargo container.
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  477. 13:52 Why is that map in Finnish? In case anyone is curious, here's what the Finnish texts mean: Eunostoksen satama = Harbor of Eunostos Suuri satama = Great Harbor Juutalaiskaupunginosa = Jewish District
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  478. @Blitz Gaming654 "the Boring company is not a failure it still active and doing well" I don't think it has delivered any products that make sense. E.g. the Las Vegas loop has a laughably low capacity. I don't see what value that company is going to add.
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  479. 11:45 If that's the correct answer then what about if the wire is cut at both ends of the loop (at 300,000 km away) either before or at the same time the switch is flipped? By your logic the light should turn on for at least 0.5 s and then turn off again. This is despite the fact that there's no continuous path for the current to flow. Is that correct?
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  480.  @jbjaguar2717  "Why would there be no busses at night?" Because the bus meetings happen at night when there are no busses. :)
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  481.  @bellalugosi5853  If those Muslim states (or even a non-Muslim state for that matter) were to grant them citizenship that probably would help many of them a lot. However, in practice getting a citizenship is often difficult (regardless of that country's biggest religion).
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  482.  @AndyZaturno  I think you're mistaken. I don't see him mentioning anywhere in this video that a lack of a Palestinian state before is his reason for not wanting one to be created. Rather, he seems to not want one because it would be (in his estimation) a corrupt dictatorship where many human rights wouldn't be respected, which a totally different argument. Also, saying that a Palestinian state hasn't existed before and therefore one shouldn't exist in the future is a stupid argument. All states exist for the first time at some point. You could by similar logic say that e.g. Jordan shouldn't exist or Pakistan shouldn't exist. Would you make that argument? If so, what country should their current territories be part of and what country should they be citizens of?
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  483. And I thought that record was a joke.
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  484.  @richardlandsteiner3082 : Lung cancer isn't the only negative health effect. On average smoking shortens your life by about a decade. I'm not sure being broke is worse for your health though it depends how broke you mean by "broke".
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  485. "it was not a race" Scott seemed consider it a race, at least partially, since he was so disappointed at being second.
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  486. I forgot to say that conscripts can be even less effective if the Kremlin doesn't want to risk them in combat.
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  487. "SK is sort of a capitalist oligarchy" At first I was wondering why you describe that company specifically that way before I realized that you were talking about South Korea and not the SK Group.
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  488.  @panagiotisg83 : "Actually the Olympics themselves made a couple 100 mil of profit." Was that for Greece/Athens or for the Olympic Committee?
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  489. Streetcar 2: Electric Boogaloo
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  490. I don't think it's asymmetrical. It just looks asymmetrical because of perspective in some of these animations.
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  491. "I was also starting to get sick of explaining to people..." Oof, sorry for asking about Houston. I didn't realize it was such a frequent question.
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  492. "They are [...] inefficient." No, batteries have a high efficiency. Lithium-ion batteries can have something like a 99% charge and discharge efficiency.
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  493. It was in 2002 (for physical currency).
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  494. The tractors were an insidious ploy. They were surely planning to convert them to Bob Semple tanks.
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  495.  @pvic6959  Java is where the true class struggle happens.
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  496. "Wasn't Tinder supposed to be for hook-ups and nothing more?" They'd probably say it's for all kinds of dating though the function in practice probably favors more shallow and looks-based stuff.
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  497.  @williamfranklin6283  "If you had zero repercussions of your engineering failure would you run any simulations?" I'm pretty sure he would because simulations are useful for other things too like improving efficiency (possibly even at the expense of safety).
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  498.  @johnmknox  Not at all.
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  499.  @geofflepper3207  I don't think it makes sense to let a single event skew your energy policy that much. Any energy source is going to have downsides and nuclear power has killed less people per kWh produced than any other form energy. Should we quickly close down all hydroelectric dams because a single event (Banqiao dam failure in 1975) killed an enormous amount of people?
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  500. "the less the cars, the more expensive and exclusionary everything become (ie gentrification)" An area becoming more expensive is just a symptom of it becoming more desirable. If you want to make an area cheap you can do it by making it undesirable.
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  501. "South Korea has a different population [...] density" It's almost 14 times higher than that of the US which works against them yet they've been more successful in containing the epidemic. (The number of people per km² isn't that good of a metric because population density varies a lot, but the fact remains that this is a metric where the Koreans face a greater challenge but have fared better.)
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  502.  @olliefoxx7165  Depleted uranium may have some health risks but they are probably not high enough to make it worthwhile for dirty bomb users. They would probably want more severe health or environmental effects so that the bomb can cause enough damage.
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  503. Money and Life TV, why would the unions drive it for that purpose?
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  504.  @peterfireflylund  Hmm, I haven't happened to have seen much American opinions on that particular topic.
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  505.  @tellyboy17  It allows me to only select 7 countries so I can't include all EU and/or NATO members but it's clear that either would have way more airpower and manpower than Russia. Having a lot of old tanks in storage is not that impressive (though it might be cheap). If NATO intervened in Ukraine it could certainly obliterate the Russian column headed for Kyiv.
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  506.  @tellyboy17  The NATO option does not include all of the NATO members' militaries. I don't know what's included it it but e.g. the US alone far exceeds the numbers listed for NATO even though the US is a member. Also, if you pick the 7 European NATO members with the biggest military budgets they also exceed NATO in every category except artillery. Using the NATO selection on that site is useless.
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  507. That wording makes it sound like Andrew Stanton didn't exist.
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  508.  @mnichols1979  Electrical power is a net gain. The political power in question in this instance is the power to cause damage to another country. Actually doing that or threatening it to get what you want would be a bad thing. (I'm not making any claims on whether Ethiopia would be likely to actually stoop to such extortion.)
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  509.  @LOL-ev8ft  " To be honest 50% per month is a too wide tolerance bar, I think 50% a year is already hyperinflation." It's a matter of definition which is somewhat arbitrary. However, here's my argument for using the 50% per month definition rather than 50% per year. 50% per month was a limit proposed by the economist Phillip Cagan. 50% per year was proposed by a YouTube commenter with the handle "LOL". I would personally choose the limit chosen by a professional economist over that chosen by a random YouTube commenter.
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  510.  @alexhumble7653  "However Russia’s surrounded with NATO’s bases all around and even Ukraine was a candidate for NATO." First I want to say that most of this isn't relevant to my original comment. It was about how it can be beneficial to be "irrationally" stubborn in resistance to make invasions less likely if it can be signalled credibly. This was a general comment and the specifics you mention don't affect the logic that much. However, what you just wrote (in the part I quoted) is just false. Ukraine wasn't a NATO candidate and in practice it wouldn't have been able to join for the foreseeable future anyway because the territorial dispute with Russia would have prevented it. Ukraine has since left an application but that was only about half a year after the current invasion had started and it still seems unlikely that Ukraine could join.
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  511.  @micahblakeslee  I don't think it's quite the same thing. Firstly, he talks about the image being formed through radiation rather than contact. Secondly, he mentions that the burst or radiation would somehow have to be completely vertical but doesn't mention that the shroud would also have to somehow be straightened.
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  512.  @Joshlama  WikiTravel says of Mogadishu: "As of May 2017, the city remains extremely dangerous and near suicidal for independent travelers. Armed warlords and Islamic militant factions still have a large presence in the city, and foreigners are a prime target. Do not wander the streets alone for any reason. Gunfire and random explosions are frequent. If you must venture around the city, you should be accompanied by armed and well trained security personnel and ride in an armored vehicle. These arrangements should be made in advance through private security and tactical firms which specialize in these types of environments. Most employers and governmental bodies that might send you here are well aware of the situation on the ground and will do their best to keep you safe, but your head must be on a swivel to your surroundings 24×7. Make 100% certain that any hotel accommodations that are made come with 24 hour private security, which is standard at most hotels in the city catering to foreigners. Even so, hotel bombings and suicide attacks are frequent." Things are, of course, different for locals in both Mogadishu and Pyongyang but I'd estimate that ever for them Modadishu is more dangerous. In Pyongyang you can just keep your head down so as not to attract the ire of the regime. For many North Koreans the biggest threat may often be things like starvation but if you're even allowed in Pyongyang that's probably not such a big risk.
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  513.  @damyjuk  I disagree. It's about as easy to contain in the real world Turkey. The Central Bank just needs to run a tighter policy by raising rates. Trouble is, Erdoğan doesn't allow it. If he ran a similar monetary policy in a hypothetical self-contained Turkey the result would roughly the same, maybe with a little bit more delay.
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  514.  @empress2529  The Spanish word "sorpresa" has 5 consonants and 3 vowels. You might still be right about Italian and Spanish being more vowel-heavy but I still wouldn't call German all that consonant-heavy. Btw, I would count the German word "Transzendent" as having 10 consonants because 'z' is pronounced as [ts].
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  515. Though the subtitles render it as "NEMA toads".
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  516. "Knowing flat-earthers, they'll probably just argue that Pythagoras and Erastothenes were NASA shills." I've seen Eric Dubay claim that "Pythagoras is often considered to be the first Freemason". (By whom? Who knows.)
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  517. It would be too small to be viable as an independent country.
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  518. 4:05 "Every state and every municipality has a police department." Objection! Didn't Minneapolis decide to abolish their police department?
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  519.  @baronvonjo1929  Building LA like that was a mistake. You shouldn't cling to that mistake just because it was once made. It needs to be fixed.
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  520.  @kingcletus1310  I'm not sure it was really necessary.
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  521. "it also might be the straw that broke the camel's back" I see no indication that that's the case. The European economy is in better shape than it was during the pandemic despite the difficulties. To me it seems clear that at least keeping the level of expenditure incurred so far can be sustained for a long time.
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  522. There is something about machine code that feels right. I dunno. I've not done any actual assembly programming so maybe my opinion doesn't matter but x86 just seems so bloated and inelegant.
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  523.  @busetgadapet  "it is not like chinese cant invest abroad" To a large extent, they can't. There's an annual limit on how much currency they can convert. Thus they can't easily access foreign stock markets or even the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The only stock exchange easily available to them is the Shanghai Stock Exchange.
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  524. No, you're not that great.
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  525. Can we expect some US municipalities to simply default on their payments while not being allowed to declare bankruptcy?
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  526. "We are the only continent with this plague." Not the only continent. Yemen has been at civil war since 2014. Ethiopia was at civil war until recently. Or are you only counting interstate wars?
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  527.  @thomas316  Did you fill your room with those coupons?
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  528.  @thomas316  Maybe you should've sold those coupons for profit. :)
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  529.  @nancyhey1012  "it was a war that NATO powers had fomented by their previous support of separatists" What kind of support are you talking about here? In any case, air strikes against the VRS forces at this point were clearly justified (whatever may have happened earlier notwithstanding).
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  530.  @MadafakinRio  "If you're close to Russia (ESPECIALLY if you're bordering them) don't make them angry and everything will be fine." Or alternatively, be a NATO member if you can. So far, Russia hasn't invaded any NATO members.
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  531. Being small didn't save Luxembourg. Maybe they weren't small enough.
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  532. The (blurry) text above the graph explains it. The value of aluminium imports from China has nearly doubled while the tonnage has increased by 20% (meaning most of the rise in value is due to price increase rather than trade volume increase). The graph shows the tonnage.
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  533. @ "Turks speak an Altaic language" Most linguists today reject the Altaic hypothesis.
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  534. 4:44 "individual decisions" But the prevalence of low-density suburbs isn't in many places due to individual decisions and/or market forces. In many places it's the only kind of development allowed by (R1) zoning. That's not an aggregation of individual buying decisions or market forces. It's a government decision.
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  535. "The statute in Arkansas says that a municipality can NOT receive more than 33% of its revenue from traffic tickets." I wonder if you could circumvent this by just raising taxes such that the ticket revenue stays under 33% while not being any smaller in absolute terms. You could use all that money to fund a transfer to residents which could (at least partially) be based on taxes paid such that the tax hike gets offset by it.
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  536.  @rohankishibe8259  Those have nothing to do with what currency is used for transactions.
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  537. Now that's a compiler that can actually see into the future (unlike the fake see-into-the-future that the speculative execution is).
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  538.  @jcsjcs2  "A dividend is money in hand." Generally, one should expect dividends to cause the stock's price to fall by an amount roughly equal in size to the dividend. If that weren't the case there would be an arbitrage opportunity where you could buy stock right before the dividend ex date and sell it right after (or the opposite if the fall were bigger). If you really need cash in your hand you always have the option of selling. "And when I sell my shares at the higher price, I pay taxes as well." But if you're going to be holding on to the stock for a long time then it's better for you if the taxation gets delayed.
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  539.  @Etaxe : I think he said that in Swiss German "nöt" is used instead.
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  540. 0:50 None of the cars stop at the stop sign? Wut?
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  541. And Cyprus is also technically entirely outside Europe geographically and it's already a member.
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  542. But this is somewhat situational. Sometimes a more cautious stance is in order. Often there is no simple answer to how cautious or aggressive one should be.
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  543. I think you misunderstand a bit. This case fell under federal jurisdiction. It's just that the district who's court handled the court case happens to be located in Texas. Now, you might still want to make sure that the court case following your inevitable prosecution is handled by this same court. I'm not quite sure what that would require but I'd imagine that living in and operating from that district would probably help. It would be even better if you victims also live in the same district but you probably can't guarantee that. Then you have to just hope this particular judge doesn't leave this district court for something else before you're acquitted.
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  544.  @InssiAjaton  Was that in the Finnish military? I'm guessing you're a Finn based on your username.
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  545.  @davidglad  "Stockholders getting paid ahead of ANY bondholders is unprecedented other than outright looting." No, these bonds are different. The contracts for these types of bonds contain stipulations that they can be wiped out or converted to stock based on certain events like the bank's core capital being eroded below certain limit or a decision by a regulator. They are not senior to equity holders. That's their whole purpose. Otherwise they wouldn't count as Tier 1 capital under Basel III rules.
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  546. "Either you were a Mandarin or you were a nobody." At least in Korea, people coming from farmer families could take the equivalent exam as the Mandarins had to pass in China and thus had a tiny chance of joining the elite but people from merchant families weren't allowed to do that.
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  547. If that's true then the Marshall Plan was a real win-win.
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  548. What? How is this Russian propaganda?
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  549.  @korayven9255  I'm pretty sure India would still use the Rupee domestically and control its supply and this BRICS currency would only be used for some international transactions. (I make no predictions on whether the BRICS currency is likely to be implemented.)
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  550. Also, their population is 8.6 million which, while not large, is hardly tiny.
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  551. IIRC, Sweden's gun homicide rate is still only something like 1/3rd of that of the US, but that's still a lot higher than other European countries and Sweden in the past.
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  552. The subtitles are technically correct, the best kind of correct.
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  553. I think it's pertinent to add that there's at least one more scandal that wasn't mentioned in this video. The person chosen to replace Vilhelm Junnila as the economy minister is another MP named Wille Rydman. He used to be in the National Coalition Party but left due to pressure after he had been accused of grooming or harassing some underage girls/women. He later joined the (True) Finns Party. After he was named as Junnila's successor an ex-girlfriend of his who apparently has some kind of grudge released some his private messages where he's saying things that can easily prove controversial (such as "Us Nazis don't really these kinds of Jew things.").
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  554. Musk's guts aren't solely a good thing. Some of his ideas are a bit harebrained.
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  555. But "legal" has only one "E" whereas "eagle" has two.
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  556. "No society in history has advanced much and had women's rights, even those who were more equal." What are you talking about? It's clearly the more equal countries that are more advanced.
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  557. "The euro lost a lot of value against the dollar over the past 10 years. This inflates the growth/shrinkage of companies when measuring in usd." I don't buy that argument. In the long term (which a whole decade qualifies as), the movement of the exchange rate should close follow the inflation differential (as per the theory of purchasing power parity). If one country has it's currency devalue over time relative to another currency it should also have a higher inflation rate by similar amount which should add to the nominal growth of its economy. This works exactly in the opposite direction as the effect from the exchange movement so in the long term they should cancel out.
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  558. The best one was, of course, Richard Coffin.
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  559. For me, the most surprising part of the results here in Finland was that the Left Alliance got more seats than the Social Democrats.
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  560. It's subjective. Different people are interested in different things.
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  561.  @MrKogline  Natural gas isn't a petroleum product. It's not refined from petroleum (i.e. crude oil) or anything, though they can often occur in the same deposits. I think when it comes to petroleum specifically, Lukoil is the bigger company.
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  562. Quantum physics has the upside that in a sense you don't have to understand what's really happening in the quantum world to perform calculations. You can just calculate eigenvalues and eigenstates for a Hamiltonian and not consider what superposition "really" means metaphysically. On the other hand, all the calculations are super heavy. Everything usually scales at least to O(n³) even with some serious approximations.
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  563. I suspect you can find a document describing the methodology if you search for it hard enough. However, I'm too lazy to try to find it.
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  564.  @Aneko_Tomo  They have existed before Twitter (and the Internet). It's not clear to me that they have become more common than they have been.
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  565.  @Aneko_Tomo  Yeah, you can see some of that. I just wanted to say that I don't see the slippery slope mentioned by OP as being real in this case.
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  566. "this video fails to mention the Continuation War (1941-44) which ended with further territorial losses to the Soviet Union" But the territorial losses were far less severe than the losses after the Winter War. After the Winter War, Finland lost some quite valuable land containing almost 1/8th of the population including the then second biggest city. After the Continuation War, Finland only lost some sparsely populated territory in the north.
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  567.  @Silver_Prussian  Serbians are among the tallest people in Europe (along with the Dutch).
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  568. The video said that it was an armored car, not a tank. The other warring countries did have those.
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  569.  @borayiIdiz  "Nobody cares about Sweden's problems. [...] Turkey has much more serious issues." Well, Erdogan currently seems (or at least claims) to care. If no one else cares at all then they presumably don't care to prevent Sweden's entry, especially if they think Turkey has more pressing issues? "It is common belief in Turkey that small countries like Sweden will not be of any use to NATO. This is not at all a wrong thought." That thought is quite incorrect. The geographic position of Sweden (and even more so that of Finland) is good for protecting the Baltic countries who are geographically in a very vulnerable position.
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  570.  @dictare  Using gas because of that seems like paying a high (figurative) price for avoiding a very rare event. I think my home experienced a short outage last year (though I wasn't home at that time) but before that I don't even remember when the previous outage was. Are outages much more common where you live? In any case, I don't think having to east non-heated food for a short while is that big of an issue and in a longer outage the fridge/freezer wouldn't work in any case.
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  571. "1) The Ukrainians by their own admission conducted experiments with HIMARS to determine the feasibility of destroying the dam and confirmed it was possible and could be conducted at any time to stop the Russian advances in Kherson and maroon its forces 2) The Ukrainians were reported to be considering attacking the dam with underwater drones giving having the same effect as the dambusters WW2 mission" However, they didn't do that back then when the advantage to Ukraine would seem to have been the greatest. That seems to indicate that they preferred to preserve the dam. Also, when they were bombarding the bridge going along the dam with HIMARS in preparation for the Kherson offensive they judiciously avoided damaging the dam by only hitting the southern end of the bridge where it curves away from the dam.
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  572.  @neznamtija8081  Do Persians count as PoC?
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  573.  @kathibaba7665  If he had just donated equipment would that make him a non state actor in a war? What about people who just donate money to Ukraine? Are they non state actors in a war? Or don't they count because the individual amounts are smaller.
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  574. "The USA and western countries voted no..?" If you're talking about the draft resolution proposed by Brazil, then no. Only the USA voted against it, not any other Western country.
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  575. "The US really doesn’t charge duties or tariffs to other countries." That's completely false. You can check e.g. the US Harmonized Tariff Schedule.
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  576. 2:07 "stress accent languages and pitch accent languages" And then there are languages like Swedish which have both.
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  577. Lindybeige had an interesting video on berserkers as well (linked below). The most interesting part was when he mentioned the romance "Yvain, the Knight of the Lion" which was written in Old French. The tale was also translated into Norse and the word "champion" was translated using the word "berserker" (or I guess "berserk" or "bärsärk") which tells how the word "berserker" was perceived at the time. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBUGQkpk3RE
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  578.  Joe Becker  The ancient Greek (and other) city-states also had a lot of vegetation. Why would it make them non-city-states?
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  579. It depends on the kind of business.
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  580.  @Sahtoovi  Well, my observations are completely different. Green eyes seem quite rare and blue eyes are clearly the most common color.
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  581. Isn't that OK? I thought: England + Wales = Britain Britain + Scotland = Great Britain
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  582. @ ""black" does not refer to colour" Black bodies are actually black by their color except when they're hot enough to visibly glow.
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  583.  @mihailmilev9909  In a consumer co-op the idea is that the consumers are the members. Typically the benefit of membership comes (at least partially) in a form that's essentially a discount on prices relative to non-member customers. And the members obviously vote for who runs the co-op. Typically workers can be members as well (and might get special perks like bigger discounts) but are likely to be far outnumbered by non-worker members. A mix would probably have to be something where e.g. workers get more voting power per person so they're not dwarfed by other members, but I don't know of any examples so I'm not sure. Matters of Degree might know more.
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  584. Historical reasons. :)
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  585.  @Nepriemlem0  Thanks for the info.
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  586. Why is Walpole so famous?
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  587. Investing into Hyperloop was an idea with almost no prospect of commercial success. Even normal maglev trains are still an expensive rarity. Where's the demand for going a step further and putting those trains into tubes with a vacuum inside? Evacuating such a large volume can't be cheap.
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  588.  @NullParadigm  Don't ask me why this or that decision is made. I'm not the one making those decisions. I only said that the current policy seems to be to keep the central bank running and issuing currency, at least for now, which seems to differ from what Milei's stated policy before the election.
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  589. 9:00 I think you've misunderstood. The definition for hyperinflation used by the economist Phillip Cagan was inflation over 50% per month. That means an inflation of almost 13,000% per year. Of course, this is just an arbitrary definition by one economists. Still, I don't think "mere" 50% annual inflation would be considered hyperinflation by most.
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  590. 5:23 "An additional 20% of the stock was owned by the German state of Saxony." As a minor nitpick, I think that 20% was owned by Lower Saxony, a.k.a. the Real Saxony.
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  591. "I've read books that have made a similar case for the utility of psychopaths. I can see the point. If your child is in need of brain surgery, for an extreme example, you want someone with absolutely cold, clinical detachment, a rock steady hand that will never once waver because of on whom they are working." It's not clear to me that a psychopath would necessarily have an advantage here. I think surgeons in any case the the ability to be calm and clinical by just experience and doing their job over and over. And when it comes to "on whom they are working" you're generally not supposed to operate on friends and family etc. because then it's harder to be objective.
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  592. I might not be a good thing to be creative if your work is non-fiction. :)
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  593. The bond contract included clauses saying that they can be nullified in a case like this. It's a risk with these types of bonds which the investors knew or at least should have known.
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  594. "It is incredible to me that it is more cost effective to destroy and sell a ship than it is to keep it in port and leave it intact." It takes a lot of work to keep those ships in working condition even if you're not actually doing anything with them. It's too expensive to let them just sit at port if you're not going to be using them again in relatively near future. You could just leave them to rot and quickly become unusable but if that's a cheaper option than to continue using them then you might just as well sell them for scrap.
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  595.  @socialismandrevolution8299 : "Venezuela is suffering due to a social democratic government that failed to properly challenge capitalists, combined with US sanctions and Maduro being much less competent than Chavez" Venezuela is suffering because expropriating businesses, price controls, restricting exports/imports, etc. are very inefficient policies. "Cuba has achieved relatively impressive standards of life compared to other Latin American countries" GDP (PPP) per capita of Cuba: $12,300 and of Chile: $24,600, so I would say Chile is much more impressive in this respect (though not free of problems by any means). Many other Latin American countries (e.g. Colombia) are also richer though not by as much.
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  596. Who says that the Soviet occupation was better?
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  597. 2:05 Crimea is not quite an island because it's connected to (the rest of) Ukraine by a the narrow Isthmus of Perekop. Therefore it's a peninsula.
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  598.  @tonycamp4514  Apparently they were arrested. Davidson seems to be in North Carolina. I wonder what the rules are there when it comes to squatters.
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  599.  @rebatsu  That's not entirely obvious. Also, a journalist might want report such details and in that case it's good to explicitly ask even if you're fairly certain what the answer is going to be rather than just report your own assumptions.
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  600. A structure to cover a significant part of the Nile would be enormous. It would be too expensive.
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  601. A YouTuber called LonerBox has made a reply to this video. What do you think about it?
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  602. If not, sod off.
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  603.  @toomanyhobbies2011  Based on quick googling the water use in California is 50% environmental, 40% agricultural, and 10% urban. Therefore, it doesn't seem like cities are to blame.
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  604. "Luanda looks like a first class city." I think it's only a part of the city. There are probably also much more humble parts and also downright shacks.
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  605.  @mortifera123  "The long wait time is intended as a deterrent." So they intentionally provide a poor service and waste people's time? What a shame.
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  606.  @JelMain  Why are you bemused? I thought it was a commonly used word. Hopefully the following definition helps: Adjective subject 1. Likely to be affected by or to experience something. -a country subject to extreme heat -Menu listings and prices are subject to change. -He's subject to sneezing fits. 2. Conditional upon something; used with to. -The local board sets local policy, subject to approval from the State Board. (There are other meanings as well but they're not relevant here.) In any case, Norway is bound by the EEA Agreement (so long as it doesn't decide to leave it).
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  607.  @johningham1880  Maybe it's towed by toads. If those toads have toes, then it's towed by toed toads. That can be called "toed toad towed artillery". I bet it can go toe-to-toe with self-propelled artillery.
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  608.  @danielcarrapa3632  I don't think that's right. There are different kinds of AT1 bonds. Some get converted to stock whereas some are just wiped out when the contingency criteria are met. From what I've read, the AT1 bonds issued by Credit Suisse were of the type that get wiped out.
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  609. It's a major construction effort and thus can't be done overnight.
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  610.  @DeathSithe92  "Even then it wasn't wildly uncommon or unheard of for long bow men to pierce even chest armor with their arrows" How do you know?
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  611. I'm pretty sure that at least land taxes are widely supported among economists whether left or right. Not sure about the general public.
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  612. To my knowledge, at least some Finns might have wanted also take other regions (basically East Karelia) with Finnic populations in addition to those lost in the Winter War.
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  613.  @shariqzafar  "Zelensky chose to fight it out" It seems to me that it was Putin who chose to fight it out. He's the one who invaded after all.
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  614.  @nancyhey1012  "It was all about facilitating the breakup of Yugoslavia and making the region safe for global capitalism." I guess Sarajevo wasn't very safe for "global capitalism" when it was being shelled. However, I'd consider the safety of not being shelled a good thing.
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  615.  @TheRanguna  My understanding is that at least in the case of Sweden and specifically crimes committed with firearms or explosives (and not necessarily all crime types) certain immigrant groups are far, far more likely to commit them them than the native population and many other immigrant groups.
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  616. Maybe it would have made more sense to initially have much laxer 3 red lines and then tighten them gradually?
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  617. Btw, saying that England (or the house of Plantagenet) didn't lose any battles is total BS. (I have no opinion on whether this is "humiliating" or not.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hundred_Years%27_War_battles
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  618.  @jlokison : In terms of population Luxembourg is about 15 times bigger than Liechtenstein (and at the start of WWII was about 22 times bigger).
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  619. @Wyatt Wolfe Not for a reason that would justify it.
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  620.  @fish9468 : The damage to climate isn't worth that. A more nuclear heavy solution would have been much better.
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  621.  @n.ayisha  Thanks. Of course, my point was just that adoption is often used when one's biological offspring doesn't continue the business but what you told was really interesting.
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  622. 9:17 "Germany enters the third year of the war with unaltered confidence in her final triumph. Germany is fighting against the greatest odds known in history." So he's first saying Germany is confident in her victory but then says that the probability of victory is low? Lol!
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  623.  @MastemaJack  "they are allowed to lie about Islam to nonbelievers" From what I've read it only covers concealing one's religion to avoid persecution.
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  624.  @TheHimalaiaNinja  The cost of living was kept artificially low by (among other things) the official exchange rate which was rather expensive for the government. This kind of reckoning was almost certainly coming sooner or later.
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  625. At least they did better than the Western Rome.
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  626.  @del7723 : "There is nothing more harmful then travelling by plane." Yes, there is, namely traveling the same distance by car.
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  627.  @magicsans6376 : The number of reservists isn't.
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  628. "The trouble with a bluff is that it can become difficult to back down from." I think that it's actually easy to back off from this bluff (in the current situation) if it even counts as a bluff. A bluff is a threat when there's no intention or capability to carry it out. Here Putin at least claims that he's not threatening Ukraine so it's kind of the opposite of a bluff. You could say that the troop movements are the real message, not words, but because the official position is that it's not a preparation for invasion it's easy to back down without losing face. Also, if he actually invades, then it technically wasn't a bluff since carried out the threat.
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  629. That kind of "revolt" is clearly not what he was talking about. Also, I suspect most people choosing to not have kids aren't doing it as a protest.
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  630. Somehow, it has worked better in Singapore and Japan.
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  631.  @blugaledoh2669  "how would an effective conscription of women work?" You can probably get your answer by looking at Israel. Israel has mandatory military service for both men and women, though for women it's a bit shorter. For men the minimum length is 32 months; for women it's 24 months.
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  632. East Coast = Least Coast West Coast = Best Coast
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  633. I don't think that matters all that much. Basically everyone who knew about Twitter knows that X is ex-Twitter.
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  634.  @YourLocalMairaaboo  "The thing is, Belgium gives way more autonomy to its subdivisions" I'm not so sure about that part, or at least "way more" sounds like an exaggeration. The US is a federal country and the states handle a lot of stuff. Of course, Belgium is a federal country too but it's not clear to me that its federal constituents are "way more" self governing than those of the US.
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  635. One of my colleagues, who's a Swedish speaking Finn, was told in Sweden that he speaks the language well even though it's his native language.
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  636. "I'll guarantee he'll be a US Citizen when it comes to pay taxes!" Would that even affect his tax bill in any case? Non-citizens who live in the US are obviously also subject to US taxation.
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  637. "I'm not sure Trump could cancel Ukraine aid. It's been signed into law with a 2/3 supermajority." He could (try to) veto any further aid once that package runs out.
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  638.  @PhiloSage  I was responding to comments that talked about the EM field. Of course, the resistance doesn't cancel but leaving the extension cord coiled doesn't increase the resistance (though it can reduce heat dissipation).
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  639.  @hairyairey  That's because a coiled cable can't dissipate heat as well as an uncoiled cable.
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  640.  @joshuaewalker  "We, United States, get a single phase at the residential level of 240 volts. Throughout most of the home only 120 volts are used. We use 240 volts on dedicated circuits for water heaters, ovens, clothes dryers, HVAC systems, and electric car chargers." I think the point was the following. In the US the voltage of a single phase relative to neutral is 120V but you can also use two live wires with opposite phases to get 240V when you need a higher voltage. Similarly in Europe, the voltage of a single phase relative to neutral is 230V but you can also get 400V if you use two live wires with phases 120° apart if you need a higher voltage. This isn't like using a 3-phase motor because it's not using all the 3 phases. It's just using 2 of the phases for a higher voltage. (I agree that you probably don't need all 3 phases at home for any appliance.)
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  641.  @golmgolm  I'm a bit skeptical of that. I wouldn't perceive it as impolite to e.g. cry. Also, even if there was such a politeness standard, I don't see why it would affect survey responses.
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  642. Just set the video to 2x speed and it makes it sound more like rapping.
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  643. Next: How to Illegally Not Pay Taxes
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  644.  @Person01234  It should force the remaining 15% to drive slower (assuming they won't break the limit) so there will be less overtaking. Also, it probably has something to do with the safe speed if the drivers drive at the speed that feels safe to them and that isn't completely off the mark. (However, this won't work if drivers primarily consider their own safety and there are pedestrians around.)
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  645.  @ithemba : Ahem! It's "fermented".
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  646. 9:20 In the case of the Great Northern War, Napoléon's invasion, and the World Wars the position ascribed to Russia doesn't make sense (if they actually hold it). In the Great Northern War Denmark-Norway, Poland-Lithuania, and Saxony were on Russia's side and Russia was also initially the aggressor (along with Denmark-Norway and Saxony), not Sweden. During the Napoléonic wars Britain was the enemy of Napoléon and thus on Russia's side when he invaded Russia (and Russia's resumption of trade with Britain was why he decided to invade). In both World Wars many European powers and the US were again on the same side and Russia / Soviet Union. Those were European wars involving various powers including Russia and with other countries on both sides, not some uniquely anti-Russian crusades by the West.
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  647.  @ausbrum  That's not so clear. The resulting kingdom (consisting of England, Wales, and a few other parts) would probably be considered to be the successor state to the UK. By convention successor states inherit most rights and obligations under existing treaties (and thus you can't e.g. legally nullify government debt by a breakup). Admittedly, this convention isn't codified. Well, there is the Vienna Convention of 1978 but the UK isn't a signatory.
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  648. 20:25 I'm surprised that my country (Finland) is still a net destination (though only by a small margin) for patent holders and also that it's ahead of Sweden (though by an even smaller margin).
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  649.  @PhotonBeast  "So are American Samoans and all other Americans living in American territories, but territories are not states nor the people in them US citizens but US nationals." That's true for Samoa but not for (most) other territories. People born in territories other than Samoa are (mostly) citizens. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_nationality_law#Nationals
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  650.  @catmutterer  What label would you use instead of Palestinian? I don't think there is a better word.
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  651.  @samrubin3219  No, "Arabs" doesn't work here because it's far too broad. It would be strange for me to say "Arabs are effectively stateless" because most Arabs have the citizenship of some country, such as one of Israel's neighbors (or even Israel itself). The term needs to be more specific. I don't think there is a better one than "Palestinians".
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  652. There's little reason to listen what Medvedev says. He has been spouting all sorts unhinged stuff (including crazy predictions that haven't come true).
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  653. 2:40 Why isn't Austria marked as neutral?
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  654. Or be an accountant in some other company than Hertz.
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  655. Wouldn't it be easier to have a computer system where information (like the current residence) of citizens and residents would be stored?
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  656.  @Fee581  I seen plenty of comments from people who seem to genuinely prefer modernist architecture; I guess they have to exist or that style wouldn't exist. However, according polling they seem to be a majority and a majority of people prefer pre-modern styles.
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  657. "They wouldn't be called human resources if they weren't meant to be strip-mined."
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  658.  @CymbalVault  But I was commenting on the claim about efficiency, not energy density.
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  659.  @CymbalVault  If a battery's efficiency is say 99%, then it's 99% even if it weighs a lot.
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  660.  @CymbalVault  "wow, you have 99% of a much smaller number due to energy density" Possibly, but it doesn't change the fact that batteries are efficient (if heavy). For some purposes, the efficiency matters more, for some the weight.
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  661.  @whippinsaw  "Over half of small bussniess owners have an associates degree or higher." Remember that correlation doesn't always imply causation.
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  662.    Many of the populated areas are south relative to Finland but they're also in the middle of the continent far away from seas which can mitigate temperature swings between summer and winter.
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  663.  @Yusufhalig  It's easy to find many news stories of ships unrelated to Israel being attacked. One example is the Norwegian tanker Blaamanen but theer are many others as well.
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  664. I (partially) disagree with Varoufakis. Energy delivery is a natural monopoly but energy generation is not. It's a good thing that prices can move such that supply and demand meet.
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  665. Don't forget to use leverage!
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  666.  @zevil89  "It just highlights the economic decline of Japan for the average person." From what I understand, that doesn't actually seem to be the case. I've heard from many sources that the reason why many young Japanese women/girls have recently started doing this isn't because they're especially poor. They don't need to do to get by. They need it in order to treat their favorite hosts. That kind of thing has exploded in popularity recently and can often get quite expensive.
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  667. China is also more dependent on the rest of the world. Unlike Russia, they're not self-sufficient in terms of energy. A lot of their oil is imported and comes through a single chokepoint (the Strait of Malacca).
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  668. 0:40 To nitpick a bit, S3 and EC2 surprisingly weren't the first AWS services to be launched. Surprisingly, the first one was actually SQS which was originally launched in 2004, though it only came out of beta in 2006.
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  669. Maybe Sealand can change its name to that.
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  670. People have been just as gullible or more so in the past. You can read about people falling for far stupider scams in the past (like "please send me cash through the mail and wrap it in foil"). One thing that's different today is that the Internet does allow scamming to be more efficient.
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  671. You could say the suit is robotic.
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  672. (Warning, a small SPOILER concerning a later episode.) In one episode they have one person hack into every bank in Liechtenstein (or like 12 banks or something) to get the data on transactions. And that seemed to happen within one day. That part really hurt my suspension of disbelief.
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  673.  @miafiolekova5817  Well, I don't think they're trying to emulate the Euro. I think they may have some vague idea that reducing US influence on the world would have some long-term benefits for their country. Of course, I'm not a mind reader so I can't know their goals or motivations for sure.
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  674.  @Warkurus  Mongols had more than one religion to begin with. Only a portion of them were Tengrists. Some of them were (Nestorian) Christians, e.g. Ong Khan.
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  675. The constitution is unconstitutional, duh!
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  676.  @wisemankugelmemicus1701  "And they were eventually defeated by the US Marines." While they did suffer a loss to said Marines, that's a bit misleading wording because it might lead some to believe that that put an end to the piracy. In fact, they continued piracy. The Brits also came to bombard Algiers a bit later but there was still piracy even after that. Only the French gobbling up the whole region finally ended it for good.
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  677. I've been told that there's another way to "rob" a casino. Just go there to eat in restaurants and do little or no gambling. The food is supposedly cheap relative to the quality because it's a loss-leader.
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  678. "He could have slowly raised the price and no one would have been the wiser." But the price hike wasn't why he went to prison. The law generally allows companies to price their products as they see fit, for better or for worse.
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  679. "these "religious sites" because they do not hold any meaning for the religion" But they might still hold meaning for historians and archeologists.
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  680. But it's not actually engineered. Many harmful societal trends aren't planned at all but just result from things like coordination problems and human failings.
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  681. 9:33 I don't think hedge funds are good for accessing money quickly either. Often they restrict when money can be withdrawn so in this respect they're even worse than, say, index funds.
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  682. ​@Never repeats "I think [...] the Finnish President can refer bills to the supreme court to see if they are constitutional before they take effect" I don't think the Finnish President has that kind of power. Checking the constitutionality of bills before they're passed is done by the Constitutional Committee in the Parliament.
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  683. Except for that apparently his eyes are green rather than blue.
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  684. 2:35 The oil embargo was done by OAPEC which isn't a sub-group of OPEC but a separate organization (though they do have overlap in membership).
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  685. Could they also recycle other types of fiber composites like basalt or carbon fiber composites?
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  686. 7:25 I think this is a little bit misleading. The Soviet Union did also claim to be a democracy and held elections, though those elections only had one candidate on the ballot for the voters to choose from. Ideologically, the Communist party's claimed legitimacy came from that it purported to represent the people, or at least the proletariat.
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  687.  @3omab  "the average Estonian has never been so poor in the history of our country" Hyperbole much? I'm fairly sure the average Estonian was much poorer in the early '90s.
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  688. But the IRS never puts out.
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  689. "We ask only for fair treatment as equal partners that help each other out in times of need, it should be a "two way street"." That would require aid that would be enough to stop the Russian advance. However, Fico has been advocating for reducing aid to Ukraine instead. What option does Ukraine have but to try to squeeze Russia financially?
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  690.  @chewxieyang4677  True, though the lower gravity might help with scaling that one.
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  691. Gustavus Adolphus to shipwrights: I'm altering the ship, pray I don't alter it any further.
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  692.  @truthmonster3290  What precisely makes him a war criminal?
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  693. "I really thank you for mentioning how the EU, in its current form, is very inneficient. Either less or more integration, but its literally in the worst state possible" I have to disagree with you here. For all its failings, the EU is still more efficient that having 27 individual countries negotiate with each other separately. It's easy to see to problems with the actual status quo and less easy to see the (what I think would be worse) problems with an alternative hypothetical status quo.
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  694. ""Every country has a right to join NATO" Meanwhile Russia/USSR asked twice to join NATO and was rejected. ???" There's no contradiction. When they say that every country has the right to join (whether you agree or not) it means that a third party should not or can't veto it. It doesn't mean that the NATO itself or its members couldn't decide who can join.
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  695.  @slomnim  But WeWork primarily hoodwinked professional investors which in theory ought to be harder.
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  696. While Egypt's inflation is bad Turkey's is worse.
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  697. "This is by far the worst decision of the court of all time." What? Worse than e.g. Dred Scott v. Sanford?
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  698.  @ethandouro  A literal bus can also be called "omnibus" in English too (as also noted by another commenter above), though it might be a bit dated.
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  699. I'm pretty sure they meant current times. The World Wars were long ago.
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  700. YouTube comments should totally also have ads. :)
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  701. "The entry level user is just trying to check out and save progress." Then that entry level user should be fine using a single branch. That doesn't seem like a steep learning curve.
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  702. Haha. I love how you try to spell smörgåsbord.
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  703. Crime can't be a problem if no one lives there anymore.
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  704.  @JoseAlberto-sk9lq  Rent control is a bad idea.
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  705.  @LOL-ev8ft  Well, it's better than no argument on why one limit would be better than another.
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  706. I think Lukashenka ran on an anti-corruption platform which is something that tends to be popular in many times and places.
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  707.  @Chris.4345  "It takes 10 minutes do undo a lie that takes 10 seconds to say." I'd still say that it's a bad idea to accuse the other side of lying or bad faith argument. It doesn't look convincing to most people who don't already agree with you. If you don't want to assume good faith and respond to spurious claims with evidence and reason, it's probably better to not have a debate at all than to have a debate and the attack your opponent.
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  708.  @alexhumble7653  "There WAS promise to accept Ukraine in NATO, which was widely announced." No, there wasn't. "Where is your own indignation" What indignation? My (original) comment had nothing to do with indignation. I wasn't talking about who's in the right. I was talking about a game theoretic concept called "time inconsistency" or "dynamic inconsistency" which is relevant to what Spaniel was talking about. Why do you go on this Ukraine rant under my comment which has little to do with what you're talking about?
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  709. If you look through the 3 Minute History videos, you'll see that a pouch on a stick has been extremely popular among exiles of high stature.
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  710.  @Schizz76  By that kind of logic, Willian the Conqueror's conquest of England would also be a civil war.
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  711.  @josepho3366  You know, in the days of yore people actually skied a lot, not for sport but just to get from point A to point B.
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  712.  @tylerclayton6081  "China and Japan both have a total debt of above 300% of GDP." That isn't true. Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio is "only" a bit above 260%
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  713. "the moment that trump mentions camps for gays or deporting US citizens he disagrees with, we would join the left in fighting against that" I can believe you would do that but there's a significant fraction of Trumpists (though I'm not saying they're a majority) that would consider that kind of thing "based".
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  714. 0:25 "Now I've never seen a full episode of Suits before but I'm guessing from the title that it's about a group of men who wear suits." Objection! It could also be about a group of people who are involved in lawsuits.
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  715. -Who was your first husband? -His imperial majesty, False Dimitri I.
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  716. "Russia will enable the people of Ukraine to elect a less extreme government." Russia successfully cleaved away the most pro-Russia parts of Ukraine in 2014. That inevitably made the rest of Ukraine be more pro-West due to simple electoral arithmetic. If Russia came into control of the whole of Ukraine the elections would not be free. It would just be a regime imposed from the outside. It would not be a good outcome for Ukraine, at least not for the western parts of the country.
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  717. "normal hydropower operation does not consume water" In this case it will consume some because the dam's reservoir increases the surface area from which water evaporates. However, this should be a smaller problem than in the case of of the Aswan dam because the GERD's reservoir is smaller than Lake Nasser and is located in a less hot and arid area.
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  718.  @TheGlull  You can just give a timestamp like 5:30 so that the video URL doesn't need to be included.
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  719. Where the Social Democrats in Germany called SDP back then as opposed to SPD as they're currently called?
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  720. "If the battery were part of the structure, what happens when it can no longer hold a charge? If it isn't easily replaceable, the whole vehicle would have to be scrapped." And this doesn't only waste the vehicle but the battery too. A battery that has lost too much of its capacity to work in an EV can still e.g. be used as an energy storage in a home etc. However, if the battery is a part of the structure it can't easily be removed for such usage and might have an inconvenient shape if you still try that.
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  721. Well, the thumbnail also showed the silhouettes of all 4 countries so none of them were really a mystery.
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  722. "Egypt used to be the food basket of the Roman Empire in 210BC. Look how far we have fallen :(" This "fall" is due to Egypt's population increasing, not agricultural output declining.
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  723. That would probably be good but I still think in the case of kidneys, live donors should be paid. They could also be paid from the public purse instead of the recipient having to pay. The state would often still save money by reducing the need for dialysis.
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  724. But that doesn't apply to all STEM. It's possible to have more students of theoretical or computational physics, mathematics, or computer science without special equipment of facilities.
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  725.  @billyhills9933  And corporations as well. Both systems are quite rare globally.
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  726.  @samshaw1443  That's a rather misleading way to put. The regional Fed branches are nominally privately owned but that doesn't mean as much as one might think. It doesn't offer the owner the normal benefits of ownership. They only get a predetermined (by law) amount of dividends on their shares and they can choose 6 of the 9 directors and each branch. The board or governors, on the other hand, is not private in any way.
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  727. 2:45 "So if Bill Hwang wanted five times leverage he could potentially just go five different brokers and max out the leverage ratio at each one." I don't think you can increase your leverage by just using multiple brokers. Surely a broker only allows you to borrow against shares the broker is holding for you. Using the same set of shares as collateral for multiple loans from multiple brokers would likely be against the agreement with the brokers if it's even possible. Similarly, any contracts for difference (a.k.a. total return swaps) with different brokers are separate. You can't chain them to increase your leverage.
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  728. @Oritra Kar Japan and China were able to grow very quickly due to being in catch-up mode. The UK is already a developed country and can't expect such high growth rates.
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  729.  @STFUismyname : I think the word "estus" might be taken from the Latin word "aestus" meaning heat or fire.
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  730.  @Freerider93  They payout here is enormous, especially compared to the harm suffered by the plaintiff (who only had 9 shares). That can give a pretty strong incentive to litigate even if the lawyers estimate that they have a very low chance of winning.
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  731.  @Freerider93  It's all about the right balance. Whether the company should get sued depends on how likely it is to have broken the law. If the probability is high it's probably beneficial for the society if it gets sued. If the probability is very low, then the law suit in expectation consumes more society's resources than it produces benefits. Ideally, the size of the payout to the lawyers and litigants should be of the size that it gives the incentive to sue when the probability of the company having broken the law is high enough but not give a sufficient incentive when the probability is too low. If the method for calculating the payout to lawyers tends to produce these enormous sums it can give a suboptimally strong incentive to litigate.
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  732. "blows up an apartment?" It may be due to the missiles being inaccurate.
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  733.   : Even if Goldman's primary purpose is to make money for its investors, we should be able to expect it to operate within certain ethical boundaries. Helping Greece defraud European institutions is at least a bit suspect.
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  734.  @shanerooney7288  GDP and unemployment were worse during the pandemic. I think those matter more for whether this level of expenditure to aid Ukraine can be sustained. I don't see a reason why it couldn't go on for a long time. A bit of inflation (which is coming down) hardly changes that).
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  735.  @EmmaKing30  "Kenyan police & special forces are providing security services in Haiti." I had been wondering why it was Kenya specifically providing the police force sent to Haiti. Is this the primary reason why it's Kenya (aside from the fact that it probably couldn't be a Western country due to historical reasons)?
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  736.  @mikhailmakarov9627  "Kutuzov's goal was to cause maximum damage to Grand Armee that Napoleon would not be able to compensate. And Kutuzov achieved it." Even if Napoléon had somehow magically suffered no casualties at Borodino I don't think still had a chance to win the war (as long as the Russians wouldn't get so demoralized as to surrender). His supply situation was too dire and lower or no casualties would have only meant even more mouths to feed which he couldn't do. I have not tried to verify this but the description that I've usually seen is that Kutuzov (as well as Barclay) favored attritional strategy against Napoléon instead of direct confrontation and that he only gave battle at Borodino due to political pressure to do so (and that this had also been the reason why Barclay had given battle earlier at Smolensk).
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  737. Or jreg.
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  738.  @arthura7851  "Leopard on the other hand is more powerful device" Leopard is a MBT while Bradley is an IFV. These are two different classes of vehicles designed for different tasks. It's a bit odd to say that one is more powerful than the other (unless your intention is to compare whether Ukraine would need more MBTs or IFVs).
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  739. The voltage from solar panels isn't high enough.
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  740.  @markdowding5737  "Why shouldn't Serbia simply launch a military operation to regain control of the region and expel the local native population living there?" That would be a war crime. "And what grounds can Western countries use to oppose such a scenario without looking like a bunch of hypocrites?" I don't think avoiding looking like hypocrites would/should be a high priority in such a situation. Also, you could argue that international law doesn't impose a duty to oppose such events in every single case.
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  741.  @nancyhey1012  Well, you can't open McDonald's in a city that's under artillery and sniper fire. The residents might or might not like McDonald's food but I'm sure they like not being fired at.
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  742. "The 2% standard is a blunt tool" But it's not easy to come up with a better criterion.
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  743. "If the proposals were good for Finland and they rejected it, then the Russians had a casus belli for this war" I wouldn't say that's a legitimate casus belli.
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  744.  @Defectedinthehouse89  V2 was a ballistic missile but V1 was a cruise missile.
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  745.  @LemonChieff  It's 100% reserves because you're owning reserves directly.
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  746.  @Cembadyx  It's not quite all. In 2019 the share of hydro was 93.4%
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  747.  @silverdeathgamer2907 : At least in hindsight, we can probably say that Napoleon could have had a longer run if he hadn't tried to fight in Spain and in Russia and tried to negotiate some kind of peace with Britain.
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  748. "India should reject once again to be a western white supremacy pawns" It's pretty natural that India would want to protect maritime trade flowing into or out of India.
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  749.  @blinbby8633  I'm not sure that any "plight" is relevant here. Well, of course it's relevant in the sense that it affects what (if anything) should be done about the situation. However, the quote was just about Kurds being the largest people without their own country. Even if the peoples in India and Pakistan mentioned by OP might not have faced same kind of hardship Kurds have, that still doesn't change that they don't seemingly have their own country. Maybe they don't even want that and are content with their own state within e.g. India but that still doesn't change that the quote would seemingly better apply to some of them.
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  750. Was Tamil Nadu ever under Mughal rule?
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  751.  @s9ka972  "seems OK today but their future is better not said" But this is a completely different thing than what you said in your original comment and what I objected to. Originally you said: "Compared to Asia ( Japan + South Korea + China + Asean + India + GCC) , most of European countries have significantly less productivity levels ." My objection was that the countries I mentioned in fact have higher productivity levels than those Asian countries. I didn't make any predictions about what the productivity levels are going to be in the future. That's a completely different thing. "it's not emojies , but their respective flags" Flag emojis are still emojis.
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  752. Probably works better than "Hey baby, I'm an insurance salesman". (Sidenote: I'm not an insurance salesman.)
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  753. I strongly disagree. I think it's good that neither side in the Ukraine War seems to have used e.g. chemical weapons.
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  754.  @mcrayfourd  Holmes is still facing a trial set to begin on August 31, 2021. She might go to prison yet.
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  755.  @issa6581  "if you say want to buy oil with your currency then the United States will invade your country" I don't think it will. The countries mentioned earlier were invaded for different reasons.
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  756. @Ben Connor Those two are not mutually exclusive.
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  757.  @XMysticHerox  "they often replace much more efficient apartment complexes" I wasn't referring to demolishing existing buildings. The wording OP (CampingforCool4) used was "build more houses". The word "more" wouldn't apply in the situation you described.
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  758. "what has always amazed me is how people who have good judgement on day to day things like comparative shopping for groceries, will have a complete lack of critical thinking when it comes to big financial decisions." Most people have much more experience in buying groceries than making big financial decisions.
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  759. But there are a couple of reasons why Finland might have less to fear when it comes to escalation. Firstly, Finland is a much smaller contributor so Russia can more easily ignore it. Secondly, weapons that Finland has donated aren't to the same degree long-range rockets and missiles so they're less relevant for this purpose anyway. Thirdly, Finland doesn't have scattered possessions around the world nor military presence in numerous countries around the world so there isn't an opportunity for Russia to carry out the kind of retaliation it has been hinting at when it comes to e.g. the UK giving a green light to strikes into Russia-proper using British weapons.
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  760. "leading to the Finnish inventing the Molotiv cocktail" Finns didn't invent the Molotov cocktail. Those had been used against tanks in e.g. the Spanish Civil War which had ended only a few months earlier. Finns did come up with the name, though.
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  761. One benefit of onsite perks, compared to just using the same amount of money to pay higher salaries, is that they can be easily taken away unilaterally if times get tougher. Salaries are often much tougher to lower unilaterally. Bonuses can have this same advantage as well.
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  762. In a certain sense, volatility drag is always negative. Let me explain. Assume that the value of the index moved continuously and that a leveraged ETF tied to that index were rebalanced at every infinitesimal moment meaning its price's logarithmic derivative were always 3 times that of the logarithmic derivative of the index's value. Such an ideal leveraged ETF would experience zero volatility drag. Its value growth would be raised to the 3rd power so if the index grew by a factor of 2 over some time period the value of the ETF would grow by a factor of 8. If the index grew by a factor of 10 over some period of time the ETF would grow by a factor of 1000. A real leveraged ETF that's balanced daily and not at each infinitesimal moment will always lag behind this kind of idealized ETF. The more the index moves between rebalancings the more the real leveraged ETF lags behind this ideal.
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  763.  @4CiiD3  "The least time you rebalance leverage, the least amount of volatility drag you will get." No, it's not how frequently you rebalance. Rather it's how much the price moves between rebalancings. The hypothetical ideal ETF rebalances at each infinitesimal moment so the price only moves an infinitesimal amount between rebalancings (assuming continuity which isn't realistic either) so there's no drag. "And when you say volatility drag is always negative... negative in what sense ?" I already explained that. The hypothetical ideal is that returns get raised to the 3rd power (with 3x leverage) if there's no volatility drag at all. Due to volatility drag, a real leveraged ETF will always lag behind this ideal. The less the index moves between rebalancings (i.e. the less there's day-to-day volatility if rebalancings happen daily) the closer the leveraged ETF will get to this ideal but it will never reach it. "Average return is still 3x index - costs no matter how you rebalance." It's (generally) not 3x over multiple days (assuming daily rebalancing).
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  764. 0:23 "I'll go into more detail later" Took you long enough! 4 whole years! ;)
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  765.  @Tracer_Krieg  "Yup, it's 5'7 and some change." No, that's incorrect. It is about 5.7 feet but it's not 5 feet 7 inches because one foot has 12 inches, not 10. (Metatron in fact made this same conversion mistake in another video.)
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  766.  @xenomorphbiologist-xx1214  "but the population density is far more extreme than Europe" I'm from Finland, which was mentioned earlier in this thread. The population density of Finland is about half of that of the US, yet there are still trains. Of course, some parts of the US (and Finland) are too sparsely populated for trains to make sense but there should still be plenty of areas where they do make sense. Note that I'm talking about regular trains, not high-speed trains.
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  767.  @ronnybjrklund4459  It's EEA, not EEC. EEC is what the EU was prior to 1993.
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  768. What's the point of preventing Northerners from working in the South? There would be unrealized gains to trade. Also, that kind of arrangement is probably not legally realistic. South Korea views Northerners as its own citizens so denying them their rights in the South would be too awkward to implement.
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  769.  @Boababa-fn3mr  In what way was destroying the Iran nuclear deal a good decision?
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  770. And if the country has a problem with corruption trying to never pay bribes might not be practical.
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  771. I have an acquaintance who at one point spent 2 or 3 days a week in Switzerland and the rest here in Helsinki, Finland.
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  772. 37:00 "They find that when facing lower demand or recessions, worker co-ops are much less likely to fire employees, instead opting to reduce wages across the board. Co-ops therefore protect the employment of their members while capitalist firms are happy to shed them to remain profitable." Shouldn't we consider that capitalist firms can also be prevented from lowering wages across the board by employment contracts, collective agreements, or labor laws? They may choose firing over wage cuts simply because they're prevented from choosing the latter option.
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  773. 5:05 "It did damage to the road surface. It hasn't done any damage to the structure, to the structural integrity of the bridge itself. The bridge continues to, its spans continue to be where they, uh, were." What? You can clearly see in videos of the bridge that two spans of the road bridge collapsed.
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  774. A splendid use of public money. I'm sure Mohammad bin Salman hasn't let his personal feeling affect his judgment when putting forth that proposition.
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  775.  @InssiAjaton  Haha! Well, I must admit I just liked the name. I'm a Finn as well (which probably would've been your second guess).
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  776.  @MrJonsonville5  I think the shortfall had increased to over $200 because of late fees and interest but it's still small enough that the person would almost certainly have rather paid it than have lost the property.
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  777. Btw, what about the Sacred Band of Thebes? Generally I've heard it described as being composed of 150 pairs of male lovers. Is that description (possibly) inaccurate too in some way? How much evidence do we have about that?
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  778.  @baylordsett2739  Simons started his hedge fund 2 decades after getting his Ph.D. I don't think it's accurate to describe him as a student who got rich. Also, the investment decisions of his hedge fund are done by algorithms so it's not clear that he himself is necessarily a good investor in the sense that he could e.g. manually evaluate what is a fair price for a given security. So it seems that his success outside his mathematical career doesn't necessarily indicate unusually good skills outside mathematics (and managing and collaborating with other mathematicians).
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  779.  @friend2324  He did say "I consider it completely unimportant who in the party will vote, or how; but what is extraordinarily important is this—who will count the votes, and how." which I think is pretty close to this often repeated quote.
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  780. Ghost Tumen
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  781. "made Czechia probably the most successful post-communist country (maybe Slovenia is better, I don't know)" If we use real (PPP) GDP per capita as the metric then that seems to indeed be the case. Slovenia is slightly behind (and Estonia is slightly behind them) though the differences are fairly small.
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  782. Why is China trying to prevent Yuan from falling in value? China is currently experiencing deflation. A weaker Yuan and expansionary monetary policy is exactly what China needs right now.
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  783.  @Jdbye  "I always thought it was because a coil of wire is essentially an electromagnet and current passed through it will cause a magnetic field" This is not a huge issue because in a coiled extension cord you have wires running in both directions meaning they mostly cancel out.
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  784.  @dosgos  I suspect the idea is that it would work similarly to Special Drawing Rights.
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  785.  @Dave_Sisson  That doesn't really change the number. It just means that certain exchange rates change very little.
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  786. "it's doing exactly what YouTube wants it to do" Unlikely. A much simpler explanation is that making an algorithm do what YouTube wants is very difficult so it fails often.
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  787.  @carstengrooten3686  On the right side of the river, one boat moving forward (from the camera's perspective) seems to have either a collision or near-collision with a docked boat.
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  788. It's probably more useful for everyone if Austria stays neutral. It can still function as a mediator. Finland and Sweden quite likely can't do that in the same way anymore.
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  789.  @zacharywilson9596 : Leave side won the Brexit referendum by 1,269,501 votes. A few thousand votes would not have been enough to change it.
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  790. There are three types of people in this world. Those who can count and those who can't.
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  791.  @potatofuryy  He was elected, though back then Finland used a kind of an electoral college. However, his third term was also extended by a special law which is a bit undemocratic.
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  792. What if you have bought a put option on a Russian security and try to exercise it (or similarly for a call option though you'd likely not want to exercise those)? The seller of the option might not be able to deliver even if they could easily afford it. Is there some kind of compensation for failure to deliver? Or does the seller of the put option pay the strike price without getting the security?
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  793.  @Bayard1503  In this case the product (Urals oil) disappearing from the market would be a good thing.
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  794. Says here he was elected: https://www.ocregister.com/2019/12/06/heres-how-orange-county-went-broke/
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  795.  @Lessk69  "As long as cities become increasingly too expensive [...] the suburban lifestyle will continue to grow." They're expensive because zoners zone low-density suburbs and the supply of denser urban areas falls behind demand.
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  796. But practically it's almost exclusively used in cases of quoting text with an error in it to note that the error was in the original and not added later. In this case, the grammar seems to be slightly off.
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  797.  @InTenMinutes1  The French have a pretty good military record.
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  798.  @kevinboros7427  "I really dislike this "Romani" name. It sounds way too close to Romanian" You could also dislike the name "Romania" for the same reason.
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  799. By olive skin Metatron is referring to green olives which in Italian are called white olives. Therefore he thinks ancient Egyptians were white. (JK)
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  800. It's just individuals greedy for illegal profits. They're not sent by the CCP.
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  801.  J T  "CCP has total control." Do you really think some party bureaucrat is telling these fishermen: "go fish here"? That doesn't sound very likely. It's far more likely that they themselves just thought they could make some decent money by fishing in Argentine waters. (Though, it is probably true that Chinese authorities don't try to prevent this either.)
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  802.  @duncanfriend3766  "But is it fair for wealthy people to pay more into it when they won't get more out of it?" Removing the cap would also mean removing the benefit cap. This would still improve SS finances.
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  803. I reported that fake Graham. I hope others will do the same.
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  804. ".000000001% of the feudal Japanese population" If that fraction is one person, then the population of feudal Japan was 100 billion, which sounds a bit high.
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  805.  @freeideas  "this is not a skill issue. It is a language issue." It can be both. Dealing with confusing syntax (or confusingly written code) is a skill which can be valuable. However, at the same time, making that syntax or code less confusing, if possible, can also have value.
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  806.  @sleeper9638  Do you have a source for that claim?
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  807. Germany withheld aid sent from Fascist Italy and only released it after the war was over.
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  808. In Finnish the bird is called "kalkkuna" which comes from the city of Calicut (a.k.a. Kozhikode) in India.
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  809.  @MateusAntonioBittencourt  "In the Volkswagen CO2 emissions scandal, the only people who got jail time were the programmers. The managers all walked scot free, while the programmers got screwed." You don't know that for sure. Martin Winterkorn is still supposed to face trial in a couple of months from now. Also as a minor nitpick, the scandal was about NOₓ emissions, not CO₂ emissions.
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  810.  @garycrasto1310  "It's not just Nagorno Karabach. It's also about the 7 territories around it that Armenia took in 1994." I thought Azerbaijan already took them back in 2020.
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  811.  @seabass8154  I don't agree. To my knowledge, people who invested in Madoff's fund invested for long term. In the long term you still get a decent yield despite temporary market declines.
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  812. "I was into him too" You mean romantically? ;)
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  813.  @MaoThe1st  That kind of phenomenon didn't happen in other countries that have adopted the Euro, at least no where near to that extent.
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  814. I'd say it makes more sense to think of the player as an entire organization (mayor + council + whatever) rather than a single person in games like C:S.
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  815. "They need to be dug out of the ground at immense energy and pollution output." Probably less so than kerosene.
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  816. You can come up with other reasons for juries besides nullification. Jury nullification has been used for (arguably) good purposes but also for pretty deplorable ones. E.g. in the past it was common to acquit whites who had murdered blacks basically because the all-white jury didn't see a problem with that.
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  817. "Yuan (not "won", like South Korea's)" However, these names still share the same origin, coming from some word meaning "round" (and the same goes for the Japanese Yen).
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  818.  @Kaspian1828  Denmark used to own the southern part of the Scandinavian peninsula, specifically, Skåne, Halland, and Blekinge, before Sweden stole those lands somewhere between 3 and 4 centuries ago. (Don't take the stealing part too seriously.)
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  819. It's Baikonur. It has the Cosmodrome where Russia launches its spacecrafts from.
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  820. At least they didn't choose Tom DeLay as the postmaster general.
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  821.  @dictare  If you have your own yard one possibility would be just have a propane grill which you could use instead of a stove during an outage, though that might not work for all foods. Of course, if outages happen every week that might be a bit annoying.
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  822.  @wow1371  "Europe and Asia are not one unified continental plate, they are two separate basically fused together at this point" They are on the same tectonic plate, the Eurasian plate, ancient sutures notwithstanding. Note that e.g. Greece is actually on a different tectonic plate from most of Eurasia so by a tectonic definition it's less of on the same continent as most of the EU than Georgia and Armenia. "Georgia and Armenia border the Asian part of Russia" No, here you're just mistaken. The conventional border of Europe and Asia in the east-west direction is usually taken to be at the Ural mountains. The Caucasus is to the west of the Urals so they border the European part of Russia.
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  823. 7:47 "This was a week of flux" Flux as in the disease.
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  824.  @clintoncarroll3400  When people say that the US invoked Article 5, I'm pretty sure that they mean that the US communicated that it had been attacked in a way that meets the criteria for collective defense mentioned in Article 5 (and subsequently the North Atlantic Council agreed).
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  825. I found a song named "Cringecore" by someone called "Can of Bliss" here on YouTube.
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  826. 3:33 Does Eritrea really see itself as democratic? It hasn't had any (national) elections during its independence, not even sham elections.
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  827. "Does it mean they lend money at low fixed rates?" Yes, that's what it means.
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  828. I think Francisco Macías Nguema might also be strong contender.
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  829. Well, Germany isn't entering Russia.
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  830. I don't think it's necessarily insane. It's possible that those celebrities brought FTX more customers who then lost money whereas those politicians probably didn't have that big of an effect.
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  831. I think that autonomous vehicles can eventually become safer than human drivers but it might still take a long while before we get there.
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  832. Civil attorneys on the other hand know how to behave cordially even when they're downright seething.
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  833. But he didn't! Oops, spoiler. :)
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  834.  @kakzohcjxi4000  This isn't a lie. It's a verifiable fact. You can read on the ICJ website about this decision and it says: "[The Court] also concluded that it was not required by the question posed to decide whether international law conferred a positive entitlement upon Kosovo to declare independence ; rather, it had to determine whether a rule of international law prohibited such a declaration." The ICJ hasn't ruled on whether Kosovo has a right to independence or not.
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  835.  @betseyhemmelgarn1230  "No they don't." This is the response you gave to GTEngineer when he wrote "how do you know Russia is not using them? They definitely have them.". Your answer seems to say that Russia doesn't have depleted uranium rounds. However, that's false. They definitely do have them. See e.g. Svinets-2. I wasn't able to find info on whether they have used them in Ukraine but they definitely have them.
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  836. "just use commuter blimps" I remember from some documentary that some of the early pioneers of air travel used to make his commute by a blimp that he had constructed. Unfortunately, I don't remember who it was. I think it was some French guy (Henri Giffard?).
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  837. This wasn't a disaster for the UK in the long run. The economy improved afterwards. I think some of the continental European economies ran too tight monetary policies and suffered as a result.
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  838.  @tellyboy17  "Fact remains that Europe under invested in its military" But even that military still dwarfs that of Russia (and some countries have not under invested such as France and Poland). Europe is just much bigger in terms of population and markedly richer. Russia is outgunned and additionally attacking is usually more difficult than defending so there's no realistic chance that "this war will end with all of Europe within the Russian sphere of influence" (as you wrote in your first reply to OP).
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  839.  @julius43461  "People who lived during WW2 were not spoiled children" I don't think a majority of contemporary people are "spoiled children" either. I think a majority of Europeans are still in favor of sanctioning Russia and even some of them might regret it surely they would realize that reversing policy likely wouldn't help quickly enough to affect this winter very much. "Not the worst winter ever for sure, but relatively speaking it might be." I think the '70s oil crisis was worse than this winter is going to be.
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  840. Sallet definitely feels like a real word because I've heard it many times in Scholagladiatoria and Metatron videos.
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  841. I think many jellyfishes might be also poisonous (that is you get poisoned if you eat them). I think many marine animals can't, in fact, eat them which gives them protection but e.g. sea turtles may be immune to their poison. However, I'm not a biologist or anything so don't trust me on this one.
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  842.  @BadBomb555  I think Bulgaria also participated in the occupation of Greece.
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  843. I'd like to point out that historical city-states in e.g. ancient Greece were not like Singapore. They were small and centered around a single major settlement but most people still lived in rural areas. Singapore, however, is just the city and nothing more. Basically everyone lives in the urban area which also covers most of the country's land.
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  844.  @Magmafrost13 : Ah, so a bit like that "except the Mongols" thing.
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  845.  @ChicoTheMutant  But do they have equipment to use dirt like that?
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  846.  @mrobocop1666  Do you have a source for that claim? Based on a short search the city's name in Old East Slavic was something like Киевъ, Кꙑевъ, or Кꙑѥвъ which is (slightly) different from both the modern Ukrainian and Russian names (Київ and Киев respectively). Also, differences between languages are usually just natural divergent evolution and this applies to names as well. It seems unlikely that it's "just for the sake of being different from Russian". Similarly, e.g. the Russian city of Belgorod is called Bilhorod in Ukrainian and that isn't "just for the sake of being different".
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  847.  @werefrogofassyria6609  "That one at least was based on the rule that the government cannot force you to lose your property." I don't see that as a mitigating factor when the property in question was a human being. Also, that ruling affected far more people than the one in this video. While it's obviously bad too calling it the worst is an exaggeration IMHO.
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  848. Git gud!
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  849. "misused development" Was that a typo? Should that be "mixed use development" instead?
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  850. "and I can't think of many good places in Europe for massive solar arrays other than Spain" Rooftop solar is probably better.
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  851.  @gregb6469  "Most Europeans think more like subjects and serfs than they do like free citizens." I don't agree with that at all. It's quite common for people to e.g. have strong (and varying) political opinions as you might expect "free citizens" to have. Most don't think of themselves as "subjects" or behave like "serfs".
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  852. I don't think his description is that far off the mark. The February Manifesto (of 1899) effectively abolished Finland's autonomy. I think Finland could still have separate laws but those would be passed entirely by the Russian government. Finland's Diet would be reduced to a mere advisory role without any actual say in the content of any laws.
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  853. One could make jokes about how the Turkish flag has a waning crescent moon on it.
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  854.  @jeremytaylor3532  The Chunnel might have been more difficult to build but on the other hand it connects larger populations.
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  855.  @Wqube  "if a stock is worth $10 and someone "sells" 80% of the stocks on the market, the value is going down" So what? The point (or one of the points) of the stock market is price discovery. If someone thinks a stock is undervalued they can buy it and if they think it's overvalued they can sell it. That's how market price is formed. There shouldn't be a reason to prevent selling just to protect anyone who owns a share. (And 80% of stock being shorted doesn't necessarily mean a drop of 60% or any other specific number; that depends on the elasticity of demand for the stock.) "If they allowed individual investors to short stocks" Individual retail investors are totally allowed to short stocks and many do it.
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  856.  @FalconFour : It's probably not measured as a percentage, because it's not quite clear what that would even mean. I just wanted to nitpick about the wording because I like nitpicking. It might be fair to say that it's economically more efficient than just a regular electric heater, but you probably can't reasonably express that as a percentage.
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  857.  @anoos0  What differentiates them (in your opinion)? Don't they still worship Allah and consider Mohammed a prophet?
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  858.  @mrobocop1666  One thing you have to consider is that it's quite common for the GDP of countries at war to rise (due to military production).
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  859.  @alexhumble7653  I don't think Russia needs to conquer a part of Ukraine to survive. However, even if that were the case it doesn't necessarily affect the logic I described. A country wishing to deter invasions by being "irrationally" stubborn in resistance probably has to do it against any invader to be credible, including invaders who wouldn't be deterred by cost.
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  860. They still call themselves "Sannfinländarna" in Swedish which literally means "True Finns".
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  861. In many countries where the president is mostly a figurehead the president is chosen by the parliament. Germany is another example.
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  862. And similar admiration to Greece from Finland (because of the Greco-Italian War).
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  863.  @TacticalSnapBack  "I dont know the numbers in India but if they are pricing at that rate it means someone is buying it." Well, someone would buy it even if the price were too high. But I doubt the high price for India can be a profit-maximizing price.
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  864.  @AshleyPomeroy  I've been told that the most democratic such country is the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste.
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  865. I don't think that can be agreed on because it doesn't make sense for the name to include "sylvania" while the islands have no forests.
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  866.  @Joshlama  "Mogadishu actually looks like a nice city to be in" Apparently it has the nickname "Pearl of the Indian Ocean".
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  867.  @andyknightwarden9746 : "The man who complained of his neighboring countries that they hadn't read Marx?" I've not heard of that before. Do you have a source because otherwise, I remain sceptical. Hitler is usually described as denouncing (Jewish) Marxism.
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  868.  @evryatis9231  "it means no one will say anything when it happens either" Don't be so sure. In one poll mentioned in one of Perun's videos says that most Belarusians estimate that the Belarusian army would just surrender if sent to Ukraine. That does not bode well for using the Belarusian army in Ukraine.
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  869.  @unsgus925  "The Croatian war is called Croatian war of independence. It was agression on Croatia, not civil war." That's just false. It was definitely a civil war. The Republic of Croatia fought against the self-declared Republic of Serbian Krajina which was made up of Serb population from the territory of Croatia. That clearly makes a civil war (any involvement from e.g. Republika Srpska notwithstanding).
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  870.  @carlsmith8176  A bit over a century ago, Argentina was one of the richest countries in the world.
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  871. I'd say some white people employed by the Nauru Phosphate Royalties Trust (e.g. Duke Minks) are partially to blame for the bad investments. Of course, I'm only blaming these particular individuals, not any other white people.
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  872. Putin doesn't care if ordinary Russians are plunged into destitution. His grand designs are more important to him so to him the sacrifice is worth it.
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  873. They can still e.g. exchange those Euros for, say, Yuans in China and buy imports from China (and the Chinese are able to spend or exchange their Euros). Fear of secondary sanctions may prevent some trade with China but not all of it.
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  874. The Europeans aren't isolated. Firstly, the lack of a trade deal doesn't mean that trade can't happen. Deals just make trade easier. Secondly, the relative lack of natural resources doesn't have much to do this. Resource exporters are generally happy to sell to Europeans even without a trade deal being agreed (with some exceptions like Russia).
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  875.  @PhilMccamley  It's fair to want more free time but then you also have to accept a more thrifty lifestyle. You can't have it both ways.
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  876. It might be fun if a campaign to avoid that particular town gained traction. They could suddenly face a liquidity crisis. Of course, if a route with no practical alternatives goes through there then it might not be feasible.
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  877. The phlogiston theory is rather old fashioned. I think this newfangled caloric theory is more credible.
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  878.  @A-A_P : So the stress isn't always on the first syllable in Estonian?
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  879. It's relative.
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  880. Win some, lose some.
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  881.  @CSpottsGaming  How much is that a help in practice? A train has to make frequent stops all along the way so that every part of the city is reachable. The average speeds are probably not that high and the stops mean that hopping from one vehicle to another doesn't add that much additional time.
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  882. I wonder if it would make sense for Poland to introduce conscription.
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  883.  @denecroxford2475  "Kosovo, as well as Albania, have majority Moslem" And Bosnia as well.
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  884.  @tomw0815  It's not a stupid question.
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  885.  @edusc6893  Give me a break. Next you'll be telling us that you're Estonian as well.
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  886.  @gukow1  It seems unlikely that this could drive the Baltic countries into a debt trap because most of the funding comes from the EU.
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  887.  @fadyazmy5686  I don't think evaporation is that big of an issue. Ethiopia is less hot and more humid than Egypt which limits evaporation. In this regard the Aswan Dam and its reservoir (Lake Nasser) are clearly worse.
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  888.  @kw2142  Maybe he's being really nitpicky and means that at the time the formal name would have been "European Economic Community".
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  889.  @RE-ec7iz  I don't think conscription makes sense for the US. Conscription is an effective policy for countries that are at risk of a major invasion from a land neighbor (or want themselves carry out such invasion) because it's a cheap method for creating a large mass of reserves for such a war. That doesn't apply to the US. Strategically, the US almost like an island. Its military is mostly an expeditionary force and doesn't really have a use for a large mass of reservists than conscription can generate.
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  890.  @fransthefox9682 : Zweihänders have smaller pommels.
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  891. Rich people in the US generally didn't get rich by buying previously government owned assets for less than they were worth.
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  892.  @4tech404  Or it may be due to bakeries paying more for gas or electricity.
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  893.  @GaryNumeroUno  Aircraft were pretty new so I'm not sure how many AA guns ships would have. Also, Zeppelins could fly high enough that AA shells and early war aircraft couldn't reach them.
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  894. In Japan, the railway gauge is the rather narrow 1,067 mm. However, the Shinkansen uses the wider standard gauge of 1,435 mm. In Britain the 1,435 mm standard gauge is what's in use so possible high speed routes shouldn't need separate tracks just to get a wider gauge (though there can possibly be other reasons).
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  895.  @Firebert79TA  But I see no evidence that they have ignored such factor. How do you know that they haven't calculated how far that thing can be scaled? Secondly, the scaling issue here isn't as bad as you make it out to be. For a given launch speed a larger device would need a lower rpm and thus can scale up the payload linearly without increasing the centrifugal force caused by the payload.
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  896. But there's a big difference in that SBF actually did make money with arbitrage whereas Charles Ponzi never got around to even properly trying his proposed scheme.
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  897. Also, naphtha shouldn't be confused with naphthalene which is the main component of traditional mothballs.
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  898. But the Three Kingdoms Period wasn't a single war.
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  899.  @MSDGroup-ez6zk  "The majority of [...] commercial jets [...] are using petrol." Really? I thought jets used (aviation) kerosene, not petrol.
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  900. It's not obvious that small size would help. Singapore is an unusual case because it's basically entirely urban whereas Denmark is a more normal country with both urban and rural areas. How would small size help Denmark relative to, say, Spain? Would Spain be richer if it were divided into countries the size of Denmark?
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  901. How is France ignoring EU law? The migrants aren't French nor EU citizens and thus not subject to freedom of movement.
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  902. Besides Finland, the UK also helped Estonia but the UK also repulsed the Finnish Viena expedition.
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  903. Sanctioning an invading country is not unfair.
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  904.  @marshfellowman : I don't think it's a title per say. I think calling it a style would be more accurate.
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  905.  @patrickwright8552  I don't know how big the difference is but ultimately it doesn't matter very much. Even if the solar panel absorbed 100% of radiation that lands on it and the surface below it would've reflected 100%, that still is a much smaller effect than the radiative effect from greenhouse emissions.
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  906.  @ToomanyFrancis  I think it would be unfair to just assume that.
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  907. 6:56 Wouldn't it be more efficient to arrange those circles in a hexagonal lattice rather than a square lattice? There would be less unirrigated space between them.
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  908.  @AL-lh2ht  "living on a island is expensive, no getting around that." A part of that expense is artificially created by legislation. Repealing the Jones Act wouldn't do away with all of the extra expense but it would eliminate a portion of it.
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  909. Though I'd imagine they'd be transported without the fuses.
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  910. Title says: "Bakhmut Encircled". Is there any evidence of this? Seems made up. You wrote "Russia Encircles Bakhmut" 2 months ago in the title of another video but that also seemed at the very least quite premature.
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  911. What were Thomas' disagreements?
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  912.  @jeffreyadams648  It's not. An often used definition is 50% monthly inflation which is equal to about 12,875% annual inflation. That's still very roughly something like 100x more than Turkey currently has.
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  913.  @BLUERAY1611  It's with Ukraine. It was Russia that invaded, not Ukraine (the recent Kursk incursion notwithstanding).
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  914. At least in 2008 Russia didn't march into Tbilisi. This is so much worse.
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  915. Don't worry. They're merely being filmed.
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  916. The North Korean infiltrators was a weak excuse.
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  917. One possibility is that Bottomfeeder just isn't very smart.
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  918.  @PerfectJasmin  Farmers do have a lot of influence in many European countries (France being a prime example) and the EU itself. A huge chunk of the EU budget goes to agricultural subsidies.
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  919.  @robertfaler1947  If I google the populations it would seem that Indonesia without Java would have a population of about 128.5 million which is less than Java (and also less than Russia and only slightly more than Mexico).
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  920. "please don’t cross borders illegally" The fact that a lot of people try despite all the negatives suggests that staying put is even worse (and trying the nigh impossible legal route essentially amounts to staying put).
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  921. It's not the "only real important question". If the savings are larger than the cost of the rotor sails it makes sense to put them on ships even if the effect weren't huge.
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  922.  @NotJustBikes  One would think that, if they just continuously borrow more and more, at some point even just servicing their debt becomes unviable.
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  923. "Once you get there, you could used them for short haul flights as well." Not necessarily. Batteries have a much better round-trip efficiency.
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  924.  @DragonBlueSpirit  "The very mountainous landscape isn't really ideal for biking either." Presumably e-bikes should still work well.
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  925. I'm just guessing here, but I think English might have more synonyms than average. Many words have both a native Germanic version (like "freedom") and a borrowed Romance one (like "liberty") due to the influence of Norman French.
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  926.  @Fierydice  The people who pay him are sponsors who pay him to feature their products in his video. In addition, he gets money from YouTube ads. He isn't directly paid to make certain kinds of videos (outside the sponsor segments). Of course he faces incentives to make videos that are popular (and not sponsor-unfriendly) but that's not the same as being paid to make specific kinds of videos. Also, I don't see how you can call this gaslighting. You can check the data yourself. None of the doomers in this comment section seem to be able to point to any source for their claims.
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  927. @Elivinture "If you want to see the contrast, just know that the danish mainland is the second happiest country on earth while danish overseas territories Greenland has the highest suicide rate in the world." That's not really a contrast. As unintuitive as it might be, population happiness and suicide rates have a positive correlation.
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  928. The Netherlands probably isn't the only country that does it well. Also, those planners probably don't have unlimited slack in how they can design.
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  929. 0:40 A mockery of a documentary? Could it be called...a mockumentary?
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  930. Wendower tends to focus on economically viable planes.
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  931. Before this comment I didn't realize that the computer game and the anime set in the universe the original Cyberpunk tabletop RPG. Previously, I thought they were called that because they fall into the wider cyberpunk genre.
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  932. The previous king appeared to be more dignified.
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  933. From what I've heard, these girls aren't usually super poor anything. They aren't doing it because they need it to get by. They're doing it so they have enough money to treat their favorite host.
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  934. The Finnish Center Party isn't Liberal. They're socially more conservative that the main center-right party (National Coalition) and they also favor the state more actively managing the economy.
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  935. What a mess.
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  936. That's not true at all. At least the rich European countries like Germany have higher productivity levels than all of those (except GCC). Especially China and India are still poorer though they have progressed a lot.
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  937.  @s9ka972  Even Spain and Italy are ahead of the Asian countries you mentioned and the UK is only slightly behind Singapore. The GCC countries might be ahead but oil is a big part of that.
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  938.  @kuhndj67 : Though it should be said that in many places planes are too cheap and even artificially cheap (not sure about Australia). Often you might not have to pay VAT or sales tax on an international flight and the kerosene for the planes might be tax free as well. Ideally plane trips should include the same taxes as another services and additionally the fuel should be taxed based on its carbon content. That might make trains more economically viable in comparison.
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  939. @Pq-A-Bu "Are we all suppose to get on a plane..." For the climate it would be better if people didn't.
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  940. One major factor you failed to mention is that the anti-immigration party PS is currently in the government.
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  941.  @geoffpriestley7001  Don't they get wet constantly?
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  942.  @michaelsommers2356  "Anyone who says there are no disincentives to driving in Manhattan has never driven in Manhattan." Clearly there not enough disincentives currently. Also, consider that the current disincentives simply destroy value; the time lost to sitting in slow traffic isn't gained by anyone else. Congestion charges would at least only move value from one pocket to another instead of destroying it.
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  943.  @broadestsmiler  In principle, the Article 42 of the Lisbon Treaty does provide for collective defense, though it's weaker than the Article 5 of the NATO Charter.
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  944. I don't agree. The lost revenue from vacancy should already provide the appropriate level of incentive for the landlord to find a tenant. Also, I suspect that landlord often would be willing to convert to residential if they think they can earn more that way. However, zoning may not allow that. It might be enough to just change zoning such that it allows for such buildings to be used both for commercial and residential uses.
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  945.  @cliveso  "can be gamed by splitting up big loans into smaller ones" But this was more difficult (though perhaps not impossible) to do in the days of yore when you (mostly) didn't have legal persons like corporations and all debt was from people to other people. Yes, it's possible to launder the debts through multiple people but that's not simple to do on a large scale and it would need to be done pre-emptively before the death/bankruptcy.
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  946. I'd generally favor Bayesian statistical over frequentist analysis (which was described in this video). I think Bayes factors tell more than p-values, though I guess it would be best to give both if possible. Calculating Bayes factors might be more difficult, though.
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  947.  @IronymousYT  "England needs a Reconquista." What specifically would that entail?
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  948.  Brad Kuloa  Electronic voting is a bad idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkH2r-sNjQs
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  949.  @tengrici431  It wasn't the aggressor in 2020. At least that time it was Azerbaijan that (re)started the conflict.
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  950.  @cauwenberghsroeland8607  "All Taiwanese are Han." That's most certainly not true. Taiwan still has a minority of about 600k Austronesians. Today, they only make up about 3% of the population but they shouldn't be forgotten.
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  951.  @samsonsoturian6013  Wikipedia says he was born in Boston, Massachusets and grew up in Dublin, Ireland.
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  952.  @DarthTrader707  It seems you didn't understand what I wrote. None of what you wrote about TQQQ contradicts what I wrote. "Since inception, TQQQ is up 147 times vs 8 times for the QQQ." Like I wrote, a hypothetical 3x leveraged ETF that is continuously rebalanced and suffers no volatility drag would raise the returns to a power of 3 (ignoring fees etc.). So in this case such ideal version would provide 8^3=512 returns. TQQQ will inevitably lag behind this ideal performance (in this case providing "only" 147 times returns) due to volatility drag. It can still greatly outperform the index if the volatility drag isn't too great.
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  953. Does Skillshare have a course on how to play the fiddle?
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  954. 34:00 Well, Putin seems to be intent on dictating terms to Ukraine so it doesn't seem he's practising what he's preaching here.
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  955.  @ixlnxs  At least his surname is Finnish.
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  956. I've heard that there were still some problems. E.g. the police of one country had no authority in the other. Supposedly there was a corrupt bank that was laundering money etc. and the police found it difficult to do anything about it because the entrance to the bank was in one country and e.g. the vault in another and thus a raid from either country's police would end up overstepping their authority (until they managed to arrange a joint raid). I'm not 100% if this is true but I've often seen this story mentioned.
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  957. "finland wants to be more self sufficient and less reliant on russian gas" Finland isn't very reliant on Russian gas because gas isn't used that much in Finland. The energy reliance on Russia comes from direct electricity imports, oil imports, and to some extent coal imports, not gas.
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  958. Mars already has two poles...
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  959.  @Phil-zx5yc  "Basically Tigrayan's must [...] rule Ethiopia with an iron fist." That sounds rather bad for the rest of Ethiopia.
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  960. The people in the former Yugoslavia (and in the Netherlands) are among the tallest in Europe.
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  961.  @Batmans_Pet_Goldfish  "it's all predicated on people choosing to use public transportation instead of just paying the fee" If the fee is high enough, people will certainly avoid driving one way or another.
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  962.  @abdullahshah9397 : I think the word "Arab" isn't used here strictly as a genetic grouping. Egypt (or a majority of them) speak Arabic and the culture has been at least partially arabized due to the Muslim conquest of Egypt in the 7th century which I'm sure involved at least some influx of Arab population.
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  963.  @nukeout  "yeah they did" Source please? I've only seen news mentioning that planes on lease to Russian airlines were stolen by Russia, not those of foreign airlines. "no foreign airlines are not[sic] flying to Russia as a result" I'm pretty sure e.g. Turkish airlines are flying to Russia. As for Western airlines, they're banned from Russian airspace so they can't take their chances even if they wanted to.
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  964. Before seeing this video, I had no idea how ill-conceived Argentina's current economic policies are.
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  965.  @sharadshrestha3144  Kazakhstan is about 74% larger than Mongolia.
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  966. 1:03:40 Zelensky's native language is Russian, not Ukrainian. Did you expect Zelensky to speak Ukrainian in this conversation with Xi? Based on some short googling, Zelensky somewhat struggles to speak in Ukrainian (though I'm assuming he can still mostly understand it with little trouble). If that's true it would certainly make more sense for him to speak Russian to Xi. Even if the info I found is wrong and he's fluent in Ukrainian, using his native language is still probably easier for him (and easier for the Chinese to find interpreters for).
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  967. I've wondered why I've not heard of Moldova applying for EU membership even though Romania has been a member for a while now.
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  968. You could argue that Austria should be counted as a part of Eastern Europe since its native name literally means "Eastern Realm".
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  969. @@SchizzieMaj But on much smaller scale. The US PMC's aren't supposed to be used as actual combat troops but only as bodyguards etc. (though this job can still lead to combat if an attack happens).
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  970.  @dannyzero692  Fragmenting your military is a brilliant strategy for an autocrat. The military is the force in the country with the strongest capability of staging a coup and replacing the autocrat. To avoid that it's imperative to a) keep the military weak and b) fragment it into competing factions (because even a weak military still has strong potential for coups if unified and under the control of a single individual).
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  971. It's a German version of "Njet Molotoff" (presumably by Karl Sternau), not "Säkkijärven polkka".
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  972. Greenland left the EU in 1985. (Technically, it wasn't the EU back then but you know what I mean.)
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  973.  @BChandl13  "No it doesn't make sense. You are taxing the recipient of the goods when they aren't receiving cash" It does make sense. There is no rule that only cash and not other benefits should be taxed. "Company cars used for business purposes are not taxed in the states." But if the employee or their family can use it for other purposes too then it is a taxable fringe benefit.
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  974. Men's fashion regressed considerably when the bourgeoise overtook the aristocrats.
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  975. 2:49 "The Iraqis dropped chemical and biological weapons on their villages." Biological? I did not know that.
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  976.  @justanoman6497  I'm sure some hedge funds actually use hedging strategies, though maybe not Melvin or Citron. Also, 140% wasn't the short position of a single fund.
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  977. Don't tell me that you also only have $12 billion to your name.
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  978. Wind turbines are just propellers in reverse!
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  979. 0:08 "tolls he extracted on ships passing through the Sound dues" Isn't that a bit redundant? I think you meant "tolls/dues he extracted on ships passing through the Sound (a.k.a. Öresund/Øresund)".
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  980. "And please, stop using UK and Europe in the same sentence, I know that geographically they are still located in Europe but they are no longer part of Europe." That doesn't make sense. He said "Europe", not "the EU". These are not the same thing.
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  981.  @2639theboss  It could be backed by a basket of national currencies similar to Special Drawing Rights.
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  982.  @korayven9255  "isn't that literally just 'make the renminbi the BRICS international currency' with extra steps?" Not necessarily. Even though China's economy is by far the largest in the BRICS the currency basket composition doesn't necessarily have to (fully) reflect that. It's a political decision to how to weigh the different currencies. (That said, I'm still not trying to predict how likely this is to come about.)
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  983. "Usually the EU doesn't like to inherit border disputes/internal crises." What do you mean "usually"? What's your dataset? Is there a precedent where a country who would have otherwise been able to join wasn't due to a border dispute? I think you're just mistaken here. Ireland and the UK were also able to join despite Ireland claiming a part of UK territory.
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  984. Nah, they clearly belong to Portugal as per the Treaty of Tordesillas.
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  985.  @LineShot-d2h  "they will do their best to make you join NATO" No, they most definitely won't.
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  986.  @valerieflores3165  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Republican_Army
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  987. They said it's $400 per day which would come to about $146,000 per year. If we assume that the shipping company expects a 10% return on investments these sails could cost $1,460,000 and still make financial sense. Of course, there are complications because the sails don't last forever, because there probably are some maintenance costs, and because ships don't sail every single day of the year. On the other hand, these things probably don't cost quite that much.
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  988.  @---cr8nw  I think grease pencils were used at least by the Soviets at some point but the markings aren't as durable as ink from a ballpoint pen.
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  989. It's not necessarily clear that UN missions facing severe difficulties are necessarily useless. It might that without them the situation would be even worse. We can't directly observe what the result would be if they were not sent so it might not be obvious that sending the mission was a wrong decision to make. Even if the outcome doesn't appear good the alternative might be worse.
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  990. "the other side bails it out by printing more money" No, the FDIC doesn't print money. There's a compulsory fee (so essentially a tax) that banks have to pay to the FDIC. Thus the bailouts are funded through a type of tax, not money printing.
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  991. If Russia doesn't accept democracy it will find itself at war with itself.
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  992. The Dublin whiskey fire of 1875.
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  993. 16:15 I'm not sure that's quite the case. Isn't Marge speaking in a creaky rather than a breathy voice which is kind of the opposite?
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  994.  @paulherzog9605  Should the US be split up then?
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  995.  @14s0cc3r14 : "basically all legalese is just latin" With some exceptions like "dire voir".
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  996.  @MrGksarathy  Sorry, I read the century part wrong.
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  997. Napoleon and Hitler attacked during the summer. In fact, for Napoleon's forces, the stifling heat of the summer was a major problem.
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  998. As a minor nitpick, that business relationship is public knowledge and not merely alleged. That this relationship might be connected to the decision to not allow GME buy orders is what's merely alleged at this point.
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  999. I think a (slight) majority of the world's languages lack gender-specific pronouns.
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  1000. Russia likely won't be a significant military threat to these countries for at least a few years since Russia's military power will be temporarily depleted due to attrition in Ukraine.
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  1001. Most likely: North Macedonia (but this is just an uneducated guess)
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  1002.  @CedarHunt  Where would they all go? What country would receive them?
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  1003. That's good to hear.
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  1004.  @RadicalforGod  That "CNBC" in the comments is a fake account for spamming. Ignore it.
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  1005.  @suzygirl1843  South America has already broken away from Europe long ago (except for French Guyana and some islands).
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  1006.  @hisredrighthand5212  It was reinstated after WWII under the Bretton Woods Agreement before Nixon took the US off it again.
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  1007.  @NASSSSSER  You're the one making this (IMHO very overblown) claim of the US losing $7.5 trillion. If you want to argue for it, you should explain why or how the US would lose that much. That said, I can point to an academic paper which looks at the benefits (e.g. international seigniorage) the dollar's international role grants to the US. The result is that the benefits, while real, are fairly small compared to the size of the US economy. The paper is "Does the US dollar confer an exorbitant privilege?" by Robert N. McCauley.
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  1008.  @NASSSSSER  "you should have asked how instead of refuting the claim without knowledge!" But I didn't do that without knowledge. Even if I didn't know your precise argument, I did already know that the benefit of the dollar's role on the US is much smaller than $7.5 trillion as detailed in the paper I cited in my previous comment. "they must pay with dollar currency, which forces all countries to keep huge amounts of dollar reserves" No, it doesn't. One of the advantages of the dollar is that it's very liquid. You can easily exchange other currencies for the dollar if you need to use dollars for payment. The reason why many central banks and other institutions hold dollar denominated reserves is completely different. And in any case, for most countries there isn't going to be a big change. The Saudis aren't going to want to receive their payment in e.g. Indian Rupees so most countries are still going to pay in dollars. And even if the dollar lost its reserve status, the lost benefit to the US isn't all that big as detailed in the paper I cited.
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  1009.  @george_m641  At least the current government in Hungary clearly does care about Hungarians in other countries. They have e.g. given them voting rights in Hungarian elections. Also, many nationalists in Hungary don't like the fact that the areas that these Hungarians live in had to be given to Hungary's neighbors as per the Treaty of Trianon. "I care only about Ukrainian citizens" That's one possible attitude to have but not all people are like you. Some may care less about citizenship and more about ethnicity or historical claims to certain lands.
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  1010.  @BocaoZ  They gave $400 million worth of aid back in 2019 so clearly there's at least some willingness to spend money. Now it might be too late for further aid, though.
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  1011. Haha!
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  1012.  @monad_tcp  Depends on whether you count contributing to global warming as a pollutant effect. But, in any case, this scandal wasn't about that.
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  1013.  @seabass8154  "All of there gains from the last 10 years before the crash would have been wiped out." Even this is a smaller loss than investing in Madoff's fund would be. If you invested for 20 years (say in S&P 500) your returns would have been positive regardless of what the precise period would have been. E.g. the 2008 crash and/or the dotcom crash are not enough to make the total return negative for that long investment period. If you invested in Madoff's fund for 20 years you'd be looking at a loss (assuming you didn't pull out early enough).
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  1014.  @Jay-ho9io  I personally don't. To me, the bare concrete surface looks both boring and kind of "dirty". IMHO the surface should be at least painted. I googled the college you mentioned and I indeed didn't like how the surface looked even though the shape of the building was interesting. But everyone has a different taste.
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  1015. "But damn, he was so reliable, effective [...] A genious and a legend." Though he goofed pretty badly in ship design.
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  1016.  @moartems5076  "So US&A garbage food vs european quality food." Both kinds of nougat are unhealthy (due to high sugar content).
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  1017. "The tendency in monopoly is that over time because of the lack of competition, it breeds a level of complacency, charging more for a worse quality of service for example. The majority community faces a problem in that they become economically tied to the minority community which makes it difficult for some new competitors, whether majority or another minority group, from undermining an eventually cancerous economic monopoly through economic practices." That doesn't sound likely. If they start charging more or selling worse quality products or services then it should again be easier to compete with them. Also, the minority presumably doesn't function as a single company but different shops would still compete with each other.
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  1018. To be fair, Tesla only states they're not going to pay dividends "for the foreseeable future". Theoretically, a company retaining all its profits for more investment might be able to pay for dividends (or stock buybacks) far in the future that are big enough to warrant the current valuation. This is just a general comment, however. I'm not arguing about what would be a fair present-day valuation for Tesla specifically.
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  1019.  @darkyada71  In Finland there are no binding referenda. The parliament can amend the consitution on its own. That either requires that the amendment is first passed by a simple majority and then by the next parliament after the next election by a 2/3 majority, or alternatively it can be passed by the same parliament without waiting for the next election but that requires a 5/6 majority. Thus any referendum would be non-binding and even those are uncommon. So far, Finland has only ever had two nationwide referenda: in 1931 on ending the prohibition & in 1994 on joining the EU. Actually, I don't even think the Finnish constitution has anything that would prevent a NATO membership without an amendment but even if it did a referendum wouldn't be a constitutional requirement (thought it's possible that the politicians might still want to have one).
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  1020.  @TsarOfRuss  "Rich people like that don't use 1 of anything, they use a team of it" I want to become rich and get a team of wives.
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  1021.  @m3photo726  All descriptions I've seen is that they had two plants for producing mechanical pulp but I've not seen any description of them conducting logging themselves.
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  1022.  @5DChess3  Did Credit Suisse lose in those squeezes? I've not heard of that before nor did I manage to find info on that. Do you have a source for your claim?
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  1023.  @mzaite  A lot of people go on holidays with a plane (well, maybe not during a pandemic, but you know what I mean) so clearly they want to travel. Also, a lot of them don't want to pay for business or first class so clearly the extra comfort isn't worth the cost for them.
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  1024. Apparently the oldest know joke, which happens to be Sumerian, goes "Something which has never occurred since time immemorial; a young woman did not fart in her husband's lap".
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  1025.  @Hypernefelos  "I bet there were more lead sling bullets with inscriptions on them than without any." I'm a bit skeptical. The amount of sling bullets consumed in war was likely quite high so I think inscribing more than half of them would be excessively laborious. However, the absolute number of sling bullets with inscriptions is probably still high.
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  1026.  @jivkuu  "DNA studies completely reject the Turkic theory regarding the "Bulgars" origin" Can you give a reference to such study?
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  1027.  @sadeceliff  "as long as you do not meet Turkey's expectations" Do the other candidates have the same expectations as Erdogan?
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  1028.  @stormcloaks1042  Isn't he behind in the polls? Ignoring Sweden's and Finland's NATO bids, I would personally hope that Erdogan loses, mainly because of his stupid monetary policy. He's stubbornly persisting in doing exactly the opposite of what a clear majority of economists agree is the right course of action during high inflation. This kind of stubbornness and arrogance in the face of expert opinion does not paint the picture of a rational decision maker. This is causing unnecessary damage to Turkey's economy.
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  1029.  @sadeceliff  Remember that this Koran burning was done by a Danish politician.
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  1030. "Doesnt mean they know squat about finance and the stock market." On the other hand, at least Graham Stephan's investment advice seems to basically be "dollar cost average into low-cost index funds". I'd say it's good advice (though giving it doesn't require deep knowledge).
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  1031. Both sides in this war are going to give overly optimistic numbers. There's no reason to trust either side's numbers.
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  1032.  @johnnafarrell3336  No, I did not. I typed it in the reply box. Well, I did copy-paste the part of the comment by OP (Jim Craig) that I quoted but the reply part was typed, not copy-pasted.
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  1033. Moral bankruptcy wasn't uncommon back then.
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  1034. Road dimensions don't (often) matter for offshore wind. Ships can be very big.
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  1035.  @neznamtija8081  What's the criterion for counting as white? Also, not every non-white is automatically PoC, e.g. east Asians.
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  1036. There must have been some kind of mistake. I think it's closer to 1%. Maybe they thought about an annual cost when the total amount is spread over several decades.
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  1037. Similar to the siege of Przemyśl in WWI.
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  1038. "Free market competition makes no sense when each country has only 1 grid..." I disagree. Competition in electricity generation still makes sense. Electricity distribution is a different thing.
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  1039. We really should be able to talk to people in stores via IRC.
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  1040. Trees don't store the CO₂ forever. They will eventually die and rot unless you preserve them somehow.
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  1041. Is that the reason for your username?
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  1042. "Because of that TC's claim for Taksim for the whole island, not just for the northern part." The word "taksim" means "division" or "partition". What would mean to claim partition or division for the whole island?
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  1043. There are thousands of banks in the US. That a few didn't see it coming might not be that surprising.
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  1044. Europe is much closer than that to Ethiopia.
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  1045. Gas is like 6% of the energy used in Finland on average. Losing it would not be catastrophic. Germany and Italy are in a much worse position when it comes to gas.
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  1046. "I rather be stuck in traffic then having to worry about being robbed at night." What? A street is going to rob you (whereas a highway isn't)? That's a total non-sequitur.
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  1047. Europe has seen much less war than in the past. Also, this video was more about things like civil unrest rather than interstate war started deliberately by politicians.
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  1048.  @geneticengineer9691  "They show YPGs crap flags" Shouldn't they show the YPG flag when talking about YPG?
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  1049. Napoléon also destroyed his own army in Russia by marching.
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  1050.  @cliffsousa4184 : "They are also the ones who shorted MBS during 2008 recession." But this isn't actually harmful.
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  1051. One thing to add is that a declining population at least makes dealing with climate change a little bit easier.
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  1052. Worker co-op or consumer co-op?
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  1053. "if she was a man, she would've been fired many times over earlier" I'm pretty sure that's not the case. Her scandals have been pretty minor.
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  1054.  @attepietarila9950  Stubb lost to a leadership challenge inside his own party and that had nothing to do with wearing shorts. Also, by that time he wasn't the prime minister anyway but rather the finance minister.
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  1055.  @attepietarila9950  I don't think that scandal really had any effect on him.
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  1056. All the jurors in a jury of one's peers should have a peerage.
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  1057. "I don't think Cade was claiming that he was interested mainly because the blog had covered Coronavirus early [...] That, at least, reflects my conversation with him." Scott's post, on the other hand, seems to indicate that Coronavirus predictions were going to be the main focus. I would guess that either a) Scott's post doesn't fully represent what Cade told him what the story was going to be about, or b) Cade told a different message to different people he contacted.
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  1058.  @antennastoheaven  Do you think he's right or wrong about this particular issue (i.e. security services having the power, not military)?
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  1059. 4:20 "only one other country, Japan, even really comes close" Yet you show China having almost the same deadweight tonnage as Japan and roughly 75% higher vessel count.
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  1060.  @James-ek3il  Japan has a primacy rate below 2. Tokyo metro area has a population of about 38 million and the Osaka metro area 20 million. I think your other examples are better ones but I think they're still not as concentrated as Thailand (even with correct figures).
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  1061.  @truthmonster3290  Only after the war in Ukraine is over.
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  1062.  @truthmonster3290  I don't see an answer.
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  1063. Cyprus would likely veto Turkey's accession as long as there is no solution.
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  1064. If Serbia joins the EU some day then Serbia and Greece would be in the same union.
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  1065. "At a kilometer per year, I expect Musk's tunnel to reach Los Angeles in about the year 2450." But he can start drilling from both ends so it can be finished in half the time!
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  1066.  @auth.enticProd  Why did they name that game after a fish?
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  1067.  @retiredrebel  At what point in history was the house of Windsor (previously known as the house of Sachsen-Coburg and Gotha) pirates?
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  1068.  @hayven3494  "he wanted Belarus to be free and not become part of Russia" It's more like that he wanted for Belarus to become a part of Russia but only with himself as the leader of Russia. Since Putin was able to get a firm grip on power in Russia he no longer wanted a union state.
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  1069. It's not very inclusive. Maybe he should change it to "Я россиянин".
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  1070.  @KubiIay  "There’s no buffer anymore for Russia and anything to stop EU from reaching Moskou." Hyperbole much? EU countries invading Russia is an extremely unlikely scenario.
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  1071. I wonder how people has he seen being tackled by bailiffs.
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  1072. "Petroskoi" Just to clarify and avoid confusion, this city is known as Petrozavodsk in English (and in Russian but with Cyrillic alphabet).
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  1073.  @LV-426...  I think he's talking about the one over (and under) Öresund which includes both a bridge and a tunnel section (though the bridge section seems much more famous).
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  1074. E.g. the Kingdom of Bakongo. There may have been others as well but that's the one I know about.
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  1075.  @abdiganiaden  Gaelic is not closely related to English at all.
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  1076. Though it would have been rather unlikely to succeed.
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  1077. "And people still think the average citizen has rights." The guy won his appeal, didn't he?
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  1078. "why would central banks even hold that much FOREX reserve if not to use them" One possible reason is that they have in the past intervened to devalue their currency which leads to accumulation of forex reserves. In that case, forex reserves aren't so much a goal as a byproduct of the policy.
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  1079.  @coraliemoller3896  With Austria you could have 9 more states to bicker with!
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  1080. But the Russians don't have the same kind of supply problems they had in Kherson, at least not at the moment.
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  1081.  @isomz638  "If you can afford a computer you're well above their average wage." Yes, but this only reduces the income gap. It doesn't eliminate, let alone reverse it. If you just look at the population above the "can afford a computer" cutoff, that population in India is still less well of than that population in the US, even though the gap is probably smaller than for the entire populations in those countries. I still don't see how a higher price in India makes business sense. "Also there are a BILLION people living there." A larger population shouldn't make the profit-maximizing price to be higher.
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  1082. The point is that at Shengen borders they don't (normally) even check your ID card. You're still technically required to have some kind of travel documents like a passport or an ID card but you don't need to show it to anyone at the border (except that there can be some random checks and countries can temporarily reinstate checks like mentioned in this video). When entering the UK from Schengen you probably have to show your documents every time even though a mere ID card is accepted.
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  1083. "Hopefully Russia takes Ukrainian fuck nato" How are those things connected? Ukraine is not in the NATO.
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  1084. Hasn't the USA done pretty well for itself? Using it as an example would seem to be an argument for rather than against more integration.
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  1085. I think such advancements are still pretty far in the future.
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  1086. I'm guessing such a hoist wouldn't see much use making it uneconomical.
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  1087.  @ReevansElectro  It's possible that I'm wrong but I think it's more likely there's a good reason why engineers haven't chosen to do what you're suggesting here. You asked, "Why aren't windmills designed with their own winch". I gave my answer to that (though admittedly it's somewhat of a guess since I'm not a wind turbine engineer).
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  1088. If there are more than 2 major gangs and one tries to become the government it might risk all the others ganging (haha!) up on it.
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  1089. When are we going to get impersonal computers?
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  1090. I don't think that kind of expulsion quite meets the formal requirements of the crime of genocide. It might be a war crime and/or a crime against humanity but that's not quite the same thing.
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  1091.  @stevebuckley7788  To me it seemed like the missile didn't explode in this video, though I'm not 100% certain.
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  1092.  @stevebuckley7788  It's not the size of the splash as such. I just don't see a moment where the explosion could have happened. If the explosion would have happened right on contact with water I think we could have seen the explosion itself with at least some smoke included. You could try to argue that the explosion happened a bit later when the missile was already below the water surface. However, that doesn't seem likely to me either. I think then we would have likely seen two separate splashes for impact and explosion. Also, I think the shape of the splash doesn't seem to match an underwater explosion. From what I've seen (from videos, not IRL) underwater explosions seem generate a splash straight upward, not one that splits into somewhat angled splashes. You can also see the effect of the explosion in a wider area on the surface around the splash in the center.
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  1093. I can prove that it's true. 5s × 1m/s = (5×1)m. Now we only need to prove that 5×1=1. We can do it in the following way. 5×1=(9-1-1-1-1)×1=9×1-1×1-1×1-1×1-1×1. Now by Terrence Howard's theorem 1×1=2 so 5×1=9×1-2-2-2-2=9-8=1. QED
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  1094.  @alpher8962  "Germany has enough electricity that even much of it can be exported." But electricity prices are still on the high side (and I think they were higher in Germany than other European countries to begin with). That's what better tells how much there is demand for nuclear electricity generation rather than export figures. "Nuclear power plants do not produce district heating so they would have no real positive benefit" You can make up for heating shortfalls with resistive electric heating in a pinch. Nuclear power helps with that. "it makes enormous costs" No, it doesn't. Most of the cost of nuclear energy is the capital cost of the plant. For the closed/closing German plants that cost has already been paid for so it doesn't factor into the decision of whether to continue using them.
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  1095.  @allananderson949  A citizen of an EU member (such as Ireland) is automatically an EU citizen as well.
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  1096.  @justskip4595  "where did you get the number of 180 000 strong army for Finland?" The website of the Finnish Army (Maavoimat) lists its war-time strength as 180k men. You can easily check this yourself. Of course, the Navy and the Air Force come on top of that but they'd likely wield much smaller numbers. "planned war time strength with total reserve of 870 000" I think that's just the total size of the reserve, i.e. it's the amount of people who have gone through military training and are still military age (and haven't fallen out of the reserve for some other reason). That amount of people couldn't actually called up, at least not very soon, so it's more of a paper figure.
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  1097.  @legionnaire2152 : "Greece was THE ONLY country during WWII that was occupied by three enemy armies" Germany and Austria were occupied by four enemy armies. Or did you mean that Greece was the only one occupied by exactly three armies?
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  1098.  @punishedgloyperstormtroope8098  "European immigration should be allowed" Well, should these European immigrants be allowed to own a home (before possibly getting citizenship)? I think OP's suggestion than non-citizens shouldn't be allowed to own a home is too harsh.
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  1099. 15:50 The rumor is that Wagner was founded by lieutenant colonel Dmitry Utkin, though things like these are hard to verify. Wagner is hardly the only PMC in Russia. There are many others, like defense minister Shoigu's PMC called Patriot, but for some reason Wagner has grown much bigger than any of the others.
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  1100.  @gilberthamilton9312  It's a matter of definition whether you count that but in any case the vast majority of slavery was abolished.
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  1101. "yous lost fair and square" That's very unlikely. According to the official results, Maduro got 51.20000% of the vote, the main opposition candidate got 44.20000%, and other candidates got 4.60000% in total. Why are the results so close to a tenth of a percent (and even a fifth of a percent for that matter)? It's quite unlikely that that would happen by chance. It's much more likely that these percentages don't represent a real count but rather someone has just made them up.
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  1102.  @mikecabral2420 : But Cochran in this episode actually says "planet Endor" and not merely "Endor" so he's still wrong even if the same name is used for both.
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  1103. "It has nothing to do with foregin business or foreginers live there ok." Of course it does. The law doesn't make an exception for foreigners.
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  1104. 4:00 I think Kazakhstan was hit even harder than Ukraine.
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  1105. I don't think "highly profitable" necessarily refers to profit margins.
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  1106.  @exlibrisas  Maybe Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia should institute conscription. Their combined population is higher than that of Finland (6 million vs. 5.5 million) so a large conscript reserve can have a decent impact on their defensive capability. When it comes to aircraft, I don't think it necessarily makes that much sense for them to have fighter jets (though maybe other types of aircraft can make sense). In the case of a potential invasion the jets would be too close to the frontlines to be safe. It probably makes more sense for them to receive air support from other NATO countries and more focus on infantry, artillery, etc.
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  1107. My understanding is that in France the native population also has a higher birthrate than the native populations in most other European countries, so it's not just immigrants and their descendants. Unfortunately, I don't have a proper source so I'm not 100% certain.
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  1108. I remember an economist named Scott Sumner saying that a measure of inflation that includes house prices rather than rental equivalent would be a better target for central banks. The argument was that the harm from too tight monetary policy comes mostly through unemployment and house prices matter more for employment than rents (real or imputed). This is because house prices affect how profitable it is to higher people to construct them whereas producing housing services from the existing stock of housing takes very little labor input and therefore doesn't matter for employment.
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  1109. Yes. Syracuse, New York still loses to Toyama, Aomori, and Sapporo. https://www.tripsavvy.com/the-worlds-top-snowiest-cities-4582630
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  1110.  @Robert_H.  "The Green Youth in Germany has nothing against nuclear power. The problem is, we don't have a nuclear repository solution in Germany" That's a minor issue. Temporary storage is fairly unproblematic. "renewable energies produce so much cheaper electricity in Germany than nuclear power plants that it makes no sense at all to continue to rely on them in Germany." I disagree when it comes to the existing plants in Germany. Nuclear fuel is cheap and nuclear plants are cheap to run it makes no economic sense to close them. New nuclear capacity would be expensive due to the high capital cost of nuclear plants. However, when it comes to the existing plants that's a sunk cost and therefore irrelevant. Closing the existing plants was/is a mistake.
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  1111.  @rayfinnila6079  "Independence granted on December 6, 1917" I think "granted" is a misleading word here because it sounds like it's referring to recognition of independence by Russia which happened about a month later.
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  1112.  @TheGbelcher  Perun has a nice video on the corruption in the Russian army.
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  1113. "Just makes me think most people have no idea what the market will do next" If the majority of the people knew what the market was going to do next they would have bought or sold to take advantage of that, meaning what the market was going to do has already happened and what it's going to do next is an entirely different matter.
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  1114.  @fadyazmy5686  "The case is that we already have lake nasser that has to deal with allot of evaporation" That isn't an unchangeable fact. It would be possible for Egypt to lower the water level in Lake Nasser to reduce the surface area and thus evaporation. It would be unfair to say that only Egypt has the right to use the Nile for hydropower just because it built its dams earlier. However, I think both should be able to use the Nile. "We shouldn’t be adding another massive lake that has double the surface area of nasser lake and deal with more water loss." The GERD reservoir won't be in a desert climate so the evaporation shouldn't be that big of an issue (as long as Ethiopia doesn't fill the reservoir too quickly).
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  1115. But does Morning Brew focus on rappers and rap music?
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  1116. And alfalfa.
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  1117.  @degrotemarc9359  "what do you mean "balls"." It's a metaphor for bravery/boldness.
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  1118.  @Evemeister12  Colonial possessions are a different matter.
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  1119.  @bikusmoto59  I don't think any part of the territory of those countries was annexed by an invader.
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  1120.  @Falcodrin : If you pay the balance every month it might not matter.
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  1121. Come on! Only a GuP version of Chant de l'Oignon is acceptable! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIImJiRLn_M
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  1122.  @Astro_Guy_1  My impression was that he does the narration and the unnamed friend does the research and the script but it's unclear to me which one of them does the animations and drawings.
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  1123. 10:50 "to justify the illegal invasion [of Iraq]" I have to point out that while this story of Iraqi soldiers killing babies was a fabrication Iraq had still invaded and occupied Kuwait so it's not obvious that a military response is unjustified. Also, a military response was authorized by the UN Security Council (Resolution 678) so it's not clear to me by what legal standard it would be illegal (whatever one may think of the morality of that decision).
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  1124.  @DoctorProph3t  "You’re forgetting air pressure’s influence on relative humidity" Air pressure at any given height varies far less than what's the difference in the molecular weight of H₂O to N₂ or O₂. "and that there’s also more nitrogen and oxygen gas in the air below 1000m sea level where air density is at its most packed, and you’re forgetting that most atmospheric air is N2" That doesn't change anything. A water molecule is much lighter than both N₂ and O₂ molecules. "Humid, warm air is denser per cubic inch than cold, dry air." No, it's less dense. "Ask any pilot and they’ll tell you the same thing." They won't if they know what they're talking about.
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  1125.  @Austine1452  The Mexican-American war isn't a good example because it happened before WWII. Under the current system landgrabs are supposed to be illegal. Even if Russia occupies that land, it will continue to be claimed by the Ukrainian government (whether that government is in Kyiv or in exile) and the West will continue to recognize that claim. Russian claims won't be officially recognized by any major country.
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  1126. 3:50 "Greek toga" Wast that actually a toga or was it something else like a himation (or are those the same thing)?
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  1127. The Supreme Court should send a bailiff to tackle the President.
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  1128. 3:40 "that's also true of many industries" Many of those industries are actually useful (though gold mining might not be that useful). Bitcoin doesn't seem to provide any benefit over using traditional banking and credit/debit cards for transactions.
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  1129.  @martinnavarro9547 : I think he didn't mean "pre tax" but "pre taxed" by which I think he meant that whatever you contribute has been taxed already and you don't get taxed when you withdraw.
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  1130.  @wyattroncin941  I don't know the current Russian dud rate but I think in WWI something like 1/3rd of all shells fired were duds.
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  1131.  @shaunrosenberg4568  Well, based on quick googling it would seem there are 17 million vacant homes in the US which seems a roughly similar ratio relative to the population. Granted, the US doesn't have those "ghost cities" but are they really that big part of the housing market in China. Even if they're overvalued presumably they're still cheaper than those in actually high-demand areas and some portion of them could still fill up from people migrating away from rural areas. I'm not claiming that the bearish position is wrong, merely that it doesn't seem certain that it's right.
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  1132.  @MSDGroup-ez6zk  But you weren't talking about crude oil (a.k.a. petroleum). You were talking about petrol (a.k.a. gasoline) which is refined from crude oil and is a different product from kerosene which is also refined from crude oil.
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  1133.  @katarzynalpzm0arajko-nenow32  "I don't think that the majority of cases are genetis" According to twin studies it has a high degree of heritability.
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  1134. Some nitpicking (sorry, couldn't resist): "Passive" The Finnish passive is a bit different from the English one. It always refers to an unmentioned person doing something. "Comparative case" Comparative isn't a case.
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  1135. Unlike in the elevator cable example, avoiding losses by selling early doesn't eliminate them it just unloads them to other market participants.
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  1136.  @vidarodinson5246  You have only sourced your first claim, i.e. that Copts aren't Arabs, which I don't disagree with. However, your second claim, that Copts got replaced, is unsourced and incorrect. You can check e.g. the results of the National Geographic Genographic Project. Based on it, contemporary Egyptians are genetically only about 17% Arab (or more generally, South West Asian). This goes for both Muslims and Christians. The Copts had their religion and language replaced but not their population.
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  1137. Zeihan frequently makes overdramatic predictions not supported by evidence.
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  1138.  @JcoleMc  "How does that prevent revolts ?" Because it a) provides large amounts of young men with at least a measure of economic stability so their incentives to revolt are smaller and b) does it in a way that takes away the excess free time which a factor that can also breed restlessness.
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  1139. Would be slander in India!
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  1140.  @veditz36  "& if such keywords are found the message should not be encrypted" Well, that's basically (selectively) breaking encryption.
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  1141.  @josie8641  I only said that I personally dislike this choice by Coffeezilla. Surely I'm allowed to say that. I can still understand why he makes that choice. You can rarely please everybody. I'm not even saying his videos are on the whole too uncomfortable or anything. I merely said that I would personally like them more without the really sad stuff. I personally wouldn't need to feel the sadness so viscerally to know it's there.
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  1142.  @Dong_Harvey  I think you misunderstand. I'm not saying Myhrvold's argument about solar panels makes sense. It doesn't, because the heat due to absorption is quite small compared to the radiative effect of greenhouse emissions. I was only saying that Myhrvold's point isn't wrong for the specific reason OP mentioned.
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  1143. 0:55 "do not send me any Cuban cigars" <nudge, nudge; wink, wink>
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  1144.  @PhilippBlum  "As it turns out: They don't." What do you mean they don't? Clearly, they do. That was the ECJ ruling. "QE is financing" I disagree. By that logic, any monetary policy is financing. QE is different mostly in that the central bank directly decides the amount of base money to be created rather than deciding it indirectly by deciding on a policy rate.
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  1145.  @nerobernardino88 : "There's a free Risk game on Steam." But is there a risk-free game on Steam?
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  1146. "So basically the whole “passive investing” thesis on the S&P is a lie. You’re buying a fund actively managed by people with dubious track record in fairly evaluating risk." I don't think it's a lie for a couple of reasons: 1) The only active decision is the inclusion or exclusion of a stock from an index. The relative weights of those stocks are still determined by markets. 2) You're not paying anything for that "active management" and you also avoid unnecessary trading costs associated with funds that trade very actively. 3) As long as the index is broad enough it shouldn't significantly differ from an index that's somehow a better indicator for the market overall and you're in any case well diversified. 4) Index funds following the S&P 500 might not even replicate the index fully but only sample a subset of companies. This might mean that the decisions to include companies to the index might not matter as much as they're not necessarily included the fund's portfolio, at least not very soon.
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  1147. It's the fear of the unknown.
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  1148.  @FranFerioli  "downhill" Well, I guess that's not a problem in the Netherlands. :D
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  1149. I don't see why Rust couldn't have GC as a part of it's standard library. Then you could use it if you want to but you wouldn't have to. It already has Rc (and Arc) in its standard library which is technically a form of GC. Similarly, it could also have a tracing GC in the standard library too. The only reason not to have it seems to be that it would need some effort (more than Rc) and maybe some other features have a higher priority.
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  1150. Note that there's going to be some selection bias in what kind of homeless people get interviewed for videos like this.
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  1151. Rail should be viable within densely populated regions like the coasts.
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  1152. "Israel has always established its capital as Jerusalem, and sat its government there." I don't think this is quite true. The Provisional State Council after the declaration of independence but before the first elections sat in Tel Aviv, not Jerusalem.
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  1153. 7 people could vote! That's not nothing!
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  1154.  @jeppel1972 : I'm sure we're all dying to find out the answer to that question!
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  1155. "The Jewish groups that have religious bans on work seem to only be possible with the charity of the larger majority basically paying them welfare." I think they're supported by their women working rather than by welfare.
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  1156.  @sleeptyper : In Finnish "kapasitori" is also used in addition to "kondensaattori".
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  1157.  @Itriedtobe-wq9lj  "Islands are not continents" The point is that geographically "Europe" includes more than just the continental land. That has nothing to do with politics. Similarly, e.g. Greenland is a part of North America.
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  1158.  @markdowding5737  "So?" It's a good thing if that's prevented, even with force or a threat of force, because it would be a really bad thing if that happened. Would it have been a good thing if there had also been more of an effort to stop Azerbaijan from doing what it did? Perhaps it would've been. But even considering that that wasn't done, it's good if at least Serbia is/was prevented from carrying out atrocities instead of both Azerbaijan and Serbia getting a free hand.
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  1159. ​ @inutero75  "[Ukraine] needs to be divided in two for daring to bring NATO so close to R's border." Ukraine has not brought NATO close to Russia. It has not been able to join (despite wanting to) and wouldn't have been able to join for the foreseeable future. Also, NATO already bordered Russia from the get-go.
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  1160. It should still be noted that Americans don't pay that much out of pocket. Rather, they pay for insurance (either directly or through their employer) and then the insurer picks up the bill so they don't have to pay out of pocket.
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  1161.  @lassikinnunen  Who has said "5 years away"?
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  1162.  @malxadolasanadam  I don't have one myself but my understanding that you can get an average e-bike for about €2k and less for a simpler model. €2k for a car sounds quite cheap to me, though admittedly I don't have a car either. A car also has higher operating costs due to fuel, insurance etc.
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  1163.  @ivantodorov9457  "I strongly disagree that trucks cause traffic jams." I don't think they said that trucks cause jams, at least not directly. Rather, trucks are the main cause of wear on the road. This may indirectly contribute to jams if it necessitates more frequent maintenance.
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  1164. "it's still a lot of sales" It's only something like $2 per person in China.
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  1165. No, it would be longer. The Channel Tunnel is about 50 km long. The distance between Helsinki and Tallinn is a bit over 80 km as-the-crow-flies and the hypothetical tunnel would likely be somewhat longer than that.
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  1166.  @tomlxyz  Soros's fund is certainly not the reason why Pound Sterling was devalued but the claim that it affected the timing of the devaluation seems more credible (though I'm still not myself saying that's true).
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  1167.  @dn88s  Honestly, I personally find it hard to grasp why people go to a casino even if they don't know these stories and believe that casinos are never dishonest and never make mistakes. Even in such a casino, you can expect to lose (unless you yourself are a cheater or a sufficiently good card counter or something).
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  1168. At least economically the situation for Eastern Europe has been improving.
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  1169.  @samhunter1205  I checked the this thread again. I thought I gave you the reference but I don't see it. Either it was deleted or I put it in some other thread and forgot about this one. Either way, I was referring to FRED data with the title "Real Median Household Income in the United States".
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  1170. I don't think the fund disappears immediately but it won't incoming contributions from that point forward.
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  1171.  @nirfz : "Anything ending with "chen" gets a neutral article" Same goes for the other diminutive suffix which is -lein, like "das Fräulein" for example.
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  1172.  @NvidiaRTX5080  I'd imagine that a doctor noticing such a cancer wouldn't expect any reward (beyond their salary if they notice that at their work).
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  1173.  @devious7771  Lingustically, Kurds and Persians are not that far apart.
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  1174. It'd be quite rare to have a feature that's completely unique.
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  1175. @deez I don't know. I'm not a Muslim. But I'm sure at least doing so while knowingly lying is probably sinful.
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  1176.  @MastemaJack  To my knowledge, that means that they are allowed to say they're not Muslim even when they are to avoid persecution. That's not quite the same as "swearing on the Qur'an" in order to portray yourself as a trustworthy person.
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  1177.  @einarr7301  "they didn't become prominent until the medieval period" As a minor nitpick, the Viking age was technically within the Medieval period but indeed the point still stands that crossbows only became common in Europe later in the Medieval period. "It suffers from low velocity due to a very short draw distance." This depends on the type or crossbow. There are bigger ones like Wallarmbrusts which pack a lot more punch than the smaller ones though I think those appeared later than the smaller crossbows.
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  1178.  @Nordbon1523  To me it doesn't because he doesn't pronounce Ds as retroflex.
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  1179. "You and Alex are our modern-day oracles in so far as this brothers' war is concerned." Before the war started they were saying that there wasn't going to be a war.
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  1180.  @aaronasissoard1098  I think he at least has some stuff up on SoundCloud but, of course, he's just a hobbyist, not a professional musician.
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  1181. I don't think that's a realizable idea. It makes sense when you're building your military in the peacetime without a hurry. In the present situation countries send what they can send most easily send. It's not realistic to limit the amount of systems sent without also limiting the amounts sent.
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  1182.  @JabzyJoe : Thanks, that makes sense.
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  1183.  @derickramdeen4796  Zing!
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  1184.  @michielwerring5846  The 13th amendment specifically has an exception permitting forced labor as a punishment for a crime. "Also, didn't Tsarist Russia have serfdom in the start of the 20th century?" No, the serfs in Russia were emancipated in 1861 (and those living on state land in 1866).
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  1185.  @henli-rw5dw  I don't think there are very many countries that do that. Most countries also already have their own currencies.
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  1186.  @hoangle2483  The US doesn't force that and in any case a buyer or seller of oil only needs to hold dollars for a short amount of time.
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  1187. 7:00 Lol! If the Americans really owed gratitude to Germany for having their independence recognized by Frederick the Great, wouldn't they owe it even more to France? France had actually helped the USA in her independence war and without that help, the chances for victory would have been rather slim. Surely actual help counts for more than a mere after-the-fact recognition.
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  1188. "Pretty sure there's not much hatred for Jews." In the past there has been a lot (and this video is mostly about history and less about present day).
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  1189. Among the "freeriders" Canada is near the top.
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  1190. "most of the was being actively diluted with sand" Sand is a key component of concrete.
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  1191.  @xraceboyex  What fraud has he committed. I can't find any reference to fraud.
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  1192. Cars take too much space in cities.
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  1193. "I recommend pronouncing a simple H sound instead, which is far nearer to the Ukrainian and Russian phonetic original." That's somewhat subjective. To my knowledge, the sound in Ukrainian/Russia is the unvoiced velar fricative. You could argue that K is closer because it's also a velar consonant (just a plosive rather than a fricative) whereas H is not velar.
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  1194. "not a word about NGOs" Well, that's just plainly false. They're mentioned at 22:50.
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  1195. "She described garum as hard on the modern-day palate" You know, some modern day palates still enjoy surströmming and/or hákarl.
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  1196.  @elchicovip01  I have to admit that "cannonball train" sounds pretty neat.
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  1197. 14:36 "The difficulty of assembly is the number of instructions." Is this part specific to x86?
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  1198. The word has been used earlier than that and since it never was a part of official terminology it can be used also of the campaigns in Poland, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Netherlands, and France.
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  1199. "Spain has a structural problem, so making people work a few years more will have no effect." It would definitely have an effect. "A country with over 20% unemployment has to first sort that out. When labour market is at capacity you then import labour from abroad. And only after that, you look at increasing the retirement age" There's no need to order them like that. Doing one of those things won't prevent you from doing the others.
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  1200.  @strayobject  "making old people work for more years takes what little jobs they release to the younger generations unavailable" No, it doesn't. Having a larger labor force doesn't mean higher unemployment. Otherwise larger countries would have a higher unemployment. "it also takes the political will away ”because we did something” whilst all they did was to kick the can down the road" This is just unfounded speculation. I'm pretty sure reducing unemployment will stay in political discussions.
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  1201. "Dam Wendover!" How can you dam him? Usually, only rivers are dammed.
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  1202.  @jypsridic  "Yea, and the people who can fix it keep running here instead." You think a bunch of poor people can somehow solve difficult problems in the government?
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  1203.  @_Abjuranax_ : Your advice is morally repugnant.
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  1204. The association that I've always had is that outhouses have a heart-shaped cutout. Also, over in Germany, they wouldn't associate the moon with girls and the sun with boys but vice versa.
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  1205. Panzer vor!
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  1206.  @Maranville  "Indeed I think most people have a very confused sense of what is truly "soulless"" I disagree. Rather what feels soulless to them differs to what feels soulless to other people (possibly including you). It's a subjective experience and can differ wildly between different people.
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  1207. Rule 34?
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  1208.  @acmefixer1  "There is a correlation between nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons." But I think if there's causation it's not: nuclear plants -> nuclear weapons. It's far more likely that it's: nuclear weapons -> nuclear plants.
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  1209. "There is if you only use incomes of young people." Do you have a source. This is something that has to be actually calculated from statistics, not just asserted based on personal observation. (Of course, same goes for KaiserBauch's claim.)
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  1210. Maybe he will lose the next year's election.
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  1211. ​ @Jeffhowardmeade  In 2021 the tax-to-GDP ratio was 28.3% for the US and 43% for Finland. In 2022 the US ratio had gone down to 26.6%. I didn't find the 2022 figure for Finland.
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  1212. "despite not being attaxked" You can't wait until you're attacked and only then join. Obviously, NATO can't work like that. You have to join before you're attacked.
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  1213.  @John_GGG  Venezuela does have a bigger population but it also has bigger oil reserves to compensate.
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  1214.  @gamermapper  "Isn't Albania occupying Kosovo the same way armenia is occupying Nagorno-Karabakh or Turkey Northern Cyprus?" No. There have been accusations of Albania supporting the KLA but any possible involvement by Albania is much smaller and less direct than what Armenia and Turkey have done in the cases of Nagorno-Karabakh and Cyprus.
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  1215. This kind of thing isn't that unusual. I think foreigners can also serve e.g. in the US armed forces and it can be a route to citizenship. France even has a separate corps (Foreign Legion) for such soldiers. I think even the Indian armed forces employ Gurkhas from Nepal so even India is no stranger to employing foreigners in the military.
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  1216.  @JSK010  My understanding is that according to IAEA inspectors they were in compliance with the deal.
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  1217.  @jal051  I don't mean to claim that the rebranding is doing any good or that there was any good reason to do it. I only meant that it doesn't seem to be doing much harm either. Especially, if people still use the old name then the new name doesn't seem to be doing much harm. Twitter's problems lie mostly in things other than this (useless) rebranding.
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  1218. "As a Brit i admire the French for fighting for what is theirs" But in this case they're taking it away from their offspring.
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  1219. Both cases were total disasters for Uganda and Zimbabwe.
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  1220. Belgium is too complicated.
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  1221. Does the 'h' do anything there? Does it maybe indicate aspiration?
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  1222. Even if it's not a scam I'm a bit skeptical of how much art makes sense as an investment.
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  1223. Fun fact: Accenture used to be a part of Arthur Andersen. However, they got into some kind of fight with their parent company which settled in arbitration. The ruling was that they could separate but they would lose the right to use the Arthur Andersen trademark. Losing the prestigious name felt like a big bummer until this scandal happened less than a year later.
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  1224. "As for the 152-155mm just stopping a MBT.. no, a direct hit or a very close hit to the sides can destroy the tank, not just a mobility kill." Will there be direct hits? I'm not very familiar with artillery but I thought artillery shells used airburst rather than exploding on contact in order to make them more dangerous to infantry.
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  1225. Well, at least he's big! (Disclaimer: I haven't watched any of his other videos and only watched the first 30 s of this one.)
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  1226. Making fun of Hwang would be mean...but Softbank is fair game!
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  1227.  @MayContainJoe  "Hot air heating itself is very inefficient compared to using water as a conductor to radiate heat" Why is that? Sounds counterintuitive.
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  1228.  @travelinghermit  "That's because air is an insulator." But even with a radiator, you're still going to have air between you and it.
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  1229. When it comes to the Polish elections, I guess the one in 1733 was pretty dramatic because a succession war followed it.
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  1230.  @thelrproject257  Not even salmon? Strange.
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  1231. The mending has only started. Have a look at this graph. https://ozonewatch.gsfc.nasa.gov/facts/history_SH.html
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  1232. "The EU has 28 member states" It's only 27 now since Brexit.
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  1233.  @kaiserbauch9092  Just hoping that technological development will solve climate change is wishful thinking. There is a need to cut some consumption. Even in the case of adopting new technologies putting a price on emissions is necessary to make these new technologies to make more economic sense, as they might be more expensive than more emission intensive technologies absent emission permits or carbon taxes. Most economists agree that there should be taxes on negative externalities. See Pigouvian taxes. "that is not happening in Europe with all the bans and regulations" The part of the video I commented on talked about emission permits and duties on emission intensive imports, not bans or regulations. Whether or not Europe will be innovative imposing a cost on emissions is the right way to reduce emissions.
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  1234.  @jwhan2086  "The very existence of a democratic system in the South itself is the greatest security threat to his regime." To me, it would seem that a war started by the North would be an even bigger threat.
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  1235. Did the title change from "utopia" to "dystopia"?
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  1236.  @reasonsvoice8554  Eddy currents have nothing to do with it.
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  1237.  @reasonsvoice8554  In a coiled cable you have a wire running in both directions so they will cancel out. That's not the case for a coil in an induction heater.
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  1238.  @reasonsvoice8554  "It doesn't have to be coiled. Magnetic fields will be created as long as you have a current through a wire." Yes, but I was responding to comments about why it says on cables to uncoil them for use. It's about heat dissipation. "Coiling may make the field strength stronger." But it doesn't in this case because the cable has two wires running in opposite directions.
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  1239.  @patavinity1262  "If Russia can't handle Ukraine, they definitely can't handle Finland" Ukraine's population is (or was at the start of 2022) about 8 times that of Finland.
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  1240.  @korayven9255  No, there is little reason for why it would require the Rupee to be propped up. The weight of different currencies in a basket is a decision that the designers of the basket can freely make. Even if the Rupee were to be given an outsize weight in the basket doesn't mean that there is more need to prop up the Rupee.
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  1241.  @mr.magnussen1289  It's quite sustainable for a long time.
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  1242.  @joshuaewalker  The split phase basically becomes two phases that are 180° apart when taken relative to the neutral that's taken from the middle. There's no functional difference to 2-phase power from the consumer's point of view. But if you still don't accept my wording forget this and let me rephrase what I said. In the US, you get 120V when you use a live wire and a neutral wire but you can get 240V if you use two live wires. In Europe, you get 230V if you use a live wire and a neutral wire but you can get 400V if you use two live wires (that are in a different phase). The latter isn't really using 3-phase power because it's only using 2 of the 3 phases (for a higher voltage). I think this is what the earlier comments were referring to, not using 3-phase power at home.
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  1243. I think he made the maps in this video (along with most other maps in this channel).
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  1244. 1:37 Holy crap, that looks dangerous! Did he actually fall down?
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  1245.  @jimsimpson1006  Wouldn't 27 guineas be £28.35?
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  1246.  @jimsimpson1006  Ah, I see. Good thing the Brits got rid of that confusing nonsense. :)
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  1247. What about Mariupol and Kharkiv being bombarded?
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  1248. One argument if favor from Argentina's point of view. While there could be problems from a currency union with Brazil, as you noted, just having someone else do the monetary policy so as not to cause 100% inflation could be a benefit. With the current high inflation Argentina's economy is fairly dollarized, as you noted, which kind of starts to resemble a currency union with the US and it's not clear that Argentina's economy is more aligned with that of the US than of Brazil.
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  1249. That has more to do with how much and how strongly Israel would choose to target Iran. It might want to pull its punches so that Iran does the same. This video was more about what to strike in Iran, not how strongly to strike Iran.
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  1250. "The HIMARS were US-provided. The revenge will be served cold to those who made the decision to send HIMARS" How do you suppose Russia could wreak vengeance on the US? That doesn't sound realistic.
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  1251.  @Michael_from_EU_Germany  "Not true. The EU exports more goods to the UK than ever before. At the same time, the EU is importing less and less from the UK." Saying that exports = good & imports = bad is a fallacy.
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  1252. Cuba is much more open than North Korea. I feel that there's more chance of a change in Cuba than in North Korea.
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  1253. Russia is mostly sending contract soldiers in any case so he most likely wouldn't have been sent (even if he had served at the "right" time) unless he decided to take the contract after the mandatory service. Some conscripts were sent in the early phases of the war as well and Putin claims to not have been informed about it at the time.
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  1254.  @johnmilner6419  "It the turret was out of control, the TC was either wounded or killed" He definitely wasn't killed and can't have been too seriously wounded either because he (and the other 2 crew members) are shown abandoning the tank.
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  1255. @Blitz Gaming654 A tram can be powered by a third rail or an overhead wire so it doesn't need much of a battery. Steel wheels last longer and have lower rolling resistance than rubber wheels. A single tram has a much higher capacity than a car (or several cars) so costs per passenger (including for paying the driver) are lower. What are the advantages of cars? Basically flexibility in moving individual people or small groups. This is irrelevant for operating a fixed line like the Loop. Using vehicles that can only carry a few people doesn't take advantage of the economics of scale.
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  1256.  @brunokagawa6287  "instructing their "friend" Ukraine to fight until the bitter end" I don't think they're doing that.
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  1257.  @tedchou12  "On an individual person level, we have to work hard to repay our debts, why doesn't that apply to countries like Argentina?" If an individual cannot reasonably pay their debts, they may get the debt, or a portion of it, discharged through bankruptcy (though this may depend on jurisdiction). Shouldn't the same apply to countries?
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  1258.  @righteousness8606  I'm pretty sure that's easier said than done (if you don't implement e.g. a total blockade which would make Haitian lives even worse). Also, that wouldn't remove guns already in Haiti and it's not clear to me that in a gunless Haiti the state and/or civilians could more easily defeat the gangs.
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  1259.  @Texas75023  "I an HAPPY to hear someone in CONGRESS actually point out this problem is the size of MOUSE NUTS. 0.04%" But the problem isn't small at all. What matters isn't the carbon dioxide concentration directly but rather how much warming its increase can cause. The warming from human caused greenhouse emissions is large enough to cause damage to human society and thus there is a good reason to limit emissions (even though that's not free either).
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  1260. "The number of Ukrainian troops that were paralyzed in a defensive position protecting Kiev allowed Russian troops to focus more on the Donbas" But they didn't focus more on Donbas since so many of their troops were tied up in attacking Kyiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, etc. It's only now that Russia is focusing more on Donbas as they have withdrawn their troops from the north.
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  1261. "But what if the absence of such civilizations is an insight by itself?" That's doubtful. That kind of social organization is more possible today due to things like modern technology.
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  1262.  @cappybara6866  "that doesn't mean that more government action is the soluition" It's not more government action but different government action. The designing of low-density car-dependent suburbs is not market forces responding to demand. It's a government decision mandating low density etc. through zoning.
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  1263. Finland doesn't have any F-35s yet. Currently it's only Hornets.
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  1264.  @AsmHarper  Why would it mean they're not indigenous? Doesn't that word refer to the first descendants of the first inhabitants of a region?
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  1265.  @laurymakesaway6695  Those countries won't let them in.
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  1266. "Denmark takes care of a lot of things that the people in Greenland would otherwise have to take care off and pay for itself (foreign politics and military among others)" I don't think Greenland would have to have a military. Iceland doesn't have a military and they do just fine. I think if Greenland ever becomes fully independent they'll likely forgo any armed forces.
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  1267. They get some revenue from licensing the fishing grounds to foreign vessels.
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  1268. I think it's [x] (unvoiced velar fricative) rather than [h] (unvoiced glottal fricative).
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  1269. Based and Thothpilled.
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  1270. I thought it was India that had Zelda currency.
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  1271.  @nenadmitrovic3469  "They have pioeline to china and nkr long ago finished another one." But those come from different gas fields than the fields that were supplying Europe. The gas that was flowing to Europe cannot (mostly) be diverted elsewhere for several years at least.
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  1272. Enver Pasha doesn't get his own year?
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  1273. No, they're not. It's quite possible for one to be true with the other not being true.
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  1274. Nothing wrong in taking inspiration from different places and times. :)
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  1275. Things look a lot better now than they did in the interwar years.
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  1276.  @TysonIke  I see no reason why it couldn't be possible to get from any point in the city to any other with public transit if it were designed well.
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  1277. They're not profitable for the capitalist class. Some individual capitalists may benefit if they have invested mostly in armament production or something. Most usually suffer losses, possibly enormous ones. The Rothschilds lost something like half of their fortune due to WWI.
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  1278. Halifax is known for a major demolition event from about a century ago.
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  1279.  @MichaelCampbell01  You wouldn't need get all 50 states to cooperate. In a tight election swinging a single state could be enough. (I'm not making claims about whether that actually happened.)
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  1280. You can't know that for sure unless you actually try!
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  1281. SSDs may wear out faster than magnetic drives though perhaps that's not as much of an issue as it used to be.
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  1282.  @weak1ings : Additional weight increases the rolling resistance of the wheels, which cannot be recovered. I think I recently saw an article saying that regenerative braking only increases the range by a few percent (depending on terrain) and the main advantage is that it doesn't suffer from wear as much as mechanical brakes.
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  1283. That part about using condensation water for drinking makes no sense.
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  1284.  @hisredrighthand5212  The US wasn't experiencing sky-high inflation then, quite the opposite in fact.
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  1285. Europe is still well above the world average in terms of prosperity but that might eventually change if improvements aren't made.
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  1286.  @enginerd80  Permanent residency is often enough to vote in local elections but for EU elections he would need the citizenship of some EU member state.
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  1287. The initial Soviet demands included demolishing all defensive fortifications of the Karelian Isthmus in any case.
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  1288. 4:23 You (correctly) say "Shia" here but the captions (incorrectly) say "Sunni".
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  1289.  @TheBunnyTheBearFan  "The European Commission pricing model is ridiculous." If you mean marginal pricing, it's not at all ridiculous. That's just how supply and demand work. Any other kind of model would result in distortions.
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  1290.  @Bobrystoteles  I'm fairly sure the studies take into account the full thing or at least the most important parts (probably concrete and steel production in the case of wind turbines). Otherwise, the emissions would be basically zero rather than merely low.
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  1291.  @FredoRockwell  When it comes to Poland, one thing to consider is that Gorbachev's "Sinatra Doctrine" had allowed the other Eastern Bloc countries with more leeway than before to do their own thing.
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  1292. Is it common for the ethnic Russians and Kazakhs in Kazakhstan to intermarry?
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  1293.  @carly09et  Peter King was talking about batteries specifically, not electricity generation, but I'm not still convinced that including such consideration would make them less efficient. I would expect a powerplant with its large turbines to be more efficient than a small piston driven engine. A powerplant can also be a CHP plant, though I'm not sure how would you count the efficiency in such case. Electricity does have transmission losses but, on the other hand, if you're counting the losses in electricity generation/transmission against batteries you should probably count the losses in crude oil refinement (as a portion of the oil is burned off in the process) against ICEs.
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  1294.  @carly09et  "Electric vehicles with FUEL cells work much better" If you mean hydrogen fuel cells, those have a lower efficiency (though potentially a better range) than batteries.
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  1295.  @carly09et  The efficiencies given in the Wikipedia page on fuel cells are just for one step, i.e. how much of the energy stored in the fuel does the fuel cell convert to electricity. (Well, there's a column for the whole system's efficiency as well but I was referring to the cell column in my previous comment.) Therefore those are comparable. Of course, you can also compare other steps in the process.
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  1296.  @johnboyle1146  You ICE enthusiasts, I don't think you're taking into consideration that your gasoline/diesel is produced in a refinery that burns off a portion of the oil used as a raw material. When you factor in all the caveats they're less efficient than EVs.
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  1297. "If he weren’t part of the international banking cartel, he’d be locked up for this" No, that's ridiculous. There is no law against making currency trades and betting on exchange rate movements. He wouldn't be locked up in any society that respects the rule of law. Just because you might not like him or his trades is hardly a good reason to lock him up.
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  1298. 36:22 In English, "Shiite" is an acceptable alternative for "Shia", though it seems less common, so you seemingly didn't make a mistake here.
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  1299. "They should just be their own party's operating independently." About 62% of the seats in the lower house of the Japanese parliament come from single-seat constituencies. That kind of system doesn't favor splinter parties. Also, almost any party is bound to have some kind of factions in it unless it's a party formed around a single charismatic politician.
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  1300. It would have even better if he had also used the term "absolutive".
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  1301. I think Nile Red had a video of making soap and he demonstrated that it's relatively harmless to dip your fingers into a solution of lye. Though I'd assume you'd want to rinse your fingers before the skin starts to get irritated.
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  1302. Where do you think they got the name? :)
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  1303.  @borjesvensson8661  More dakka! What could go wrong?
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  1304. "GaaS, GaaS, GaaS" -Manuel
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  1305. "for not taking the opportunity to transition to renewable energy when they could" It's not that there was a such a decision or missed opportunity. It's just that such shift isn't easy and wind and solar have become viable fairly recently. The intermittent nature of those renewables has required some kind of peaking power to make up shortfalls for when there isn't that much wind or sunlight. Natural gas works well for such peaking power. It's at least partially the shift to renewables that has made Europe reliant on gas.
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  1306. Inflation in the US is above target but it's way lower than in Turkey and more importantly the Fed or the POTUS are not pretending that rate cuts would lower inflation.
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  1307.  @BooBaddyBig : "Nuclear is baseload." It's entirely possible to have nuclear power generation adjusted according to demand (though not necessarily fast enough to compensate for the variability of wind and solar). France has some of its nuclear plants vary their output according to demand.
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  1308. 10:05 You're blaming Sweden? Denmark (re)started it first!
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  1309. It must be exciting to work as a lawyer for Musk.
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  1310. However, with USB sticks there isn't a (physical) way of checking the authenticity of the data like you can by checking that the two halves of a split tally stick really match.
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  1311.  @الضحاكأبوالمحبة  "Maybe Russia will attack Finland like it did with Ukraine, if Finland joined the NATO" In the case of Ukraine Russia could attack without triggering NATO's article 5 because Ukraine is not a NATO member. If Finland joined NATO then an attack after that would trigger the article 5. That should be a powerful deterrent.
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  1312. "we just want our lands back within internationally recognized borders." You have to recognize that this is asking too much if it is to be granted unconditionally. The Armenian population in N-K would understandably be frightened of the prospect of being incorporated into an undemocratic country without any kind of autonomous status. I think Azerbaijan should offer at least some kind of autonomous status to N-K but so far it has refused to do so.
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  1313.  @angemcauslan2551  The border with Denmark isn't a border with the EU, though, since Greenland hasn't been a part of the EU since 1985.
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  1314. Poland's not gonna accept something like that.
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  1315.  @xdmelone3333  That's basically what Sealand is (except that it's not recognized and after 1987 it's no longer in international waters).
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  1316.  @LegalEagle  Can those people sue their lawyers and get damages?
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  1317. I have an unrelated question. Is a peaceful resolution to the Taiwan issue possible or is a perpetual limbo the only peaceful option?
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  1318. What would happen if a company became insolvent before 2007? How would it be handled without bankruptcy law?
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  1319.  @leonhunte2036  Yeah, it's Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands. However for Sweden that acronym wouldn't make sense whereas SDP would make sense even if it doesn't happen to be used there.
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  1320. So Finland is doing less badly than Sweden? Incredible.
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  1321. I once saw a piece of news about a Brazilian tax lawyer named Vinicios Leoncio who compiled the Brazilian federal tax laws into one book. It weighed seven tons.
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  1322. 1:25 Squat toilets can have some advantages. The squatting posture may sometimes make defecation easier. Also in public toilets, the seat may sometimes be dirty and make sitting on it unappealing (even if it weren't an actual hygienic risk).
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  1323. 3:44 The velocity of money is how frequently the money is spent on goods and services. That "YOLO investment into Gamestop" doesn't count towards it (except for the possible commission).
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  1324. At least Microsoft did seriously overpay for Nokia's phone division. The cash from that deal was helpful for what remained of Nokia.
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  1325.  @lookitthis6101  "You can get Medicare in all 50 states. My family had it because we were poor." But Medicare is for the old, not the poor.
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  1326. 3:30 The Secret Service? Why them? I always thought they only had two tasks: 1) chase money counterfeiters and 2) act as the president's bodyguards. It would seem that the Lizard Squad had neither counterfeited any dollars nor threatened the president. Why would the Secret Service be after them?
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  1327. 1:20 I think the wristbands are probably supposed to be armillae. I don't know if armillae looked like that but even if they did not everyone is supposed to have them.
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  1328.  @wow1371  "Georgia and Armania are already far stretched arguments as they are Asian countries not European ones." Geographically they at least border Europe and maybe even have some land in Europe (depending on where exactly you draw the border) whereas Cyprus is wholly in Asia and does not have a land border with Europe. That said, I don't think the somewhat arbitrary borders between regions (as Europe and Asia aren't really even separate continents) is important. I think it's enough that the country is reasonably close to the main body of the EU. I'd be ready to admit any such country (assuming they fulfill the membership requirements with e.g. having sufficiently good economy, democracy, human rights, etc.) even if they're strictly speaking outside of Europe.
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  1329.  @sampohonkala4195  "You can also choose civil service." It's "civilian service", not "civil service". (civil service = virkamiehet, julkishallinto)
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  1330. Including depositors?
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  1331. 12:00 This poll asks about "potential new members" but includes Croatia which had already joined 3 years earlier.
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  1332.  @stelvis1984ify  "At the same time, we don't want Turkey to get away with stealing 40% of our land. I think a compromise could be reached with at minimum, the return of another 20% of the land mass" But if you look at this proposal from the Turkish Cypriot perspective, does it seem like a reasonable compromise? I don't claim to be super familiar with this issue but this would sound like that the North would give up a significant part of the land that it has without getting much in return. What would happen to the Turkish Cypriots in the parts that would be returned? Would they have to leave their homes? Or would they suddenly become a small ethnic minority in another country which might be a scary prospect? Neither seems like a good option. "at the very least to return Varosha" Maybe just returning that might be easier since almost no one seems to live there.
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  1333.  @miafiolekova5817  But the proposed BRICS currency would likely be different from the Euro. The Euro replaced previous national currencies whereas in the case of BRICS the national currencies would likely remain. Most likely the proposed BRICS currency would be similar to Special Drawing Rights making it easier to maintain, though also less impactfull.
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  1334. I think you're being a bit starry eyed here, at least when it comes to Finland. Firstly, while the employee and employer organizations often cooperate they quite often butt heads too so it's an exaggeration to say that their relationship is not adversarial. Secondly, trying to start a business isn't as safe as you make it out to be. Entrepreneurs don't get the same level of unemployment insurance as employees and its level is (partially) based on salary anyway. If your business fails and you're left with debts you cannot usually get them discharged like in some other countries.
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  1335.  @jepbarhalmyradov9135  At least lingustically Tatars are Turkic, not Mongolic.
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  1336.  @jepbarhalmyradov9135  If you're referring to my comment about Tatars my point was that Tatar belongs to an entirely different language family from Mongolian (and the so called Altaic hypothesis is rejected by most linguists).
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  1337. I think the Russian word for god is "bog".
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  1338.  @heycidskyja4668  The people of Ceuta and Melilla don't want to join Morocco (just like the people of Gibraltar don't want to join Spain).
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  1339. Most likely this was just something they thought would make a good video.
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  1340. "they hadn't done everything they were supposed to" Like what? It seems they had done everything properly.
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  1341. 36:05 Ukraine cannot have been raising the water level because it was Russia that was in control of the power station. They were the ones who decided to keep the sluice gates closed raising the water level. If the raising water level is somehow connected to the dam failure then that would seem to point to Russia rather than Ukraine.
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  1342. Lol, the sponsor pitch here is basically "I'm not advocating for anyone to buy carbon offsets...but if you do it anyway choose Wren!".
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  1343.  @charlescarabott7692  "Now if Europe wants to cut itself off from the rest of the world they can go ahead and do that." It's (mostly) just Russia, not the rest of the world. Of course sanctions are not easy for Europe but e.g. the '70s oil crisis was worse.
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  1344.  @ErenJeager-tz8dq  That doesn't mean they're Vedic. Plenty of people can still read and write Sanskrit today.
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  1345. He uses a Python library called Manim to make them.
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  1346. "love your enemy" Love him to bits.
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  1347.  @davidstrelec610  I disagree. Plenty of essentials are handled by the market, e.g. food production and delivery. In most countries you don't see state owned farms or state owned grocery stores. How essential some product is isn't the deciding factor in whether it makes sense to be handled by markets or the government.
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  1348.  @EA_SET : I used that expression because trees get their carbon from CO₂. The point is that they don't work as a long term storage unless you somehow prevent them from eventually rotting and therefore releasing the carbon back into the atmosphere.
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  1349. I guess for many journalists their main area of expertise is, surprise, surprise, journalism itself rather than what they're reporting on. I guess ideally journalists should seek to consult a relevant expert but that can easily get slow and/or expensive.
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  1350. This isn't unique to Finland. Suicide rates and overall levels of happiness are (rather counterintuitively) positively correlated.
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  1351. 6:50 Tax policy? I thought ancient Athens didn't have taxes.
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  1352. Obviously Turkey's stupid monetary policy is mostly to blame for the hardships so far but it's not like the Ukraine war can't deal additional blows to Turkey's economy.
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  1353. I'm surprised you didn't talk about Phil Falcone and the MAAX zips (which you have mentioned in another video).
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  1354. Q: What do you like about Switzerland? A: Well, the flag is a big plus.
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  1355.  @neandercatz8877  I'd say his worst video is the one on Adani and Hindenburg. I was shocked by how ridiculous his analysis was.
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  1356. "Much better to remove the ironmaking process and concentrate on electrical based steelmaking i.e. scrap." Recycling scrap steel obviously makes sense but it's likely not enough. We'll need new steel as well and it would be better if we could do that without using carbon as a reducing agent.
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  1357. I don't think the EU is really "linguistically coherent".
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  1358. When it comes to choosing to measure pre-lockdown, I think there's a much better solution. Instead of targeting 2% inflation they should target target a price index level that rises 2% per year. This is almost the same thing but then a) you don't have to worry about choosing starting points because you're trying to get the current price level to hit the target and b) missing the target in one direction implies compensating to the other direction afterwards which would have a stabilizing effect on expectations.
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  1359. Well, everything exotic is Turkish or Indian, like turkey (bird).
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  1360.  @lucanic4328 : Thanks, that was interesting.
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  1361. Why do people keep throwing around this incorrect quote? Does no one bother to check any quotes they hear before repeating them?
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  1362. Some possible caveats: 1) I'd still say that even a fairly low level of proficiency in foreign languages can be quite impressive (if not necessarily very useful) if the number of languages is high enough. If someone is trying to learn 10+ languages, that becomes impressive in my book far before they reach the level of, say, Matt's Japanese. But I agree that it's probably not quite as impressive as it may seem to people who don't know these languages. Also, they shouldn't mislead people about their level of proficiency. 2) I think that part about "skipping half the work" (e.g. not learning to read hanzi/kanji) can be just fine depending on your goal. There isn't necessarily anything wrong with attaining e.g. the basic conversational level you mentioned and not going beyond that. It can still be fun and even useful. For some, the extra effort for a higher level of proficiency might not be worth it. Many things that are worth doing are worth half-assing. I think Matt's comparison to learning to just play the guitar a little bit is apt. Nothing wrong with learning to play badly and then playing occasionally for fun. You don't always need to strive for excellence because realistically you're not going to achieve that for most of your skills.
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  1363. @Never repeats Yeah, but the parliament can override the veto with a simple majority (which is required to pass the bill in the first place) so it's not a very strong power.
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  1364.  @blackfalkon4189  The president signing the laws is the normal procedure. Refusing to sign is like a "delaying veto" mentioned. In that case the bill goes back to the parliament which can then pass it with another vote (requiring a simple majority) without the president signing it.
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  1365.  @diephoainambui9682  The Russians didn't quite choose to run away. The tried to stop Napoléon at Borodino but failed (but capturing Moscow wasn't enough to bring victory to Napoléon). It's not clear to mean that they were much less "arrogant" than other Europeans.
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  1366. "It is especially dangerous for European members to freeload since they’re on the frontline of the main adversary Russia." It's not Russia's neighbors that have been freeloaders.
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  1367.  @cliffsousa4184 : Yeah, I agree selling bad CDOs and misleading investors (though credit raters share the guilt here as well). But the shorting part isn't harmful. In fact, the problem (at least in hindsight) was that people valued CDOs too highly. It would have been better if there had been more people shorting them.
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  1368. Remember when TLDR said this war was "unwinnable" (for the Ethiopian federal government)?
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  1369. That's not a good comparison. A government doesn't earn 100% of GDP as income and it usually doesn't have (sellable) assets as collateral for loans in contrast to, say, a family with a mortgage.
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  1370.  @riniscollaku7848  "having the right to declear independece unilateraly" Just because they can declare it doesn't mean that they have a positive right to have independence under international law. The court explicitly didn't rule on that matter.
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  1371.  @riniscollaku7848  The point is that the ICJ didn't say on whether Serbia or any other country should recognize Kosovo's independence. It's like if you declared that your own house is now an independent country. Even if a court rules that such a declaration doesn't break any law (as you have a freedom of speech) that still doesn't mean your declaration necessarily has any effect.
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  1372.  @riniscollaku7848  "claiming your house is independent from the jurisdiction of the country when the documents say otherwise, you committed fraud" I'm pretty sure that kind of argument wouldn't hold in court in most countries. "if you refuse to pay taxes and utilities, you can just get kicked out" Similarly, Serbia could e.g. try to move its police force or armed forces into Kosovo saying that it's its own territory. I don't personally think they should do that but at least this ICJ decision doesn't say that they wouldn't have the right to do that under international law.
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  1373.  @chrisschene8301  "The people of Gaza elected Hamas" No, they did not. Hamas lost the 2006 election. Then Hamas fighters took control of Gaza by force.
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  1374. "EU sanctioned Russia for no reason." For no reason!? Are you kidding? Russia invaded Ukraine, in case you haven't noticed. That's the reason.
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  1375. No, typically those assets are government bonds (though sometimes more "exotic" assets like corporate bonds are bought).
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  1376.  @aries6776  Nuclear plants usually have low running costs, not high.
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  1377.  @MuhammedChand  "We really have no viable option on a national level." What about the Inkatha Freedom Party? Do any non-Zulus vote for it?
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  1378. The phrase "warming the world" here refers to the greenhouse emissions from the electricity usage and refrigerant leakage.
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  1379. "~80% of all casualties" Note, I'm pretty sure that number is either for all losses or personnel losses. This video only deals with equipment losses, not personnel losses.
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  1380. Still more logical than place names in England.
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  1381. "The same people who say that this won't happen are the same people who thought that the Roman Empire would never fall." You're wrong. They're different people. They didn't even live in the same times.
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  1382. Doesn't the next president usually pardon the previous one?
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  1383.  @chris0000924  If you mean my last sentence, I wasn't talking about compatibility. I meant that I like Android because any company can start producing Android phones and it's not locked to one company. Yes, Apple proved that a controlled ecosystem can work for a company but that's not what I talking about. I mean I like open ecosystems more for ideological reasons. I think they're better for society as a whole. For an individual company a closed ecosystem can work (though it's not always easy to get off the ground) but the society is better off if other companies can come in and compete.
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  1384.  @rishavmanmohan  I'm fairly pessimistic of Hyperloop's viability.
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  1385.  @kgkbuugj  Public transportation won't need as much road because it takes less space than cars. You could save a lot of valuable space and money in cities if fewer people drive.
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  1386. Are you saying Russia is going to attack the Baltic countries? That's a pretty serious accusation.
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  1387.  @itsok2bwhiteendanti-whiteh548  "I don’t need some internet twit hounding me about lines" No one was hounding you about lines. I only mentioned as a disclaimer that when I quoted you the quote was slightly edited. I did to just make sure no one thinks I was misrepresenting what you wrote. What I actually commented on was that what was said in those lines seemingly has no evidence and thus there is no reason to believe it.
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  1388.  @SchemingGoldberg  You of course need to have a mechanism for release in a case like this but I'd say removing the death penalty is an important component of it as well. Without death penalty there's more time for correcting an incorrect judgment and it's possible to offer monetary compensation for the time in prison but that doesn't work so well after an execution.
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  1389.  @Tokeraki  At least Kamil Galeev's profile page on the Woodrow Wilson Center webpage says that he resides in Moscow. Of course, the page could be out of date but seemingly he has at least lived there at some point.
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  1390. I think Saarland was also a kind of an example of a forced statehood (which quite quickly ended through the will of its own population).
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  1391.  @Magmafrost13 : Hmm, I've seen a bunch of Extra History videos and I don't remember references to Walpole except in the South Seas bubble videos.
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  1392.  @twotothehalf3725 : Ah, that explains it. I've usually only watched the main videos and not the lies part.
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  1393. By medieval standards, they were pretty tolerant of Christians and Jews in earlier times. Later on, they got more oppressive.
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  1394. "Even if this results on direct attacks in Ukrainian shipments..." Well, that might be one reason why Ukraine isn't attacking Russian shipping but not necessarily the only one. One thing to consider is whether Ukraine would only attack Russian flagged ships or any ships transporting Russian cargo. The first option would be safer but it could possibly be avoided by using flags of convenience. If Ukraine attacks a ship flagged in some other country that can result in anger by other countries. Also, if civilian sailors that are not Russian nationals perish in a Ukrainian attack that can also raise ire. Additionally, sinking an oil tanker can result in an environmental catastrophe which can have the same problem.
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  1395. Also note that it went southwest (according to Scott). In Finnish, "southwest" and "lunch" are both "lounas".
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  1396. "A town founded in 1494, saved an entire country from being annexed." You could argue that the existence of that town, or rather the airport in it, is what endangered Kyiv in the first place. If there was no airport there then there wouldn't be a reason for such an airborne assault on it.
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  1397. Can you really avoid stamp duty in the UK by buying your home such that you're not purchasing it directly but rather a company owning it?
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  1398. The road bridge had 2 carriageways, one for each direction with 2 lanes each. The explosion caused 2 spans of one of the carriageways to collapse. Now they are only using the remaining carriageway for both direction so the capacity is still reduced.
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  1399.  @heshamhero6149  If the issue is just the rate of filling the once the GERD reservoir is filled if Egypt has received enough water during that time then does that mean that there will be no complaining afterwards even if no agreement has been signed?
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  1400.  @arronahernandez  Serbia is a member candidate and negotiations have been going on for some time.
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  1401. Cars take too much space in cities.
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  1402. Nice picture of Giuliani! :D
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  1403. A passive asset manager can't keep the market high even if they would want to. How would they affect the market if they're passive?
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  1404.  @jerkanerm  Northern Schleswig (today South Jutland) is just a part of the former Schleswig and presumably, the proposed independent country would have included both Schleswig and Holstein.
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  1405. "770k people in District 23 and only 30k people got off their asses to even vote, and that's pathetic." Are you sure that 30k is all of the people who voted? Or it only those who voted in the Republican primary? I'd think (though I'm not sure) that you can't vote in both Republican and Democratic primaries.
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  1406. At least in Asia, rice is often grown in patties that are flooded with water. However, rice doesn't actually need that much water. The reason the patties are flooded is that rice can withstand it but many weeds cannot so it increases yields by keeping weeds in check.
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  1407. But Greenland hasn't been a part of the EU since 1985.
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  1408. 14:10 Aren't you a bit mistaken here? While Egypt controls the Rafah Border Crossing, any traffic through it needs Israeli approval. Egypt can't just allow supplies through it on its own. Or I guess it could but that would mean violating the agreement with Israel if its done against Israel's wishes.
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  1409. "Part 1" So, when do we get a part 2?
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  1410. But similarly, the landlord shouldn't have dragged them out by force. If he does that, it makes it kidnapping (even if they defaulted on their rent) and there could be consequences.
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  1411.  @thulyblu5486  "Nuclear is one of the most expensive ways to create electricity when including the massive subsidies." It's only expensive due to the high capital cost of the plant whereas uranium is cheap. The cost may be an argument against building new plants but it's not an argument for closing plants early because that does not recover the construction cost.
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  1412. @Matthew Shields "every country should invest in nuclear energy" I disagree. It doesn't makes sense for Vatican to invest in nuclear energy.
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  1413.  @shanks6404 : But it wasn't called Istanbul at the time of this war.
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  1414. I wonder if Patrick has participated in any rap battles.
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  1415.  @bastiaan4129  "As a European citizen i can only vote for one of the three legislative powers in Europe" The EU has only two legislative bodies: the Parliament and the Council. Also, the Council is similar to the German Bundesrat as that one isn't directly elected either, and also how the US Senate was before the 17th Amendment.
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  1416. 1:12 A car just casually drives by?
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  1417.  @guccifer764  "Thinking that recruiting the helots was ever a viable option shows a grave misunderstanding of the entirety of Spartan society." At least Herodotus mentions Helots being used as troops in the battles of Thermopylae and Plataea. Maybe you have misunderstood the Spartan society?
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  1418. Though take into account that construction is already underway despite the project still being in "the final stage of design".
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  1419. "Meaning; Legal." But that might only mean that the trial judge can't be punished but not necessarily that the sentence can't be altered.
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  1420. 20:00 "And now assume that faster than light travel is only allowed forward in time in this particular frame." However, I don't think there is a good reason to assume that. GR by itself in it's current form doesn't provide a mechanism for that and also having a preferred frame like that would make the theory less symmetric and thus more complicated which seems unlikely. If you were to take this route you wouldn't even need to talk about the average motion of matter in our universe or GR. You could just posit some completely arbitrary preferred frame with the property you mentioned. I have to also object to the title of this video. You don't give any reason why you (or someone else) would or should believe super-luminal travel is possible. You only give arguments for why arguments against it might not be as strong as usually said but you give zero positive arguments in favor of it. Thirdly, I would like to say that saying "we are too boring to visit" sounds unlikely. At least we humans here on Earth find almost any kind of new species extremely interesting. Finding extra-terrestrial life would be even more interesting even if it were just microbes or something. Sapient extra-terrestrial life would be yet more interesting even if at low technology level.
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  1421. It might be even better to increase illegal immigrants who pay into the system but will find it difficult to ever draw benefits.
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  1422. Maybe you can start a YouTube channel titled "Actual Engineering".
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  1423. Btw, how common is district heating in the US? I've seen some comments saying that NYC has district heating. Is it the only place or are there others?
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  1424. Ukraine is the one being bullied here.
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  1425.  @Asmodis4  "a journalist has to be neutral" Similarly, e.g. a judge has to be neutral. But a biased judge is still a judge, just a bad one.
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  1426. Though I think in Swedish it should be "Gripedörren".
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  1427. 4:00 South Africa is missing from this list.
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  1428. Why shouldn't that be allowed?
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  1429.  @lexusvip4003  "Because it is the exact reason GameStop squeezed in the first place" So what? It's the short-sellers who suffered the loss from this failed bet. We don't need to protect them from their own mistakes. "They can't change the rules" What rule change are you talking about? Limiting shorting would be a rule change.
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  1430.  @Wqube  I disagree that the stock existing twice would mean that the price isn't correct. It just takes the short seller's estimate into account.
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  1431. "being an HVAC tech is a great job" By "HVAC" do you mean "Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning" or "High Voltage Alternating Current"? Both would fit to the theme of this video.
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  1432.  @LOL-ev8ft  "loose half of your purchasing power in a year is too much inflation" If the rate of inflation is 50% per year then the money loses 1/3rd of its purchasing power per year, not half. I do agree that it's too much inflation but that doesn't mean it's "hyper". The term "hyperinflation" isn't usually used when the rate of inflation is merely too high but it's also really, really high. There are pretty wild variations in the rates of inflation even in the cases where it's clearly too high. Some cases are far worse than others. It doesn't necessarily make sense to call all of them "hyper".
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  1433.  @MichelleMarki  To my knowledge it's related to options. Some people like Keith Gill made a lot of money by buying GME call options which can greatly amplify gains if your bet is correct (but losses also if it's not). On the other side there can be retail investors selling (or writing) options contracts either taking the opposite position or covering it by buying the underlying stock, but most sellers of options are not retail investors. Most of them are sold by hedge funds or market makers that also buy just enough of the underlying stock to "delta hedge" their position (or at least close to it). That kind of position is insensitive to change in the price of the underlying security. They're thus not making a bet for or against the stock but only sort of providing the possibility of buying options as a service and skimming a small portion of the price of the options as their profit. The issue with delta hedging is that it requires dynamic hedging. The amount of underlying security that you have to own to keep your position delta hedged changes when the price changes. Therefore, if the price of the security goes up the sellers of call options have to buy more of the security keep their portfolio delta hedged. This can then contribute to the speed of the rise in the price of the security necessitating more buying. The result is similar to gamma squeeze.
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  1434. "I would do anything for my children if I thought it was in their best interest." Anything? Including e.g. murder?
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  1435.  @anoos0  As far as I know, Druze and Ahmadiyyas consider themselves Muslim.
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  1436. 2:42 "Artilleryhub" Lol!
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  1437.  @filthycasual8187  "So the desire to protect your family using the most efficient means possible now qualifies you as a "nut," huh?" At least protecting mere property with deadly force is morally repugnant. Human lives, even those of thiefs, are more important.
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  1438.  @afonsoabreu5144  Iran doesn't have nukes, at least not yet.
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  1439. I'm not sure that "never" claim in the title is justified. While making self-driving cars as safe or safer than an average human driver is a difficult problems it's still quite plausible that it can be eventually solved. When it comes to separating human-driven and autonomous vehicles into their own lanes, I think that would take a lot of space which is at a premium is some places.
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  1440. He's also different in that he actually made money whereas these guys lost money.
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  1441.  @killingtimeitself  I think that would be a bit misleading term.
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  1442.  @alexhumble7653  "Loss of Alaska or texas would also help deter future American invasions." If that happened as a result of an American invasion somewhere that would indeed be a deterrent. Still, it probably also matters that Alaskans and Texans probably don't want to fall under the rule of some other power.
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  1443. LMAO!
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  1444. It's not so easy to remove. The cost represents actual resources that need to be spent on the case.
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  1445. "Though I am.pro-Russian,I am very sympathetic to these obviously brave Ukranian soldiers.I think it is tragic that their young lives are being thrown away by evil NATO officers ,and the Kiev regime. I hope Russian victory comes soon,and the butchery stops." I think similarly many pro-Ukrainian people are sympathetic to Russian soldiers sent to the frontlines and hope that Ukraine would win as soon as possible.
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  1446. About the screw analogy, I think a ship's propeller can also be called a "screw".
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  1447.  @isomz638  I've not talked about any such responsibility. I've said that one would expect the profit maximizing price be lower in lower income countries.
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  1448.  @davidlazarus67  The bond specifications for these particular AT1 bonds explicitly state that they can be wiped out before the shareholders.
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  1449.  @davidlazarus67  I think these bonds weren't available to the general public (though may be possible that some owned them indirectly through e.g. funds). For more details you can check Patrick Boyle's latest video on Credit Suisse.
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  1450. I think it's an exaggeration to say that "the world runs on" stock market indices. But, in any case, stock markets (and other markets) are quite useful to the society. They allocate capital and provide a prediction about how well individual companies as well as entire markets are likely to do. They're not perfect but market participants have a strong (pecuniary) incentive to get their predictions right.
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  1451.  @RemizZ  At first, I thought you meant that JavaScript is such a horrible language that web devs shouldn't complain about other languages.
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  1452.  @AnaIvanovic4ever  "bloated and expensive" How is the EU bloated or expensive? The EU's budget is pretty small compared to the EU's GDP and a big part or that budget is just agricultural subsidies (which would exist even it they were done by national governments).
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  1453. Ireland didn't become euroskeptic after becoming rich.
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  1454.  @vigneshkarthi3321 : If you feed it to a tree then that carbon is stored into that tree. You'd need to then store the wood somehow so that it won't rot and release the carbon back into the atmosphere.
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  1455. It's nice to hear something about the historical Chinese weapons, armor, and tactics. I've seen a lot of Youtube videos on European and Japanese weapons and tactics (not just on this channel but many other history channels as well), but China seems a bit neglected. There are probably many other Asian countries whose military history would be interesting, but for some reason aren't covered that often.
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  1456. ​ @damyjuk  I don't think this policy would work even if Turkey was self-contained. High inflation causes damage also in the domestic economy and 20% is definitely too high.
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  1457. It was. Check the Treaty of Darin.
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  1458.  @Gaming4Justice  And some of them worshipped Discord(ia).
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  1459.  @j.p.ijsblok5304  Russia has earlier said that it was reducing its military activity near Kyiv as a gesture of good will to advance the negotiations. A more likely reason was that their advance around Kyiv (and Chernihiv and Sumy) wasn't proceeding according to plan. They also later said that they removed their weapons from Snake Island, again as a gesture of good will. A more likely reason was that it was not practical to have weapons and troops on the island due to Ukrainian bombardment.
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  1460.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  "The US couldn't even beat a bunch of guerillas - twice - with home field advantage, you're not gonna have much luck with China." But that's not the right analogy for the US in that situation but rather for China. China would be the one doing the invading and their situation is going to be worse than what the US had in the cases you mentioned.
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  1461. Drachinifel didn't blame "the French". He blamed a single French officer.
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  1462.  @ReevansElectro  I'm a bit skeptical of it being cheaper. Also, the hub needs to be lifted on top of the tower. I don't see how you could easily do that with a winch that's not somehow above the tower.
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  1463. "You have, at least, failed to take soccer into account." I suspect it's because he focused on the American sports leagues spreading into China. Soccer isn't as big as the sports discussed in this video in the US and the biggest soccer leagues aren't American.
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  1464. "the occupation is not illegal via the treaty of guarantee signed by Greece, Turkey and UK which gives either nation the right to invade to ensure constitutional order and protect its people." You could argue that about the initial Turkish intervention but the second Turkish invasion in August can't be justified that way.
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  1465.  @Innerspace100  The UK has much less oil relative to its population.
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  1466. You have to take into account that the missile appears to hit the water surface sideways.
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  1467. So if some foreigner moves to Australia they're only allowed to rent until years later they might get citizenship. That sounds a bit harsh.
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  1468. 12:15 "If you really want your walkable spaces, why not get into hiking and then just take a walk through the woods sometimes. It's what I do and I've never had this nagging feeling that life would somehow magically become better if the urban areas just had more walkable spaces. Oh and guess what, to get to most good hiking locations you need a car." This is such a stupid argument (and doesn't your last sentence provide a counter argument to your own "why not get into hiking" argument?). If you need a car to be able to walk your environment is just badly designed. In and urban/suburban environment you should be able to walk to e.g. a grocery store etc. Making a purposeful trip to somewhere (with a car) just to walk is a completely different thing.
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  1469. From Bank Norwegian you can get sky-high 0.75% interest on savings.
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  1470. "the same Crimea that you are forcing back into Ukraine" I don't think anyone's forcing Crimea into Ukraine. Ukraine and many others don't recognize it as a part or Russia but that hardly means that anyone's going to force it back into Ukraine's control. Ukraine pushing militarily into Crimea is unrealistic. "I hope you make a video on why Victoria Nuland was in Kiev among demonstrants in winter of 2013" I don't think why one politician was in a specific demonstration is the kind of subject this channel covers. Where would he even find documentation on why she was there? Those events are probably far too recent anyway.
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  1471. "But if I ever get an EV, I'm going to have to try to convince the rest of the building to invest in a rewiring project." Can't you just give an estimate of electricity usage and offer to pay according to it (assuming the wiring can take it)?
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  1472.  @mjc0961  Yeah, I was just thinking of one (or maybe two cars). If more people want to charge EVs then there's a much better chance of getting enough people to agree to do the necessary installation. In fact, without those it's likely worse than you describe. Too many EVs will likely blow a fuse or trip a circuit breaker which will halt charging entirely.
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  1473. You all know the famous equation: E=mc². Well, we can simplify it by using the same unit for both time and distance and choose it so that c=1. Then the equation becomes: E=m.
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  1474.  @Duconi  That's only temporary. It's more radioactive because the nuclear reactions also produce some elements that decay at a fast rate and therefore produce a lot of radiation. But because they decay faster they'll also be gone faster.
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  1475. Note his specific wording. He talked about a country invading and grabbing land from its neighbor. In the case of the Golan Heights, it was Syria that attacked Israel, not the other way around. I'm not saying it makes the annexation any more legitimate. I'm only saying it doesn't quite fit Ker-Lindsay's specific wording here.
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  1476. It would not fix all problems but it would be an easy fix for at least a portion of the economic problems.
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  1477.  @michaelbrown865 : OK, I misunderstood. I agree that for Greece it would have been better if they hadn't joined the Eurozone (though leaving after joining would entail many difficulties). However, regardless of whether Greece is in the Eurozone, the ECB should have run a looser monetary policy than they did. Their policy was too tight for all of the Eurozone, including Germany.
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  1478. "The more available oil will lower crude prices worldwide." It's not that simple. Less refined products in Russia can mean that Russia imports more or exports less of those products. That could increase the demand of crude by non-Russian refineries. The assumption (or one of them) in this video was that Russia's imports/exports of refined products wouldn't change because of barriers to trade (either due to sanctions or other effects).
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  1479. "The murder had a very sloppy police investigation and was never solved." The investigation was finally finished last year and they came to the conclusion that Stig Engström was the killer.
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  1480.  @SweBeach2023  "What could US possible win entering Vietnam?" Possibly a friendly country if the intervention was successful. You can take the two Koreas or the two Chinas as examples.
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  1481.  @wrongthinker843 Hmm, are you agreeing or disagreeing with me? It's not clear to me what you're trying to say.
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  1482. The economy is large because China is large. China is still poor (though markedly less so than a few decades ago).
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  1483. My impression is the opposite. I thought that the Ukrainians were initially outnumbered in troops but turned that around by calling more and more reservists into duty. In equipment, they're still outnumbered.
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  1484.  @starburst98  It might also be great if you just like money.
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  1485. I'm sure it's not a functional part of the armor, just window dressing.
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  1486. The EU mutual defense clause is weaker than NATO's article 5 in two ways. Firstly, it doesn't say that an attack against one is an attack against all. Secondly, it doesn't explicitly mention military intervention.
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  1487. It wasn't the overseas investors whose money was stolen, was it? It might not be such a huge worry for them.
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  1488. 0:25 Captions: "gives piano lesions"
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  1489. "This is a minor operation." I wouldn't call using hundreds of thousands of troops "minor operation".
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  1490.  @luqman_md  "If you did not have yet a nuclear waste how can you be the first country to have solved it ????" Of course Finland has had nuclear waste for a while. The recently completed reactor is 5th in the country. The 4 earlier ones have been operating for many decades.
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  1491.  @freeculture : But 60hz means more transmission loss in wires.
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  1492. Mostly recapture territory lost in the Winter War.
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  1493. "over a million Iraqis were killed" Note that the estimates have a wide range and this is the upper limit. Some other estimates are lower such as 600k or 100k. Of course, that's still an enormous human cost and can still make the invasion to be not worth it.
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  1494.  @grisflyt  I mentioned that the lowest figures (100k) include only violent deaths so it might not be the most relevant figure. However, the higher estimates like 400k or 600k include other deaths so they are descriptive if they are correct. I just wanted to say that the 1 million estimates are at the highest end and the true figure might be lower. Thus just stating that "over a million Iraqis were killed" without qualifications seems possibly misleading.
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  1495. I don't see why Kim would want to start a war. It would seem to carry a huge risk for him with a very small chance of positive return.
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  1496.  @lendalennuk2484  I'd imagine construction is a bigger cost than maintenance.
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  1497. 2:45 I don't think the idea of an information war necessarily implies that the underlying truth is known even privately. Both sides might want to shape the public's beliefs about that truth even if they themselves don't know it or are at least not very sure about it.
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  1498. I'm not able to find that kind of testimony. Where can I find it?
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  1499.  @davidmccarroll2280  What? No. I think you're imagining things. I did not write "merely".
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  1500.  @fadyazmy5686  Well, in any case I don't think there is reason to suspect that evaporation would be a big issue. I just checked and apparently Lake Nasser has about 2.8x the surface area that the GERD reservoir is going to have and on top of that the GERD is located in less hot and more humid environment. The amount of evaporation is going to be much smaller. (And even if someone had to give up a dame it would make sense for that to be one that causes more evaporation.)
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  1501.  @geletagammo3705  When I google the areas for Lake Nasser and the GERD reservoir I get 5,250 km² and 1,874 km² which is a ratio of about 2.8, not 18. Do you think these values are wrong? If so, what are the correct values in km²?
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  1502.  Alek Mitev : "First of all the Lusitania was a ship carrying ammunition and war supplies despite the US pledge to remain neutral in the conflict and thus not support either side." To my knowledge the position of the US was that just materially aiding one side was something that one could do but still remain neutral by not taking part in the actual hostilities. Now regardless of whether you agree that that counts as neutral or not, to my knowledge they never did pledge to not send material aid to any of the belligerents. "Do you know who had the idea to send the Lusitania in the first place? The Rothschilds." Is there any evidence of this or is it just an unsupported assertion?
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  1503. How much do the Chinese care about Feng Shui? Aren't those kinds of things considered "feudal superstition" nowadays?
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  1504. "Currently, there are no other wars that major nations are fighting." Well, there's the Yemeni civil war (and also the Tigray war in Ethiopia, or is that on pause?). I think one can reasonably say that Saudi Arabia is a major nation. Of course, it's still true that these are not wars that would majorly distract the West from this war.
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  1505.  @VoxHispania  Wouldn't "noble savage" fit the Moriori?
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  1506. Maybe Gensoul had skill when it came to tactical matters that didn't involve anything he might feel is a personal insult.
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  1507.  @VladTevez  "I know NATO's double standards since 1974" What does that have to do with NATO?
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  1508.  @VTh-f5x  That has been declared illegal. Same should be done about annexing Ukrainian territory.
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  1509.  @youknow6968  The Soviet Union persisted long after the initial cadre of revolutionaries was gone (though not indefinitely).
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  1510. "Russia's Wagner group is not as infamous as America's Blackwater." Wagner is far worse than Blackwater.
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  1511. "Sweden hasn't fought a war since they lost Finland" That's false. They participated in the War of the Sixth Coalition after losing Finland and a bit later fought a short war against Norway.
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  1512.  @NotJustBikes  "some of it will just need to be abandoned over the coming decades" I'm sure choosing which neighborhoods to abandon is going to be a "fun" political debate.
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  1513. Musk's companies have at least delivered some working products so it's not that bad even though he clearly overpromises a lot.
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  1514.  @raylopez99  "money does not buy happiness" Income does correlate with happiness.
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  1515.  @tikz_patriot9207  "yes it was ana ttack on the govt indirectly and india's growth.." I don't think that claim makes sense. Making the stock price of one company go down wouldn't affect the Indian government much. In fact, in most cases it shouldn't even affect the company's operations (unless it is or would be raising capital through new equity).
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  1516.  @rvda4601 : I do know what they look like. Here's one example by Matt Easton. As you can see, the pommel isn't super large. Zweihänders have longer grips so they don't need as heavy pommels for balance. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOgw3Xr8rnE Shad has a video where you can see several different swords compared, though some of them (including the zweihänder) are wooden replicas. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb2Cvd_amEc
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  1517. Patrick mentioned that the FDIC took a $13 billion loss here.
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  1518. Can they prevent the projectile from tumbling after release?
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  1519. I'd say it's more likely that Russia destroyed the dam (though it's still very uncertain).
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  1520.  @MC_MMV  "Otherwise you’re just making life more expensive for everyone." It doesn't make it more expensive for everyone. The money collected doesn't vanish (unlike the time spent in traffic jams).
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  1521. 8:00 Then the Winged Hussars arrived!
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  1522. "Given that USA has been able to deal with Cuba since 1903 regarding the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base" What do you mean by "deal" here? Cuba says the US presence in Guantanamo Bay is illegitimate and wants it back but the US simply refuses. In what way does that imply that they would be able to strike a deal with someone else? (Note, I'm not making any claims here about whether the lease of Guantanamo Bay by the US is legitimate or not.)
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  1523. @Mieliepit: Nazis were more competent on the operational level than on the grand strategic level.
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  1524.  @ticiusarakan  I was merely explaining what I think was OP's point. I haven't given my own opinion on the matter.
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  1525.  @Penguinmanereikel  You meant "pursued"?
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  1526. Putin has stated that he wouldn't use nukes unless Russia's existence was threatened which these tanks don't do.
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  1527. "tonight I saw first time all the lights switched off in the road where I used to go for a run" I'd venture to guess that it's not due to the electricity prices but some other reason like electrical failure or a mistake.
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  1528. "it took the Spanish an awful long time to get rid of the Moors and reclaim their nation" In that case Iberia had been (mostly) conquered by a foreign military force. Then it was reconquered by Christian kingdoms. I don't think it works as an analogy.
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  1529.  @organismseven3700  "The conquering foreign military force was comprised of a very different ethnic group to that of the native Spanish." My point was that there isn't any government or ruler set up by conquerors that one could start a military campaign against. Therefore I don't think the Reconquista works very well as an analogy.
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  1530. Do women "constantly belittle men"? I've not noticed such a trend.
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  1531.  David Watson : It's different between a traditional 401(k) and a Roth 401(k). The original comment was talking about a Roth 401(k).
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  1532.  @midlander8186  Denmark is more densely populated than Sweden. There are of course differences to Sweden's neighbors but aren't the differences even bigger relative to Spain, France, and the UK? Then a minor nitpick about this: "Sweden's population is a little less than twice that of Denmark or Norway and more than twice that of Finland." You should swap Norway and Finland here. Finland has a larger population than Norway.
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  1533. How can those farms function in a country that's in a full-blown civil war?
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  1534. "Russia never had that imperialists burden." Russia has precisely the same imperialist burden. It carried out conquests in e.g. Central Asia and has not given up many of those conquests. It's the last remaining colonial empire.
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  1535.  @doktorjohannessen2069  For making steel there are carbon free alternative, namely using hydrogen as a reducing agent instead of carbon. However, that hydrogen needs to be produced with electrolysis which consumes a lot of electricity so this kind of process only makes sense from climatic point of view if you have a lot of low-emission electricity available.
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  1536. Can't wait for him to get the economics Nobel for that insight.
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  1537. What? Why would you want anyone to use nukes? You're completely out of your mind if you really want that.
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  1538. Is there a train line across?
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  1539. "I think one of the main issues is that the "median voter" does not exist, talking to people you'll quickly find that many of them have wildly divergent, often confusing opinions." That's a rather weak argument. If one talks to people, as you suggest, how big is your sample size going to be? Probably far to small to make such conclusions.
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  1540.  @gj1234567899999  "The Chagos islanders were placed there by European colonists." Why would that make them not native? Let's take a comparison to, say, the Maori. Their ancestors arrived to New Zealand in the 1200s when it didn't have prior population. Therefore, they're considered natives. Similarly, the ancestors of the Chagossians arrived on Chagos in the 1700s when it didn't have prior population. Is there a difference to the case of the Maori? I can think of 2 differences. Firstly, the Austronesian ancestors of the Maori made the trip on their own instead of being transported by someone else. However, I don't see why such details of the voyage would matter for the definition of "native". Secondly, settlement of Chagos is more recent. However, it was still more than 2 centuries ago. If too recent arrivals aren't considered native even if there's no prior native population, where is the cutoff? How long do they have to inhabit the place before being considered native?
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  1541.  @Cohen.the.Worrier  That would just give the AG an incentive to try to prevent the release of innocent prisoners.
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  1542. I actually like that better than Blue's suggestion.
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  1543.  @aceofswords1725  "It's like physicists all starting to pronounce nuclear as "nucular" because they heard Gerorge W Bush mispronounce it that way." To my knowledge, that pronunciation is not just Bush's idiolect but it's common in the southern dialects in the US. Therefore, it's just a dialectal variation just like e.g. the difference in the pronunciation of "bath" between many American and British dialects.
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  1544.  @kickedinthecalfbyacow7549  All your base are belong to us.
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  1545.  @asdasdasddgdgdfgdg  "Saudi Arabia has thrown out several millions of African migrants a couple of years ago." Note that these have been mostly undocumented migrants, or at least they are the ostensible target of this policy though they might not be the only ones affected. Deporting people who are legally in a country and have been for a large number of years is a very different matter. If those people have been in the country since birth and/or have citizenship then things become even more difficult.
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  1546.  @lisadsouza5061  They likely won't rise enough to replace hydrocarbon exports for Russia. Uranium is fairly cheap compared to its energy content.
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  1547.  @abum4595  Finland can definitely say "no" to US troops if it wants to but likely it doesn't want to.
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  1548. However, an inanimate object isn't a good analogy for a state or society. A living organism would be a closer analogy. Wounds can heal over time.
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  1549. Finland was confirmed as a republic already in July 1919 but you're labeling it as a kingdom until May 1924.
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  1550. "Why would you jump off there?" He's gone over that in earlier videos. No need to rehash the whole chain of events every single time.
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  1551.  @finlandatwar  Though I don't think that expedition was officially sanctioned by the Finnish government.
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  1552.  @Soshiaircon91  "doesn't seems worth it with economies still recovering from covid" Doesn't seem worth it? Whether it's worth it depends significantly on how bad you consider Russia being able to invaded unimpeded by sanctions. There is a good argument to be made that allowing countries to go on imperialist land-grabs without receiving a severe punishment for it would be very bad because then we could see a lot more of it in the future. The cost to Europeans from the sanctions and Russian counter-sanctions seem quite minor compared to what Putin subjecting Ukrainians to. "it is definitely not working as effectively as it is intended" Are you sure? Russia's central bank was predicting something like 9% contraction this year. Of course, there is a lot of uncertainty about such predictions. At least there isn't much to indicate that the sanctions aren't effective but it's hard to come by good figures because Russia has stopped publishing various kinds of data and some of the published data might be partially fabricated. I'm actually now more optimistic about the effectiveness of the sanctions. When the war began I thought they would not have a quick enough effect to affect the war. I was still in favor of them for the reason that it would seem dangerous to show that this kind of behaviour could go unpunished. Now it seems that the war is going to drag on long enough for the cumulative economic damage from the sanctions to eventually start affecting Russia's capability to continue prosecuting the war.
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  1553. "HOW is it more affordable for me to live here in Singapore than in Australia?" Well, I don't know that much about Australia's economy and I haven't yet watched this video but my guess is going to be that zoning prevents new housing from being built.
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  1554.  @57thorns  "two NATO countries now having S:t Petersburg in artillery range (more or less)" (EDIT: Corrected distances.) St. Petersburg is about 170 km from the Finnish border and over 150 km from the Estonian border. What kind of artillery are you thinking about here? Some kind of rocket artillery?
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  1555. Since a major part of this video was about holding one's own side accountable, I think it would've been better if you would have, as an example, called out someone who's (at least very loosely speaking) on the same side as you for this kind of behaviour.
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  1556. Based on the thumbnail I'm guessing Hungarian politics is just Viktor Orbán and nothing else.
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  1557.  LenNay : "Hockey - net , puck and a hockey stick" And ice. That's the difficult part. Except if you live in a cold climate but even then it's probably only during the winter. In warmer climates and in summer you need a special facility that can facilitate the ice and that isn't so cheap.
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  1558.  @shanerooney7288  "The shutdown during the pandemic was NOT sustainable" But the comparison was to the pandemic recovery fund, not the shutdown. $75 billion is about 0.4% of the EU's GDP. That level of expenditure should be sustainable as long as the political will is there. "The EU hasn't recovered since the pandemic." I disagree. Unemployment rate in the EU is already below the pre-pandemic levels and has only gone down, not up, since the beginning of the current invasion. I'd argue that unemployment is usually a better indicator of how the economy is doing than inflation. (Admittedly, one thing that made lowering the unemployment rate easier is that it was rather on the high side earlier. However, I'd still say things have improved significantly since the pandemic despite the high inflation.) "And while inflation has lowered since the 2022 peak, it is still more than triple the 2018/2019 rate." Inflation back then was arguably too low to be healthy to the economy. At least it was below the ECB's 2% target. And if you think the rate of inflation determines what rate of expenditure to aid Ukraine is sustainable doesn't that mean that if inflation continues to go down the expenditure should at least become easy to afford somewhere during 2024? I would also like to point out that the pre-invasion inflation level in Russia was higher than current Eurozone inflation (and temporarily shot even higher once invasion started). Would you have predicted that that would make the much higher expenditure associated with war unsustainable?
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  1559.  @jameskamotho7513  Thanks for the info.
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  1560. It's clearly a full scale invasion.
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  1561. "there can't be an autonomous gaza" What's the alternative? Israel permanently annexing Gaza? That would seem rather problematic because it would bring about 2 million Arab Muslims into Israel proper. Israel might deny them citizenship rights and only give them the right to reside in the area of the (former) Gaza Strip and maybe some other restricted parts of Israel but I think that would be hard to sustain in the long term. It would probably carry enough risk of a significant demographic shift in Israel in the long term to make many Israelis uneasy with it (even though it wouldn't be enough to make Jews a minority).
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  1562. I think the whole of Europe was in a "Warring States Period" for a very long time, probably for at least one and a half a millennium.
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  1563. Out of curiosity, are there any Greek Cypriots who would favor just recognizing Northern Cyprus as independent?
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  1564. Just reading court documents works quite well for some YouTube lawyers, like e.g. Leonard French, so I'm sure just reading SEC complaints could work just as well for you.
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  1565.  @williamzk9083  "I suspect Iskander is hypersonic for only about the first 100-120 seconds of its flight out to 200-250kkm and rapidly looses speed after motor burnout ." Aren't ballistic missiles hypersonic also in the descent phase?
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  1566. I'm from Helsinki. I would not cycle here at all because I absolutely refuse to cycle with motor traffic. But, even if that weren't an issue, the bike lanes near where I live seem to be completely filled with big piles of snow this winter.
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  1567.  @a.m.armstrong8354  I'm only saying that Alexander's claims (in these titles) are plainly incorrect.
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  1568.  @Nerd3927  That's not a realistic worry. Heat engines cannot reduce their waste heat below the Carnot limit.
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  1569.  @danijelprljic5565  "when people will learn there is no justice" Are you claiming that Serbs don't care about such things? You have to realize if Serbia regains control of Kosovo then Kosovo Albanians would again be your citizens (assuming you're from Serbia) and you have to take just as good care of them as you do or Serbs. Any kind of abuse of them cannot be tolerated.
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  1570.  @ricn5494 : "He was a treasonous coward" I'm not going to dispute the "treasonous" part but "coward" is certainly inaccurate. Manning clearly took a great personal risk in doing what she did (whether you think it was right or wrong). That doesn't speak of fearfulness and thus "coward" doesn't apply.
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  1571. India is much more densely populated because it's a fertile region. In the past, populations of different regions tended to rise to the level that the land could support and even today the ratios of the populations of different regions tend to be similar to those of the past (though not in every case) even though currently the world population is below what the world could support (at least in the short term).
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  1572. Seizing Taiwan poses an economic risk as it too could trigger sanctions. China probably doesn't want to do that while it's still dealing with the problem of its overleveraged and failing developers.
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  1573. Should I be worried if that kind of love is in my food?
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  1574. At least in North America, the French treated the natives better than the English did.
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  1575.  @oneautumnleaf5270  "Technically the alcohol is burned off." Not necessarily. You might have most of it left in the food depending on how you cook your food. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxqAGbJ3bSA
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  1576. "There is no border between Australian and Indonesian waters. There is only a border of EEZs, which is limited to jurisdiction over fishing and other economic activities." I think you can say that Sam made no mistake here. The terms "Australian waters" and "Indonesian waters" aren't official technical terms so they can easily refer to territorial waters, contiguous zones, or exclusive economic zones depending on context. Also, the jurisdiction over fishing is what matters here.
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  1577.  @ArchOfficial  Both Ukrainian and Russian are widely spoken in Ukraine. Thus I'd say both "Kyiv" and "Kiev" are just fine.
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  1578. Some European countries, e.g. Denmark, have a 25% VAT.
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  1579. Actually, I have to amend my previous comment a bit. Apparently the Haredim men attending religious studies do receive some kind of stipend from the Israeli state so their women are not the only ones supporting them. I have to still comment that I don't think they have any kind of ban on work as such and many do work. However, many do spend considerable amount of time in the religious studies. Often that doesn't for their whole life but after they tend to be disadvantaged in the labor market and unemployment and poverty are much more common than for secular and moderately religious Israelis.
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  1580.  @AnexoRialto  To my knowledge, hedge fund managers typically also have a share in the fund that they're managing, so it's partially their own money.
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  1581.  @Archon139  He probably meant "Bri'ish".
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  1582.  @kenoliver8913  One option would be to just harshly criticize Maduro without implementing sanctions.
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  1583. "May those who did it and their descendants be cursed!" Descendants? With that kind of logic, pretty all of mankind would be cursed.
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  1584. England was already at war with Spain but then sued for peace and tried to get rights to trade with the Spanish ports in South America. The got the right to send one ship per year to each port, which was nowhere near enough.
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  1585.  @arronjameshook : I was kind of playing along and responding with a technicality.
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  1586. ​ @NilfgardianNationalist  I think those with East Jerusalem residency status also have a special right to apply for Israeli citizenship though only something like 5% of them have acquired citizenship. Some may be turned away by the language requirement but my understanding is that a majority chooses not to apply to show support for the Palestinian cause including getting East Jerusalem to be the capital of the Palestinian state.
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  1587. If they're not reused this way they still need to be transported to a landfill, a cement kiln, or some other kind of facility because they usually can't just be buried onsite. It's not obvious that transporting them to some location to form a bridge etc. would be worse.
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  1588. I think he's mostly just violating trademarks, not copyright.
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  1589.  @4Usuality  "Neutrality in the past has really... never worked as a form of deterrence" I think that claim is rather overreaching. Besides Switzerland, Spain was also not attacked in WWII nor was Sweden. In WWI the Netherlands and Denmark weren't attacked. I'd say depending on the case neutrality can make you avoid joining a war that breaks out. However, how successful it is depends a lot on the situation.
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  1590.  @DemPilafian  At least part of the reason why neutrality can, at least in theory, work as a deterrent is that in any conflict/rivalry attacking a neutral power would be a net negative for both sides. Anyone who attacks first just risks pushing the neutral power to the opposing camp; or at least has to fight additional troops without it being necessary. It depends on the situation whether the benefits to the attacker would outweigh the downsides. In the case of WWII the Soviet Union may have made some strategic mistakes. If it had been less aggressive to its neighbors it may have been able to avoid having to fight also fight Finland and possibly Romania when Germany invaded.
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  1591. Which means that cars are even worse in NYC than in Helsinki.
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  1592. "architecture channels don't admit the lack of humanity and beauty in modern construction styles" Which channels are you referring to here? I've only happened to see architecture channels that do admit those flaws (though that's like 2 or 3 channels). I would like to see an honest defense of modernist architecture, if only out of curiosity.
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  1593.  @jdlucree  The courts also make case law even if they don't write statutes. That's the name of the game in Common Law jurisdictions.
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  1594. Though I've heard that at least some of the battering rams on the early siege towers were upward-pointing and with a chisel-like head. Apparently, the idea was to just knock stones off the parapet for better access rather than to knock down the whole wall. Also, even a collapsed wall can still be a major obstacle so the tower might be needed to cross it.
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  1595.  @scronx  E.g. simulating quantum systems.
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  1596.  @solsunman383  "Morocco should stop talking about Ceuta and Melilla" I agree but, by the same token, Spain should also stop talking about Gibraltar.
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  1597. But at least she became better in the end.
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  1598.  @GeorgeMasterclass  "therefore legaly even the Turks in the northern part could be considered EU citizens but are not" You're mistaken. They are EU citizens. Or at least the ones that the Republic of Cyprus considers to be Cypriots. Naturalized immigrants from Turkey are not EU citizens.
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  1599.  @AmauryJacquot  But Russia also can't raise nearly as much money by debt financing since it's access to global financial markets has diminished a lot.
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  1600.  @malxadolasanadam  Cold can probably be dealt with by just dressing warmly enough and Portugal isn't the coldest country in any case. If you're from one of the former socialist countries of Europe, Portugal is still richer than most of them (with some Exceptions like Czechia, Slovenia, and Estonia) so I'd think an e-bike is affordable to a significant part of the Portuguese population. Also note that OP was complaining about the numerous taxes on cars in Portugal; they probably make cars less affordable than e-bikes in most cases.
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  1601.  @reiniernn9071  That sounds like enough range for a large portion of commutes. Also, you'd have to consider that even with highest levels of assist your own pedaling will provide almost 30% of the power and likely more than that on average (though in the case of hilly terrain you'd likely prefer the higher amount of assist). That will add to the range you calculated.
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  1602.  @ghostshadow9046  Even a very rudimentary mask likely reduces the spread of virus-containing droplets somewhat (especially if you cough or sneeze).
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  1603. Bipartisan, the worst kind of partisan.
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  1604.  @gsvick  Yugoslavia could reasonably be counted as West European. It's not that far to the east and it wasn't a part of the Eastern Bloc during socialist times.
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  1605.  @samhunter1205  It does rule it out because it's median, not mean. Only the top few % (or even any top % less than 50%) getting richer wouldn't affect that statistic at all.
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  1606.  @samhunter1205  Yeah, it's really annoying. I have to come back to conversations to check if my comments are there and sometimes try to post them multiple times with different wordings.
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  1607.  @gaborrajnai6213  "you make an argument, that a 1000 strong Russian airforce can't break through ukrainian AD" Ukraine's airspace is still contested despite Russia's advantage.
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  1608. You mean him suing the physical structure?
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  1609. That's not a bad solution.
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  1610. 8:00 "how on earth a balloon could cause a power outage" Operation Outward.
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  1611. What about the Battle of Castillon?
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  1612. In Finland, there's so-called everyman's right which means that you can generally move in nature and camp for a limited time without needing permission from the landowner. You can also freely collect berries and mushrooms there and usually, you can also fish with a single fishing rod without needing permission from the landowner.
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  1613.  @Dratchev241  It's not simple if you've lost your job because of the pandemic or lockdown.
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  1614.  @hereigoagain5050  A more relevant comparison would probably be some other former Eastern Bloc country like the Baltic states or Czechia or Poland.
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  1615. 0:20 To anyone who hasn't tried climbing, this isn't actually realistic worry. A normal healthy person can climb the easiest routes with little difficulty. If you can climb ladders (I mean, ladders with rungs, not stepladders) you can climb the easiest routes. From thereon the difficulty curve is reasonably gradual so you'll likely to find good routes for you skill level. No need to feel intimidated.
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  1616.  @ElGatoLoco698  "Shoulda said state supreme court." The 8th circuit spans multiple states. I don't think a state supreme court can overrule a federal appeals court. The only place to appeal to now is the Supreme Court of the United States.
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  1617. But that's also a very low bar.
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  1618. "What percentage of the battery capacity do you need to use each day to keep the battery at operating temperature?" The battery charging and discharging heats it up (because the battery isn't 100% efficient) so you might not need separate heating most of the time.
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  1619.  @ryanward10  "Since money only has value if people believe in it, isn't that a distinction without a difference?" No, it definitely isn't (though in practice the difference won't matter all that often). In the case of a bank deposit the safety of your money depends on both the soundness of the bank and that of the underlying currency. If you own base money directly then it's only the latter.
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  1620. I think for many people this would be enough. The point is not how much you're paid. The point is that you're paid at all and that gives you bragging rights. Of course, a bigger bounty could still be useful as it could incentivize more people to do this kind of stuff.
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  1621. "B (B)" Shouldn't that be "B (Б)"?
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  1622. "the govt or central bank believing they can "tackle" hyperinflation "if and when we see it." But by that point it's too late." They should tackle it already when the 2% inflation target is exceeded i.e. far before hyperinflation and we're really far from hyperinflation so I wouldn't be too worried about that. Too low inflation or deflation can be pretty harmful as well. It's a balancing act.
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  1623. Probably won't happen any time soon and even if did happen there is no reason to expect that it would lead to much inflation or impoverishment. There are some benefits to your currency being a widely used reserve currency but the benefits are fairly modest compared to the size of the US economy so losing those benefits wouldn't result in anything dramatic.
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  1624. "If you're not Brazilian" I think Jabzy is from England, specifically from Newcastle upon Tyne.
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  1625.  @fish9468 : Building more is at least a partial solution and a good one at that. Not all plants are over budget.
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  1626.  @ivanmase99  There are similarities, especially if you compare to the US of the past when the federal government was weaker than today.
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  1627.  @ivanmase99  That 33% limit is decided by the ECB Governing Council itself. It was 25% before but at some point, they raised it to 33%. Besides, I've not heard of that particular limit being breached (though I wasn't quickly able to find info on it). Have you?
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  1628. If you mean your YouTube username, fear not. The P isn't aspirated there because there's another consonant right after it.
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  1629. I see plenty of comments disagreeing with him. If any comments are deleted, why are you assuming they're deleted by him rather than YouTube?
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  1630.  @eternalbattle1438  "Turkey is devastated with crisis and the lira collapsing. It's just the reality. Who's to blame? I dunno. I'm not an economist." It's pretty plain to see that Erdoğan is to blame at least for a significant part. Economists agree that the Turkish central bank should raise interest rates to reduce inflation but Erdoğan has just fired any central bank governor who tried to do that.
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  1631.  @Jaihind_RG  I thought you said that your ancestors fought for freedom from the Mughals.
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  1632.  @TheStarBlack  He's a professional photographer and films stuff like this to license it out. The simplest explanation is that he wants money from people who use his footage and that he deemed that this wasn't fair use (whether he's right or not in that regard). Is there anything "between the lines" that speaks against this explanation?
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  1633.  @nom6758  I think you didn't quite understand my point. OP (Kyrus Darkblade) wrote: "Bro if you were a good Muslim you wouldn't have gotten into gambling in the first place". However, that's a bit of strange argument against him because at the time he was talking about his gambling addiction he had already been revealed as a liar and I'd imagine that such lying would be worse than gambling in the eyes of Muslims.
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  1634. Hedge funds are structured as pass-through entities so that they themselves don't pay taxes. The investors pay individual taxes when (and only when) the profits are distributed to them.
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  1635.  @accbxammepep9020  It was still winter when the invasion started.
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  1636. @ Can you or anyone present any evidence that USAID is funding gender studies in foreign countries? I would be surprised if it did and I'm pretty sure that even if something like that is found it's tiny compared to e.g. distributing food or medical aid.
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  1637. Haha! (In case that wasn't a joke, it was "merger arbitrage".)
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  1638.  @ObieOnce  How come? I think you can reasonably say that the descendants of the first inhabitants are natives. You could say that Chagos is different because a) it was settled more recently than many other places, and b) the first settlers were brought to there by Europeans rather than coming there on their own. However, I don't see why either of these facts would be crucial for the definition of "native".
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  1639.  @ObieOnce  "the people did not originate there" Almost every place was settled for the first time by humans at some point and the first settlers obviously didn't originate in the place they were settling. By your logic, you could say that e.g. the Maori are not native in New Zealand because their Austronesian ancestors who first settled New Zealand in the 1200s did not originate there. Basically, no place would have natives, apart maybe from some parts of eastern Africa where humans are believed to have originated, because any place would be first settled by people who did not originate there. "Nobody calls European people who settled new lands natives" But isn't that because those places had prior populations?
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  1640.  @ObieOnce  Chagos (and Mauritius) islands were settled over 2 centuries ago. I think that's enough. Also, at least I think it makes sense to call the Falkland Islanders (a.k.a. Kelpers) natives. Maybe that word isn't often used of them but I've not heard anyone say they're not natives.
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  1641. "Poland formally never surrendered." Presumably, he was referring to when the last Polish forces still physically in Poland surrendered.
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  1642.  @MattSezer  Isn't the point of a protected bike lane that cars can't turn into it (at least not without running over a curb or some other barrier which they're less likely to do)? I certainly wouldn't have the courage to ride a bike in a lane that's separated from car traffic with paint and nothing more.
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  1643.  @del7723 : Googled it and it indeed seems that cars indeed have higher emissions per passenger km assuming one is driving alone (which I was assuming in my comment).
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  1644.  @del7723 : It was just a small comment on the "nothing more harmful". People do in fact at least some times drive alone.
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  1645.  @uglyduckling81 : I didn't know before this that Australia doesn't have any nuclear power plants. That's pretty surprising. Is there a law against that or something or is coal just too cheap?
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  1646. Are you sure? That sounds way low. I have measuring spoons for those and the tablespoon is 15 ml (whereas the teaspoon is 5 ml).
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  1647.  @unvergebeneid  "seven billion dollars" Where does this figure come from. Facebook's annual revenue is under $100 billion. It sounds a bit weird if a one day outage could cost such a large fraction of an entire year's revenue.
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  1648.  @stevekillgore9272  Is there evidence of that?
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  1649.  @stevekillgore9272  Well, is there any evidence for it?
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  1650.  @cormano64  The price hike was at least morally questionable but it's not a crime. The law generally allows companies to price their products as they see fit (even if it might sometimes lead to suboptimal results).
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  1651.  @cormano64  "You people with your mental gymnastics are unbelievable." I merely explained why the price hike wasn't a factor in his prison sentence, nothing more.
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  1652. Armenia and Georgia might be counted to be in Europe depending on where exactly you define the Europe-Asia border in the Caucasus to lie. In Turkey's case, there is no unclear land border and only a small part of Turkey (East Thrace) lies in Europe.
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  1653. If there's really going to be "one cable to rule them all" the connector needs to be fairly thin, like USB-C, so it's good for the thinner phones. TOSLINK seems too thick for that.
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  1654. "Ru needs to TRIPLE it's uranium prices" They wouldn't get many buyers with such prices.
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  1655.  @henli-rw5dw  I don't know if you meant that but SWIFT and the dollar being a reserve currency are not connected to each other.
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  1656.  @hoangle2483  "Allowing them to hold short time means nothing." It means plenty. The average holdings can be very small. Let's take a fictional example. A country buys $1 billion worth of oil per year. It makes payments 10 times a year and has to hold dollars on average for one week for each transaction. That means the country would be holding $100 million on average each 5th week which would make the holdings $10 million on average which is a pretty small sum. Countries often hold way more in forex reserves but that's completely voluntary.
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  1657.  @ionpopescu3167  It's possible to build suburbia denser afterwards. Preventing building suburbia will only help if we get some new housing. If nothing gets built that's even worse. More people will be homeless.
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  1658. Well, they haven't been a mercantile superpower, now have they? ...yet!
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  1659.  @nonyabisness6306  "We literally pumped billions into R&D and paid companies to start production and then paid people to buy them." Solar is cheap enough to be very economical, at least in sunny climates like Australia, even when you consider the intermittent nature. The R&D for both solar and nuclear have been subsidized. Still nuclear is often a bit too expensive currently, though that depends on the case. The dawn of nuclear was also due to governments saying so. However, the current economics of solar vs. nuclear are due to physical reality and the state of those technologies (and location), not some government decision. "Not sure where you're getting your information about EPR, but issues there are mostly political and due to people leaving projects after fukushima." I don't believe that. Olkiluoto 3 and Flamanville 3 are not behind schedule and over budget due to Fukushima.
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  1660. 5:00 You say you're not sure about ballistic missiles but soon after you mention Kinzhals which are ballistic missiles.
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  1661.  @giadinhhang5988  I can see myself watching videos for either of those.
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  1662. Except when it came to ship design.
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  1663. I don't think NATO made any such promises.
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  1664. I've seen some other YouTubers comment that ad revenue has fallen a lot, by about 50% more specifically. Though that's probably still enough for Graham to be worth his time and provide for comfortable living and high savings.
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  1665. I think the proximity to the sea just means a lot of snowfall (or rainfall) and the mountains make it all rain in one place. Also, Alaska's coldness might mean less moisture in the air and therefore less precipitation and less snow. (But this is just my speculation, not certain knowledge.)
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  1666. At least my experience has been that when using rebase you're going to be solving merge conflicts just like you would with a regular merge. Maybe you can find some more unusual cases where it gets more difficult but I've not come across those.
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  1667. I think using Latinized forms of names was all the rage back then but Gustav Adolf was the actual name.
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  1668. "Ukraine was about to join NATO." Not any time soon it wasn't. Maybe in the distant future.
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  1669.  @sotch2271  But that wasn't the core of the argument. The point was that in 2011 there were protests and a rebellion aiming to overthrow Kaddafi and he was clearly willing to kill a lot of people in response. The claim is that more people would have died in that violence without intervention. I'm not sure if that's true or not but the statistics you mention don't tell that.
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  1670.  @HiddenHeathen  "Sri Lankan people have to thank the WEF for fertilizer import ban." The World Economic Forum? How is it related to the ban (if it's what you were referring to)?
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  1671.  @greatbriton8425  "the instant the cart goes faster than the wind, the wind is no longer pushing it. No energy is being input into the system." There's still energy being input into the system. Even though the cart is going faster than the wind the propeller is spinning fast enough that overall the cart is slowing wind down behind it rather than accelerating it. This is where the energy is extracted from.
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  1672. That's literally explained in the video itself (though only in text form).
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  1673.  @reubensandwich9249  "For some nations, it doesn't make financial sense to have tanks, Netherlands comes to mine." According to Wikipedia, the Netherlands has 18 Leopard 2 main battle tanks.
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  1674.  Luís Andrade  "dividends give you more flexibility" In theory, both options have the same flexibility for publicly traded stocks because an investor can always choose to buy/sell as much as he wants. "buy backs only happen when a company wants while dividends are the ones who happen regularly" Both dividends and buybacks have to be decided at the general meeting. Dividends are only regular if it's decided so. They don't happen any more automatically than buybacks. "A company consistently buying back its shares is a huge red flag" Why is it a huge red flag?
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  1675. And Sweden.
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  1676. Denmark has a single 25% VAT, i.e. no lowered rates for certain types of goods like in many countries.
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  1677. "I oftentimes think that we need a benign dictator" That kind of thing can be a bit risky. If you're lucky, things might go well. If you're unlucky with your choice of dictator, getting rid of him might be impossible.
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  1678. Imagine having 30 years of war (both civil and external) because some dudes were thrown out of the window.
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  1679.  @Afgan8844  I think in Estonia getting citizenship requires some level of proficiency in the Estonian language, though I'm not 100% sure.
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  1680.  @bultvidxxxix9973  "No, there will always be volatility drag. The reason is that you apply a linear factor to something that doesn't scale linearly." I'm not sure what you're referring to here. I only said a hypothetical ideal ETF that rebalances at every infinitesimal moment wouldn't experience volatility drag. In real life, that's not possible for various reasons (e.g. stock prices don't really move continuously.)
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  1681.  @IvanSoregashi  " Nothing will happen if NATO will not try to expand eastward." Putin's invasion of Ukraine makes it quite likely that Sweden and/or Finland will join NATO in the near future. That likely wouldn't have happened without the invasion.
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  1682.  @RealPackCat  "He did not attack first." I don't think you can just say that like we know it to be the case. That was what the accused says. He definitely should have the right to testify that but it's not rational to immediately conclude that his version of the story is definitely the right one. At least you should qualify that statement with some word indicating uncertainty.
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  1683.  @jypsridic  "You don't have to be rich to pick up a gun and shoot at the cartels." Who can realistically think "if I start shooting at the cartels, the problems in Mexico will be solved"?
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  1684.  @_Abjuranax_ : You wrote: "But shoot to kill, not wound. And if it is worth one round, it is worth two. There were conflicting stories in this case, which is why they had a greater chance of losing the case to begin with." If wounding is sufficient to defend yourself, killing should be avoided. You seemed to suggest that one should try to ensure that the burglar actually dies instead of merely being wounded and the reason you gave is to stop some of the facts (i.e. the burglar's testimony) from getting to the knowledge of the court for a greater probability of a favorable ruling. Sacrificing a life to cover up facts is what struck me as morally repugnant.
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  1685. I bet its heat output is a fraction of 1500 W.
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  1686. "Google Pharmaceutical Insurance Business Model. [...] Don't repeat the US Court of Justice failures." The Daraprim price hike wasn't why he went to prison.
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  1687.  @Maranville  People can be influenced but I wouldn't call different perspectives (on subjective things, I mean) confused whether that perspective is due to outside influence or not.
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  1688.  @Maranville  I think there can be good (non-extraordinary reasons) to sometimes tear down buildings.
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  1689.  @Maranville  Style could weigh somewhat to one direction or the other but demolishing something due to style alone would IMHO require very extreme circumstances. If some building is ugly it's probably cheaper to make some slight modifications to make it prettier, such as painting it. I was more thinking of cases where either a) some building is currently a very inefficient use of space in a high-demand area, or b) place that has experience large population decline so case can be made for a portion of the formerly populated areas to be returned to wilderness.
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  1690.  Luís Andrade  "That's why dividends> buybacks" That doesn't make any sense. Debt-funded dividends should (in theory at least) be just as good or bad as debt-funded buybacks.
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  1691.  @ProfAzimov  That may make more sense if there is a sufficiently profitable investment available but that's not always the case. Generally, it doesn't make sense for a business to invest ad infinitum. There are diminishing returns to investment and at some point the returns get too small.
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  1692. What? Are people saying that Italy would have been militarily more efficient if she had been more antisemitic?
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  1693.  @acmefixer1  You can't build them fast enough. They should be ready already this year. I don't think there is an alternative to lignite on the short term. (Note that I'm specifically talking about the potential acute crisis that may come from the unreliability of Russian gas deliveries during the Ukraine war. I'm not talking about the longer term.)
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  1694.  @brettmoore3194  "heat isnt energy" I didn't say that heat isn't energy but rather that it's not work. "Heat does work by expansion of gases moving a piston or being stored as energy like thermal mass" But the efficiency is limited and you can't get over 100% efficiency for such a system. A heat engine produces work by moving heat from hot reservoir to cold reservoir. Only a part of this heat gets converted to work and the maximum efficiency allowed by thermodynamics (Carnot limit) is 1-T₂/T₁ where T₂ is the temperature of the hot reservoir and T₁ the temperature of the cold reservoir. Similarly, a heat pump pumping heat from cold to hot reservoir has a maximum efficiency (or power coefficient) of (1-T₂/T₁)⁻¹. If you drive a heat engine with a heat pump the maximum efficiency is the product of these i.e. 1. Thus, the maximum efficiency for doing work is still 100%. You can get higher efficiency for heating but not for doing work. You can't cheat thermodynamics.
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  1695. @ Adopting the EEA treaty (like Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein have done) wouldn't have been technically difficult but Brexiteers would never accept something like that.
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  1696. The title says "Every Other World Conflict" but you didn't say how this affects the conflict in Myanmar.
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  1697.  @BeachandHills-hb2pq  "You were a Republic and those who fight get the vote." You're just stating that without giving a justification for why that should be the case.
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  1698.  @asharahmad1068  But that's a very big "if". It doesn't seem likely. He seems intent on continuing his crazy monetary policy (and monetary policy shouldn't even be decided by the president). Even if he's able to enact other policies that help the economy the increasing inflation is likely to cause more inefficiencies and still cause the economy to deteriorate.
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  1699.  @drharnsaft1005  It seems to me that Greeks and Turks share a lot of culture so that doesn't seem like a reason to exclude Turkey due to culture, whereas geography would seem to lead to the exclusion of Cyprus. You could argue religion but then that would also bring into question whether Albania and Bosnia are culturally European.
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  1700.  @KeijoAmbersson  "True, I did not include pension etc. in my example to keep it simpler. Those included my total income deductions (or total tax rate) would be 30,65%." But even that is not the total tax rate because most of the pension and UI contributions are on employer side (and in the long term it shouldn't matter which one formally pays them). With employer side tax-like contributions included you probably get pretty close to EE's figures (though ideally these should be compared to total cost to employer rather than gross salary).
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  1701.  @giornaguirne  At least e.g. a piece on Techie + Gamers by Bob McCullough disagrees with you. It says that Patrick was born in Boston (the one in Massachusets, not the one in Lincolnshire) but his family soon moved to Dublin and that's where he grew up. And yes, that article is definitely about this Patrick Boyle and not someone else. It has a picture of him and talks about this YouTube channel. I guess I can't be 100% certain but this seems fairly reliable to me. Also, I don't think his accent is strong evidence to the contrary. Him growing up in Dublin would most likely affect his accent more than him being born in Boston.
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  1702.  @ZeroNumerous  You got the timeline mixed up. Stuxnet was discovered in 2010. The JCPOA was agreed on in 2015, i.e. several years later. Presumably Iran was refining weapons-grade uranium prior to 2015 but I'm not aware of any evidence that they were doing it in 2015-18. IAEA inspectors not detecting violations of the JCPOA isn't predicated on whether Iran is rational or not.
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  1703.  @willc1294  "Average height in any society is usually related to nutrition across several generarions." I'm pretty sure that in modern times in Europe nutrition is mostly good enough that it doesn't affect height anymore and differences are primarily genetic.
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  1704.  @roseroserose588  "it is a shame to see the structures go" Aren't they kind of ugly?
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  1705.  @Batmans_Pet_Goldfish  "Paying the once a day congestion charge is still cheaper than the public transportation cost for most people." Some people use public transport even though there is no congestion charge yet. If the get gets narrower, more people can be expected to choose that option. And if the charge isn't enough to make anyone to not drive, it can always be increased until it does. And even if there's still no effect, it's a better way to collect revenue than taxes which can have distortionary effects on incentives and lead to deadweight loss.
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  1706. Better late than never.
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  1707.  @LodovicoAriosto1  That's what I meant. Both Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan were Soviet Republics. I think that's what mislead Ker-Lindsay to say that they're both now common neighbors with Russia and Iran even though that's actually only true for Azerbaijan.
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  1708. I think the smell of vinegar is kind of nice.
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  1709. "The last war won by an American was the American Civil War" What about the Gulf War in 1990?
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  1710. One should note that hydrocarbon exports have been bringing Russia far more revenue than uranium exports.
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  1711. But 4 of them have better fertility than Russia (and 3 have worse). In addition, they are more attractive to immigrants and have higher pension ages.
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  1712. I own one (1) share of Lucking Coffee. It hasn't done very well. :( (EDIT: Or I guess it's technically an ADR.)
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  1713. "1.1991-1995 Yogoslavian civil war [...] So you see how many conflicts happened in east Europe these decades." I don't think you can count Yugoslavia as eastern Europe.
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  1714.  @frida507  Check Strandudden. According to Wikipedia it is a gated community (grindsamhälle).
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  1715.  @emylily8266  "It is in fact a very valuable protection for employees" But it should be noted that not becoming unemployed can, depending on situation, have more value for at least some employees. At any rate, I mainly wanted to point out that this particular disadvantage of capitalist firms relative to co-ops might not be an inherent feature of that type of structure for the firm but rather artificially imposed on it. Whatever one's policy preferences might be, that aspect (if true) should be considered when comparing conventional firms and co-ops.
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  1716.  @NinaNooneknows  Yes, that's probably the reason. I mostly just wanted to point out how "you speak <language X> well" doesn't necessarily feel as intended.
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  1717.  @meinardsl  "that one town in Ukraine near Belarusian border is still a horrifying reminder of what can happen" But even with this one severe incident nuclear power is statistically much safer than most alternatives. Similarly for hydropower one single incident (Banqiao, 1975) killed far more people than all nuclear accidents combined but most people are not demanding a phase-out of hydropower. "Also, the region would still be entirely reliant on importing the fuel for the reactors and should that supply chain become unreliable due to a conflict or change of heart from suppliers the potential for disaster would be significantly worse than current energy crisis." No, it would be far less of a problem. Firstly, uranium is cheap compared to the energy content it has so it's much easier to find alternative suppliers as they don't have to come from nearby. Secondly, nuclear plants usually store something like a year's worth of fuel on their premises which leaves a lot of time to sort out any supply chain hiccups.
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  1718.  @AngelicaAtomic  But Flamanville 3 began construction over 2 year later than Olkiluoto 3 and you need to account for that.
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  1719. Sometimes they are, e.g. Napoléon vs. Russia in 1812 is one example. Of course, it can only work for the defender, not the invader.
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  1720. It should be noted that even hydroelectric dams can lead to some loss of water as their reservoirs increase the surface area from which water can evaporate. However, that might not be such a big issue in this particular case since the GERD is in a cooler and less arid region than e.g. the Aswan dam and its reservoir has a much smaller surface area than Lake Nasser.
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  1721. What falls under that 5% then? Just curious.
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  1722.  @neodym5809  Germany, not France.
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  1723. One point to add is that not only are winds winds stronger at higher altitudes but also more consistent which is important because the intermittent nature of wind energy is probably its biggest downside.
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  1724.  vbddfy euuyt  What's worse, the architect (Viñoly) had already made the same mistake before in Las Vegas but he thought that London would be cloudy enough that it wouldn't matter.
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  1725.  @MrNukedawhales  "i said that france "delivered what it promised"" I'm not so sure of that, considering the conditions during the 3rd referendum. It should have costed France nothing to delay the 3rd referendum by a couple of years, unless they thought that it would cause the independence side to win.
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  1726. But on very long distances humans can outrun almost all other land animals with some rare exceptions like certain types of dogs.
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  1727.  @LHFX  "Energy required does not increase linearly with speed except when accelerating." The aerodynamic drag is roughly proportional to the square of the speed. "Most of the time the truck is cruising at constant speed and the energy is used to fight drag. Drag has nothing to do with the weight of your cargo." The rolling resistance from the tyres (and bearings, etc.) is a major factor as well and it increases with weight. (Also, the drag is higher too because of the larger cross-section.)
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  1728. There's one hypothetical war ending scenario you didn't mention. You could argue that ending US aid pushes the "white line" so much to the west that all of Ukraine ends up occupied by Russia.
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  1729. "He will ensure maximum independency of Turkey." He will seemingly also ensure the deterioration of the Turkish economy (unless he changes course).
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  1730. That's not true. Switzerland is very industrialized. Their banks bring them a lot of fame (or infamy) but they're not as big a part of the Swiss economy as you might think. Financial services make up about 11.6% of the GDP.
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  1731. 5:25 Are those changes percent changes or percentage point changes? You say the former but in this context the latter would probably be the more typical metric.
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  1732. I would guess soldiers today don't use the services of prostitutes as much, at least not when on campaign (though I'm not certainly claiming that it never happens).
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  1733. One relevant set of facts is that Russia has attacked two countries that aren't NATO members (Georgia and Ukraine) but it hasn't attacked a NATO member so far.
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  1734. Definition of gravity: "the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth, or towards any other physical body having mass".
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  1735.  @LotusHart01 : "How when the divorce rates are so high?" Presumably it's the happier marriages that tend to survive and the unhappy ones don't.
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  1736.  @God-es3oo  Bosnia hasn't been given a permission to use the Euro. That's not illegal as long as Bosnia isn't an EU members. However, it presents a problem for them potentially joining the EU as all EU members are supposed to fulfill a bunch of requirements (such as being in ERM II for 2 years) before adopting the Euro.
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  1737.  @JK-dv3qe  So you're basically predicting a Russian victory in about a month or less. That seems way too fast to be achievable.
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  1738. I find that hard to believe. Has anyone presented credible evidence of that?
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  1739. No, he has a husband and one child.
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  1740.  @latemnetlom  "includes the heat of condensation of the product water once you burn the H2" But I got the impression that the current use for the hydrogen they produce isn't mostly for burning or fuel cells.
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  1741. 15:07 "Tax your industry out of competitiveness and then try to help them by imposing duties on imports, genius." I don't get what your complaint here is. Greenhouse emissions are harmful and there is a need to reduce them. That reduction is hardly free but the damage to mankind from the emissions is greater. Imposing a monetary cost on emissions is the most efficient way to reduce emissions because it eliminates least useful emissions first. Also, duties may be in order to prevent European consumption from just producing similar emissions through other countries.
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  1742. There are other choices. They're just not likely to get many votes.
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  1743.  @korayven9255  I never made claims about that. My comment were narrowly about some of the aspects of how this currency probably would work and the comparison to the Euro.
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  1744.  @2639theboss  It seems your latest comment was deleted but I can still answer. The currency would probably be redeemable for a basket of currencies. This is similar to how Special Drawing Rights are redeemable for a basket of 5 different currencies (U.S. dollar 43.38%, euro 29.31%, renminbi (Chinese yuan) 12.28%, Japanese yen 7.59%, British pound sterling 7.44%).
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  1745. I'm not sure how fitting that saying would be as it would apply to Sabine just as well.
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  1746. Nuclear power is a part of the solution.
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  1747. Though Russia seems to have done somewhat worse than predicted here. At least not that many Ukrainian troops seem to have been isolated into pockets and dealt with in piecemeal.
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  1748.  @joshuaewalker  I meant it's 120V relative to the neutral wire.
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  1749.  @joshuaewalker  "it is not functionally the same as "two phase power"" What's the functional difference then? I maintain that there is none. This doesn't matter anyway since in my previous comment I provided an alternative wording that doesn't use the word "phase" (when referring to the US) so that should make it clear what I meant. "So, when we need 240 volts we do not combine those two separate legs we simply use the normal 240 volt single phase that is coming into the house" Those two are the same thing. You can't combine those two in a way that would be different from using the whole 240V phase.
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  1750.  @joshuaewalker  "I think we're actually on the same page so I'm not sure where the argument is anymore." It seems to me what we argued about was wording but that's not what my original reply to you was about. In your comment responding to a comment by VorpalGun (which mentioned 3-phase power) you wrote: "Frankly, other than 3-phase motors, I don't see where having 3-phase power would ever be needed or useful at the residential level." Here's my reply: In the US, you get 120V between a live and a neutral wire but you can get 240V between two live wires (disagreement causing words avoided in here). In Europe, you get 230V between a live and a neutral wire but you can get 400V between two live wires (of different phases of 3-phase power). I think this higher (400V) voltage one can get is why he mentioned 3-phase power rather than "really" using 3-phase power (i.e. using all 3 phases in an appliance).
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  1751.  @joshuaewalker  I'm just speculating here but maybe they use all three phases because it might be easier to just wire all three phases to the device if needs more than one phase and it doesn't have to use normal outlets or maybe taking in all the phases results in a more balanced load for all the phases. Obviously, at least resistive heating elements don't need all 3 phases in the same way as some electric motors. I was curious and I checked my breaker table and the stovetop seems to have a 3-pole breaker so it's presumably taking all 3 phases but I suspect none of the individual hot plates uses all 3 phases because I have an induction stovetop I'm not sure how that could work. Also, at least my washing machine is plugged into a normal outlet so it's using just a single phase and 230V. It would sound a bit weird to me if a consumer-grade washing machine would require 3-phase power though I can't be sure that it doesn't happen somewhere.
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  1752. US prison sentences are excessively long IMHO.
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  1753. I have a question about the miscalculation reason. As you said in the video, once this error is revealed in action and a more correct estimate becomes available to both sides then otherwise rational unitary actors should reach a negotiated settlement. However, I'm curious about how common this is in practice. Do leaders often pull out quickly from failed attacks? My intuition would say that leaders might be tempted to "stay the course" even when facing a debacle because admitting defeat is too embarrassing even though it would be less costly materially. On the other hand, continuing an expensive war and throwing away lives just to avoid embarrassment also seems strange behaviour. What kind of behaviour is the most common in that kind of situation?
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  1754. "usually it’s the conduct of their business dealings that make societies turn on these people" Unlikely.
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  1755.  @stirlinggerbic-forsyth3345  The Ukrainian casualties he claims may very well be inflated. I only wanted to say that the (implicit) Russian casualty figures contained in what he said might not necessarily be understated in the same way as an explicit claim about Russian casualties probably would be.
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  1756. Though I think a lot of people consider Romania and Moldova as Eastern European even though Romanian is a Romance language, not a Slavic language.
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  1757. "Also, there's no sense in setting up an LLC that doesn't have assets, as any debt you incur will need to be personally secured by the owner's assets (house, property, whatever)." If you're just doing YouTube videos you might only need your own labor and not any capital (depending on the content) so there might not be a need for the LLC to have assets or take on any debt.
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  1758.  @tongsengpedas  I tried googling and it seems like she might be Esther Brandeau.
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  1759.  @Bozebo  "if they think there's the kind of crime that might cause issues then they might decide to use the coins?" You mean like stealing the shopping carts? I don't think the coin thing is to prevent that. I think even a homeless person could afford one coin to steal a shopping cart, if the cart is useful to him, and he could probably even get the coin back with some amount of violence. I think the real purpose is to make "normal" customers to actually return the carts to proper place instead of leaving them wherever thus creating extra work for the busy staff.
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  1760. "Banks are not restricted in credit creation by the amount of reserves they have" No, that's incorrect. They are restricted. In the US there's a 10% reserve requirement for banks which means that they can't more than 10x the deposits as their liabilities compared to the amount of reserves they have. If a bank is at that 10% limit and wants to make a new loan it needs to get new reserves from somewhere.
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  1761. "if it means I can build housing free of government regulations" Probably not completely free. There will still probably have to be zoning restrictions to limit negative externalities.
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  1762.  @Person01234  "Why would you stop 15% of drivers overtaking instead of 85% of drivers overtaking?" If you mean putting the speed limit at the 15th percentile that's probably too slow. "And who the fuck overtakes down 2 lane city streets." Why are you asking me this? This has nothing to do with my comment as I wasn't talking about city streets.
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  1763.  @ribrahimov  "Also, threatening to arrest male "combatants" does not seem like an unreasonable move, as this is an attempt of demilitarising the territory." A wholesale incarceration of such a large portion of the Armenian population in NK would be rather severe oppression. It would be a rather severe atrocity if Azerbaijan were to actually tyrannize its reintegrated Armenian population in such a brazen manner. (Note, I'm not making claims about whether Azerbaijan would actually tyrannize the Armenians but merely that this particular act would be tyranny if they were to actually do it.)
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  1764.  @jhutt8002  My main was the messages that the ex-girlfriend made public. I still wanted to mention the earlier accusations because they're something that can also add to the controversy in the eyes of some (whether they should or not).
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  1765. "Not having the international supply means that America might be short of petroleum products." That's unlikely. The US has been a net exporter recently, though I think it has since then become a net importer again. However, most of the oil imports of the US come from Canada.
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  1766.  @johnlacey3857  Climate science has good evidence of it.
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  1767. Aren't the coasts pretty dense? Surely they're not sparser than regions in Europe with high-speed rail?
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  1768.  @trequor  "English can simply borrow the concepts it lacks from other languages." Any language can do that.
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  1769. Maybe because of outside pressure and/or because they wanted a respite from the fighting.
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  1770. "My parents Geoffrey and Marion Dixon were huge fans of President Putin" Why?
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  1771.  @C-Culper4874  No, that is the official usage. Here's e.g. what Wikipedia says: "A shell, in a military context, is a projectile whose payload contains an explosive, incendiary, or other chemical filling." [emphasis mine] Sometimes, the word "shell" is used also for the cartridge case (I think more commonly in American English and less so in British English) but that's non-standard usage. "George Washington did refer to their cannon ammo as shells" That's because in those days artillery projectiles were mostly solid balls. They weren't shells because they didn't have explosive filler. (I think mortars may still have used explosive shells, though.)
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  1772.  @MssIAMNOBODYSPECIAL  It's quite possible that at least part of it is what he genuinely thinks.
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  1773.  @DerpyRedneck  The description of regression fallacy that I can find says :"It assumes that something has returned to normal because of corrective actions taken while it was abnormal. This fails to account for natural fluctuations." That has nothing to do with what I talked about as I didn't mention any kind of action but merely making inferences based on observation. Whatever you call the mathematics I presented doesn't change its rigor. If you think it's wrong, feel free to point out any errors. By the laws of probability, absence of evidence is necessarily evidence of absence (though it may typically be only weak evidence). You can't avoid that. If some observation is evidence for a hypothesis then observing the opposite must evidence against. Otherwise you're just being inconsistent. That's what we mean when we say that scientific theories have to be falsifiable. You can't say that you can only observe evidence for a theory but not against it.
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  1774. Or he could get a vtuber avatar.
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  1775. You should have complained about that. Likely you would have gotten at least one free packet of rice and hopefully, they would learn about the problem to avoid it in the future.
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  1776. 11:35 "We are currently clean on OPSEC."
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  1777. "Very disappointed that this is the framing you’ve chosen for this video [...] Why the hell should we be more concerned with..." What are you talking about? He didn't say you should be more concerned with that. He simply described the situation. He did also mention the expulsions.
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  1778. What? Should the SNP leader pass some kind of genetic purity test or something or what are you suggesting?
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  1779.  @AsmHarper  You could maybe reasonably say that a French person whose ancestors lived there could be considered native. However, that doesn't apply to most French people. I suspect the Chagossians and Mauritians do have some French or other European ancestry.
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  1780. 25:05 Houston still has plenty of regulations on what you can build but it just doesn't call these regulations "zoning". I've heard some commenters say that Houston's regulations are in some ways worse than typical zoning.
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  1781. Your point about Chechnya and self-determination is a bit ironic. Russia is formally a federal country and the federal subjects used to have a lot of autonomy. However, Putin basically removed most of that autonomy. The autonomy may remain on paper but the federal subjects have been placed under de facto control from Moscow. However, there is one exception: Chechnya. Ramzan Kadyrov and Chechnya is afforded a lot more de facto autonomy than any other federal subject.
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  1782. It doesn't really matter. Ukraine can import enough through Poland and Romania.
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  1783.  @samuelwang7622  Wikipedia gives Taiping rebellion a death toll of 20-30 million. I've also heard claims that this number also includes deaths from other unrelated rebellions that were going on at the same though I've not tried to check that claim.
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  1784. @fluffyhamster550 " They never had a state in the first place!!!" I think you misunderstood what I said. E.g. during Ottoman times they weren't stateless because they were Ottoman citizens/subjects. Today they aren't the citizens of any state.
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  1785.  @Lessk69  "there is no lack of demand for dense population areas" Indeed. That was my point. Suburban life doesn't grow because cities are expensive. It's the other way around. Zoners oversupply low-density suburban areas and undersupply dense urban areas making the price of the former lower and the price of the latter higher than what they'd be if the supply of each better matched the demand.
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  1786.  @unbearabletruth4310  "it would be against the EU rules" Is it? Germany has done the same thing with its reunification.
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  1787. 7:30 One correction: Switzerland isn't in the EEA. It does have a very similar deal that e.g. makes it part of the single market. Aiming for the Switzerland option would probably not be realistic. The EU probably wants prospective EU or EEA members to accept a package deal instead of trying to negotiate a separate deal in every case.
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  1788. 2:40 Actually, the recognition vs. non-recognition of Kosovo's independence is very close to 50/50 (among UN members).
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  1789. 12:00 Morally speaking, I think she went too far.
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  1790.  @basedkaiser5352  "The E.U is a puppet to America and its companies" Can't be. As Trump said, the EU was "formed in order to take advantage of the United States". (jk)
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  1791. I'm sure he realized how difficult it would be to prevail against the US in the long run if the Americans choose to fight on in spite of casualties. Probably the Japanese hoped that the Americans would not see the fight worth the cost at some point and would negotiate a peace that's sufficiently favorable to the Japanese. That was the only way for them to save their continental conquests (assuming the Chinese wouldn't just suddenly fold). The right choice would, of course, have been to abandon their conquests but that's not an easy thing to decide when you're not yet actually losing.
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  1792. ​ @IFRYRCE  "I don't think he is right. I know exactly how small foreign aid is in the grand scheme of the US budget" He can still be right. You might be in the minority.
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  1793. But he doesn't have a law degree. (Maybe he passed the bar examination for someone else who paid him for it?)
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  1794.  @schou43  And I think this ceremonial name is also supposed to be used as a posthumous name so e.g. Hirohito should be called Showa since he's not alive anymore. I think posthumous names are some kind of Buddhist tradition.
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  1795. One thing you can notice, if you say the words out loud, is that they rhyme.
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  1796.  @DaBlaccGhost  Those are certainly real and significant problems. However, the videos in question still both exaggerate the problem and give a too fast timeline.
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  1797. How do you feel about the Supreme Court "legislating from the bench"? Isn't it similarly "an intrinsic part of the law at the top level".
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  1798. Or a EUR amount so European viewers could do the same.
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  1799.  @user-op8fg3ny3j  "Every Muslim country has their own version of Sharia" Even Bosnia and Albania?
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  1800. Really?
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  1801. Besides Sengoku period, you could also have mentioned Hideyoshi's (failed) invasion into Korea. I think it deserves a mention because it's one of the very few times the samurai actually fought against foreigners.
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  1802. I've heard the claim that the opposite is true, i.e. the war was about slavery for the South but not for the North.
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  1803.  @dyasion : I think in Germany and Austria-Hungary they had a great deal of say and certainly could have decided to not go to war.
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  1804.  Jose Raul Miguens Cruz : Given the size difference, there's no way it could have ended otherwise (if no one else intervened) regardless of how ill conceived the invasion plan is. This was probably more of a reference to the casualties that were much higher than the Soviets likely expected.
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  1805. 16:10 "So the Leopard I is no substitute for Leopard II." I've seen an opinion on the Military History Visualized channel that the Leopard I could be (according to this one military person giving his opinion) be a better match for Ukraine's needs than Leopard II. The reason is that Leopard I is lighter which makes logistics easier in many ways. The fact that Leopard II is better protected might not matter that much because most of the fighting that tanks in Ukraine engage in isn't tank vs. tank (though obviously protection does still matter to an extent). I don't know enough to say whether this opinion has merit or not but it's an interesting perspective.
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  1806.  @athenaP24  Though technically speaking even Armenia hasn't officially recognized Artsakh.
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  1807.  @CedarHunt  What about the current Gazan population?
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  1808.  @thinguyetpham6661  I can't think of a single country that would be ready to receive 2 million Gazans.
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  1809. But will also continue suffering from high inflation.
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  1810. North Dacota borders Kanada.
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  1811.  @fraliexb  I'm not sure state law could dictate who can run for a federal office. Also, technically the ones running in the presidential election in Indiana are Indiana's elector candidates, not presidential candidates.
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  1812.  @Bishop0178  "Guess what happens to the families of the fishermen if they don't reach their quotas or not come home?" I don't know. Do have some evidence of what happens? Do you even have evidence that they have quotas set by someone and, if so, by whom?
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  1813.  @Bishop0178  "You are defending a country in which social scoring is a thing." What? I merely stated that these fishermen aren't working at the behest of the CCP or the Chinese government. The social scoring and the treatment of prisoners have nothing to do with what I said.
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  1814.  @entropy8634  "How does Saddam not having wmd have anything to do with current analysis of the events?" I suspect his argument is that the analysis he disagrees with comes (in some way) from the US or other Western intelligence services which were proven unreliable in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. (I'm not myself taking a position on whether this is a good argument or not.)
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  1815. GMO isn't really a quality issue. The GMO ban in the EU has no rational scientific basis.
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  1816.  @rez0_o_  AFAIK no such issues for GMO have been found.
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  1817.  @csat1078  I specifically said it (GMO) isn't a quality issue. I didn't claim that there wasn't a ban but only that the ban has no rational justification.
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  1818.  @rez0_o_  You can e.g. check "An overview of the last 10 years of genetically engineered crop safety research" by A. Nicolia et al. There are probably many other reviews as well.
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  1819.  @robertstuckey6407  I don't think that makes you a bad person. At least to me, that feels emotionally less uncomfortable than e.g. looking for combat footage where you can see people becoming KIA. However, I have no idea where you could find that kind of information.
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  1820.  @neilbarnett3046  They have lately mostly being using contract soldiers, not conscripts (at least when not counting what used to be the forces of the former LPR & DPR).
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  1821. @Obiwank Keb34: That's not really true for France. After the war had been declared there was 'Phony War' for quite some time giving time for preparations but France still fell. I don't think a declaration of war before the invasion would have changed the situation in Poland much.
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  1822.  @dogefort8410  No, (standard) Finnish doesn't have the 'f' sound for the most part, though it does appear in some loanwords (but eastern dialects use 'f' more). In older loans, like this one, Fs are often approximated with Vs.
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  1823. I have to admit that I don't think I've heard of this conflict before. Btw, is the lack of attention a good or a bad thing? In this video it seems to be presented as a bad thing but I think there are examples in history where the interest or even intervention in a local conflict by great powers have made things much worse.
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  1824. "Probably an average Spanjard is wealthier than a Danish" What's your source for that? I don't have a good source but the Wikipedia page "List of countries by wealth per adult" gives the average net worth of $426,494 for Danes and $222,888 for Spaniards meaning Denmark is almost twice as rich by this metric (though Denmark also has a bit more wealth inequality).
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  1825. 10:00 I wonder why in that chart Finland is spelled the German way (with 2 Ns) while all the other country names are in English.
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  1826.  @denizenofclownworld4853  "do you expect honesty from someone who can't even be honest about their gender?" Are you claiming here that transgender people are somehow significantly less honest than the general population? That's a pretty ridiculous claim.
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  1827.  @mjc0961  "I've been stuck behind too many cars going 10mph or more under a speed limit to know that it never works." Would such people exceed 130 km/h if there were no speed limit?
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  1828. You can choose the size of the subtitles/captions. I myself use the smallest possible but occasionally it keeps reverting to the default size so I have to change it back.
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  1829. A minor nitpick about the graphics. The Finnish Molotov cocktails weren't plugged with a soaked rag. Rather, the bottle was closed with a regular cap and the ignition was done by two storm matches taped to the side of the bottle.
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  1830. It eventually rains down somewhere, most of probably into the oceans.
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  1831. "the ships that were attacked by the Houthis are limited to Israeli ships only" They are not limited in that way. Many ships with no links to Israel have been attacked.
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  1832. The amount of reparations was reduced in 1948 so I'm not sure that's true.
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  1833. "We do this in the USA where a vast underground brine reservoir exists formed from an ancient evaporated sea" Those kinds of brine have much higher concentrations of bromine than sea water.
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  1834. Being in that facility without a mask that can filter out glass dust seems a bit scary to me.
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  1835.  @123benley  "others who refuse to join" Ukraine would have likely joined for a while now if they could have.
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  1836.  @DepressivesBrot : Camels have obviously been used for transport but have people actually fought on camelback on a battlefield.
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  1837.  @SeismicHammer  The Finnish word for swastika is "hakaristi" (lit. "hook-cross").
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  1838. ​ @Tubeytime  But, as an analogy, e.g. sysadmins aren't sorcerers either but they can easily seem like ones to people who don't know much about computers. The law and the legal process might be slightly more intuitive things but they can still be very difficult for the uninitiated.
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  1839. Should've been Lutheran, not *Lutherian.
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  1840. But they were talking about the past, more specifically Trump's term, not the present.
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  1841.  @blotzkrog  I don't know any English dialect that would spell "epples" but I think both [ɪ'ɹɑn] and ['aɪɹæn] are used in different dialects of English.
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  1842. 3:00 "the federal funds rate which is basically the interest rates the banks pay anytime they borrow money from the Federal Reserve." I'm not an economist but I don't think that's quite right. To my knowledge, the federal funds rate is the rate banks pay (on average, not in every single case) whenever they borrow money (i.e. federal funds) from each other. When a bank borrows from the Federal Reserve it does so at the discount rate which is about 1% point above the federal funds rate.
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  1843.  @digitalxrealism  It's the simple things that are more attractive to thieves, at least less sophisticated thieves, because it's very easy to find buyers for them.
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  1844. What rules are you talking about? The corona restrictions had been lifted months before.
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  1845. I think the "shrinking share of global economy" shouldn't be seen as a big worry. We should expect it to happen unless we expect most of the rest of the world to continue languishing in poverty. The shrinking share is at least part due to various previously poor countries becoming richer and more developed.
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  1846. I thought it was a reference to the Empty Chair Crisis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hallstein_Commission#Empty_chair_crisis
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  1847. I'm not sure that's the case but I don't think there was any point in negotiation with Germany then in any case. Negotiations were tried in the case of Czechoslovakia and Germany got Sudetenland. Despite that Germany immediately broke its promise and occupied the rest of Czechoslovakia. There was no avoiding war with Germany. In hindsight, it would have been better to start the war earlier.
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  1848. "there is literally a different country in north" It was a single country not too long ago.
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  1849.  @x--. : Surely the constitution doesn't prohibit a population information system? And surely it wouldn't prohibit using such a system to carry a portion of the census every 10 years?
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  1850. Sometimes a person might e.g. have the power to steal from you with no chance of getting caught. Doesn't it make sense to say they don't have the right to do that even if they have the de facto ability to do that?
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  1851. But do people pay attention to such ads? They might be worth much less than ads in place of the stream.
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  1852. It's a minimum for the (maximum) speed limit.
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  1853.  @RC404  Adding a purifier for that small amount of water isn't worth it. A much easier use for condensation water is to just evaporate it at the condenser thus improving the efficiency of the AC. Also, Wall Street Millenial's point about it being more useful in arid regions makes even less sense. Those are precisely the places where it's more difficult to get water out of the air.
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  1854.  @RC404  You'd basically have to add some other machine to render the water potable and the amount of water would be fairly small. I don't see how that would make economic sense.
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  1855.  @hisredrighthand5212  FDR also took the US off the gold standard in 1933. As a minor nitpick, even with gold standard it's possible to increase the money supply by a limited amount. Because it's unlikely that everyone would try to redeem their currency for gold at the same time the central bank doesn't need 100% reserves for all currency in circulation. However, if you increase the amount of currency relative to the reserves too much then the currency can lose credibility and everyone tries to exchange it for gold.
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  1856. Which part do you think is incorrect?
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  1857.  @sfjarhead4062  It's not as widely known.
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  1858. What violation? "if Saudi Arabia abandons the ​​petrodollars, America will gradually lose 7.5$ Trillion" No, that's not the case.
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  1859.  @Anublet90  "You're gonna have to be more specific than that" It's the voiced palatal approximant [j]. Is that specific enough?
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  1860.  @TJCMN  One difference is that Korea and Japan don't seem to have much territorial disputes. I guess there's Dokdo a.k.a. Takeshima a.k.a. Liancourt Rocks but it seems minor in comparison.
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  1861. I support giving money printer powers to Scott Sumner.
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  1862. About the pop happening on the first day of trading, isn't that an arbitrage opportunity? Why aren't there a lot of traders trying to exploit that to make a quick buck making the artifact disappear?
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  1863.  @truedarklander  I'm pretty sure you need to be an EU citizen to run (or vote) in the EU elections.
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  1864.  @truedarklander  You seem to be mistaken. The EU Parliament website says the following about who is eligible to vote in EU elections in Portugal: For the election of Portuguese members of the European Parliament, the following people can vote: -Portuguese citizens aged 18 or over who are registered on the Portuguese electoral roll in national territory; -Portuguese citizens aged 18 or over, registered on the Portuguese electoral roll, residing outside the national territory, who have not chosen to vote in another EU country; -Citizens of other EU countries registered in Portugal, who choose to vote for Portuguese Members of the European Parliament; -Brazilian citizens with a citizen's card or identity card (with equal political rights status).
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  1865.  @paulverse4587  " a regular power plant (Coal, Solar, Wind..) certainly does not have these potential issues when a catastrophy like an Earthquake/Tsunami hits" A coal plant has much worse issues in normal operation.
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  1866. If Russia were to attack Sweden the most likely target would be the island of Gotland. Also, Sweden's membership would enhance the safety of the Baltic countries.
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  1867.  @deniseproxima2601  Well, then those things clearly have value to those people and more density allows more people to enjoy those things in the same location.
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  1868. I'm pretty sure most developed countries have some kind of equivalent.
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  1869. "Instead of highways people will use inner roads, thus increasing congestion." The highways are going to be replaced by streets with housing along them. The people living in those places are then already inside the city instead of needing to drive in from outside which reduces congestion.
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  1870.  @BrianFullerton  "But the efficiency of the overall system i(n this case) is negatively impacted by mass." But I think Peter King's statement that batteries are inefficient is still false. The whole EV is still likely more efficient than an ICE powered car (possibly at the cost of e.g. a worse range).
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  1871.  @joesterling4299  I googled the efficiency for Li-ion battery and the first result was the following website giving a 99% efficiency. I didn't try to verify it but even if the efficiency is only, say, 90%, that's still a high efficiency compared to e.g. ICE. https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/comparing_the_battery_with_other_power_sources
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  1872.  @johnboyle1146  "when a study was done on the the carbon footprint" Can you give a reference? I want to know what kind of assumptions they used.
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  1873. Differences could be due to differences in the definition of homelessness.
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  1874. Remittances in this context are just money that the Fed gives to the Treasury.
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  1875. "Austria is part of central europe - i'am not going to discuss this." Why isn't it called "Zentralreich" then? Checkmate! (JK)
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  1876. Even the long term capital gains tax is higher (though not by much).
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  1877.  @eowendyl : I was thinking more of the rate I would face which is 30%.
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  1878.  @BaseReality  "Drach, having both your guest and yourself record themselves locally, rather than using a single recording, would avoid audio artefacts introduced from being thousands of miles apart." But if that's more of a hassle it might not be worth it. Here the occasional odd sounding voice didn't hurt because the speech was still just as easy to understand.
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  1879. Not a legal term: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_French_expressions_in_English#Fait_accompli
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  1880. "Please use the word inflation according to its proper meaning. Inflation is an excess of money in circulation. Price increases are the EFFECT of inflation." No, the conventional definition is that inflation is a rise in the overall price level. Some Austrian economists might use the word differently but it better for TLDR to use the definition used by most economists.
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  1881. "So if Russia now tries to invade Sweden, they will be forced to do that be sea, which is highly unlikely." Invasion by the sea was always the most likely invasion scenario because the most likely target for a Russian invasion of Sweden would be the island of Gotland.
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  1882.    "Moscow is pretty much comparable to Helsinki" Most of the fighting (in terms of troop numbers) too place at similar latitudes to Helsinki.
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  1883.  @PC_Simo  At least now he has a bunch of Finnish words. He did pronounce some of them correctly but for some reason he can't seem to pronounce Ä as a front vowel as it should be.
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  1884.  @PC_Simo  I don't myself notice anything off in the case of "Suomi". He has videos on at least "Väinämöinen" and "kalsarikännit" where Ä is clearly pronounced incorrectly. I don't myself speak French but at least Wikipedia says the following on French phonology: "The phonemic contrast between front /a/ and back /ɑ/ is sometimes not maintained in Standard French, which leads some researchers to reject the idea of two distinct phonemes. However, the distinction is still clearly maintained in other dialects such as Quebec French." Maybe his dialect doesn't have the front-back distinction for open vowels and thus has difficulty making the distinction between A and Ä. (Strictly speaking in Finnish Ä is /æ/ rather than /a/ but close enough.) He seems to be able to pronounce Ö correctly, or at least close enough that I can't hear a difference, but maybe that's unsurprising since French seems to have both /ø/ and /œ/.
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  1885.  @s22t  "He said her party was less popular...actually the party's share of votes and their amount of elected MPs INCREASED." That was mostly due to Green and Left Alliance supporters voting tactically rather than an actual increase in popularity.
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  1886. TBF, bugs have a much, much higher death toll, if things like spreading malaria count.
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  1887. I'm sure you can get pretty explosive maple syrup if you just add some oxidizer.
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  1888.  @concise707 : Thanks. IIRC the Tallboys came about one year later than the bouncing bombs. I googled the Sorpe dam you mentioned. One issue wrt. bombing could be that it was a different type of dam (an embankment dam) than the others.
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  1889.  Suraj Kumar  Like Vincent Kosuga?
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  1890. I think he just chose a funny-looking picture.
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  1891. He's clearly not FCUKing around!
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  1892.  @GlossyCandle  "Honest voting actually produces better outcomes than strategic voting." It doesn't for the individual voter. Under your system a voter would have the incentive to only hand 10s or 1s to candidates and the system would thus degenerate into approval voting. Approval voting isn't bad, actually, but the added complexity of a range would go to waste.
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  1893. What do you mean "bad take"? The MANPADs were just a hypothetical example. You seem to be taking that part too literally.
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  1894.  @moartems5076  I agree.
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  1895. Iron has one big advantage over copper and copper alloys like bronze and brass. It's much more plentiful.
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  1896. Turkey at least has a little bit of land (East Thrace) in Europe whereas Cyprus is geographically entirely outside of Europe.
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  1897.  @Football__Junkie  Then there was a guy named Vincent Kosuga who cornered the onion (and onion futures market) and made millions at the expense of farmers and various others. After that onion futures were banned in the US (which is just stupid).
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  1898. @Andrew H One prominent example is the decade following the subprime crisis in 2008. Inflation was below target in both the US and Europe (and probably many other places too). It caused unnecessary unemployment. (This problem was more severe in the Eurozone than in the US.)
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  1899. @Andrew H "I fail to see how the low inflation actually caused underemployment" It's simple. If there's (involuntary) unemployment the law of supply and demand should dictate that the price of labor falls until equilibrium is reached (i.e. wages are low enough that either it becomes profitable to hire the unemployed or the unemployed don't see it worth to get a job making the unemployment voluntary). However, for various reasons wages may take a long time to fall and thus unnecessary unemployment can also persist for a long time. Inflation helps with this because it depresses real wages thus reducing unemployment. "The gov can't single handedly force inflation" Of course it can! It can (through the central bank) print more money without any limit. The central bank can announce that it will start a QE program (if one isn't being carried out already) and will expand it by, say, 5% per month until, say, 2% inflation is reached. Then soon either the inflation target is reached or the government is earning so much seigniorage that there will be no more need for taxation. Of course, the latter scenario is too good to be true and the inflation target will be reached far before anything like that happens. "otherwise Japan would have more than they do" The Bank of Japan just didn't do enough. Abe's pick for the governor (Kuroda) successfully increased inflation.
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  1900.  @ThatSockmonkey  OK, I had thought the character in Full Metal Jacket was actually named Pyle but apparently not.
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  1901.  @ThatSockmonkey  "the fmj characters real name is Leonard Lawrence" Yeah, I noticed that after checking Wikipedia before my previous comment. And it was interesting. Thanks.
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  1902. My first thought about that is that for a given tower height one big turbine can sweep a larger area than several smaller ones in one tower. However, I'm not an engineer so I'm not sure if that's enough to kill the multi-rotor designs.
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  1903.  @terrycrews1584  I think it should be standard procedure to still change the password to make mistakes like this less likely.
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  1904.  @BooBaddyBig : It's entirely false to say that it's not practical or that no one does that because France does use nuclear as peaking power. See the Wikipedia link below. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France#Operational_considerations If you also have a lot of fossil power it makes more economic sense to use the fossils as peaking power. This is because it makes more sense to shut the fossil power generation down during lower demand because fossil is more expensive to run (but cheaper to build). Nuclear power on the other hand is cheaper to run (but more expensive to build) so it makes sense to usually keep them on. However, if the share of nuclear is high enough you need nuclear as peaking power like France does and France proves that it's entirely feasible to also do so.
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  1905.  @BooBaddyBig : But France doesn't only send their excess energy abroad, they do use at least some of their nuclear plants in load following mode. "Actually, ratios of renewables can be tuned to cancel out the demand variations, wind usually produces more in the winter, and solar in summer. You can't do that with nuclear- it just gives a largely flat output." But nuclear at least can be adjusted. With wind and solar the issue isn't just variation with the seasons but also daily variation which has nothing to do with variation in demand, so in this respect wind and solar seem even worse (and wind is also has been much more expensive than nuclear). "France flogs their spare energy off to other countries, but if the other countries went nuclear too, nobody would be able to take it." But same thing can be said about e.g. Denmark and wind when the supply is high. If everyone did the same, the situation would be even worse than with nuclear because then there would be no one who could deal with the variation in supply (let alone demand).
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  1906.  @BooBaddyBig : I would think weather is still positively correlated on different locations in the same continent or region (or at least not negatively correlated enough). In 2014 the electricity prices went negative in some places in Europe (at least Denmark) due to storms. That's not terribly efficient use of capacity. More seriously though, Germany has tried to take more renewable heavy route but instead just uses much more coal than France, so that approach at least wasn't very successful.
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  1907. The German unification was bungled. They used too high of an exchange rate for the East German Mark. A lower exchange rate would have been better. While it would have meant that the Easterners would have initially been poorer it would have also made Eastern labor cheaper and thus more competitive making unemployment less of a problem.
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  1908.  @CaribouEno  "Caledonia is missing as French territory in this video" It's a "sui generis collectivity" since 1999.
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  1909.  @adriench.7148  Did they (i.e. the ones who have come to Mayotte or want to do so) in favor of independence for Comoros or for staying as a part of France?
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  1910.  @farooqrizvi6078  Ukraine wasn't going to be able to join NATO. Generally it's required that a country has resolve any territorial disputes it might have before joining. The status quo before this year's invasion was entirely sufficient to prevent Ukraine's membership.
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  1911.  @apacheattackhelicopter8185  "And why does your article say that Russia defaulted for the first time since 1918? It has defaulted as recently as in 1998." What did the article say precisely? In any case, that year is probably given because it's the last time Russia defaulted on external debt. In 1998 Russia only defaulted on Rouble denominated debt but not on debt denominated in foreign currencies. Either the article failed to explain this fully or maybe you missed this detail.
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  1912. (SPOILER about Terminator 2.) I have one comment about changing the past/future in Terminator 1 & 2. In Terminator 2 it indeed seems that Skynet may have indirectly caused itself to be created. But since all relevant data and future technology is destroyed at the end of the movie as an attempt to change the future. Of course, that could be just another unsuccessful attempt, but it seems to be implied that that time they actually were successful. On the other hand, we're not shown whether the future actually changed so we can't know for sure.
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  1913.  @ryanroberts1104  The main Mormon church doesn't (in practice) allow polygamy.
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  1914. Quite often "Eastern Europe" is used with the meaning "the former Eastern Bloc".
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  1915.  @darkyada71  In Finland a referendum wouldn't be required.
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  1916. I'm assuming VPN usage is common. I've also heard some people say that having satellite dishes is somewhat common. It's not technically allowed but bribing officials is easy enough that you can usually get away with it. (I haven't tried to verify this, though, so take it with a grain of salt.)
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  1917.  @mi1400  I don't think any omitted smartphone patents and other such details make this a flawed video. The main point of the video was how Nokia shifted its focus from phones to network devices (and some other stuff). This isn't a complete pivot since they were making network devices before, but still.
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  1918.  @harmless6813  I'm a bit skeptical of them being filled with water.
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  1919.  @Gabor-y3h  "I said they stole the diesel from the local vehicle fuel depo tanks" OK, then I misunderstood. OP (seemingly) talked about the tanks for missile fuel being filled with water and I reacted to that. I'm rather skeptical of that claim (and not just for the Soviet missiles but more recently about similar claims about Chinese missiles).
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  1920.  @Reklawization  "Russians complain about prices" Well, the interviewer probably asked them about prices so you can't blame them.
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  1921. No, because Japan has cracked down on Yakuza very harshly and they have diminished in power quite a lot.
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  1922.  @PBoyle  I assumed as much. The point was just that the claim (about history) is wrong.
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  1923.  @peterkratoska3681  "you still have a weight problem because tanks to store hydrogen tanks are superheavy (even when empty)" For batteries this issue is even worse. Batteries are heavier than full hydrogen tanks (for the same amount of energy) and they don't even get lighter when they become emptier.
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  1924. However, inflation in Russia is higher than in the US.
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  1925.  @chrisd6736  On the other hand he's complained about the high state income tax in California which might suggest he's not super left-leaning.
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  1926. What would SPD even stand for? SDP would at least make sense but SPD seemingly doesn't.
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  1927. "It has been largely privatised in the 90s" That's completely wrong. It hasn't been privatized in the slightest bit. The government owns it in its entirety.
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  1928.  @aramikami  Thanks for the details.
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  1929.  @sandhills2344  "Why would one of the least oppressive countries want to join NATO?" Because now Russia seems like an unpredictable menace?
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  1930. Directly harming Russian soldier or equipment like that would be a pretty serious escalation. The US likely won't take such a risk.
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  1931. Turkey joined 70 years ago, not in the past 30 years.
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  1932. Sending stuff to the Sun requires large amounts of energy.
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  1933. Why didn't he allow self-representation then? Not getting any kind of chance to defend himself seems a very clear violation of his rights.
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  1934. 0:07 "It's just one of those unavoidable evils of modern life." Hardly. You just have to have well working mass transit.
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  1935.  @lorenzofalorni3961  Ukraine and Georgia? Really?
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  1936. Ukraine wasn't a NATO member. Russia hasn't invaded any NATO member so far.
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  1937. "I always thought AC power is best for long range power transfer and that's why it won over DC." AC won over Edison's DC idea which was to not step up or down the voltage at all but rather use low voltage all the way from power plant to the final consumer. It's this low voltage which would have entailed high transmission losses.
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  1938. But inflation in India is about 6% whereas in Turkey it's about 20% meaning that the real rates in Turkey are more negative.
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  1939.  @Max_Da_G  "T-72B3. T-55 and T-62 are literally mobile armored short-range howitzers" Literally? I think to count as howitzers their maximum gun elevations should be at least close to 45° which sounds unlikely. Maybe if you mostly fire them while they're on a slope to increase the gun elevation but it still sounds unlikely to me.
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  1940. Being fat has more to do with diet and less with (lack of) exercise. Exercise is still important for health, though.
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  1941.  @ClicketyClack : Thanks. The thought of suing some Al Capone like gangster felt funny, though I guess in reality it probably wouldn't be quite that dramatic.
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  1942.  @gregsomlai297  No, it can go faster than the wind consistently.
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  1943.  @aaronmarko  "The fact is that we know a lot of these hedge funds are actively manipulating the market." It seems a bit of a bold statement to say that we know that. How precisely do you know that? What's your evidence? Do you know how precisely are the hedge funds manipulating the market? Or do you somehow just know that they are but don't know at all how (which would sound a bit odd)?
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  1944. Even from a porous surface?
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  1945.  @gropatapouf5998  "I've read that our Gaz tanks can't take on a whole winter, just like a few weeks..." When full they should last about 2.5 months on average if only the storage is used (but Europe does still have other sources of gas like North Africa, the Netherlands, and Norway). During the winter usage is higher than average so it might last less than that but with the other sources and possible rationing it won't run out during this winter. "have you heard about the pipeline "Asian force 2"? It's being built right now and will convey the Gaz that had to be sold to Europe to... China instead" If you mean Power of Siberia 2 it's supposed to begin construction in 2024 and be operational in 2030 which is quite some time from now.
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  1946. I'd argue that it makes sense for individual people to disfavor their own country and the sector they work in when it comes to investments. Investment risk from domestic investments and investments in one's own sector of economy are probably positively correlated with the risk of job loss. The same argument should also apply to pension funds.
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  1947.  @termintot4645  The problem with F-16s is that Ukrainian pilots need to be trained on them and there's a finite rate at which they can be trained. Huge numbers of F-16s with no one to fly them aren't very useful.
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  1948.  @lugoorstar  What is a lie?
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  1949.  @lugoorstar  Ah, I see.
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  1950. ​ @Will-rv3tf  Assange has so far only been involved in an extradition trial (I think). That kind of trial can't give a guilty verdict but at most a decision to extradite. What he's being in jail is breaking bail and there doesn't seem to be any dispute over the fact that he did that (though you might still criticize handing him the maximum punishment for it which might be excessive).
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  1951. Objection! I don't think that suit was so bad. It's a kind of pity that nowadays men's suits are usually in dark colors and the variation in shape is pretty subtle. Having a bit more colorful men's wear and more variation would be nice.
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  1952. I think plenty also go to Romania and then leave via the port of Constanța.
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  1953. No one's going to be happy with excessive inflation. Erdogan is making a mistake.
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  1954. The highways don't go to the center anyway.
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  1955.  @manuhonkanen2111  I'm not sure that's relevant. The first of these highway removals started earlier this year (2021). It's removing something like 1 km section of highway in Laajasalo. Surely no one uses that to get to the center? It's not even on the same peninsula as the center. Secondly, if some people who don't live close to the center insist on doing their shopping by car, I think it's better for everyone if they go to a supermarket rather than come to clog the streets in the center.
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  1956. WTF? Is my country, Finland, really that iodine deficient?
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  1957. "So Finland has chosen to be Russia's enemy, historically that's a choice that has never ended well." Choosing to be neutral doesn't work either as we saw in 1939. Better to at least have allies.
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  1958. "Maybe if we would have working with them more in the last 30 years we wouldn’t be in this situation in the first place." Maybe, but at that is not a guide to what to do this very moment. Right not there is an urgent need to pressure Russia so that Ukraine won't have to take unreasonable terms to end the war.
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  1959.  @patrickmccutcheon9361  "Btw, I did not see your first point 1); what was it?" My points were in response to 2nd and 3rd of the 5 stumbling blocks mentioned in this video. I didn't comment on the 1st stumbling block (i.e. democratic backsliding in Georgia).
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  1960.  @wow1371  "I said it is a fused plate consisting of two plates and that is the generally accepted knowledge of Eurasia." But that doesn't make them different continents. We don't say that the east coast of the US is a different continent from the rest of North America just because of the Iapetus suture. We also don't say that Greece is on a different continent from the rest of Eurasia just because it's on a different plate which even hasn't fused with the Eurasian plate. "However that is literally beside the point." OK then. "For every 1 map of Europe including Russian territory up to Urals I can show you two not including Russia at all." I don't think I've seen any explicit definition of the border between Europe and Asia that would put the land borders anywhere else but the Caucasus and Ural mountains. By the conventional definition Georgia and Armenia at least touch the border between Europe and Asia (unlike Cyprus) whether you put the border north or south of them. "This goes back once again to European identity argument." When it comes to identity, Georgians seem to identify as Europeans.
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  1961.  @wow1371  "1. Continent=/=tectonic plates" Well, you're the one who first brought up tectonic plates, not me. In any case, I don't think there's a reasonable definition for continent that would separate Europe and Asia into different continents. "2. Yet there are more than one map excluding Russia completely." I don't think that's common and wouldn't give much weight such maps anyway. "3. It doesn't matter if they identify as European. Sorry to break it to you but that is not how it works." Well, you're the one who brought up "European identity". In any case, by any reasonable definition I can think of Georgia is at least as European as Cyprus.
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  1962.  @wow1371  "European identity preceived by the european of europe." Well, if we count Georgia as European then them seeing themselves as European counts towards that. But in case you meant something like "percieved as European in EU member states" then doesn't it still apply? I'm not super familiar with Georgia but I certainly haven't perceived it as "Asian" or anything like that. I've also thought in terms of culture it has more in common with European countries than e.g. Turkey or Iran.
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  1963.  @michaelgnit8476  And like I said, evidence points to the Ukrainians wanting to preserve the dam, at least earlier.
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  1964.  @sampohonkala4195  "There is no need to be a pacifist, it is an open option for anyone, no reason needed." That's not true. You need to sign a form saying that you can't serve in the military due to reasons of conviction.
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  1965. "I don't think Admiral Gensoul actually cared so much about the fact that the British had sent a captain to negotiate with him. I fully believe he made a fuss about it to buy his fleet time to come up to steam" What could he possibly have accomplished with a delay? In any case, it shouldn't have been too difficult to manufacture a delay, e.g. by asking more orders, even if he had received Captain Holland and/or sent a full description of the situation to the Vichy governments. I see no reason for him to have forgone those two things.
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  1966.  @tinnic  "But that implies that there aren't enough shipbuilders making "productive" ships." You don't need to assume that. If yachts (or whatever the rich consume) were consumed less, then people and other resources needed to produce them could be used something else. It's not like there's some segment of society that's either making yachts or unemployed and can't be anything else.
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  1967.  @stevenschultz9637  Probably not intentionally but they didn't seem to have properly mitigated their risks either.
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  1968. Well, are there any Roman emperors that are known for certain to have been poisoned? (There are several who are suspected of having been poisoned but surely that can't be true since the poison detecting bird would have prevented it.) ;)
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  1969.  @rogergeyer9851  "Trump deficits" But @Mighty_Atheismo, who you were replying to, was speaking about monetary policy, not fiscal policy. Deficits are about fiscal policy, not monetary policy.
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  1970. For me, this conjured up an image of Leonard French flying into battle wearing a silly hat.
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  1971. redmanticore, well this was one person (though a security expert IIRC) who presumably didn't know beforehand that she would have to compromise those banks' systems. Of course, she may have found a backdoor put in place by someone else with more resources. Still sounds a bit too difficult (though I'm not that familiar with security stuff). However, I do not think the banks in Liechtenstein would co-operate. Liechtenstein (like Switzerland) is famous for tight bank secrecy. Many people have committed tax fraud or another financial crime and avoided detection by using a bank in Liechtenstein (or Switzerland). In at least one case several tax fraudsters were only caught with the help of stolen data, though in that case the way it happened was that an employee of a bank in Liechtenstein took the data and sold it to the German intelligence service.
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  1972. About Liechtenstein, OECD removed it from the list of uncooperative tax havens in 2009. The episode I'm referring to (S1 E8) appeared in 2011. I'm not sure, in what year precisely it's set in, but it may be before that. (And regarding the character of Lola Jensen, I misremembered. She wasn't a security expert but a biologist. Presumably computer security is just a hobby for her.)
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  1973.  @manofkent6560  Is it? I've never heard anyone call e.g. the Japanese PoC.
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  1974. Or he went into hiding to avoid that.
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  1975. Pun intended?
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  1976.  @kathibaba7665  OK, now I understand what you meant. At first I thought you meant that he doesn't count as a non-state actor in this conflict because the US government paid for the equipment rather than it being a donation from him or his company. (I would personally only apply the word "mercenary" to someone who actually works directly in a military role.)
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  1977.  @whitetomato  But in Arabic script, if I'm not mistaken, the letters that are at the ends of a word look different from the ones in the middle which basically marks the word boundaries just like a space between block letters. I'd guess that if you wrote Arabic (or Farsi or Urdu) like each line was a single long word it would be similarly hard to read like old Latin or Greek without spaces.
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  1978.  @Shvabicu  Buffett's strategy scales better (though not without limits, of course).
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  1979.  @stelvis1984ify  "if a compromise could be reached, the Turkish Cypriots have very little to gain, other than international recognition, EU membership, the ability to trade their goods directly with the rest of the world" Giving up a lot of land, at least if it's land that a lot of Turkish Cypriots live on now might seem a high price for something I think many Turkish Cypriots feel they'd deserve any way (whether correctly or not). EU membership also wouldn't be automatic but would be a long and arduous process (unless the solution is reunification). Btw, when you suggested getting 20% of the land back, does that mean 20% of the lost land or land that's equal to 20% of the area of the whole island? If it's the latter it would be more than half of what the North holds which would be a pretty steep price.
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  1980. They're not encircled, at least not yet.
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  1981.  @nehronghamil4352  We'll see.
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  1982. 3:40 Romania and Bulgaria are growing at 4% and 3.1% per year so it's not impossible to grow their economies.
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  1983.  Max K : For the year for which I got that data (2018) Germany's GDP was growing at a rate of 1.5%. That means the gap is narrowing and if the disparity in the growth rates were to persist a catch up would eventually happen.
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  1984.  @miafiolekova5817  "I still dont see the value to ordinary consumers for point 1." I don't think that's the motivation in any case. "And for point 2, yes the people of those counties have to change to the dolar, thats why i dont see the point of changing to the BRICS currency if they still have to do it after they would take it on." I think the point is to avoid using the dollar due to political reasons, not because there would be a big practical impact.
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  1985.  @nzs316  I don't think a commercial plane would be able to see a missile. I think civilian radars (for locating vehicles) are mostly so called secondary radars, i.e. they work by receiving a ping from the target vehicle's transponder, and you probably won't receive such a ping from a missile targeting you. Primary radars, which work using reflections from target vehicles' metal parts, are more common in the military but I don't think civilian planes have primary radars (except for weather radars).
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  1986. @Happy Man: Nazi Germany was hardly better than the USSR. They invaded a number of countries and killed a huge number of their own (previous) citizens in death camps. It's not "stabbing them in the back" when they didn' owe any allegiance to Germany but had made an alliance with e.g. Poland. Also, the Nazis were prepared to kill a large portion of Slavs in conquered regions, so the death toll could have been even worse in a German victory. If the goal is to stand up to the Communists, it would have been easier to do if Germany didn't go invading non-Communist nations and didn't trade and cooperate with the USSR like they did before Barbarossa.
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  1987.  @Warkurus  By "only a portion" I didn't mean to imply they weren't a minority. I just wanted to mention that other religions like Christianity and Islam were also present.
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  1988. I think History Matters said that he wasn't called "Bloodaxe" in his time.
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  1989. "Why would you convert electricity to AC after reaching destination (city), when most electronics use DC?" Because you need to step down the voltage using transformers.
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  1990. I see all the options. Maybe some of them hadn't been generated when you watched this.
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  1991. 2:10 Doesn't matter? Most of this video is about things that are at least party due to policy except for the beginning part of the video which deals more with natural resources and favorable geography.
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  1992. I don't see why they would be storing cobalt-60 there.
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  1993.  @LostBeagle  There's no rational reason to suspect that. Why would they do something like that?
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  1994.  @LostBeagle  I mean, I can't imagine why they would do something like that at all regardless of how rational they are. There is just no reason or discernible motivation to store a nuke in a location like that.
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  1995.  @artistphilb  I'm not saying it was DU rounds (which are not shells, btw) but cobalt-60 seems unlikely too. Why would there e.g. be radiotherapy machines in that location? The explosion didn't happen in a hospital, did it?
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  1996.  @artistphilb  I would add that most nuclear decay reactions do produce gamma rays in addition to alpha or beta particles, including the decay of uranium-238 and its decay products. However, the half-life of uranium-238 is extremely long so the amount of radiation it emits is quite small. I don't know enough to say whether the amount would be high enough to be detected.
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  1997. According to Wikipedia, "Chasiv Yar" literally means "Quiet Ravine".
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  1998. Does that mean that the sponsorship by them is the problem or that they sponsored the problem?
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  1999.  @nicholaspalmer5957  I wasn't talking about enterprise value because I was talking about assets minus liabilities.
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  2000.  @lugovoiarena  "I think you are comparing Enterprise Value of the Mile+ Programme..." If that $21.9 billion is the enterprise value, then yes, sort of. "You would need to apply leverage ratio pro-rata to figure out equity value of the Mile+ Programme." But I wasn't interested in that figure here. I just stated that to me it's striking that United's all other assets are worth over $10 billion less than all their liabilities. Yes, here I'm including any debt by Mileage Plus Holdings in United's liabilities but the figure is still quite surprising IMHO.
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  2001.  @padredemishijos12  "When Daniel Ortega was asked to negotiate with the Contras, he responded, when a dog bites you, you don’t negotiate with the dog. You negotiate with the dog’s owner." But didn't Ortega negotiate with at least a part of the Contras (Misurasata)?
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  2002. "But force wizards out of their jobs for stating that magical ability is inheritable?" At least being a wizard or a muggle is obviously largely heritable in the world of Harry Potter. Squibs are rare and muggle-born wizards even more so. It's a bit unclear if magical ability inside the population of wizards is heritable (and, if so, to what degree). Some Slytherins seemed to believe that; Hagrid believed the opposite. Even if it were heritable it still wouldn't seem to make sense to not train the "mud-blooded" in Hogwarts, as some Slytherins wanted, though.
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  2003.  @ycplum7062  "That is in the ballpark." Were you replying to me or OP? $540 billion is roughly 1.5% of $35 trillion.
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  2004. "russia never really left the central planning model ... they just gave it a new coat of paint" This is a bit of an exaggeration. You can at least start a business in Russia. In the Soviet Union private businesses weren't allowed aside from some small exceptions like hairdressers (I think).
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  2005.  @WarrenKLiu  "current forecasts pegs Russian gas revenue 2022 increase at 38% yoy with Europe totally not buying" Europe has been buying for most of 2022. After the recent NS1 shutdown the gas revenue will drop. "You also forgot about LNG as a delivery system" Russia doesn't have enough LNG capacity to divert most of the gas that had been flowing to Europe. "Siberia 1, last I check has a capacity of 38 bcm" But it's connected to the gas fields in the Far East which are different from the fields that had been supplying Europe. The gas that had been coming to Europe cannot for the most part be diverted elsewhere for many years.
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  2006.  @sebastjansslavitis3898  "its not the direction wind would spin it" The wind is not directly spinning it. It's being spun by the wheels to such direction that it generates thrust.
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  2007. What's the problem? whence /wɛns/ adverb from what place or source. "whence does Parliament derive this power?" adverb from which; from where. "the Ural mountains, whence the ore is procured"
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  2008. These methods aren't Vedic. They have nothing to do with the Vedas.
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  2009.  @plagiats  It seems to be a set date. I don't know why that particular cutoff was chosen. https://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_803
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  2010.  @TheFoxwiz  "Restaurant might be able to take a business loss." I'd assume whatever the restaurant paid for that bottle has already been deducted when they bought it.
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  2011. I wonder why the game is made like that. It's not even developed in the US (or Canada).
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  2012. Isn't Humptulips a rather Dutch sounding name? ;)
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  2013. It's never RICO.
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  2014. "They said that Babri Mosques was demolished and Ram temple is build upon that , which is historically wrong ." How is that wrong? Just because there was an even earlier temple that was demolished and the mosque was then built doesn't mean that the mosque wasn't also demolished and a new temple built in its place.
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  2015.  @EA_SET : "Three will die and release carbon not CO2" If you let the tree rot the carbon gets oxidized in the rotting process and form CO₂ which is released into the air. Using trees as a carbon sink would require you to store them somehow that they don't rot. "Carbon is energy source" If you burn it for energy you again release CO₂ so that kind of method doesn't work as a carbon storage. (And as an energy source it has a number of environmental issues and also health issues from fine particles from the burning process.) "Oh, by the way, the best way to prevent three from dying is >>> Your House. Your house is full of wood and wood consist of carbon." That can in principle work.
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  2016.  @EA_SET : "It is not the three it is the microorganism who release co2." This is not contradicting anything I said. (And it's spelled "tree" not "three".) "The point is if you could cheaply store carbon while adding oxygen in the atmosphere, create more forestry industry, create balance in environment why not? why store useless CO2 underground when you could reuse the CO2 and recycle it using a tree?" That might help but it won't be enough.
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  2017.  @EA_SET : I'm not on a campaign to not plant trees. Like I said in my previous comment I think that might help. I just think we need other measures as well.
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  2018.  @timogul  "Ok, twist my arm on it." The reason you gave was being at war a few decades back. When Yugoslavia broke up, to my knowledge only Slovenia and North Macedonia managed to become independent without fighting. "Cut off trade." That would be an excessive measure. It would only impoverish innocent Serbian civilians and make peace more difficult to achieve without any real benefit. "They could if NATO made a deal with them to that effect." It's at least unclear if Nato members would sign up for that but at any rate they don't enough reason to trust Nato.
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  2019. That too but there's nothing strange about that.
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  2020.  @matten_zero  "fair use is pretty clear non-commercial at minimum" No, it's not. Plenty of commercial products that take from copyrighted works can fall under fair use. If they e.g. borrow only small pieces from the work such that they don't act as a substitute for the work they borrow from, that probably falls under fair use.
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  2021. "The UN have this extremely silly tenet that states need to be left untouched at all costs" That's not silly at all. Starting to partition states would be opening a huge can of worms and lead to more chaos.
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  2022. I think losses in Russia were over 2x higher than those in the Peninsular War (though they were hardly light either).
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  2023. You can but the market is limited and that CO₂ would still end up in the atmosphere after a while.
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  2024.  @rapperx9820  But the original decision to close them was made during Schröder's government which also included the Greens.
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  2025. But it does, doesn't it? It's mentioned in this video and more importantly in the film that some of those scenes are taken from.
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  2026. 6:45 I have to strongly disagree with you here. After the 2008 financial crisis there was IMHO too little money printing. Inflation was below target (and here the ECB did much worse than the Fed, though the Fed also didn't do all that good). The pandemic stimulus may have been too much, at least in the US, but that was a fairly short lived phenomenon and can't explain most of the house prices. More importantly, I don't think your logic at 7:05 holds. More money should mean price increases for everything that you pay with money. Thus the prices of also consumer goods and services should also increase. Similarly, wages should increase too (in nominal, not real, terms). More dollars and euros can mean that you have to pay more dollars or euros for a given house but I don't see how it could cause the ratio between the amount of dollars/euros workers are paid and the amount of dollars/euros you have to pay for a house to shift.
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  2027.  @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2  "97% voted for it or either abstained." That can't be right. The security council only has 15 members so even 1 voting against would bring the percentage down to 93.33%.
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  2028. There isn't strictly speaking an EU constitution. The treaties are the closest equivalent.
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  2029.  @demoncard1180 : But I guess it worked for a while for the casinos or it wouldn't have been a thing for a meaningful amount of time?
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  2030. 0:30 "they would be telling the civilians to get out of Gaza" Even if they would be telling the civilians that, that'd be pretty irrelevant. The civilians wouldn't be able to leave because neither Israel nor Egypt would allow them to flee to their territories.
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  2031.  @john2335  For somewhat similar reason Ukraine cannot surrender either. The population wouldn't allow that.
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  2032.  @CruzCGK  Well, OP said "[these sites] do not hold any meaning for the religion". If that's the case then likely shouldn't affect the religion.
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  2033.  @rccasual7525  So far, it seems to basically be a talking club, a bit like G7 or G20.
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  2034. Zimbabwe's inflation wasn't the worst ever. Post-WWII Hungary still holds the record for the highest inflation rate ever.
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  2035.  @robertlomax543  "Having said that I would love to see the actual design for the step down converter. That's a hell of a shift in DC voltage. I wonder if they are using vacuum tubes or solid state and what switching frequency is used?" I'm not an expert but here's what I've seen on the subject. HVDC lines have converter stations at both ends. The DC voltage itself isn't stepped up or down but the converter stations that convert AC to DC and DC to AC also have transformers that step up the voltage before conversion to DC and down before conversion to AC. Nowadays the conversion is done with thyristor banks. In the AC to DC conversion they work similarly to diodes and then any ripple is filtered out with big capacitors and inductors. In the DC to AC conversion the thyristors are switched based on signal from the receiving grid making sure the phases are in sync. This kind of switching produces square waves. Then harmonics are filtered out using capacitors and inductors turning it into sine wave.
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  2036.  @SpencerHHO  "The input takes the standard high voltage 3 phase, runs it through a transformer that phase shifts it to make it 6 phases" This is slightly off. You can already get 6 phases from 3 phase power by using both phases (opposite) phases from each line. However, you can further increase this to 12 phases by using two transformers. One transformer should use a delta configuration on one side and wye on the other. This causes the phases to be rotated by 30° relative to ones from a transformer with the same configuration on both sides. In the case of 12 phases the phases next to each other are 30° apart so this way you can get 12 phases.
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  2037.  @Leiwanderer  That's reasonable argument to make but it's also not an established principle that it matters. I do agree that at least morally speaking the inhabitants of Mayotte have a strong case in my personal view but my view (or yours) doesn't really matter here.
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  2038.  @DemPilafian  That's a reasonable argument to make but I'm not sure how far it will go. Many people might dismiss ancient history as irrelevant today. Many former colonies that were not united before colonization are today, e.g. the Philippines.
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  2039.  @gothicgolem2947  The UN has ruled that France should turn over Mayotte to the Comoros even though a clear majority of the population of Mayotte doesn't want that.
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  2040.  @Kannot2023  The UN usually doesn't recognize unilateral secession for better or for worse.
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  2041.  @MrKockabilly  I don't think that is a good solution. Mayotte could be left with an unrecognized independence. That could cause them a lot more practical problems than being a part of France without recognition. Just look at what has happened to Northern Cyprus. Also, Mayotte would lose the financial support from France which one reason they wouldn't consider your solution to be a good solution.
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  2042. Maybe Jabzy should get a vtuber avatar.
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  2043.  @brucenadeau2172  That kind of pricing model isn't optimal, though it's simple which is probably why they chose it.
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  2044. There were two cables damaged back then, one (EE-S1) between Sweden and Estonia and another (FEC) between Finland and Estonia.
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  2045. "Then again, looking back at it, we never read any of the actual important thinkers in economics." But I don't think you need to anyway. You become an important thinker by coming up with novel ideas and the first presentation of a novel idea is unlikely to be the best. Subsequent formulations of the same ideas, e.g. in textbooks, are probably clearer than e.g. Smith's original writings.
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  2046. "No Facebooks, Apples, OpenAIs, Googles and so on." I don't think that's due to patents. Software patents are rather problematic.
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  2047. Helsinki and neighboring Espoo only have about 900,000 inhabitants combined but they still have a metro system, albeit a fairly small one.
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  2048. "Russia has been invaded >50 times in last 200 years" Surely that number cannot be correct.
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  2049. *Credit Suisse
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  2050. I disagree. Firstly, a redundancy isn't "wrong". Natural languages are full of redundancy and it can serve a purpose e.g. by making misunderstandings less likely. Here you can argue that you could remove the redundancy without that much of a risk of misunderstanding but the benefit of a slightly shorter sentence isn't huge either and, in any case, neither choice is obviously "wrong". Secondly, I'd argue it's not wrong to say that he dropped out from graduate school without a degree because his earlier BA was from a different school (Bowdoin College).
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  2051. Well, I think the pro-Palestinian protests and perceived left wing bias provide at least a part of the motive.
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  2052.  @akolyt  "in case you didn't notice Portugal is not socialist" I think it is nominally though not in actuality.
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  2053.  @josephdestaubin7426 : I think in that particular scene they're showing several candidate embryos, one of which becomes Anton. Not sure if they've used other techniques as well. I also liked the movie, though it wasn't that pleasant for me due to the somber mood. I'm also not that fond of the movie's tagline "There's no gene for human spirit". It seems to imply that personality traits are not influenced by genetics (to a noticeable degree), but that's not true to my understanding. Personality is influenced by genes (among other things).
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  2054.  @BryceTeeg  I would say that dictator is someone who concentrates almost all of the power for himself. A dictator doesn't necessarily have to be mean or oppressive; a benevolent dictator is possible (though perhaps rare in practice). An oppressive ruler should be called a tyrant or a despot.
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  2055.  @MrLoobu  I would think that knowing English is common in ASEAN coutries too, at least in the Phillippines, Indonesia, and Singapore, and it's only set to increase.
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  2056.  @octem2251  "The noble savage only lives in books and movies" So you wouldn't count the Moriori as "noble savages"?
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  2057. I'm sure the Mongols are having a chuckle as well.
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  2058. Buy cube watermelons instead!
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  2059. This is about natural gas, not oil.
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  2060.  @tinaforbes1059  Russia stopped the supplies of all pipe delivered gas in the May of 2022 when Finland didn't agree to pay in roubles. There's still some LNG imported from Russia but the volume has fallen dramatically.
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  2061. Just as a clarification, Iceland didn't default on any debt its government had taken on. Rather, Iceland didn't compensate the depositors of the foreign branches of its failed banks. The European Court of Justice ruled that that wasn't in a violation of the EEA treaties.
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  2062. Do any Armenians remain in NK and plan to stay there? I think Azerbaijan has at least claimed that they wouldn't be discriminated as Azerbaijani nationals. It would be interesting to see if that promise is upheld.
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  2063. "The people that should be suffering, really suffering are in Washington, London, and Kiev." Don't forget Moscow.
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  2064. "Flat tax or it’s not fair." A progressive tax is more fair than a flat/proportional tax.
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  2065. Two points about Öresund (a.k.a. Øresund). First, you're pronouncing it wrong. The letter 'Ö' is pronounced the same way it's in German (and Danish 'Ø' is the same or at least quite close), so it shouldn't be too hard for you. Secondly, you described Öresund being "between Denmark and Sweden". But wasn't Skåne (the southern part of present-day Sweden) part of Denmark back then?
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  2066. "Im leaving Australia and moving to Sweden after this video." That should be easy considering they're neighboring countries.
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  2067.  @MCXL1140  "If a magnet sticks to it it will work 100% of the time." This is correct. "Even if a magnet doesn't stick to it if it's a strongly conductive material it will work as well cast iron is a good example of that." This, however, is incorrect. The problem with e.g. aluminium and copper cookware is that they conduct electricity too well. You'd need an enormous current to heat them effectively. The reason why ferromagnetic steel (or cast iron) works better with induction stoves is that them being ferromagnetic enhances the skin effect. This concentrates the current to a narrow layer on the surface. Due to that narrowness the resistance is higher and it can be heated with a reasonable current.
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  2068.  @hesterclapp9717  Raccoons are not endemic to Europe. They've only been introduced there by humans.
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  2069. @Never repeats OK, I checked it too and, yes, the president can ask for their opinion but it's just a non-binding opinion.
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  2070.  @blackfalkon4189  I'm not sure why the process is like that. If I had to guess I'd say that maybe it's because it seems to be common practice around the world that the president or the king/queen signs all the laws. So the drafters of the Finnish constitution may have wanted to just copy that practice but not give the president an actual veto power like in some countries. But that's just my guess. I'm not familiar with the relevant history.
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  2071.  @Dendarang  "Otherwise, the most obvious thing that will happen is that any Turk that wants to immigrate to the EU will be able to do so through Cyprus, it will be de facto admitting Turkey into Schengen." Your point here sounds rather confused. Being in the Schengen doesn't mean being subject to the free movement of people in the EU. Schengen means the lack of border checks. If Turkey were to be admitted to Schengen then people in Turkey could also travel to other Schengen countries without the hassle of border formalities like showing your passports at customs. However, that doesn't grant the right to live in EU member countries. That's a completely different thing. Or do you mean that Turks would utilize the lack of border checks to go to EU member states and then illegally overstay there?
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  2072. "C'mon guys... pony up for a copy editor, please?" You'll just need to donate (or buy merch) enough to pay for that.
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  2073.  @Jadys_  "which has a link to salt" How is that known?
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  2074. I'm pretty sure the Dutch pensions are more sustainable.
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  2075.  @diephoainambui9682  They used retreating a lot but Barclay did try to first stop them at Smolensk (and was replaced by Kutuzov due to failing) and later Kutuzov tried to stop them at Borodino. Also, the retreating strategy is more viable for Russia due to the larger amount of land and longer distances. It's not clear to me that the other Europeans were that much more "arrogant" than the Russians.
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  2076. "Besides making interest payments, is there any other problem with having say, 1 quadrillion in debt?" What do you mean "besides"? With that amount of debt and, say, 2% interest the payments would be almost 100% of the US economy.
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  2077.  @nicholaspoulos7694  "I am asking for any other actual real problems I understand interest payments are a limiting factor in debt." Another problem is debt rollover. Debt eventually matures and the bondholders have to be paid the principal of the debt, not just the interest. Usually you have to issue new bonds to cover the maturing ones. If your ability pay is in doubt such rollover might become impossible because not enough investors dare to lend to you.
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  2078. Even if all of that money was embezzled, the congestion charges would still be a net benefit.
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  2079.  @mattpotter8725  "it's not a requirement of membership" It's not a requirement for membership but it's more than just an informal guideline (since 2014). It's a formal commitment (even if there's no punishment for breaking it).
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  2080. The blades for new offshore wind turbines are already in excess of 130 m long (which makes the diameter 260 m which is already more than for this proposed turbine type). Also, these very big blades are easier for offshore projects because ships transporting the components can be made very big. It's also possible that if this thing ever becomes reality, the first commercial units could be smaller and only grow gradually in size.
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  2081. I think it's not even Central Europe but just Germany and Austria. At least when I visited Prague I could pay with credit card almost everywhere (with one exception I remember).
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  2082.  @tymcfadden8496  At least Wikipedia says the Beirut explosion was equivalent to 1.1 kilotonnes of TNT, not 2.5, and that this explosion was "only" equivalent to 256 tonnes, not 2 kilotonnes.
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  2083. That wouldn't quite complete the list. Here in Finland in the Åland region there's a separatist party called "Ålands framtid" (lit. "Åland's Future"). However, it's less popular than those other independence movements. So far, it's best electoral success has been getting a bit under 10% of the vote in Åland's regional elections.
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  2084. 1:40 Nevermind the legal hypothetical, there's a grammatical error here!
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  2085. "In Japan and many parts of Asia being homeless [...] carries a negative stigma." Isn't that the case almost everywhere?
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  2086.  @cpm1003  Standard & Poor's
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  2087.  @panzerkami2381  Have the DUP thought that it might be a tactical mistake to support Brexit?
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  2088. "Russia cleared the last remnants of resistance in Marioupol. They did it without killing civilians" Plenty of civilians died due to Russian artillery shelling Mariupol.
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  2089.  @grimaffiliations3671  "The government has all of its debt denominated in its own currency, you cannot default on a currency you control." No, governments can and have defaulted on bonds denominated in their own currency. One example is Russia which defaulted on its Rouble denominated bonds (but not its foreign denominated bonds) in 1998. Government borrowing in its own currency does have the theoretical option of printing more money to avoid technically defaulting on its debt but often that would just be a worse option that a default.
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  2090.  @justsefa1843  Real GDP growth gives a better picture of whether a country is becoming more prosperous.
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  2091.  @davidlim5  "Why be busybody ?" Because it's not a good thing if countries can just invade other countries willy-nilly. It's better if such intransigence gets punished and hopefully Ukraine, or at least a significant part, gets saved from falling under Putin's tender mercies. Even if you disagree about how good the reasons are the claim of "no reason" is clearly false.
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  2092.  @VulpesHilarianus  "Victorians used to use to romanticize certain things" And the word "romanticize" of course yet another term named after a place: the city of Rome.
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  2093. As an interesting tidbit, Antarctica also has a country top-level domain .aq even though it's not even a country.
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  2094. The highest tide height that exists anywhere on Earth is a bit over 16 m. Most places have markedly less than that. That's not a lot of height. You'd have to move an enormous volume for a meaningful amount of energy.
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  2095.  @samsawesomeminecraft  This would need a volume 100x bigger.
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  2096.  @samsawesomeminecraft  This video talked about using depths of 3,000 - 10,000 m. Like I mentioned earlier, the highest tide height is a bit over 16 m which is way less and in practice tides are not going to be of that height in most places and not during a half moon. You can have 2 tides per day so even the most optimistic numbers would suggest a 100x volume. OK, these aren't directly comparable since one is the maximum amount of energy stored and the other is the energy generated per day, but still. Let's make another comparison. A typical wind turbine has a capacity of about 1.67 MW. Having this kind of tidal generator with the capacity assuming a 16 m tide height would require a volume of about million liters which is quite a lot. Note that that's to replace one measly wind turbine (or about 3 or 4 if you consider that wind turbines aren't spinning all the time).
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  2097.  @charlesngs8249  Google says that Sengoku Period ended in 1615 which would make Tokugawa Hidetada the first shogun after it (though Ieyasu was the first Tokugawa shogun).
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  2098. I don't think it is. His pronunciation in easy cases is either correct or close enough to correct that it doesn't work as a joke. He tends to have systematic errors where a certain difficult sound is always pronounced incorrectly in the same way. The mispronunciations don't seem to be chosen to sound funny (except maybe the exaggerated Italian accent). I have also seen "troll" pronunciation guides on other channels and they tend to be far more ridiculous.
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  2099.  @eksiarvamus  Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are called the "Baltic States" so Estonia is Baltic in the geographic (but not in the linguistic) sense.
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  2100. "He already screwed himself by not using a DMCA takedown" What? Isn't it more courteous to first just ask if TF is willing to resolve the issue rather going straight to a takedown?
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  2101. "And rockfeller became the first billionaire just a decade ago." Did you mean "century" rather than "decade"?
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  2102.  @aries6776  "becaues when you include capital outlay, waste disposal, decommissioning the costs go way up" Handling the waste isn't a big cost either. The volumes of nuclear waste are fairly small. Most of the cost is the capital cost of the plant which has already been paid in the past and cannot be even partially recovered by closing the plants early so it shouldn't factor into whether to continue using the existing plants or not. Also, bringing the decommissioning cost earlier doesn't help either. I don't think it makes economic sense to not continue to use the existing plants until at least the end of their originally designed lifespan. Building new plants would be a different matter entirely. "plus large parts of germany is running out of excess water" Note that this applies to any kind of thermal plant using the Rankine cycle, including coal plants, not just nuclear plants.
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  2103.  @aries6776  "Tell me what your best proposal is for nuclear waste then" Just keep it in temporary storage for now. The volumes are so low that it's not costly at all. "The fact still remains energy produced by nuclear power is FAR more expensive than that of renewables." That's only the case when you consider the capital cost of the plant. That may make new nuclear plants too expensive but for the existing plants it's a sunk cost which should have no bearing on whether to continue to use them.
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  2104.  @aries6776  "they produce because other costs, such as capital" But this is sunk cost for existing plants so it's not an argument against continuing to use them. "decommissioning" Again, this isn't an argument against continuing to use existing plants because closing them earlier doesn't reduce decommissioning costs. In fact, decommissioning earlier can increase the cost when you consider time-discounting. "waste disposal" This is a very small cost. "When you add all those up nuclear comes out far more expensive than solar and wind" But when you consider only those which matter for already existing plants (so excluding building and decommissioning costs as those cannot be avoided anymore) the result is different. "Also nuclear is slow to build." But I was only advocating for continuing to use the existing plants. I wasn't suggesting that Germany should build more.
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  2105. The Bottom and Top quarks used to be called Beauty and Truth quarks but the names were changed for some reason.
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  2106. "So the argument for illegal migrants is basically, “It’s better for an economy when you have people you can exploit by underpaying and/or providing poor working conditions.”" Note that they would likely still be worse off in their country of origin so I'm not sure the word "exploit" makes sense here.
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  2107.    "In addition your women will certainly be raped by the criminals." Well, I don't see how they could prevent that if they stayed back to fight in the ranks of the army because they'd certainly be away from their families in that case. The original comment mentioned the soldiers in question taking their families with them when fleeing so that won't happen if they're successful. Of course, attempting that is still risky but it's not clear to me that it would be riskier than staying and braving the ravages of war.
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  2108.  @talideon  I don't agree. In a consumer co-op most of the members would not be workers so workers would only have a small percentage of votes (assuming it's a regular consumer co-op and not something like Matters of Degree described above).
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  2109. Preferably not.
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  2110.  @parthasarathyvenkatadri  The lender can always demand the shares back.
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  2111. "Why would your pitch be to give up eating actual food to save time?" Why not? People are lazy sometimes and it can also ensure that you get all the necessary nutrients. Also, I don't think most people using products like these persist only on it. They probably eat regular food too.
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  2112. How were policy interest rates decided in ERM I? If the currencies are pegged the rates can't differ much in the long run. Was there some kind of meeting between central banks to coordinate them? Or did the Bundesbank just set its own rates without regard for the whole zone of pegged currencies and others had to just follow?
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  2113.  @chris0000924  Android has a bigger ecosystem. Network effects matter a lot. Also, I don't like when the operating system is controlled.
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  2114. "that money may be sent back to family is Russia and lessen the impact of sanctions" The sanctions make such remittances difficult. I wouldn't worry about that.
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  2115. Indefinitely.
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  2116.  @agentstvosnn6392  That's ridiculous.
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  2117.  @evatruth7896  "And you think it is ok?" While I do sympathize with Slovakia, I do think it's OK because Ukraine is suffering much, much more than Slovakia. It doesn't have much options but to squeeze Russia financially. Thus I don't fault Ukraine for making this decision. Do you have a better option for Ukraine to pick?
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  2118.  @kgkbuugj  Why waste taxes on infrastructure for cars?
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  2119. Glad that there are still good news out there.
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  2120. @Y0ddl3 Yeah. Wikipedia isn't always reliable but I think we can fairly certainly say invasion plans existed (though were later abandoned).
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  2121. Now this year (2021) the first one of these (in Laajasalo) is under construction.
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  2122. 2:55 "Not counting Pearl Harbor there was only one battle in World War II that was fought on US soil [...] the Battle of Attu in Alaska." Guam: Am I a joke to you?
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  2123. So there's reason to be hopeful.
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  2124.  @jackchamberlain : But it's an ETF meaning that it's also traded on the stock market (as are the stocks it contains).
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  2125.  @zaxarispetixos8728 : Interesting. What kind of law do they deal with? Presumably they're not trial lawyers?
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  2126. Because more countries might want to join?
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  2127.  @cow_tools_  "Why would they want to join." You spoke about "NATO's expansion". I assumed you meant expansion that has already happened. Clearly, those countries that have joined NATO wanted to join (the latest being Montenegro and North Macedonia). Should NATO have rejected their membership.
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  2128.  @cow_tools_  "Those countries are not near the border." OK, the members bordering Russia are Poland (joined in 1999) and the three Baltic states (joined in 2004). So to answer your question why NATO expanded there is that those countries wanted to join. (Norway also borders Russia but that's technically not an expansion because Norway is a founding member.)
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  2129. 2:44 "after their defeat in the Crimean war in 1856 against Britain, France, and the Ottomans" Let's be real. It was Sardinia that really defeated Russia. :)
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  2130.  @granand  Just selling oil does not make them not green. For that what matters is how much greenhouse gasses they themselves emit.
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  2131. Objection! What about the video below where a tax lawyer claims this video has many inaccuracies? (Please ignore the unnecessary meanness and focus on substance.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFyhmvSFpkc
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  2132.  @johnniesalomon1942  It was PolyMatter though others have made videos about it too (but not Sam).
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  2133.  @sammiller6631  "Bopomofo sounds like an Taiwanese insult or curseword." But in fact, it's just a nickname that comes from the 4 first letters of that alphabet (B, P, M, & F).
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  2134.  @Ass_of_Amalek  "normally such a word would indicate that gloves are a much newer adoption to the culture than shoes, but that would only make sense for a language from a place that's too warm for people to need gloves, so they only got introduced to them in modern times." I'm not sure I agree. Firstly, I would say that in a cold climate shoes are much more necessary than gloves so they might very well be an older invention. Secondly, they might have used other types of clothing for hands before gloves (e.g. mittens). Thirdly, it would be possible for the word for gloves to change. I'm not sure what's the history of gloves and shoes among Germanic peoples but, for what it's worth, Wiktionary says the following about the etymology of the word: "From Middle High German hantschuoch, from Old High German hantscuoh, from Proto-Germanic *handuskōhaz.". Proto-Germanic was spoken about 2 millennia ago so this compound word isn't new.
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  2135. Cars still take too much space in cities.
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  2136.  @podemosurss8316 : Indeed another description of ser/estar distinction I've seen is that the former describes characteristics and the latter states. Maybe that's a better description than permanent vs. temporary.
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  2137. I'd say that at least in colder climates people would wear pants.
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  2138. They're inefficient.
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  2139. "Why was the European Union established? To end the wars in Europe." Was it? To me it seems that it was originally established to develop trade in the field of coal and steel and then gradually expanded to other areas.
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  2140.  @salahgh3081  He only use the Saudi flag when talking about Saudi Arabia, not in place of the Palestinian flag. Also, it's not appropriate to use the Palestinian flag here because the current fighting (mostly) only involves Hamas and Gaza which is controlled by Hamas.
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  2141.  @schumanhuman  "In other words lending creates reserves" No, that's incorrect. It creates new deposit money but it doesn't create reserves.
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  2142.  @schumanhuman  "inflation is negatively correlated with the total use of QE" Of course, because QE is used to fight disinflation/deflation. Similarly e.g. the use of antibiotics is positively correlated with bacterial infections but that doesn't mean that antibiotics don't help with those.
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  2143.  @globalist1990  Theoretically, some bacteria can leave behind toxins that are not destroyed by heat even if the bacteria themselves are.
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  2144.  @isaackarjala7916 : Whatever one should think of banning incandescent bulbs, I don't think basements should affect that decision very much.
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  2145. "in progress of losing global reserve currency status" That's mostly speculation. The US dollar share of reserves hasn't gone down much. Also, it doesn't really matter that much in which currency oil is traded; forex reserves might matter a bit more but in the end the effect on the US economy is not that great.
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  2146.  @h9hkk6155  "Selling oil only in USD creates huge worldwide demand for USD" It doesn't create much demand. To do an oil transaction you only need to hold USD for a very short period of time (if you don't have some other reason to hold it longer). Trading in other currencies doesn't matter very much to the US economy. "Last 2 countries that tried to sell oil 🛢 in other currencies ( Iraq and Libia ) were bombed the F out, so US is very hawkish on defending the Petrodollar." They're not the only ones. At least Venezuela has done the same thing. And I think it's pretty clear that the intervention in Libya and the 2003 invasion of Iraq are explained by other considerations that have nothing to do with which currency is used in oil trade.
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  2147.  @h9hkk6155  At least it seems we definitely have different opinions on the economics of reserve currencies.
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  2148. 1:04:10 Remember that the US has a thing called "civil forfeiture" which means that it's possible for law enforcement to seize assets without a criminal conviction or a court order. While this practice is quite controversial and problematic, it's not obvious to me that the seizure of the assets of these oligarchs wouldn't be permitted under the prevailing jurisprudence.
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  2149. Isn't that a 4X game? Oh wait, that was Stellaris...
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  2150. I wouldn't think that this is a good time for fasting. The body needs more energy when fighting an infection.
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  2151.  @Christopher_TG : "Warren Court" So that's the '60s or '70s then?
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  2152. Marking Helsinki but not Turku on the map for this period?
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  2153.  @308VKSS  Russia not giving support would not have prevented those interventions just like lack of French support did not prevent the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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  2154. "There is absolutely no excuse for this poor performance on their part. The fact that the Red Army as an institution didn't collapse is no major feat either." The point that there were no mass surrenders or mass routs is still a salient point. It might not be a major feat but it's a feat enough that Hitler shouldn't have considered defeating the Red Army to be easy.
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  2155. It wouldn't be a job done. The TRNC isn't a part of Turkey.
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  2156. He said that hitting the oil infrastructure would hurt USA's strategic goals.
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  2157. "in Finland our main media YLE told that Ukraine has taken control over Kherson" Where has it said so? I can't find anything like that. Are you sure you're not making stuff up?
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  2158. What will happen if Ethiopia manages the dam in a way that takes Egypt's water security into account but refuses to sign a binding agreement guaranteeing that into the future? Will Egypt's complaints eventually subside or still continue? Or would Egypt take more drastic action even if nothing bad would have happened yet?
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  2159.  @MegaCevapcic  Well he has been a manager of a hedge fund (Palomar Capital) in the past, though I have no idea how well that fund performed.
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  2160. The EU/EEA still has external borders. There are similarly e.g. migrants crossing the Mediterranian and sometimes drowning.
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  2161. You can also use composite tanks. I'd assume they're less susceptible to embrittlement (though leakage is still going to happen).
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  2162. The high inflation is recent. Estonia getting richer is a longer-term trend.
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  2163.  @sacchin8535  If you have the government issue fiat currency (like Argentine Peso), some kind of government institution is going to decide how much of it to issue. That makes that kind of government institution essentially a central bank whether or not you formally call it that.
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  2164. One option is to call it ex-Twitter.
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  2165. Also, the province that Denmark lost is called "Halland" and not "Holland" as the automatic subs claim.
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  2166.  @Skullair313  "nuclear plants are just bad for environment" No, they aren't. They're way less harmful than coal.
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  2167.  @neyuse  "I think it only closed in the US" Not quite. In Finland, all the Toys R Us stores closed in early 2019 (I think).
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  2168. Can be but it's much less likely.
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  2169.  @RickJaeger  OK, got it. I think he meant to claim that 99% (or something) calls it "tram" when speaking English. I don't know if it's true or not, but that 99% would have to be of the world population that has some English proficiency as more than 1% of the total world population probably has none.
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  2170. 0:20 The slope doesn't counteract the centripetal force, it's what provides the centripetal force.
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  2171. "Wonder why healthcare and education are fully funded and free, but housing (another human right) is not." Because you need markets to decide who gets which housing.
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  2172.  @generationclash5004  Actually, it was a bit under 6 h. However, even Luxembourg lasted longer, though not by much.
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  2173. "Nay-Foe" That would be a fitting name for a military alliance. (For those who don't know, "nay" means "no" and "foe" is a synonym for "enemy".)
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  2174.  @Ariq_Zharfan0001  That doesn't necessarily make it non-democratic if the monarch doesn't have real power.
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  2175. "Crimea was never a Autonomous Republic within Ukraine - Ukraine has no Autonomous Republics" You're mistaken. It was an Autonomous Republic. That was defined in the law "On status of the autonomous Republic of Crimea".
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  2176. 1:08:10 It's not the case that "most of the world" recognizes Kosovo as a part of Serbia. It's recognition is split very close to 50%/50%. Last I checked there was still a very slight majority for the recognition of its independence (among UN members).
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  2177. Big collective GUH happened in 2008.
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  2178.  @andrewfranklin4429  "they are still optimising it. It will get faster" There's no guarantee of that. Other tunnel borer makers have also been developing their machines for a long time. If there was an easy way to make them faster without significant downsides it would likely have been done already. It's not implausible that The Boring Company could come up with some improvements but earth-shattering ones (pun intended) are not super likely.
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  2179. 2:40 It's not true that the Balticconnector is the only import channel. Finland is also renting (together with Estonia) an LNG terminal ship named Exemplar from an American company.
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  2180.  @Cl0ckcl0ck  OK, but that was just a referendum on the association agreement, not on membership as such. Also, the association agreement later passed after some negotiation.
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  2181. 1:30 "Gypsy, Aryan" That makes no sense. Gypsies are Aryans whereas most Europeans are not.
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  2182. What? You think Muslims or Tajikis blew up that pipeline?
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  2183. I've been told that at least some of the Soviet units that were issued ski combat manuals weren't issued skis. At least in those cases it's somewhat irrelevant whether the troops were good at skiing or not.
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  2184. "I was praying for Erdogan to win and Im a English Christian person" And his crazy monetary policy doesn't change that view?
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  2185. This doesn't always work, though. See e.g. Metatron's annoyance with exaggerated Italian accent.
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  2186. In case you're curious about the pronunciation of Svinhufvud: 1) The 'U' in (Finnish) Swedish is about half-way between the German 'U' and 'Ü'. 2) The 'F' isn't pronounced here. (In modern Swedish, "head" is written "huvud" but this name uses an archaic spelling.)
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  2187. 17:27 Who's that guy?
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  2188.  @sri33333  "Do you realise that Estonia is a small country" Russian speakers are a big enough minority that finding teachers shouldn't be a big problem. It hasn't been a problem for Estonia until now. "Do you really want to compare us with Turkey with its 85 million people?" Your original point, which I responded to, only said that there shouldn't be any obligation to arrange teaching in any non-official language. That point didn't mention size which is a different point entirely so using Turkey as an example seemed perfectly reasonable. Furthermore, in my comment I did mention that e.g. the number of the speakers of the minority language is one factor in determining how reasonable is to expect for the government to arrange schooling in that language. I think Russian speakers a big enough minority in Estonia that arranging Russian language schooling shouldn't be a problem. Estonia has managed until now and I don't see a reason to change that. "and also quite poor" I don't think you can count Estonia as poor anymore. As an example, its real GDP per capita is already (somewhat) higher than that of Spain and Portugal.
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  2189.  @V01DIORE  Hmm, it seems my comments and a couple of yours were removed.
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  2190. No, he means DC. DC means cheaper cable and lower losses in the cable but the extra losses and cost at the conversion to DC mean that it only makes economic sense at long distances.
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  2191. It's not clear that he committed any crimes this time. Simply making a YOLO that goes tits up isn't necessarily a crime (though it could be depending on the particulars).
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  2192. "Landlords are a massive burden on any economy given most of them are either massive companies with shady deals or private owners who prefer living off the property income without actually producing any "new" money to put it back into circulation." There is nothing wrong with this. It's entirely reasonable to receive compensation for the alternative cost of capital. "Rent for living quarters comes from the tenants' pockets, reducing their spending power which in turn slows down currency circulation." It doesn't slow it down because the landlord receives the money and can spend it. Even if did slow down currency circulation it's just neutral, not bad. The central bank can print more money to compensate for lower velocity of circulation if needed.
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  2193. There is no reason to divert the water. What the dam can do is hydropower and for that you need to let the water through so it shouldn't be a problem for Egypt in the long term. When the reservoir is being filled Ethiopia IMHO has the moral duty to manage the rate of filling such that Egypt doesn't run too low on water.
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  2194.  @kasadam85 : It's entirely appropriate to use the older name when referring to it in the context of a time period before the name change, like Christian did here.
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  2195.  @kasadam85 : What he said in his original comment was: "The british could have just let Constantinople become a free city". This is clearly referring to time right after WWI when the official name change hadn't yet happened so using the name "Constantinople" in that context is perfectly fine. I'm not trying to discern what he feels it should be called today nor am I commenting on that.
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  2196. @Itsme Alex Pretty no one alive in Europe has been actually ruled by a monarch. Some European countries have ceremonial figurehead monarchs, some don't, but it's unlikely to have a big influence on present-day people.
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  2197.  @orijimi  I personally think that eagles at least look prettier than seagulls. While seagull aren't ugly or anything, I think they usually look less interesting than bald eagles.
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  2198.  @nvelsen1975  Kosovo recognition/non-recognition is very close to 50%/50% among UN members.
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  2199.  @segiraldovi  "Devaluing your currency is a common strategy in countries with a focus on exports since it makes your goods more competitive" That can be quite reasonable if your inflation is low. If your inflation is in double digits then you certainly don't need any more currency devaluation.
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  2200. "It just seems like a wealth extraction tool." Not to me. Has any wealth been successfully extracted from anywhere using IMF loans?
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  2201.  @charlesburgoyne-probyn6044  "Serbia as the lead nation had many serbs in Croatia and Bosnia who didn't generally want the federation to breakup. They started the wars by braking away from Yugoslavia actually!" AFAIK, the Yugoslav constitution gave the right of secession to the constituent republics. Thus de jure Croatia and Bosnia had the right to break away and I don't think you can reasonably say that they started the war; or at least they're not the only culprits. Surely the Republika Srpska in Bosnia and Serbian Krajina in Croatia must share at least part of the blame.
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  2202.  @amorag59  "The coke is the heat source in a preliminary step" That's not its main purpose. Coke/carbon is used as a reducing agent when refining iron ore. It combines with the oxygen in the ore to liberate the iron.
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  2203.  @amorag59  "the high carbon content coke is not there to add carbon to the steel" I didn't say that it's there to add carbon to the steel. I said that it's there to take the oxygen out from the ore. That's its main purpose.
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  2204.  @amorag59  "Except they didn't say coke they said iron + carbon = steel. There is no such process to make steel by simply adding carbon to iron." I read up on this and it seems you're, in fact, mistaken, at least when it comes to iron or steel production. The earliest forms of iron ore refining in a bloomery produced iron with little to no carbon (basically wrought iron). The earliest forms of steel making then consisted of treating the object made of iron with heat and a charcoal bed and then quenching it. That process added carbon and turned the outer layer into steel. So there is in fact historical a process to make steel by adding carbon to iron. Modern blast furnaces of course don't work this way but the note about history at 0:27 is not incorrect.
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  2205.  @amorag59  "The steel making process you are citing, simply to dispute that line above, was not a process used thousands of years ago like mentioned at the timestamp." The process, i.e. case hardening, was used 1400 BC. "this was because they couldn't economically reduce the carbon to the percentage for carbon steel, they had to start with wrought iron" The first methods of refining iron did not produce high carbon cast iron or pig iron like a blast furnace. A bloomery does not introduce as much carbon as a blast furnace and subsequent hot working of the iron removes most of the carbon that was introduced. Thus the first methods of making steel used carburization rather than decarburization like later methods. "The problem with the video is they make the statement at :27 then quickly jump to the modern steel making processes which does not work that way." The historical note they made is correct. The video after that doesn't even discuss how modern steel making works so the kind of jump you mentioned does not occur. Only steel recycling is described with more detail, not steel making.
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  2206. Next: Pirates of the Baltic (a.k.a. Victual Brothers)
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  2207. "13 years to fully buy a house in NYC? That sounds a little low…" Note, this is if you used 100% of your income on the house and didn't have to pay interest (nor utilities, etc.).
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  2208. Portugal wasn't even in the game Colonization.
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  2209.  @halfmanhalfcat1058  It will probably be cheaper but not by as much as the exchange rate movements would seem to indicate. That's because Turkey has high inflation meaning prices there increase quickly in Lira terms which offsets a portion of the falling exchange rate.
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  2210. ​ @Omer1996E.C  "Nobody is asking if these relations [...] were or are approved by most of the arab populace" I don't claim to be all that knowledgeable about these things but to me this would seem to be less relevant in Saudi Arabia than most other Arab countries. Saudi Arabia doesn't have any kind of national elections or even a parliament. Thus, while the government the doesn't have unlimited slack, it seems that there's no obvious strong pathway for popular opinion to force the government to change course short of some kind actual civil unrest.
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  2211. "A witty saying proves nothing." -Voltaire
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  2212. This problem also existed when nuclear power was started for the first time, yet that wasn't an insurmountable barrier. Re-starting nuclear power should probably be a less of a challenge (though still a challenge) if there is either political will or market demand (without political will to prevent it) to do it.
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  2213. Brazil's inflation is currently lower than those of the US and the Eurozone.
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  2214. Not all conquests are colonial conquests.
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  2215. With negative prices couldn't someone make money by buying gas to receive money and then just flare the gas?
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  2216.  @gewinnste  "The ammonium nitrate didn't act "as an accelerant in a fire"" Strictly speaking, she didn't say it acted as an accelerant but rather that it acts as an accelerant in a fire.
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  2217. 31:50 I've seen it stated in several places that there was also a 4th Finnish Jew named Leo Jakobson who was also either awarded the Iron Cross or at least recommended to be awarded it.
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  2218.  Pandaboi  GDP measures production, not consumption.
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  2219.  @sirjmo  High rents are a symptom of high demand relative to supply. Just limiting rents won't on its own increase supply (and, in fact, it can reduce the supply of housing for rent if housing becomes less valuable for prospective landlords but not less valuable to prospective homeowners). Access to housing will then be limited by some other factor than price, like queueing time, connections, or luck. Renters are incentivized to hang on to their leases even if it's no longer an optimal house/apartment for them. Also, landlords are less incentivized to maintain the houses/apartments they own in a good condition. A clear majority of economists are against rent control.
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  2220.  @pantherowow77  Alienated or not, Turkey has no reason to run such a loose monetary policy. Erdogan is to blame.
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  2221.  @VIItut : I just told the Russian name because many people might not know the name in Finnish/Karelian/Veps. In any case, both that name and the Russian one have same origin basically meaning Peter's Factory.
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  2222.  @carolr7823  If it's ridiculous then the restaurant should say so.
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  2223.  @ThermicLight : At that point, they won the "Battle of Britain" which was just one part of the war.
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  2224.  @AntonyScerri  "start with DC then you would only need one at the other end" I don't think that's practical. The solar panels don't generate a high voltage so it needs to first be inverted to AC so that the voltage can be stepped up for high voltage transmission and then converted back to DC. You could put a lot of panels in series to get a high voltage to begin with but then one malfunctioning panel can put the entire series of panels out of action and the voltage would vary during the day. Also, a HVDC line with no inversion/conversion at one end then couldn't transmit power from other sources and could only transmit it in one direction.
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  2225.  @craigkdillon  You're confusing two things here. Edison wanted to transmit power directly to homes using low voltage DC. It's the low voltage that caused the high transmission losses. With AC the voltage can be stepped up and the back down again using transformers. It's this high voltage which makes the losses lower. However, if you can convert the high voltage AC to DC (and back) then that means even lower losses (and cheaper cables) but the extra cost and losses of the conversion means that it only makes economic sense for longer distances.
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  2226. Maybe you could wear a hoodie with a suit & tie pattern on it.
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  2227. "Finland’s most lucrative export is petroleum" That's not even remotely true. Petroleum means crude oil and Finland has none of that.
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  2228. "I have always wondered how a federal republic system (the same system in my country Switzerland) would work in Cyprus." One fear that the Greek Cypriots have about a federal solution is that it wouldn't end up like Switzerland but more like Bosnia with a deadlocked government.
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  2229. Though, that's not the case anymore.
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  2230.  @ellav5387  "Nobody from London commutes to Paris" Well, you could also just look at e.g. the populations of Kent and Pas-de-Calais. Kent has more population than either all of Estonia or the Uusimaa region of Finland. The population of Pas-de-Calais is similar to that of Estonia.
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  2231.  @adwarfsittingonagiantsshoulder  The wording here is a bit misleading. Denmark did implement a tax on cows and the reason is that they emit methane (due to enteric fermentation) which contributes to global warming. However, most of the methane from cows come from burps, not farts. Also, I think the tax is just a flat amount per cow per year. The precise amount of methane emissions isn't measured (or at least I think it isn't but I'm not 100% sure).
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  2232.  @containedhurricane  Switzerland is also landlocked.
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  2233. Tesla has Panasonic make their batteries.
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  2234. It's not a single party system in the same way like China. Yes, one party has effectively been in power for the duration of the current constitutional arrangement but that kind of thing isn't necessarily bad. That kind of de facto single party rule has worked decently in at least Singapore and Japan.
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  2235. It's not obviously fair use. "if he wants to sell stock footage specifically YouTube is probably not the place to post your stuff.. for free?" Why so? He doesn't lose the copyright just by posting it to his own channel.
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  2236. He didn't say "Bulgarians" but "Bulgars". The country was named after the Bulgars but the population was mostly Slavic.
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  2237.  @mysterioanonymous3206  "South east Asia generally is mostly Buddhist" I don't think it is. Indonesia and Malaysia are predominantly Muslim, the Philippines is predominantly Christian. Yes, there are Buddhist countries too but their populations don't compare to that of Indonesia, the 4th biggest country by population on this planet.
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  2238. 0:26 WTF is that contraption?
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  2239.  @gabel0027  "They were, in a sense, aggressive, but an "aggressive defense"" By that logic, the Continuation War can also be called an "aggressive defense".
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  2240. "If there isn't a cap on the amount you can take out of social security directly tied to the cap for how much you contribute to it (that $168k)" There is exactly that kind of cap.
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  2241.  @EvsEntps  "the vast majority, when polled, aspire to suburban living in the long-term" But I think poll answers aren't what matters the most when we try to figure out what people want. Rather, what matters is how much those people are willing to pay for living in a low-density suburb vs. some kind of denser neighborhood. At least in high demand areas, people collectively are usually willing to pay more for higher density neighborhoods because you can fit more paying families into the same scarce land (unless people are willing to pay a lot more for a home in a lower-density suburb). In places like that, higher density is really in demand, poll answers notwithstanding. Any decision to zone such areas with single-family units only is a decision imposed from above. It might make sense to also have some low-density suburbs but probably not to the extent we see in the US today.
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  2242. 12:10 Was Scottish Gaelic still spoken at that time? I had thought it had mostly died out by that time.
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  2243.  @r.majeni1702  Thanks for the info.
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  2244. "And seems to me, germany is working on that..." It seems to me that Germany has been doing the exact opposite.
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  2245. He misspoke. It's half, not quarter. More specifically, they take your monthly income, subtract 255 € and then divide it by 60 to get the amount of single day fine. Also, there's a 6 € minimum per day and for the total fine there's a minimum of 100 € for moped drivers and 200 € for drivers of other motor vehicles.
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  2246.  @Nwtrino  Even if you can control the output of a nuclear plant it usually doesn't make economic sense. Nuclear is cheap to run. It's usually more economical to first reduce the output of an energy source with a more expensive fuel. Therefore nuclear plants are usually kept as close to maximum capacity as possible. France is an exception and uses load following nuclear plants because the share of nuclear there is so high that using other forms of energy for load following wouldn't suffice.
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  2247.  @envysart797  "If Ukraine takes back Kherson, there’s no easy way to protect Crimea." If you mean actually making a large scale offensive into Crimea, I don't see that happening. The Ukrainian's would have to fight through the very narrow isthmus of Perekop to enter Crimea and they can't rely on naval support as they don't have much of a navy. That seems too difficult. If you mean just blackmail through throttling the water supply into Crimea, that's more realistic. Such blackmail probably wouldn't cause Russia to give up Crimea but it might cause them to give up other areas if the war is also going badly enough.
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  2248.  @os9706  Do the requirements mean that "wrong" kind of Muslims have a harder time getting accepted? Is it more difficult to get to Mecca if you're a Shia? What about if you're from some stranger group like Druze or Ahmadiyya?
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  2249. It's funny that you shit on Soylent when you've been sponsored by Huel before.
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  2250. I thought the plague doctor mask was from the plague epidemic in the 1600s, not from the earlier Black Death (in the 1300s).
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  2251. Doesn't Los Angeles have a lot of low-density suburban sprawl? The insulae actually provided for a high population density and mixed residential/commercial use since the bottom floor was for tabernae.
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  2252. Not at all.
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  2253. I would still say that based on the examples we know, cyber attacks still do less damage than conventional armed attacks. However, they are much less constrained by geography.
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  2254. "What if the central bank starts to flood the market with liquidity and puts so much downwards pressure on bond prices that government bonds now yield only 2% a year?" Central banks buying bonds should raise their (nominal) rates rather than lower them.
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  2255.  @dangray4086 : "Can you name me any culture, civilization or even tribe, that has not sought to instill its' values, whether basely or nobly, upon others, by force" Maybe not, but I think the point was that the status of English as a lingua franca is because Britain conquered so much and doesn't have much to do with the character of the language itself.
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  2256.  @dangray4086 : What I meant is that the conquering part and generally the economic prominence of English speaking countries like the UK and the US was the reason for the spread of English. I'm not making a moral judgment here. I'm only contrasting this with the alternative hypothesis that English spread because of the features of the language (like someone might consider it easy to learn, things like that). What I'm saying is that the features of the language itself mostly have nothing to do with why the English language is so prominent today.
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  2257. Now you must become a Muslim.
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  2258. "Every is instrument that is volatile has volatility decay, non-leveraged ETFs have it too" No, the volatility drag is due to the daily rebalancing. Non-leveraged ETFs don't have to be rebalanced.
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  2259.  @mariorossi7149  "If a index goes down by 10% and then goes up by 10%, it losts 1% of its value." That's just an artifact of the definition of percentage change, not a "real" phenomenon. If you multiply an index by a factor of 1.1 and then divide it by the same factor it'll end up where it was but a leveraged ETF following the index will lag behind.
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  2260. It is temporary but even a temporary water crisis could potentially be devastating for Egypt.
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  2261.  @lt2672  Ethiopia is less hot and more humid than Egypt so evaporation probably isn't a huge issue. In this regard e.g. the Aswan Dam and its reservoir (Lake Nasser) are much worse. Also, I don't think Ethiopia would close the river off for Egypt (or Sudan) in most plausible scenarios. The biggest problem with the GERD is the rate of the reservoir filling which can potentially be too fast for Egypt.
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  2262.  @erasmusmusiccentre1387  "But then aren't you saying you want someone doing the job who can be like a psychopath" I'm not sure that alone fits the definition of a psychopath. E.g. grandiose sense of self might not be required here. "why not just have a psychopath do the job in the first place?" I was only saying that it's not clear to me that they would have an advantage (over the people who in general get selected to be surgeons). I wasn't claiming that they would be at a disadvantage either. In any case, the amount of psychopaths out there probably isn't high enough to fill a significant portion of professions like these (depending on where you put the threshold of someone counting as a psychopath).
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  2263.  @weis1869  "he talks about not being able to form deep, empathetic relationships with those around him, yet finding it easy to relate to strangers, and at parties, as being synonymous with a psychopath" This is one feature common in psychopaths. There are others has well. Having only one such feature likely won't make you score very highly on psychopathy indexes (though still higher than otherwise).
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  2264. "The smart solution would be to allow those under 45 to fully opt out of the system" How'd you pay the benefits of those over 45 then?
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  2265. "Turkey is food lol" The bird is (indirectly) named after Turks.
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  2266.  @alexhumble7653  "What would the US do if Russia built a military base in Tijuana?" Well, that certainly wouldn't give them the right to invade Mexico (and I think they wouldn't). "However according to sent. Robert Kennedy 14000 Russian civilians were killed by Ukraine’s artillery in Donbass since 2014. Who could stop that slaughter and how long should’ve Russia tolerated that?" I already told you earlier that that's false on multiple levels. Let me repeat: -This figure includes people killed both by Ukrainian forces and those killed by separatist/Russian forces. -It includes deaths from all sorts of weapons like assault rifles and grenades, not just artillery. -It includes both soldier and civilian deaths. In fact, civilian deaths are a clear minority. They number about 3k, i.e. less than 1/4th of that estimated total. -Almost all of those deaths happened in 2014 & 2015. In recent years the number of deaths before the present invasion were something like 10 per year and that figure includes shelling by both sides as both sides have been doing that.
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  2267.  @alexhumble7653  What are you talking about? I don't speak Russian nor Ukrainian and the level of my English skill (whether high or low) is hardly evidence for me getting paid.
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  2268. And apparently in Slovakian Slovakia is called "Slovensko" which sounds even more like Slovenia.
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  2269.  @kevinwest3274  "If you can wait them out." If you mean a temporary fall in asset prices, that's not a reason to withdraw your savings. If you mean withdrawing due to e.g. unemployment, then with a pension any kind of early withdrawal usually isn't an option to begin with so this particular point doesn't seem to favor pensions. (I don't intend my comments to be against or in favor of a possible national pension. I only want to point out that investing with sufficient diversification is almost guaranteed to pay off in the long term.)
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  2270. 1:45 "newly crowned president" Did you misspeak or was that some kind of deliberate dig?
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  2271. 1:07 Michael Jordan's clothing for sale? Lol!
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  2272.  @neilabernath5862  The US luckily has better checks and balances.
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  2273.  @2st_duallist  Fitting 10s of tons of fuel in the wing seems quite easy. One cubic meter already contains about 800 kg of fuel, i.e. almost a ton. Fitting many cubic meters inside the wings is not difficult at all.
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  2274. I'm not terribly familiar with the 80 Years' War. After watching these videos by SandRhoman I wonder how did the Dutch manage to win this war. They seem to be losing siege after siege.
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  2275.  @Raadpensionaris  I might check that out, thanks (though the videos appear rather long).
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  2276. "Poland should invest in the future, not the past." Nuclear is an investment into future.
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  2277. "But I don't agree on the backtest part." What exactly do you disagree on? You seem to say pretty much the same thing he did.
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  2278.  @hawk6890  What's the difference? Just to make things clear, I'll paraphrase Patrick here: When you backtest some of these strategies, the result can be that you win 90% of the time but the expected profit is still negative because the rare losses tend to be big. Therefore, the this kind of strategy is actually bad (as revealed by a backtest) even though a daytrader using it can feel like he's going from win to win until he's suddenly ruined by a rare but big loss. You didn't seem to say anything that would contradict this.
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  2279.  @edwinlor7932  "Nuclear has radioactive waste." Nuclear waste is fairly unproblematic.
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  2280. Or both.
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  2281.  @kenho5209  "it is european blackmailing russia" Which is perfectly justified to stop an invasion. "consider u are working in the bank, u are receiving salary through the bank account in this bank too. now the bank is telling u they are freezing ur bank account (for salary) permanently, and u still need to work for them." That's not the case for Russia. The forex reserves of the Russia central bank were frozen but not e.g. Gazprom's receipts from energy exports. If those had been frozen Europe would have already stopped receiving gas long ago.
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  2282.  @kenho5209  "Russia is no way to transact/receive money in their european" There are exceptions to that such as energy transactions. Those were exempted so that Europe could still receive gas.
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  2283. It's not the Taiwanese flag. That flag used to be the flag of Myanmar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar#/media/File:Flag_of_Myanmar_(1974%E2%80%932010).svg
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  2284. AFAIK, Mauritius was also uninhabited before the French took control.
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  2285. I don't know much about cars but to my knowledge, EVs are mostly a battery (price-wise).
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  2286. You could make two arguments. 1) He probably knew (or should have known) that many of the WSB types of people are going to follow him if he doesn't explicitly warn against it or something. 2) The timing of the sale relative to when he has to report his stake makes it look like he wanted to mislead (in a broad/moral sense) investors as long as legally possible. I think one can at least make the argument that even if this isn't illegal it's a dick move.
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  2287.  @SoloTravelerOffTheBeatenPath : Ah, you're correct. Malta, however, is a Shengen member while being an island nation.
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  2288. Reminds me of the War of the Wooden Bucket.
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  2289. 3:00 I like how the Philippines is its own category.
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  2290. It's not cheaper to build underground. Tunneling is expensive. Tesla and SpaceX have no experience of building rail.
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  2291. No, I think those happened over a longer period of time than in China.
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  2292. There isn't necessarily a need to get completely rid of a foreign accent. It can have its own charm. Think of e.g. a slight French accent in English.
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  2293. "I feel like the electoral college does give some teeth to smaller states that don't have larger populations" Why is such geographic division of voters into groups more important than other groupings? Couldn't you similarly argue that e.g. racial groups with smaller populations should be given more voting power than their number would imply?
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  2294.  @08msteed  "That's an argument you could make" Of course, I personally would favor just a popular vote and thus I'm not in favor of the current geographic grouping of voters nor would I be in favor of racial, religious, nor any other such grouping. The argument was more of a rhetorical device as I expect that many who favor the EC for similar reasons as you wouldn't like e.g. racial or religious groupings getting their own electors even though many of the arguments in favor and against would be similar. "My concern is if we removed the electoral college and went with the purely popular vote Presidential candidates would have the incentive to focus exclusively on large population centers." I don't buy that at all for a couple of reasons: -There would be always at least some votes to be gained from catering to smaller groupings (geographic or otherwise) of voters (unlike current spectator states). -To some degree the point of election is that appealing to more voters increases one's chances of success. -You might similarly argue that currently candidates could totally ignore e.g. blacks and focus exclusively on whites if blacks aren't given more electors per populations. I don't see a reason to privilege geographic groupings over other kinds of groupings. -We can in fact observe candidates at least trying to cater to smaller racial groups and not only whites. Similarly, we can expect that they wouldn't exclusively focus on cities. "Still not a perfect system..." Similarly, a popular vote isn't a perfect system but I do believe that it's better than the status quo and your proposal. (I do think that your proposal would still be an improvement over the status quo, though.)
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  2295.  @08msteed  Popular vote might be difficult to get through but I'm not sure your proposal is that much easier. Like Legal Eagle said, most states have an incentive to use a winner takes all system and thus are not wont to change it.
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  2296.  @JOHNSMITH-if9jr  It's a conscript army meaning it's made of ordinary people and a clear majority of ordinary people in Belarus don't want to invade Ukraine so there is close to zero motivation for doing things like that among the ranks. It also means that it's not that loyal to Lukashenko. Thus he needs separate (professional, not conscript) internal security forces who are more loyal to him.
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  2297. I have a 0% chance of being audited by the IRS...because I don't live in the US.
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  2298. How does Bergen compare to Bergen op Zoom?
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  2299.  @elnuridrisov7069  "Even in this videos you can see armenians occupied areas surrounding NK." I thought Azerbaijan already took back those areas in 2020.
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  2300.  @CosRacecar  You should watch a channel called Primitive Technology (if you haven't already). ;)
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  2301.  @666Mordy  "Her agenda appears to be keeping certain behaviors from being taught in public schools." That wording should be "taught about in public schools", not "taught in public schools".
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  2302.  @stunimbus1543  "Chagos was uninhabited until the French found them." Same is true for Mauritius. It's not clear to me that this would somehow mean that Chagos should be separate from Mauritius. (Just to be clear, I'm not saying the French were the first to discover Mauritius. It had been discovered by e.g. Arabs many centuries prior. It just hadn't been settled before the French took it over.)
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  2303. There's a minimum of 6 € per day and for the total fine there's a minimum of 100 € for moped drivers and 200 € for drivers of other motor vehicles.
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  2304.  @muslimresponse103  I have to admit that I haven't bothered to read the text of the treaty itself but all the descriptions of it that I've seen say that it made Saudi Arabia into a British protectorate.
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  2305.  @J-BiRTH  I'd say that Mongols during the Mongol conquests the Mongols were more brutal than many other cultures were to foes that resisted and were defeated. See e.g. Balkh, Bamiyan, Herat, Kyiv, Baghdad, Nishapur, Merv, Urgench, Lahore, Ryazan, Chernigov, Vladimir, and Samarkand. That said, the other cultures at the time were probably still pretty brutal by modern standards even when less brutal than the Mongols.
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  2306.  @abcddef2112  Even so, couldn't the vice president still share a palace with the president? Why the need for a separate building?
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  2307.  @JamesKerLindsay  "The Belgians probably fall at the bottom of the pile, by almost any measure." Though, I think in that case a huge portion of the blame falls on one man: Leopold II
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  2308. Depending on your definition the German V-1 from WWII is probably the first operational cruise missile.
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  2309. The Normans also had archers, though I don't know what kind of bows they used. William used archers in the Battle of Hastings.
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  2310.  @aaroncousins4750  "Russia and ukraind makes up for 20% of global food supply." I think it was 20% of global exports rather than the total food supply.
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  2311.  @YoYodominoHD  "Do you need 2/3 majority to pass the budget?" If the president vetoes it then yes, otherwise no.
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  2312. The hypothesis is that with strange matter more of the quarks can be in the lower energy states of the system because there's three types of quarks and not just two (Pauli's exclusion principle) and with enough of it that effect might dominate the higher energy of the strange quarks themselves.
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  2313. Maybe we could lift rockets high into the atmosphere using large balloons?
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  2314. I think the British actions in this event were at least somewhat understandable. There are far better examples of Albion being perfidious. E.g. during and after WWI, the Sykes-Picot agreement was a brazen betrayal of the Arabs who had sided with the Entente and rebelled.
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  2315. Who's al-Dente? Some Arab guy?
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  2316. They could change their name to Sheriff of Nottingham.
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  2317.  @ReevansElectro  I mean, it's not enough to slap a winch on top of the tower (sans hub). You'd need some structure on top of the tower holding the winch so that it's above the top of the tower by enough that the hub fits under it. Otherwise, it won't be able to lift the hub all the way. Such a structure doesn't sound cheap enough to be more economical than just using a mobile crane. But I thought of a bigger problem. The tower is often made of several sections which are lifted on top of each other with a crane. Since you need a crane for them, might as well use it for the hub too. Using an integrated winch for them sounds even more difficult.
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  2318.  @TimurtheElephantslayer  "Greece stalled for time instead of admitting they're wrong" What kind of "stalling" are you talking about? Should Greece have agreed to something very quickly, or what are you saying. Also, the military junta in Greece had already collapsed before the second Turkish invasion so whatever Greece might have been wrong about before shouldn't have been relevant at that point anymore.
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  2319. Which part of this video is wishful thinking? He pretty clearly says that Abkhazia actually rebelling against Russia seems unlikely. Or did you by "some [...] episodes" mean other videos but not this one?
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  2320. It shouldn't matter as long as the cart isn't turning.
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  2321. How do the zaibatsu compare to the keiretsu?
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  2322.  @WuzZAZzuW  "I dont agree. It was the right decision." It was definitely a bad decision. I don't see any reasonable reason to close existing plants before the end of their usable life.
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  2323.  @WuzZAZzuW  I don't think that's what you said. It's not that the decision was too quick but rather such decision should not have been made at all. Of course, once plants reach the end of their useful life they will be decommissioned but that doesn't require any separate decision by politicians to end nuclear energy at some point. There is no good reason to make such a decision. Closing too old plants doesn't require such decision at any speed.
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  2324. Though I think they also provided the Allies with intelligence.
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  2325. "Belarus is not a separate country it was de facto annexed by Russia years ago." I don't buy that. Lukashenko just keeps promising a union state, maybe, someday, to keep getting cheap gas and oil.
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  2326.  @user-njyzcip  It could be a helicopter too!
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  2327.  @OxAO  "you're just spitting out none sense" I was just joking and making fun of Terrence Howard. Obviously I don't actually think that 5×1=1 nor that 1×1=2.
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  2328. I think the English 'r' was easier for me than the 'r' in my native language (Finnish) where it's an alveolar trill, though this is because of a speech impediment.
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  2329. But surely letting pockets form is still better than to have those same pockets not be pockets by the virtue of having a connection to the main body of the Soviet forces?
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  2330. 4:22 "They used a special white paint that was much more reflective than typical aircraft paint, allowing it to radiate more heat." But shouldn't the opposite be true according to Kirchhoff's radiation law?
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  2331. "That's a whole mood" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_mood
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  2332. No snow in Helsinki, Finland either. :(
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  2333.  @wodgwidh  Ukraine still claims all of its 1992 territory and most countries recognize that claim (at least formally). Also, there's an active war going on there. I don't see how the example of Ukraine could be used to argue that the Northern Ireland being a part of the UK is an occupation.
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  2334.  @isodoubIet  "Whether the pan will heat or not doesn't really depend on whether it's "magnetic", ferrous, or whether a magnet will stick to it." I disagree because, as you wrote later: "the skin effect which reduces the conductor's effective cross-sectional area at higher frequencies. The skin effect is especially strong in iron because of its high magnetic permeability." Being magnetic is what (in practice) determines whether an induction cooker can effectively heat e.g. a pan. If it's not magnetic the current isn't restricted near the surface and the resistance of the area where the current flows will be too low for effective heating at reasonable amounts of current.
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  2335.  @cezarcatalin1406  "Wrong, you actually need a very thin piece of aluminium that can be penetrated by magnetic fields." It's not about being penetrated by magnetic fields. A thin piece of aluminium has higher resistance so it can be effectively heated by a current that the induction cooker can produce.
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  2336. But what if you'd rather deal with an illegitimate business man?
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  2337. The creditors of a company should prefer that the company hedges because they can't usually benefit from the upside of the lack of a hedge. Theoretically, a company could also use more leverage when they use hedging (and ordinary insurance) because then adverse events are less likely to take them underwater. Not sure if that works in practise.
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  2338. If Turkey leaves NATO then Sweden will likely join soon after.
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  2339.  @jounisaari9471  I don't think the 180k refers to any particular subset of the reserve. More likely, it's the amount that could and would be called up in a war, at least in initial rounds of mobilization. The entire reserve can't be mobilized because there probably isn't gear for everybody nor enough staff officers to lead that many units. Also, people would still be needed in the civilian economy too. Thus the planned war time strength of 180k for the Army. Though, I suspect in a protracted war more would be mobilized eventually.
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  2340. Cars take too much space to be an economical option inside a city.
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  2341. Point number 2 says: "The security of a country should not be pursued at the expense of others.". Wouldn't that also mean that Russia should not pursue its security at the expense of Ukraine? Point number 3 says: "All parties must stay rational and exercise restraint". To me, conducting military operations against the Ukrainian military doesn't seem like "restraint" but rather the opposite.
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  2342. It might not if you're a small company.
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  2343.  @aconsideredopinion7529  Other EU members would have an obligation of at least some kind of assistance (Lisbon Treaty, Article 42.7).
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  2344. Even replacing cigarette addiction with nicotine gum addiction is probably a net positive.
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  2345. They might still consider it a matter of principle or prestige even if there wouldn't be material gain.
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  2346. "In modern war, the biggest danger to tanks is small groups of infantry equipped with personal anti-tank weapons such as the Stingers." Hmm, I don't think Stingers are anti-tank missiles.
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  2347.  @martinswitzer6534  "But our wealth tax is negligible" That doesn't mean it's not the second-highest like Slithermotion claimed.
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  2348. How about dronation?
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  2349.  @Foolish188  Nice!
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  2350. "it is made up of countless ethnic groups and different religions" Russia is something like 85% Russian. It's possible that some regions would break away but that wouldn't leave Russia that much smaller.
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  2351. The Territory of Cocos (Keeling) Islands has a parliament with 7 members.
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  2352. "They actually stimulated the economy." That is very hard to believe. It contradicts the law of comparative advantage.
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  2353. I googled this and found a piece of news saying that in a place called Davidson squatters went into a house owned by the mayor (or maybe owned by the mayor's family, but anyway).
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  2354.  @RtaincCo  I thought it was "Constellis" since 2014.
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  2355. Nu as well.
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  2356.  @flagmichael : "Blood was shed to gain independence." Not really, or at least not in the way you might think. We didn't have to fight to get our independence. That allowed us to skip right to the civil war part.
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  2357. I think calling the Kurds "anti-Assad" is a bit misleading. When Trump during his first term pulled US troops away from the Kurdish areas, the Kurds allied with Assad to deter Turkey.
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  2358. Is regular tipping "tax dodging"? I'm pretty sure sales tax isn't applied to tips. You could argue that this is basically a mandatory tip so it should be treated similarly.
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  2359.  @davidstone1227  "Around here, workers are supposed to be taxed on their putative tips" Yes, but sales tax is different. It doesn't apply to tips AFAIK. Thus tips are a more tax efficient way to pay employees.
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  2360. But it's still a military vessel (if not an actual combat vessel in the present day).
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  2361.  @AmrHussein1805  "They have no interest in attacking “every ship” going into the Red Sea. Doing so, simply service no purpose. Do you think they will attack a Chinese ship bringing cargo to a European port?" Regardless of what they say, they have attacked many ships that have nothing to do with Israel. I don't know about specifically a Chinese ship sailing to Europe but they have e.g. attacked a Norwegian tanker (Blaamanen) sailing from Romania to India. That's also not an isolated incident; it's just one example.
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  2362.  @josejuangomez83 : Red for the aggressor and blue for the defender is standard practice in e.g. in map videos and such.
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  2363. "the EU, a bankrupt organisation" The EU is not bankrupt. The EU's budget is required to be balanced.
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  2364.  @lunarforte9515 : "In Europeqn countries with negative interest, does it make sense to be a landlord?" At least financing is cheap for landlords as well.
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  2365.  @tobuncs5261  "was meant to say inflationary" If you think that then I don't see how you can defend Turkey here. Their current loose monetary policy only exacerbates the problem of inflation. If you think that fiat is bad then surely you also think that printing a lot of it is bad. "criticising Turkey when US printed 30% of all dollars in existence last year is hypocritical" I disagree. Firstly, some criticizing Turkey's monetary policy might also criticize the Fed. Secondly, the Fed's sins seem much milder. They may have produced a little bit too much inflation. However, while something like 5% might be suboptimally high, it's a far cry from Turkey's 20% or more. Also, the Fed has communicated that they're going to tighten. They are not clinging to a crackpot theory that a rate cut would reduce inflation.
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  2366.  @prospect2664  I think Russia did recently announce or extend a gasoline export ban. It's going to last until the end of the summer.
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  2367.  @YogeshThangam  Did Uber pay cash for that stake? If so, this piece of news might make it a bad investment in retrospect.
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  2368.  @YogeshThangam  Thanks for the info.
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  2369.  @pjhgerlach  What is the "mistake" the EU did with Hungary? Was the EU supposed to have a crystal ball showing how Hungarian politics are going to shift in the future?
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  2370. They also had the crusaders capture the city of Zara (present day Zadar, Croatia) even though it was a Christian city.
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  2371.  @maam-yj8ph : I'm pretty sure Franklin would have received the Nobel prize alongside Francis and Crick had she lived long enough.
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  2372.  @Captain-Sum.Ting-Wong  The Gamestop saga is irrelevant for anyone investing in broad indices. A single company is just a small part of the whole market. Just diversify and hold long term; you're almost guaranteed a decent profit.
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  2373. I wonder if that kind of extra cylinder(s) would make sense on ship diesel engines. I'd imagine those run most of the time at specific rpm so you can design for that specifically. Ship diesel engines are 2-stroke engines so I guess with extra cylinder(s) they would be 3-stroke rather than 5-stroke, but still.
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  2374.  @johnwilliamson9657  "No, Kissinger never said anything like that." This is a bit of an exaggeration. There is a quote like this about South Vietnamese leaders attributed to him which I gave above. It is uncertain whether he actually said it because there are only secondary sources for the quote. However, it would be an exaggeration to say that he definitely didn't say it because there is at least a clear possibility that he did. But, like I noted, the full quote (whether real or not) in context does not in any case say what OP seems to think it does. Its message is basically just that Nguyễn Văn Thiệu should not be deposed.
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  2375. I'm under the impression that the package would be spread over several years.
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  2376. Ideally, trucks should pay a milage tax roughly equivalent to the wear they cause on the road.
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  2377.  @lichansan1750  "Then the German court could be forced to decide that Germany can no longer be part of the EU" I find it hard to believe that a German court would decide that Germany is no longer a member if the German parliament doesn't also want that.
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  2378.  @michaelbrown865 : "it's contained within one country" Currency devaluation isn't contained within one country when the currency is the Euro.
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  2379.  @michaelbrown865 : The low rates are a result of the past tight monetary policy. If we want higher (nominal) rates, we need to cut rates (or expand QE if rates can't be cut anymore).
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  2380.  @optimusprinceps9875  "“Romani” is the Latin word for “Romans”." The Romani people were talking about here don't have anything to do with the Romans. The similarity in the name is a coincidence.
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  2381. I'm not sure doing merely that would help Russia. Russia did that early in the war but the strain of extra front clearly wasn't worth it and they withdrew.
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  2382. You don't actually want to store crude oil in your car. Also, if you wanted to buy the oil futures and actually receive the oil, you'd somehow have to arrange so that you actually can receive in in Cushing, Oklahoma and transport and store it in a way that doesn't break any environmental or other regulations.
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  2383. Tea is the superior drink anyway.
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  2384. He made a speculative attack against the peg of Pound Sterling to the other ERM I currencies.
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  2385.  @advocatecarloviljoen3410  "The then Transvaal ,Free state, Cape Colony were not their traditional lands" Whose traditional land were they? There certainly were black Africans living there before the arrival of the European migrants to southern Africa. If it's about "traditional homelands" then there should have probably been some black groups that shouldn't have been expelled from there. Taking the "traditional homelands" argument further you could say that the Europeans are the ones who should've been expelled.
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  2386. If they caused a temporary dip in the stock price and then bought the dip (for more than just to cover any possible short position) that I think could very well fall under market manipulation.
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  2387. So e.g. violent crimes are less important for this purpose than theft or dishonesty?
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  2388. "This (so called) energy 'crisis' has little to do with Russia" That's nonsense. In case you haven't noticed, natural gas shipments from Russia have all but ceased. Of course that's going to have a big effect on energy prices.
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  2389. ​ @iapetusmccool : The definition of "civilian" (according to Google): civilian /sɪˈvɪlj(ə)n/ noun: civilian; plural noun: civilians a person not in the armed services or the police force.
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  2390. "Spain placed 7th in your list, lol they can’t even build proper on and off ramps on the highways here" I think the list didn't include only roads but also e.g. railways and airports.
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  2391. I remember reading this over a decade ago. What a blast from the past.
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  2392. "Finnland is the only country without a national debt" That's not true. Finland's public debt to GDP ration is in the ballpark of 60%. It's not worrisomely high but it's certainly not nothing.
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  2393. As a minor nitpick, Rust has both Rc and Arc. The difference is that in the case of Arc, incrementing and decrementing the reference count is atomic so it's also guaranteed to work with multiple threads (but might be a bit slower than Rc). I would guess that you didn't make your reference count atomic. Or maybe you did?
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  2394.  @danwylie-sears1134  One solution could be to give the numbers assuming a few different interest rates. In any case, you have to use some kind of (real) positive rate because time-value is a thing.
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  2395. The economy was suffering before that. The sanctions were implemented in 2015. By that point, GDP had already dropped by a third from the peak a few years earlier which is pretty massive.
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  2396. As a minor nitpick, I think "victual" is pronounced the same as "vital".
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  2397.  @goldbrodidoggo  I mean, I think the Malay taxpayers are the ones taking the hit, not the investors who bought the bonds, though I'm not sure.
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  2398. "Turkey is a [...] parliamentary [...] republic." It's not anymore. In 2017 they change the constitution making it presidential.
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  2399. If it's in heavy use the charging and discharging will keep it heated without a need for separate heating.
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  2400.  @TnTgarysteam  The names Burma and Myanmar come from the same origin.
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  2401. Those alternatives are used in far fewer countries. It's still a major hurdle if you can't use SWIFT.
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  2402. First of all, Finland is not No. 1 in suicide rate. In 2019 WHO ranking it was No. 38 which is higher than average but still clearly below No. 1 (and below e.g. the US and Belgium). Secondly, Finland is not an anomaly here. If you make a comparison between countries you'll notice that the overall level of happiness (measured in surveys) and the suicide rate are positively correlated. That is a surprising result and I don't know what's the reason for it but it is what we observe. Thus, at least the suicide rate alone doesn't seem to call into question Finland's happiness results.
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  2403. I think they deliberately change their methodology so that the ranking would change year to year. If it stayed the same or only change at a glacial pace it would soon get boring for the readers. Excitement is more important than accuracy.
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  2404. I don't think the claim of 0% homelessness is a claim that there no homeless people at all. Rather, it's only 0% when rounded.
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  2405.  @FedericoRodriguezRamanash  "Regarding dollarization, Javier Milei does not actually want to dollarize. That is not the goal. Instead, what he wants to implement is a basket of currencies or a bimonetary system" At least during his election campaign he said he wanted to abolish the central bank. Did he change his mind? Or is it just that he can't get that idea through the parliament?
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  2406.  @limedickandrew6016  "In my day in the army, reconnaissance was always carried out by lightly armed troops who were few in number, using small light and fast vehicles. That is the whole point of recon." But the claim was that it was "reconnaissance-in-force" which involves larger or more heavily armed troops than regular reconnaissance. Here's what Wikipedia says about reconnaissance-in-force: "Reconnaissance-in-force (RIF) is a type of military operation or military tactic used specifically to probe an enemy's combat ability. While typical reconnaissance forces are small and armed only for self-defense, RIF use considerable (but not decisive) force in order to elicit a strong reaction by the enemy that more accurately reveals its own strength, deployment, preparedness, determination, and other tactical data. The RIF units can then fall back and report this data, or expand the conflict into a full engagement if enemy weaknesses are revealed." (Disclaimer: I'm not a military person so I don't know if this is what actually happened nor whether it is or would be a good tactic.)
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  2407.  @markobucevic8991  "Russia was never historically under Sweden." Yeah, but the part of Russia that has Saint Petersburg in it was between the Time of Troubles and the Great Northern War.
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  2408. "One of the real reasons for the U.S. Invasion of Iraq was to protect the "PETRODOLLAR" to remain as the world's reserve currency (to keep Saddam from switching to the Euro in trading/selling Iraqi oil on the world market)." This part is not credible at all.
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  2409.  @grisflyt  "I'd say it's partly credible. VISA. MasterCard. American Express. The United States has a vested interest in that things remains the same." I don't agree. Firstly, whether Iraq would have used the US dollar or some other currency for oil trade wouldn't have a big impact. Secondly, even if the US dollar would have lost the status of the no. 1 reserve currency it wouldn't have a huge impact on the US economy. Notably, many countries have tried to actively discourage the international use of their currency (e.g. China). Thirdly, the credit card companies can easily operate regardless of which currency is used internationally.
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  2410.  @craigthebrute6385  ""largest economy" aka largest oil user" It might be (I didn't bother to check) but that doesn't change what I said. Even if oil exporters received payment in some other currency the US would still be the largest economy (and possibly the "largest oil user"). That would not change much the need for the world's central banks to hold a big part of their forex reserves in dollars. More importantly, if a single oil exporter (Iraq) would have switched to euros or some other currency that would have hardly affect the dollar's status as the top reserve currency. There is no good reason to believe that something like that could have been the reason for the 2003 invasion.
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  2411. 18:10 As a minor nitpick, I think you used the wrong word here since "superfluous" means "extra"/"unnecessary".
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  2412. At least the EU is a much simpler entity.
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  2413. One possibility is that earlier they still planned to hold on to the city and wanted to make logistics easier by removing the need to supply civilians and then later decided to abandon the city alltogether.
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  2414.  @richardmoloney689  Ireland has not joined NATO and there is no indication that it will.
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  2415.  @brejaimecastillo8851  "I wonder how the first person came about this recipe?" I don't know but if I had to guess it likely depends what counts as "this recipe". I would guess that soy sauce traces it origins to some much simpler process and then it has slowly changed over time (probably with some variants) to the process shown here.
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  2416. 11:15 They don't, in fact, enjoy much real autonomy (except in the case of Chechnya).
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  2417. Even a temporary water shortage could be devastating for Egypt if its severe enough. How fast the reservoir is filled is at the core of the issue. Egypt wants it filled more slowly than Ethiopia.
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  2418.  @kornaros96  But trying to do the reverse would be more problematic.
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  2419.  @exoduswick156  No. If 600k was only 0.1% Korea's population, that would make it the 3rd most populous country on Earth.
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  2420.  @ThePerks2010  No, it's Baikonur.
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  2421. "real reserve and real gold? Or just papers saying other people will give them gold?" As far as I know, Russia's gold reserves are at least mostly in Moscow physically so they're safe from being frozen. However, selling them might be rather inconvenient.
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  2422. "You see, the Dutch already had some strong suspicions Draghi was just saving the Italian economy at the cost of Dutch citizens' capital by keeping the inflation rate as high as possible instead of keeping the eurozone financially stable." Lol! Inflation was below the 2% target for the majority of his term. Even if inflation had been higher it wouldn't have been a cost to the Dutch.
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  2423.  @ryansharpe3564  In the case of Yemen I said that the major nation taking part is Saudi Arabia rather than Yemen itself.
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  2424. Ironically, I think in WWI Romania was the least useful of the Allies. Its army was overrun which allowed the Central Powers to occupy the country and take a lot of food and oil which was extremely useful to them. If Romania had remained neutral Germany would have had a worse supply situation.
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  2425. "Due to the stubbornness of one man, entire populations of civilians are suffering." It's not the stubbornness of one man. According to polling, over 70% (EDIT: not over 80% as I had wrote earlier) of Ukrainians still want to continue fighting. Whether you agree or disagree, the Ukrainians as a whole want to press on despite the suffering.
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  2426. No, that would be a perpetual motion machine.
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  2427. "Chavez brought the poverty rate WAY down" But in an unsustainable manner.
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  2428.  @Dee-x9f  "We do that in the US, too. It's called Social Security." That's true but SC is also pretty small.
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  2429. That 80% is due to a redefinition.
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  2430.  @tomalata5742  I'm not sure assigning a probability here would make sense (without choosing some arbitrary distribution for different bases). I think what is meant here is that when you look at bases up to a limit and that limit grows then the share of the bases where the hypothesis doesn't hold tends to zero.
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  2431. "what is the equilibrium condition for blackbird?" There's no simple formula. It depends on the losses in the transmission and the drag on its frame.
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  2432. But the topic mentioned in the title was at least the main topic of the video.
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  2433. "Finland is the wrong place to talk about less freeways" It's not. Land inside Helsinki is expensive. Highways are not an efficient use of that land. It makes sense to replace it with housing since there's a lot of demand for it.
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  2434.  @mikelee7318  Prigozhin claims that he's going to withdraw Wagner because they haven't been supplied with enough ammunition.
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  2435. Well, it wasn't technically a hedge fund.
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  2436. Induction is even more responsive than gas.
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  2437.  @VTh-f5x  Firstly, obviously not everyone would "move on" regardless of whether it's declared illegal or not. Most of the sanctions would continue and the war is still raging on also. Secondly, it's not going to be declared illegal because Russia will veto it. (Well, I guess the UN General Assembly could declare it illegal if they haven't already but the UN Security Council won't.)
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  2438.  @Kosovar_Chicken  It might be because Tibet didn't have much international recognition.
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  2439.  @Kosovar_Chicken  Tibet didn't have much international recognition.
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  2440. @ I'm not defending Turkey's actions but I don't see how that's a "NATO double standard".
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  2441.  @SihirbazTsar55  I don't feel that public transit is inconvenient, though that's of course a subjective experience. I don't find myself locked into a schedule. I just choose the fastest route whenever I embark. I have never owned a car. I do have a license though in retrospect that was mostly a waste. I find driving to be boring and annoying whereas on public transit I can entertain myself with a book or my phone. I think using a car would bring with it the inconvenience of maintenance and trying to find parking space though I can't be entirely sure because I lack that experience.
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  2442. "Putin has actually said he/Russia would only ever use nuclear weapons if they were attacked with nuclear weapons" I think he didn't quite say that but rather that Russia would only use nukes if the existence of Russia were threatened. A conventional invasion could, in principle, also threaten Russia's existence but it's still unlikely to happen.
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  2443.  @iamcurious9541  That's not true. When you burn hydrocarbons both the carbon and hydrogen atoms combine with oxygen and release energy. The more you have hydrogen relative to carbon the lower the CO₂ emissions are relative to energy produced. (Natural gas is still not great, though.)
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  2444.  @iamcurious9541  "you can't just stop nuclear power plants during low consumption times the way you can fossile fuels" You can. France has load following nuclear plants. It just usually makes economic sense to first stop fossil plants.
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  2445. Is it even that unpopular? That one guy who killed Abe held a grudge because his mother had donated so much to the Moonies but I've not heard of the general population having that strong views about them.
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  2446. Though this video still described it as a "strategic victory" for Britain. I don't know if it should be counted as a win or a loss, but it's fair to say that the Germans did not reach their goals and they didn't try to challenge the Royal Navy again like that.
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  2447. "Zip (or postal) code does determine your economic mobility growing up in the US. Mine was 10454." 10454? That sounds like a lot of mobility.
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  2448. I think in principle getting there is an easy way to get the incentives right, even though it may be legally or contractually difficult to change the current system. Firstly, the price of electricity, in both directions, should be based on the market spot price. Whenever you draw power from the grid you'd pay the spot price + margin. Whenever you feed power to the grid you'd be paid the spot price - margin. Secondly, there should be a subscription fee for having a grid connection; it should be fixed and thus not depend on how much power you happen to consume (or produce). With this kind of structure there should be no perverse incentives. However, introducing subscription fees for grid connections might be quite difficult where they don't already exist.
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  2449. "The problem with neat theories on why war is a real waste is that it doesn't matter." I think saying that they don't matter is an exaggeration. Some politicians do care about not incurring the cost of war, just not all of them. The world has been a lot more peaceful after the World Wars than before them; just not completely devoid of war.
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  2450. While productivity in France is fairly high, it's still behind that of e.g. Germany, the Netherlands, and the US.
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  2451.  @raylopez99  Correlation is not necessarily causation but in this case it would seem to me that it's far more likely that the causation runs primarily money -> happiness than the other direction. Firstly, it's pretty intuitive that a lack of money can make you unhappy. Secondly, a lot of people get money due to things that are not directly caused by happiness (such as inheriting it).
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  2452. I think "hidden" is a bit of an exaggeration. I remember the Hostomel airport getting a lot of coverage in the early phases of the war.
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  2453. "designing the algorithm around women" I don't think Tinder's algorithm is somehow designed with women in mind. It's just the kind of app that tends towards hookups and focusing on looks which means there's an oversupply of men and an undersupply of women. It's mostly due to human nature and there isn't an easy way to avoid that with just algorithm design.
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  2454.  @patrickrannou1278  "But even if you changed the ratio to 10% guys and 90% girls, this would not solve anythimg" I would bet that with that kind of ratio a great majority of guys would have far easier time.
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  2455. Is the uvular rhotic a uvular trill or a uvular fricative?
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  2456. Нет войне!
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  2457. Should've lasted one and a half months like France.
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  2458.  @cogoid  It's not obvious to me how to do it. At least in some of their videos the payload seems to be tumbling after launch.
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  2459. How would you "tackle Iran"? I don't see what Israel could realistically do about Iran.
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  2460.  @hlysprt3431 Yes, but Russia didn't hold its northeastern and southwestern flanks before the current invasion.
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  2461. Material about it aimed at the general public (like this video) seems to be much less common than ones about other similar events.
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  2462.  @deadeye_john  Surely superglue isn't immune to fatigue either.
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  2463.  @deadeye_john  Fatigue means that the material slowly becomes full of microcracks too tiny to see with the naked eye. I don't see how you could inject glue into those.
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  2464.  @gjb520 : Thanks. That explains it pretty well. Interesting.
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  2465.  @baronvonjo1929  I'd say it makes sense to at least start fixing it as soon as possible. What's the alternative? Leaving things as they are? That would seem worse. "it would cost millions" That's like a couple of bucks per LA resident. Should be doable (even if it actually costs more). And I'm pretty sure in many places private developers would be willing to spend their own money to build denser neighborhoods and/or mixed residential & commercial neighborhoods if zoning just allowed it.
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  2466. It wasn't a big deal.
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  2467. @ What I really reacted was when you said: "Traditional Russian religion is paganism". But the same is true for basically all of Europe. Maybe you can argue otherwise for Greece but even that is a bit dubious. So calling Christianity "western-imported" sounds a bit strange. For most of the West it's eastern-imported.
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  2468. Lol!
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  2469.  @lordanonimmo7699  "The natural gas is mostly used as heating [...] things that Nuclear energy cant really help a lot." Nuclear energy can definitely help a lot with heating, either through electric forms of heating or more directly through district heating.
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  2470. I think it's end-to-end encrypted too. It was blocked in Russia between 2018 and 2020 for basically the same reason (though I think many people still used it with the help of VPNs).
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  2471. There isn't an equivalent in the Finnish constitution. Where did you get that?
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  2472.  @grimaffiliations3671  OP didn't mention currency at all. He only talked about "monopoly on violence". Both Greece and Argentina retained the control of their police and armed forces.
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  2473.  @merocaine  Unsuccessful breakaway states don't necessarily necessarily get ethnically cleansed even if they lose. E.g. Biafra wasn't ethnically of Igbos (though the Biafra War itself had a high death toll).
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  2474. Can't they still use regular bikes?
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  2475. So, when will the bankruptcies start? I'm under the impression that US municipalities haven't filed for bankruptcy much (with some exceptions like Detroit and Harrisburg).
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  2476. Strictly speaking, he ascribed that stance to Western governments rather than himself.
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  2477. What? Like an ETF where half of the content is cash and only half is stocks? What would be the point of that?
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  2478. For a vehicle going against the wind that could work.
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  2479. 2:00 "Western European countries like Portugal and Greece" Since when is Greece "Western European"?
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  2480. "YEMEN HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITSELF" However, the Houthi rebels aren't the Yemeni government and don't represent all of Yemen and attacking ships passing nearby isn't defending oneself.
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  2481. Why were the Polish parts of Prussia more important to the Germans than Alsace-Lorraine?
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  2482.  @KonradvonHotzendorf  Thanks for the info.
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  2483.  @KonradvonHotzendorf  The nobility had that much influence even after the November Revolution? How's that possible?
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  2484. Well, brown is really a kind of dark red or dark orange.
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  2485. "Weird how this never happened to the [...] Rothchilds[sic]" The Rothschilds lost something like 50% of their wealth in WWI, though this was just to the rigors of war, not explicit policy. Today they have much less wealth than they used to, at least in relative terms.
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  2486. A fee per car should already incentivize that. A car with more people doesn't take any less space.
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  2487. 0:40 "This is the bridge which links the Kerch region of Russia with Crimea." Kerch is in Crimea. The region east of the Kerch Strait is Krasnodar Krai.
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  2488. How so?
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  2489.  @hiroshi-kun8216  "Yemen has a right to defend itself" But the Houthis are different from the Yemeni government and attacking shipping passing nearby is different from defending oneself.
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  2490. Hong Kong stock exchange uses Hong Kong Dollar, not Yuan. China limits how much the people can exchange Yuan for foreign currency.
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  2491. Is it liquid or gaseous steel then?
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  2492. I've read that the US freight lines moved to "precision scheduled railroading" in the '90s but based on this video it seems that they're now less scheduled and less precise.
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  2493.  @friedawells6860  It still makes sense because making concrete more expensive causes it to be used less.
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  2494.  @ivancho5854  Yeah, but I don't think they're going to go that far.
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  2495.  @danhubert-hx4ss  France will almost certainly not do that.
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  2496. "I don't see binkov advocating for..." Isn't that just because that's not the style of videos he makes. Or do you know him personally or something? "it's always war with other people's money and lives" I don't think he has advocated for that either. (EDIT: In his videos, I mean. I don't know what he advocates for outside this YouTube channel.)
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  2497.  @riiitch  But Belarus is not a Russian puppet. Lukashenko is able to play Putin. He promises union with Russia but never delivers (unless he can become the leader of Russia) and through it is able to get benefits like gas and oil at below market rates from Russia.
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  2498. If UBS were to take over Credit Suisse, isn't there a risk that the bad business culture and employees from Credit Suisse are going to infect UBS too?
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  2499.  @gj1234567899999  How do you define "native"? If they're the descendants of the first inhabitants of the islands, aren't they native? How long would the islands have to be inhabited before you would consider their population native?
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  2500. "It's still extremely radioactive" No, not at all. It's only mildly radioactive.
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  2501. 0:45 He went mask off.
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  2502. To my knowledge, France is currently building one new nuclear plant (Flamanville 3) and it's behind schedule.
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  2503. The captions misspell "stroad" as "strode".
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  2504.  @anthonyhargis6855  "Roofed battlements are another Hollywood trope." No, hoardings (a.k.a. allures) are definitely a real thing. See Wikipedia below: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_(castle)
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  2505. So in Japan, it's not good to be so direct as to say "you've gained some weight". Better to just prod them in the stomach as a subtle hint.
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  2506.  @orionlt1028  "what winter what 500 years?" He was talking about the winter of 1708/09. "Battle of Poltava where swedish empire was crushed was in July" That battle indeed happened in the July of 1709 but that's not really relevant to what OP (mightymagnus) said since Charles XII had turned south before that during the preceding winter.
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  2507.  @orionlt1028  What do you mean excuses? Many soldiers died of exposure. Are you saying that the frozen corpses were just making excuses to not march or what?
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  2508.  @orionlt1028  "enemies had warm summer weather?" Obviously not during the winter. Wasn't that clear to you or why are you asking?
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  2509.  @baldguy1964  "they're asking about the sender, not the message." They won't know which message's sender to ask about if they don't know the content of any message.
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  2510.  @Aditichandrakar  "the main purpose of all these to see who send which message" But that "which message" requires looking at the content of the message. Otherwise, you can just see that person A sent an encrypted message to person B at the time C but you have no idea whether that message contains any hate speech or fake news or if its just saying hello.
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  2511. France would probably often have preferred to fight in England but getting over the Channel isn't so easy.
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  2512. They've already sent NLAWs and Javelins before it.
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  2513.  @lisadsouza5061  They may increase but probably not so much as to replace hydrocarbon exports for Russia. Uranium is fairly cheap compared to its energy content.
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  2514.  @Art-is-craft  I was talking about giving excessively strong incentive to litigate (due to the very high fee earned by the lawyers).
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  2515.  @freedomfighter22222  About 21% of EU laws also apply to EEA members not in the EU (including Norway). I'm not sure whether these kind of potential mining endeavors fall under that but the EU most certainly does have some legal power in Norway too (though less than in full EU members).
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  2516.  @freedomfighter22222  "Not all EU rules automatically apply to the EEA states, definitely none that says what industries Norway can permit on Norwegian soil." Have you actually checked which EU laws apply and which don't?
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  2517.  @MSDGroup-ez6zk  In what place does petrol mean petroleum? At least Merriam-Webster gives it as a synonym for gasoline and nothing else.
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  2518.  @MSDGroup-ez6zk  I have never been to any English speaking country so I'm relying on dictionaries etc. I've never seen any dictionary use "petrol" for crude oil.
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  2519. It's a simple pun: barely = bearly (referring to bear market).
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  2520. "It makes Türkyie a player to be reckoned with both in EU and Nato" It's not correct to use "in" in the case of the EU as Turkey is not a member of the EU.
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  2521. When you say "1%" do you mean the top 1% in terms of income/wealth or do you mean the 1% of motorcyclists that are criminals?
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  2522. There was this special promotion thing where Amazon did deliver a car in a huge box with the Amazon logo on it: https://www.geekwire.com/2014/fake-looking-giant-amazon-box-apparently-real-deal/
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  2523. Seale was eventually removed from the trial to await another trial which never came. All of his contempt charges were also overturned.
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  2524.  @kyriacosmenikou5175  "I am sure that the EU regrets allowing Cyprus to join." Is that really the case? I don't see this being that big of a problem for the EU (compared to the case of Cyprus not being a member but this issue still being unresolved). On the other hand, the EU may have regretted it back in 2013 when the Cypriot banks imploded.
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  2525.  @Nista357  "You can see for yourself all the terror attacks that happened in the last 10 years." Terror attacks don't make countries bankrupt. They'd have to be pretty spectacular to do something like that.
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  2526. Note that there's going to be some selection bias in what kind of homeless people get interviewed for videos like this.
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  2527. ​ @savagedarksider5934  Should we have an Emperor (or Empress) of the EU?
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  2528. If you give a PPP figure for a single country then that's going to depend on which price level you use as a reference price level for the country (but ratios between countries will not be affected by that). If you choose Turkey's price level as the reference then the PPP figure for Turkey is going the be the same as the nominal figure.
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  2529. "Announced mobilization of 1% of russian reserve." 300k is 1%? Russia has a reserve of 30 million? That's certainly not true.
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  2530. Which NATO member would want to leave now and why?
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  2531. "The other option is to save money for a house that you can rent out and grow your wealth." But if you're going to be a landlord doesn't it usually make sense to be a homeowner first? It's kind of like being your own landlord and paying rent to yourself, but there are a couple of advantages. First, you yourself are probably the easiest tenant you can have. Second, that "paying rent to yourself" might have a tax advantage. Usually actual rent income is taxed but the imputed rent you're paying to yourself often isn't (though some places, like Switzerland, do tax imputed rent). Also, even if the imputed rent isn't taxed, the interest on your mortgage might still tax-deductible (which is a totally stupid policy, but you might still want to take advantage of it).
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  2532. Probably Asia also has ethnic groups that have historical beefs with each other or negative stereotypes about each other. Imagine that there's, say, a nationalistic Pakistani who, after taking a DNA test, finds out that they're actually Bengali by lineage. (I don't know that much about Asia so I'm not sure if this example works but maybe it at least gives you some idea.)
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  2533.  @vidarodinson5246  You have only sourced your first claim, i.e. that Copts aren't Arabs, which I don't disagree with. However, your second claim, that Copts got replaced, is unsourced and incorrect. You can check e.g. the results of the National Geographic Genographic Project. Based on it, contemporary Egyptians are genetically only about 17% Arab (or more generally, South West Asian). This goes for both Muslims and Christians. The Copts had their religion and language replaced but not their population.
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  2534.  @japoncap2097  "ok US must invade your country" What? No, there is no such "must". "you want that?" No, of course I don't want my country invaded by anyone. What are you even talking about? Did you mean to tag someone else in this conversation? "Russia must get out of Ukraine" Yes.
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  2535.  @ErdeZ  "The last Christian related major incident I remember was the IRA" What about the Lord's Resistance Army?
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  2536. Concentrated solar power has turned out to have numerous unforeseen problems and generally hasn't performed well. PV seems to be a much more practical option, especially since it has come down in price a lot.
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  2537. Not going to happen. Invading Ukraine didn't prompt that. Not selling gas is hardly grounds for an invasion.
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  2538. "Nuclear power is Not emissions free" But it has, depending on the source of data, either the lowest or second lowest (after wind) amount of greenhouse emissions per kWh produced.
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  2539. If you want an illiquid investment then why not own real estate directly?
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  2540. "This oil is very poor quality due to its high sulfur content." Are you sure about that. At least Wikipedia says that WTI oil is light and sweet where "sweet" means low sulphur content.
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  2541. 4:30 Isn't that siren a little bit late?
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  2542. "boys blow girls away ever after" That's an exaggeration. The difference in the mean is fairly modest. Furthermore, when IQ scores are broken down into separate skills, it's seen that the difference is mostly explained by men being ahead on average in visual/spatial ability with not much difference in mean in other areas. (Variance is higher for men in all areas to my knowledge.)
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  2543. "Algeria as a distinct polity DIDN'T exist before French colonization" Really? What was the Regency of Algiers then? I know that it was formally a part of the Ottoman Empire but in practice it was close to independent.
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  2544.  @HJK242  Fair enough. I edited my comment. I had just googled the distances without bothering to check the map. In any case, the distance should still be well beyond the range of any existing tube artillery (including with rocket assisted projectiles). Maybe it can be reached with rocket artillery.
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  2545.  @stgravatt  "Lower the supply of labor and youd have more employee friendly wages" But that wouldn't help with what OP is talking about. Lowering the supply would reduce the number of people working or the hours they work which would reduce the total wager received but it wouldn't reduce the amount of people relying on that income (e.g. a stay-at-home parent would usually rely on their spouse's income). Any rise in wages would almost certainly be smaller than that so people would, on average, have even less to live by (or save).
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  2546.  @unsrescyldas9745  "That is then a short-term issue, as after you get rid of women in the workforce you will have more people as the birthrates will go back up" It's not a short-term issue because there would still be a big cut in average incomes (and therefore living standards) because fewer would have labor income. Note that this income is that same that funds pensions as well so there would have to be a cut in the level of pensions as well in the long run. In the long-term in a stable situation an average person has to pay enough to fund their own pension. Having more people doesn't solve the problem in the long run because it just means there will be more people withdrawing pension in the future. If your plan is that every generation should be bigger than the previous one, then that's an even worse Ponzi scheme.
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  2547. Presumably it still makes Russia better off, or at least that's what the Russians presumably believe or else they wouldn't take the deal.
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  2548. The Duchy of Luxembourg?
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  2549. Why would war be inevitable? To use the dam Ethiopia needs to let water through. That's how hydroelectric dams work.
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  2550. Only if a NATO member gets attacked.
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  2551. "That's why you can't solve it without letting turkey in EU [...] As such, EU made this problem unsolvable" I don't think your argument makes sense. If there's a one state solution, it wouldn't really "let Turkey in the EU". After that one EU member would have a big ethnically Turkish and pro-Turkey minority but that's a small issue and I don't see anyone in the EU opposing solution for that reason. The problem hasn't been solved because in every case either one side or both of the sides hadn't wanted to accept the terms of a proposed solution. None of those were caused by the EU.
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  2552. Aren't Atlanta and Tbilisi basically the same city?
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  2553. "So shorting a position and then publishing a "research" is not market manipulation?" If it's good research it should, in theory, make the price more correct. In that case, it's not manipulation.
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  2554.  @krupam0 : "Not having cases is the anomaly, though. Western Europe is about the only place where it's common." Does Chinese have cases?
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  2555.  @captainvanisher988  It is. On the other hand, most places on earth besides sub-Saharan Africa have undergone the demographic transition. It's possible that it's going to happen there as well in the foreseeable future and eventually replace the problem of riotous youth with the problem of burdensome elderly population.
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  2556.  @EmmaKing30  Thanks for the info.
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  2557.  @alwaysdisputin9930 : If you'd watched all his videos you'd know that in India the dead can be defamed as well and their slanderers prosecuted!
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  2558. 2:10 He said that he'd show an equation that should show that the acceleration is negative whenever the car exceeds windspeed. However, no such equation was shown which is a big letdown. Of course, the equation would be wrong in some way but I would like to understand why it's wrong. Does anyone know where I could find this equation?
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  2559.  @deepakjain-rc9re  But without seeing the actual message content you won't know which messages contained e.g. "fake news".
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  2560. Deflation increases real wages unless nominal wages can somehow be negotiated down which is difficult. This pushes those whose productivity doesn't match this real increase into unemployment thus reducing total production.
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  2561. "My Medieval and Renaissance professor basically told us that if a person made it to age 30, they would probably make it to their 60s or 70s without much problem." I've seen some data (from colonial era US, I think) showing that even at 20 the life expectancy was still only something like 40 or 50. Unfortunately, I didn't quickly find the source I saw.
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  2562.  @volodimirivanevko9238  "a mother was position of respect, rather the derision we see today" I don't really see such derision today.
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  2563.  @Zen-sx5io  I wonder what has happened to New Caledonia in the Fallout timeline.
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  2564. Britain only does 99 year-long leases at most (in non-perpetual cases).
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  2565. "That's not the idea of these bonds. They're supposed get wiped out after all the tier 1 capital is actually gone. These bonds are supposed to be more risky than your typical bond, but less risky (= better protected) than equity and the Swiss regulator just ignored that (not sure why)." No, you're just mistaken here. The documentation for these particular bonds explicitly states that they can be wiped out before equity. Check e.g. Patrick Boyle's latest video on Credit Suisse.
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  2566.  @jonathantaylor6926  "I am trying to figure out what would be the motivation to buy or hold AT1 bonds from other banks after watching 16 billion dollars worth of them disappear overnight? What would be the argument that these are good investments?" If the interest rate is high enough, it may be worth the risk.
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  2567. Then there's this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYFOLNNqbK0
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  2568. That's probably not greenhouse emissions but some kind other of emission (like sulfates).
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  2569. "the Palestinian civilians should [...] evacuate to the South" They can't. This would mean going into either Israel or Egypt. Neither country will allow that.
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  2570.  @ToomanyFrancis  A person who flies a lot might still see putting their phone into airplane mode a small cost so they might still do it. They might also have some occupational reasons for flying so much.
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  2571.  @lurmieei  So the UAE would be in control of the Gaza Strip and not Israel? That sounds a bit far fetched. In any case, your "followed by autonomous rule" would contradict OP's statement that autonomous Gaza Strip wouldn't be acceptable.
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  2572. That's only a 93% discount.
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  2573.  @PhilippBlum  "The point of QE is to manipulate the market in a way which is benefitial for countries with bad ratings." I'm not a mind-reader so I can't know for certain why the ECB chooses to do what it does. However, QE has a clear justification independent of any country's bond spreads. Inflation in the Eurozone has been below the 2% target and without QE it would have been even more so. The ECB did right when implementing QE even if they did it for a wrong reason; or rather they were wrong in that the QE program was too small. "Therefore it's just financing these countries with other instruments." There isn't a clear difference to normal monetary policy which also involves buying assets. "With QE the ECB becomes a direct participant in the bond market. And bonds are a direct instrument to finance governments. Ergo they manipulate the way governments are financed. The treaty clearly states that the ECB doesn't have that power." Buying government bonds is a normal way to conduct monetary policy all over the world. Technically, before the QE program, the ECB didn't directly buy government bonds but rather banks' bonds with government bonds as collateral but that's a minimal difference.
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  2574.  @ultimatehamsandwich734  "In theory yes but then theres the issue of even water distribution between each section." Isn't it the same (except worse) for the square lattice seen here?
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  2575. No, he dropped out of Utah Valley State College. Not sure what he was studying there.
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  2576.  @spaceduck413  "Mahlmann said he charges $750 for this - those are his damages." Damages can be higher than the normal licensing fee but they're still likely to be much smaller than the cost of a court battle.
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  2577.  @spaceduck413  "Which is just silly." Mahlmann may believe (whether correct or not) that if he's not willing to take the hit others will not bother to pay him either when using his clips.
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  2578. "If I may add, ICE cars can also be converted to run on hydrogen gas." Really? How is that done? Do you have a source for that claim?
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  2579.  @hijackstudios  Thanks.
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  2580. A part of the reason might be that in Brazil it's not necessarily possible to choose to live as spread out as it is in the US. A lot of the big Brazilian cities, like São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, are on the coast and have limited space to sprawl out due to the proximity of mountains.
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  2581. Hydroelectricity tends to be cheaper, especially in years past when the dam was decided on. Also, solar PV is variable; you need some other electricity source which can follow changes in solar output (and electricity demand) and hydroelectric dams are good for this purpose.
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  2582.  @swarnavasamanta2628  One advantage of a simpler and smaller instruction set is that microcoding might not then be necessary and the chip could be simpler. Indeed x86 would be rather difficult to supplant. However, it seems possible that ARM could do it though it's uncertain and would probably take a long time if it happened.
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  2583. Getting a lawyer every time you have questions like that isn't practical for everyone. The cost could add up quickly.
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  2584.  @Ikbeneengeit  "the Netherlands could use imported green hydrogen from North Africa for district heating and electricity" I don't see how that would make sense. If the hydrogen is made with electrolysis, then surely it makes more sense to just import the electricity directly rather than turn it into hydrogen and back with considerable loss at both steps. If it is made from natural gas, then likely it makes more sense to just use the natural gas for energy directly.
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  2585.  @Ikbeneengeit  Morocco is already in the same synchronized grid as continental Europe. Also, a hydrogen pipeline would be a much larger project.
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  2586. "The establishment is even older than those who wish for change." What country are you from? The US? For some reason in the US the political class is very old whereas in many European countries (that are older on average) politicians are much younger.
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  2587. "if the s&p 500 crash by 63% it doesn‘t matter in what you are invested at all" I don't think that's true. I think what you're saying is that if S&P500 falls by that much then the world economy is in trouble and alternative investments would likely fall too. While that probably has some merit, you should still take into account that other investments can still fall by a different amount, possibly by a large margin.
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  2588.  @simonescelsa  It's only talk so far as energy hasn't been sanctioned. If it is it will be hard for both Europe and Russia.
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  2589.  @joyboy6535  Likely they'll continue the fight for a while longer. Most likely don't want to make the invasion too cheap for Russia.
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  2590.  @yomamacrib3297  That's pure nonsense. There's no reason to presume that the US would have invaded Russia.
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  2591.  @yomamacrib3297  "ok so why would The U.S. want to setup a military base on Russias borders?" The US wasn't in any kind of process of setting up a base in Ukraine. If the US wanted a war with Ukraine, now would be the perfect time. There's no reason to assume the US would have attacked Russia.
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  2592. "Yeman has all rights to protect its waters" But the Houthi rebels are not the Yemeni government and attacking shipping passing nearby isn't protecting one's waters.
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  2593. But those weren't against the Norse/Danes/whatever.
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  2594.  @SimuLord  "America is a nation of lawyers. Russia is a nation of hit men. Which is worse, I leave to the reader." The latter is clearly worse.
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  2595. Education has degraded in Finland too, though perhaps less so than in Sweden.
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  2596. "removing sanctions would be better for the EU, flooding the market with oil, and bringing prices down, with Russian revenue declining" Removing sanctions would increase Russia's revenues, not decrease them.
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  2597. Have one-state solutions worked better?
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  2598. "a lot of the great advancements and famous people that lived in France and other places we're given the opportunity to do what they did because of the wealth generated by the colonial empires" I'm very skeptical of the claim that the colonies contributed that much.
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  2599.  @ChiChiLand299 : But it's not like European countries without colonies (e.g. Switzerland) were poorer, or were they?
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  2600. "Yeah, I still don't know why France and Spain don't get as much trash talk as England does over its colonial past." Don't they? I thought they did. (And the Dutch were pretty horrible too.)
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  2601.  @killa361  According to Russian law conscripts cannot legally be sent to fight outside the borders of Russia, at least not without a formal declaration of war or something like that (though some conscripts were illegally sent, at least in the early phases of the war). Because LPR & DPR are not part of Russia they don't have to follow Russian laws and they have conscripted a very large percentage of their male population and sent them to the frontlines. If they became a part of Russia there would suddenly be constraints on using this conscript force if the law isn't changed. (This was my answer to the question you asked Diamonddavej.)
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  2602. @@abitmorerational "The Swedish murder rate is no different to the rest of Europe and it seems that the Malmo crime stats haven´t actually increased. I think this is the problem it´s perception rather than actual reality." I'm under the impression that that's partly right and partly wrong. To my knowledge, if you only look at homicides (and other crime) in total, you're right. However, if you specifically look at gun violence (and probably also bombings) it has sharply increased in Sweden and now much worse than many other countries in Europe. It doesn't budge the total statistics that much since most homicides are still things like drunken idiots stabbing or pummelling each other to death. However, guns and explosives make bigger headlines. This perception generated by headlines can be argued to maybe be somewhat distorted but it's not a total nothingburger either.
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  2603. @ The cut from the Russian power grid isn't related to the prices. The Baltic countries have already stopped buying electricity from Russia earlier (in 2022 I think). The connections to Russia were only used for frequency stabilization (until now).
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  2604. 0:45 I'm pretty sure it's not an established fact. Zoonosis seems a more likely explanation than a lab accident.
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  2605. "at present it seems to slow their economic growth" That should be a downside for France as well (though not a big one).
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  2606.  @SuperCatacata  "This would take human beings not being human." I disagree. There are regions in the world that haven't seen conflict within living memory despite being inhabited by humans.
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  2607. I'm almost seeing Patrick grin (while he's trying to hide it?). What has the world come to? Btw, why did you use a different pronunciation of Dogecoin than in earlier videos?
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  2608.  @suicidesquats9325  "because of what happened in the beginning" I think that says that Sweden's measures should have, in hindsight, been at least a little stricter in the beginning.
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  2609. "Africa honestly just needs all its boarders to be redrawn. Peace, wealth and stability is almost impossible for more than half of Africa’s nations." In most cases it would be very difficult to start redrawing borders without sparking a conflict.
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  2610. "Our last war was 200 years ago, when we lost Finland" No, that one wasn't the last one. The last one was the one in which you gained Norway.
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  2611. 2:57 "The best way to make money online is...<and a Westworld ad gets inserted here>"
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  2612. I'm only guessing but here's what I think. In a freeze dryer the temperature is very low which means the saturated vapor pressure of water is also very low. For the sublimation of the water to happen at a reasonable rate the actual partial pressure of the water vapor needs to be below that. The surrounding air will probably have much higher partial pressure of water vapor because it's much warmer and therefore won't be good for drying in subzero temperatures. Raising the saturated vapor pressure by heating is out of the question for obvious reasons. Therefore sucking out the water vapor by a vacuum pump might be the only option. Also sucking out the air in addition to water vapor isn't necessary as such but vacuum pumps cannot selectively only suck out the water vapor.
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  2613. @Henry Hudson I don't think there is a ban as such but from what I've read only about 50% of male Haredim in Israel work and the other half just studies religious texts instead of earning money.
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  2614. "One effect of high inflationary periods is that it makes the real value of indebtedness shrink and thus easier to pay off." This can only work with unanticipated inflation and even then only temporarily. If banks expect inflation they will charge interest accordingly because they're not going to purposefully take a loss in real terms nor can they be perpetually underestimating future inflation.
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  2615.  @Hungary_0987  "Kososvo IS HUNGARIAN" And Vojvodina is Albanian.
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  2616. Wasn't Anthony Eden worse?
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  2617.  @Wileybot2004 : "Half as wendover" Why not "Interesting Productions"?
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  2618.  Charlie K : Wikipedia says: " The capacitor was originally known as a condenser or condensator." meaning both are/were used. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor
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  2619.  @w花b  A piece of land that's completely surrounded by water but which isn't a continent (or extremely small).
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  2620. "Clearly, Russia had no intentions of occupying Ukraine in its entirety." I would say that Russia still, at least initially, did have the intention of either occupying very large parts of Ukraine or of changing the government in Kyiv. The rapid charge towards Kyiv from Belarus is an indication of this. Later the objectives were scaled down somewhat and the troops in the north withdrawn because they were not making progress and were straining the Russian logistics.
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  2621. ​ @ЭнкерСидоров : None of that makes right for descendants to receive a punishment.
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  2622.  @ЭнкерСидоров : I don't see how a punishment for descendants who have not themselves committed anything like this would help.
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  2623. ​ @ЭнкерСидоров : "I repeat to you again so that they do not repeat! " If you think that e.g. Finland would do some kind of "repeat", i.e. a second Continuation War is not in the least bit likely. And any kind of "punishment" would not probably decrease the likelihood of it anyway. (This kind of logic would lead to also many Russians to be punished as well, e.g. the descendants of those who participated in the Katyn massacre. There would probably be many more examples.) "And I repeat once again for the Finns what their grandfathers did was “protection”" Many have differing opinions about that. You can't lump them together. And in any case they're not responsible for the acts themselves. Punishment for just an opinion and lineage (or just lineage) cannot be justified and saying that it would somehow make "repeats" less likely is ridiculous.
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  2624.  @ЭнкерСидоров : "The Poles became a victim in that war, but they also contributed to the beginning of the war and they were not punished for it! And now they have again begun to incite everyone to war!" I do not see how any kind of "punishment" would improve things. By similar logic the former Soviet Union should be "punished" for e.g. the harsh occpupation in Poland (including the aforementioned Katyn massacre), for sending Germany grain and oil when Germany was already at war with the western Allies (until Germany attacked Soviet Union), for coups in the Baltic countries, for invading Finland, for sending political dissidents to gulags, for oppressing minorities, etc. One could probably come up with many more examples. Would it make sense to now wreak "punishment" on the descendants of the Soviets for these injustices? No. I say guilt isn't conferred to children but remain on the guilty individuals.
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  2625.  @ЭнкерСидоров : "What Katyn massacre" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katyn_massacre
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  2626. "Its guarantor status gave it the right to interfere when the republic was in danger." You could argue that about the initial Turkish intervention but not about the second Turkish invasion in August.
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  2627. What if the Venezuelan electorate want him out?
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  2628. I think in dense urban areas there's another method that should be used to control car traffic, namely road tolls / congestion charges. That way, traffic becomes faster, and even those who drive a car benefit. A price should in principle guarantee that only those for whom the benefit of driving exceeds the price drive. (Same thing kind of happens with congestion but in that case, the "payment" in the form of time isn't received by anyone and represents destroyed value.)
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  2629. Wow! The Ottoman Empire really seems to be most terrible of all the combatants (in the moral/ethical sense I mean).
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  2630. What word would you use instead?
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  2631.  @okn712  Even if you think it's more honest a lot of people would likely perceive using the word "subject" as an indication that the IRS is being arrogant (more than otherwise, I mean). Some people could find it funny or at least more honest if not exactly pleasant but I think the majority would react negatively so using "subject" would be a bad idea. Also, remember that the IRS doesn't set the tax policy, it only executes it.
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  2632.  @nbtino73  That also wouldn't do for the reasons I mentioned in my previous comment.
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  2633. Russia would still have been able to pay its debt by using the money it had been receiving from energy transactions but chose not to.
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  2634.  @midlander8186  "The terms of the loan on which Russia "defaulted" required it to pay creditors in US dollars from a bank in New York City, specifically." I tried to search this info but I couldn't find such conditions stated anywhere. In any case, Russia only tried to pay it's foreign denominated bonds from its frozen forex reserves rather than from non-frozen funds and also stated that it wouldn't pay unless the forex reserves were unfrozen. "I believe Russia invited creditors to take payment in Russia in any currency" I'm under the impression that Russia only offered to pay them in roubles. Some of the Russian foreign denominated bonds have a clause that allows payment in roubles under certain circumstances but not all do.
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  2635. Sweden's airforce and strategic location still matter.
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  2636. "But, in its turn, the EU is free to sanction them (or even kick them out)" There's no provision in the EU treaties to kick a member state out.
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  2637. That still doesn't explain why we didn't see mass tank assaults during the summer.
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  2638. They did but it went badly.
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  2639.  @TortillasAllTheWayDown  If prices fall, then you can buy more with a given amount of currency. Thus: falling prices = increase of currency's buying power = deflation rising prices = decrease of currency's buying power = inflation When it comes to pork prices, they are a component of the price index used to calculate inflation, though only one component of it.
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  2640.  @rcmrcm3370  (EDIT: Earlier comment that I was replying to simply said Pittsburgh and Detroit rather than their suburbs.) I think Detroit actually filed for chapter 9 bankruptcy instead of defaulting illegally. In this video, it was mentioned that in many US states municipalities are not allowed to file for bankruptcy. I wondered if at some point such municipalities might become unable to meet their obligations with any amount of cutbacks or tax hikes.
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  2641. 3:50 Firstly, saying that the Blues "did pretty well" is completely incorrect. They didn't get any seats in 2019. Secondly, it might be pertinent know that this "moderate offshoot" was actually the "old guard" of the party which didn't like that the party became almost completely captured by it's newer anti-immigration wing.
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  2642.  @DemPilafian  There may be some similarity but in real life there can be more than one survivor.
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  2643.  @miinyoo  "There are smarter ways to deal with the problem than resorting to taxation" No. Economists widely support taxing negative externalities. Taxation is the best way.
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  2644. It's a literal pipedream even if it happens to turn out to be viable. :)
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  2645.  @samuelmitchell5937  I'm also pretty pessimistic about its viability.
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  2646.  @justcows7772  Potentially a vactrain could be a lot faster than those while being more energy-efficient than a plane. However, it also comes with a host of challenges that can easily render it technically or at least economically unviable.
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  2647.  @Redbaron9495  That was just the opinion of James Baker in a telephone call with Gorbachov. He didn't have the authority to make that kind of decision on behalf of the US or NATO.
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  2648.  @Redbaron9495  "I can't believe you searched the entire Internet in less than an hour" Of course I didn't search the entire Internet. Even a lifetime wouldn't be enough for a single person to do that, because the Internet is so enormous, and it's not reasonable to expect anyone to do that.
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  2649.  @moviemakerjo6756  "those battles are instigated outwardly by [...] anglo saxons and u.s" Do you have any evidence for that claim?
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  2650.  @danielwebb8402  I'm not 100% sure what he's referring to but here's my guess. The electricity price faced by consumers is capped by law in the UK. This has lead to some power utilities to go bankrupt with the wholesale price of electricity being higher than the price they charge their customers as they've made a loss on every kWh. There have been talks of bailing out the utilities with taxpayer money.
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  2651.  @3ndrei  "Kosovo does recognise Serbia, so it makes no sense to ban license plates from a country that you recognise" It was a tit-for-tat move. Therefore recognizing Serbia doesn't necessarily mean it doesn't make sense.
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  2652. While I think the cops were in the wrong here, jail seems a bit excessive.
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  2653.  @ibrahimyilmaz4861  At the very least his monetary policy is astoundingly dumb.
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  2654.  @thomas316  Though the other countries are smaller than Argentina.
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  2655.  @trevors777  Sounds plausible.
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  2656.  @HrHaakon  I meant that many American movies and TV series can exaggerate the problem of crime. We can expect that Korean fiction can similarly exaggerate corruption etc.
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  2657.  @Jianli02  I think some of these depictions in fiction (like corruption in South Korea or violent crime in the US) are not completely made up but they may tend to be exaggerated.
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  2658. Albania is a basket case. It would need to improve significantly.
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  2659. 5 years sounds a bit excessive.
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  2660. 1:02:00 Asking for that kind of reduction is probably asking too much. It would've meant that Russia could've just reinvaded later without Ukraine being able to resist. It doesn't seem like a bit surprise that that kind of deal didn't go through.
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  2661.  @reiniernn9071  I'd think the range should still be enough for most trips. Of course, that depends on the circumstance of each person.
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  2662.  @riskinhos  What? Because one person can't use them, no one can? Not everyone has to do what your grandma does.
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  2663. Am I seeing wrong or is the pre-bend towards the tower rather than away from it?
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  2664. 1:00 I have to object here a bit. Heat pumps do create heat in addition to moving it. If a heat pump didn't create any heat it would have an infinite power coefficient. The laws of thermodynamics don't allow that when moving heat from colder place to warmer place.
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  2665.  @milosterzic6452  Google translate translates that as "voluntary military service". In any case, Roman doesn't have a moral duty to remain in Russia.
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  2666.  @DemPilafian  I can't imagine his strange monetary policy being due to anything but religious conviction.
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  2667. "innumerable talents" Music, journalism, cooking. That's 3.
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  2668.  @Helsinkisillest  Hyperloop is almost certain to not be viable. Even if it were, it wouldn't for these types of commutes but rather for travelling between major cities like high-speed rail or airplanes are used today.
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  2669.  @shariqzafar  "Russia would never like the NATO missiles to be installed at their doorsteps" That wouldn't have happened for the foreseeable future in any case.
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  2670.  @shariqzafar  "NATO had promised to not expand NATO alliance along Russian borders" I don't think any such promises were made. It was just the opinions of some individual people. "Henry Kissinger famously quoted, 'being US's enemy is dangerous but being her friend is fatal.'" Saying it like that is highly misleading. Firstly, it's not certain whether Kissinger said that but for the sake of argument lets assume he did. Secondly and more importantly, you're taking a portion of a sentence out of context. The full sentence was: "Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." [emphasis mine] Note the word "if" there. Clearly Kissinger is not saying that as an unqualified statement but rather as an exhortation that Nguyễn Văn Thiệu should not suffer the same fate as Ngô Đình Diệm (who was killed in a coup).
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  2671.  @shariqzafar  "that is exactly my point that there are no promises in international politics, today Ukraine might say to not join NATO but who has seen tomorrow." But doesn't this directly contradict your earlier statement that "The issue that could have been negotiated on table"? If Ukraine couldn't credibly promise to not join NATO and their desire to join was Russia's reason to invade then Zelensky couldn't have prevented this war. If you're right then Zelensky didn't "choose to fight it out" as you claimed earlier.
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  2672. That's probably a salient thing to be worried about but one that would contribute to him moving out right now.
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  2673.  @LichuStar64  Well, I don't think they effectively "give" banks money either. Usually, central banks put new money into circulation by buying some kinds of bonds. These bonds are bought at market rates so the seller doesn't receive a gift from the central bank.
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  2674.  GreyboSneed  This WHO page gives estimates in the range of 0.5-1.0% mortality rate for Covid-19 (and some estimates may go as high as 1.4%). https://www.who.int/news-room/commentaries/detail/estimating-mortality-from-covid-19 Seasonal flu is closer to 0.2% or 0.1%.
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  2675. "Making cities long and skinny kind of makes sense in a way?" I don't think it does. It maximizes distances within the city. It's the worst possible layout. There's a reason why existing towns and cities aren't long and skinny except when e.g. restricted to a narrow valley.
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  2676. You could maybe make a similar accusation to Nokia as you made to BlackBerry. You even showed one Nokia phone in your BlackBerry segment.
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  2677.  @notarmchairhistorian7779  And I think -us is a masculine suffix whereas -a is a feminine suffix (but take this with a grain of salt as I don't actually speak Latin).
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  2678.  @BlackSeedOil20  But I still object to your statement "they killed the Armenians who committed treason". They (essentially) killed Armenians wholesale without regard which individuals might have committed treason and which might have not. I might add that it was the Ottoman Empire which declared war on the Entente powers first (rather than the other way around).
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  2679. "I’m not even sure how you measure happiness." You survey people and ask them questions like "How happy you feel on a scale from 1 to 10?".
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  2680.  @samhunter1205  Median incomes have also increased.
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  2681.  @samhunter1205  "if the gains are largely concentrated in the top few %" That's just not the case.
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  2682.  @samhunter1205  "You could easily build a number set where the median increased, the total value of the number set increased but the vast majority of the increase in the total value of the number set was skewed to a few of the highest values in your number set." You can see from the data that median incomes have increased significantly over the past few decades. That means that the economy is doing well. Even if rich people benefited even, that doesn't detract from the gains that ordinary people have gotten. "You also haven't specified if the median income you are referring to (again, source please) is inflation adjusted or not." But I did. I gave you the title for the data and it contains the word "real" meaning it is inflation adjusted. Also, I did give you a source. The title (and FRED) is a reference to it. You can easily find with the reference I gave. I'd give you a direct link but in my experience that often leads to comment deletion.
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  2683.  @samhunter1205  Do you see the source I gave or was my comment deleted?
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  2684.  @samhunter1205  If you want to compare house prices and incomes, you should be able to just compare nominal figures. Their ratio shouldn't change at all if you scale both by the same price index. I think using the real income figures is enough. The cost of housing is just one part of consumption so I think using a price index like CPI gives a more accurate picture than just using housing prices and comparing them to incomes.
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  2685. This is a bit of clickbait.
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  2686. 17:30 "It would be great if we could develop some sort of selectable Low-E window. Maybe the glass could be reversible so it reflects short and medium-wave IR only on one side." I think that kind of reversible window is impossible. The reflectivity has to be the same in both directions because physics is time-symmetric.
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  2687. The nuclear waste is not a big issue. The amounts are comparatively small so temporary storage is fine.
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  2688. Is there data on whether correlation with race was stronger than correlation with income.
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  2689. "To have a state according to international law you need a fully independent authority" Do you have a reference for this? Which international law are you talking about?
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  2690.  @iam1264  The interest rate hikes were the right thing to do because of inflation. This bank did not manage its interest rate risk properly.
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  2691.  @Theactualstoic  "jail the investment bankers who got greedy" Which crime specifically would you accuse them of?
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  2692.  @Theactualstoic  It's not enough to say "wow, this is bad". You have to point to a specific law that was (allegedly) broken. That's how criminal justice works.
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  2693.  @chriswilson9331  Turkish hasn't used the Arabic script for roughly a century.
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  2694. It would have been great if she had life insurance.
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  2695. They don't. It's just a silly conspiracy theory.
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  2696.  @nguyenhs9800  Probably Bill Gates.
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  2697.  @zUJ7EjVD  "For example building high speed rail would take multiple political terms, so a left-wing government has no incentive to start building it when a right-wing government can jump in and take credit." That can potentially be an issue but there are some factors that can mitigate it. One aspect is that Finland has tended to have 3 big parties and the government would usually involve 2 of those (+ some smaller parties). That means that very likely at least 1 of the major coalition partners would also continue in the next government no matter what happens in the elections. The rise of the (True) Finns has somewhat changed this dynamic, though.
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  2698. Not.
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  2699. 0:25 Wait! So in 2010 there were more pedestrian fatalities in the EU than in the US? I wouldn't have expected that. (Also, I have to nitpick a bit. Taking the that graph literally it would be talking about the US pedestrian fatalities in the EU. Obviously, that's just an error in the labelling, though.)
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  2700.  @neutronalchemist3241 : Sounds plausible.
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  2701. 10:35 "you'd be better off leveraging a diversified portfolio" But wouldn't be better still to go short on ABC (maybe in addition to leverage)? That way you could have more than 100% allocation to XYZ which has a higher return and now these two positions would actually have a negative correlation because the allocation to ABC is negative.
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  2702. They have attacked many ships that have nothing to do with Israel.
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  2703.  @MegaFarkh  One example is the Norwegian tanker Blaamanen.
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  2704.  @MegaFarkh  It experienced a near-miss. Not being hit doesn't mean that it wasn't attacked but rather in this case the attack just wasn't successful. If you still insist only on attacks that successfully landed a hit on the ship there's e.g. the Liberia flagged container ship Al Jasrah.
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  2705. How the jurisdiction treats residents is not necessarily important. In the past, many wealthy people who did not live in Switzerland had Swiss banks hold and manage their wealth which, due to the strict banking secrecy, allowed them to commit tax fraud without getting caught.
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  2706.  @LisaCulton  Even if your wealth is managed by a Swiss bank the capital gains related to that are still usually taxable in the country of your residence (depending on the country and circumstance). If you fail to disclose that income it's typically fraud and in the past, you could get away with that kind of fraud due to the Swiss banking secrecy.
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  2707.  @streetviewer538  Data doesn't seem agree with you. According to the CIA World Factbook the real (PPP) GDP per capita of the countries you mentioned are: Bulgaria: $27,000 Greece: $31,700 Romania: $32,500 Croatia: $34,300 Hungary: $35,400 Additionally, Bulgaria is currently the only EU member with this figure below that of Russia (though the difference is very small and the Russian figure might be suspect).
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  2708.  @orzelmorze5586  "the raid was done by Arabs from Agieria" Are you sure they were Arabs and not Berbers?
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  2709.  @wheresmyshield176  They can plead not guilty if they think there isn't enough evidence.
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  2710. "as Peskov once said, since Putin became president, he sleep 4 hours a day, and have no weekend [...] he keep working out everyday to keep his body fit and healthy" 4 h of sleep per day will certainly not keep his body healthy (if it's true).
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  2711. @ No one's obligated do anything like this if they feel the reward isn't big enough and, like I said, offering a bigger reward could potentially have some benefits. But you know, clearly even this small reward served its job in this case. As another comparison, Donald Knuth offered measly $2.56 for finding an error in his book series and that worked too.
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  2712.  @MrSqurk  Maybe not, but it still makes it seem less pathetic.
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  2713. Why are those short funds net short (or even only short)? Couldn't they e.g. roughly allocate their portfolio according to an index except for a few companies they target for short selling? Then they couldn't be as easily hurt by an overall bull market.
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  2714. I think that figure wasn't supposed to represent a record but a more typical travel time.
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  2715.  @samsonsoturian6013  Japan?
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  2716. 24:40 Did you mean "Lake Ladoga" rather than "Gulf of Finland"?
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  2717. Kowloon Walled City
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  2718. What if your neighbor was a waspkeeper whose wasps gnaw on your walls and wooden tools to build their hives? Can you then sue to get compensation for the damage?
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  2719.  @MrDemirarslan  "no they dont. what is rejected is the connection or grouping between altaic languages with uralic, korean and japaneese." No, you're mistaken. Most linguists nowadays do also reject the proposed connection between the Turkic, Mongolic, and Tungusic language families. E.g. NativLang has good video on the Altaic hypothesis here on YouTube.
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  2720.  @josephstewart98 : "However, when batteries are sufficiently improved, there may be the possibility of storing wind energy and therefore making it the primary source of propulsion." But that's not how the rotor sails work. They don't generate electricity but, in fact, expend energy since they need to be spun by a motor so you can't really store the propulsion they create anywhere.
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  2721. One difference to the Nullification Crisis is that in this case the ECB isn't that dependent on the Bundesbank. The ECB could, at least in theory, just itself buy all the bonds that the Bundesbank sells or refuses to buy and the German courts would be powerless to prevent that.
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  2722. "Yemen has the absolute right to fully defend itself." However, the Houthi rebels aren't the Yemeni government and don't represent all of Yemen and attacking ships passing nearby isn't defending oneself.
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  2723. @@KittyCat-sx4qy I'm not the one determining it. The internationally recognized government is the one headed by Rashad al-Alimi and Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed.
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  2724. "At the end of the Soviet Union the then leader Gorbachov made a gentleman agreement with the USA, EU and NATO agreeing that NATO would never expand towards the East - to Russia..." That was just an opinion by James Baker in a phone call with Gorbachov. He didn't have any kind of authority to make such a decision on behalf of the US government, or NATO for that matter. (I don't know where you got the "EU" part as the EU doesn't have anything to do with the US Secretary of State talking with Gorbachov.)
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  2725. "You always end up snoring then waking up..then snoring." Are you waking up because of the snoring? If so, it might make sense to consider using e.g. a CPAP device or some other similar remedy.
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  2726.  @justaemptymall  China just wants friends/allies/vassals. It doesn't want to stop countries from joining the EU. In fact, if China successfully gains an ally in the western Balkans and that country then gets into the EU that just gives China more influence inside the EU which is something China would want.
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  2727. This seems like mere speculation to me.
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  2728. 5:15 "The mass component of this equation is not only squared, but also doubled. Doubling the mass will increase our power requirements 8 fold." Isn't there an error there? The fact that the mass is squared (and not cubed) in the equation here means that doubling the mass should "only" increase the power requirements 4 fold and not 8 fold. A constant factor of 2 in front should not affect it.
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  2729. 1:30 "evict the tenant with 30 to 60 days notice" That's surprisingly short. Here in Finland there's no rent control but if the landlord wants to terminate the lease they must give the tenant a 6 month notice if the lease has lasted at least a year (and 3 months notice otherwise).
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  2730.  @enriktigasna  Username checks out.
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  2731. In the coming decades air travel needs to be cut significantly unless it can be decarbonized.
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  2732. A government building railways should theoretically count not only the direct profits it may itself receive from fares but also any positive externalities to people and companies. However, even on this metric many of China's later high-speed lines don't make economic sense. Also, it makes sense that the most direct beneficiaries of railroads, i.e. passengers (or businesses using rail freight), pay a lions share of the cost; therefore the profitability of the venture gives at least some indication whether the investment makes economic sense. Additionally, even with beneficial infrastructure projects the government must consider whether it can actually afford them without facing solvency issues.
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  2733. "The socialist goverment went to election and won saying we will not join, after the election they did the opposite of what they said before the election." That's because the situation changed massively.
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  2734. Turkey also went through this in the past. Then they also made their central bank independent and that reduced inflation. Now Erdoğan has undone the central bank independence.
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  2735.  @theultimatereductionist7592  "Dr Mason never hacked any of Trevor's computers." That's not a requirement for it to be copyright infringement.
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  2736. But unlike Theranos, Musk hasn't raised outside capital to spend on realizing Hyperloop, has he?
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  2737. "Kerosene can be dangerous below -25C as if you spill it on your hands it will evaporate very quickly" I think that "evaporate" part cannot be correct considering how much effort was necessary to get the kerosene to evaporate in that one lantern. Of course, it could still cause frostbite by simply being cold but the same risk exists with any liquid that doesn't solidify at such low temperature including gasoline.
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  2738.  @SecularSynthesis  He's probably referring to the phenomenon called "TV pickup" causing surges in demand. That phenomenon is real even if he's exaggerating how much it requires preparing for.
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  2739.  @whuzzzup  In recent years all biggest the TV pickup demands listed by Wikipedia have been during football games. Those are still something that people watch at the same time.
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  2740.  @einarr7301  One exception would be crossbows because with those you can use mechanical aids but I'm under the impression that crossbows weren't yet that common in Europe during the Viking age.
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  2741. "The average person has never been so poor." What? Are you for real? Are you seriously claiming that the average person was better off e.g. during the Great Depression?
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  2742.  @davidpritchard604  Usually it's expected that people who make claims also provide evidence for them. Otherwise, it would be extremely easy to make arbitrary claims without providing any evidence and just tell other people to find the evidence for (or against) it.
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  2743. @Wyatt Wolfe Never heard of that before.
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  2744. Coal is worse than nuclear.
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  2745.  @umutneo  Even considering the possibility of a meltdown coal seems worse. It causes a lot of harm even in normal operation.
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  2746. "I couldn't understand why someone was just throwing away money on such a large scale." Utilizing it might not be that cheap either. Of course, I'm just guessing here.
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  2747. What happened to people who owned shares of these companies while they were public? Did they gain or lose when the companies were taken back to being private?
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  2748. Iran sure has made a lot of enemies.
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  2749.  @JamesKerLindsay  Pretty sad for the Iranian population too. I suspect not all of the population is super enthusiastic about every machination by the government (though there will always be a range of opinions).
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  2750.  @somethinglikethat2176  Gas has lower CO₂ emissions per kWh produced than other fossil fuels.
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  2751. Raponomics.
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  2752.  @DeoMachina  It's possible but I don't believe that they are the primary culprits. I don't have data on this so take this with a grain of salt but I think in many places it's more often existing residents in an area that turn into lobbying NIMBYs if someone wants to build more housing near them. As a result, in many high-demand places you often can't build more housing or can only build low-density suburbs.
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  2753.  @davidhoran7116  I don't think Helsinki would be worst in Europe biking-wise though e.g. Dutch cities or Copenhagen are certainly better and probably at least some other Finnish cities, like Oulu, also have better biking infrastructure. Luckily public transit in Helsinki is better than the biking infrastructure.
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  2754.  @233kosta  AFAIK, tarballs do have metadata in the beginning but that's a feature of the tar file format, not the magnetic tape drives they were originally intended for which I think are only capable of serial I/O.
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  2755.  @micoolkidfilms3270  The Irish constitution was amended in 1999 such that it no longer claims Northern Ireland as Ireland's territory.
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  2756. Tesla's debt to equity ratio has been declining.
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  2757.  @MattSezer  "NYC is over 14 times larger than Copenhagen. It's not comparable in any way." But I think that only strengthens the argument for bikes. Cars take a lot of space. In a city as big as NYC they're more difficult to accommodate.
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  2758. Or alternatively, they could switch to a different timezone.
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  2759.  @Maytrx  Well, the BLM protests/riots were a thing. Anything much beyond that seems unlikely. Remember that US Blacks don't have that much higher fertility than the US on average (and they're behind Hispanics AFAIK).
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  2760. If you make a long transcontinental trip, the emissions are going to be quite high almost regardless of the mode of transport (though electric trains probably have lower emissions per passenger km than planes).
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  2761.  @DreamEatingBaku  The latest proposed amendment to pass, the 26th, was proposed and passed in 1971, a half a century ago. These things are not a common occurrence. (The 27th was proposed way earlier.)
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  2762.  @mni892  "the US Congress recently passed a bill which ensures that the President can not unilaterally leave NATO" My understanding is that the POTUS still could, as the commander-in-chief of the US armed forces, prevent any direct military aid being sent to NATO members. "We as Americans know that if something happens in Europe, regardless of if it is any fault of our own. We will send our children to die for you. For decades we have watched as the Western European nations have reneged on their defense spending [...] For that matter it's also why you almost never hear our domestic politicians complain about the Eastern European states or Britain" Based on this it sounds like some Americans are seemingly being a bit inconsistent here (though I'm not saying you are). If some European NATO member is going to find itself under attack it's going to be one of the Eastern European countries and not e.g. Germany. Of course, the likes of Germany do probably still deserve some criticism because their militaries would be less capable of participating in the helping of those Eastern European countries than if their defense spending had been higher, but still. Another apparent inconsistency is almost never complaining about Britain. While Britain still is militarily powerful it has had some problems recently and I think it can be argued that France has done a better job of maintaining its military capabilities. Still, my impression is that Britain is complained less about that Britain. I suspect one reason is the deeper cultural and linguistic connection to Britain and at least if we go back to Bush years the French refusal to participate in the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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  2763.  @oilslick7010  The "Staggering" playlist doesn't seem to have an episode dedicated to Bergen op Zoom. The episode on the siege of Breda does also briefly mention the latter (1622) siege of Bergen op Zoom but I couldn't quickly find mentions of the earlier (1588) siege.
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  2764. 41:10 Germany isn't in a "deep recession" but more like a fairly mild recession.
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  2765. Oil pipelines? Which oil pipeline has been blown up?
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  2766.  @TheJT00001  I think it's more likely that you're just confusing oil pipelines and gas pipelines. Or can you name an oil pipeline that has been blown up?
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  2767.  @elkaluzi  If Russia triples its prices then its customers will likely buy from elsewhere. That might be more expensive than the current price but likely not 3 times as expensive.
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  2768.  @TechieTard  There is not obligation to hold dollars.
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  2769.  @thefreeaccount0  Banks in general are not limited to the currency of their own country. US banks can issue loans denominated in euros, pounds, etc. if there's a market for that.
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  2770.  @Zero_Contradictions  I don't think it would. In theory a land value tax should have no incentive effects.
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  2771. "cars drive more efficiently whilst driving on a motorway (freeway) compared to regular roads" But it still doesn't make economical sense inside a city. You can't put a lot of housing along a highway but you can do it along a street. Now these people are already inside the city instead of needing to drive into it from outside. That's even more efficient than driving along a highway.
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  2772.  @amirsadeghi9888  "where is it at? lol Finland was neutral in ww2" I thought you were talking about present time and the frontline in Ukraine. NATO didn't exist during WWII. "But if a war broke out between Germany(nato) and Russia (before Finland joining nato), where would the war front be?" Probably at least in the Baltic countries. It seems that risk of being invaded by Russia while outside NATO is greater than the risk of being invaded by Russia as a NATO member. "I believe During ww2 finland was neutral" When WWII start Finland declared neutrality. However, the Soviet Union still invaded Finland in 1939 (Winter War). Then in 1941 Finland participated in Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union (Continuation War).
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  2773.  @artilleryisbetter  That's extremely cheap.
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  2774.  @rhekman  "pronounced "know-VELL"" Really? So it's not pronounced the same as the word "novel"?
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  2775.  @altrag  "both Spain and the UK have adamantly affirmed that they will not relinquish their claims" I got the impression that the UK would be ready to relinquish their claims but only if that's what the people of Gibraltar want, which they don't.
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  2776. "I think Scottish people living in the rest of the Union are not given the choice to vote, which seems nakedly wrong." What should be the criteria for eligibility? It's not enough to say that everyone who's actually Scottish can vote; there needs to be simple and clear criteria on who you count as Scottish for this purpose.
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  2777.  @nonyabisness6306  The cost of the plant is far from irrelevant. In the case of nuclear energy it makes up most of the cost of the energy (as e.g. fuel is cheap) so it determines how competitive nuclear is with other forms of energy. I wasn't referring to prematurely closed plants. In recent times many projects have struggled to be profitable. Of course, that will depend on how well the project is run and what other sources of energy are available in the same location.
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  2778.  @nonyabisness6306  "Nuclear absolutly works and is cheap. [...] There is no excuse, there is no reason not to invest in it." That doesn't seem to always be the case. E.g. Hinkley Point C in the UK required a guaranteed price for electricity of £92.50/MWh (in 2012 Pounds) to be profitable. That's not a cheap price for electricity. "[solar is] cheap because of decades of investment and heavy heavy government subsedies." Same was true for nuclear in the past. I would say that in sunny climates solar definitely is cheaper than nuclear even when considering the intermittent nature (which requires storage and/or responsive demand). Of course, same is not true for colder climates.
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  2779.  @nonyabisness6306  Solar has gotten cheaper due to R&D. If you want the same for nuclear then R&D has to be done first and then after that you can begin to build commercial reactors for cheap if the R&D was successful. Building cheap enough reactors with current technology seems difficult (as you can see e.g. in the examples of Olkiluoto 3 in Finland and Flamanville 3 in France). Nuclear is eco-friendly but it is not (currently) cheap.
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  2780.  @nonyabisness6306  In many places solar makes economic sense without subsidies. Generally speaking, we should tax high-emission energy sources rather than subsidize low-emission ones because the latter also subsidizes energy consumption which isn't a good thing. "Nuclear R&D never stopped, we have very modern plant designs." Well, e.g. EPR is very modern but it just seems to cost too much and take too long to build to make economic sense in most cases (see the examples of Olkiluoto 3 and Flamanville 3). "All that's needed for nuclear to work is the political will to do it." In many cases this means political will to give it massive subsidies, like the very high guaranteed price in the case of Hinkley Point C. If it requires that large subsidies it doesn't make sense from the society's point of view.
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  2781. No Danish navy? What happened to them? Were they not able to depart in time due to how quickly Denmark fell?
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  2782. Hopefully not. He's to blame for the high inflation.
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  2783. Aren't adjustable rate mortgages the norm in most countries other than the US?
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  2784. @Satoshi Nakamoto Patrick claimed in the video that it's fixed only for a few years. In the US they get fixed rates for like 30 year mortgages for their entire lengths.
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  2785. "Imagine if America did this when we invaded Iraq" Some soldiers who resisted going to Iraq received prison sentences, e.g. James Burmeister. Of course, this is a bit different in that they had voluntarily chosen military service (if not going to Iraq specifically).
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  2786. "Cyprus has become unified." The formal stance of all EU countries is that all of the island of Cyprus is a part of the EU (except for the British bases) even though the Republic of Cyprus doesn't in practice control the northern part.
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  2787. So basically a Brčko District type of solution.
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  2788.  @Cythil  I think in "Finlandsvensk" the letter 'U' is always pronounced [ʉ] whether short or long. (In "Riksvensk" the short 'U' is [ɵ].)
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  2789. I don't think you can compare Raiffeisen to salt or pepper. There's a very large number of banks in the world and it's difficult to know everyone of them. Raiffeisen is hardly as prominent among banks as salt and pepper are among spices.
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  2790. "Basically , be in EU without having power" But it would mean not being subject to the Common Agricultural Policy and the Common Fisheries Policy.
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  2791. 0:05 The PM or Russia is Mihkail Mishustin, not Dmitry Medvedev.
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  2792.  @DracovStudio  I don't know who Mat Pat's legal expert was.
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  2793. Both Ukraine and Russia are accusing each other. I would say that if one of them did it (as opposed the failure being an accident) then Russia is a more likely culprit than Ukraine.
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  2794. But what about the hurricanes? At least those are rarer in South Dakota.
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  2795. 14:30 I would say that there definitely is a sense by which it's not a coincidence that the answer is exactly half-way between 0 and 1. If you look at the sequence of the partial sums of this series you'll notice that the sequence is: 0,1,0,1,0,... Basically, the ways have grouped the series are picking every other element from the sequence of partial sums, either all 0s or all 1s. Now, if you apply Cesàro summation to this sequence the result has to be the (arithmetic) mean of these two extremes due to how Cesàro summation is defined.
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  2796. I would have thought the opposite (in this particular context). It makes sense that a lawyer would hedge his accusations with such words so he can't be accused of slander or libel as easily.
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  2797. Why not?
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  2798.  @xXx_Regulus_xXx  If you must know, I have been donating to Against Malaria Foundation and GiveWell. In any case, it quite natural that a country would primarily focus on its own citizens but I also think it's good to spend a little bit on foreign aid too. One reason is that several places in the world have people who are much worse off and can be helped very cost-effectively. Also, combating the spread of HIV may help the whole world including the US. I don't know what's the appropriate level of foreign aid, that's a difficult question, but I maintain that it should be greater than zero.
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  2799.  @firstnamelastname9237  It is small compared to the size of the US. I think the (seemingly incorrect) claim about "condoms for Gaza" was $50 million. That would basically be a rounding error in the US budget if it were correct. "The good it does could do MORE good here or just left in tax payers hands." That seems unlikely. In several very poor places lives can be saved much more cost effectively than in a rich country like the US where most of the cheap stuff has already been done. Even if you value American lives, say, 10x more than those in sub-Saharan Africa, it's still probably cost-effective to spend at least a little bit on places like Mozambique. Also, reducing the spread of HIV worldwide can have positive spillover effects for the US as well if less cases are introduced by people travelling to the US.
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  2800. USA does still build ambitious projects. There's e.g. the high-speed rail under construction in California. You might point to it as a failure but even it is a resounding success compared to this monstrosity if the Saudis really go for it (which I doubt).
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  2801.  @DKNguyen3.1415  The situation where rents can't be lowered due to valuation concerns exists but I think it's misleading to say the landlord prefers to not lower the rent. Rather, they might prefer it but their loan conditions prevent that. In such a case, hammering the landlord even more with vacancy tax doesn't help because that doesn't make their creditors accept a lower equity-to-debt ratio.
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  2802. Different languages split the range of colors we can see in different ways. So 'aoi' doesn't exactly correspond to 'blue' and 'midori' doesn't exactly correspond to 'green'. Specifically, I'm under the impression that 'midori' refers to a narrower range than 'green' and 'aoi' used to refer to a broader range that encompassed the both of the ranges that 'blue' and 'green' refer to in most languages in Europe (but I'm not a linguist and don't speak Japanese so I'm not 100% certain). I'm surprised if, as a linguist, you didn't know that or if you did, that you didn't mention it. I do agree that it's strange to call white wine white etc. Same thing with the different types of tea. Green tea is usually actually green, but the others are often not the color they are named after. E.g. white tea doesn't usually look white.
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  2803.  @gamesman0118  "would dissuade most from having one..." Well, then there's no need for these highways inside the city.
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  2804.  @gamesman0118  Through the streets? It's not like highways reach every nook and cranny of the city but still the shops and stores that are not along highways are able to restock. I see no reason to expect that removing short sections of the highways inside the city would be a major hurdle in this respect.
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  2805.  @gamesman0118  I don't have a problem with highways between cities but inside cities they're not an efficient use of limited space. The first one of these removals started this year and it remover a roughly 1 km long section of one highway.
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  2806. You can avoid a lot of the volatility drag if you e.g. never rebalance downwards. For this, your leverage needs to be small enough that you don't need to rebalance downwards in a falling market to avoid a margin call. This will limit how much the leverage can boost your returns.
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  2807. "In their mindset, the "Kuffar" will produce for them everything they need" It's not specifically about "Kuffar". I'm sure they also employ many fellow Muslims from e.g. Bangladesh.
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  2808.  @QuantumHistorian  "Not really the same method though?" Well, it seems to be at least the same as the Western circumvallation even if other parts of the Western siegecraft might have been missing.
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  2809.  @GreaterThanGodLike  My interpretation was that in his comment Justin H was specifically referring to the origin of Adlam as told in this video.
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  2810. It might have done that too though that's more difficult to say.
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  2811. Should be called "pavo double precision".
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  2812. It should be noted that, despite the name, rare earth metals aren't all that rare.
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  2813. He seems to claim that the rising carbon dioxide concentration isn't a problem because it's a small part of the atmosphere. However, that's a bad argument. The problem isn't the concentration directly but the warming it can cause which in turn can cause damage to human society.
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  2814.  @xJavelin1  "Yet farming technology has also vastly improved since that time. So surely those same lands can now support a much larger population." There are limits to what improved farming technology has been able to do. Even though Egypt's arable land is very fertile Egypt has so little of it that even improved yields are not enough. Egypt's population exceeds 100 million. There is no way agricultural productivity could be increased so much as to compensate for that large population expansion.
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  2815.  @UserH7  "They’re only attacking the ships going towards Israel" They're not only attacking ships going to Israel. They have attacked many ships that have nothing to do with Israel.
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  2816.  @UserH7  "So tell me, what will they gain from attacking ships that have nothing to do with israel ? 😅" If you want to know why they attack those ships you'd ultimately have to ask them. We can observe that they have attacked ships that are not linked to Israel but we can't really read their minds to know what made them decide that.
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  2817. "Typical of a US vassel state. Keep talking about freedom until it doesn't suit you." The video specifically talked about worldviews banned in the North. You think North Korea is a US vassal state? What are you smoking?
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  2818.  @Hassan_Ahmed1815  I don't think people usually use the term like that. That would be like using the term "Christian country" in a way that excludes e.g. the US. Also note that he said "Muslim country" not "Islamic country" which at least sounds to like that countries like e.g. Indonesia aren't excluded. Maybe he meant Arab Muslim countries but just forgot to say "Arab".
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  2819.  @elchicovip01  But even then it should be clearly over 1000 km/h.
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  2820.  @ggoddkkiller1342  "TLDR does so poor research sometimes, first of all Nagorno-Karabakh is a part of AZERBAIJAN not Armenia" What? The video explicitly said that that NK is internationally recognized as being a part of Azerbaijan. How exactly has TLDR done poor research here? Did you not watch the video or did you just miss that part?
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  2821.  @ggoddkkiller1342  "check the map they kept showing in the video" I thought Artsakh had already lost the regions surrounding NK in 2020.
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  2822.  @tengrici431  I'm not commenting on whether it was justified or not but in 2020 it was Azerbaijan that initiated the hostilities.
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  2823. Typically any bond payments would be income for the central bank. This income from money creation is called "seigniorage" as another commenter above noted. Some of it is used to pay for the expenses that the central bank accrues in it's operations (such as salary for staff) but most is given to the treasury on some timescale. Sometimes it can also be used to increase the amount of forex reserves. However, in this case if the intention is to tighten then I'd guess the money is just destroyed.
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  2824. He already factored that in in the efficiency calculation.
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  2825.  @kelvinyonger8885  Doesn't ARM have far fewer instructions than x86?
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  2826. Except the people in the reservations are also US citizens and have all the rights that come with it including the right to live in most other places in the US.
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  2827. @Serge Rambert: What about Romansch?
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  2828. It sounds like synthesized voice to me, but I'm not 100% sure.
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  2829.  @satviksingh8426  "Then i think euro will die." There's no indication of this.
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  2830.  @martinbacik2724  Thanks.
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  2831. "I think Ukraine was invaded because Russia was about to lose their port at Sevastopol." That might explain the events of 2014 but not the present invasion.
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  2832. "You're never getting thoses lives, and all the manhour of work spent making tanks or on the frontline back." You're not getting those manhours back so that part of what could have been produced without the war is lost permanently, but that's not what recovery is referring to here. The volume of production can increase to (and above) what it was prior to the war if the economy isn't mismanaged.
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  2833.  @TheCloudhopper  "And keep in mind that both are Norway's win-win scenario. They get to keep the entirety of their monetary wealth, yet share in the benefits of the cooperation within the EU." If you're talking about membership fees, then Norway in fact doesn't get to keep all their wealth. They do have to pay to the EU (though I think the fees might be a bit lower than full EU membership fees would be).
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  2834.  @angellestat2730  My understanding is that this rattling is the main reason why most (though not all) wind turbines use 3 blades (rather than 2).
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  2835. Who's the other voice?
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  2836. What if the people want to, say, fund terrorism?
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  2837.  @demostheneslastphilosopher639  "you are making a false dichotomy. It’s not “fund terrorism” or “ban crypto”." I wasn't making such a dichotomy. The original comment in this thread didn't even mention banning crypto.
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  2838. Maybe he meant "behüten"?
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  2839.  @muronjunat1826  That's not what they're doing. There's still going to be a highway connecting Tampere and Helsinki. It just won't extend as far inside the city.
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  2840.  @mikrokupu  "I pay EUR 380/month + 18K deposit." How's that deposit possible? By law the deposit cannot be more than 3 months' rent, i.e. 1140 € in this case.
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  2841. There's no motive for the CIA to destroy the Balticconnector.
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  2842.  @lawyitkazuki5768 : But killing the burglar instead of maiming just to avoid such a lawsuit is morally repugnant.
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  2843.  @lawyitkazuki5768 : It's possible that aiming the shotgun higher could have resulted in criminal charges. Either way, doing that would make them scum regardless of possible perverse incentives.
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  2844.  @only_fair23  The French have shot Houthi drones down.
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  2845.  @slipperyavocado9457 : It goes to heat.
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  2846.  @slipperyavocado9457 : But I don't quite understand why you're asking that.
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  2847.  @slipperyavocado9457 : I guess (though he might run into a problem of the motherboard not having slots for enough GPUs or many PC power sources not being rated for 1500 W). However, I don't see what that has to do with my comments. I was just nitpicking about the fact that while heating his room this way can have the added benefit of also performing possibly useful computations, it doesn't make sense to count that into the efficiency in the form of a percentage of the power consumed.
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  2848.  @timothysoh9102  What? You said: "US Court of Justice failures". I don't see how that changes in context.
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  2849. If the assumptions of this video hold, gas prices in Russia should increase.
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  2850.  @jakob6960  "Government and emissions testers say they produce zero co2" Where have they said so? I've not heard claims like that.
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  2851. He also talked about the DPR which doesn't exist anymore.
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  2852.  @chegayvara1136  "If the Russian's have suffered 100k casualties (killed and injured) that means that for months (prior to the annexation orders and partial mobilization and Russia, the impact of which is only just now coming into play), a mere 80k Russians were able to hold off around 800k Ukranians." I don't think your numbers are correct here. The initial invading force was something like 190k but that doesn't include e.g. the LPR/DPR troops (which are included in these Russian casualty estimates). Russia has also sent reinforcements before the partial mobilization. These just weren't conscripts but further contract soldiers, Wagner personnel, and Chechens (although these might not have been that active on the front). Also, that 800k sounds like an overestimate. At what point do you think Ukraine was fielding that many troops?
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  2853. When it comes to economics, Erdoğan is akin to a flat-earther.
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  2854. The previous government negotiated the nuclear deal. It worked well for them at first until Trump decided to pull out from it so, in the end, it didn't really work. This makes it look like trying to fix relations with the West is futile so there's no point in even trying.
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  2855.  @rjfaber1991  "They know very well that isn't true, as it's only the US that's pulled out of the deal, not the other signatories." Just the US pulling out is clearly enough because the US sanctions are effective. Other signatories not pulling out doesn't help Iran unless those nations actually help Iran to circumvent the US sanctions and clearly they're not willing to go that far.
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  2856.  @rjfaber1991  "which doesn't really hold up if most of the Western countries that signed up to the nuclear deal are still committed to it" It does hold up unless those countries actually help Iran to evade American sanctions. Otherwise, their commitments amounts to little in the face of American sanctions.
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  2857.  @inigomontoya4109  "if it's just being used to pay investors it's a waste of interest rate" I disagree. If the interest rate is low enough, it's not waste. As a comparison, suppose the company earned some money and then would have the option of paying dividends or keeping the money in a bank account earning the same (low) interest rate as that hypothetical debt. Would keeping the money in a bank account make sense? Paying the dividends would just as much be "waste of interest rate" as taking a loan (as we're assuming the interest rate would be the same). I say it doesn't make sense. If the interest rate is low enough then it makes more sense to pay dividends as the paltry rate of return is not worth it for the investors.
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  2858.  @jimurrata6785  It seems even extending the use of their 3 remaining reactors is politically impossible let alone re-starting any of the already closed ones. Thus it seems there isn't a good alternative to lignite.
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  2859.  @xenomorphbiologist-xx1214  "trains are better for small countries like the European ones and planes are better for large countries like Canada, Australia and the US" I don't think that's a good argument. Many US states are of a similar size to European countries so trains should be equally viable in both.
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  2860.  @cisium1184  "it owes money (liabilities)" However, the Fed's liabilities are special. It never needs to pay them back and it's also not required to pay interest on them. It may pay interest on reserves as a part of its monetary policy but it can also set interest on reserves to zero or even negative.
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  2861.  @chinbosschinboss2484  Inflation means the average rare of increase of prices. Inflation hardly implies the Fed is broke.
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  2862. At 1:15 you're defining "value" (to simplify) as amount of labor (in hours). Then at 1:40 you state the LTV (to simplify) as the claim that value is determined by the amount of labor. This seems just vacuously true as it just basically repeating the definition given earlier. 7:35 "Capitalists don't exploit the workers." The LTV, as stated here, doesn't seem to imply that capitalists exploit the workers.
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  2863. "Hydrogen doesn't get compressed as it is submerged without energy coming from somewhere. It could be 30% more efficient than conventional compressors by being isothermal rather than adiabatic, but not 30 times more efficient." Technically the hypothesized factor of 30 was for cost, not efficiency, though that might be unrealistic as well.
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  2864.  @ianstobie  You might have less problems with fouling but if you need to do maintenance it would get really difficult.
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  2865.  @brettmoore3194  They don't produce work. Heat is different. It doesn't e.g. run a motor. Machines that produce work cannot really be more than 100% efficient.
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  2866. Turkey is the main successor state of the Ottoman Empire.
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  2867. Yes, there is. Check definitions for terms like M0, M1, and M2.
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  2868. You could say that if you're somehow able to trade with 100% borrowed capital then you're trading but not making a net investment (unless and until you reinvest the profits you're hopefully getting). Most traders are probably investing at least partially their own capital or the capital of someone else on behalf of whom they're trading.
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  2869. But why did Israel strike that Iranian consulate in Syria? It puzzles me as I don't see what the (possible) upshot for Israel was.
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  2870.  @Thomas-ow2bm  Just like not everyone is convinced that the Earth is round instead of flat.
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  2871.  @kenjett2434  I don't see a mention of "Creator". https://drexel.edu/ogcr/resources/constitution/amendments/preamble/
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  2872.    My comment was directed at Ken Jett, not you.
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  2873. Should Cyprus be excluded too then?
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  2874.  @drharnsaft1005  What precisely is the criterion?
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  2875. An electric car can save you money if you drive a lot.
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  2876.  @nunyabeezaxe2030  Obviously whether and EV or ICE car makes more sense depends on the situation.
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  2877.  @Jeffhowardmeade  The general rate is 24%. There are also lowered rates of 10% and 14%. 14% applies to e.g. food. 10% applies to e.g. medicine, books, magazine & newspaper subscriptions, person transport (except taxi fares), & sports services. I think the incoming government is planning to eliminate the 10% rate and raise the tax to 14% for all items in it.
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  2878.  @johnpatricklim4509  AFAIK, there was already a lot of corruption before Chavez, though he did make things a lot worse.
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  2879. "Yemen provoking India." These drone attacks on cargo ships have been done by the Houthi rebels, not the Yemeni government. I think it's a bit misleading to say that Yemen is provoking India. The Houthis don't represent all of Yemen.
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  2880. Obviously, Thunderf00t is going to mainly make videos about ones that can't work as promised rather than those that plausibly could.
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  2881. "Why would the Federal Reserve be tightening to reduce demand for goods even further?" Because then there are less dollars available to buy those goods.
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  2882. "What do you think flys all over Alaska, south America, the Caribbean?" Companies that only employ a single family worth of people (who also own the company)? Somehow, I doubt it.
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  2883.  @esweet100  OK, I looked it up and it seems to have 47 employees. That's quite a bit more than just "mom and pop". It still counts as a small business but only barely.
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  2884. Eli Lilly's R&D budget is more than twice that and it's just one company among many.
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  2885. By default it would. Immediate admittance into the EU would only be possible if everyone, including Spain, agrees.
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  2886. "You dont see any gloating from the EU though." They have no incentive to gloat and plenty to not gloat.
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  2887. +AnythingFixer Actually both 'learned' and 'learnt' are correct with former being the American and the latter being the British spelling.
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  2888.  @Twisted_Code : His comment sounded like he was saying to LegalEagle: "Hey! You said you weren't going to give legal advice but you did!". I just gave a humorous response to that. I don't think he could actually be sued for saying "Stop doing illegal things." even if it were legal advice.
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  2889. "the congestion pricing toll would not be per trip, but per day" Ideally, it should be per hour with different hours having different prices, but maybe that's too complicated to implement.
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  2890.  @JeeVeeHaych  I'm not an American myself and I've never been there so I can't answer your question.
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  2891. I would assume that Hamas has stocked up on supplies of food, water, etc. and prioritizes its own personnel over the civilian population.
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  2892. That is true but there are still issues: 1) Egypt fears that Ethiopia will fill the reservoir too quickly leading to temporary, but possibly severe, water shortage in Egypt. 2) Egypt wants binding guarantees that Ethiopia will not restrict the Nile's flow too much even temporarily whereas Ethiopia doesn't want to give Egypt a veto on how it can use the dam. 3) Playing up an external threat can benefit el-Sisi in domestic politics.
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  2893. "deport the gangs and the communities/families that protect them" Where would you deport people who only have Swedish citizenship?
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  2894.  @sdrc92126  "Cold kills much more than heat. A warmer planet is good thing" Heat kills plenty. With cold you can at least wear warm clothing but in hot weather there's a limit to how much clothing can help. Sufficiently hot and humid weather will kill regardless of clothing unless you can sit inside an air conditioned building.
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  2895. He did mention the nuclear closedown.
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  2896.  @timothymanues2469  What do you mean? Kuwait is not under Iraqi yoke?
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  2897. "You show them with flintlocks, not used for decades." He recycling the same graphics for many of his videos which is understandable but can easily cause anachronisms.
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  2898. "What is the usa doing there." Where exactly? I don't think the USA is in Ukraine if that's what you meant by "there".
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  2899. 20:00 There shouldn't be more taxes if that rebalancing happens inside a mutual fund or an ETF.
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  2900. To add to the answer Randeep Mann gave, Wikipedia says that Eurostat didn't include cross-currency swaps in debt statistics before 2008. When this changed in 2008 other countries did start to report their swaps (as Greece wasn't the only one to use these kinds of arrangements) but Greece didn't and claimed it didn't have such swaps. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_government-debt_crisis#2010_revelations_and_IMF_bailout
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  2901. That $20 billion figure is not that relevant for the likelihood of default in the near future. It e.g. includes as a cost that fallen soldiers won't be contributing to the economy for what would have been the rest of their lives. That's the effect on Russia's whole economy. The effect on government budget from that particular effect is much smaller since the government hardly takes 100% of the economy as income. Secondly, it's a very long term cost. The short term effects on how much the Russian federal government needs to fork out cash right now to keep the war going is much smaller.
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  2902. Leaving the EU would just cause additional economic problems.
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  2903. Next, he'll have to get more subs than HowToBasic.
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  2904. If Ukraine manages to recapture the dam and it's vicinity it should be able to just block the canal again without necessarily lowering the water level in the reservoir too much.
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  2905.  @statostheman  "I bet it will end the EU membership for the Swedes." Lol, Sweden will almost certainly not leave the EU. I would be willing to bet on that.
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  2906.  @elainelouve  If you are referring to recent Supreme Court case about that one heat pump installation in Turku, you're misrepresenting the case a bit. In that case the homeowner had installed a heat pump such that the installation involved drilling holes through the outer wall of the building. Normally a homeowner can't do such modifications without getting a permission because the outer walls are not counted as a part of the apartment/condo that's under the homeowners control. In this case, however, the holes were drilled into a part of the wall that leads to the balcony. The court's ruling was that the part of the wall between the rooms and the balcony is a part of the whole apartment/condo and therefore at least some modifications can be done without asking for permission.
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  2907.  @osric1730  I have seen claims that many of the control surfaces on the airplane became inoperable and turning left or right could mostly be done by applying a different amount of power in the plane's engines. If that's true, it's possible that taking as straight of a route as possible was very important.
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  2908. I think the point was that he was long. That means that if the banks were to just write the contracts for difference for him without buying the underlying stock they would the ones having a short position. To not take a position they need to hedge by buying the stock.
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  2909. "Next Finland will be required to spend at least 2% of its GDP on defense." The spending was already something like 2.1% in 2021. "Plus it will have to contribute money and to send troops to fight NATO wars all over the world." That's only if a NATO country gets attacked.
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  2910.  @sinephase  That's not the point. The carbon that stays in the steel is not in the atmosphere heating the climate. The coke/carbon is used as a reducing agent in refining iron ore. It combines with the oxygen in the ore and liberates the iron. That causes carbon dioxide emissions.
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  2911.  @emylily8266  "Problem is..." Problem for what?
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  2912.  @emylily8266  My original comment only said that (perhaps) capitalist businesses are simply not allowed wage cuts over firing. I did not (yet) offer any policy prescriptions.
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  2913.  @sirrathersplendid4825  Czechia, Estonia, and Latvia would probably be the better examples to look at. (Slovenia also seems to do comparatively well but it's slightly different since the economic system in Yugoslavia was different from that of the Soviet Union and the rest of the Eastern Bloc.)
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  2914.  @ThapeloMKT  Thanks.
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  2915.  @ThapeloMKT  No worries. I guessed what you actually meant.
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  2916.  @thearpox7873  The point about decreasing average household size was that it makes the increasing household income seem even more impressive because the increase of income per person is even greater. It wasn't a claim that the smaller households themselves are a good thing as such.
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  2917.  @dschaef91  OK, I read up on this a bit. I guess then it's the same as the square root of R squared?
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  2918. They have to build enough transit capacity between Lithuania and Poland so that it's possible to maintain synchronization.
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  2919. "96% of mammals are livestock and human by weight" That's probably land mammals, not all mammals.
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  2920.  @sprsmoke  "What a simple, more just way to do it." You just stated that without giving any reason to believe it to be the case.
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  2921. People don't live forever but they live longer than before. That's an extra cost on the pension system that has to be covered somehow.
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  2922. "we just found out Russia will not tolerate any NATO bases or nuclear weapons on its boarder nearby to Moscow" Finland is further away from Moscow than e.g. Lithuania and nukes are unlikely to be stationed in Finland. "Much safer to be neutral and benefit from cheap Russian energy supply with no sanction damage to their economy." That is not a good option while Russia is invading Ukraine.
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  2923. I hope using corn etc. to make fuel will be ceased, at least temporarily.
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  2924. "Christianity does not condemn earning interest on money lended; it condemns usury: the charging of excessive interest." Christianity definitely did condemn earning interest in the past. Back then any collection of interest would be interpreted as usury and thus forbidden. Bankers had to use all sorts of workarounds. Attitudes the interpretation of "usury" have, however, changed over time.
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  2925.  @Michaelatkins15  "Cyprus is in Turkey" No, it's not.
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  2926. Norway's fund is 20 times bigger but, on the other hand, Norway's population is over 7 times bigger. That means Norway's fund is only about 2.8 times bigger per capita.
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  2927. "ends in a nuclear strike, then everyone is going to cry" Considering that everyone would cry, is anyone going to make the (necessarily conscious) decision to initiate the use of nuclear weapons? I think the answer is very clearly "no". There is no obvious motivation for anyone to do that.
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  2928.  @lmcsquaredgreendale3223  As a disclaimer, I'm not a linguist either. I'm just a layman who's somewhat interest in linguists.
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  2929.  @mz4ahs  Boromir: "One does not simply walk in Atlanta."
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  2930. I think the "average" people are generally safer from this kind of exploitation because they can't be milked for money like Britney can.
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  2931. "I doubt also the Turkish people would be better off without him" Even considering his bizarre monetary policy?
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  2932. I think a genitive case is quite common in Europe. In Swedish at least it's even 's' just like in English (though there's no apostrophe).
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  2933. 0:40 If this is hypocritical then isn't Russia hypocritical in the same way? They condemned the attack on the bridge but then also did airstrikes on cities and they have also done them before. It seems both sides are equally hypocritical here.
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  2934.  @aokiaoki4238 : "By Mediaval years Latin had extinct" Italian is descended from Latin and the change was continuous, not sudden.
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  2935.  @aokiaoki4238 : Those are all Romance languages, i.e. descended from Latin.
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  2936.  @aokiaoki4238 : What do you mean by "undeveloped"? In any case, those languages are classified by linguists as Romance languages meaning that Latin is a parent language to them. I don't see a reason to dispute the consensus position of linguists. Do you have a proposed alternative classification? Any evidence for such?
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  2937.  @red36825924 : Hitler at least blamed the failure of Barbarossa on the delay. I'm not saying any possible delay was really as important as he said, but at least it seems he wished to invade a bit earlier. In addition to casualties sustained, the subsequent occupation was also a drain on manpower.
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  2938.  @JackMcGuire-em7nt  "whose more valuable to society a cop that puts in 20 years and lives to 100 or a nameless paperpusher that puts in 40 years and lives to 100?" Depends but many paper pushers are rather valuable. Also, they're not nameless any more often than cops.
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  2939.  @hairyairey  My point was that air not being good at conducting doesn't (seemingly) make any difference since a radiator also has to conduct the heat into the air (and inside ducts the heat moves by convection, not conduction).
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  2940. What about Moldova? Also, what about other language groups?
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  2941. "which will help lower demand for organ transplants" Will it? By a meaningful amount? How much of the need is due to lack of healthcare rather than e.g. unavoidable genetic conditions?
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  2942.  @TheBrokenLife  OK, thanks. I was wondering since I've occasionally heard them referred to as kind of little governments but I guess technically they're nothing more than a private agreement then.
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  2943.  @Capitalist_Pig314  "It is not like they will come to our aid if Mexico invades." I'm pretty sure they would. They did come to your aid in Afghanistan after 9/11 which is so far the only instance where the Article 5 has been triggered.
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  2944. 1:55 "unornamented concrete" Horrible! It's such a shame that nowadays new buildings seldom have much ornamentation. They would look so much better with more ornamentation.
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  2945.  @JJDoole  "Not what he said." What isn't what he said? I only asked 2 questions so I don't see how your comment applies.
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  2946.  @cheryleewilcox3332  Oh, I thought that was a British favorite. Maybe I'm behind my times.
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  2947. Actually, I just watched a new video on this by Steve Lehto. It seems that this guy never had a license to begin with. Thus, he's still at fault (if that's correct).
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  2948. Statistically being married improves one's happiness.
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  2949.  @LotusHart01 : "You don’t seem to have a valid defense of your initial claim that married people are happier?" Here is one paper on the benefits of marriage (which include also physical health). Note that the positive effect is in fact larger for men than for women. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11199-011-9968-6 Of course, this is just a correlation which doesn't necessarily mean a causal relationship but it certainly points to that direction. "Does it improve the happiness of the 50% divorcees?" I don't know if the mentioned effects of marriage during the marriage are different for those marriages that end in divorce relative to those that last. If I had to guess I'd say that probably even those marriages that end in divorce provide a benefit (on average) for at least part of the duration of the marriage. But once the difficulties that end in divorce begin it might be that would not have been any more benefit to continuing. This is just speculation though. (I'm not meaning to imply that everyone should seek marriage. If you think you wouldn't be happy if married, that might be an indication that you're different from the average person in this respect.)
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  2950. Have you seen those autonomous cars with googly eyes? Maybe that will get us back to friendly looking cars. I think those cars should have a smile or a grin between the eyes for good measure.
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  2951.  @Demonic-X  "when the temperature crashes really low, they can actually use more electricity than they provide direct heating for" Heat pump systems often come with resistive heating elements to supplement the heating when the pump alone isn't enough. Those are still basically 100% efficient. "i would rather use an oil boiler , and a decobon filter , than can be emptied" Does that actually exist or is it just a hypothetical future technology. It sounds like it would just be more expensive.
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  2952. 4:35 You have a conversion error here. 176 cm is 5′9′′, not 5′7′′.
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  2953.  @jamesng7320  "Russia is going to get rid of them" But in your original comment you wrote: "Russia's goal is to demilitarize and denazify the country. It is not to [...] change their government. [emphasis mine]". You're contradicting yourself.
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  2954.  @SophiaAstatine  Obviously that's not what he meant. Fusion power is still far from being commercially viable.
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  2955. At least at the moment reducing emission is probably usually cheaper.
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  2956. It says here that at least they didn't manufacture nearly enough of them to keep up the pace with the investment inflow: https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2014/comp-pr2014-70.pdf
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  2957. Putin is far worse.
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  2958. The price is still reasonable.
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  2959. No, he's Joe.
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  2960.  @newnamesameperson397 : I'm not able to find such video on this channel. Are you sure that you're not thinking of e.g. the video on that by Eastory?
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  2961. 8:48 That's a rather bold claim and presented without any evidence.
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  2962. 2:15 And French politics too, apparently.
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  2963. Many of these features are common in Europe but rarer globally.
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  2964. "Yaman has the right to defend it self." But the Houthi rebels are not the Yemeni government and attacking shipping passing nearby isn't defending oneself.
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  2965.  @milostomic8539  But among UN members there's a split that's very close to 50%/50%.
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  2966.  @antilarge7860  I did not use the word "video". Did you even read my comment?
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  2967.  @CedarHunt  What is stupid?
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  2968.  @innosam123  I think you're confusing two (slightly) different things. Just using a currency basket like ECU as e.g. a unit of account doesn't have that kind of stability problems. What caused problems for Europe in the '90s was not ECU but ERM (Exchange Rate Mechanism) which pegged the various European currencies into each other. The BRICS national currencies almost certainly wouldn't be pegged to each other like that even if they adopted this proposed currency.
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  2969. "and possibly many other Slavic) languages" The only Slavic language I've heard of having articles is Bulgarian.
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  2970.  @overclock1993  It's only one area. The graphics in this video seemed to indicate Ukrainian troops in the east getting isolated into many pockets. (Another factor not predicted in this video is Kyiv getting approached from Belarus on the western side of the Dnieper.)
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  2971. Like in the 100 Years' War? (France doesn't count. :) )
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  2972. Maybe he meant that the crown prince is a Master of Business Studies.
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  2973. "My perfectly democratic country would not have tolerated open rebellion in one of its regions" This is, at best, a misleading description. It seems that China doesn't only ban an actual rebellion but also even just e.g. advocating for separatism. Let's take Spain as a point of comparison. You can maybe say that Spain has treated Catalonia and/or the Catalan separatist leaders too harshly. However, you can still openly advocate for separatism in Spain without incurring any criminal penalties. Parties can openly run on separatist platforms even if they can't actually secede unilaterally. Mere activists don't get prosecuted if they haven't engaged in e.g. violence. None of this would be possible in "China proper" and it looks like it's increasingly not possible in Hong Kong either.
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  2974. Wind is required. If there's no wind then consider the inertial frame tied to the ground (and the stationary air). In that frame both the cart and the air would be accelerated if the propeller pushed the cart forward so then an energy source would be required.
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  2975.  @zedero8  In the 2004 referendum it was the Greek side that rejected the proposal.
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  2976. Banks have imposed negative rates on large deposits so you can't necessarily escape negative yields that way (and holding physical currency would incur its own costs).
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  2977. Macy's should have its employees wear those Squid Game outfits.
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  2978. "It is fascinating how little momentum there is within Canada for [...] nativist policy" What would nativist policy be in the case of Canada? A fairly small portion of the population there is native.
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  2979. A broken anchor was found from the seabed so now we do know with high certainty how the pipeline was damaged (though not whether that was accidental or deliberate).
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  2980. "Time for Russia to take the gloves off." Russia has done that long ago. Russia has also hit barracks housing troops with cruise missiles far earlier in this war. This isn't anything out of the ordinary.
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  2981.  @loksterization  "you said it, I didn't" But you did say that. You wrote: "they can do saturation bombing of cities like Bakhmut [...] Important governmental buildings in Kiev are still untouched. Russia can demolish them. In fact most of Kiev city centre is still untouched by Russia." I don't see how bombing either of those things would affect military operations.
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  2982. A majority of Supercell was sold in 2016.
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  2983. Multipolar world hardly means that we should just accept Russia's aggression against Ukraine.
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  2984. 7:25 "San Marino declared war on Austria-Hungary" Oh my word!
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  2985. One argument that could be made that if you bring a child to this world they still have the option of leaving it later via suicide whereas a person who's never born won't be able to make their own choice one way or another.
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  2986.  @MilitaryHistoryNotVisualized  A non von Neumann architecture isn't special at all. The salient feature (or at least one of them) of von Neumann architecture is that instructions and data are stored in the same memory. This contrasts with with so called Harvard architecture where instructions and data have their own memory and signal pathways. At least today Harvard architecture is mostly limited to microcontrollers and digital signal processors and doesn't occur in anything "bigger" like a desktop computer or a super computer but it is not rare or anything.
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  2987.  @altrag  There are still degrees to how much you damage Iran's oil infrastructure (or military assets). OP seemed to imply that a strike on oil infrastructure would be worse. But that could be made small too, like destroying one oil storage tank. Similarly, a strike on military targets can be small (like destruction of one S-300 launcher) or much bigger.
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  2988.  @pablosabhlok  I hear in the US fixed rate mortgages are the norm so there's no interest rate risk.
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  2989. Ангелы
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  2990. "Russia could send some American ships to the bottom if it wanted" Kinzhals are ballistic missiles. They can't maneuver all that much. Can they really hit moving targets like ships?
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  2991. He did achieve a kind of a high score: biggest magnitude losses.
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  2992. Though Albanian isn't a Slavic language.
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  2993. For a lot of people, that figure would be $0 as they'd rely entirely on public healthcare. She seems to have some kind of private insurance on top of that which I guess can be handy in some situations, but it's not what would pay for any major operations.
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  2994.  @danielmellott7754  Driving is both boring and annoying. Using buses etc. is more pleasant as I can e.g. browse my phone during the trip.
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  2995. In Finnish, it's "kalkkuna" which comes from the city of Calicut (a.k.a. Kozhikode) in India just like the name in Dutch and many other languages.
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  2996.  @tyronejoshua1613  Why Kenya specifically?
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  2997. 5:00 In that graph it appears that men have a slightly bigger than women drop in marital satisfaction from having more than 1 partner. A more salient feature seems to be that both men and women are more likely than not to be "very happy" with their marriage regardless of the number of past partners.
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  2998. But the current war is different from the US involvement in WWII. In WWII the US involvement was initially primarily naval which doesn't involve as much personnel as a land war. Of course, the US was fighting in e.g. North Africa and Pacific islands even before the landings you mentioned but the land component of the war of still greater for the US later in the war. The current war in Ukraine has been primarily a land war from the beginning.
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  2999.  @malingeorgiev2962  "We have initially still car and no wind at all. We push the car to certain speed. Can the thrust be bigger or equal to the drug." No, it is essential that the air is moving relative to the ground or else the cart cannot extract energy from the air to accelerate.
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  3000. This wasn't that far from the correct pronunciation, though 'A' should pronounced as a back vowel.
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  3001.  @erniebuchinski3614  But "Marin" is a Swedish name so stress on the second syllable is correct in that case.
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  3002. "Russia has every right to decide and act as per its own safety, national intigration and values." And Ukraine has the right to fight against the Russian invasion.
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  3003.  @Rig0r_M0rtis  I wanted to mention it for the sake of completeness. It's possible that Putin knew that some conscripts were going to be used alongside contract soldiers and he just decided to throw some of his underlings under the bus by blaming them. In any case, the Russian forces sent to Ukraine are primarily contract soldiers.
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  3004. I saw it on the news that Ukraine is still going ahead with planting and harvest but it remains to be seen how effective that is going to be.
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  3005.  @miletello1  At least the videos we have seen don't show the crew getting killed, though they don't go for very long after the crew's disembarkment.
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  3006. His impression of a judge wearing a powdered wig was pretty funny.
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  3007.  @daniels2620  I do though he's far from the only one criticizing the Las Vegas Loop (though I think he's the one who used the Budapest M1 comparison).
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  3008.  @Ryleeman54number2  Driving faster makes accidents worse.
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  3009.  @nohbudinose  ". I can't imagine a good way to synchronize the generators/motors to the grid. So you would need to buffer all of that into some intermediate storage, and then have some monumental infrastructure to chop it all up and ship it out through some big transformers." There's no need for intermediate storage. You can just convert the AC from the motors into DC and then invert it back to AC in a way that's synchronized with the grid. There would be some losses but this is what wind turbines do so it clearly works. Of course, Energy Vault will still not be viable but this issue is not among the reasons why it won't.
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  3010.  @THEREALZENFORCE  "Tf00t claim : "you can't make it work with water, you have zero chance" Reality : Vianden Pumped Storage Plant (since the 1970s in my country)" Thunderf00t knows about pumped storage. He has mentioned it in his earlier Energy Vault video. That "can't make it work with water" was obviously referring water tower / tower crane sized systems, not actual pumped storage.
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  3011. ​ @awdrifter3394  "So it seems like if regulation is not an issue, building a bigger nuclear power plant is most cost effective per kwh." I suspect that depends on the situation. That doesn't apply to SMRs in any case, at least not necessarily, because they're still in development and thus not yet an option. They might become more economical than bigger reactors due economics of scale in factory production once developed, though it's not certain. Btw, China is developing its own SMRs (ACP100) so clearly they see promise in them and not just in large reactors. "gravity energy storage like this is mainly to sidestep any environmental impact regulation" But they're still tiny compared to pumped hydro. I don't think avoiding regulation is so valuable that getting a much smaller capacity is worth it.
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  3012. Robinhood isn't traded publicly. You can't short it. It's not like shorting Robinhood would affect them unless they are or would be raising new capital through equity.
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  3013. "We don't need patents to innovate. The pre-clinical discovery process represents only a fraction of the cost" But clinical trials necessary to get regulatory approval are hugely expensive. So what's your proposal? Still the same regulation but no patents and no (enormous) subsidies to replace the patents? Then no company would have the incentive to get new drugs on the market and innovation would stop. Slash regulation such that much smaller and cheaper clinical trials are enough? Sure, that would make things cheaper but that would come with more risks.
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  3014. I think he's from Switzerland.
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  3015.  @SirButcher  "Most likely the uploaded subtitles couldn't handle the superscript formatting" Unicode has superscript numbers so there shouldn't be a need for separate formatting.
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  3016. Sounds surprising to hear Napoléon I Bonaparte say that.
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  3017. Any idea how the rebalancing would work? It kind of looked like there was another hatch (without a tube) to throw a counterweight down to the ground but I might be imagining it as that sounds a bit dangerous. However, I can't think of another way to do it.
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  3018. "the US is 50% of the economy" What does that even mean?
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  3019. No, you can't do that cheaply and it would also be dangerous.
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  3020.  @SmokWawelski4D  Fast breeders were abandoned for technical and economic reasons, not political ones. They often had issues like leakages that led to long interruptions in production. In France there was a fast breeder named Superphénix that produced electricity commercially. However, the issues I mentioned caused its capacity factor to be under 8% (!) while many regular nuclear plants achieve over 90% capacity factor. Fast breeders just seem to be too difficult to make economically viable (even though they're demonstrably technically possible).
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  3021.  @joeyjojojrshabadoo7462  Additionally, Israel doesn't even claim the Gaza Strip or the West Bank, at least not in its entirety (though it may be a bit unclear what it actually claims) and the Palestinians don't have Israeli citizenship.
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  3022. "Neutrality didn't work for the Netherlands and Belgium in 1940." Though it did work for the Netherlands in 1914-18.
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  3023.  @zurielsss  Korea is a little bit different because in that case the UN forces were sent into conventional war. However, it was a success in the sense that South Korea wasn't overrun and today has a much higher standard of living than it likely would have had under Communist domination.
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  3024. Awesome!
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  3025.  @chico9805  The ECHR is not an EU institution.
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  3026.  @chico9805  I don't see how it's de facto either.
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  3027.  @jkausti6737  My main point was the incriminating messages. I mainly mentioned the earlier accusations for the sake of completeness because it might still contribute to controversy in the eyes of some people.
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  3028.  @jhutt8002  No, it doesn't. I'm not voicing an opinion on whether Rydman should be considered a controversial choice. I'm only mentioning it for the benefit of foreigners who might not know about it but might be interested. For what it's worth, my impression is that the recently revealed messages were a bigger point of controversy than the past accusations (though I've seen also the perspective that some in the National Coalition Party might not like having a former "disgraced" member become a minister).
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  3029.  @SS-_.1  "the surface area evaporation is a problem that I agree with. But that I don't think will exceed 10% right?" I don't know how much it would be but the point is that dams would make a negative contribution. They don't create any extra water. If too little water flows down the Nile to be enough for agriculture and drinking then damming that flow will not make it larger. Also, constructing dams takes a long time. Likely the GERD reservoir would already be filled by the time the dams you suggest would be ready.
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  3030. Нет войне!
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  3031.  @trequor  "It's not always so straight forward because of grammatical concerns." Can you give an example? This strikes me as false.
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  3032.  @trequor  "I gave a simple example at the end of my last reply. Please read before responding." I don't see one there. "So if you add a new noun-word from another language, which gender is it?" I don't think that's much of an issue. Even if there's confusion about that it doesn't prevent loans. E.g. when German loaned the word "blog" there was/is confusion about its gender; is it "der Blog" (masculine) or "das Blog" (neuter). However, that confusion in no way prevents you from using the word. The worst that can happen is that some nitpicker with the opposite opinion about the correct gender complains to you. "This word will very likely not follow spelling conventions" When words are loaned they can often change quite a bit in spelling and/or pronunciation. E.g. "Christmas" in Hawaiian is "Kalikimaka" due to the very narrow phonetic inventory. This isn't a big barrier. All sorts of languages loan word all the time (especially from English nowadays). I see no evidence that a typical language would have any more problems in acquiring loan words than English.
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  3033.  @trequor  "If you read the comment you will find one." I did read the comment and didn't find one. Did you mean the sentence about French articles? I wouldn't consider that an example as it doesn't seem to make borrowing words more difficult. "The gender issue is one of many." Even it doesn't seem an issues as I don't see how it would make borrowing words more difficult. I also can't think of any other issues.
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  3034.  @gleggett3817  That's a property of the French policy, not the French language.
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  3035. "we need to mandatory viagra in water supply eu needs to do this not because it's easy but because it's hard !" Well, "it" will certainly be hard after taking Viagra! <badum tss>
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  3036.  @charlesyang6702  No, it's not wrong. Finland declared neutrality in 1939 when the war in Europe (between Germany and Poland) started. That neutrality didn't stop the Soviet Union from initiating a war against Finland.
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  3037. Incidentally, "kavala" would mean "perfidious" in Finnish. I just found it a funny coincidence that major desertion happened in a place called Kavala.
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  3038.  @C-Culper4874  "155m howitzer don't use "shells" They are a separate powder charge from the projectile." But the word "shell" doesn't (in standard usage) refer to the whole cartridge or the cartridge case but just the projectile with explosive filler. That also applies when the shell and propellant charge are separate. So those howitzers do, in fact, use shells.
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  3039.  @olivergilpin  "you can hold cash, literal liquidity, and not lose money?" But that's not necessarily the case. Many banks have in fact imposed negative rates on large depositors. Also, a bank might be less safe than an entire country with good finances. (And you can't get around this by holding physical currency because storing that has its own costs and risks.)
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  3040. And didn't the Poles also destroy something like 25% of the Luftwaffe?
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  3041. "The Volga is by far Europe's longest river." It's about 24% longer than the Danube so "by far" is a bit of an exaggeration.
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  3042. What about Andorra?
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  3043.  @DerpyRedneck  It's not a fallacy but a mathematical inevitability and I can give you a proof. Suppose you have a hypothesis A. Then some kind of observation B is evidence for it. You believe A with some prior probability P(A). Now the probability of A conditional on B, i.e. P(A|B) (posterior probability) must be greater than P(A), i.e. P(A|B)>P(A) which also means that P(A|B)/P(A)-1>0. Now, we mark this evidence not being observed with ¬B. If that's evidence against A it would mean that P(A|¬B)<P(A). Does that follow from the preceding? Yes, it does. By the law of total probability P(A)=P(A|B)P(B)+P(A|¬B)P(¬B). If we divide both sides by P(A) we get 1=(P(A|B)/P(A))P(B)+(P(A|¬B)/P(A))P(¬B). Observe that P(B)+P(¬B)=1 so we can replace the left-hand side with that and we get P(B)+P(¬B)=(P(A|B)/P(A))P(B)+(P(A|¬B)/P(A))P(¬B). Subtract P(B) and P(¬B) from both sides and simplify using common factors. Then we get 0=(P(A|B)/P(A)-1)P(B)+(P(A|¬B)/P(A)-1)P(¬B). Now, because P(B), P(¬B), and P(A|B)/P(A)-1 are all positive, P(A|¬B)/P(A)-1 must be negative or the expression could not equal zero. Thus P(A|¬B)<P(A).
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  3044.  @mulletman1705  I mean, internal problems too. I was more specifically thinking about monetary policy. The ECB's monetary policy has been far too tight; the Fed has been better in this regard. (Sorry for going a bit offtopic for this video, but I think it's important to remember that both sides of the Atlantic have something to learn from each other.)
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  3045.  @williambrennan5701  Agriculture maybe a much bigger culprit but I still think people shouldn't have lawns in climates where they require irrigation.
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  3046. In English, those are called (acute) accents and the word "tilde" is only used for this: ~
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  3047. Still better than Maduro.
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  3048. This doesn't necessarily have anything to do with the Chinese government. It may e.g. be that Russia has effectively leased this ship from a private Chinese company to do this.
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  3049. But banks have been known to impose negative rates on large depositors so you can't necessarily escape a negative yield that way.
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  3050. "English is a very limited, artificially constructed language." It's neither.
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  3051. ""substantive" (it's a grammar noun that just means "noun")" The word "substantive" is not used only in the grammar term "substantive noun". It's not a word that was coined to just be this linguistic term; it already existed and had a meaning (outside grammar/lingustics). It's basically a synonym for "substantial". Or sometimes there's a distinction in that "substantial" has to be something major whereas "substantive" is only required to have substance but can be also minor.
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  3052. Strange matter might have a lower energy state than normal matter but only if there's enough of it. The idea is that with three types of quarks more of them can be in the lower energy states of the system (Pauli's exclusion principle). But you would need a large enough clump of strange matter so that the effect from the exclusion principle could be larger than the higher energy of the strange quarks.
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  3053.  @elinoamrichter162  I don't see how the "problem number 1" is a problem at all. There are too many vehicles in Manhattan. How do you decide whether to reduce cars or delivery vehicles? Simple. Once the price increases, the ones that are less valuable will start to not drive into Manhattan first.
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  3054.  @morgwai667  At least at this moment Russia being able to fund its invasion seems worse.
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  3055. Though I suspect that current Russian T-72s are more modern than Iraqi T-72s were over 2 decades ago.
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  3056. 11:20 It's a chain of city blocks! (Or rather, it would be but it won't actually be built.)
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  3057.  @captainobvious9188  In one video on "flimsy American houses" I saw it mentioned that in Japan houses tend to be even "flimsier" than in the US and last a shorter amount of time.
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  3058.  @sus5976  "Look at the Aral sea, its dead because of the dams" Aral Sea is dead because of dams that divert water for irrigation. For hydroelectric dams that let all of the water through to generate power this isn't usually as big of an issue (though they can still have some other harmful environmental effects).
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  3059. The problem wasn't that he replied but rather that a portion of that reply seemed to show a fairly strong domestic partisan political slant.
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  3060.  @andrepoghosyan8269  "they seek to generate positive returns over time regardless of the market environment" But in this case, the hedge funds seem to have failed because they also seemed to produce negative returns when the market fell. They merely lost less.
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  3061. Groceries are only a part of the goods basket used in the calculation of consumer inflation. Just looking at that in no way tells you that the published figures are wrong.
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  3062. "Unfortunate for people in the auto industry in Helsinki." Why would we need to favor them over others?
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  3063. If I understood correctly, it's not just dynamically linked libraries. Based on this, it would seem that Rust also can't have statically linked libraries that are already compiled into machine code and only need to be linked. The Rust libraries have to actually be compiled at the same time you're compiling your library.
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  3064. There was also a plague in the 17th century (though "Black Death" usually refers to the 14th century one).
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  3065.  @prfwrx2497  "For Hamas, it's logistics. Syria is now free, and that means no more Iranian resupply." It's not obvious that would facilitate a cease-fire because Israel can take that factor into account too and push harder for victory over weaker Hamas.
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  3066. Austria is always doing badly in wars.
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  3067.  @TheAustrianAnimations87  EmperorTigerstar did a tally on Austrian performance in his video on the French military performance. The result was that Austria had a 50%/50% win/loss rate. He counted Austria when it was ruled by Habsburgs including Austria-Hungary and also the modern Austria after that. This isn't the worst performance but it's worse than e.g. France, Italy, and Spain.
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  3068.  @alexandredesbiens-brassard9109  Ah, I somehow missed that "As a...".
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  3069. "As a swiss something I never understood is why countries have non-binding referendums." If the politicians decide to have a referendum they're unlikely to then against the result even if they could (unless maybe if the margin is very thin or the turnout very low). Often the motivation for them to have a referendum is either to make sure that the decision has enough popular support or alternatively they can avoid the backlash from either decision by having the people make the decision instead.
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  3070.  @ophanimangel3143  Yes, but Jordan doesn't want them anymore. As a nitpick, Jordan had the West Bank, not Gaza. The Gaza Strip was under Egyptian military administration before Israel occupied it in the Six Day War. Also, I'm not sure why you're asking me about two millennia old history. I'm not that interested in discussing ancient history in this thread.
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  3071.  @isaiahd5396  I think a wood cutting axe is probably going to be a very bad weapon. They have heavy axeheads to aid with cutting. Battleaxes often have much smaller or thinner axeheads which provides more nimbleness which is crucial in battle. Of course, if you can't afford any purpose built weapon then a wood cutting axe would still be better than your bare hands but I'm not sure such a person would want to go on a raid or a military campaign.
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  3072.  @Lessk69  "There is more to it than just zoning however." But in places zoning is the deciding factor. If zoning would allow developers to choose between single-family units and denser development they would likely surmise that at least in big cities there is enough demand to economically justify denser development. "people that think the idea of living in a big city is hell" Yet there is also demand for living in a big city or else it couldn't be expensive as you mentioned.
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  3073.  @richiesd1  "the west’s geopolitical machinations and sanctions on Russia have added an “inflation tax” on the developing World" I don't think the West is that much culpable here. Firstly, the West's actions were caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine so Russia is ultimately causing it. Secondly, and more importantly, a bigger effect is caused by the productions cuts by OPEC+ so I think you can reasonably say that Saudi Arabia & Co are more at fault than the West (and they're also doing it for a more selfish reason, i.e. to earn more profits per barrel).
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  3074.  @richiesd1  "The West with larger economies went out and outbid poorer nations for energy supplies, causing prices to rise." You ignored the second part of my comment. Like I said, OPEC+ is much bigger culprit here. Its production cuts have a much bigger impact on the availability of hydrocarbons and they're also likely to last longer than the Ukraine war. Also, Saudi Arabia has much worse reasons to increase the price of energy for poor countries (such as ill-conceived megaprojects in the desert among others). "the global south has nothing to do with Ukraine. It’s a western problem for the West so solve." Firstly, you could say the same to Russia. It should solve its Ukraine problem in a way that doesn't affect energy or food exports. Secondly, Ukraine is in a much more dangerous position than most countries of the "Global South". It's perfectly reasonable for the West to oppose Russia's invasion with strong measures even if it causes collateral damage. Ukraine getting crushed by an invader isn't a less bad outcome than the economic hardship some people are going to experience.
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  3075. "How does that blackmail work?" There's a short term relief.
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  3076. Watch the video where he tells is DNA test results.
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  3077.  @NapalmXD  Sure. Assume you invest $1000 of your own capital in an index and also take a $2000 loan for 3x leverage so your total leveraged position is $3000. If the index grows 2% in one day your total position becomes $3060. But now your leverage isn't 3x anymore so to rebalance you have to take $120 of additional debt. After that, your total position will be $3180 with $1060 of your own capital. Then the next day the index goes down by 1.9%. 1.9% of $3180 is $60.42 so your total position will be $3119.58. Now the leverage is slightly above 3x so to rebalance you have to sell $120.84 worth of stock to pay off that amount of debt. Your total position will then be $2998.74 with $999.58 of that being your own equity. So on the first day, you gained $60, and the second day you lost $60.42 for a net loss of $0.42. If you had just invested $1000 of your own money without leverage your gain on the first day would have been 20$ and your loss on the second day $19.38 for a net gain of $0.62. Does this clarify?
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  3078.  @NapalmXD  Because the fund is designed to replicate the daily return of the index 3x (or some other ratio). For that, the leverage ratio has to be 3x at the beginning of the trading day. If the index has moved and the fund doesn't rebalance then the leverage ratio will be different and the fund will provide a different return than designed.
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  3079.  @NapalmXD  If you mean an ETF that uses debt but never rebalances then one would over time become fairly pointless. Let's say you start a 2x leveraged ETF following the NASDAQ composite index in 1982 when the index is at 200. At the start 50% of the fund is debt and the other 50% is its own capital but the fund never rebalances. In 2020 the index reaches 10,000. Now (ignoring fees) the fund is composed only of 1% and 99% of its own capital. The leverage ratio has fallen to about 1.01 making the fund barely any different from a normal unleveraged ETF and thus fairly pointless. Or maybe you meant that the fund could rebalance and take on more debt if the index grows but are not specifying when or on what condition the fund would rebalance and how much. Then the question becomes too vague to answer. You're basically asking about ETFs using debt but don't specify anything about how they use debt. There just isn't enough info to answer your question unless you provide a bit more specifics.
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  3080.  @ebonymaw8457  "Not having a military is not an option if Greenland wants to maintain sovereignty." Which country would invade according to you?
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  3081.  @compteprivefr : Fair enough, but at least Helsinki shouldn't be compared to LA or NYC. I don't know what would be a better parallel in the US.
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  3082. Why do people keep throwing around this inaccurate quote? Does no one bother to check the accuracy of the quote before repeating it?
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  3083. 14:34 Aha, so your real name is Valisy Iakovenko.
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  3084. I'm not a lawyer but EU law sounds very complicated.
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  3085. 6:35 It's a bit ironic that they moved to Telegram because its developers are from Russia.
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  3086.  @kevinboros7427  I don't have any proposals. It just struck me as odd to dislike one of the names but not the other because of the similarity. That's all.
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  3087. 21:35 I hadn't heard of it before.
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  3088. I don't think that's correct. AFAIK, the consumer price indices in different countries do take into account the different consumption baskets in those countries.
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  3089.  @thomasdalton1508  I don't see why there should be an adjustment for such "value". If you buy a car even if you don't strictly need it, it's still an expenditure and how much it costs still affects you. Of course, you might skip buying a car entirely if you don't need it but if a smaller percentage of income is spent on cars, that is taken into account in the basket of goods for the consumer price index.
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  3090.  @aurelspecker6740  If in country B a smaller percentage of consumer spending is on cars, then car prices affect that country's consumer price index less.
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  3091.  @thomasdalton1508  I don't think I'm confusing them. A PPP adjustment still requires some kind of price index. I don't know if they use specifically CPI or some other index but some kind of index is needed. If the two countries use indices with a different composition for the goods baskets, some kind of average can be taken.
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  3092.  @aurelspecker6740  At least some price indices do include "hedonistic adjustment" for changing quality but I'm not sure if that's included in PPP comparisons.
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  3093. Such a growing population needs to (partially, at least) be packed into denser neighborhoods.
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  3094.  @KaitouKaiju : More like they're soundwise identical except that "legal" has an extra [l] at the beginning.
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  3095.  @Owlbear-v5c  There's no separate "other way around". The original comment didn't explicitly say anything about causation to one direction or another but simply made a claim about correlation (which is symmetric unlike causality). Just look at the wording: "No society in history has advanced much and had women's rights" [emphasis added]. The "and" here on its face means just correlation, not causation. Of course, the comment probably wanted to also imply causation (to a particular direction) but that doesn't really matter because even the explicitly claimed correlation doesn't seem to be there.
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  3096.  @craigcarlin2918  Tailing economists too.
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  3097.  @chris0000924  What do you mean. The miners process transactions.
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  3098.  @grizellda2540  I think the stores can usually give you a token to use if you don't happen to have coins.
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  3099. ​ @-.-..._...-.- : "Totally different with Russia, Russia relied on the winter to hold back Napoleon and Hitler." Russia didn't rely on winter to hold back Napoleon. Napoleon gave up and started his retreat from Moscow before the winter began (but not early enough to avoid the ravages of winter during the retreat). "Greece lost because their troops didn't want to be there as they had tens of thousands of deserters." Napoleon's Grande Armée also suffered from desertion (as well as from stifling heat of the summer).
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  3100. Wasn't the last time in 1813 or 1814?
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  3101. If I'm not mistaken the x in Russian (and j in Spanish) is a velar fricative whereas h in English and many other languages is a glottal fricative.
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  3102.  @nitsugasss  "You can not steal the car to your neighbor to use it for years while he demands that you return it and then pretend that your children choose to keep the car." This is a much longer timeframe than a single generation. We can't just start rolling back all border changes, especially when the current population doesn't want it.
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  3103.  @tomo0086  If accepting the Falklands referendum is analogous to accepting the Crimean referendum, then saying that Argentina has a rightful claim on the islands would be analogous to saying that Turkey has a rightful claim on Crimea.
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  3104. The tax advantages are against US taxes, not German taxes. Maybe Germany has some other way to voluntarily save for retirement?
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  3105. Yes. Other countries might have similar tax-advantaged accounts.
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  3106.  @poppedweasel  English mispronounces it as well (though in a different way).
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  3107. Surely not yet at this point?
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  3108. Obviously not. The tax advantages are for US taxes, not German taxes.
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  3109. I think Molotov was also a pseudonym coming from "molot" which means "hammer".
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  3110.  @elv3a424  Sweden should return Skåne, Halland, and Blekinge to Denmark! (jk)
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  3111. The French name for it is Dunkerque.
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  3112. @wic wong: "Quite opposite to what the narrator says, the Ming troop was not a small force" I think what Jabzy meant was that the initial force sent by the Ming was quite small and thus inadequate (about 5000 men). They later sent a many times larger force which was more effective.
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  3113. Is morning wood gymnosperm or angiosperm?
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  3114. But in a sense, it's not wrong unless they're actually speaking in Japanese. It's quite common for loanwords to change significantly in pronunciation and/or spelling.
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  3115. The North probably doesn't want to allow it. Letting people communicate with the outside world is a threat.
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  3116. I'm pretty sure Roth IRAs don't exist "around the world" (though many countries might have similar accounts).
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  3117. Btw, why do you need snow for that?
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  3118. "you don't pay taxes on it while gaining interest" With a Roth IRA, you're not paying tax in any case.
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  3119. I would guess no. That would not be very effective. Bullets should be saved for when they're needed to defend against airplanes.
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  3120. It's not pronounced the French way?
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  3121. Landplanes.
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  3122. It's probably safer to save more if it's not an excessive burden.
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  3123. And apparently, the Exocet missile that struck the Sheffield even failed to detonate but that didn't save the ship.
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  3124. The fleetlord approves.
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  3125. Yeah. I would have expected them to march through the sea on foot.
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  3126. If the intention is to tighten then they basically destroy it.
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  3127.  @Rapture-2045  Yeah, the security is sold on the open market. Meant that the money they get from is destroyed if the intention is to tighten.
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  3128.  @kaiserbauch9092  That's true but I would say that net effect is still (temporarily) negative Russia's military strength.
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  3129. "I was wondering how a bank could be so stupid as to buy a bunch of bonds when interest rates are likely to go up and I don't think the bankers were that stupid they knew their bet would probably end in disaster but they didn't care because they also knew they would be bailed out." I don't think that's the case for Credit Suisse.
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  3130.  @moneymakermike6189  "The countries work as independent markets that share the same currency." This doesn't really mar the argument because inflation rates across the Eurozone are pretty close to each other. "with your logic, countries that do not control the dollar but still use it, such as Ecuador or even Djibouti [...] would encounter equal inflation" Yes, and this is what we actually observe. You can e.g. use the World Bank website to show the inflation rates for the US, Ecuador, and Djibouti after, say, 2004 and they match each other fairly closely. Why 2004? Well, Ecuador dollarized in 2000 so it doesn't make sense to compare earlier years. Also, before dollarization it had a very high rate of inflation and after 2000 it took a couple of years to reach the same level as in the US (so what I argued doesn't hold in the short term but 10 years is long enough) so 2004 seems like the most illustrative starting year for this. "and economic prosperity" No, definitely not. This is a completely different thing.
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  3131.  @moneymakermike6189  If you compare the inflation rates between Estonia, France, and Spain in 2011-present (2011 being when Estonia adopted the euro) you can see that they are similar and move similarly. Note that I said what I claim holds in the long term not necessarily in the short term. Inflation rates can differ for e.g. one year or a couple of years but there are limits to how far the price levels can deviate from each other as at some point arbitrage would become possible and force the price levels back closer to each other. (Also, Liechtenstein uses the Swiss franc which is a different currency.)
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  3132. 23:50 What do the percentages on this map mean?
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  3133. Turkey has also been demanding for certain individuals to be extradited from Sweden to Turkey. Sweden can't easily pretend to extradite while actually not doing it.
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  3134. "the French, who cant spell anything in a sane way" At least their spelling is more sane than that of English.
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  3135.  @hohenzollern6025  The main problem (IMHO) with English orthography isn't the occasional weird word like "demesne" originating from French. Vowels are a much bigger problem. Think of e.g. how many ways there are to pronounce 'A'. There's also a clear reason for this. Between 1400 and 1700 English underwent a sound change called the Great Vowel Shift. This was during and after English spelling was becoming standardized. While spelling has also changed after that it has not kept pace with the changes. As a result, English vowels tend to be spelled in varying and irregular ways and also in a way that differs a lot from many other European languages. "If you understand the language, you are able to think in much greater detail" This is just nonsense. I don't think there is any evidence for such claim. Speakers of other languages are able to just as much think in detail.
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  3136. @George Mann "Think of it as a sequence of small towns with a central transportation & utility core." If you want to develop a bunch of small towns it would more sense to arrange them in a 2D grid rather than a 1D line. With 2D grid the average distances between those towns are greatly reduced.
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  3137. @George Mann "although there is an optimal balance" I'm pretty sure 170 km line is not that.
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  3138.  @JoschiChr  Bury it.
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  3139. Banking secrecy is hardly a requirement for neutrality.
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  3140.  @CedarHunt  Is your plan making those Israeli families live among them? Would that really work?
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  3141. Is there even a need for revolution? There are elections in a couple of years and, to my knowledge, Georgian elections aren't a sham like the Russian ones.
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  3142. There M/S The World which is like the Freedom Ship except it's of a normal cruise ship size.
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  3143.  @harrylewis1458  Who knows. It's a mysterious place.
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  3144. At least in Finland, it's not a complete pay-as-you-go system although the current funds are only about 30% of the current pension liabilities.
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  3145. Maybe he liked some other places in that country.
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  3146.  @PandemoniumMeltDown  CCP doesn't have a strong incentive to mess with the elections because neither party is significantly friendlier than the other to the current regime in China.
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  3147. Did Poland-Lithuania also have non-winged hussars?
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  3148.  @cisium1184  "Of course it can. What are you on about?" Not realistically. The Fed is a central bank. It's in the business of creating money. There is no plausible scenario where it couldn't pay its expenses.
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  3149. Billions of USD or SEK? If you meant the former, that seems rather overoptimistic. The population is about 10 million so billions per year would mean hundreds per person per year. Surely Swedes would not smoke so much weed that just the tax from them would be hundreds per person on average?
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  3150. Does Japan use district heating?
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  3151. "Ruzzia is insane enough to destroy dams and there is the mother of all reservoirs beyond the Nova Kakhovka dam." That reservoir is the one feeding the North Crimean Canal. If they destroy that dam draining its reservoir then Crimea will be without fresh water and next years harvest there will be ruined. Is Russia insane enough to hurt Crimea in this way?
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  3152.  @christopherg2347  The 2014 harvest failed. They were able to make up for the lost water after that but it was more expensive. Back then Ukraine didn't even cut of the water entirely but only reduced the flow greatly. Also, right before the current invasion drinking water reserves in Crimean cities were very low. If the water gets cut off completely it is a big problem for Crimea unless Russia supports it at great expense.
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  3153.  @christopherg2347  What do you mean "let the reservoir standing"? If they destroy the dam (as you suggested they might) and thus drain the reservoir, that doesn't seem like letting it stand. Or did you mean something else. In any case, agriculture is a much bigger user of water. I don't think Crimeans will die of thirst in any case but losing the water would be a big loss to the areas economy, or at least Russia's budget if it goes hard on replacing the lost water.
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  3154.  @christopherg2347  I meant that I don't think Russia is going to destroy the dam because they'd lose the fresh water with it.
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  3155.  @christopherg2347  What confused me was that you wrote "then" when it should have been "than".
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  3156.  @MiroslawHorbal  Many European countries don't have a stamp duty.
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  3157. As a lover of nitpicking, I have to note that "captain" is "Kapitän" in German (in the naval/nautical sense that is, whereas the army rank is "Hauptmann").
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  3158. You can e.g. short the MSCI Turkey ETF. However, note that the coming troubles for Turkey might already be priced in so it's not necessarily going to be a sure money-maker.
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  3159. No, different person.
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  3160.  @entropy8634  Ad hominem isn't always a fallacy. If some person advances their expertise or secret information (as an intelligence organization might) then it may be rational to take into account their track record when considering that argument. Though I'm not sure whether CIA has publicly said anything on this so coder entity's argument might still be irrelevant here. However, I still want to make the general point that ad hominen is in order in some contexts.
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  3161. Won't work.
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  3162. "long live Schengen!" Ireland isn't in Schengen so Schengen isn't relevant in your case.
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  3163.  @rez0_o_  OK, I'll give you a link but I'll do it in a separate comment so that this one doesn't get removed by YouTube. If the comment with the link gets removed by YouTube you can find the paper by searching the title.
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  3164.  @robertstuckey6407  That might also be true.
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  3165. It was still the country's government's decision (based on this video).
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  3166. Cars still take too much space in cities.
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  3167.  @LarsPallesen  The Wikipedia page I mentioned above gives the Gini index for the wealth distribution in Denmark as 73.9% and the one in Spain as 69.1% meaning Spain is more equal in this regard. I suspect for the income Gini index the result would be the opposite but I don't have that data on hand right now so it's just a guess.
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  3168. They have some HVDC connections but their capacity is not that large.
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  3169. 16:15 Wait a minute! By what mechanism did the surge of water start a fire?
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  3170.  @ineednochannelyoutube5384  Sounds plausible.
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  3171. "Russia has large interest is making sure N.A.T.O is kept away from the Russian border" Ukraine would have been unlikely to join NATO for the foreseeable future anyway. However, now because of this invasion Russia is likely to get a different new NATO member as a neighbor. Thus it seems that Putin's invasion works against this particular goal.
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  3172. That's not much of a consolation and warmer summers also mean more energy usage due to AC.
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  3173.  @Grumbo991  I'm pretty sure the EU hasn't committed war crimes or if you disagree I would like to hear one example.
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  3174.  @Grumbo991  Your original wording mentioned the EU committing war crimes which is what I had an issue with.
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  3175. Actually, it seems to be pointing somewhat to the southeast of Ankara. I'm assuming it's meant to just point to the country and not any specific location inside it.
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  3176.  @denizenofclownworld4853  Here you're just saying that a MTF transgender people saying they're female (or FTM saying they're male) is inherently dishonest. I won't comment on that specifically because that wasn't my point. In your original comment you seemed to say that you could also infer that such people would be more likely to be dishonest about other things. I don't think you have any reason to make such inference.
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  3177.  @denizenofclownworld4853  Once again, whether you consider that to be dishonest has little to do with my point. In your original comment you seemed to imply that transgender people would be likely dishonest about other things (like Keffals was). However, you haven't really given much reason to believe that.
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  3178. "In total, over eight years of shelling in the Luhansk and Donetsk republics, many houses were destroyed and about fourteen thousand people - women, children and the elderly - were killed." Note that 14,000 includes both civilian and military casualties on both sides. Civilian casualties given by the UN is 3,393 and this both those killed by Ukrainian forces and those killed by the separatist/Russian forces. Most of those also happened during the first two years.
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  3179. @JedStrogan I don't see how it would cause congestion or grouping of vehicles. Rather it should reduce accidents due to there being less of passing other vehicles.
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  3180.  @Finkelfunk  "First off no one goes the same speed on an Autobahn" I didn't claim they were doing it now. "Generally, it is recommended you stay around 120-130km/h, but that is not a definite" If the limit were 130 km/h (or maybe slightly higher) there should be less passing other vehicles and emissions per km travelled should be lower. "look at these experiments where a bunch of people are told to drive in a circle behind each other at 30km/h" Based on that description that doesn't sound anything like putting a speed limit on the autobahns that currently don't have have one (though I can't say for certain without knowing more details of those experiments).
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  3181.  @dannypipewrench533  75 mph is fine in a good weather but what about if it's raining or snowing? It would seem a bit bad to require such high speed in bad weather from those who might not feel comfortable with it.
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  3182.  @simohayho8622 : A little bit off-topic, but isn't your username misspelled?
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  3183. So this trial in a fictional world that's not made to resemble the real-world US is actually more in accordance with real-world US jurisprudence than the trials seen in the Bee Movie and It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia which are actually set in the US?
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  3184. Maybe they should try Singaporean English in fantasy.
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  3185. It's not the Taiwanese flag. That flag used to be the flag of Myanmar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar#/media/File:Flag_of_Myanmar_(1974%E2%80%932010).svg
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  3186. 2:50 Is this list in any way relevant here? For Finland it includes the 2 reactors in the Loviisa plant which were built in the '70s, i.e. almost half a century before the current war. I don't seen the relevance.
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  3187.  @maxkaufmann833  "A big thing to take away is economic liberalism is not always the solution." It might not be but e.g. ARENH is definitely not liberalism. "Public services should be owned and regulated by the government. Profit motive should be second especially in something as basic as electricity." I'm not sure what you're counting as "public services" here but I don't see a reason why normal market principles wouldn't work in electricity generation also (distribution is another thing). I'm not against government ownership of some generation capacity as such so the government owning nuclear plants is fine. However, the market should be open for any company willing to enter it and the price of electricity should be determined on the market.
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  3188. 2:25 I don't see why it would double every time.
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  3189. Israel holds Palestinian prisoners. There's a difference. They're in prison because they have allegedly committed some acts that Israel considers criminal and they're held as punishment for that, not to coerce the other side (but I won't comment on whether that's justified or not). Hamas, on the other hand, captured some random Israelis (and even foreigners). They were not people suspected of some kind of misdeed but just anyone they could their hands on and the purpose was, at least partly, to try to coerce Israel into concessions.
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  3190. "Is it moral for ukraine to force its citizens into conscription to potentially die" You could ask the same question about Russia.
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  3191.  @msdolly6101981  I'm not saying he's wrong. I just want specifics.
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  3192.  @jynexe3056 : It is? Please explain.
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  3193.  @jynexe3056 : Ah, OK. Makes sense.
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  3194. Note about the currency. 1 US Dollar = 360 Nigerian Naira (roughly) so those 50k and 30k amounts are not that large (in nominal terms).
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  3195. And that "multi million naira company" doesn't sound all that impressive even for Nigerian income levels.
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  3196. "the mispronunciation of "nuclear"" It's just a dialectal variation.
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  3197.  @Guy-Lewis  Many English pronunciations run counter to their spellings. Many sound changes are not reflected in spelling anyway. Would you accept the pronunciation if people who use it would also start spelling it with the epenthetic vowel?
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  3198.  @eklhaft4531  Maybe some of it rains or snows on the mountains but probably not all of it.
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  3199. VisualPolitik, a Spanish channel, is more concerned with the price of energy in Europe. Whatever Biden may have done probably hasn't had that big of an effect in Europe.
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  3200. "max short should be 100% of outstanding shares" Why?
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  3201.  @tonyotag  I mean, there's nothing special about 100%. Why do you want that to be the limit rather than, say, 90% or 110%?
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  3202.  @tonyotag  "a targeted percentage of outstanding shares does become more philosophical as it is political" I don't understand what you're saying.
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  3203.  @tonyotag  "This policy ensures there is a base price to the shares instead of being shorted out of existence" More than 100% short interest doesn't mean there isn't a "base price" (whatever that means). It doesn't necessarily mean the price is somehow wrong.
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  3204. I thought it was the norm for them to get a pardon from their successor.
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  3205.  @UnwittingSweater  One issue that comes to mind is that for a given tower height one big turbine can sweep a larger area than several smaller turbines in one tower. However, I'm not an engineer so I don't know if that's enough to kill multi-rotor designs.
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  3206. Objection! In the first trial, Johnny Cochran finishes his argument by saying "Defense rests". But that doesn't make any sense since it's his client that's suing Chef and not the other way around.
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  3207. Kamala Harris has been Biden her time.
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  3208. I think you misunderstand. The rebalancing that Scott talked about isn't for payloads of different weight but rather for the sudden change in weight felt by the device when the payload is released. Standardization won't help with that.
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  3209. I don't think there's such a pact.
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  3210. You're confusing different things. 10 m/s is the wind speed relative to the ground and 2 m/s is relative to the cart.
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  3211.  @millomweb  Not all of those listed speeds were supposed to be relative to the cart.
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  3212. 11:30 Those German generals were only talking about the Kerch bridge (or strictly speaking "a bridge in the east" or something like that) being attacked as a hypothetical. They didn't mention any current plan to attack the bridge.
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  3213. Coiny McCoinface
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  3214. Or STD for short.
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  3215. They're not paying trading fees. They're paying interest to whoever they borrowed the shorted stock from.
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  3216.  @j03man44  I can understand that though it's also not entirely obvious that whoever loaned the security to them should shoulder all of the losses.
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  3217. "they never applied to become British citizens" But they were citizens of the Empire, weren't they?
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  3218. I think both are used in different dialects of English.
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  3219. Yeah, their ancestors cut all of them down to build ships.
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  3220. Too bad there isn't a way to short sell Indiegogo campaigns.
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  3221. Only if that "something better" is integrated to the compiler. Otherwise the line numbers for compilation errors can be wrong.
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  3222. It didn't have much impact on the outcome of the war.
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  3223. Sam from Wendower also explained it right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69EVxLLhciQ
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  3224. I guess you'd have to --force the change but I can't be bothered to confirm.
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  3225. Would there be enough sellers of put options if you can't cover the put by a short?
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  3226.  @HelloHello-yb1rl  "If the market collapses, you buy share and sell it to hedge fund who sold the option." My point was that if the hedge fund has just sold/written a put and the market collapses they suffer a loss. But if they covered the put they sold by shorting the underlying stock they're hedged against the stock plummeting. In addition, there may be other reasons to prefer physical shorting over buying a put option. Firstly, to use a put option you have to predict the stock price is going to fall before the put expires whereas with physical shorting there's no hard time limit. Secondly, with a put option, you have to pay some money for the premium whereas with a physical shorting you actually get money that you can use to take a long position in something else.
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  3227. In the case of Boston tea party, wasn't it an excise duty rather than a tariff?
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  3228. Germany still seems to lose to the US on this one: https://www.taxcomplexity.org/
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  3229. I think the accent should have at least been lighter.
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  3230. How many different stocks have you bought?
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  3231. It's still free trade in the sense that actual tariffs are not allowed. That's still better than having 10 (or 13) fully independent countries.
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  3232. If Switzerland just has low taxes, that's OK. However, if their banking secrecy allows people to commit tax fraud without getting caught, which was the case in the past, then that's a problem.
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  3233. 1:10 Hey! It's Language Simp!
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  3234. Next: Graham's Thoughts On Dogecoin
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  3235. Haha!
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  3236. What is the other country?
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  3237.  @lowersaxon  In any case, I don't think Germany even made demands similar to the ones made on Czechoslovakia and even if it did Poland certainly wouldn't have accepted them so whatever the UK or the US might have said to Poland is irrelevant.
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  3238.  @ozgurd5920  "yes multicultural ottoman empire was not too long ago too" You don't even have to go that far. Independent Cyprus after British rule but before the crisis in the '70 is still well within living memory.
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  3239.  @x--. : Fair enough, but wouldn't it still make the census easier if a continuous count of most of the people existed all the time and then in the actual census you'd only need to count people who are for some reason missed in that count?
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  3240.  @x--. : What I was thinking is that idea would still be to actually count all the people, just so that the majority could be counted by simply querying a computer system and only the remainder would have to be counted more expensively "by hand" like described in this video. I didn't mean to suggest that the harder to count people should be skipped. I'm not sure how viable that would actually be but it sounds like an obvious idea.
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  3241.  @jimk8520  They could have mentioned it but I guess the focus was more on solutions to challenges. The vacuum helping with the projectile speed is more like a free bonus than a solution since they need a vacuum in any case.
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  3242. He didn't say that Bulgarians are Turks but rather that Bulgars were Turkic which is entirely different thing.
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  3243. It's not a bad example but one can counter that we can sometimes see bans as not being very well working. A bit over a century ago some countries banned alcohol but that tended to cause various problems like organized crime and corruption.
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  3244.  @kevinwpan  "the legal ownership of a gun can potentially save not only your life, but also the lives of people around you" I think that's probably a rarer case than misuse of guns. "It also dissuades a tyrannical govt from stripping you from your rights." I don't think that works in practise.
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  3245.  @kevinwpan  "The Ulvade shooter [...] A gunman who shot up a church in Texas" This is two examples. Gun homicides in the US exceed 10k per year. Of course, I don't expect you to provide an exhaustive list of cases where a gun saved someone. However, it sounds unlikely that those could number in the thousands per year. "China, for example..." But China is not an example of it (i.e. guns being legal preventing government from taking away rights). I think even if legal gun ownership was easy and prevalent in China the same thing would still happen. The population can't realistically stand up to state power in any case. "This could never happen in America" I don't think it would happen in America even if guns were absent (assuming America was otherwise the same).
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  3246.  @kevinwpan  "it is an example of what could happen in a nation where there is no gun ownership amongst its citizens" Well, my point was that I don't think gun ownership would prevent it so the example of China doesn't really have a bearing on that claim.
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  3247.  @kevinwpan  There might not be a lot of direct evidence one way or another but I think I can point to at least one instance where having guns (though not strictly speaking owning them) did not allow the population to successfully stand up to an authoritarian government. I'm talking about the Gwangju Uprising in 1980 in South Korea. Koreans might not have owned guns but in this incident they raided local armories thus getting their hands on military-grade weapons (rather than mere hunting rifles etc.). They had assault rifles, machine guns, bazookas, and even a couple of armored cars. They also knew how to use them because Korea had (and has) a conscription. However, the government just sent paratroopers to besiege the city and later to seize it and the citizen militia wasn't able to stand up to them. If the population had used e.g. pistols or hunting rifles they could have hypothetically owned with laxer gun laws they would have had even less of a chance they had with assault rifles.
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  3248.  @Nathan-qc4gz  A government can always sell its own currency at arbitrary amounts because it can always print more of it (though doing too much of that is a bad idea, but the technical capacity exists). However, it buying one's own currency is something it can only do in limited amounts. To do that they need forex reserves or some other assets. Eventually those will run out.
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  3249. How did you afford it?
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  3250.  @andreys7729  At least to me that remark brought to mind the Cold War military spending, not WWII spending.
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  3251.  @ActionHeinz  I suspect he has licensed many of his videos, not sure about this particular one, and charged that same amount.
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  3252.  @oldarpanet : I don't think that's correct. The distinction is that the jury, being the fact finder, has the right (and the power) to decide whether the evidence is strong enough for a certain kind of verdict or not. In jury nullification jury sort of pretends it's ruling on the facts whereas it really just doesn't like the law.
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  3253. For some people, a private jet can be a sign of status.
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  3254. In which war did that happen?
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  3255. What do the ethnic Ukrainians in Transnistria think of the Ukraine war? Do they oppose Russia?
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  3256. In principle that should already be reflected in the stock price.
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  3257. But Metatron, should property taxes in Italy be raised?
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  3258.  @MohamedGamal-nk8on  "egypt will collapse without the nile" At least so far there has been no damage to Egypt despite the filling of the reservoir having started and the dam is already producing electricity (which it can't do without letting water through).
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  3259.  @abdelrahmanahmed2415  "egypt effectively managed fast and quick by having desalinating plants" I find that hard to believe. Based on some googling the share of desalination in Egypt's water supply is still quite small. "and having the reservoir at aswan dam continuosly pumping more" I also googled the Lake Nasser water levels and they don't seem to have declined after 2020 when the GERD reservoir started being filled (though I didn't find the very latest figures).
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  3260. Wikipedia says: "In United States jurisprudence, acts of contempt are generally divided into direct or indirect and civil or criminal. Direct contempt occurs in the presence of a judge; civil contempt is "coercive and remedial" as opposed to punitive. In the United States, relevant statutes include 18 U.S.C. §§ 401–403 and Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 42. Direct contempt is that which occurs in the presence of the presiding judge (in facie curiae) and may be dealt with summarily: the judge notifies the offending party that he or she has acted in a manner which disrupts the tribunal and prejudices the administration of justice. After giving the person the opportunity to respond, the judge may impose the sanction immediately. Indirect contempt occurs outside the immediate presence of the court and consists of disobedience of a court's prior order. Generally a party will be accused of indirect contempt by the party for whose benefit the order was entered. A person cited for indirect contempt is entitled to notice of the charge and an opportunity for hearing of the evidence of contempt and, since there is no written procedure, may or may not be allowed to present evidence in rebuttal." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contempt_of_court#United_States
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  3261.  @mikicerise6250  "It is if they want to be friends." It's certainly not the norm.
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  3262.  @blackoralArt  Hmm, your channel description would seem to indicate that you'd make some videos. However, I can see none.
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  3263. Transnistria isn't a part of the EU.
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  3264. O-Zone
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  3265. "YEMEN HAS THE RIGHT TO DEFEND ITS SEA" However, the Houthi rebels aren't the Yemeni government and don't represent all of Yemen and attacking ships passing nearby isn't defending one's sea.
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  3266. If they're identical twins, then they share parents who are common ancestors for both of their descendants. Therefore that possibility should only make the result on common patrilinear or matrilinear ancestor off by one generation at most.
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  3267. If the noise is a problem why not make an AC using Peltier elements instead of a compressor. As a bonus, the thing becomes even more inefficient. Who cares about money or the environment anyway?
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  3268. 2:10 That wasn't the only condition. Russia had already ceased gas shipments through the NS1 pipeline before it was blown up. They said they were not going to resume those shipments unless sanctions were lifted.
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  3269.  @elmercy4968  Well, they claimed that there was a technical problem that couldn't be fixed because of the sanctions. Even if that were true it's still the case that just paying in roubles wouldn't be enough (and I personally think that the technical issue is likely an excuse and in reality they just wanted to use the halting of the deliveries as a counter-sanction).
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  3270.  @elmercy4968  Not paying in roubles is not really a part of the sanctions. It clearly wouldn't have been enough for Russia anyway based on what they said (I mean, in the case of NS1).
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  3271. 20:55 If you don't want to burn fossil fuels inside your home you could always get an old fashioned wood-fired oven/stove. :)
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  3272.  @AlexanderSeven : Maybe even the Soviets couldn't be so brazen as to attack without at least a fake justification.
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  3273.  @AlexanderSeven : Wouldn't that (the shelling and subsequent correspondence) still leave at least a short window to prepare?
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  3274. Turkey isn't any kind of full-blown Russian ally. They have co-operated but there have been tension too such as when Turkey shot down a Russian jet. Turkey also in many ways co-operates with Western countries. It's e.g. in the EU customs union and buys fighter jets from the US.
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  3275. Refugees are a type of migrants.
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  3276. 8:10 "losing all his clients' money" Did Bill Hwang have clients?
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  3277. Malaysia used to favor Malays over Chinese Malaysians in e.g. university admissions, though I think that policy was ended at some point.
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  3278. 20 knots is about 37 km/h, not 47 km/h.
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  3279. 6:40 Why would you say "circle" instead of the more traditional "horseshoe"?
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  3280. "proceeds to deny the only Black defendant his right to counsel and continue with the trial anyway" It's possible that that wasn't due to skin color but other reasons (e.g. Seale's politics). Of course, the main thing that's about that is a defendant wasn't given any chance to defend himself and the motive for that is secondary.
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  3281. Isn't Stockholm bigger?
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  3282. 14:16 You have no right to complain about Kataria's spelling errors when the captions in your video say "dosen't".
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  3283. When going against the wind it needs to work in reverse with the turbine/propeller turning the wheels rather than the other way around as done here.
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  3284. Isn't it just a different choice in transliteration rather than a typo? In English the sound [ʃ] is written with "sh" but in German it's written with "sch". Similarly the affricate [tʃ] has a separate digraph "ch" in English but in German it would be just written as "tsch".
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  3285.  @Custerd1  According to Wikipedia that letter is pronounced [ʃtʃ] in Ukrainian. Presumably the transliteration here was based on the Ukrainian rather the Russian pronunciation.
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  3286.  @Custerd1  I have to make the disclaimer that I don't know any Ukrainian either (nor do I know any Russian) so this is all based on Wikipedia.
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  3287. But Turkey is mostly outside of Europe (aside from East Thrace).
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  3288. Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio is almost 250%.
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  3289. On a more serious note, "technology" is a very broad concept (and even broader for economists) but for some reason, the term "tech company" has a much narrower meaning than a company using and/or developing technology.
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  3290.  @truthbetold818  "We first need to stop comparing Sweden to its neighbouring countries." Why?
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  3291.  @occamraiser  The point was that in this video the two ends of the blade look different from each other. However, I think that apparent asymmetry is just an illusion due perspective.
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  3292.  @mnomadvfx  I don't think it's asymmetric at all.
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  3293. "Define "one"!" I think the point is that it's manufactured as a single piece (even if in function it doesn't differ much from a turbine with two blades).
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  3294. What?
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  3295. Quantum computing isn't yet far enough to do that in any case (not in Finland nor elsewhere).
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  3296. When cooking Hello Fresh meals he should absolutely wear a blue apron. :)
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  3297.  @MitkoGorgiev  "how the cart is moving BEFORE (I repeat BEFORE) it reaches the wind speed" At first the wind can accelerate the cart because the frame of the cart has some drag. Once it's moving the propeller starts accelerating it too, both before and after exceeding wind speed. "If the wheels are moving the propeller, then the cart could also move in a still atmosphere provided we give it an initial velocity. Then it will move forever." Not at all. The relative movement of the air and ground is crucial. Without it there's no energy source.
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  3298. Well, he hasn't died yet so he still might be.
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  3299. "Turkish will come back strong" If Erdogan is defeated in the next election then there's hope for that. They have to change the course of their monetary policy.
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  3300. Here's another spoiler: Titanic sinks.
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  3301. "I can't see reducing or stopping gas flow from Russia completely, as helping Ukraine." It can help Ukraine because less income would mean that the Russian government would have a harder time prosecuting the war. Something like half of the Russian federal budget comes from the export of hydrocarbons.
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  3302.  @sait_k  The (default) English captions on this video are not auto-generated, as they're not listed as such. Or at least they're not auto-generated by YouTube. It's, of course, possible that James used some off-platform tool to generate them, but my guess is that probably not. In fact, auto-generated English captions are also an option you can select on this video and they, unlike the "normal" English captions, actually correctly recognize that James said "Shia" in the part I referred to.
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  3303.  @Bobrystoteles  Not at all. In many studies, wind produces the least amount of greenhouse emissions per kWh produced. In some studies, it's only the second least (behind nuclear) but still very good.
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  3304. "still i feel that war should be stopped" Unfortunately, Putin is unlikely to agree to stopping it.
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  3305. Shell-barry
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  3306.  @goneyon : Wikipedia gives the prononunciation of 'kj' as [ɕ] (though that probably depends on the dialect).
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  3307. But hasn't it now been extended to the UK (and Ireland) as well?
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  3308. I think it would be a good practise to list sources at least about things like the specifics of historical events. It's fine even if those sources might not be available in English.
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  3309. You should have mentioned the Imjin War.
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  3310. The first example in the video doesn't make a lot of sense. The reason why giving the capitalist's income to the workers doesn't benefit them is because the capitalist doesn't consume anything and just hoards the money taking it out of circulation. That's not terribly realistic. In a more realistic scenario receiving an income transfer does in fact enable higher consumption.
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  3311. The salt comes from the ocean to begin with so it doesn't raise the average salinity. However, it can raise the salinity in the immediate vicinity by a lot which can be damaging for the local ecosystem.
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  3312. "Whilst steam reforming creates CO2 as well, it is comparatively way less than what is created when building batteries and transforming energy in coal power plants which is alongside nuclear power still the main source." I don't know. Steam reforming needs methane. If you already have methane, it would seem to make more sense to just use the methane to power vehicles directly rather than produce hydrogen from it. The exact same carbon content gets released either way and steam reforming reduces the energy content which seems a bit wasteful.
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  3313.  @ArmchairMagpie : Yeah, I mean NGVs. They might not be that common, but I've seen some buses here that run on natural gas. I guess CO₂ sequestration at the hydrogen production sites could improve things, but presumably, it's not (usually) done, at least yet? As long as there's no sequestration, hydrogen from steam reforming doesn't seem any better than NGVs in terms of CO₂ emissions and is probably worse in terms of CO₂ per energy in the fuel, because some of the energy content of methane is lost in steam reforming. Additionally, steam reforming has the problems that methane is a more potent greenhouse gas than CO₂ and the extraction and transportation of natural gas will involve some leakage and that it's a somewhat finite resource (though these points affect NGVs as well).
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  3314.  @TarlanT  That's interesting but doesn't really seem to be related to my question, which was about intermarriage between different ethnic groups in Kazakhstan.
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  3315.  @maxh7637  OK, that makes sense.
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  3316. 6:50 "and he [Julius Caesar] has to be bisexual" Didn't a bunch of legionaries call him "every woman's man and every man's woman"? I don't know if that's a likely fact or a baseless rumor but at least a bisexual Caesar wouldn't be a purely modern invention.
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  3317.  @joesterling4299  This site gives 95% round trip efficiency: https://batterytestcentre.com.au/project/lithium-ion/
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  3318.  @carly09et  Most of the other type of fuel cells also seem to have a lower efficiency than a battery: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell#Comparison_of_fuel_cell_types
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  3319.  @carly09et  Fuel cell is one step, just like a battery.
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  3320.  @reneheuscher1557  Pretty sure his smart-phone is gasolene powered. :)
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  3321.  @M167A1  I don't have to calculate the efficiency for batteries, fuel cells, or ICEs myself. You can find that data online.
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  3322.  @bcubed72  "Thermodynamic efficiency is possibly the most common, but by no means only, meaning of that term." In the context of talking about a power source for a vehicle, I think that's the only reasonable meaning. When talking about energy density one can say "energy density" instead of "efficiency".
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  3323.  @bcubed72  "the overall efficiency cannot be higher than the efficiency of generation and transmission" I was originally responding to a comment saying that the batteries are inefficient. It's indeed appropriate to look at the efficiency of the whole system but I think EVs still compare favorably. The power for EV charging can come from e.g. a CHP plant, a nuclear plant, or a hydroelectric plant. These cannot be used to power ICEs. Also, for a fair comparison of an ICE's efficiency in terms of the whole system, you'd have to include the losses in oil refinement.
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  3324.  @drewpearson3632  I think it's reasonable to include refinery losses when considering the efficiency of an engine using oil-based fuel but obviously also when calculating the carbon footprint of plastics. I'm personally not really an EV enthusiast. I've never owned a car and I hope I won't have to as I find driving to be annoying and boring. (I do have a license though in retrospect getting it was a bit of a waste even though it's occasionally been useful.)
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  3325.  @laststone777  Like I said earlier, EVs are still likely to compare favourably to ICEs efficiency-wise (depending on the situation).
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  3326. 41:10 It's funny that the most important Muslim is Ramzan Kadyrov rather than e.g. Rustam Minnikhanov.
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  3327. Does it mean that Canadians are Village People?
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  3328. It seems they also left out the Estonian island of Hiiumaa and the Danish island of Bornholm.
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  3329. Turkey has a bit of land in Europe as well, namely East Thrace.
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  3330.  @andrewrennie2352 : Nothing wrong? Really?
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  3331. No, at least if you assume uniform wind. You can look at that kind of situation in the inertial frame tied to the air. In that frame the air is stationary and there's no wind to power any vehicle. The car can only work because the air is moving relative to the ground and the car is touching both.
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  3332. 6:50 Yes, there is a minimum of €6 per day.
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  3333. They didn't want to use the Serbian dinar due to political reasons so they used the German mark which was replaced by the euro.
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  3334. I think in Norway you'd just have to pay such a person more and it wouldn't be worth the cost.
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  3335. Would it have mattered anyway? They couldn't have removed him from office because he was already out of office. They could have barred him from future office but it probably didn't seem likely that he'd hold one in any case.
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  3336.  @matthewtrujillo7228  The US constitution specifically limits the president's pardon power such that it doesn't apply to impeachment.
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  3337.  @dsc4u  Tanzi was imprisoned in the May of 2011.
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  3338. When it comes to "Ungoogled" being in the name, it's not obvious to me that it's a problem. The purpose of trademarks and trademark laws is to make clear the origin of products. Thus, I can't make my own product and mislead people into thinking it's a Google product by using the Google logo or other similar trademarks. However, the name having the prefix un- should make it extra clear that it's not a Google product which might a good defense against any claim of trademark violation (but IANAL).
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  3339.  @TruthNerds : That's certainly true. Nile Red did mention that as well.
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  3340.  @genli5603 : Short exposure (on the skin) isn't a problem. A longer one is. Btw, pure lye is a solid so it's even less of a threat.
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  3341. "The 1967 war was a tragedy" Yes, Egypt and others shouldn't have launched it.
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  3342. "what if i dont want to stop carbon and want to continue to live my life as i do?" I can probably continue but carbon taxes will likely make it more expensive for you.
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  3343. Water vapor emissions don't matter.
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  3344. "Total 💗 and respect to Ru from England." So you're saying "To Love RU"?
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  3345. In this particular case, Seale also wasn't allowed to represent himself so he wasn't given any kind of chance to defend himself.
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  3346. I don't find that very convincing. There have been many conflicts involving little or no Jews that still have gotten more publicity than this one. I don't e.g. think the conflicts in Sudan or Myanmar have involved many Jews.
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  3347.  @austinsmith8584  But there are conflicts that seemingly have nothing to do with Israel and still have received much more attention than this one. So your proposed explanation seems rather incomplete at best.
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  3348.  @greatman5836  Because that oil is being used by the enemy.
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  3349. "Oil companies behind this outcome." How can they affect how the South African people vote?
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  3350.  @vivianoosthuizen8990  Based on short googling, it would seem that South Africa counts votes by hand, not with machines. Also, the result is in any case similar to polls.
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  3351. Thawing a lot of meat in the fridge has the advantage that it reduces the fridge's electricity consumption.
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  3352.  @mariosmario1048  Do you have a viable proposal for the unification of Cyprus?
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  3353.  @mariosmario1048  "there is policy for that" What's in it then?
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  3354.    So England (or rather the UK) is no longer a guarantor power? Has the Treaty of Guarantee lapsed at some point? I guess it's effectively lapsed, but has the UK ever stated that it's no longer bound by the treaty?
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  3355. "are The Falklands or Guantanamo invasions?" Those are places, not events. If you mean the Argentine attempt to seize Falkands/Malvinas in 1982, then that was an invasion by Argentina. The current US control of Guantanamo Bay is due to the Spanish-American War in 1898 and that war did involve an American landings into (Spanish held) Cuba so that was an invasion (and there were also invasions into other Spanish colonies).
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  3356. When you live in Finland and pay 25.5% tax on dividends (from listed companies). :(
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  3357. @ALBINO TV✔ D:
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  3358.  @brianhirt5027  I'm rather puzzled by your comment.
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  3359.  @brianhirt5027  OK, but how does that work? I don't think you can easily search YouTube comments. I don't see why this video would be interesting to GRU. This comment isn't total non sequitur since Ryan mentioned smoking cigars. That account was created in 2011 which seems to make it less likely that it's a bot for this kind of purpose.
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  3360. 0:28 Is that German?
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  3361. Also, in the earlier cases he had openly bragged about his crimes. I guess one reason he could do that was because back then he was underage.
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  3362.  @steve470  Now it's already clearly past that mark so you can give it a like without a consideration for the funny number.
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  3363. He has given himself near dictatorial power but at least he hasn't defrauded the elections so far.
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  3364.  @brandondavidson4085 : He's said in other videos that he specifically wanted to be a trial lawyer.
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  3365.  @SakuraNyan  Based on what I've read, the 7th amendment only guarantees the right to a jury in a federal court.
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  3366.  @SakuraNyan  "a state is bound by the constraints of the 7th amendment" I can't find any source saying that. Everyone that I can find says that it only applies to federal courts.
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  3367.  @misatzu  I think it's an understandable mistake (if it's a mistake).
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  3368.  @misatzu  It's understandable in a sense that "was" and "wasn't" are close and they might often be written without much care because they're common so it's easy to accidentally write (or even say) the wrong one.
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  3369. If you paid them you might be entitled to some compensation.
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  3370. Before watching the video, exports cannot be the only source of growth. The world economy is clearly capable of growth despite not having any exports (nor imports).
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  3371. A couple of comments on this Spongebob episode: 1) Spongebob could have tried every combination on the suitcase lock. There's only 1000 of them so you could go through all of them in under an hour at a reasonable pace. 2) From an economic point of view, it's a bit inefficient that Krabs stays privy to the recipe. If other restaurants knew it as well, more value could be created to the consumers.
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  3372. Do you have a source for this? I tried googling the efficiency of hydroelectric plants and found numbers around 90%.
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  3373.  @newrenewableenergycontrol5724  Do you have a source for that? I have a hard time believing it.
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  3374.  @newrenewableenergycontrol5724  You should still give a source or else the claim remains unsubstantiated. I can't go measure those water velocities myself.
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  3375.  @joechang8696  Alaska did save some too.
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  3376.  @ignitespark9293  Do you mean, why are the Houthis attacking ships that don't seem to have links to Israel? Well, I don't know but I can speculate. One possibility is that they're lumping all of the West with Israel and want to also try to pressure Europe or the US. Another possibility is that they just don't know which ships are linked to Israel so some of the attacks are done semi-blindly.
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  3377. Do matrilinear societies have more deadbeats?
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  3378.  @GigaNietzsche  At least in the current day, more patriarchal societies seem to be doing less well than less patriarchal ones.
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  3379. I'm not so sure about whether the Japanese would speak a Romance language if Rome had somehow invaded Japan. Present-day England was under Roman rule but they don't speak a romance language. Modern English has of course been heavily influenced by a Romance language (Norman French), but that has nothing to do with the Roman rule.
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  3380. Was it stressful?
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  3381. I'm pretty sure the Russian Empire has been taken seriously at various points in time.
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  3382. 0:43 It seems VisualPolitik recognizes Transnistria as a sovereign country. (EDIT: And thinks Lake Ladoga is a country and a landmass rather than a lake.)
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  3383. Strange. English language Wikipedia says she was handed as reparations but the Finnish language Wikipedia says that she was sold.
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  3384. 0:55 The '70s oil embargo was done by OAPEC, not OPEC.
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  3385.  @Роман-е7к7з  I was referring to the invasion that started this year. That's what this video was about and I also assume that's what OP (Hamza Mahmood) was referring to when he talked about live tracking a modern battle. The events in 2014 didn't result in nearly as much Instagram pictures etc. and for the most of the time since until early this year the hostilities consisted of sparse skirmishing and shelling rather than intense battles.
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  3386.  @MJer09128  It's comparatively little compared to the alternative of using fossil fuels to power vehicles.
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  3387. ​ @LevanGudadze  "Here in Russia, the media is reporting tonight that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has said that in an effort to defeat Russia, the EU bureaucracy may send a military contingent to Ukraine under the guise of a peacekeeping mission." The EU doesn't have a military. Either Orbán was misquoted, or he doesn't know what he's talking about, or he's deliberately telling falsehoods.
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  3388. Electricity to run a heat pump isn't free either but it's probably better than using gas directly.
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  3389. I guess many people think: Slavic language -> Eastern Europe.
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  3390. Nothing shameful about this. The more ammunition Ukraine gets the better.
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  3391. Sweden has some kind of voluntary pension contributions, doesn't it?
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  3392.  @minecrafter0505  "Building a new reactor in Germany will take at least 3 decades." But reopening closed reactors should be a lot faster and cheaper.
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  3393. The stamp duty is just stupid. I don't see any reason for transaction taxes in general.
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  3394. Technically, insects probably kill far, far more people than big mammals, if we count things like spreading malaria.
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  3395. Technically, insects kill far more people if you count things like spreading malaria.
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  3396.  @Heroltz998  That 'ng' is a digraph so it still counts.
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  3397.  @khoiduongminh5111  I've seen these fake accounts lately on many channels' comments.
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  3398. They liked the Portuguese policy.
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  3399.  @cybernitemusic  "He comments on the laughing." But that's not the creative content of the video. If TF were commenting on e.g. camera angles or exposure that might more likely count as fair use.
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  3400. "and the Y makes the J sound" This part doesn't help anybody. In English, 'J' is usually pronounced as a voiced postalveolar affricate (like e.g. in the word "jump") but I'm pretty sure that's not what you meant. Which language's "J sound" are you talking about here?
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  3401.  @samsonsoturian6013  Well, then it's certainly incorrect. The "English J sound" is [d͡ʒ] and that's a sound Icelandic doesn't have (if the Wikipedia page on Icelandic phonology is to be believed). According to Wikipedia Reykjavík is pronounced as [ˈreiːcaˌviːk] in Icelandic so at least here 'Y' seems to be pronounced as [iː], not [d͡ʒ].
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  3402.  @samsonsoturian6013  But even you wrote the first part of your phonetic respelling as "Raik", so no English J sound.
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  3403.  @samsonsoturian6013  You're right, it's not my first language but I still do know that in English 'J' is most often pronounced as [d͡ʒ]. Surely you're not disputing that?
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  3404.  @samsonsoturian6013  I hear English speakers pronouncing 'J' as a voiced postalveolar affricate all the time.
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  3405. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CndEybPBmjU
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  3406. Lawyers try to hide the fact that the B.A.R. Association exists to promote the consumption of alcohol. (Joking.)
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  3407.  @Relco12  "fat people are pure fat" Pretty sure some fat people also have muscle even if they're not sumo wrestlers.
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  3408. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zjA3KPnLK8 (Mind you, this guy doesn't win all the time. This is just a collection of times he did win.)
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  3409. Amazon is a huge company. It can afford to lose money on things like Twitch for a long time if it thinks there's a chance of profits in the future. Also, the revenue seems to at least cover most of the costs.
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  3410.  @hissukka6619  You can also define "capital" as the city that functions as the seat of the government (whether it's officially called that or not). By that criterion Bern is the capital of Switzerland (and the capital of the Netherlands is the Hague, not Amsterdam).
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  3411. What happens to the money Synapse deposited into its partner banks if it's never found out who it belongs to? Do the banks get to keep it?
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  3412. Could the dams have been destroyed by tallboy or grand slam bombs if those bombs had been available at the time of this raid?
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  3413. "Just want to point out that 5,000 to 6,000 of rounds per day is an extremely low amount of artillery shells per day. To the point of barely any fire at all. We are talking about the largest country in Europe after Russia." Ukraine might be the second largest in area but it's not clear to me why would one use area to come with an expected amount of artillery usage.
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  3414. I don't really believe the claim of blind buying distortion. The active traders should compensate.
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  3415.  @gavinreid9184  The price of the marginal production is the correct price.
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  3416. You have probably not seen many YouTube videos?
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  3417.  Котлета Мудропутина  Russian artillery.
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  3418.  @jerryblumenthal8879  Which part of this is fake?
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  3419. ​ @stefanb6539  "If Russia [...] uses 90 per attack, for one attack every 2 weeks" Haven't the attacks been far more frequent (though with less missiles per attack)?
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  3420. What? Switzerland has a central bank too. The Swiss Franc is a normal fiat currency.
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  3421. Also the Czech koruna.
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  3422. Any relation to William Rowan Hamilton?
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  3423.  @zlatko8051 : I did realize who you were talking about. I was just asking if the famous mathematician Hamilton descends from the same clan as well (even though he's from Ireland).
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  3424.  @zlatko8051 : Ireland is at least closer than the US so roots in Scotland are hardly impossible.
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  3425. Seriously though, it's good that Powel isn't running a tighter policy. Too low inflation has been the problem in recent times, not too high.
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  3426. ​@Andrew H "Inflation as a result of giving everyone free money without an accompanying increase in production doesn't actually do anything." Firstly, monetary policy is not conducted by "giving everyone free money" in any place I've heard of. Secondly, the point is that when there is cyclical unemployment expansionary monetary policy can increase production. It works by depressing real wages making hiring the unemployed cheaper and thus more profitable. "For Japan, they cannot just keep printing like you think. Their debt to GDP is 230%. If they keep printing like they did under Kuroda, they will end up like Greece when no one want's their bonds." There is no reason to believe that reaching, say, 2% inflation would make no one want their bonds. Presumably, investors would demand a 2% higher nominal return on their bonds but that's not a higher real rate. Also, the improved economy would make the risk of default lower. "Central banks were pushing on a string and had reached a point of very marginal return." Do you really think that a central bank that can (if needed) print unlimited amounts of money would somehow be unable to depress the value of that money? If that were true, we could finance all government with just money printing. Realistically, central banks can always increase inflation to, say, 2% with much less money printing that would be enough to finance the government in the long term. "The risk to future generations was too large." What risk is there? A bigger balance sheet is literally income for the government. The only risk of printing too much money is creating too much inflation. But I'm only calling for central banks to print enough money to meet their inflation targets, not more. Even if you disagree that inflation would reduce unemployment reaching 2% inflation is not high enough to create problems so there's no harm and the government would get (temporary) extra income from the requisite money printing.
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  3427. But Finland doesn't border Belarus.
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  3428.  @BoneHammerher  "it has been gamed by foreign-owned multinational oil companies so that very little of the wealth generated stays in the state" How so?
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  3429.  @JuusoAlasuutari  "he extorted people in a vulnerable position, not the company" He tried extorting the company first. He shifted to extorting the individual people because the company didn't accept his demands.
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  3430.  @desmondberry528  Surely they didn't make a calculated decision to leave the root password as "root" (which I think was what happened). More likely it was just sloppiness. If there was a money saving decision at some point involved it was more likely something along the lines of not implementing procedures to check for common vulnerabilities etc., not specifically about choosing to not change an individual password.
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  3431. In a city one should be able to do those 6 mile trips with a bus or a tram.
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  3432. 16:00 Why do the Seleucids get a capital letter while the Greek states and the Ptolemies have to do with a lower case letter?
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  3433. "The German reunification should be a lesson in how a hasty integration of the economically less developed part would spell disaster upon that less developed part" But the poverty of the North also makes things easier in a certain way. Even a disaster of a reunification would be a blessing compared the current continuous disaster of the Kim regime that the Northerners have to face year after year.
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  3434.  @리주민  A lot of non-federal countries have bicameral parliaments. Even in US it's not only the Congress that's bicameral but also all states except Nebraska have bicameral legislatures.
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  3435. "If Russia were to attack Sweden, they would have to navigate through NATO territory" Not really. If Russia were to attack Sweden the most likely target would be the island of Gotland.
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  3436.  @Ukit50  Gotland is more distant from mainland and much, much larger than Snake Island.
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  3437.  @Ukit50  The main island is something like 100 km long. To the degree you can run or hide from bombardment you can do it on Gotland. It shouldn't be much more difficult than on mainland.
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  3438.  @Suyogpaudel  AFAIK there isn't any kind of permanent NATO sea patrol blocking entry into Gotland so Russia could try to rush there without attacking any NATO powers. I think I've read in the news that Sweden has beefed up the island's defenses so I'm not claiming it would be easy for Russia but it is still an existing (if not all that likely) risk for Sweden which could be mitigated with full NATO membership.
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  3439. 22:40 "even reading some of the names..." And then you see "Lv 65 Mega Milkas" on the screen.
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  3440. If you're using a bank the transaction doesn't get broadcast to the whole world.
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  3441. You failed to mention whether Factor also has a binding arbitration clause in its contract.
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  3442. "the main independentist leaders being now able to decide wether the government is functional or not" I would think that this is likely to only result in smaller concessions like amnesty for separatist leaders and moderate expansion of autonomy. Those are the kind of concessions that can be extracted unlike full independence.
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  3443.  @BooBaddyBig : Sure it's more costly per kWh but all the other low emission alternatives seem costly as well (when including the cost of the necessary storage to facilitate fluctuations in both supply and demand). France's solution seems at least reasonable.
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  3444.  @BooBaddyBig : "The UK has about as much wind and solar % as Germany, but has to my knowledge never had negative spot pricing; because it has a lot more CCGT natural gas which is quick responding." But that natural gas and other fossil fuels is exactly what we should be trying to get rid of. "Note that nuclear is baseload too, so is potentially problematic." But if we compare nuclear to wind/solar the latter seems even more problematic. Nuclear baseload doesn't cover the need for peaking power to accommodate variable demand, but wind/solar requires additional peaking power (or storage) to also accommodate its variable supply. I don't see what the advantage of wind/solar is over nuclear, if it requires fossil peaking power to be used as well. (And like mentioned before, it's possible to use nuclear as peaking power.) Grid management is certainly easier with fossils but we need to nonetheless get rid of them. Both nuclear and wind/solar might bring grid management challenges, if their share of power generation becomes large, but to me it seems that the challenges brought by the latter seem greater (at least at the moment).
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  3445.  @BooBaddyBig : "You misunderstand. Germany and Denmark had issues with negative pricing, not because of fossil fuels, but because they had too much baseload power." I think you misunderstood, because that's not what I said. (EDIT: I.e. I didn't say the negative prices were due to fossil fuels.) "Nuclear is also baseload, and causes the same issues when mixed with large amounts of wind and solar." My point was that keeping the total share of nuclear + wind/solar constant, an increase of wind/solar and decrease of nuclear would make this problem more pronounced not less (I think). Therefore I think nuclear would be less problematic than wind/solar for grid management. "The primary advantages of wind and solar over nuclear is that it's much cheaper" At least in the recent past nuclear has been cheaper, though maybe it has recently changed. "and have no catastrophic failure modes." Relative to the amount of energy produced, nuclear power has been quite safe. Wind and solar power kill more people per kWh produced, apparently mostly from people falling down during installation and maintenance.
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  3446. Not yet watched most of the video, but $1 million per life saved sounds pretty reasonable.
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  3447.  @ralphbentley5499  Thanks for the info. Prosecutorial discretion may be also bad for similar reasons. It feels a bit different (which doesn't necessarily mean less bad) in the sense that prosecutors are explicitly given discretion which they then use, for better or for worse. Jurors oath, on the other hand, seems to fairly explicitly forbid nullification but in practice, they can still do with nigh impunity anyway (for better or for worse).
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  3448.  @BlunderCity  Interesting, thanks for the info.
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  3449. It wasn't Ukraine. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  3450. The second part seems to have a proper forest.
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  3451. "The one person who keeps shying away from peace is Elenski at the behest of his controllers in the west." You know, it was Putin who invaded, not Zelensky.
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  3452.  @farooqrizvi6078  Because his reasons don't have much bearing on what I commented on. It doesn't make sense to say that the president of the country he invaded is the one "shying away from peace" just because he doesn't capitulate or something.
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  3453.  @farooqrizvi6078  I don't think that would have been enough for Putin to not invade. In any case, it still doesn't make sense to say that Zelensky would be the one shying away from peace now because he talked about NATO membership before the invasion. Also, I'm rather skeptical of whether that played any real role in Putin's decision as he too should have realized that Ukraine couldn't possibly have joined NATO for the foreseeable future.
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  3454.  @farooqrizvi6078  Well, that doesn't change the fact that in my eyes Putin is still the main culprit.
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  3455.  @farooqrizvi6078  "No one can have icbms at the borders." Yes, there is no need to place intercontinental ballistic missiles near borders. However, I don't see what that has to do with anything discussed here.
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  3456.  @farooqrizvi6078  The missiles in Cuba were medium range ballistic missiles and intermediate range ballistic missiles, not intercontinental ballistic missiles. You specifically mentioned ICBMs, not MRBMs or IRBMs. In any case, like I said earlier, anyone with half a brain would realize that Ukraine wasn't going to be able to join NATO for the foreseeable future. Putin must have realized it too. Any talk about such missiles by him would be just an excuse for the invasion and has nothing to do with the reasons he invaded.
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  3457.  @farooqrizvi6078  "I think it should be ok to invade Ukraine." You should not. It's clearly an unjust action.
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  3458.  @farooqrizvi6078  I don't think Russia has the right to try to benefit at the expense of the Ukrainians using violence like this.
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  3459.  @farooqrizvi6078  "Did British have the right, the French , the Portuguese, what about the Spanish ; they enslaved much of Asia , Africa etc ?" Generally speaking no. (I can't with confidence give a blanket answer covering every single case.) Do you think that e.g. the British were justified in conquering India? "People do it because it benefits them." There are plenty of people who don't cheat or steal even when it would benefit them. I won't try to (yet) make a prediction on how this will turn out but condemning Putin's actions is easy.
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  3460.  @farooqrizvi6078  The one being attacked is Ukraine. I don't think it can be said to be getting a taste of its own medicine. It's just a medium-sized country facing the aggression of an imperialist great power (Russia), an old tale to be sure.
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  3461.  @farooqrizvi6078  "Europe which did not bat an eyelid on the deaths of civilians in Iraq or Syria or even Africa" That just seems false to me. "Nothing wrong in invading another country. US does that all the time." There's plenty of wrong with it. You think that the 2003 invasion or Iraq was justified? I certainly don't.
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  3462. 34:48 But have you represented clients making meritless claims or defended clients who had stolen other people's works?
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  3463. I'm not sure it makes sense to talk about e.g. the ancient Greek city-states and the likes of Singapore being similar. The ancient city-states were small states centered around a single city but in those times the city itself contained a fairly small part of the population. Most of the population still lived in rural areas controlled by the city in smaller towns, villages, and farms. E.g. modern-day Singapore is very different. In Singapore almost all of the land area is urban and basically everyone lives in an urban area.
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  3464. Poland is almost guaranteed to be in opposition to Russia regardless of who is in power.
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  3465. There's a minimum of 6 € per day and for the total fine there's a minimum of 100 € for moped drivers and 200 € for drivers of other motor vehicles.
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  3466. "The recent decline in wheat prices" Have wheat prices declined? I thought they had gone up.
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  3467. It wasn't Ukraine. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  3468. 0:25 The Ukrainians call it "Dnipropetrovsk Oblast" (Дніпропетровська область).
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  3469. It's now 3 weeks after your comment (and this video) and Ukraine is still in Kursk region. (Also, I think you meant "incursion", not "insurgence" which means "rebellion".)
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  3470.  @katyusha1283  Klara is an actual Russian.
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  3471.  @mucanan  Do they? Do you have a source for that?
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  3472. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  3473. The US doesn't have a motive to do this.
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  3474.  @haroeneissa790  Doesn't the Ethiopian constitution have a clause that says that the states can become independent if they want to?
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  3475. The title is incorrect.
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  3476. Carbon dioxide heats the climate.
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  3477.  @picobyte  No, they don't.
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  3478.  @picobyte  However, pigs not flying in no way implies that carbon dioxide doesn't heat up the climate.
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  3479.  @picobyte  "CO2 is not warming our climate." It is. "Also current CO2 levels are extremely low compared to earth history." They have almost doubled from pre-industrial times. "Also in roman times climate was so much warmer than now" It wasn't. "that grapes grew in the UK" Grapes are grown in the UK in current times as well. English wine is a thing. "AGW is one big scam" It's not. "and currently two decades of non warming" Warming has occurred in the past two decades.
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  3480.  @picobyte  "In roman warm period it was warm" Current global average temperature is higher now.
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  3481. It's the old flag. It was used until 2010. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar#/media/File:Flag_of_Myanmar_(1974%E2%80%932010).svg
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  3482. I think it's symmetric.
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  3483. That might be a bit risky. I suggest 50%.
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  3484. Mind you, the word is spelled "corps".
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  3485. That's basically the NAFO option mentioned in this video.
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  3486.  @cageybee7221  Just treaties without the NATO command structures etc. would be much weaker.
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  3487. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  3488.  @jukahri : Though partly the complexity is just legislators not doing as good of a job as they could.
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  3489.  @Gabor-y3h  I'm really skeptical of liquid rocket fuel being stolen on a large scale. What use would anyone have for it?
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  3490.  @harmless6813  Many liquid rocket fuels are much more corrosive than water.
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  3491. One problem with having One True Framework™ is that it might be more difficult to improve later on, at least in ways that significantly change its logic, because everyone needs to agree on those changes.
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  3492. A pay-as-you-go system can be made sustainable but it's probably better for the system to be at least partially funded so it's not so vulnerable to demographic shocks.
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  3493. Next you can do the same for the earlier EU package together with an explanation on how the process works in the EU. (I might add that it's pretty unbelievable to me that the political process in the EU somehow managed to work more swiftly than in the US.)
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  3494. Both doors are safe.
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  3495.  @babibabu7766  "there is a rumour going around that the rest of the positions is in gamestop" Is there any reason to believe such rumors? I've not heard of any connection between Archegos and Gamestop.
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  3496. 3:40 "Before blitzkrieg emerged as a military tactic, armies didn't advance beyond their supply lines." Well, that certainly isn't true. There are a lot examples in history where armies move without being supplied from home by using foraging (e.g. the Mongols) or even looting.
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  3497. "the US has given more aid to Ukraine than all of Europe?" To my knowledge, the figures are for aid that has been decided/announce, only some of which has already been delivered. I'm not sure if the order would change if only aid that has already been given would be counted. Maybe I'm a bit pedantic for focusing on your precise wording but it's still important to note that there can often be significant delay before the aid makes its way to Ukraine. Also note that there is a great deal of uncertainty of how to value military aid. It's not an easy task for an accountant to decide how to value e.g. a Bradley donated by the US or a T-72 donated by Poland (or something). But in any case, that doesn't significantly change the big picture which is that in absolute terms the US makes up a large portion of the aid.
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  3498.  @coops1992  "Not really" What's your justification for that claim? By "more" OP obviously meant in absolute terms. Unless the absolute amounts are wrong it's not correct to reply "not really". "their support per GDP is pretty pathetic" What counts as "pathetic" is subjective but I don't think that wording is justified here. Their support per GDP might be lower than that of the countries with highest per GDP figures but I think it would be strange to call all but the highest per GDP figures "pathetic". Europe (which here means the EU, the other European NATO countries, and Switzerland) has a higher GDP than the US so by that logic the average European contribution is even more "pathetic" and only a few countries have made non-pathetic contributions.
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  3499. Depends on what precisely you mean by "part of the Axis". Finland didn't sign the Tripartite Pact.
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  3500. "Unconditional surrender is the only way out for Ukraine." Do you really think Russia is that unreasonable? In any case, I don't think Ukrainians would want to accept that even if chances of victory were very slim. In any case, if this is going to happen at least we should make this war as costly as possible for Russia as long as the Ukrainians want to keep fighting (which is probably for a while if unconditional surrender is the only option).
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  3501.  @joshuapaul2022  Ukraine can go on for quite a long without much domestic civilian economy. It has enough foreign support to keep the government running (and the level of expenditure is sustainable for the West) when you consider that a significant part of the population has fled. It can still keep going as long as the Ukrainians consider it to be the better option despite the suffering. "Weapons deliveries only prolong the suffering." The Ukrainians do always have the option of giving up but at least so far the consider pressing on to be better than the alternative. If Russia is really only going to accept an unconditional surrender then Ukrainians are unlikely to change their minds soon.
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  3502.  @joshuapaul2022  "In reality the front is about to collapse." When you say "about to" how soon does that mean that the collapse you predict would come?
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  3503.  @joshuapaul2022  That's so inspecific as to be meaningless. If it happened, say, 5 years from now that would still be included in "any moment". If you have a prediction you should have a date by which the predicted event is supposed to happen or else the prediction is totally meaningless because then you could always say that prediction hasn't failed, it just hasn't come true yet.
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  3504.  @SelfProclaimedEmperor  Russia doesn't have a reason to attack it's own pipeline. It could just withhold exports through it without destroying it (which in fact had done before the bombings). However, this time Russia does have a possible motive.
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  3505.  @schehriyarmemmedov5440  Maybe that was the case in the '90s but now Azerbaijan is saying that it won't agree to any special status for N-K which I don't think is reasonable.
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  3506.  @schehriyarmemmedov5440  "After two bloody war, they cant get any status cuz there gonna be third one." I'm not making predictions here but I am saying that it would just wrong for Azerbaijan to do that.
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  3507.  @schehriyarmemmedov5440  "there will not be any war" But in your previous comment you said: "After two bloody war [...] there gonna be third one". Isn't that a clear contradiction? (In any case, I won't try to make a prediction, at least not right now.) "There are bunch of street holligans that thinks they are country." Well, I'm not saying they should necessarily be an independent country but at the very least they should get some sort of regional autonomy if they're going to be a part of Azerbaijan. Denying any autonomy is just plain wrong.
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  3508.  @trickyvickyplays1933  The electricity could also come from renewables or nuclear.
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  3509.  @QiuSe  At least the latest figures on Trading Economics give the inflation in Russia as 6% and in Germany as 4.5% (though for previous month inflation in Germany was still higher). In any case, I'm not sure if inflation is that good of an indicator of the effectiveness of sanctions since it depends also on many other factors such as monetary policy decisions (and this cuts both ways).
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  3510. ​ @QiuSe  If you compare one country (Germany) to Russia using only one component used in the basket of goods used to calculate inflation is such a narrow focus that it doesn't tell much about the effectiveness of sanctions (and like I said earlier, I'm not sure inflation is a good metric of that anyway).
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  3511.  @QiuSe  "in Russia you mostly just experience inflation with some select categories like electronics or cars, in Germany it's a lot more across the board" But if that's the case, then those select categories must have clearly higher inflation that the across the board inflation in Germany (assuming the data by Trading Economics is correct). Otherwise, the overall level of inflation couldn't be higher in Russia. Note, this can't be just some rare items that almost no one buys because the different categories are weighted based on what consumers spend money on. Also, remember that while everyone has to buy food for many in Germany it might not be that high of a percentage of their overall consumption. "depending on the source, Germany is indeed shown with a higher inflation than Russia, for example by the International Monetary Fund" This might be partly due to how often they report figures. Trading Economics has monthly figures and it's only the very latest figures where Russia has passed Germany in inflation. Even in the IMF figures the difference isn't that large, 5.3% for Russia, 6.3% for Germany. Additionally, how individual consumers feel inflation is affecting them often doesn't accurately reflect its actual effect on them. Consumers may e.g. give disproportionate weight to items they buy often even though they're not expensive and not think about rarer but bigger expenses that affect them more.
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  3512.  @QiuSe  As an update, Trading Economics now has October figures for both Germany and Russia. Germany's inflation has further decreased to 3.8% whereas Russia's inflation has increased to 6.7%.
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  3513.  @crhu319  If Ukraine could capture it it could be used as a bargaining chip in negotiations.
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  3514. What's the current biggest crypto that uses proof-of-stake?
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  3515.  @OmegaKillerArtMeisterSkywalker  Thanks. So proof of stake isn't that big yet.
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  3516. So the British try the bite-and-hold strategy again?
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  3517. How could colliding stars save us from the heat death of the universe?
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  3518.  @marcmanolache2106  "One of the main reasons why men are graduating from college less than women is because they're addicted to porn and video games." Is there evidence for this?
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  3519.  @Chonkems  There are a bunch of important companies in the US run by Jewish people. Of course, company founders and inheritors and CEOs are still a small portion of all Jews so that might not much consolation to you personally.
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  3520. Though I'm pretty sure there have been a lot of cases where genius didn't know its limits.
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  3521.  @TinkXFD  It hardly means they weren't genius. Some people can be so clever and creative that they fit the label "genius" but nonetheless get overconfident. You can find examples of e.g. brilliant scientists believing in crackpot theories outside their own field.
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  3522. That makes no sense. You should give up if you realize your idea doesn't work.
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  3523. 8:10 ETPs are not "the equivalent of ETFs in Europe". What are you talking about?
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  3524. Normal rockets also impose acceleration resilience requirements. Also, they introduce a lot of vibration which might be less of a problem with this thing.
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  3525. It's better to tax bad things than to subsidize things that avoid them. Thus congestion charges would be better.
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  3526. India wasn't buying much oil from Russia before the war.
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  3527. Cathode is negative.
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  3528.  @donnievance1942  "This dam is most likely a gravity dam, not an architecturally structural dam." Wikipedia says its type is "earth-fill embankment with gravity sections".
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  3529.  @rnegoro1  I don't think sanctions prevent you from buying ADRs, at least not at this moment. Even if they did there would be people with previous holdings before the sanctions.
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  3530.  @NYSMCOM  The issuer of ADRs should hold an equivalent amount of the underlying stock. If that's a non-Russian bank it could find its Sberbank stock seized by the Russian authorities. Russia could also nationalize the bank and decide to only compensate domestic owners.
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  3531.  @NYSMCOM  They could also only seize foreign-owned shares or even just a some subset of them.
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  3532.  @jivkuu  Thanks.
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  3533.  @doctorferdinand1003  G20 then.
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  3534. "The job of a central bank is to steal money from the those who produce it and give it to the political class." Not really. If the political class wants to "steal" money, it's much easier to do it with taxes. It's better to have a currency that can be inflated when needed. The gold standard didn't work that well during the Great Depression.
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  3535.  @dicktracy3787 : Ah, the US did indeed have a central bank. But my argument was that fiat money is good and it would be a bit difficult to have fiat money without a central bank (but it's certainly possible to have a central bank without fiat money like in that case). I'm certainly not in favor of 90% tax rates but that's a different issue in any case.
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  3536.  @dicktracy3787 : "By the erosion of purchasing power, which is really theft." Inflation (in the normal ranges) won't result in a big loss for you unless keep a big part of your wealth in the form of currency. "Even the best central banks steal 3-5% of the economy every year" This is an exaggeration. It was a bit hard to find data on how much seigniorage (i.e. income from production of base money) do central banks typically earn, but according to the link below in the US it's been at most in the tens of billions making it a fraction of a percent of the size of the economy. https://files.stlouisfed.org/files/htdocs/publications/review/92/03/Seigniorage_Mar_Apr1992.pdf "from the people who created that wealth to the politically connected" No, "the people who created that wealth" don't lose very much unless their wealth is mostly in the form of currency. Also, the seigniorage typically mostly ends up in the government budget eventually. It's no different from regular taxes in this regard.
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  3537.  @dicktracy3787 : "If central banks were good for the economy/people then counterfeiters would be also." If some of the monetary base is created by counterfeiters then the central bank has to create less money than otherwise to hit its inflation target thus earning less seigniorage. That means that typically counterfeiters don't really have a big macroeconomic effect but they directly reduce the seigniorage income the government earns so it's fairly understandable that governments want to combat counterfeiting. (I guess in extreme situations they might increase inflation but that probably doesn't seem common.) "Your justification is that central banks are only stealing a little from each person each year." My justification is that some inflation makes the economy operate more smoothly. Nominal prices and especially wages don't often react to changing situations fast enough so it's easier to adjust the money supply around them. Btw, I don't view e.g. taxes as theft so I don't view seigniorage either since it's similar from a certain point of view. Do you view all taxes as theft and support 0% tax rate? "BTW it is definitely 3-5%. The goal is 2% inflation in most western countries, plus the money supply has to grow at the same rate as the economy (1-3%)" But there's a number of problems with this. Just because there's 2% inflation doesn't mean that 2% of the economy disappears somewhere or anything. People who hold currency of course suffer some amount of real loss because of it and the government earns some income from the production of money. But 3-5% yearly growth rate of the money supply doesn't mean that these figures would be equal to 3-5% of the economy unless the supply of base money is equal to a year's GDP which it isn't. It's much less than that.
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  3538.  @modern5387  "If it was really that easy to take 10% off the weight of trucks, it would have been done a long time ago." To be fair to him, EVs don't need some parts that ICE cars or trucks do. E.g. most electric cars don't have a gearbox (with e.g. some electric race cars as exceptions). However, a reduction of weight equal to 10% of the weight of a truck (with the battery and electric motors included) sounds a bit overly optimistic. At least he should have justified that figure with some data.
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  3539.  @mrsminighost  "cutting out the entire power train, the engine" But OBF's estimate of 10% weight reduction was after the diesel engine was replaced by electric motors so you can't include the engine in this calculation (and additionally OBF was calculating the 10% of the weight that already includes the battery and the electric motors).
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  3540. Or surströmming.
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  3541. Visualpolitik is a Spanish channel.
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  3542.  @unconventionalideas5683  Are you sure that's important? Are there significant differences in political positions wrt. Taiwan inside the Party? Would a different leader have a significantly different policy? I thought Xi's position is mainstream inside the Party.
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  3543. I wonder why you didn't mention using geothermal energy for heating directly. A low temperature of the water inevitably means lower efficiency for an electricity generating plant due to the laws of thermodynamics but the same isn't true when you only need heat.
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  3544.  @NeoWalpolean  "Guaranteed he voted Democrat in CA" What makes you think that?
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  3545. In the case of Moldova it very much did. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas.
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  3546.  @Concerned63Citizen  It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  3547. "Followed by turkish drones." Was Ukraine sent any Bayraktars after the start of the war? They did have at least some even before the start of the war. Are you sure you're not thinking of those?
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  3548. What about Mildom? Is it profitable?
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  3549.  @aleks5405  "It was privatised in 1995 as VR-konserni" No, it was restructured as company then but it was not privatized (and to nitpick the name is VR-Yhtymä or in English VR Group, not VR-Konserni). "The state owns more than 50% of the company" That is an understatement as the state owns full 100% of the stock. It is not private in any way (unlike the other companies you mentioned).
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  3550.  @aleks5405  "Well Tapio is a private company that is also 100% owned by the state." If it's owned 100% by the state then it's not been privatized. There has to be at least some private ownership for the word "privatization" to apply.
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  3551.  @aleks5405  "It doesn't matter who owns the corporation" Quite the opposite. If the company is 100% owned by the state it's public. The other factors you mentioned are not a part of the definition of public/private. "The Finnish government agrees that VR is part of the private sector" No, it doesn't.
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  3552. Care to reveal it?
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  3553.  @ardaturkoglu11  I don't know who specifically you're referring to. I don't think I've been inconsistent in this regard.
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  3554.  @ardaturkoglu11  "I'm referring to westerns." That's a very large group of people. Many Westerners say different things because they believe different things. Were you referring to me since put your comment under my comment? (I am from a country that's usually considered Western.)
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  3555.  @ardaturkoglu11  In this thread I only see one commenter (der defr) calling Erdogan a dictator and he didn't seem to make any predictions about the upcoming election. Also, we don't know if he's a Westerner or not; his channel page doesn't give a location.
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  3556. I'm hoping that tobacco could be banned someday but it probably can only be feasible if the use has declined enough before that.
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  3557. But it did. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  3558.  @b-17gflyingfortress6  Yeah, but it's less so because it's an unmanned platform.
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  3559. Shell-barry
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  3560.  @aitor47  "What would USA do if Russia would allocate soldiers and weapons in Mexico?" I'm pretty sure it wouldn't respond with invasion.
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  3561.  @maximbravo6835  In the case of Cuba it wasn't about troops but nukes in Cuba (and Turkey) and in any case it didn't result in an invasion and today's USA is quite different from the one during the Cold War.
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  3562.  @maximbravo6835  "NATO troops and arms in Ukraine..." I'm fairly sure that there are no (or next to no) NATO troops in Ukraine.
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  3563.  @maximbravo6835  The Canadian troops are there only train the Ukrainian military. There's only like 200 of them which is basically nothing in terms of military strength. They're only relevant in their training aspect.
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  3564. "We are strong together brothers and we will defeat those western imperialists." Currently it's Russia that's going for an imperialist land-grab.
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  3565.  @SusCalvin  Here in Finland comparisons are often made to Sweden. For many, many years Sweden seems to have been doing better, at least in terms of economy (but not necessarily in e.g. primary education or gun violence) having more GDP growth, less unemployment, and less debt. Sweden having worse GDP growth figures now is a little bit of a surprise.
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  3566.  @SusCalvin  I'm more referring to the past 2 or 3 decades, not the Cold War era.
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  3567. Zeihan is always making overdramatic predictions that seem unlikely to become true.
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  3568. I'm not a flat earther but I've sometimes argued with them online and seen them argue with other people. Here's my impression of their opinions about the questions you had. Why would the powers that be lie about the shape of the Earth? I think I've seen two different (though similar) answers to this: 1) The goal is to make people disbelieve the Bible. 2) The goal is to just to tell a huge lie because successfully telling such a big means that it's then much easier to tell smaller lies and through that control people. (Don't ask me how's this supposed to make sense.) Why not just travel to the edge? The most common model of the flat Earth I've seen (or rather the only one I've seen that isn't vague handwaving) is a circular disc with the north pole in the center and Antarctica at the outer edges. One typical claim is that the governments all the countries don't allow anyone to go Antarctica (which is not actually the case). Many also don't claim full confidence of the precise nature of Earth and think that the icy wasteland might go on forever.
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  3569. "So they attacked Russia to quickly destroy it and weaken their main enemy." Biden hasn't, in fact, attacked Russia. Russia is the one attacking in this war.
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  3570. But to be fair, the Europol logo is much more boring.
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  3571. Russia clearly fails in the c part.
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  3572. How would that work?
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  3573.  @javi185javi  "The EU is not the ruling body of the Council, its the Committee of Ministers." No, the Council (not Committee) of Ministers, or formally the "Council of the European Union" is a part of the legislative branch of the EU together with the European Parliament.
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  3574.  @madselmvig1457  "EU is the governing body of the EU Council" The council they talk about in this video is the Council of Europe which is not an EU institution.
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  3575. Then we need to develop radical life extension.
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  3576.  @electrodacus  This is not a case of stored energy. In principle, the cart can maintain a speed above the winds speed indefinitely as long as the wind is blowing.
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  3577.  @electrodacus  "Is there a designed speed above wind speed that the vehicle will reach and then stay in equilibrium at that speed indefinitely ?" At some point drag will exceed the thrust that can be generated if the vehicle doesn't topple over before that. Of course, such limit is probably not explicitly designed. "How do you capture the wind energy when as far as the vehicle is concerned when you are traveling at say 2x wind speed the vehicle will now experience a head wind." It's because the propeller spins fast enough to generate thrust. The wind is still essential because the apparent headwind is slower than the speed of the ground relative to the vehicle. That's why the wheels can power the propeller. "If you take 5W from the wheel and put 4W out of propeller will the vehicle not slow down ?" No, because the force at the propeller is greater than the one at the wheels. "You can not say that 1W delta comes from the wind as air particles are now traveling in the opposite of vehicle direction at 2x the wind speed slowing the vehicle even more." You're looking at the inertial frame tied to the vehicle (at a particular moment)? I don't think it's the most intuitive frame to look at this. However, if you want to consider this frame, notice that here the ground contains kinetic energy because it's moving relative to the vehicle. So basically in it's own frame the vehicle will decelerate the ground and accelerate the air. Because the ground is moving faster than the air the former will release more energy than the latter consumes. The difference (minus some dissipative losses like friction) can be used to accelerate the vehicle.
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  3578. 0:30 My intuition would say that it spins in the same direction as when expelling water.
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  3579. I've been told that the reason they're called mobile homes is that Mobile Homes was one company making manufactured houses and it was named like that because it was based in Mobile, Alabama.
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  3580.  @johanmetreus1268  "Kremlin: shoots down civilian MH17." I think it's more likely that it was shot down by the Russia backed separatist forces (thinking it was a Ukrainian military plane) rather than by Kremlin.
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  3581. I think one of the most important questions wasn't asked here. How much is this constraining or will constrain the Russian war effort?
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  3582.  @looinrims  That doesn't really tell anything about how large the effect is.
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  3583.  @looinrims  Some kind of estimates or guesses can always be made, though uncertainty is of course higher than it will be years after. I think it's a shame this question wasn't asked at all in this video.
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  3584. You can, at least theoretically, buy more than the float if there's anyone with a short position on the stock.
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  3585. Do you think they should've also prevented selling? Why?
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  3586.  @bblack6868  Also preventing selling would have prevented even more choice. It was better that at least selling was possible, though ideally both buying and selling should've been.
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  3587.  @Aurinkohirvi  "if a NATO-Russia war starts" It's unlikely to happen. Past seems to indicate that Russia isn't willing to invade NATO members.
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  3588. "I also adore the pronoun "It", most languages don't have gender neutral pronouns." Maybe this is true for Indo-European languages but not globally. To my knowledge, having gender-specific pronouns (like "he" and "she") is less common globally than not having any such gender-specific pronouns.
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  3589.  @AdlerMow : I don't know either but I think it might be common in Germanic languages in general. German similarly has "es" (meaning "it") which isn't masculine or feminine. It might be because German has three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter, whereas Portuguese only has masculine and feminine (I think). Similarly in Swedish "it" is either "den" or "det". Long ago, Swedish used to have the same three grammatical genders as German but at some point, the masculine and feminine genders merged and now it only has two: common and neuter. (Swedish does have "he" and "she" though which are "han" and "hon" respectively. There's also a gender-neutral "hen" for referring to persons but it's a recent invention.)
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  3590.  @marciliocalazans3983  Lol.
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  3591.  @marciliocalazans3983  Lol.
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  3592. "I am so done with politicians refusing to leave power" Including Putin?
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  3593. How much more? At least part of that might be explained by the EU being bigger. EU28 (before Brexit) had a population of about 500 million.
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  3594.  @rainmaker2754  Lol!
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  3595. 2:07 Wow, I didn't expect to see this channel use a page from a webcomic (Stand Still, Stay Silent).
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  3596.  @jamesmnguyen  I don't think that could be practical even if you had to start from a clean slate anyway. I don't think there's a practical way to step up the voltage of DC other than to first convert it to AC so you can run it through a transformer and convert it back to DC. Basically every transformer would need to be replaced with a full converter station. I don't think that would make economic sense.
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  3597. "That speech Putin made about the west's history of colonization perfectly encapsulates how the non western world , or how we, the west view as the " 3rd world" feels about us." Russia is a similar colonial power to the Western European countries with its conquests in e.g. Central Asia. The difference is that it still retains many of those past conquests. Russia is the last remaining colonial empire.
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  3598.  @PhilippBlum  "Well, the US Dollar dominance going to only 30 - 40% would be still a huge loss in power." But most of the other reserve currencies like the Euro, Pound Sterling, and Japanese Yen are those of US allies.
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  3599. "How is it possible for financial assets to gain so much when the real economy lost ground?" Because the market prices of those financial assets depend on expected future returns. In short, the markets expect the economy to recover.
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  3600.  @coolmodelguy  "The economy climbs at a more or less set rate." The real economy losing ground, which you asked about, is just one year. It'll be in the past soon.
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  3601.  @coolmodelguy  "There is just no way that financial assets can continue growing at the rate shown" Well, maybe it won't continue. I don't know. I thought you asked why financial assets have done better than one might expect this and the previous year even though the real economy has taken a hit. That's what I answered. I haven't said anything about what rate they will or won't continue to grow. (As a side-note, your second graph shows the total amount of assets, not just their valuations. That's also a function of the amount of savings, not just the yield of those assets. And some of those assets are less prone to fluctuations like real estate or government bonds.)
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  3602.  @coolmodelguy  "this growth is placing an unbearable strain on our population" What? How? It's not a strain.
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  3603.  @coolmodelguy  "Growth in housing costs. Growth in healthcare costs. Growth in energy costs. Growth in costs regarding every aspect of requirements for sustaining our place in our society." You were talking about asset prices before. Your original question was: "How is it possible for financial assets to gain so much when the real economy lost ground?" I answered it. The answer is that markets are optimistic about the future. Your subsequent comments seem to mostly talk about other stuff than the question I answered.
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  3604.  @coolmodelguy  "Your original answer was incomplete" Do you mean that my subsequent answers completed it? In any case, the markets take a long term view so the economy having lost ground (as you mentioned in your first comment) doesn't have that much effect as it's likely a short term phenomenon and passes once the pandemic is over. "you made an inaccurate statement: "It's not a strain."" It's not inaccurate. In your comment you said: "the growth in financial assets [...] this growth is placing an unbearable strain on our population". I see no reason why growth in financial assets would be a strain. (In a subsequent comment you mentioned growth in various costs but those were not in the comment my "it's not a strain" comment was a reply to.)
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  3605.  @coolmodelguy  "Most of the gains in the stock market were not due to a forward looking market." Do you have anything to back up that claim?
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  3606.  @coolmodelguy  Well, that MarketWatch article doesn't seem to say that the markets wouldn't be forward-looking. It just claims that markets are higher than they would be if the money used for share buybacks had been used for something else. If the companies don't have sufficiently profitable investment opportunities it then makes sense to distribute at least some of the profits to the shareholders via dividends or buybacks. (I don't quite understand why in their calculation the market would be lower if the money had been used for dividends instead of buybacks. In theory, there should be no difference. Are they including taxes in their calculations?)
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  3607.  @coolmodelguy  "The mechanics of stock buybacks dictate that buying back shares increases the value of existing shares" It does mean that the share price will be higher than if the money had been used for dividends instead of buybacks. However, in the article, they mentioned that they were calculating a total return index which includes the assumption that the hypothetical investor reinvests all dividends. In theory, there should be no difference between buybacks and dividends in such a case (ignoring e.g. taxes). "We are entering into an age of "Techno-Feudalism", where each American family sends a $5000 "wealth tax" directly to the oligarch class each year." I'm not sure what you're referring to but, in any case, I don't see why that would make the performance of the stock market surprising. "The first one shows that the wealthy gained $9.8 trillion in financial asset value in 2020." It shows the total wealth of all households (and nonprofits), not just the wealthy. In any case, I don't see why the wealthy gaining X dollars would somehow imply that the performance of the stock market surprising. "The third one shows that money printing shot straight up in 2020, with $13.73 trillion in new dollars created" This is monetary stimulus. It's not far-fetched to think that the markets expect it to improve the economy. "over 90% of that went straight to the stock market" That just doesn't make sense. Whenever someone buys stocks there's someone on the other side selling them and vice versa. There isn't money "going to the stock market" in the net (except when companies raise capital by issuing stock, but that's certainly not in the $10 trillion range). If you simply meant that the stock market has gone up because of the money printing it can simply be because the markets expect it to improve the economy. "tons of money being printed and none of that money getting into the hands of ordinary people" Money creation is income to the government.
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  3608.  @coolmodelguy  "you have repeated the phrase "I don't see" so many times, that I can literally visualize you wearing blinders" You haven't given any reasons why the statistics you mentioned would somehow imply that the stock market is too high.
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  3609. Must have been a pretty jarring experience for Ares. Maybe we can call him Jares after this.
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  3610.  @dragonhead5019  Bringing inflation down from 20% will require above 20% rates, at least for a while.
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  3611.  @dragonhead5019  20% is enough that something like that won't suffice. The inflation can't be brought down from that number without tighter monetary policy and that implies higher rates, at least temporarily.
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  3612. About the Betz limit. My intuition would say that a VAWT can extract energy from the wind two times at most (on the upwind side and on the downwind side) and therefore applying the Betz limit should give a theoretical maximum. The Betz limit is 16/27 or about 59%. The Betz limit applied twice is 1-(1-16/27)²=608/729 or about 83%. Does this make any sense or am I on a completely wrong track?
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  3613. Was the word "wherewithal" to difficult to pronounce?
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  3614.  @jvjv8093  "Why isn't the title Death in Venezia?" Because the title is in English.
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  3615. At least in Finland, yes. Switzerland was very safe either way.
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  3616. Better than a two-bit company...well, maybe not.
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  3617. It's minuscule for most people.
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  3618. Counting Europe and Asia as separate continents makes no sense.
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  3619. Some snakes are also poisonous.
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  3620.  @DamianYerrick : "Modern language does tend to sound excessively polite (or "P.C.") to previous generations thanks to the euphemism treadmill. It's why instead of "id*ot", "m*ron", "imb*cile", or "r*tard", we now say "person with intellectual disability"." I think in many cases it's not quite like that. Rather words that are coined as technical terms or euphemisms for the cognitively disabled pick up a negative connotation and eventually become slurs. This is because even if we care about the cognitively impaired, it's generally a position of low status and can thus be used as an insult against those with cognitive abilities in normal ranges. I think a good example of this is the word "cretin" used of the cognitively impaired. It comes from the word for "Christian" in some dialect of French and was supposed to imply that they still deserve human dignity. However, that's not how the word sounds today. Also, the word "special" which today is used as a euphemism for them seems to also be picking up a negative connotation.
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  3621.  @ceruchi2084 : Lol!
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  3622. Does that make you an infracommuter?
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  3623. But having Sweden in would enhance the safety of the Baltic countries.
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  3624.  @SIPEROTH  Microsoft paid Nokia a bit over €5 billion. After the deal was announced, Nokia's market value went up by about €4 billion and Microsoft's down by about €6 billion. If we assume that that movement was entirely due to the deal, the markets seemed to evaluate that the value of the phone division for Nokia was about €1 billion and Microsoft paid 5x more (and the value for Microsoft was negative).
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  3625.  @ararak7132  Wdym? MS doesn't own the whole internet.
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  3626. The EU treaties don't have any provisions for forcibly ejecting a member state.
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  3627. The alternative, i.e. making new steel from ore, also requires a lot of ore to be shipped around. It's rather hard to believe that making new steel from ore is less harmful.
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  3628. Is there any chance of an amicable split?
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  3629. The Celts or the Germanics weren't that much taller, at least not relative to the variation inside the population of Romans (or that of the Celts/Germanics). The Romans may have been a bit shorter on average but there were also a lot of tall Romans.
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  3630.  @scintillam_dei  No, I was only commenting on the height.
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  3631.  @scintillam_dei  Metatron has a nice video on this (and I'm pretty sure he's not a neo-nazi, lol). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU2yNNQ1vxU
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  3632.  @scintillam_dei  "[Vegetius] was born around the year 300" Is there any earlier source on the height of the Romans or that of the Celts or Germanics? "myth of macro-evolution is taught as science when it's garbage" Arguing that is like arguing that the theory of spherical Earth is garbage.
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  3633.  @scintillam_dei  "You ask me for support for your side" No, I'm asking what's the support for your side. You say: "ancients themselves say that northern barbarians were MUCH taller". What's your source for this?
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  3634. Solar energy output is lower in the winter.
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  3635. Air conditioners are heat pumps.
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  3636.  @andriandrason1318  If you totally refuse service without a valid reason the punishment is 173 days in prison.
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  3637.  @deniseproxima2601  How is that related to my comment? Did you tag the wrong person by accident?
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  3638.  @deniseproxima2601  I didn't mean that all restrictions are bad. Only just that many places have been restricting construction of housing far too much. It's the topic of this very video.
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  3639.  @deniseproxima2601  People require those things wherever you put them. In a megacity they likely need less space (or rather area) per person.
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  3640. "That cop will come back after what amounts to a paid vacation." I've heard an argument that administrative leaves still work as punishment. The argument is that cops often have odd working hours and thus a significant part of their income comes from overtime pay and other such bonuses etc. On administrative leave they only get their base salary and thus can lose a significant amount of money.
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  3641.  @ernie9538  I don't see a connection to drugs. But even if there were wouldn't that make it a job for the DEA?
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  3642.  @ernie9538  CIA is for spying abroad.
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  3643. "which would cause a fall in RPM - if the load were large enough in turn causing a vane to open to allow more water through the turbine" Additional load can also cause additional turbines to be spun up.
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  3644.  @ferstuck37  "they are passing the tax onto consumers" Then consuming more carbon intensive products becomes more expensive and the consumers will consume less of those. That's exactly what should happen.
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  3645. Real GDP per capita is $21,000. Also, they have a decent GDP growth rate.
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  3646. In many places in Europe time-limited parking spaces require you to have a parking disc in your car's window showing when you arrived. Does system like that not exist in the US or does it depend on the place?
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  3647. Danish and French numbers are just stupid. :) (Don't take this too seriously.)
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  3648.  @qorrro : It's just that the plain decimal system for the names of the numbers feels simpler to me. Of course, I wasn't being serious about calling French and Danish numbers "stupid".
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  3649.  @obiwankenobi1653 : Are those Georgian names ending in -vili surnames? Somehow I thought they were true patronyms.
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  3650.  @obiwankenobi1653 : OK, but what I meant is that are they passed along the family line or do they tell the name of the person's father (like e.g. Icelandic names)?
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  3651.  @obiwankenobi1653 : Interesting, thanks. :)
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  3652.  @obiwankenobi1653 : Btw, I have a bit nitpicky question still. Was the last name literally "Sigurdson"? At least in Swedish these kind of names are written with two S's like "Sigurdsson" because, even if nowadays they're just family names, it literally means just "Sigurd's son" (though in Swedish it would be written without an apostrophe). In Danish the similar names are to my knowledge written like "Sigurdsen", i.e. with only one S but an E instead of an O. (Sorry, if I'm being annoying. I just find these small details interesting.)
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  3653.  @obiwankenobi1653 : OK, thanks. I suspect it was spelled Sigurdsson or Sigurdsen where he came from, but hard to for sure.
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  3654. "Should the penalty for murder be based on income?" For murder you usually get prison time. You can say X years in prison is more in dollar terms for a rich person because their time is more valuable (in dollars).
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  3655.  @augustuscaesar8287  Under the Austrian State Treaty unification with Germany is forbidden. Therefore, it will almost certainly not happen.
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  3656. It's in the logo!
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  3657. I suspect that the circuitries for laptop batteries don't facilitate discharging it through the charging port.
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  3658.  @sp90009  "Somebody thought about this use case during the design phase?" Based on the Wikipedia page on vehicle-to-grid technology most EVs don't have that capability though some do. The page says: "There are several electric vehicles that have been specially modified or are designed to be compatible with V2G. Hyundai ix35 FCEV from Delft University of Technology is modified with a 10 kW DC V2G output. Two vehicles that have a theoretical V2G capability include the Nissan Leaf and Nissan e-NV200."
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  3659.  @sp90009  Redesign for future EV production is probably a minor issue since it's a fairly small part of the car. Retrofits on existing EVs are probably a bit more difficult but can probably be done as well. I suspect laptop batteries aren't big enough to economically justify a grid monitoring device for them.
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  3660.  @Joeseanag24  The Cyprus dispute isn't.
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  3661.  @Lyallpuriya  I don't agree but Georgia is majority Christian in any case.
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  3662.  @jirislavicek9954  Cyprus probably sees Turkey occupying a part of their territory as well. Though maybe it's less problematic because it's an older issue and Turkey is less erratic than Russia so even if the status quo is problematic peace can be maintained.
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  3663.  @jokerofmorocco  That seems overly indirect. Turkey currently wouldn't fulfill membership requirements and can't be let in anyway unless all members agree. There's no reason to not let Georgia in just so that Turkey wouldn't join. The border disputes etc. are clearly much more important.
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  3664. Even if YouTube is banned maybe you can still upload using a VPN?
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  3665.  @roberthigbee3260  "on a windless day, if you towed that fancy prop-car behind a pickup truck, the prop-car would soon go faster than and then pass the pickup truck and keep on going" No, that would be true free energy. This cart is getting kinetic energy from the wind.
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  3666.  @largo778  I mean, I don't think "mutated" excludes genetic engineering.
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  3667. I don't think that's really accurate. Not all EU countries are that reliant on Russian gas anymore. The ones that have been more reliant include Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria. However, Hungary has been against supporting Ukraine and so has Slovakia after Fico came into office in late 2023. I don't think it's accurate call that "stab in the back" if those countries weren't in favor of supporting Ukraine and sanctioning Russia in the first place. At the very least, Ukraine is less concerned with losing their support if it doesn't have their support in the first place. (As for Austria, it has recently had a dispute with Russia and wasn't going to receive gas from Russia in any case.)
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  3668. 3:25 This is a fallacy (similar to the broken window one). It's not better for the rest of us if the rich spend their wealth rather than being frugal. When they consume they consume resources that could otherwise have been consumed by others. On the other hand, if they and all their descendants (or other inheritors) keep the wealth in perpetuity without spending it, it essentially becomes a gift to the rest of society. The rich spending their money can be good for yacht makers but not the whole society on average.
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  3669. Inflation in Turkey cannot be reduced without a significant rate hike.
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  3670. 12:35 OK, I've not used Rust and I've only read on it a little bit, but shouldn't it be possible for Rust to include a garbage collection as a library? Technically, reference counting is a form of GC so, in a way, Rust already has a kind of GC in the form of Rc (and Arc) and AFAIK, that's just a part of the standard library, not some kind of special language primitive. You could also write your own Rc in Rust if you wanted. Similarly, you could also write your own tracing GC, though it would be more effort. In fact, based on short googling it seems someone has written some kind of GC library for Rust. Now, the next step would just be for Rust to include something like that in its standard library. Then, every Rust programmer could make their lives easier and use tracing GC but only when and if they want to.
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  3671. "Russia is richer than Europe and Canada combined. [...] Russia's GDP is 35 trillion rubles." That makes no sense. EU's GDP is in (nominal) Rouble about 1,000 trillion (though the difference is smaller if you adjust for price level).
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  3672.  @arthurgimov  "let's compare prices." For that it's best to use a broad based index. I didn't find that directly but I think I can infer that from GDP data. According to data by the World Bank (which you can check on their website) EU's nominal GDP is about 9.7 times of that Russia whereas PPP adjusted GDP is about 4.5 times that of Russia. The ratio between these suggests that the price level in the EU is about 2.1 times higher than in Russia. This adjustment isn't enough to make Russia richer. "How much would all this cost you?" For the items you mentioned, school would also be free, medical care is not entirely free but the out of pocket cost is very small, and housing costs several times (more than 5x) more. Even if government provides services for free that doesn't imply a low price level for this purpose as you're still paying for them through another route (i.e. taxes). The cost of housing varies a lot based on specific location so one example doesn't tell much.
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  3673. But that's illegal.
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  3674.  @Maninawig : Yeah, there certainly can be reasons why some people or organizations might want to spoil evidence, at least if they don't get caught. But surely that isn't a surprise to anyone. Spoiling evidence, however, can be dangerous if you get caught (besides being morally repugnant).
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  3675.  @Maninawig : I don't understand what's your proposed scheme here. If a company spoils evidence, it's they who're liable to receive a punishment for it if caught, not any other party who didn't do it and didn't tell anyone else to do it (if I've understood correctly).
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  3676.  @Maninawig : "However, what imhappens to the case if the reason to ruin evidence IS to discredit a defense?" Do you mean that the defense doesn't get the evidence they want because it's been destroyed?
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  3677.  @Maninawig : "this corrupted evidence would assure that the defendant's faulty claim of being insured since the beginning of the month will be seen as fact" Are you referring to the possibility of issue/inference sanctions mentioned by LegalEagle? If you are, I don't think that's how it works. Those sanctions were for cases where one party in the trial destroys evidence leading to the opposite side's claim about it to be considered to be true for the purpose of reaching a verdict. So in your example, if it were the defendant destroying the metadata or the cousin in the insurance company destroying it due to instructions given by the defendant, the defendant could then be punished by the court via having the plaintiff's claim of the lack of insurance be considered true (if they're caught). If a third party, like the insurance company, destroys the evidence on their own, it's only they that can be sanctioned and because they're not a party to the trial they can't be hit with an issue/inference sanction. If on the other hand you simply meant that fabricated evidence might make it look like the defendant had insurance when they actually didn't, that's just a general problem of evaluating the reliability of evidence in a trial and not directly related to the rules and sanctions of discovery. (IANAL, but this is my best understanding.)
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  3678.  @515coldfire  The Russians deliberately filled the Kakhovka dam's reservoir by keeping the dam's sluice gates closed.
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  3679.  @michaelgnit8476  "The Russian's [...] mine fields and defensive positions" They have far less need for those now. Washing away some minefields from the Left Bank doesn't seem to benefit Ukraine if they can't cross the Dnieper anyhow.
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  3680.  @rogerhearn5243  They were shooting the bridge going along the dam with HIMARS and they were specifically targeting the section at the southern end of the bridge where it curves away from the dam. That would seem to indicate that they'd prefer to avoid damaging the dam if possible.
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  3681. The Rothschilds are irrelevant. That family has a couple of billionaires but the world has many much wealthier billionaires.
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  3682.  @deesmith6363  The Rothschilds are greatly diminished from their glory days. I think they lost about a half of their fortune in WWI.
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  3683.  @deesmith6363  Of course a big fall in wealth doesn't completely stop them from financing someone or something but it does make them (nowadays) insignificant in the grand scheme of things.
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  3684. "Good for [...] all Muslim" Well, not for the ones in Turkey since they'll continue suffering from the high inflation.
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  3685. Maybe you could have mentioned the term "Keynesian beauty contest".
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  3686. For the anectote you could have used that of François and Joseph Blanc. That one was actually real.
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  3687. 4D Chess might not exist (I haven't checked) but 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel does!
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  3688.  @sampohonkala4195  But you do need to affirm that you can't serve due to reasons of convictions. The form you have to sign has the following text: "Vakuutan vakaumukseen perustuvien syiden estävän minua suorittamasta asevelvollisuuslaissa säädettyä palvelusta."
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  3689. I have to nitpick a bit about the history part. Firstly, you seem to conflate the fall of the Roman Republic and of the Roman Empire. The "barbarians" are usually blamed mostly for the fall of the Empire but you mostly spoke about the fall of the Republic when explaining why you think that's false. Secondly, I'm not sure "Ceasar crossing the Rubicon" was the moment when the fall of the Republic was clear. Sulla had already marched on Rome earlier and made himself a dictator for life earlier. You can argue that he retired after one year but that was only clear after the fact and in any case, he set a dangerous precedent.
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  3690.  @jonathantaylor6926  "In my estimation these tanks will be found by aerial surveillance and destroyed at great distance by Russian artillery." I don't believe that. Russian artillery is probably not accurate enough to do that, at least not at "great distance". Of course, field artillery can cause casualties but your wording suggests most of them would be destroyed by artillery before getting into combat and that doesn't seem likely.
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  3691.  @jonathantaylor6926  "Artillery is pretty accurate with drones correcting fire." It's not accurate enough to consistently land direct hits at a "great distance" without some kind of guided munitions, especially when you consider that a lot of the Russian artillery pieces probably have at least somewhat worn barrels due to the constant use and that means lower accuracy.
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  3692. I thought the word "polar" meant that the molecule actually has a non-zero dipole moment (and not just quadrupole or some higher moment).
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  3693.  @MichelleHell  My point was that he called CO₂ "polar" even though it doesn't have a dipole moment. I didn't the word could be used like that.
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  3694. 14:10 France seems to be a country split into two extremes. What's the reason?
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  3695.  @XXStoogieXX : Well, they had that time, didn't they? And it wasn't utilized in any way that would even seem to have had a chance to make a difference. And in any case that doesn't respond to the second part of my comment where I argue that Gensoul could have deliberately caused enough delay even if he met with Holland personally.
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  3696. Do they ever fall down?
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  3697.  @ling636  In this case credit risk wasn't the problem (unlike in 2008).
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  3698. Not anymore.
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  3699.  @maya-cc2sx  In what way?
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  3700.  @maya-cc2sx  That's a bit different from the HRE which was, at least formally, a state.
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  3701. Why is it an awful name?
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  3702.  @purewhiteness3355  OK, I can understand that logic. At first I thought you meant that "Satellite" was somehow inherently problematic name for a vaccine.
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  3703. "if this was a deliberate damage to the pipe line and a bombing in Finish territory(?)" I think the damage occurred in the narrow strip of sea between the Finnish and Estonian territorial waters so technically not Finnish territory. Of course, it was still in either the Finnish or Estonian EEZ (not sure which one).
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  3704. Do the rail cars use ball bearings or roller bearings?
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  3705. "anyone can work hard and achieve a lower case rich net worth of a million or two" I think "anyone" taken literally (or even like 90%) is an exaggeration but a clear majority could at least improve their financial situation if they followed Graham's advice (provided they weren't doing that already).
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  3706. 2.6 million? For a pension fund that should be almost nothing.
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  3707. Can you point to any instance where someone (or some organization) looted someone's pension or savings with derivatives? How would that even work? Surely pension funds don't usually put their investments into derivatives.
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  3708. I think it's the average return of some index he looked at.
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  3709. "just sell them at a lower price" It's become unprofitable.
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  3710. This is high voltage DC, not Edison's low voltage DC.
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  3711. Wrong empire! :D
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  3712.  @JamesKerLindsay  Are you a Liberal Democrat voter then?
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  3713.  @kathibaba7665  Maybe, but I think counting leasing equipment would broaden the definition too much.
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  3714. MW is a unit of power. W is already J per second. It doesn't make sense to say MW per day or per hour.
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  3715.  @FaradayBananacage  I think that's less of a problem than word boundaries not being marked. Of course, you could use some other glyph to mark sentences or clauses.
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  3716. Ukraine: "They misunderestimated me."
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  3717. 1:12:10 At first I took the talk of the "curse" as a joke. But are you suggesting here that she's seriously applying to be the General Secretary of NATO to avoid some kind of supernatural curse? Or are you just joking?
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  3718. Several comments here have said that in the US e.g. giving cup of coffee to a utility worker was too much and got that worker fired.
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  3719. "Now Russian gas is bad despite the obvious comparative advantage to Europe?" Only because of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
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  3720.  @rali-cassim2733  Maybe but do you mean it should have happened in the past or do you mean right now?
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  3721. "It would be a mistake to repeat the Versailles Treaty by imposing excessively onerous reparations terms" Realistically speaking, I don't think Russia is going to be paying any reparations regardless of how the war goes. Even if Ukraine achieves a very decisive victory it can probably at most recapture its lost territory. It's not going to march into Moscow to dictate terms (in addition to getting the territory back). It's difficult to imagine a scenario where Russia both can and will pay. What is the worse outcome Russia would avoid by paying if Ukraine can't march into Moscow? Also, the worse outcomes for Russia don't indicate payment either. If Russia falls into political turmoil due to the war going badly there won't be a strong Russian government which could impose these kinds of payments on the Russian population. If the Russian economy were to be utterly ruined then it cannot afford to pay.
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  3722. I think it would be even better if the Vatican joined NATO.
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  3723. How is it an enemy?
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  3724. @Zaydan Alfariz According to Wiktionary it means something like "color" in Sanskrit. However, it seems to have other unrelated meanings in other languages so the name of the Bulgarian city likely doesn't come from Sanskrit.
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  3725. Haha! (But seriously central banks have it a lot better. The money they print can be viewed as their liability but it's very different from loans we take (or even the credit expansion by regular commercial banks). They don't have to pay it back and they're not obligated to pay any interest on it. They may pay interest on bank reserves but they don't have to and can sometimes even unilaterally make the interest on reserves negative.)
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  3726.  @miafiolekova5817  1) In the case of Special Drawing Rights the value is determined by a currency basket with the following weights: U.S. dollar 43.38%, euro 29.31%, Chinese yuan 12.28%, Japanese yen 7.59%, British pound sterling 7.44%. In the case of the hypothetical BRICS currency something similar could be decided, though I can't know for sure whether they would want to do that or some other option. The precise percentages would probably involve some difficult political wrangling but at least they wouldn't necessarily have to be updated often. 2) In many cases those companies already have to do the same thing but just with the US dollar.
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  3727.  @johnslugger  Putin seems to go for showy assassinations rather than cheap ones. The polonium that was used to poison Litvinenko is estimated to have cost millions.
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  3728.  @warped_rider  Any connection to Murmaider?
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  3729. The official election results are obviously fabricated. The percentages are almost exactly land on a tenth of a percent (and even on a fifth of a percent). That's too big of a coincidence to happen by chance. Someone just made up the results.
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  3730. @Happy Man: Isn't supplying Britain a good thing? It would have been even better if they had actually joined the hostilities earlier but better that they at least supported Britain's war effort.
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  3731. The ECB isn't printing enough money. Inflation has been below the 2% target for a really long while.
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  3732.  @reiksxd5832  You'd think Estonia can't generate many tourists since it's such a small country, especially compared to Indonesia which is the 4th most populous country in the World.
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  3733. It wasn't Ukraine. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  3734. Corruption may be hard work (even when it's not productive work from the society's point of view).
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  3735. I guess he isn't like most people.
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  3736.  @sirrathersplendid4825  I'm guess they passed a laws to facilitate the sanctions so not having an existing law isn't a problem (if there aren't constitutional hurdles).
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  3737.  @mmtl9203  I'd say that's different. In that case the torture didn't occur on American soil.
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  3738.  @sirrathersplendid4825  I did a quick search on Law Stack Exchange. It seems that at least in the case of the UK the legal basis is the Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2018 so at least in that case my guess wasn't quite correct since there was a pre-existing law.
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  3739.  @mmtl9203  "'American soil' is irrelevant" I'd say in the practical legal sense it's far from irrelevant. If those captives had been brought to mainland US to be tortured then I would predict they could have successfully challenged that in the US court system. There is a reason why the torture was done in e.g. Guantanamo. This, of course, doesn't mean that where the torture is done necessarily matters morally or that it didn't break some treaty. It's only that to the US courts where it happens matters a great deal.
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  3740.  @mmtl9203  As I noted to in my replies to Sir Rather Splendid that might indeed have been broken. However, for the legal basis where the torture happens still matters. If it happened actually on US soil then it could likely have been successfully challenged in the US court system.
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  3741.  @mmtl9203  You can find many instances in the past where the US court system has frustrated US government efforts.
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  3742.  @mmtl9203  Hamdi v. Rumsfeld?
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  3743.  @mmtl9203  "Not even close." In that case Hamdi got the right to habeas corpus against the government's wishes. Also, the government also did not win in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld. "And Military Commissions Act of 2006 made certain the State got what it wanted." That one was also ruled partially unconstitutional in Boumediene v. Bush.
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  3744.  @mmtl9203  "It was a settlement based on renunciation of American citizenship." SCOTUS reversed the dismissal of habeas corpus by a lower court. That was independent of any settlement. The settlement allowed him to be released without charge. "'Partially unconstitutional'? is that like 'partially pregnant'?" No.
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  3745.  @LostBeagle  That makes zero sense. Firstly, even if Russians didn't suspect any nukes it's obvious that they might attack ammunition storage sites. Secondly, there's no conceivable motivation to store any nukes anywhere inside the borders of Ukraine.
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  3746. Of course it's treatment.
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  3747.  @intervrt  People's Parties and People's Republics are not related.
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  3748.  @intervrt  They are related in the sense that usually People's Republic implies (claimed or real) socialist ideology, though there are exceptions like the Donbass people's republics. People's Parties, however, tend to more often be center-right than socialist.
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  3749. Deflation increases real wages unless nominal wages can somehow be negotiated down which is difficult. This pushes those whose productivity doesn't match this real increase into unemployment thus reducing total production.
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  3750. No.
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  3751. Objection! 14:14 "I don't know if that's the right tactic" The problem could be that it might be difficult to prove that their phone had in fact been tapped by the opposite side. And this makes for better drama. :)
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  3752. Technically, the name of the currency is Renminbi (lit. "People's currency" or something like that) whereas Yuan is a unit of that currency. In practice, Yuan is also used as a name for the currency.
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  3753. "Do they have any idea why the ethnic Russians of those regions voted to be part of the Russian federation ?" There is no reason to presume the referendums were honest.
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  3754.  @lugovoiarena  ""Accounting" total assets figure would not capture the multi-billion valuation of the Mile+ programme." I don't understand what you're saying here. Is this a response to something I said or something else? "we had a company which had zero debt, and the market equity value (based on London market quotations) was significantly less than the available cash balance" I don't think the same is true for the airlines. Their management is likely better than this example (and in any case it would still be a striking result).
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  3755. "How does an electric car work in the winter?" I recently read one journalist's experience and he wrote that his EV (Nissan Leaf) is the best winter car he's had so far. He was writing when the temperature went below -20°C (-4°F) for the first time this winter. The range suffered noticeably but was still above 200 km which was enough for him.
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  3756.  @Triumvirate888 : He was using his car for the daily commute to work, which was comfortably below 200 km. It's not that he had to charge all night but overnight charging without quick charging was enough for the daily commute. I think quick charging should be able to fill an empty battery in clearly under an hour. The range Nissan promises for Leaf in summer conditions is 270 km, which is below an ICE or diesel but still sufficient for many purposes, but of course for long distances it's not as good. Note that that lower range was caused by below -20°C temperature which is not that common. And this is for Nissan Leaf which is among the cheapest electric cars. More expensive ones would have a longer range. Additionally it's not that uncommon for ICEs or diesels to fail to start when the weather is very cold. Electric cars can be a quite good choice for people like him who mainly use their car for shortish distances in cities. For people regularly driving longer distances it's not as good.
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  3757. "One issue with offshore wind is the extreme variability." I would think that offshore wind is less variable than onshore wind.
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  3758. 12:20 A car is faster than high-speed rail up to 250 km? How's that possible?
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  3759. The official results are obviously fabricated.
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  3760. X = brigade XX = division XXX = corps
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  3761. "Prigozhin has never served in the Army" The Soviet Union used to have conscription, right? Why wasn't Prigozhin drafted?
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  3762. Which part is incorrect?
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  3763. I watched this a second time at quarter speed to better see what was happening.
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  3764. It's a (representative) democracy since leaders are chosen by a vote.
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  3765.  @belstar1128  The prosecution is demanding the maximum penalty of 7 years. IANAL, but I think that's a likely outcome.
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  3766. 3:35 It was about 1/8th of the population, not 1/4th.
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  3767. @MSD Group "Until now the west is heading to bankruptcy rather than Russia." The West isn't anywhere close to bankruptcy.
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  3768. I think you're giving too much credit to Varro. Him positing minute creatures causing disease is just speculation and not (much) more justified based on the knowledge at the time than the "bad air" hypothesis given by some others. It turns out that he was roughly correct but that's at least partly luck. I think the claim "the Romans knew about bacteria" [emphasis mine] goes too far. One definition for knowledge is true and justified belief. I don't think Varro had enough evidence to justify a claim that he knew about bacteria. Of course, you can consider even making the hypothesis pretty impressive. Still, I think at least your wording gives the wrong impression.
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  3769. There's a similar waste-to-energy plant in Vantaa, Finland. According to their website, they clean the exhaust with electrostatic filters, activated carbon, and lime.
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  3770. He might have meant "behüten".
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  3771. There's a minimum of 6 € per day and for the total fine there's a minimum of 100 € for moped drivers and 200 € for drivers of other motor vehicles.
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  3772.  @vob8509  The gas fields supplying Europe don't have pipeline connections to China etc. There are plans to build such connections but that will take many years. E.g. the Power of Siberia 2 pipeline is scheduled to be operational in 2030 which is quite far from now. For the time being most of the gas that had been flowing to Europe cannot be diverted elsewhere.
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  3773.  @vob8509  "Well wrong again. It is not 2030, but almost ready." No, the work on it (Power of Siberia 2) hasn't even started yet. It's scheduled to start in 2024. "Then do you really think Russia depends only on gas? Yes, it is the most important commodity they sell, but guess who is the biggest exporter of wheat; edible oils; fertilizers and raw materials for fertilizers; the specific for baterries nickel, wood if you want, etc. etc. etc." Gas and oil exports have made up about half of Russia's federal budget. The other things you mention are much smaller in terms of revenue.
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  3774.  @vob8509  "Work on th epipeline Siberia 2 has been pumped up quite a bit" But I can't find any info on it being started yet. Only mentions of schedule I can find are for start of construction in 2024 and planned completion date in 2030. "then it is not only that pipeline" But before it the fields supplying Europe have no connection to China. "regarding the revenue you are wrong again" I don't think I am. There is no short-term substitute for exports to Europe.
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  3775.  @josegomez2190  Industrial equipment like CNC milling machines are generally from the West.
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  3776.  @charlescarabott7692  The situation certainly isn't easy. However, the situation isn't hopeless. 1) LNG terminals already exist and at least some countries that don't have those may still be able to receive gas that has been delivered to Europe through the existing pipeline network. 2) For several countries there are other suppliers besides Russia such as the North African countries or the Netherlands or Norway. 3) Gas storage sites have been decently filled so it should be possible to get through this winter, at least with rationing. 4) Many are rushing away from using gas by e.g. replacing gas heating with heat pumps. It will still likely be painful but it's minor compared to what the Ukrainians are going through right now.
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  3777.  @charlescarabott7692  "the present LNG terminals are definitely nowhere near enough and what about the LNG tankers?" There are limits to that but with current storage levels Europe should get through this winter, at least with rationing. I would also like to point out that the limited amount of LNG tankers will also limit Russia's ability to divert gas sales from Europe to elsewhere. "But in doing so it's going to be dependent on Saudi or Azerbaijan or Algeria." At least in the present situation that seems like less bad.
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  3778.  @charlescarabott7692  "the EU storage capacity is about 20% of a what the eu uses in a year. Last I heard the storage was 85% full. That's hardly enough to keep the very basic needs going." Yes, but do take into account that even before this year Europe wasn't getting 100% of its gas from Russia. It was more like 40% so that amount of storage should still last this winter with the other sources + the increase in LNG imports, at least with some rationing. "What about industry? It's likely that there will be a complete industrial shut down. Unemployment will rise to unheard of levels." Some industrial plants might shut down or at least reduce their output. However, you're exaggerating here a bit. Not all industries use natural gas . It's likely painful but survivable. E.g. the '70s oil crisis was likely way worse.
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  3779.  @josegomez2190  There are problems with industrial output though it takes time to materialize. As an example, Lada production has fallen and the new versions lack anti-lock brakes etc.
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  3780.  @charlescarabott7692  "Let's get it straight when we are talking about the EU we're really talking about Germany. Germany is the heart of Europe. If it stops or goes into a recession then the rest of the eu will be done." The EU wasn't done when Germany (and most other EU members) went into recession in 2009. In some ways the current crisis is less severe than 2008/2009 because that one hit basically the all of EU (and many other countries around the world) whereas in this case we only have a portion of the EU being severely affected. Also, the '70s oil crisis was way worse than this crisis is likely to be.
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  3781. Why not?
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  3782. Like Christophe B said, that energy wouldn't come out of nothing. Also, doing that would increase complexity and it would add weight to the buoyant platform reducing the amount of energy it would store.
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  3783. The energy is coming from the wind.
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  3784.  @sebastjansslavitis3898  If the propeller were to spin in the opposite direction it would slow down the cart. It is the right direction. Consider the inertial frame tied to the ground. In that frame the wind gets decelerated by the propelled behind the cart so the air is losing kinetic energy and the cart is gaining some.
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  3785.  @sebastjansslavitis3898  "there is no movement, wheels does not turn" Maybe not when the cart starts but after the wind pushes the cart the wheels will be turning and the propeller spinning.
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  3786.  @sebastjansslavitis3898  I didn't think that was necessary to answer your question but, nonetheless, now I've watched it. There's a jumpcut right before the timestamp you gave so it's a bit difficult to say, but IMHO there's two options: 1) The frame of the vehicle has some drag. Because of that the wind will accelerate it a bit even if it's stationary. Then the propeller begins to turn and contributes to acceleration. 2) If the previous isn't enough, they might give the vehicle a small shove at the beginning.
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  3787.  @sebastjansslavitis3898  OK, now I saw what you were referring to. "Then it starts to slow down, and that's also okay - wind just become weaker." No, the wind didn't become weaker. They say it's strong and it appears to be based on the telltale. The reason for slowing down must be because he's breaking. But why does the propeller appear to spin faster. I'm not sure but I suspect the earlier seconds of the video when he's still talking are slowed down.
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  3788.  @onebig77thbrigademonkey.57  It's not. Of course, I can't verify what they have put inside their cart but what they do is possible without such cheating and there is no indication that they cheated.
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  3789. Maybe Adam could have debate with some pro-famine youtuber.
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  3790. When will we get a video on bikes?
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  3791. "NATO aspirations to put offensive ICBMs near Moscow" I don't think there were such aspirations. Ukraine would have been unlikely to join NATO for the foreseeable future.
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  3792. "Most freeways are used by people that come Helsinki to work. And then go home again." Instead of this it's more efficient to use the land for housing (and a street) so more people can live inside the city instead of needing to drive into it from outside.
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  3793. His net worth pales in comparison to Evergrande's liabilities. It won't make that much of a difference.
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  3794. Looking closely, it seems he only stepped on the edge of the panel and not its face.
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  3795. Watching those clips, one fear that came to me was you accidentally starting a forest fire. I think that could land you in some serious trouble even if you were physically fine.
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  3796. No, people who owed to the Icelandic banks still owed to the estates of the bankrupt banks. Of course, you want to cover as much of the collapsed banks' debts from their assets as you can.
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  3797. At least that would increase the weight.
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  3798. 1:20 In Finnish the term for IFV is actually "assault tank" (rynnäkköpanssarivaunu).
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  3799. As a minor nitpick, copyright and trademarks are a different thing. I think most (possibly all) IP violations here are trademark violations, not copyright infringement.
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  3800. "148wh/kg isn´t really that bad." Are you sure that number isn't for cells as well?
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  3801.  @lemonvariable72 : Vikings had mail, no?
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  3802. Even the Baltics have 3.7, 5.4, and 7.8 times the population of Iceland.
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  3803.  @РемиБоняшки  Ukrainian and Russian are different languages and aren't mutually intelligible. Macedonian, however, is really just a dialect of Bulgarian. (Not that this should necessarily determine state borders either way.)
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  3804.  @РемиБоняшки  Which dialects in Germany are not mutually intelligible? In any case, even if some other country has multiple languages that doesn't mean that my point about the comparison of Ukraine/Russia vs. North Macedonia/Bulgaria doesn't stand.
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  3805.  @РемиБоняшки  Finland.
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  3806.  @РемиБоняшки  "this does not mean that the Ukrainians are not Russians" What is the criterion then? Saying whether they "really" are Russians or not seems kind of arbitrary and meaningless. In any case, I don't think it matters very much. Even if they "really" are Russians it doesn't mean that Putin's government would have the right to rule over them (but I'm not saying you have claimed that). "But the Belgium people are all Dutch by descent." In what sense?
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  3807.  @РемиБоняшки  "They were ruled by France and thus they began speaking French instead of Dutch." More like they started speaking French instead of Walloon (which is closely related to French), not Dutch. And if you go further back in time they spoke a Celtic rather than Romance or Germanic language. How much back in time is the correct amount? How do you decide that? This seems like a completely arbitrary definition and not based on anything. Besides, by this logic you could say that e.g. the population of Brittany are not French because they and they only speak French today instead of Breton (aside from a minority) due to French rule and language policies.
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  3808.  @РемиБоняшки  "Walon is simply the Belgium French." No, these are different. Belgian French is spoken by about 4.5 million whereas Walloon is spoken by about 300,000-600,000 people. Walloon is generally classified as a dialect of French but it's definitely a different dialect than Belgian French. "French is not the original language of Belgium." French/Walloon/Picard etc. were spoken in Wallonia before the French rule. I don't see by what logic they are "really" Dutch. You could just as well say that the Flemish are "really" French, not Dutch, or some such nonsense.
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  3809.  @РемиБоняшки  What about them?
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  3810.  @РемиБоняшки  I'm not sure what that example is meant to communicate. Is it that we should say that the English are "really" Germans just like the Ukrainians are "really" Russians? In any case, my position is basically that whether Ukrainians are "really" Russians is a matter of definition and there can be as many definitions as there are people. Therefore it's mostly subjective and fairly meaningless claim.
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  3811.  @РемиБоняшки  "If you can tell them apart I cannot." Some might see them as different, some might not. It's rather subjective.
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  3812.  @jaywiegs1712 : Wouldn't the Germans then have depleted their bombers instead?
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  3813. Dehumidifying takes way more energy, especially in an arid climate.
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  3814.  @imranabdullahkhan9767 : At least in the case of coal it's because of lignin. Originally bacteria and fungi didn't have the ability to digest lignin. That meant that dead trees would not decompose but just pile up and eventually form coal deposits. Bacteria and fungi did evolve the ability to digest lignin eventually which basically means that no new coal deposits can form anymore.
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  3815. What would it be in 2100 if not a country? Several countries? A part of the US? Something else?
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  3816.  @ItsMeTyler  Being a part of the US doesn't sound that much worse than being a separate country so I wouldn't count that as especially unlucky.
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  3817.  @ItsMeTyler  "Inevitably we will be..." I think claiming something like that as "inevitable" you're not appreciating the uncertainties in long-term prediction enough.
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  3818.  @ItsMeTyler  I think it's far too common for people to be overconfident in predictions. Just because you think that I sound pseudo intellectual doesn't mean you're not being overconfident when you predict something as "inevitable".
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  3819.  @ItsMeTyler  "Long term predictions and analysis support my claim" I'm a bit skeptical of that. At the very least, you haven't shown any such analysis. Also note that there's a big difference between saying that some event is, based on your analysis, likely and that it's inevitable. The latter is an extremely strong claim and would require extraordinarily strong evidence. (I don't live in Canada.)
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  3820.  @aftereight9143  Establishing a global state is very difficult. I would be very surprised if something like that could be established that quickly. Also, it's not necessarily an unlucky outcome. That would depend a lot on the details of such global state.
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  3821.  @Tiglath-PileserXIX  Shouldn't it be 10 (or maybe 13) new states rather than just 1?
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  3822. The "shire" suffix is pronounced slightly differently.
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  3823. "Inflation is tax that affects the poor adversely" I don't agree. Poor people don't usually hold on to large amounts of cash.
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  3824.  @rumlia  If you have, say, $100 in the bank account (or in cash) on average 2% inflation should cost you about $2 per year. Maybe you have a higher balance but the cost should still be low compared to other costs.
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  3825.  @rumlia  Well, even if the real amount inflation is, say, 5% it still doesn't sound that much. With the example of $100 average balance it's only $5 per year which isn't a lot. A poor person might have more cash but probably not by an enormous factor.
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  3826. Don't most countries have jets? It's not something to be surprised about.
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  3827.  @timogul  I don't think that's any argument for not having jet planes. There's probably more potential for conflict with neighbors in the Balkans than in some other parts of Europe. Even if the probability for such a conflict isn't all that big having jets is probably more important to Serbian than, say, Switzerland.
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  3828.  @timogul  That makes no sense. Firstly, most countries have jets and are not considered less trustworthy for it. Secondly, who would help them and could they really rely on that? If they'd have a conflict with Bosnia would Croatia help them, or vice versa? And even if your logic would make sense then shouldn't Serbia also be expected to help their neighbors if needed rather than just (somehow) getting protection without giving anything in return; if they're also expected to help their neighbors they'd need military capabilities to do that. The truth is that most countries want to have the capability to defend themselves. Just trusting, without even any explicit promise, that your neighbors would help is a more risky proposition. Also, you're more likely to get help if you also have some capability to defend yourself so that you don't just fold immediately. Would you say that the UK having a navy makes them less trustworthy? They should have none that! France can help them if they're ever attacked.
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  3829.  @timogul  "IF NOT for how they had a war a few decades back" By this logic none, of the ex-Yugoslav republics other than Slovenia and North Macedonia should have jets. "cannot agree that their neighbor even EXISTS" Countries don't usually so easily let go of the territory they had. They've still shown the willingness to make agreements and they've not e.g. tried to bomb Kosovo with their jets. Trying to impose the unreasonable requirement of them having no capability to defend themselves would not be conducive to peace. How would you do that anyway? What would you do if they refuse to give up jets? "In the meantime, if someone attacks them, Nato can defend them." Nato doesn't have an obligation to defend them. They have no reason to trust Nato here.
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  3830.  @timogul  "That would only happen if the Sebian government found jets more important than their people, and if their people let them get away with that." It's not a stretch to imagine that both the government and the people wouldn't want to be totally vulnerable, especially considering that past conflicts are still very much in living memory. "That's really their problem." It's also a problem for anyone wanting to enforce some kind of no jets policy unless they don't care at all about causing misery to ordinary people in the Balkans.
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  3831.  @timogul  "Then they make their bed, and they have to eat it." So poverty and instability. It'd just be a dumb move to try use such measures for one's imposition. (And it's not them "making their bed" to just not accept unreasonable demands by outsiders.) "Again, you would enforce it economically, not militarily" That's what I was talking about. You'd thrust misery in the form of poverty unto ordinary citizens. "I don't know why you're arguing this as if there's a rational position on your side of the discussion." I could say the same thing to you. Has any politician or diplomat who has been working this issue considered your idea to be a good one?
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  3832.  @timogul  "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." This "stupid prize" is excessive. Also, Serbia is no longer under Milosevic & his ilk. "No, their leaders would be doing that, by preferring jets to fixing those problems." I mean, trying to impose a no jets policy would likely result in that. It would be stupid to try as the harm done would be so great. Those who would suffer the harm wouldn't be comforted by and argument about who's morally culpable. "But that doesn't mean it isn't the right course of action." Not necessarily but it's some indication that people more knowledgeable about this haven't tried to pursue that route.
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  3833. The Dutch were more racist as a colonial power than Britain.
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  3834. Even if his videos aren't behind a paywall that still doesn't mean you can just use them in your own video without permission.
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  3835.  @Nirakolov  Thunderf00t isn't giving a critique of Mahlmann's work, which is what would matter for fair use, but rather that of Musk's work (featured in Mahlmann's video).
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  3836.  @Nirakolov  I'm not a lawyer either but Leonard French (an actual copyright lawyer; see the pinned comment) has made a video on this. His estimate was that the fair use factors at least slightly favor Mahlmann. Of course, the outcome is still not certain but based on Leonard's video I would guess that Mahlmann would be the one to prevail in court.
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  3837. Does anyone know what the people in Ukraine think about this? Does this lower their opinion of Zelensky or is his apparent cooperation seen as understandable?
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  3838. I wonder if any WWII era Tallboy or Grand Slam bomb would have been enough if they had (hypothetically) been available.
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  3839. I don't think you'll easily find a stock that's shorted to such a degree.
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  3840. However, that term would be both slightly incorrect in StarCraft and not used like in StarCraft.
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  3841. But did change the world for the better or for the worse?
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  3842.  @JessicaRabbitX  He was obviously joking.
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  3843.  @angusdalton9320  One of the criteria for whether something is copyright infringement or not is how big of a portion is taken from the source material. With a properly trained model and in a basic* use case you probably can't point to the generated image taking a substantial portion of any artist's work. *By "basic" I mean that I'm excluding cases like where the AI is e.g. prompted to mimic some artist's style which is a more complicated question.
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  3844. Someone hack the YouTube website and literally destroy the like button!
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  3845. You can generate thrust with a propeller but generally using wheels is more efficient.
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  3846. I don't think ending the war would have as big of an impact on the cost of living as you believe. Even after the war ends relations with Russia are likely difficult and hydrocarbon imports from there won't resume quickly.
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  3847.  @Me1le  "guttural G" Well, seemingly the sound is [x] (unvoiced velar fricative) which exists in German as well. I don't think it's a very difficult sound even though my native language doesn't have it.
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  3848. "This country is arrogantly bankrupted only another loan from IMF can helps for some time" Estonia has lower public debt than any other EU member.
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  3849. The King's face might appear on the coinage. However, Venice was a republic.
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  3850. People in China don't have that flexibility.
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  3851. Ukraine denies doing this.
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  3852. They were at least bigger tragedies because a larger portion of the crew died.
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  3853.  @andrewkerr5296  "Australia doesn't have fractional reserve banking" I'm pretty sure that's incorrect.
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  3854.  @andrewkerr5296  That implies fractional reserves. If Australian banks held 100% reserves they couldn't loan out deposits.
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  3855.  @andrewkerr5296  I think you're confused about what "fractional reserve banking" means. It means holding less reserves than 100% of deposits. What you're talking about there being no reserve requirement (or equivalently 0% reserve requirement). If the reserves requirement is, say, 2% or 0% those both probably imply that the banks hold fractional reserves (unless they voluntarily hold 100% reserves which isn't common).
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  3856.  @andrewkerr5296  "The Commercial Bank's create new money (Loans) regardless of how much deposits they have. That's why I'm saying there is no such thing as Fractional Reserve Banking." But saying that is completely incorrect. In absence of fractional reserve banking those commercial banks wouldn't be able to create new/money loans at all because they would have to keep 100% or deposits in reserves. You're just being confused about terminology.
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  3857.  @andrewkerr5296  "Fractional Reserve Banking means lending a certain % of Loans to % Deposits." Well, Australian banks do lend some portion of their deposits, don't they. You even said earlier that they're not restricted in this regard. Thus Australia does have fractional reserve banking.
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  3858. "The 46% you quote is the marginal rate, not the tax rate which would be at around 30% for a median earner." Actually, the rate for median earner is definitely above 30% if you include employer-side contributions and these should definitely be included.
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  3859.  @eshnajizzle  "It has some employer contributions, but not all (nor should it)." A 30% figure doesn't include any employer side contributions (at a salary of €46k). I'd say at least employer said pension and UI contributions should be included (because in the long term it's immaterial which side formally pays them) and I'm pretty sure their inclusion would take the rate above 40%.
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  3860.  @eshnajizzle  "Pension and unemployment insurance are included, other contributions aren't." With 30% at €46k salary only the employee side contributions are included. If you include the employer side pension and UI contributions the percentage is certainly higher than 30%.
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  3861.  @ThereIsAlwaysaWay2  Has this matter been voted on by the General Assembly yet?
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  3862. I genuinely thought this video really ended with "So, if you want more Greece content..." but it was just an ad right before the end.
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  3863. No, it's not. Otherwise you could e.g. say that normal HE shells are chemical weapons which is, of course, total nonsense.
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  3864. Both the contracting power company and the contractor is different. In Olkiluoto, the power company is TVO, and the contractor Areva-Siemens. In Hanhikivi, the power company is Fennovoima and the contractor is a subsidiary of the Russian Rosatom (but I don't remember the subsidiary's name).
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  3865. Does that include e.g. Makiivka or Horlivka (in Donetsk)?
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  3866. It wasn't Ukraine. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  3867.  @NinaBabyTV  https://www.investopedia.com/roth-ira-beneficiary-rules-4770500
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  3868. Russia is a more likely culprit here than Ukraine.
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  3869. When my neighbor spends his money, it's business as usual, but when I spend his money it's called theft. The hypocrisy!
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  3870.  @999fine5 : Interesting. I wonder what's the cause of the change.
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  3871.  @dreamteam3884 : But there's no reason to do that in a casino specifically if the buffets there aren't cheaper than other buffets.
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  3872.  @blkcc1  It's not almost nothing. Checking from the WTO's site, US average tariff is 3.4%. For comparison, the average tariff for the EU is 5.1%. So the US tariffs are admittedly about 1/3 lower but calling that "almost nothing" is a huge exaggeration. Btw, most of the reason why EU tariffs are higher and because of agricultural protectionism. For non-argricultural products the difference is much smaller.
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  3873. "Country's didn't pay their Bills." What's your evidence for this? Do you automatically accept Russia's claims and reject those of Moldova?
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  3874. Ukraine is denying they did this.
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  3875. What? Do you have a source for that? It sounds a bit too strange to be true.
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  3876. Even in San Diego / Tijuana?
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  3877.  @roscoepatternworks3471  "A stall under water will cause cavitation." A stall underwater can occur with or without cavitation and cavitation can occur with or without stall.
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  3878.  @iammaxhailme  It's just a finer distinction between representative democracy and direct democracy. Both are democracies (though one can argue that direct democracy is "more democratic").
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  3879.  @TV-ei9yb  But direct/representative hybrids do exist. Switzerland is a prominent example.
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  3880. The world avocado production is estimated to be about 4.1 million tons a year. If you were to buy that with $250 million, that'd cost a bit over $60 for one ton. No way it can be that cheap. This guy may seem rich but when you consider that he can't even afford to buy all of the world's avocado with his money (let alone toast to go with it) it's nothing special after all. :)
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  3881. At what point should they have intervened and how?
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  3882. "where with gas there are no real losses other than slight pressurization" With gas there are big losses as a lot of the heat goes around the pot/kettle/pan/whatever. During the winter that might not be a loss as you need to heat anyway but during the summer that's a double-whammy because now that heat has to be pumped out too.
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  3883.  @unwind1613  Germany doesn't even border Russia (nor Belarus). How would Russia enter Germany?
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  3884. 1:15 But don't forget Hololive and Nijisanji ID!
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  3885. Almost eliminated. Jet fuel is something like 25 times more expensive per kWh of energy content compared to electricity.
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  3886.  @bjs301  "And you believe that?" You can very easily google jet fuel price and energy density and compare that to the price of electricity. The result is in the ballpark of a factor of 25.
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  3887.  @bjs301  Even if the price of electricity were to double it would still be an order of magnitude cheaper than jet fuel per joule.
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  3888.  @bjs301  You're just speculating.
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  3889. No! Grammatical gender is my bane in learning foreign languages. If we have to introduce grammatical gender to English, let's take the Swedish system which has two grammatical genders: common and neuter.
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  3890. Another comment mentions the first time Caesar was elected consul.
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  3891. I'm not entirely sure I agree. 1) It was 7000 at the Battle of Thermopylae, not just 300. 2) That battle wasn't decisive. The Persians still burned Athens (though they did eventually lose the war). 3) It's quite plausible that democracy would have emerged in some other place if it didn't happen in Athens. It's not very credible that there was only one chance for it to initially emerge.
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  3892. Birth rates of immigrants tend to also decline after a generation or two.
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  3893. It still makes sense to connect large areas into a single grid because that brings stability to the system.
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  3894. "When talking about inflation, why doesn’t anybody ever talk about the excessive money printing which devalues your purchasing power? They always love to talk around it with bullshit terms like “cost pull inflation”, which is essentially the same thing without actually admitting it is and focusing on real solutions like… oh I don’t know… cutting spending?" You're right in that the Fed probably printed too much money during the pandemic and that's probably partly to blame for the current situation. However, the Fed has already tightened it's policy so that's less relevant now. When it comes to cutting spending, I don't think we should expect that to reduce inflation. When the government spends money, it doesn't print it. All the money it spends has previously been taken off the market through either taxation or borrowing. Therefore spending doesn't push more money to the market in the net (unlike stimulus by the central bank) and thus there isn't a reason to expect spending cuts to have a big impact on inflation.
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  3895.  @TheFkryrtsv  "before 1974 Taksim was used for the whole island becoming a province of Turkiye" I find that hard to believe. Why would they use the term "partition" if the idea wasn't to split the island somehow?
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  3896.  @Consoneer  I think that in this particular case, the celebrities did more damage.
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  3897. Standard economic theory would say that if the price to produce gas decreases the way that can lower the price consumers pay for gas is increase in supply. If the amount of gas supplied doesn't increase then the gas prices consumers face won't decline and refineries get all of the benefit from lower oil prices (assuming that the demand for gas stays the same).
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  3898.  @joshuahillerup4290  Supply means how much gas refiners produce for each given price of gas. That can certainly be affected by crude prices (and presumably it usually is) but this is an assumption about how refiners behave. In your original comment you wrote: "even if gas production doesn't go up that will result in some decrease in gas prices" [emphasis added]. That case would imply that a lower crude price doesn't increase gas supply. In that case, there also shouldn't be a decrease in gas prices. A decrease in prices happen through the mechanism of increased supply (or decreased demand).
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  3899.  @joshuahillerup4290  I know supply is a curve (and notice that did also talk about "amount supplied" in my earlier comments). If the supply curve moves to the right (i.e. supply increases) that will also increase the amount supplied if the demand curve doesn't change and isn't completely elastic. Conversely, the price going down while the demand curve stays the same is only possible if the amount demanded (and thus also the amount supplied) goes up assuming the demand curve is downward sloping. You could get a lower price without a lower amount if you assume completely inelastic demand (i.e. a vertical demand curve). However, that's not realistic. "Changing the costs will lower the price for a given amount produced, at least in a competitive market, even with supply constraints" No, quite the opposite. In a standard model lower price can only with larger amounts if you assume demand stays the same and isn't completely inelastic. That's very easy to see. Just draw a demand curve. You don't even need to draw a supply curve. If the demand curve is downward sloping a lower price always corresponds to a higher amount (and a completely vertical demand curve is unrealistic).
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  3900.  @joshuahillerup4290  If the supply curve intersects with the demand curve in the part where the supply curve is upward sloping (rather than vertical) and the demand curve is downward sloping, then moving the supply curve down both reduce the price and increase the amount supplied.
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  3901.  @joshuahillerup4290  But I didn't talk about a downward sloping supply curve. I talked about upward sloping supply curve as well as downward sloping demand curve. Did you perhaps misread my comment?
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  3902.  @CosmicDoom47  How does the interplay between those work? Do the tones become more pronounced in stressed syllables?
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  3903. If you want to invest $300 per months, it's probably easier to just put it in e.g. an ETF.
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  3904. "it already is a part of EFTA" More pertinently, it's already in the EEA.
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  3905.  @jogginbuxur  EEA provides the free flow of people and capital inside the EU but also includes Iceland, Norway, and Liechtenstein. Being part of that seems a bigger deal than EFTA membership. (Maybe this doesn't matter that much in practice because the remaining EFTA member, Switzerland, while not in the EEA, has a very similar deal. But I still wanted to mention this.)
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  3906. What about the performance of the Italian co-belligerent forces?
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  3907. Doesn't Waymo have autonomous cars in some places?
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  3908. It's not necessarily easy to notice if some random mid-sized bank is taking too much risk.
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  3909. "work for peanuts" Which is still an improvement for many.
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  3910.  @darksector1389  "It honestly upsets me that western European countries (Italy, Germany, France)" They have provided weapons to Ukraine, though.
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  3911. Congo is the older name but Zaire is also hundreds of years old and predates Sese Seko.
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  3912. Netherlands or Denmark: a small country with a rich history...of being at war with the UK!
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  3913.  @thevoid5503  Nothing, I was just trying to be funny. :)
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  3914.  @merovmerov7631  That might very well matter but I guess a part of the problem is that they're not seen as ethnically sufficiently distinct.
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  3915.  @DemPilafian  I think the UN wording is just "territorial integrity". There aren't explicit criteria laid out for it (as far as I know) so it's unclear if and how much past sovereignty should matter.
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  3916.  @DemPilafian  But as far as I can see, you're the only one who has mentioned the term "sovereign integrity" so I'm not sure that's relevant.
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  3917.  @gothicgolem2947  YouTube tends to remove comments with links but if you google "Question of the Comorian Island of Mayotte" you should be able to find the UN resolutions.
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  3918.  @covfefe1787  "you would condemn all of Mayotte onto poverty" I think you have misunderstood. I didn't take a stance on which country Mayotte should be a part of.
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  3919. I didn't notice any such markings. Can you give a timestamp? In any case, at least some of the sinkings are definitely real like the sinking. At least one of them (Sergey Kotov, I think) was acknowledged by Russia so it can't really be fake.
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  3920.  @laurencefraser  If you increase them in some other area.
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  3921. Banking secrecy is hardly a requirement for neutrality.
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  3922.  @Wezqu : Possibly he meant that the Finns didn't proceed past the pre-war borders on the Karelian Isthmus (or am I wrong?) which is the most relevant part for this siege.
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  3923. No, because that would warm up the climate leading to a number of problems.
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  3924. That's not the case.
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  3925.  @bUwUmer1260  Quantitative easing increase the supply of base money; it's monetary policy. Level of wages doesn't affect the supply of base money one way or the other so it's not a substitute for monetary policy.
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  3926. What about rainbow trout?
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  3927.  @norsegypsydragon677 : Most, probably. Denmark and Luxembourg might be exeptions.
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  3928. To my knowledge, the point is that if you have enough matter made of up, down, and strange quarks, more of them can be in lower energy states due to Pauli's exclusion principle. On the other hand, the strange quarks have higher mass/energy than up and down quarks but it might be that with enough of the strange matter the effect from the exclusion principle wins out causing the strange matter have lower energy making it more stable.
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  3929. 11:05 What is a half-samurai?
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  3930. In countries that tend to have single party governments those parties are often themselves somewhat akin to a coalition as they often contain multiple internal factions.
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  3931.  @aidanquiett668  "Whats with all the ceremonial government leaders in Europe?" In the US that might not happen on the federal level but there are plenty of cities with ceremonial mayors and where the actual governing is done by city managers or some other position like that.
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  3932.  @_MrMoney  How much of that job is just representation and ceremonies rather than actually helping the president with substantial decisions? In any case, the vice president is both symbolically and de facto subordinate to the president.
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  3933. Lol!
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  3934. 31:30 One more way you can see this is that sum of the roots of a polynomial is equal to the coefficient of the second highest term multiplied by -1.
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  3935.  @ezz625  For Putin to stay in power it's enough to keep the party going in Moscow. He can suck the rest of the country dry to do that. Even if most of Russia struggles that will not threaten him as long as the privileged population of Moscow can still enjoy their creature comforts.
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  3936. 2:50 What you're saying about Japan isn't really true. During its rapid growth, Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio stayed fairly low and only started grow once the stagnation and so called "lost decade" started.
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  3937. Remember that high yields usually imply high risk. Diversify.
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  3938. He did disappear for 6 days before being caught again.
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  3939. Å is the same as O in German.
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  3940.  @thepetrologist  But SandRhoman is a (Swiss) German speaker so I thought it was better to German as guide.
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  3941. They don't have similar public pension systems so there won't be a similar strain on the public purse. On the other hand, old people who haven't either some kind of retirement benefit from their company or their own savings or children or other relatives who can help will fall into destitution.
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  3942. It wouldn't have been a simple matter to continue much beyond that. Germany had the protection of the Siegfried Line and it would take quite some time for France to prepare an offensive that could seriously threaten it.
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  3943. Europe was in a "Warring States Period" for at least over a millennium. China and Japan had it much easier in that respect.
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  3944. "To be a "Friend" of U$A is fatal"-- former Sec of State Kissinger." Putting it like that is highly misleading. Firstly, this quote is attributed to Kissinger but it's not certain that he said it. Secondly (and more importantly), you have picked a portion of a sentence out of context. The full sentence was: "Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." [emphasis mine] Note that "if" there. Thus what the quote is essentially saying is that Nguyễn Văn Thiệu should not suffer the same fate as Ngô Đình Diệm (who was killed in a coup). It's far from an unqualified claim that to be America's friend is fatal.
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  3945. Cash has serial numbers, it can be found physically in your possession, etc. Also, I'm not sure how you would ask your extortion victims to deliver the cash to you in a case like this without revealing yourself.
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  3946. I wonder there's some person who made a ton of money by stockpiling on sanitizer.
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  3947. Depends on how the code works I'd guess that normally a null check doesn't slow code very much unless you're doing it in a tight loop or something.
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  3948. I'd imagine that they would use an electric engine rather than a diesel engine to spin them.
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  3949.  @geonerd  Then care to explain what I missed?
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  3950. IIRC in Gattaca they didn't edit genes but merely selected embryos for their genes.
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  3951. I think Germany likely would have lost even if Finland had tried to push into Leningrad.
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  3952. 20:15 Where does the "male" part come from?
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  3953.  @metatronyt  Were chromosomes found from the blood? I would have thought they wouldn't have survived that long.
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  3954.  @TheLoyalOfficer  "he was not a crook" He falsified elections, didn't he?
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  3955.  @GrahamStephan  If you double tap the like button won't the second tap remove the like?
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  3956. I think he's from Switzerland.
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  3957.  @juch3  But Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian, and Maltese aren't Indoeuropean (as well as some minority languages like Basque). That's 3 language families (or 4 with Basque).
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  3958.  @INTJ791  That's strange since most Indonesian vtubers seem to speak English with little trouble.
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  3959.  The_Jaguar_ Knight  ?
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  3960.  The_Jaguar_ Knight  OK, but that hardly has anything to do with what I said in my comment.
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  3961.  @octem2251  "The whole fairytale of the noble savage lies on the idea that primitive societies were morally superior since they weren't corrupted by techological advancements." Is it? I've never thought the label "noble savage" was supposed to apply to all "savages".
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  3962. What is that "red line"? This is so vague it borders on the meaningless.
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  3963. You can still save into a (Roth) IRA.
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  3964. Were the Baltic states even buying electricity from Russia in any case?
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  3965. You can easily just skip over the sponsor section.
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  3966. The energy is coming from the wind. The wind behind the propeller will be slower because energy has been extracted from it.
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  3967. Oceans don't create carbon-based minerals at a high enough rate. Currently, the water in oceans absorbs CO₂ but that a) leads to ocean acidification and b) will eventually be reversed if oceans warm up enough.
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  3968.  @HaloDude557  Though you should remember that some other leveraged ETF have probably underperformed the related index.
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  3969. 2:50 Why does that guy have glasses?
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  3970.  @fl3669  Owning the money printing machine doesn't mean you won't default. While it gives you the technical capacity to always avoid default (in debt denominated in your own currency) the option of inflating away your debt by printing money is often a worse option than a straight up default. E.g. in 1998 defaulted on its debt denominated in roubles (but not those denominated in foreign currency).
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  3971. They weren't prying off the tracks. They'd just throw a crowbar into the tracks to jam them.
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  3972.  @semicolontransistor  Are those camps in Xinjiang BS? Why do they show up in satellite images?
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  3973. To my knowledge, U-boats used their deck guns more often than torpedoes, at least early on.
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  3974. "you start with the prop pushing the wheels to start forward motion then once you have momentum you can change the pitch to have the wheels push the prop" Maybe they did it like that, not sure, but it's not required (if friction is low enough).
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  3975.  @edipires15  Why not?
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  3976. "Turkish people like to add "-stan"" The -stan suffix comes from Farsi, I believe.
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  3977. That's what they use in Ontario apparently.
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  3978. I think he at least implied "no".
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  3979. "President Putin= working for real peace." Invading a neighboring country is a rather strange way of working for peace.
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  3980. But this is "the news you missed". More people might have heard about that.
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  3981. I think that argument was aimed at those Republicans who favor the EC because it has favored them, not as a general argument. The whole problem was that the less popular candidate can win and that might not always favor the Republicans.
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  3982. I think you have misunderstood. The reason this was seen in Ankara as a betrayal by Greece is that he was in the Greek embassy before his arrest. Thus, Greece had been sheltering the most wanted man in Turkey. Also, at least this video didn't say that he was captured by Turkish authorities. Since the arrest happened in Kenya I would assume he was arrested by Kenyan authorities.
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  3983.  @nabilalhami1681  Thanks for the info. I still think that my point about why Ankara saw it as a betrayal seems right.
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  3984. No. They're not receiving a pension from the Spanish state.
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  3985.  @tinaforbes1059  Russia just violated their long-term contracts when it comes to pipeline gas.
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  3986.  @RonJohn63  True. However, they had worse horses than cavalry. True cavalry needs good chargers as mounts. Dragoons and other mounted infantry don't because their horses won't be charging into battle. You can draw a parallel between horses that are trained to be chargers vs. those that are not, and purpose built military vehicles vs. civilian vehicles.
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  3987.  @RonJohn63  I explained my reasoning the last sentence of my previous comment. You can view the worse horses (as opposed to real chargers) as being somewhat analogous to using civilian vehicles (as opposed to purpose built military vehicles).
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  3988.  @RonJohn63  I don't find it irrelevant. You mentioned the ad hoc nature of technicals as a difference which would go against describing dragoons as "Napoléonic era technicals". I mentioned a slightly different aspect in which they have a similarity which is an argument for that description. Additionally, I might say that technicals might not always be ad hoc. Some armed groups seem to be using them in a systematic and sustained fashion.
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  3989.  @RonJohn63  "If you paint all your light Hiluxs the same color, put standardized weapons on them, and staff them with men in uniform, they are NOT ad hoc anymore." But I'm pretty sure those (and other similar contraptions made from civilian vehicles) would still be called "technicals".
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  3990.  @RonJohn63  "when does a vehicle transition from "civilian" to "military"?" The difference wrt. what I was talking about is: -designed and built primarily for civilian use; is converted by mounting a weapon on it -> a technical -purposefully designed and built for military use; designed at least with the possibility of weapon being mounted on it (e.g. APC) -> not a technical
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  3991. 3:50 "still younger" So, when can we expect Clinton to overtake them?
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  3992. The southern part used to be a different country called Champa.
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  3993. "And if they don't pay those fines?" I'm only speculating here but maybe the EU could start seizing assets that are located in other EU member states.
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  3994.  @samoldfield5220  "Russia is a democracy not a dictatorship" Russia is not a democracy. Any serious opposition candidate, like Navalny, gets removed. (Mind you, I'm not saying Navalny is a good guy or anything. It was just an example to show that real democratic competition isn't allowed.) "Sergei Shoigu is a likely candidate" If you mean a candidate to become the next president of Russia, that's unlikely. He's not an ethnic Russia but a Tuvan which effectively (though not de jure, of course) disqualifies him from becoming a leader of Russia. "Ukraine's elections are supposedly scheduled for 2024 too, only they recently ammended their constitution so that only Ukrainian speakers (no Russian speakers) are eligible to run." This is just false. A command of the Ukrainian language is required but this isn't a very strict requirement. Zelenskyy, who is a Russian speaker and doesn't speak Ukrainian all that well, was able to run and win.
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  3995. "Very expensive too." It's not expensive. Depleted uranium is a byproduct of uranium enriching and doesn't have much other uses.
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  3996. Btw, if we forget for a second about why the funds to Ukraine were withheld (if only temporarily), isn't it pretty bad that some people in the executive could do it at all? For the sake of argument, let's say Trump were simply to have a political opinion that such funds shouldn't be given to Ukraine. Could he simply thwart Congress's decision to appropriate the funds without any consequence to him or anyone in the executive acting on his orders even though the constitution doesn't say he has the authority to do that?
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  3997. Napoléon did that too and it worked well for him (except not in Russia in 1812).
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  3998. You could argue that it's fair that people that actually use the elevator pay for it.
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  3999. "Yemen has the right to defend itself." However, the Houthi rebels aren't the Yemeni government and don't represent all of Yemen and attacking ships passing nearby isn't defending oneself.
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  4000. ​ @nygeek6471  By the match being free money they mean workers have the option to a) take the match and b) not take the match and that a) is strictly superior because you get more money with no downside (relative to option b), that is).
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  4001. I hope you won't vote for him, though (assuming you're from Turkey). He's to blame for the high inflation.
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  4002. In which part did he assign blame? I only see him discussing what affects Israel's strategic choices, not how ethical they are.
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  4003. "During C19 China nationalized a lot of foreign medical supply manufacturing companies that were foreign owned." Did it pay any compensation or was that total expropriation?
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  4004. "Quantitative Easing means handing out free money to business people/corporations" No, it doesn't.
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  4005.  @WarmasterDeath  I can see them being pain. But surely the thing in this video was still worse? Or at least it would've been if it hadn't been stopped before it got properly underway?
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  4006.  @Xboxzilla  They e.g. drive without a license and claim they aren't driving but rather "travelling". However, they don't try overthrow the government nor think that they're the legitimate rulers of the country.
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  4007. Most normal people have the luxury that almost no one has heard of them and wouldn't be interested even if they did. The rich tend to have it worse in that respect on average.
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  4008. What I do with tablets is that I break a corner off an throw that in the tub. Is that a good idea?
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  4009.  @drock213  No, you're wrong.
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  4010.  @drock213  It's not the most fair. Progressive tax is fairer.
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  4011.  @drock213  If you cut spending to that level you could still have progressive tax which would mean that lower income people would have to pay less than 15% which would make their lives easier (and higher income people would have to pay somewhat more).
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  4012.  @123duelist  How precisely would that work? I'm assuming there would be some kind of income threshold below which you're deemed to not be able to pay it (or the criterion might involve something else in addition to income, but I'm simplifying here a bit). What happens if you're slightly above this threshold? Would you pay the X% flat tax for all your income or only for the part that exceeds the income threshold?
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  4013. Which one is which?
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  4014. Patrick's logic makes sense. You didn't address that at all.
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  4015. Just charge in there with laser tag gear and see what happens.
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  4016.  @RogerGarrett  No, a cart like this can consistently exceed wind speed. It can accelerate even when going faster than the wind.
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  4017.  @RogerGarrett  "At that point there is NO FORCE pushing the vehicle." No, that's not true. Even at that point the propeller (powered by the wheels) is spinning and pushing the cart forward. Why aren't the wheels, which power the propeller then slowing the cart by at least as much? It's because the air is moving relative to the ground.
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  4018.  @RogerGarrett  "Now, seriously, where is all that extra energy coming from?" It's coming from the wind. In a frame fixed to the ground the air that goes through the propeller is slowed down. This energy (or a part of it) is transferred to the cart speeding it up.
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  4019.  @RogerGarrett  "The fact that the ambient air is slowed down by the propeller (relative to the ground) does not in anyway mean that the air is supplying power to the moving vehicle." The air is losing energy (in this frame). That means that something else must be gaining an equal amount of energy because energy is conserved. "The propeller doesn't know anything about a ground-based frame of reference" Of course, the propeller doesn't know anything since it doesn't have a brain but that's not relevant here. Energy is conserved in any inertial frame but which body is losing or gaining energy depends on the chosen frame. In this case, the frame tied to the ground is where it's easiest to understand why this cart doesn't violate the conservation of energy. "From the propeller, and the vehicle's, standpoint the propeller is accelerating the air, not slowing it down." If you insist on using this frame then notice that the ground is moving relative to the vehicle. Thus in this frame the vehicle is extracting energy from the ground. However, I think using a frame tied to the ground is more intuitive.
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  4020.  @RogerGarrett  "The question is "Where does the energy COME FROM?" that results in the observed effect, regardless of the viewing perspective." But where the energy comes from essentially depends on the frame. The kinetic energy of objects is different in different inertial frames. The conservation of energy is observed in all frames but the flow of energy is different. In the frame tied to the ground the energy is coming from the wind. In the frame tied to the vehicle (at a particular moment) the energy is coming from the ground. In the frame tied to the air the energy is also coming from the ground (once the vehicle has reached wind speed).
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  4021.  @RogerGarrett  "according to the builders, the propeller is allowed to freely rotate, with nothing other than the wind causing it to rotate" No, that's not how it works and the builders aren't saying it is. The propeller is not allowed to spin freely and it spins to the opposite direction than the wind would turn it. "And at that very point the wind is no longer imparting a force against Blackbird, . . . because both the wind and Blackbird are moving in the same direction and the same speed relative to the ground." It's still imparting a force on the propeller because it's spinning. "Then the propeller is engaged and begins to spin" No, the propeller was engaged right from the beginning. "The critical question then becomes, "What causes the propeller to rotate, where does the energy come from that powers the propeller?" It is NOT being caused to rotate BY THE WIND, because in the current state there is no wind relative to the propeller." The wind does not directly rotate the propeller. Where the energy comes from depends on the inertial frame. In a frame tied to the ground it comes from the wind. In the frame tied to the air/vehicle (which are the same in this instance) it comes from the ground. Just because the wind doesn't directly spin the propeller doesn't mean the energy isn't coming from the wind, though that depends on the inertial frame used to look at the situation. "They cite explicitly that the power comes from the wheels, from their interaction with the ground." True. This in no way contradicts what I have said. "It COULD come from a gasoline engine on board the vehicle. It COULD come from a flywheel on board the vehicle. It COULD come from solar panels powering an electric motor attached to the propeller." Of course, I have not personally inspected the cart to know whether the builders have cheated in one of the ways you list. However, their record was certified by NALSA and trust them to have done a thorough enough inspection to know that no such energy sources are present. "And when the vehicle is travelling at the same speed as the ground-relative air movement, that vehicle-relative air movement is ZERO and therefore contributes nothing, no energy, to the vehicle." But in that frame of reference the ground is moving relative to the vehicle and that's where the energy comes from in that frame of reference. (In a frame tied to the ground the energy comes from the wind.) "Further, when the vehicle is travelling FASTER than the ground-relative air movement, that vehicle-relative air movement is AGAINST the forward movement of the vehicle and therefore REDUCES the energy, the movement, the speed of the vehicle." It doesn't because the propeller is spinning. "Again, it is the repeated claim by the makers of the Blackbird that it is interaction of the wheels with the ground that powers the vehicle. That means that they are saying: It is the motion of the vehicle itself that increases the motion of the vehicle. It is the speed of the vehicle itself that increases the speed of the vehicle. It is the momentum of the vehicle itself that increases the momentum of the vehicle. None of that can be true. It is simply physically impossible." It's not only the motion by itself. The interaction with the air and the ground is crucial. None of that is impossible.
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  4022.  @RogerGarrett  OK, here's my answer. (I'll consider the situation 2 only after my answers to 1 and 3, because that would distract from the main issue.) Situation 1 Yes, I agree that in this case the cart would eventually stop. Even if the propeller is spinning and providing thrust it's being powered by the wheels and the grip of the wheels must be providing at least as much deceleration as the propeller is providing acceleration. Situation 3 You said: "The only thing that the Blackbird experiences is the various forces imposed up on it by the Blackbird-relative air, which is ALWAYS a Blackbird-relative headwind, plus the standard friction losses." However, those are not the only forces. If the Blackbird only interacted with the air it indeed could not exceed wind speed. However, it also interacts with the ground which is crucial. The wheels are being used to drive the propeller which means they are constantly braking the cart. However, since the ground is moving relative to the cart faster (100 mph in your example) than the relative headwind (which is only 50 mph in your example) it means the cart can get mechanical advantage in using the wheels to power the propeller. This means the wheels brake the cart less than what the propeller pushes it forward by. That means the cart can accelerate. Situation 2 What about this situation? If you tried to use the same setup, i.e. the wheels powering the propeller, the cart would indeed stop even faster than in situation 1. However, you can do the reverse and use the propeller as a wind turbine and use it to power the wheels. This way you can again get mechanical advantage and accelerate beyond wind speed. Blackbird can operate like this as well and has gone upwind faster than the wind (but by a smaller factor than downwind)
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  4023.  @RogerGarrett  "The ONLY way that the cart could continue moving at that higher-than-wind-speed is if there is some OTHER force driving the cart. You claim that it's the wind. But the cart-relative wind is a HEADWIND, a drag force, just like in Situation 1" If we're talking about forces the accelerating thrust isn't there merely because of the wind. The cart achieves acceleration from its interaction with the air because the propeller is spinning. I think we can agree that a sufficiently fast spinning propeller can accelerate the cart. The only question is that can it be powered by the wheels alone or does it need another power source to avoid decelerating. "Situation 1 and Situation 3 the cart-ground relative speed is exactly the same. The cart receives the exact same amount of energy from the system in either case. How much it receives is NOT dependent on what the ambient air might be doing." Yes, but in situation 3 the cart is able to use that same energy for greater acceleration. Let's take an example. Energy is force times distance. Let's assume the cart travels the distance of 1m (at a speed of 100 mph) and the grip of the wheels provides 1N of decelerating force (arbitrary number). Now on this 1m stretch the cart can extract 1m x 1N = 1J of energy from the ground to power the propeller. Since the relative headwind is only 50 mph the air travels only 0.5m relative to the cart during that 1m stretch. Let's assume the same 1J (no losses) is used to provide thrust. How big is the thrust. Again, energy is force times distance so we get 0.5m x F = 1J and from this we can solve that F=2N, i.e. the accelerating force from the propeller is twice as much as the decelerating force from the wheels. This is the mechanical advantage. In reality there will be some losses but as long as this mechanical advantage is big enough it can overcome those losses (and the drag on the frame of the cart) and the cart can accelerate even with relative headwind.
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  4024.  @RogerGarrett  "The end of the shorter section of the beam moves as a result of the movement of the long section with the end of the shorter section moving through a shorter distance but with a higher force." And that's also what's happening with Blackbird. The air is moving less relative to the cart than the ground. "But then you look at the Propeller section of the vehicle and note that, relative to the ambient (Ground-relative) wind, it's going a much shorter distance (half the distance, in fact), and from that you calculate that there is TWICE the Energy there." No, I calculated twice the force, not energy. I assumed the same energy, just like with an actual lever. Check again the numbers I used (though they're just made up examples). Most of the rest of your comment seems to be based on this same misunderstanding. I never said the energy would be multiplied by mechanical advantage. "The situation starts with figuring out how much Energy you can tap into from the momentum of the vehicle, from the speed at which the mass of the vehicle is travelling relative to the ground. That gives you a baseline, maximum amount of energy that's available." No, that's hardly the maximum because the cart can extract energy from its surroundings (either the air or the ground depending on what inertial frame you're using). "Leaves me wondering why you're not using that increased air velocity to calculate a LARGER distance travelled and thereby LESS Energy." Because the propeller, if well designed, mostly pushes the air backwards. It doesn't accelerate to spin with it at high velocity. That would obviously be inefficient. The angle of attack of the propeller's blades are chosen such that these kinds of losses are not too large.
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  4025.  @RogerGarrett  "When you've got some object moving at some speed through the air it does not matter that the air may also be moving in the same direction of the object." True, if the object is interacting only with that air. However, here the air is moving relative to the ground and the cart is interacting with both of them which is the reason why it's possible to extract energy from them. "But if the propeller acquires its energy from the very momentum of the object itself that momentum will, must, reduce over time, with the result of the object slowing down." But this isn't really an accurate description. You have tended to look at the situation in the inertial frame tied to the cart (at a specific instance). In this frame the ground is moving relative to the cart and therefore has kinetic energy. In this frame it's the kinetic energy of the ground which causes the wheels, and therefore the propeller, to spin. The ground then slows down by a minuscule amount. Thus the cart (and the air) are able to gain kinetic energy. (In a frame tied to the ground the energy would be coming from the wind instead but let's use the frame tied to the cart instead because you have tended to focus on it.) It's like in your lever example. A lever doesn't multiply energy because the force and distance change by the same factor. However, you can still impart kinetic energy on an object through a lever. A similar thing is happening with Blackbird. The energy is coming out of the ground or the air (depending on frame) and the lever-like mechanical advantage is crucial for that being possible (but it doesn't multiply the energy extracted). "And if the Blackbird can indeed extract energy from the air when that air is actually a headwind, imparting a drag force on it, then why doesn't that also apply to the situation where there is no wind, when the air is stationary relative to the ground?" It's because of the mechanical advantage. If you remember my example with numbers. The air was travelling half the speed of the ground relative to the cart. Because of that the accelerating force from the propeller could be twice as large as the decelerating force from the wheels (assuming no losses). If, on the other hand, the air and the ground are travelling at equal speeds then there is no mechanical advantage. The accelerating and decelerating forces would be equal meaning zero acceleration and if you include losses or drag on the cart's frame then it would decelerate.
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  4026.  @naujadiena  "inflation [...] is caused by the fact that increasing amount of money" Yes, and cutting interest rates means printing more money. The Turkish Central Bank should raise rates to reduce inflation, not cut them.
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  4027.  @naujadiena  "Rising interest rates are slowing down more the economy." High inflation is more damaging. Getting inflation under control requires high rates temporarily whereas not doing that at all implies permanent high inflation which causes continuous damage. In the present situation there is no painless alternative but not raising rates is clearly the worse option in the long run.
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  4028. He didn't say "the highest" but rather "one of the highest".
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  4029. 0:48 Short selling is not limited to intraday trading but you have to pay for holding a short position for longer than one day.
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  4030. Probably because the Soviet Union stashed so many of them.
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  4031.  @Seansyy62  Because Iran appears far more erratic.
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  4032.  @Seansyy62  Also, Iran has technically promised to not develop nuclear weapons since it's a party to the Non-Proliferation Treaty, whereas the same doesn't apply to Israel.
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  4033. "If that's true, how could the EU parliament ever override a sovereign country's constitution?" The EU parliament certainly can't decide to do whatever. The EU treaties transfer certain limited powers to the EU and each member state has accepted these treaties. If the treaties are in conflict with that country's constitution then that country's parliament shouldn't have passed the accession treaty (or should have passed it as a constitutional amendment).
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  4034. What about Houston, Texas? I recently saw a video that informed that it's the only major US city without zoning restrictions. While a total lack zoning can create problems of its own, one would think that it would do away with this particular problem. Does Houston have the "missing middle"?
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  4035.  @NotJustBikes  Thanks for the info.
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  4036. "their AC use would be high during the day and peak in the afternoon" In a smart AC system you should be able to time it to run when the electricity is the cheapest whether it's during the day or the night.
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  4037. 2:20 I'm surprised you didn't mention Egypt's bloated military among the money holes.
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  4038. You know, the military spending in USA isn't over 50% of even the total federal budget (ignoring state budgets, etc.). It's only over 50% of federal discretionary spending. Federal permanent spending (e.g. interest on debt and entitlements like Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security) is larger than discretionary spending.
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  4039.  Adolf H.  They've already retreated from around Kyiv.
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  4040. 1:00 At least in Finnish (and maybe some other languages too?) the term for IFV is literally "assault tank" (rynnäkköpanssarivaunu).
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  4041. Really?
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  4042. "Finns of today is not the same "heavy duty Finns" of yesterday who got their military education in the 1800's Tsarists army!" There probably wasn't that many Finns in the Tsarist army back then. Finland had it's own separate army. Then Nikolai II abolished it and tried to conscript Finns to the Russian army but that was fiercely resisted so he gave up.
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  4043.  @Rhannmah  "to be fair, most of the CO2 emissions in concrete manufacture comes from using fossil fuels to excavate, transport and manufacture concrete" No, that's not the case. Concrete is made from limestone (among other things) i.e. calcium carbonate. When it's heated in a cement kiln carbon dioxide is expelled. That's where the majority of the emissions come from. It's also a fairly difficult problem as that reaction is necessary to make concrete unless you use a completely different chemistry.
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  4044. 1:23 "Sonar is also a type of radar. Anything that can transmit and receive a signal is called a radar." I don't think that's correct since the word "radar" is short for "radio detection and ranging".
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  4045. Good point but the ratio is still pretty big.
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  4046. "You will not hear this in 95% of Polish schools" Really? Is that recent or has history "always" been taught like that?
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  4047. Even English has words like "strengths".
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  4048.  @michaelkatz275  It's also an incorrect quote.
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  4049.  @geraldkinderman2794  It's an incorrect quote.
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  4050.  @anjazapico6380  I can give the correct quote, though first I have note that this quote only has a single secondary source so we can't say for certain that Kissinger said it. The quote (as reported by William F. Buckley) is: "Nixon should be told that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." [emphasis mine] Note the word "if". What Kissinger is clearly saying here is that Nguyễn Văn Thiệu should not suffer the same fate as Ngô Đình Diệm (who was killed in a coup). This is a conditional statement about the specific circumstances of the time. It wasn't any kind of general, unqualified statement of the US being deadly as a friend.
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  4051.  @geraldkinderman2794  It's not close at all. OP's rendition of the quote gives a totally wrong idea of what Kissinger was trying to say.
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  4052.  @Cypeq  "Literally electric sucks, if it cycles power of and on it will fuck up the dishes." You're mistaken. I've not noticed any problems from cycling.
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  4053. Like that wouldn't be the case already before.
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  4054.  @baronmeduse  "It's a lot better to get really good at one thing, than be mediocre in many." Not necessarily, it depends. This is especially true if the skill is learned for fun rather than for a practical purpose.
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  4055.  @baronmeduse  I disagree. It can apply to languages depending on what the language learner's goal is. E.g. an anime fan might want to learn some Japanese to understand some nuances that are not always conveyed by the translation. Such a learner only needs to understand the spoken language to an extent. They can fall on the subs when necessary. They only need to recognize words when they hear them, not necessarily be able to produce them to express themself. They need not be able to pronounce the language well or read kanji. Those further levels of proficiency are not necessarily worth their time and effort. I could come up with more examples where a limited skill in a language suffices. Things worth doing aren't always worth doing well. People don't have unlimited time and other resources so expecting them to do everything well would limit the range of things they can do. That's not always good (though it depends on the case). This is especially true for things done for fun rather than for a serious purpose. E.g. computer games that are worth playing for fun aren't always worth it to become good at. Same can be true for languages if you're just learning them for fun (or to get fun reactions out of native speakers).
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  4056.  @baronmeduse  Yes, that I agree with. I even said in my original comment that shouldn't mislead people about their level of proficiency.
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  4057. 😧
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  4058.  @kayaritvards9200  "while doing that also put ocalan in the picture" TLDR's style (so far) hasn't included using pictures of people as stand-ins for organizations or countries. They've only used flags or country silhouettes with flags in them (with eyes and legs added). No reason to change the style for this one instance.
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  4059. What Medvedev says is irrelevant. He has done some crazy rants which obviously cannot be taken seriously. There's no reason to take anything he says seriously (in the sense that you could infer Russia's position from it). What he says might sometimes be true but that being the case and he saying it are just coincidences.
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  4060.  @badwolftx2139  I wouldn't describe Medvedev's recent opinions as "comedic" but many of them are disconnected from reality. Clearly he frequently says all sorts of crazy stuff which clearly (and luckily) doesn't represent the Kremlin's position. He also isn't in any kind of foreign affairs representative kind of position. If the Kremlin wants to signal a position surely they'd realize that they'd have to have someone other than Medvedev state it, e.g. Putin, or Lavrov, etc.
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  4061. RIP forests (unless there are e-book versions).
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  4062. The '70s oil embargo was done by OAPEC, not OPEC.
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  4063. "If the feds tax them, they should have congressional representation else be “taxation without representation”" They can vote in federal elections just like (most) other US citizens.
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  4064. Uranium is quite safe. The difference isn't that large.
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  4065. "I don't know the exact specifics of what legally constitutes a pump and dump" I don't know either but in edge cases it probably involves the discretion of a regulator or a judge rather than being a rule that anyone could apply if they just knew the facts and the law.
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  4066. It's all Mussolini's fault.
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  4067.  @siliconandsteel  "If Elop was sent to Nokia to destroy its value, he could not do a better job." I don't fully agree. He did sell Nokia's phone business to Microsoft (his earlier employer) for a rather inflated price, at least in retrospect. The cash from that deal did help Nokia with its difficult journey afterwards.
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  4068.  @dorothyprior-gib  He probably meant that it doesn't consist of ants.
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  4069.  @jeffevarts8757  It happens to the best of us. :)
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  4070. Stealing money?
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  4071. I don't think they'll become that quiet. Also, the amount of birds killed by wind turbines is dwarfed by the amount killed by windows and cats.
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  4072. At least Milei has been getting coverage.
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  4073.  @Nickle314  The Dutch system is 100% funded. "Assets are zero by the way" No, they're about $1.77 trillion.
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  4074.  @WilliamSt.Clair1399  "I do think it would be a great thing to undertake in educating everyone in a common language" I'd say it's better if people can get education in their own language. (Of course, this isn't an absolute principle. If a language is too rare it's not practical to hire teachers fluent in that language.)
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  4075.  @WilliamSt.Clair1399  Oh, OK. I thought that "educating everyone in a common language" meant education (e.g. math, history, etc.) should all be given in a common language, i.e. English in this case but apparently that's not what you meant.
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  4076. 1:15 Where does that 5-10 years come from? You didn't give a source or a calculation. It just sounds made up.
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  4077. I'm only guessing here but here's what I think. In the subzero temperature of the freeze dryer, the equilibrium partial pressure of the water vapor is going to be very low and you need to get the actual partial pressure to be clearly below that for the sublimation to happen at a reasonable rate. The surrounding air likely to have a higher partial pressure of water vapor because it's much warmer so it's not much help. The normal dryer mechanism of using heat is out of the question for obvious reasons. Therefore sucking the water vapor out with a vacuum pump might be the only practical choice. Also sucking out the air as well might not be necessary as such but in practice, the vacuum pump is going to do that as well as a side effect.
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  4078.  @-koperkat8415  "I think the debate is about grass-field lawns, which are terrible for the environment." That probably depends on the climate. If you need to irrigate the lawn then it would be better to have something else but if the lawn can survive without maintenance (other than mowing) then it's probably OK.
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  4079. It means lightning.
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  4080. "Again NATO goes back on its word and once again moves closer to the Russian borders." If Russia didn't want Finland to join NATO, it shouldn't have invaded Ukraine. It's Russia's invasion of Ukraine which shifted the public opinion in Finland decisively in favor of applying for NATO membership.
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  4081.  @graphiuruss.2948  Russia is the aggressor. Without Russia's invasion of Ukraine Finland wouldn't have joined NATO. "Military alliance must not exist "just in case"." Does that logic also include CSTO?
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  4082. Germany also has an almost pure pay-as-you-go system for pensions and one of the lowest birth rates in Europe.
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  4083.  @grimaffiliations3671  "you don't issue new bonds to cover the maturing ones, you just give back the initial amount when your done paying interest on it." You need to get the money to pay the principal ("initial amount") from somewhere. Unless the government is running a surplus at least equal to the amount of maturing debt there needs to be at least some bond issuance (or some other form of borrowing) to cover what surplus cannot. "And the government doesn't need investors to "lend" to it" Yes it does.
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  4084.  @grimaffiliations3671  "yeah, you get the initial amount from the bond buyer when they buy the bond. You just give it back when it matures." When the government receives the initial amount it isn't kept ready to be paid back when the debt matures. The money is (usually) spent on something. That's the point of borrowing. Thus when you pay back maturing debt you need some source of cash which is usually newly borrowed money. "Selling bonds is not done to finance the government" It is done to finance the government.
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  4085. @SwitchedDreams It's not a contradiction. Currently the drivers are paying in time by sitting in slow traffic. But the time they lose isn't gained by anyone else. It's just destroyed value. Paying a congestion charge, however, at least just moves value (money) from one pocket to another instead of just destroying/wasting it.
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  4086.  @graysmith9218  With a high enough charge, the amount of cars will be less. The drivers are hardly ready to pay unlimited amount of money for the privilege of driving. Also, even if there was no effect, it would still be a good way to raise revenue. Governments typically raise revenue by taxes which can affect people's behaviour in unwanted ways and lead to so called "deadweight loss". Congestion charges either change people's behaviour in a desirable way or don't change it meaning no deadweight loss.
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  4087.  @tarZanZantar2000  For me the experience has been the opposite.
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  4088. 57:10 Why would you say that it would be used as long range artillery? I would think that tank guns can't reach a very high angle which should limit their range compared to regular field artillery. Maybe you can sometimes park them on an upwards slope to get a higher angle and thus higher range but I'd still imagine the range would still typically be shorter, not longer.
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  4089.  @istvankovacs6969  The range of modern artillery 15-30 km. 15 km would still make it short range artillery.
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  4090. "I thought that Russia was sanctioned, who sanctioned Europe 😂🤣" Sanctions usually affect both parties. Also, Russia's reduced gas shipments are basically a form of counter-sanctions.
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  4091.  @larsalfredhenrikstahlin8012  "You should be able to plug un-grounded things into grounded outlets." Monkeh wasn't complaining about being able to plug ungrounded things into grounded outlets but rather about being able to plug grounded things into ungrounded outlets.
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  4092.  @Monkeh616  "CEE 7/2 ungrounded plugs cannot be inserted into 7/3 or 7/5 grounded outlets." But that problem probably isn't widespread. I think CEE 7/2 is quite rare and unearthed devices are more likely to use CEE 7/17 or Europlug which do fit into those outlets. However, it might be a safety issue if e.g. CEE 7/4 plug fits into some unearthed socket like CEE 7/1. Thought this was what you were complaining about in your first comment in this thread and if so I agree.
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  4093.  @vurpo7080  "Schuko, the one used in most of Europe, has basically all the benefits of the UK plug" Schuko lacks the fuse in the plug which the UK plug has.
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  4094. Those are not mutually exclusive.
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  4095.  @baastex  "The only way Versailles would actually have succeeded if it had stopped the war from ever happening." But that's just your definition for success. I'm not commenting one whether it's a good or a bad definition but it wasn't what this video was about so it's not an argument for this video being wrong.
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  4096.  @gintasvilkelis2544  Not true. Norway spends less (and Mongolia too, if non-NATO countries count).
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  4097.  @Ast151  Roman explained it in the video. If you live on the first floor or always take the stairs then you won't have to pay for what you don't use. It can be argued to be more fair. If it's included in your dues or rent then you'd have to pay for it whether you use it or not.
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  4098.  @oakinvestment5371  "Shkreli was actually selling the drug for $1 to people" Do you have a source for this? I've heard that Imprimis offered $0.99 pills but not Turing.
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  4099.  @jusunglee6673  If that's the case then it doesn't reflect on his moral character in any way. Outside the US pyrimethamine is sold by multiple producers so competition keeps the price down. Even the $13.50 pill would be wildly more expensive than the competition there.
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  4100.  @23desdfe345r2fd23f23  At least Mingyang Wind Power MySE 16.0-260 has a radius of 130 m. I think it's still in prototype stage but that's still farther than the turbine concept in this video.
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  4101. "Increasing interest rates won’t help supply-driven inflation" I disagree. Increasing rates is implicitly a decision to print less money than otherwise. With less money printing the value of money should still fall slower than otherwise even when things are becoming more expensive in real terms. However, this is not that relevant in Turkey's case in any event. Turkey's inflation is a lot higher than in many other countries even though oil and gas haven't increased more in price for them than, say, the Eurozone. It's mostly due to too loose monetary policy even though supply issues play a part in it.
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  4102.  @Jeroen_Maes  Raising interest rates decreases inflation whereas cutting them increases inflation.
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  4103.  @Jeroen_Maes  Your comment saying "How?" has disappeared but I assume it's YouTube that did that so I'll still answer. Raising rates implicitly a decision to print less money. More money relative to the size of the economy means more inflation.
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  4104. 5:15 You showed the biological weapon symbol for chemical weapons.
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  4105. That price cannot be correct unless he bought a 1 l pint.
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  4106. Carbon tax is the best solution.
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  4107.  @Rick_Cavallaro  He's not a scientist but a science communicator.
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  4108.  @Rick_Cavallaro  You can be both. Neil deGrasse Tyson would probably qualify. But Nye hasn't to my knowledge done scientific research so I wouldn't count him as a scientist. He's an engineer and a science communicator.
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  4109.  @belamizsak161  "It is seems impassible to me, that the propeller's shaft transfers more power to the propeller, and the propeller to the air, than the wheel harvest" But it's not impossible. The key here is that the ground and the air have a different velocity relative to the cart.
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  4110.  @pl2727  This doesn't violate Newton's laws.
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  4111. 4:48 "That by definition is default." No it's not because they have paid as agreed. No agreed on obligation has been left unfulfilled. Even if the nominal rate were negative, which has happened, it's still not a default because all agreed on payments have been made.
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  4112.  @nathanchildress5596  "SF, LA, NY, London, Paris, or any other huge city is already an abysmal failure" How are they failures? People are clearly willing to pay a lot to live in those places.
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  4113. I'm pretty sure these were not assumed to be CHP. I'd assume that's not the most relevant thing in Australia.
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  4114. Bosnia and Herzegovina is probably something the Greek side is afraid a federal solution would produce. It is a somewhat unwieldy government structure that has difficulty functioning. The Greek Cypriots are specifically afraid of ending up with a federal government that gets too easily deadlocked.
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  4115. It's a joint venture so they don't carry all the risk. Also, I'm pretty sure they have taken the risk any capital faces in Ukraine into account.
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  4116. But having Sweden in would enhance the safety of the Baltic countries.
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  4117. I think Ukraine should give up on getting Crimea back. It's too difficult to take back a majority there didn't want to be a part of Ukraine.
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  4118. "This thing is an absurdity that can only be justified in a low gravity, low or zero atmosphere situation" How so?
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  4119. It's because the blades move quite fast through the air. Faster means that thinner blades are optimal. Bigger blades would increase drag.
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  4120. If that somehow happened it would at least reduce the chances of Finland and Sweden joining. However, that scenario is almost certain to remain completely hypothetical.
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  4121.  @pocarski  Cyprus in not in NATO. If in the case of Turkey you mean the disputes over Aegean islands, I think those came only after Turkey had joined.
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  4122.  @pocarski  "which might not be considered a dispute since Turkey isn't actually claiming it" Yeah, that might not prevent Turkey from joining but even if it did Turkey joined like 2 decades prior.
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  4123.  @jonroberts8396  But that was a longer time ago so it's a weaker motivation. It could theoretically have some weight but I would personally guess not much.
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  4124. Options have an expiry date so you'd have to predict that a stock price falls before that. For a physical short there's no cutoff date. Also, to buy a put option you have to spend money to pay for the option's premium whereas with a physical short you get money that you can use to take a long position in something else.
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  4125. Replacing the highways with housing means more people can live inside the city instead of needing to drive into it from outside.
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  4126.  @GrahamStephan  12k likes now. Please do it. I don't usually press the like button. I think this was the second time ever. So don't let my effort go to waste. :)
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  4127. "Which means that it ultimately isn't profitable for airlines to adopt electric anyway?" But it would still be for individual airlines compared to the alternative of being bidded out by a competitor. Also, profit margins can increase temporarily if you're the first one to adopt a cost-cutting technology.
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  4128.  @stormelemental13  "It is very, very difficult to replace the carbon monoxide." There are facilities (at least planned or under construction) that use hydrogen instead of carbon as reducing agent when refining iron ore. Of course, that only makes environmental sense if you have a lot of low-emission electricity available for electrolytic hydrogen production.
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  4129.  @Full-of-bs  I disagree. Firstly, debt-to-GDP is still a fairly informative metric even if you think something else is better. Secondly, I'm not sure debt service is a better metric since interest rates can easily change, at least if the country has a lot of short-term debt or in general debt close to maturity needing to be rolled over soon.
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  4130.  @Full-of-bs  "What’s your rationale that debt to GDP is a good ratio?" It's not perfect but it usually gives at least a rough idea of a country's financial position. It's also fairly unambiguous and readily available. "if Greece and the US have the same debt to GDP, but Greece’s debt has an interest rate 4X that of the US, then the similarity in the debt to GDP ratio is more misleading than informative" Possibly, though only if debt-to-GDP is also high, but debt service can be misleading as well. Debt service could be high in nominal terms due to high inflation or it might not be a big problem if (hypothetically) Greece was growing faster than the US. Also, there might be a possibility for the US rates to increase. "Interest rate changes would be taken into consideration when modeling debt service" Yes, you can do such modelling to take more factors into account (which could also include e.g. future pension obligations etc.). However, this can be far from simple. You'd have to do all kinds of decisions about what to include in models and how precisely to do it which requires a lot of judgment calls from the modeller. Most people can't necessarily easily find the results of such modellings. They can't easily judge how good choices the modeller made. They can't easily know if results between countries are comparable, etc. Still, doing this kind of thing can be well worth it if you're e.g. an institutional investor or something.
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  4131.  @Full-of-bs  I don't know how useful EBITDA is in evaluating companies but I'd argue debt-to-GDP is not at all useless (though it does have its limitations). I'd argue that it makes sense for e.g. average American voter to be aware of the debt level and take that into account when deciding who to vote for (though they can also take into account that the US may be able to handle a bigger relative amount of debt than some other countries). I don't expect the US to go to a debt crisis or anything but the rising debt level probably means that in the coming decades there will either have to be some spending cuts or tax increases that affect the middle class.
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  4132. The video feels a bit incomplete. I'm referring to the part about generating fuel from CO₂ in the air. But this process will require at least as much energy as fuel contains so in effect it's like a "battery" (but with worse efficiency and better energy density). Both batteries and "batteries" can only help if the electricity is generated with some low emission method and that's even more important for this kind fuel and for electric cars due to the lower efficiency. Maybe you think this point is so obvious that it needn't even be mentioned, but I would have preferred if you had at least briefly discussed it.
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  4133.  @justsefa1843  Yes, you can see strong real growth for the period you mentioned except for the years 2008 and 2009. I just wanted to mention this as a general comment because nominal GDP can be misleading. Looking at just nominal GDP you might determine that Zimbabwe has been growing at an astronomical rate but it's, of course, not real growth.
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  4134. Here it's crucial that the cart interacts with both the air and the ground which move relative to each other. I don't see how you could do that with a glider.
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  4135. EU and Japan have lower inflation and China has been experiencing deflation lately, so no.
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  4136.  @let0atreides  "If US maintains or hikes, the EURUSD will go below 1." I don't think so. US has higher inflation.
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  4137.  @let0atreides  At least in the long term, exchange rate movement should (roughly) correspond to inflation differential. Inflation in the US is higher than in the Eurozon which would seem to point to USD weakening relative to EUR.
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  4138.  @deehaytch8442  "the UK Secretary of State" I don't think there's such a position. Most cabinet positions in the UK are formally called "the Secretary of State for <something>".
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  4139. The investigation was finally finished last year and they came to the conclusion that Stig Engström was the killer.
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  4140.  @oliverkarehag9883  Who's Simon?
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  4141.  @oliverkarehag9883  Oh, OK. Though I think in at least some cases (e.g. VisualPolitik EN) he basically just a hired presenter who reads someone else's takes rather than his own.
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  4142. "10k civilian deaths in separatist Donbas region." UN gives the number of civilian deaths as 3,393. You're giving a 3x overestimate.
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  4143.  @StoicSymphony  The war is a reason even if it could have been avoided. Also, Russia still bears the primary responsibility for the war because it was the one who invaded.
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  4144. But what about the opposing counsel?
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  4145.  Samson G  "We Respect our bilateral commitment in the destruction of our common enemies and historical rivals." Destruction of historical rivals? Don't be so belligerent. You're talking about killing people today because of past rivalries. You should at least try to resolve disagreements by negotiation before resorting to bloodshed.
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  4146. "How does that work" I think the ETF basically contains derivatives the follow the index inversely.
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  4147.  @gingerfox7143  "It is very clear that Russia always keep it's word." Hardly. There are many instances where Russia hasn't kept its word. Russia promised to respect Ukraine's borders in the Budapest Memorandum (1994) and in a Friendship Treaty (1997) but it broke those promises in 2014 and 2022. Also Russia and Ukraine agreed on the right of passage through the Kerch Strait after the Tuzla Incident (2003) but Russia also broke that promise in 2018 when it attacked Ukrainian ships transiting through the Kerch Strait.
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  4148. The only one I've used besides Git is Bazaar. I don't remember it very well but overall it was pretty similar, I think. The biggest difference that comes to my mind is that branches were directories under the repo.
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  4149.  @LeDoctorBones  ""black" does not refer to colour" But black-bodies are actually black by their color unless they're hot enough to visibly glow.
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  4150. Waiting for that AI historian...
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  4151.  @dashua1735  Clearly a Star Control II reference. :)
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  4152. Sevastopol should be enough.
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  4153. It's pretty unbelievable that Gay Texas has legalized same-sex marriage.
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  4154. That's not the Peter Principle.
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  4155. It might be because Robin Hood might partially at fault for allowing this to happen and/or because he doesn't have enough money to recover in any case so they might not see it worthwhile to go after him. I'm just guessing though.
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  4156.  @Juan-fi3ky : I'm guessing that in a "normal" situation where someone had actually borrowed only as much as they had actually deposited in Robin Hood they would have to pay interest and pay it back at some point. In that case, withdrawing the money you borrow would just be a loan with 5% interest and with your investments in Robin Hood as collateral (I'm guessing). What's different in this situation is that the person borrowed more than they should have been able to and lost more than they probably can pay back. I'm not 100% sure though.
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  4157. Let's not forget that according to him 1³=|π|.
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  4158.  @rowbearly6128  I think he was just joking.
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  4159.  @Multi407D  "the Europeans used the currency to try to displace American influence. The embodiment of "biting the hand that feeds you"." What? It's not like the Europeans have some sort of moral obligation to not have a common currency (whatever you think about its practicality)
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  4160. It bothers me that the E tier is empty.
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  4161. In most African countries, the government is actually in control of the country, or at least most of it.
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  4162. 1:25 Does the doghouse even have a frame? I thought it was just a mass wall.
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  4163. @Aidan Collins "that is a regressive tax" That (and other less progressive taxes) are the solution of the more left-wing countries of Europe.
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  4164. @Aidan Collins I'm myself from Finland and Finland does also have rural areas where not having a car would be very difficult (the population density being about half of that of the US). Also, Finland's tax system is less progressive in other ways too. The general VAT rate is 24% which is almost twice that of even the highest sales tax rates in the US. It doesn't have to be that punishing for the poor if the extra revenue is used to fund income transfers.
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  4165.  @Roarmeister2  It's not imaginary. The scientific evidence for the effect of anthropogenic greenhouse emissions is quite strong.
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  4166.  @GNUr000t  What do you mean "left the country"? He disappeared for 6 days before being caught again. What's your basis for claiming that he was out of the country?
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  4167. Diesel trains, surely?
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  4168. 3:00 I mean, it is know that this footage was filmed by the Swedish newspaper Expressen (with the help of a Norwegian company named Blueye Robotics) so they could write a news story of it. It's just normal journalism. It's not a part of the official investigation.
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  4169.  @eksiarvamus  It's the aforementioned three countries. The term "Baltic States" usually refers to these three countries specifically. Maybe that's somewhat illogical but it's in very common usage nonetheless.
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  4170.  @eksiarvamus  Not linguistically, no but that's not what it's referring to.
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  4171.  @eksiarvamus  Well, "Baltic" doesn't only refer to the Baltic languages. Anyway, I don't know why that name was chosen but it's in common use nonetheless.
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  4172.  @minaolenella869  But those countries are the members of the Baltic Assembly. Latvians and Lithuanians also speak a Baltic language. The Estonians don't speak a Baltic language but based on geography and membership in the Baltic Assembly makes it logical to call Estonia a Baltic state as well just like Finland is called a Nordic country even though Finnish isn't a North Germanic language.
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  4173.  @minaolenella869  "You are confusing cause and consequence here." No, it doesn't matter which is the cause. Calling the members of the Baltic Assembly "Baltic" makes sense.
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  4174.  @minaolenella869  "not, if the members dislike it" Does any of the member countries dislike it? "What if people start to call US, Canada and Mexico Naftas?" It wouldn't sound problematic even if that kind usage hasn't become common.
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  4175.  @minaolenella869  "members dislike it.And multiple people have already told you that." This is the first time I've heard of it and eksiarvamus hasn't said it, at least not explicitly, so only a single person has said it to me so far. "It is frankly disrespectful that all Baltic states are known off is Soviet occupation" At least I don't associate the name Baltic States with that. "So you are really saying that it would not be problematic, if people say, that US Canada and Mexico should all unite into one country and have one president. And all three countries are basically the same?" I have not said they should unite into one country. Just using a name like Baltic Countries (or Nordic Countries, or Benelux Countries, etc.) doesn't imply they should necessarily unite (any more than they already have). The OP of this thread, Vojtěch Nitra, suggested a Baltic Union but I've not made any such suggestions myself.
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  4176.  @timothykeith1367  Texas has its own grid that is not synchronized with the eastern nor the western grid of the US which makes it more difficult to transfer electricity in and out of Texas. Moreover, this isn't due to any technical reason but rather due to wanting to avoid federal regulation.
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  4177.  @kazedcat  "Gorky D Leverage swap is not debt. The bank owns the underlying stock so theoretically the bank could recover their money by selling the stock." It is debt. The potential for loss comes if the underlying stock goes down in value. The bank/broker should theoretically suffer no losses from that because the other party, i.e. Hwang in this case, is obligated to pay for the amount the stock went down (+ interest). The problem is that if the losses are big enough Hwang won't have enough capital to pay off all his liabilities.
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  4178.  @kazedcat  "If I buy call option from a broker it does not mean I owe them money" But in this case call options weren't used. What were used were total return swaps. This "total return" includes the potentially negative return if the stock falls enough. "The potential losses of them owning the stock is their risk on doing business." Not quite. Hwang is supposed to pay them if the stock falls. So they don't have a long position in the sense that they shouldn't suffer a loss even if the stock falls in value as long as Hwang stays solvent and can pay whatever he owes (but in this case Hwang became insolvent and couldn't pay). "The difference is that debt the value flows towards you first then in the future cash flow out from you." I'm not going to argue the precise definition of "debt" but functionally there's no difference. The result from a total return swap is basically the same as if Hwang had just directly bought the stock with some of his own cash + a loan from the broker. (There are differences like that a total return swap doesn't give him voting rights in the company or trigger any disclosure requirements if his position exceeds 10% of the company's stock, but those are not relevant to what we discussed here.)
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  4179. @ "Talking from perspective of 1920s." Oh OK, you meant "decade before" rather than "decade ago".
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  4180. Burning peat is bad for the climate, worse than coal even.
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  4181.  @nirutivan9811  I don't think so. He used the wording "through its territory" [emphasis mine]. That wouldn't make sense if "it" in that sentence referred to a convention.
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  4182.  @nirutivan9811  "That also doesn‘t make sense" Yeah, because he should've said "Bern" instead of "Geneva". "I understand it that he meant the convention and the „it“ referred to Switzerland, which (in my opinion) makes the most sense." That wouldn't make sense as a sentence structure at all because then "it" would be referring to something that wasn't mentioned which is not how that word functions. Also, the Geneva Convention doesn't place the kind of restrictions mentioned here. What IMHO makes most sense is that "it" was referring to the Swiss government with the capital being used to refer to it except that he made a mistake and said "Geneva" when he should've said "Bern".
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  4183.  @nirutivan9811  I forgot that you mentioned the Hague convention but that doesn't change my argument. The sentence structure doesn't make sense with reference to any treaty in that place and I don't think the Hague convention would prevent arms shipments in any case. "He says „from or through it“. From or through the Swiss Government doesn‘t make a lot of sense either." He doesn't (quite) say that. He says "from or through its territory" which does make sense as a reference to a country's government (but not to a treaty). "In my opinion it makes the most sense that the „it“ is referring to the country of Switzerland (even if it wasn‘t mentioned before)." This is basically the same as what I said. Capitals are generally used to refer to countries' and their governments in the context of political decisions. In this case then "Geneva" was clearly meant as a reference to Switzerland and its government, not any convention. Using "it" to refer to something that hasn't been mentioned makes zero sense because "it" refers to things mentioned previously. (Well, it does have some other uses such as a formal subject but that doesn't apply here.)
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  4184. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  4185. What?
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  4186.  @tbateman9902  "NO ONE IN THE MILITARY CALLS IT AN ASSAULT RIFLE" Really? At least the US Army website e.g. uses the phrase "M4 assault rifle".
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  4187. Could Austria maybe become and intermediary?
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  4188. But his pronunciation closer to the original German pronunciation.
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  4189. I suspect "strengths" might be similarly difficult for the Japanese.
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  4190.  @forstudentpower  How would a mix work? In a consumer co-op workers can surely also be members but in practice "normal" consumer members would far outnumber them. I don't see how a mix would differ from a consumer co-op.
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  4191. Ukraine is denying they did this.
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  4192. But "clog" can also mean "blockage" so a "clog in the machine" could still make sense (though it would be a much more negative implication than "cog in the machine").
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  4193.  @TheRezro  In Finland gas supplies about 6% of the energy used on average so losing that would not be catastrophic. If imports of oil and coal as well as direct electricity imports are lost too it would be more difficult but I'd say the situation would still be easier than for Germany and Italy.
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  4194.  @TheRezro  But it isn't bad for Russia either. It doesn't that much matter if Europe buys a lot of gas now and less later rather than at a more even pace.
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  4195.  @TheRezro  I just meant that if they front-load buying gas now so that they can cut off Russian gas later, that doesn't change how much gas is overall bought from Russia. Of course, there's always the possibility that Russia would cut off gas in retaliation to other sanctions so in that regard it could potentially be bad for Russia because this threat is lessened.
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  4196.  @iazy47  Uranium is cheap (compared to the amount energy one can get from it) so it doesn't matter that much.
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  4197. If he was referring to the instructive and comitative cases, then the use of the former is rare and the use of the latter basically non-existent.
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  4198.  @MusicByproduct : "The Finnish instructive and comitative do have plenty of real-world usage" Where exactly have you seen comitative used? One possibility is that he was actually referring to the adessive case (used like instructive) and the postposition "kanssa" (used like comitative) though the latter isn't a suffix.
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  4199. Is Lesotho doing better than SA?
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  4200. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7VdeHdBn-g
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  4201. Can those free WeBull stocks be that of GameStop?
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  4202. Why are they workhorses and not warhorses? Is it only old generals that deserve to be called warhorses?
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  4203.  @razor1uk610 : Lol! 😂😂
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  4204.  @HuntingTarg : Not necessarily. E.g. an infantryman who's a sniper might take out a machine gun position.
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  4205. "Why does DC have less losses at high voltage/long distance?" Because of the lack of skin effect and capacitive leakage.
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  4206. This was done by a ship dragging its anchor.
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  4207.  @zazapachuliaisbetterthanjo6254  "but are their sponsor states gonna turn them over? No." But doesn't seem to be all that different compared to Netanyahu. For similar reasons, Netanyahu likely won't face arrest either. Thus both receive a comparable treatment from the ICC and the signatories of the Rome Statute and there seems to be no obvious sign of selective prosecution (at least in the case of Israel vs. Palestine).
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  4208. I think "moon-moon" would be a fun term because it reminds me of the Moon Moon meme.
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  4209.  @Immudzen  "Each program should be in its own directory with its own bin, lib, etc directories." Why would there be a need for a lib directory? Can't you just statically link the libraries so that they're a part of the binary?
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  4210. According to Wikipedia, one of the names for the New Guinea Highlands is "Central Cordillera".
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  4211. Basil clearly didn't just rest on his Laurels.
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  4212.  @GaGProds : "seing as it cost the Germans the war" I don't think the Germans could have won no matter what they did.
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  4213.  @GaGProds : Let me clarify. I don't think Germany could have defeated the Soviet Union with a different strategy no matter what they did. (And Soviets did a larger part of the work in the European theater than the Western Allies.)
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  4214. Baikonur
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  4215.  @moisuomi  I don't remember it getting much attention.
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  4216.  @moisuomi  Do you mean that Yle made sure it did get a lot of attention or that it made sure that it didn't get a lot of attention?
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  4217. @Zaydan Alfariz I don't know about that.
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  4218. Even if the leader fabricates the election results?
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  4219. But it was still the right thing to do, wasn't it?
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  4220. Worry not! Coma isn't a matter of life and death: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coma_(optics)
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  4221. I think this video has a smoother sponsor transition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqSfiMc8egU
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  4222. Though you could probably make a plane like that as well.
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  4223. "Imposing unconstitutional laws" Which law is unconstitutional.
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  4224.  @ismaelbarron7600  Firstly, you said "imposing unconstitutional laws". The law being "imposed" here is a raise in the retirement age. There is nothing in the constitution saying that the retirement age couldn't be raised. Secondly, you might have meant that the process of passing that law (rather than the law itself like your original comment seemed to say) is unconstitutional but that isn't correct either. The French constitution clearly gives the government this mechanism to advance the bill. Whether you think that's good or bad is another thing but it's clearly not unconstitutional.
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  4225.  @ismaelbarron7600  I only said that claiming it's "unconstitutional" is incorrect.
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  4226. Or Dora the Exploder.
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  4227.  @JB-yb4wn  Why that? Why not the novel that it's loosely based on and which doesn't feature cannibalism.
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  4228.  @JB-yb4wn  Well, I don't think the name is a problem for them and the green color may even be intentional. Of course people aren't going to actually assume that in contains human flesh or even be repelled by that kind of association (mostly at least).
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  4229.  @algebraizt  I don't think my logic is at all circular, though I didn't go into that much detail. What central banks really do is print money. Choosing a policy interest rate is implicitly a decision on how much to print money.
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  4230.  @victortaveira8271  "If you have big and strong foreign exchange reserves, CB can decouple this decision." Not really. A central bank affects the interest rates through the control of the money supply.
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  4231.  @victortaveira8271  There's no real difference between the two. Firstly, the central bank does both through the money supply. If a central bank decides to e.g. lower its policy interest rate it does so by creating more money and buying something (e.g. government bonds) until the policy rate is on target. If it devalues its currency relative to some foreign currency it does so by creating more of its own currency and using it to buy the foreign currency in question. Both are very similar operations. Secondly, if two currencies are pegged to each other their interests rates cannot deviate from each other much except for short periods of time (unless there are strict capital controls). Otherwise, money would constantly be flowing from the low interest rate country to the high interest rate country until the interest rate or the exchange rate becomes impossible for one of the central banks to maintain.
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  4232. In the English orthography, it's the vowels that are most messed up. Consonants are somewhat better. Regarding French, one of my friends who knows both English and French said that the orthography of the English is even worse than that of French and that that's saying a lot. With Danish, the problem probably isn't irregular orthography (though this is just my guess based on Swedish since I don't actually know Danish) but rather that the phonology is so weird.
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  4233. Well, that's about 21% lower than half. I think you can still reasonably say that it's (very) roughly close to half.
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  4234.  @Patrick-y4d1z  Half or 3300 is 1650. 1300 is about 79% of 1650, i.e. about 21% lower than it.
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  4235.  @Patrick-y4d1z  "It's exactly 10.61% below 50%." No, it's 10.61%-points below 50%, not 10.61%. These are different things and I was talking about percentages, not percentage points.
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  4236.  @Patrick-y4d1z  "If half is 50%, then 39.39% is 10.61% less. Yes, you're correct in that these are also referred to as percentage points." According to standard terminology, 39.39% is 10.61%-points less than 50%, and 21.22% less than 50%, because 10.61% is 21.22% of 50%. These are what percentages and percentage points refer to (in this context). Your wording "are also referred to as percentage points" would seem to imply that percentages and percentage points would be alternate names for the same thing. That would be incorrect if that's what you were trying to say. These terms have a difference for a reason. As a simpler example, an increase from 2% to 3% is an increase of 1%-point and it's also an increase of 50%. These two terms exist to make clear which one of these one is talking about.
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  4237.  @vin-metal5192  The question about return on investment is reasonable but it's not reasonable to insist on only counting monetary flows. By that logic interstate highways don't have a positive return because the government doesn't collect tolls on them.
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  4238.  @vin-metal5192  "I think you can still estimate an economic impact of toll roads in your example." Did you mean non-toll roads? Yes, I agree that it can be estimated. My issue with Johnson's demands was that he seemed to specifically exclude such estimates and only include actual cashflows (and I don't think you disagreed but I just wanted to repeat this just to be sure). At least Hoffman was giving examples of impacts. I don't know if she was going to give a dollar figure and whether it's reasonable to expect her to have such an estimate ready. However, it doesn't make sense for Johnson to interrupt her before she even could possibly give a figure.
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  4239.  @vin-metal5192  Yeah, I agree that it's generally good to try to estimate a dollar value for the benefit (though it can be difficult when it involves a subjective moral judgment).
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  4240.  @Spoonbringer  I vaguely remember that in one talk Torvalds said that at one point they just used tarballs and patches and he considered that a superior choice to either SVN or CVS (can't remember which one). (EDIT: It was CVS.)
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  4241.  @thewhitefalcon8539  I actually managed to find the talk. I checked it and you were correct; it was CVS.
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  4242. They did mention looting at 23:10.
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  4243. Why would it be guaranteed?
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  4244. I don't think this video makes much sense. Stock buybacks are in principle equivalent to dividends (though in practise there are differences in e.g. tax treatment etc.). If you think companies spend too much on stock buybacks instead of investment, you should know that companies can do the same thing through dividends. Thus there isn't much reason to expect that banning or taxing stock buybacks would change that. Similarly, if you think executive compensation is excessive there isn't much reason for you to expect that banning or taxing buybacks would change that either. Both of those things are more due to corporate culture than buybacks since dividends can achieve the same thing as buybacks.
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  4245.  @evatruth7896  I didn't comment on whether Slovakia is obligated to help Ukraine. I just said that given that Slovakia's PM wants to reduce aid, Ukraine has less reason to keep Slovakia happy by allowing gas transit.
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  4246. Lol! It's more like investors are willing to lose a bit of money buying Finnish bonds. If they were risky, investors would demand higher yields.
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  4247. Casualties are hard to estimate. Both sides lie about them.
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  4248. Didn't they already reverse that decision?
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  4249. I'd be interested to hear about Mozi (墨子) and Mohism.
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  4250. 3:50 Why did you color the Brčko District as blue?
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  4251. "Surely that is commentary" But it's not commentary on Mahlmann's video. It's commentary on SpaceX and SpaceX fans that merely uses Mahlmann's video.
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  4252. You can find similar things in other parts of the world. E.g. making whisky or (real) balsamic vinegar is pretty involved.
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  4253. The Onion Router?
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  4254.  @XzaroX  "If US Suddenly decided to ban Mexican immigrants [...] there would be an outrage." The US already severely restricts immigration from Mexico. The reason there is so much illegal immigration from Mexico is because for the vast majority of them legal immigration is impossible. On that front the US doesn't seem that different to begin with. (Spanish language schooling might be another matter.)
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  4255. The "shire" suffix is pronounced slightly differently.
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  4256.  @princeofcupspoc9073  I think Britain donated 20 and sold 10 Gloster Gladiators to Finland.
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  4257. Also, countries with "Democratic" in their official names tend to be less democratic.
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  4258. What does your question even mean? The unit here is MW, not MWh.
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  4259.  @charleswillcock3235  Where does that figure come from? I re-watched this video I didn't notice that figure.
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  4260. "I knew of 0 Russian influencers before I watched this" Not even the woman who got into trouble for the "almost naked party"?
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  4261. South Korea is a US ally. The US would be happy about their ally getting stronger and rogue state disappearing.
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  4262. 13:10 I suspect what they meant by "fork" is something like e.g. Android being a fork of Linux.
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  4263. How are things in Indonesia today?
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  4264. @ If by "their" you mean the Baltic countries' and by "choice" you mean choosing to desynchronize with the Russian grid, yes that is the choice they made. However, I don't see what does this have to do with OP's comment which talked about "another Ukraine in the making".
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  4265. You should still note that gas prices are now a lot lower than they were a year ago and European storage levels are higher. Also, this time we're probably not going to see a half of the French nuclear reactors offline due to maintenance.
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  4266.  @Livin-In-a-Box  Last winter Germany had only 3 nuclear power plants remaining in operation. Thus, their closure is a smaller effect than having all the French nuclear plants that were closed due to maintenance last winter back online now.
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  4267.  @itsok2bwhiteendanti-whiteh548  "Hard times make strong men, Strong men make good times, Good times make weak men, Weak men make hard times" [edited reduce the amount of lines] I've heard this claim many times but I've never seen anyone present any evidence to support it. I'm a bit skeptical of it being true.
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  4268.  @northbreeze0111  I suspect that Erdogan will lose the election next year due to his bonkers monetary policy.
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  4269.  @frenchimp  The observed movement of galaxies is evidence for the existence of dark matter in the bayesian sense, though it's not the only possible explanation.
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  4270.  @_human_1946  "Yes, but money should go towards testing hypotheses that solve empirical problems, not testing hypotheses that make something more elegant." Why and what do you even mean by "empirical problems"? I'd say testing this would be worth spending at least some money on. However, particle physics experiments are expensive and I'm not claiming that it's worth that much money. "I think research funded with government resources should focus on empirical problems with real applications" Well, that is what they focus on, isn't it. Things like material physics get far more funding than e.g. astronomy.
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  4271.  @_human_1946  "I think funding should go towards testing hypotheses that fix flaws we already know about" Well, here I have to disagree with you. Trying replicating existing results and also testing existing theories in new ways, even when we aren't aware of any flaws, definitely has value. As a striking example see e.g. the replication crisis in psychology. Things are better in physics in that regard but even there it's good to test theories instead just believing them. Of course, this kind of testing doesn't have infinite value so these particle physics tests might be too expensive to be worthwhile, so I'm not arguing for them specifically.
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  4272.  @_human_1946  There is still value in further testing (though again, I'm not claiming it's enough to justify the cost in the particular case of particle physics). Far more remote possibilities still get tested like e.g. the MICROSCOPE satellite testing the equivalence of gravitational and inertial mass (though I'm assuming a satellite like this is cheaper than a particle accelerator).
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  4273. @Andrew Holster OK. I don't think dark energy isn't that closely related to the topic of this discussion. I would like to say that dark energy isn't totally without evidence since the universe seems to be expanding at an accelerating rate. However, dark energy is considerably more speculative than e.g. dark matter and there may be other possible explanations for the apparent acceleration.
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  4274. How dense is "very dense". I myself live in Helsinki and checked and compared the densities. It seems Helsinki is about 10% denser than LA City. It's not a huge difference but LA is a much bigger city than Helsinki and Helsinki sometimes feels a bit more spread out than it needs to be.
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  4275. A gas pipeline is probably not that harmful to the local environment there. Also, I think Nord Stream 2 has already been fully laid and it's mostly waiting for regulatory approval in Germany.
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  4276. "then it could also move in a still atmosphere provided we give it an initial velocity" No, that would be a true perpetual motion machine unlike this cart. "If the wheels are turning the propeller, then why do you need the wind at all?" Here's one way to look at it. Once the cart has exceeded wind speed both the air and the ground are moving backwards from the cart's perspective. However, because of the wind the air is moving backwards slower (from the cart's perspective) than the ground. This is crucial and the reason why the propeller can accelerate the cart more than the grip of the wheels slow it down.
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  4277.  @MitkoGorgiev  "The wheels are turning the propeller (so it is said). The wind has no role in the story at all." The wind is the reason why the accelerating force from the propeller is greater than the decelerating force from the grip of the wheels. This is true for both before and after windspeed has been reached. Also, before windspeed has been reached the aerodynamic drag of the cart's frame contributes to acceleration.
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  4278.  @MitkoGorgiev  "This is just a word salad" It's not.
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  4279.  @onebig77thbrigademonkey.57  It's not. If there's any part of my comment you object to, you can point it out so I can reply.
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  4280.  @onebig77thbrigademonkey.57  I'm not but even if I were it seems you can't point out any flaws with my logic.
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  4281. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  4282. If I understood correctly, it's not the fluctuation that caused them to not survive at all. The companies had problems with their long-term viability. The fluctuation only affected the timing of the ceasing of operations. If a company is going to go bankrupt at some point, it's not a surprise that that bankruptcy will happen in the season where the short term liquidity is tightest. TL;DR Planning for the fluctuation won't help if the problem is long term viability.
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  4283.  @kuhluhOG : My interpretation was different but it's of course difficult to know for sure what he intended to say.
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  4284. "The premise is misleading." How is it misleading? Your comment doesn't explain.
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  4285.  @doloressverko9887  Are you referring to my original comment or some other comment in this thread? It's a bit unclear to me what you're referring to.
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  4286.  @NikolaAvramov  The truth of the matter isn't actually obvious. It could be either security services or the military or both running the country. Note that the option of Russia being genuinely democratic wasn't considered here.
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  4287. It's Putin who invaded.
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  4288. Next you'll have to visit Mont Blanc.
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  4289. 10:10 WTF! Is he really recording his answer while driving? Isn't that rather dangerous? Is that even legal?
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  4290.  @craigmcpherson1455  I think it's primarily for video editing.
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  4291. There are a number of obstacles to that: 1) Austria and/or Ireland plus potentially some future members might not want that. 2) Creating a parallel structure to NATO would be wasteful, at least if it's "just" an alliance rather than an actual Union military. 3) If it's an actual Union military rather than just an alliance there would be disagreements about what kind of missions it could undertake. 4) Extra cost.
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  4292. "will guarantee the extinction of all life on Earth" That's a wild exaggeration.
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  4293. Well, I for one am pushing for nuclear power because of AGW.
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  4294. Based on googling, most (but not all) judges in the US are lawyers.
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  4295.  @redred222  That would not have worked because Turkey is in NATO.
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  4296.  @granand  "The USA now selling its oil reserve to China, use China as a manufacturing hub, and cannot claim china is polluting when orders for manufacturing come from the USA." I agree that it would be better to include indirect emissions for each country coming from domestic consumption made possible by foreign production with emissions, though it's also harder to find info on this. However, this principle only reinforces that Norway is not to blame for the emissions from the oil it sells but rather it should be counted for the countries that either actually emit the greenhouse gasses or better yet those that consume the results if it's a different country.
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  4297.  @dex6316  "these countries don’t have “historical quarrels”. They were dominated and ruled by Russians repeated in a brutal fashion." That is a historical quarrel.
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  4298. Piketty's r > g doesn't (necessarily) imply increasing inequality. Capitalists' wealth won't increase at a rate of r unless they don't consume any of their capital income (only their labor income if they have any). Surely the point of having capital income is the ability to consume it, either now or in the future. Even if we lived in a world of incredibly thrifty capitalists, the implications don't seem so dire. That would imply a continuously growing capital stock (even relative to incomes). Due to the law of diminishing returns, a growing capital stock would mean a shrinking marginal return on capital and therefore an r that goes down until it falls below g.
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  4299.  @chriswusel7516  "Why germany would then need a plant to liquify exacly as a strong net importer please enlight me." I think you misunderstood Peter's argument. He's saying it would take 7 years for suppliers of LNG, such as the US, to build new liquefaction facilities and this limits how much more LNG they can deliver to Europe (and elsewhere) even if Germany could easily receive more. I don't know if he's correct or not but hopefully this makes it more clear to you what his claim was.
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  4300.  @Ass_of_Amalek  "what doesn't make sense is that at some point after gloves must have already been common in the region, people started seeing a need to descriptively name them hand shoes" It's not clear to me that that would be the case. Even if one of the points I made doesn't apply I still think that shoes must be an older invention than gloves.
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  4301.  @Ass_of_Amalek  "but gloves are older than the divergence of the various indo-germanic languages such as english that call gloves something other than hand shoes" But that doesn't mean that the word is newer than that divergence. Like I noted in my earlier comment, at least Wiktionary says that the word comes from at least Proto-Germanic which is also the ancestor for English even though English instead uses a different word. Also note that it's not rare for languages to have several synonyms for one thing. "compound words basically always are much newer" Do you have a source for this? I'm a little bit skeptical. I'm not necessarily claiming the opposite but this is a pretty strong claim so I would be curious about what it's based on. "is highly suggestive if the word being newer than the language splits to other indo-germanic languages" But at least if we are to believe the etymology given by Wiktionary the word is not newer than that. (Of course, it would be good to have a better source but I don't have an etymological dictionary.)
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  4302. "Yemen has the right to defend itself and it's waters." However, the Houthi rebels aren't the Yemeni government and don't represent all of Yemen and attacking ships passing nearby isn't defending oneself.
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  4303.  @EightAcreLake  I don't think electrification needs to be taken into account here. How would it affect the conclusion? One possibility is that it just (slowly) reduces demand for gas regardless of what Ukraine does. In that case it doesn't affect the conclusion. Ukraine's attacks may still either increase or decrease gas prices. Electrification doesn't change that effect; it merely has a separate (decreasing) effect on gas prices. Another possibility is to say that the pace of electrification is affected by gas prices (higher prices = faster electrification, lower prices = slower electrification). This would make the demand for gas more elastic. That would dampen the effect of Ukraine's actions on gas prices (to either direction) but it wouldn't nullify it entirely nor flip it to the opposite direction. (Remember that we're talking about the short term here. In the short term the effect from electrification can't be that big.)
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  4304.  @llssneN : Basically he said that he doesn't know enough to comment.
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  4305. The exchange rate on its own is just an arbitrary number (unless you e.g. compare it to the exchange rate at an earlier time or something). E.g. 130.16 Yen = 1 Euro doesn't mean that the Yen isn't "robust". It's mostly an arbitrary number.
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  4306. Is permanent vs. temporary the best description? I've heard that you'd still say "está muerte", not "*es muerte" though it's not temporary (as far as we know).
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  4307. "indolence of Mongolia" This should probably be Inner Mongolia.
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  4308. Part of it was lack of gear. Also, the Soviet Union did also have soldiers better trained and equipped for winter but the invasion force didn't include them.
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  4309. @ "So they don’t automatically reduce profits when a company is increasing revenue year over year." I'm assuming that you're responding to my 2nd comment here. All else equal, increased expenses in the form of wages/pensions do reduce profits compared to the alternative. Profits might still grow if revenue grows faster but they will be lower than in the alternative scenario were wages didn't grow. Of course, sometimes companies may need to increase wages to attract/retain staff and in those cases not increasing wages or other benefits can result in lower profits. However, I was not talking about that and the in the cases of these auto manufacturers the pension benefits demanded by the unions seem to have gone beyond that. "the biggest wages and bonuses and benefits were being paid to management" Management receives more pay per person but they're also far less numerous than the ordinary workers so the size of their compensation has less effect on company profits.
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  4310.  @phoeric  That doesn't really apply to the comments in this thread. They didn't attribute Russia's difficulties to malice.
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  4311. "I am ashamed." Why? Are you a Muslim or something? How is this related to you?
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  4312. They're at fault for the Great War! And no, it isn't more complicated. ;)
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  4313.  @Lucas_Antar  The modern Greek cities are larger but they're not so large as to cover all of the territories of their ancient city-states (as then most of Greece would be urban). E.g. ancient Athens/Attica had, well, all of Attica as it's territory. At least the modern region of Attica is over 5 times as large as Singapore by area. Granted, ancient Attica was smaller than modern Attica but was still likely several times larger than modern Singapore. (I couldn't quickly find the area of ancient Attica but it seemingly did cover the entire Attican peninsula as well as the island of Salamis.) I think Luxembourg is closer to what the ancient city-states were.
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  4314.  @TinValent  It wasn't Ukraine. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  4315. The US Border Patrol budget was about $3.8 billion and the US Coast Guard budget roughly in the vicinity of $10 billion, meaning they're much larger.
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  4316. At least it's not puts.
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  4317. I think a majority of Europeans still support sanctions on Russia.
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  4318. For such an expensive missile the damage done doesn't seem to be that great. To me, it seems reasonable to say that this weapon won't change much in Ukraine as it's too expensive to use in large numbers.
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  4319.  @PCGames-387  The price tag represents a real cost. Whether the Russian state bears that cost in the form of actual monetary outlay or in some other form doesn't make it disappear.
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  4320. It's not clear at all that it's fair use.
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  4321.  @mirozen_  It's fair to not give my opinion more weight but Leonard French (who's an actual copyright lawyer) made a video on this and estimated that the fair use factors somewhat favor Mahlmann. Below this video, he made a comment, pinned by Thunderf00t, that if Thunderf00t was specifically criticizing Mahlmann himself (rather than e.g. SpaceX using Mahlmann's video) then in his estimate that would tilt the balance towards fair use. Either way, this doesn't seem like a clear-cut case and both Mahlmann and Thunderf00t would have a non-insignificant risk of losing in court.
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  4322.  @mirozen_  I had personally assumed the person/people cheering wasn't the same as the person filming (i.e. Mahlmann). Maybe Leonard did too. If that were the case, then it would seem that Thunderf00t wasn't criticizing Mahlmann but I can't be sure if Mahlmann himself was cheering or not. I'm not sure how it would affect a potential court case if Thundef00t sincerely thought it was Mahlmann cheering but if it also turned out that it wasn't.
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  4323.  @mirozen_  I don't really know. He is a professional photographer and these videos are his work so they're not "mere" fan videos. He seems to have filmed a lot of SpaceX stuff but he also has other stuff like NASA and airplanes. He does have a Tesla referral code for discounts on his webpage. That might indicate he's a Musk fan though not necessarily as he's presumably getting some compensation for that.
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  4324.  @simonseal3836  "steel=iron+carbon, carbon bad" That's not really a good summary because the carbon that stays in the steel doesn't harm the climate. It's the carbon that combines with oxygen and escapes into the atmosphere.
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  4325.  @Slavicplayer251  Do you have a source for the carbon being removed? I wasn't able to find any mention of that despite searching.
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  4326.  @justskip4595  In this case differentiating the colors isn't that important. Even if the lines were all the same color the point should come across almost as well since they're separate lines and their placement should tell what they represent.
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  4327. Shell-barry would be closer.
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  4328. "My first reaction is simply that removing this particular profit motive as a benefit of "being a politician" is unlikely to improve the pool of candidates" That isn't the goal anyway.
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  4329. 3:30 Belarus is twice as progressive as Russia!
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  4330.  @schumanhuman  "today the new loan creates deposits" The part I quoted from your comment didn't say a loan creates deposits but rather it said it creates reserves which is incorrect. It does create deposits but not reserves.
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  4331.  @schumanhuman  "It creates deposits then the overdraught at the central bank creates new reserves." It doesn't automatically create new reserves. If the bank was at the reserve requirement limit it must then acquire new reserves from somewhere (or face a penalty) and getting those reserves isn't free.
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  4332.  @schumanhuman  "It has created new reserves at another bank where the loaned money is deposited ie the seller of the property" That doesn't create new reserves. If the deposits are transferred to another bank in a sale, as in your example, then the bank from which the deposits are transferred must transfer that much reserves to the receiving bank. For that it either needs to have enough reserves to do that or get more reserves from somewhere (which isn't free).
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  4333.  @schumanhuman  I.e. no new reserves are created in the transaction and the total amount of reserves available limits loans in the aggregate.
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  4334.  @schumanhuman  "But if the entire system is short of reserves the bank will sell bonds to the central bank" The central bank has no obligation to buy bonds. In the case of the US the Fed has a bond trader who buys or sells such that the lending rates between banks match the policy rate or in the case of QE they might just buy a certain amount of bonds they have decided on. "or borrow through the discount window, so the reserve requirement itself it has no real effect on aggregate lending." They may borrow through the discount window but this isn't free; it's actually on average more expensive than borrowing from other banks. Thus the reserve requirement (in combination with other central bank policies) does have an effect on aggregate lending.
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  4335.  @schumanhuman  "Yes there is a fee, but as long as the margin is sufficient, the bank will lend. So in reality this has a negligible effect on total lending, it's a cost not an absolute restraint." The restraint doesn't have to be absolute to be very significant. But this does affect how much banks deem it worth to lend (and since these loans have to be overcollateralized the bank also needs to have enough bonds to cover it). That means that things like QE or QT can still have a large effect on lending. "I don't think there is any evidence that central banks which have no reserve requirements (Canada, Sweden) lend more, or are any more or less stable, than ones who do not." I'm not claiming they are less stable. I only used the example of reserve requirements because it makes the limits on lending (and how they are affected by QE/QT) more clear.
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  4336.  @schumanhuman  "The country which has most deployed QE is of course Japan" How do you measure this? The US nearly doubled its monetary base in a short amount of time during the pandemic which to me would sound like larger amount of QE. My earlier comments were more about how the amount of base money can constrain bank lending from above so this is a slightly different thing. However, I still claim that QE is certainly not deflationary and can always raise at least inflation to any desired level. In the case of Japan the inflation expectations (which were also mentioned in this video) had fallen so low that a large QE was needed to boost inflation. But we saw that when Abe replaced the central bank governor (Shirakawa -> Kuroda) inflation in Japan was successfully boosted though maybe not enough.
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  4337. Such a comparison to the last year is misleading as this time Russia might switch off the gas which didn't happen the last time.
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  4338. If the illegal immigrants are designated as "invaders", can they be held as prisoners of war?
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  4339. I think there's one more scenario that could be considered. If France sends troops into Ukraine and they attack Russian troops, Russia might see that as an attack by NATO even if only French troops are participating and that was decided only by France and not e.g. the North Atlantic Council. Now, what if Russia retaliates by attacking some easier-to-reach NATO members such as the Baltic countries? How likely would that be to trigger Article 5?
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  4340. Note that at best you could use this argument for incandescent bulbs if your heating is electric. If your house uses district heating (which is mostly used here) or is heated e.g. with oil, that's going to be more efficient than electric heating when factoring in the losses in the electricity generation.
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  4341. There's a minimum of 6 € per day and for the total fine there's a minimum of 100 € for moped drivers and 200 € for drivers of other motor vehicles.
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  4342. It's just a dialectal variation in pronunciation, much like the Brits and the Americans pronounce "bath" differently (with a back vowel in British English and a front vowel in American English).
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  4343.  @justicewarrior9187  It was a case of fraud but I'm not aware of corruption related to it.
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  4344. "false and misleading "research reports"" If it's really false, the company can sue. If it's a reasonable interpretation of publicly known facts there's no problem. "The brokerage will write it off as a loss on their books." A company going bankrupt isn't a loss for the broker (unless the broker itself happens to own that company's stock).
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  4345. Sort of but not quite. It's not a surprise to anyone that a swimmer can use the power of his own body (in addition to the motion of the water) to go faster. What's remarkable about this is car is that it's powered solely by the wind.
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  4346. "Unemployment in the US is one of the highest in the world." Not even close.
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  4347.  @proaudiohd  Construction costs aren't an argument against allowing new construction. If building new housing units costs too much to be profitable then developers won't do even when allowed because they want to make a profit.
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  4348. That's not the case.
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  4349. "QE is essentially money-printing (which it is)" But you could also say that even normal monetary policy is money printing. After all that's what the central banks job, i.e. monetary policy, is, deciding how much money to print (or in some rarer cases, how much money to destroy).
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  4350.  @dimamatat5548  At least in the short term the shortfall will more likely be covered by dirtier fossil fuels such as oil shale.
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  4351.  @dimamatat5548  While it's possible to install more solar panels, that isn't free and doesn't fully substitute gas in any case. While solar panels have been getting cheaper, Estonia isn't an ideal location for them. Since Estonia is a fairly northern country, solar panels would generate the least electricity when it's needed the most. This is in contrast to gas which is well suited to be used as peaking power during high demand or lack of other supply. Also, oil shale (which is among the dirtiest of fossil fuels) power plant capacity is something that Estonia already has so they're likely to be used. Additionally, this damage to the pipeline has let out a (small) burst of unburnt methane which is a much more potent greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide.
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  4352. 1:25 Hey! How come you don't respond to every "G E K O L O N I S E E R D" comment?
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  4353. "So your conclusion is completely unsupported by your data." His main conclusion was about whether the political donations tend to go to Democrats or Republicans rather than whether they've grown over time. While the issue you mention is (probably) real but it doesn't seem to obviously affect his main point.
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  4354. The nuclear phaseout was already decided before Merkel by Schröder's government. Merkel's government merely hastened the schedule (after the Fukushima accident).
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  4355. 0:40 Omg, Norway...
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  4356.  @TheBodyThermostatSolution  "digestion takes a lots of energy" It yields more energy than it takes. "i am a big believer in fasting and it’s benefits" General benefits might not apply in a situation where you're sick.
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  4357.  @TheBodyThermostatSolution  "Yes eating will give you energy, but before it gives you the energy, it takes energy" But a typical illness lasts at least a couple of days which is longer than what it takes to get energy from your meal. You can also eat something with very easily absorbed energy (i.e. sugar). If you skip meals and go hungry then your body will try conserve energy; doing that when your body needs energy to fight the illness seems like a bad timing.
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  4358.  @madamehussein  "parliament has no power over foreign policy, only the government does" The parliament can dismiss a government through a vote of no confidence if they don't like their foreign policy.
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  4359. In many places, what is expensive isn't the structure itself but the location. The only reasonable way to make housing cheaper in the face of that (in high-demand areas like successful cities) is to build more housing units per acre. So smaller units or higher buildings or both.
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  4360. 4:50 You can use E=mc² on moving objects too if you don't use the rest mass but rather the relativistic mass as m.
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  4361. Czech GDP per capita is 30% lower. That's sizable but not enormous.
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  4362. Does being a paralegal require a licence like being an attorney does?
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  4363.  @SullySadface  I googled this a bit and the result I get that a law degree isn't required but that in practice most employers tend to require a degree or at least some training. I didn't bother to verify this, though.
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  4364. I don't see how the settlements can be a response to that.
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  4365.  @AvnerSenderowicz  Settlements as a retaliation sounds like a really strange logic. Do the settlers think "I wouldn't want to live here if the Palestinians were more peaceful"?
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  4366.  @AL-lh2ht  How would the settlements prevent terrorism?
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  4367.  @netanelkatoa3806  To me it would seem that the reason why the recent strike came from Gaza and not the West Bank is because Hamas is in control of Gaza but not the West Bank.
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  4368.  @netanelkatoa3806  Surely it wasn't the settlements that kept Hamas out of power in the West Bank? Or did you mean something else?
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  4369.  @drdr8859  That would seem to be more about the IDF presence rather than the settlements themselves which aren't crucial for the IDF.
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  4370.  @SamAronow  Some people who make mapping videos consider Omniatlas to be unreliable.
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  4371. "They are getting free needles." That's a good policy.
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  4372.  @JonathanARae  Trying to charge for the needles wouldn't work. Free needles reduce infections. It's worth the money.
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  4373. I've usually seen it translated as "Kinship War". I think "Tribal Wars" might give a wrong impression.
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  4374.  @ristusnotta1653 : Both words have several meanings and I don't think the meanings match in this case. One common meaning for both "tribe" and "heimo" is "a smallish (couple of thousand individuals) social group formed of families/clans and with a low amount of social hierarchy", especially in less technologically advanced societies. I think the combination "tribal wars" in English would tend to bring to mind this meaning and thus conjure an image of warfare involving these kinds of groups (like Native American tribes etc.). However, in this case the word "heimo" is used to refer to the different Finnic ethnicities. The English word "tribe" is also sometimes used with similar connotations, like in the case of the 12 Tribes of Israel, but in this case the translation "Tribal Wars" just works rather poorly. Words often don't have 1-to-1 correspondence in meaning and translation can be tricky. Sorry to be so nitpicky but I think the semantics are pretty interesting. :)
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  4375. The digraph 'kh' denotes the sound [x] which English does not have. It reasonable that they approximate it with a sound that English does have like K.
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  4376. You can think of the "+" and "-" applying to one specific part of the cycle.
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  4377. How are the DA "oppressors"?
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  4378. "it only works going downwind" You can make a similar thing go upwind (also faster than the wind) too but it needs to work in reverse. Here we have a propeller powered by the wheels. For an upwind cart you need to flip that and have wheels powered by a turbine.
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  4379.  @fieldlab4  "Going directly into the wind, the fan would have to create a low pressure area on the windward side and a pressure area behind it." Actually, when going against the wind the operation needs to be reversed so you have a propeller turned by the wind powering the wheels. That means the higher pressure area is in the front, not behind.
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  4380.  @frogfrager  "why not sign the agreement and spare your country a headache?" If you want to hear my guess then you'd have to tell me what kind of agreement Egypt would be satisfied with. Otherwise, it's too difficult for me to give an answer.
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  4381.  @heshamhero6149  "slower filling for future water based projects" How much slower?
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  4382. @MT What will happen once the reservoir is filled? Will they stop complaining? Will they continue complaining? Will they do something more drastic?
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  4383. 25:45 Not only are bank customers and tax-payers roughly the same group of people but also this kind of levy is essentially a form of tax even if you decide to call it something else (and same goes for compulsory insurance dues paid to the FDIC).
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  4384. "I'd like to see a city planner that isn't so car [...] focused" Caesar III. :P
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  4385. "shouldn’t the angle of attack of the blades be negative until reaching the speed of the wind, and then go positive?" No, the wind (relative to the car) coming from behind increases the angle of attack.
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  4386.  @enricolucarelli816  "Thus, the blades are twisted in a way that the air is blowing into the leading edge." It's not like that. The propeller is forcing the air backwards and the reaction propels the cart forward. If the wind is coming from the behind it's easier to propel the cart forward. "(It would be equivalent as to have an airplane flying backwards)." No, it's more like equivalent to an airplane facing headwind. This makes it easier for the wings to generate lift and with strong enough wind an airplane might be able to stay afloat without any forward velocity (relative to the ground).
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  4387.  @enricolucarelli816  Variable pitch blades can obviously be more efficient than fixed blades. However, I'm not sure that the inefficiency is that bad at the start. In a complete standstill where the propeller is not turning yet at all the optimal angle of attack is obviously 90º (with the blades basically being sails) and the situation you describe doesn't seem wildly off from that.
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  4388. Btw, I've noticed that it's not that uncommon for a country to have a both a liberal right-wing party and a conservative right-wing party but I can't recall a single example of a country with both a liberal and a conservative left-wing party.
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  4389.  @piuthemagicman  "We still have northern Karelia in Finland." South Karelia too.
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  4390. To my knowledge, the control rods of nuclear reactors are usually held by electromagnets. If power is lost they'll automatically fall into the reactor.
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  4391. I think if she got married the husband would, in fact, become the conservator.
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  4392.  @playme129  In the present invasion the Russian troops are professional contract soldiers, not conscripts. Sending conscripts to fight abroad is illegal according to Russian laws (though some were still sent to Ukraine in the early phases of the invasion). However, is only true for the troops of the Russian Federation as the troops of the Donbas "people's republics" are mostly conscripts.
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  4393. It seems there aren't many urbanists in your comments.
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  4394.  @wumi2419  There are a lot of "ordinary people" without such common sense. Also, in the case of FTX the common people who got screwed were mostly not people who invested FTX but merely used its services.
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  4395.  @usarkarzts4207  I don't think either of those makes the situation different.
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  4396. Water vapor acts as a feedback, not as a forcing. Its amount in the atmosphere is basically determined by temperature and cannot be increased or decreased by other means. An increasing amount of CO₂ (or other kinds forcings with a warming effect) will also increase the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere which amplifies the warming effect. There is no reason to expect any long term cooling any time soon. If you're talking about the orbital effects that eventually lead ice ages, that cooling effect is so slow that greenhouse emissions completely dwarf it. For that, we can check the situation again after 10 000 years.
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  4397. History Matters also has a video on the Holodomor and he mention's that many kulaks and other Ukrainians were sent to gulags and ironically got bigger rations than those left in the Ukrainian cities.
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  4398. Not defense spending probably.
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  4399. Just calling someone "stupid" or "not stupid". Misses a lot of nuance. There are a lot of people who are bright in the sense of being very creative but also foolish in the sense of taking excessive risks. However, in this particular case the hack wasn't that difficult. In the hacked system the root user's password was apparently "root".
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  4400.  @ASMRJey  I would compare that to crossing state borders inside the US. The external borders for both the US and EU have some of the same issues (at least during the recent migrant crisis).
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  4401. The goal is to reduce the amount of fossil energy sources so their share might not be large enough in the future to compensate.
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  4402. Cars take too much space inside cities.
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  4403. If the runway 02 or 20 is oriented in the north-south direction why does the graphic show it as being oriented in the east-west direction?
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  4404. He's right in the sense that the Earth having an atmosphere is not a thermodynamic equilibrium and the atmosphere is escaping into space. The process is just so slow that it takes virtually forever.
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  4405. 0:20 I wonder what William Harrison did better than the six presidents who are below him on this list.
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  4406.  @aiurea1  "the Gagauz can remain in Moldova Romania but with no special status. They would have a huge increase in incomes" But there's a chance that they wouldn't want to lose their autonomous status. Just taking it away without them consenting is something that shouldn't be done.
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  4407.  @aiurea1  They have a different ethnicity and Gagauzia also declared independence in the early '90s but didn't become independent. It's probably this autonomy that allowed Moldova to keep Gagauzia. Just taking that away unilaterally would be asking for trouble.
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  4408. I thought this was going to be a ring in the sense of abstract algebra.
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  4409. 4:50 Where those Macedonians you're referring to here Greeks or Slavs?
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  4410.  @Si_Mondo  Certainly too many Pesos have been printed. However, that doesn't mean that the rate of printing should be reduced all the way to zero (though, of course, Milei might disagree with me on this one). More importantly, even if you think that the amount of Pesos should no longer increase at all you'd still need the central bank to continue running its RTGS system (facilitating digital transfer of Pesos between banks) if the idea isn't to shut the whole thing down completely.
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  4411. Not with his own lackeys.
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  4412. About that 100 mile range, I've heard it said that the shore of Lake Michigan is also interpreted as an "external border" which sounds a bit strange as on the map it appears to be entirely within the US (even though it's connected to the other Great Lakes).
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  4413. "Is thé UK and Canadq Göring" I don't think they are. (Sorry, I just had to do this.)
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  4414. Did the parts of the skirt covering the tracks protect the tracks from damage? If they didn't, why use that part? If they did, why didn't others use skirts to cover their tracks as well even if they wouldn't be necessary for other parts of the tank? Btw, the track covering skirt on at least Panzer IV looks a bit strange. It looks like its shape matches the shape of the tracks and would mostly cover them if it were a bit lower. My OCD (note: not actual OCD) does not approve. 😀
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  4415.  AKUJIRULE : Name calling is unnecessary.
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  4416. In Sweden the gangs pay teenagers to commit murders.
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  4417. The answer to the "can we" question is obviously "yes" so only the "should we" question remains.
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  4418.  @kkmardigrce  It is certainly an option. Whether we should take that option or not is a different question. In practice there would still be some energy and heating though it might have to be rationed. The '70s oil crisis was likely worse than this would be, at least in spring and summer.
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  4419. Shouldn't that be: "la casa roja"? Or was that your point?
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  4420. At least before the invasion Russia's real (PPP) GDP per capita was about 60% higher than that of China. Granted, Russia has more natural resources and China was growing faster.
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  4421. He already mentioned why railguns might not be easier. Also, a railgun that long would get expensive.
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  4422.  @angrydragon4574  "It was technically illegal to take off the gold standard as one was already written into the law of the land, the US Constitution." What part of the constitution?
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  4423.  @RickJaeger  ""99%" of the world does not speak English" 4.6% of the world population speaks English as their first language.
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  4424. 6:00 "cost that Russia can never recover" I think you're exaggerating here (and similarly with the wording of one time cost). An attack on the bridge will likely not destroy the whole bridge and fixing it will likely be a lot cheaper than building it was in the first place. Therefore, even after an attack on the bridge it can act as leverage because Ukraine still potentially has the option of trying to attack it again and this is still a potential cost because the whole bridge has not been destroyed (and Ukraine could also potentially try to disrupt the repair operation). The actual attack that happened also demonstrates this. Two spans of one carriageway of the road bridge collapsed. I'm sure it can be repaired eventually so further attacks can still carry a potential cost for Russia (and would even in the case the bridge had been severed completely at one location).
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  4425. I think horseradish is great so I wouldn't mind if sushi places just honestly had white paste instead of green one. However, I am curious about what 100% wasabi paste tastes like.
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  4426. 14:05 It should be noted that Israel also hasn't joined the NPT.
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  4427. "How fast is time going..." Presently, it's going at the rate of one second per second. Zing!
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  4428.  @yuki-sakurakawa  In e.g. healthcare that same problem is much less severe. Yes, you must somehow decide who gets an appointment where and at what time. However, location usually restricts this much less (i.e. a hospital or clinic can serve a much larger population than could be housed in the same area) and allocation of housing tends to persist for a long time whereas a doctor appointment is often over after it's... well, over.
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  4429. Same with the central bank governors.
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  4430. 1:11:40 Olaf Scholz never suspended the operation of the Nord Stream pipeline. NS2 never began operation as it never got its operation license. It likely would have gotten it were it not for Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022 but you can't accurately use the word "suspend" if it was never in operation. In the case of NS1 it was Russia which slowed deliveries and eventually stopped them altogether blaming some turbine problems supposedly caused by sanctions and saying that deliveries couldn't resume until certain sanctions are lifted. Then the pipelines were bombed but before that it was Russia, not Germany, which suspended the gas deliveries through Nord Stream.
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  4431. "Don't transformers just make all of this kind of silly?" Transformers? Why?
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  4432.  @grantmccoy6739  "transmission is expensive [...] It's easier to locate power generation near it's locality." That's certainly one salient aspect. However, I don't see what it has to do with saying: "Don't transformers just make all of this kind of silly?"
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  4433.  @grantmccoy6739  I think you misunderstand how transformers work. When a transformer steps up the voltage such that the voltage is higher in the secondary side than on the primary side the current on the secondary side will be lower than on the primary side by the same factor. That means the power coming out of a transformer is the same as goes in (or actually it will be a bit lower due to losses in the transformer). Transformers don't magically multiply the amount energy generated.
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  4434.  @grantmccoy6739  "magnetic induction (transformer) is "cloning" the power" It's absolutely not doing anything of the sort. That would violate the conservation of energy.
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  4435. In part 1.
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  4436. In fact, it was the very first country covered in this series.
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  4437. Why did they use the incendiary bullets instead of the rockets used against the observation balloons?
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  4438. Is that legal?
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  4439.  @AlexYeryomin  I read that the EM-drive did really create some thrust due to it's interaction with the Earth's magnetic field. However, that kind of thing probably doesn't have a useful way to use it.
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  4440. Too long.
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  4441. Is Malaysia non-democratic?
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  4442. Frontex is a border control agency. For the most part, such an agency shouldn't need to conduct underwater surveillance.
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  4443. For a person with mortgage with a fixed interest rate more inflation would be a good thing.
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  4444. 5:15 While there might be truth to that, I don't think it applies to Netanyahu. If some kind of liberal equivalent of him faced a trial for similar crimes and tried to escape it through judicial reform, I don't think the college educated class ignore scandal just because of political affiliation. Of course, I can't be 100% sure.
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  4445. He might have meant "behüten".
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  4446.  @cliveengel5744  "please look up some history - the Crimean was a special Region in the Soviet System - it was downgraded to Oblast in the 1950’s." What does that have to do with what I said or what you said in your original comment? You claimed that Crimea wasn't an Autonomous Republic in Ukraine rather than in the Soviet Union. The law I mentioned (On status of the autonomous Republic of Crimea) was from 1992, I think (and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in any case).
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  4447.  @cliveengel5744  It was legally called "Autonomous Republic of Crimea". It wasn't formally called and oblast and it also had more autonomy than regular oblasts.
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  4448. There's nothing wrong with flipping houses (though that too, like almost anything, can be done fraudulently as well).
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  4449. ​ @-scgg-gg7938  After these events Russia will likely find itself increasingly isolated economically. There will probably be a slow immiseration of the Russian nation.
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  4450. For an autocrat like Putin the centralization of violence can be more dangerous. If his top general decides to become the leader and stage a coup there might not be anyone to prevent it. Better to create parallel competing structures to ensure that you remain in power.
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  4451. The EU has taken a fairly small portion of the member states' money and spent most of it inside Europe.
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  4452.  @TremereTT  "Then they decided to no give it back." I don't think it would have necessarily been fair to burden all Icelandic taxpayers with the misdeeds of Icelandic banks. The decision-makers in those banks were a very small portion of the Icelandic population.
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  4453.  @Inucroft  "A republic is simply a system where the Head of State is not inherited" I don't that is a good definition either. It would make elective monarchies like the Holy Roman Empire into republics.
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  4454. I'd say "further" is correct here because it's referring to a direction rather than a static location.
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  4455.  @bri1085  It's the source of the etymology of his surname.
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  4456. 13:05 Nitrous oxide is also a greenhouse gas.
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  4457. "So, how is DC more efficient at long distance?" It's HVDC. It's only converted to DC once the voltage has been stepped up with transformers.
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  4458.  @Asgath  I haven't yet encountered a bad way to prepare salmon but I have to admit that I haven't tried to batter them.
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  4459.  @vikingursigurdsson  Well, I'm a Finn so that might explain the difference in taste.
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  4460.  @LVArturs  Putin cannot survive (in the sense of keeping his position; not that he would necessarily be killed) losing his territorial gains whereas immiseration of the Russian population is far more survivable. Such is the logic of politics (at least in this case).
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  4461. No, he doesn't. His degree is in civil engineering (and it's not a Ph.D.).
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  4462. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  4463. The US supports Israel to the tune of billions per year. Russia is unlikely to do something like that.
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  4464. Turkey at least has a bit of land in Europe (East Thrace) whereas Cyprus is wholly outside of Europe geographically.
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  4465. One possibility is that the person has acquired US citizenship after the children were born.
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  4466. "The Netherlands already had a referendum which showed that the Dutch people don't want them in the EU" What referendum are you referring to?
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  4467. They could do a collaboration called "13 Minute History".
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  4468. "Change my mind." I won't.
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  4469.  @christopherrasmussen9989  "I wish Danish Americans had a community" I remember seeing videos about a town called Elk Horn in Iowa with a lot of Danish things though I don't think the inhabitants speak Danish.
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  4470. The biggest reason is probably because Turkey didn't either.
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  4471. @ I don't remember exactly why I made my comment and the comment I replied to seems to be gone now, but I think that's the reason I compared her to Silberstein.
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  4472.  @GhostyOcean  "idk about the original comment" It's about inductive reasoning. E.g. I've only ever seen white swans; therefore all swans must be white.
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  4473. Amazing! Never heard of this before.
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  4474. Water vapor exhaust doesn't matter. The atmosphere's water content is determined by temperature.
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  4475. (Besides, even if did matter, ICEs and diesels also have water vapor in their exhaust.)
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  4476. This is HVDC. It's more efficient than HVAC on long distances.
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  4477.  @interbard  In the past this kind of ID number was actually called "sosiaaliturvatunnus" which literally translated means "social security identifier". However, in Finnish "social security" (sosiaaliturva) refers to the government provided social safety net in general. In the US "Social Security" (with upper case letters) is the name of just a particular part of the social safety net in the US, basically a type of government provided pension, rather than the whole system. At some point the ID was renamed to "henkilötunnus" meaning "personal identifier".
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  4478. "then it was dirty radioactive bombs" That was just a story made up by the Russians. There was never any rational reason to believe that such a thing would be attempted.
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  4479. To my knowledge, Yugoslavia was a bit different to the Soviet Union (and the rest of the Eastern Bloc) in that worker co-ops had a prominent role whereas in the Soviet Union basically everything was owned by the government.
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  4480. It's still much rarer than in, say, Indonesian.
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  4481. "Neutrality seems fiscally a lower cost." It's not because then there's still need for defense. Finland already meets NATO's 2% target for military spending anyway.
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  4482. 4:45 Wait! So despite what you said earlier, you're still assigning at least a 20% probability for the secretary of defense's location being unknown?
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  4483.  @jameshenderson4876 : "Jellicoe, as a career sailor was likely much more conscious of "local" pronunciation." But in Danish it's called "Jylland" whereas "Jutland" is the English name and thus shouldn't be affected by local pronunciation.
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  4484. I'd say that Bernanke still didn't do enough. The QE program should've been more aggressive. Or at least that's what I think the Fed should have done; Bernanke doesn't necessarily decide these things alone. At least the Fed did a better job than the ECB.
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  4485. Formal declarations of war have tended to mostly not happen after WWII.
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  4486.  @NotJustBikes  Seems like it's finally coming!
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  4487.  @sri33333  "Government should not be obligated to finance schools in languages that are not official language of the country." I strongly disagree with you here. Governments should also have an obligation to treat national minorities well rather than ignore them. This should also include schooling in their language (though of course this depends on a variety of factors like the number of speakers of the minority language). Do you think that e.g. the Turkish government has no obligation to provide Turkish language schools?
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  4488.  @helengolovina4597  Russian speaking Estonians pay taxes just like everyone else. It's not unreasonable to expect that they would also get government services funded by taxes like schooling for children.
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  4489. They should have switched to Comic Sans instead.
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  4490.  @galacticverse7694  Well, are there (documented) occasions of that happening?
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  4491.  @voidtempering8700  Thanks.
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  4492.  Metehan Kanmaz  That's in Turkish rather than in English. In different languages, names are often slightly different, like e.g. London is Londra in Turkish.
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  4493.  Metehan Kanmaz  Londra and London are used in different languages. Similarly, Constantinople, Konstantiniyye, and Κωνσταντινούπολη are used in different languages. I'm using the name that is/was used in English because I'm writing in English here.
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  4494.  Metehan Kanmaz  I'm fairly sure that in English Constantinople was always used (until the '30s when Istanbul widely adopted in English too).
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  4495.  Metehan Kanmaz  I'm sure those censuses were conducted by the Ottoman government, not by the governments of any English-speaking countries.
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  4496. But then someone went and spoiled it. (35 likes as of writing this.)
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  4497. The same thing.
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  4498. It's just normal science cooperation. There's no evidence that there was anything sinister in those laboratories.
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  4499.  @catalincarceanu7991  You can say that about almost anything. There should be at least some legitimate reason for suspicion. Accusations with nothing behind them ought to be disregarded.
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  4500.  @Coco-o3q8o  No, they were conducting normal scientific research like so many labs around the world.
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  4501.  @yuliaschannel6288  Do you have any evidence for those (wacky) claims about those labs?
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  4502.  @Adam-i9b  Really? Can you present any reason to believe those wacky claims about those laboratories?
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  4503.  @Coco-o3q8o  It the Russian claims that are Hollywood-esque. The truth is much more boring. Those are just normal research labs. Such labs exist in Russia too.
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  4504.  @yuliaschannel6288  Russia hasn't submitted any evidence that would suggest bioweapons research.
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  4505.  @Coco-o3q8o  If the US wanted to do bioweapon research, there would be no apparent reason to do that in Ukraine. Do you have any shred of evidence that there was weapons research going on there? What if I made a (completely unsubstantiated) accusation that Russia was doing bioweapons research and would claim any doubters are just brainwashed by "MSM & Hollowood"? Would you find that convincing at all? The claims of bioweapons labs in Ukraine are just as stupid.
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  4506.  @Test4Echos  For one, despite the claims there isn't really any evidence for bioweapons research. More importantly, the whole claim is illogical. If the US wanted to research bioweapons, it would do it somewhere farther away from Russia (like its own soil). There would be zero reason to do it in Ukraine. What if I made a (completely unsubstantiated) claim that Russia is researching bioweapons and replied "well, nobody knows" to any who claims I'm wrong? Would you find that kind of claim worthy of any attention? The claims about bioweapons labs in Ukraine are just as stupid.
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  4507.  @grdev3066  See my previous answer to Test4Echos.
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  4508.  @Emjaygee1950  No, I don't believe illogical claims without a shred of evidence.
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  4509.  @Ged-v8i  There hasn't been any legitimate evidence presented in the UN (or elsewhere). I also don't see what the relevance of the US healthcare system has wrt this issue.
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  4510. No.
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  4511. Reupload?
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  4512. ""Being an enemy of the US is dangerous, but being a friend of the US is fatal" - Kissinger" Putting it like that is highly misleading on what Kissinger (possibly) said. Firstly, it's not certain whether he said that because there is only one secondary source on the quote but for the sake of argument lets assume the quote is real. Secondly, and more importantly, putting the quote like that is lifting a partial sentence out of context and gives a totally wrong impression. The full (attributed) quote is: "Nixon should be told that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." [emphasis mine] Note the word "if" there. Kissinger isn't giving an unqualified statement of the US as a friend but rather a conditional statement on how it would be perceived as a friend. Basically he's saying that Nguyễn Văn Thiệu should not face the same fate as Ngô Đình Diệm (who was deposed and killed in a coup).
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  4513.  @drewfife5169  "Was not aware of this quote, though extremely accurate and worthy of sharing, it is odd coming from an old war toad like Kissinger." The quote given like that is a partial sentence out of context which gives totally wrong idea. Basically Kissinger was advocating against deposing Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and saying that if he's deposed then the world would see the US as a fatal friend.
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  4514.  @mamdouh-Tawadros  I don't think there have been any problems. Egypt's own reservoirs haven't run dry even though Ethiopia has already been filling the GERD's reservoir. Once it's filled water should flow normally.
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  4515. 37:45 "or from anywhere else" Weren't they getting shells from Belarus?
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  4516. If it's ruled that Britain would have to give up Dhekelia and Akrotiri, would that kind of precedent also apply to Guantanamo Bay? (EDIT: After having watched the video a bit more, I have add that this question only makes sense if we ignore the problem of retroactivity.)
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  4517.  @guccifer764  "The idea that the Spartan’s could’ve just quadrupled the size of the army by recruiting Helots like the original commenter stated is pure lunacy." OK, I can understand objecting to that. I had interpreted your comment as meaning that using any Helot troops could not have occurred. I would still like to point out that besides Helots the Spartans also raised some Perioikoi troops.
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  4518. There's already the CSTO. But what country that isn't already a member would want to join it?
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  4519. I'd guess that's been done in a different video.
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  4520.  @xinglinjiang4952  "yes there will be thrust from the trubine, but at the same time the drag of the turbine blade will work on the wheel (like a break)" Here's one way to think about it. From the cart's perspective both the ground and the air are moving backwards. However, the air is move backwards (relative to the cart) slower than the ground. This is what allows the accelerating force from the propeller to be greater than the decelerating force from the grip of the wheels.
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  4521. Maybe he bought a 1 l pint?
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  4522. 8:15 I haven't played Helldivers 2 but based on your description Super Earth doesn't seem to resemble the EU at all.
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  4523.  @brinawidmer  https://www.the-postillon.com/2020/01/Corona-Ebola.html
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  4524.  @traplover6357 : Though technically COVID-19 isn't the name of the virus but of the disease caused by it.
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  4525. Another fun fact: In Icelandic Iceland is "Ísland" which comes from "ís"="ice" and "land"="land".
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  4526.  @kilerik  "Turkish breucracy still remember that they have been tricked into allowing Greece to join" Based on short googling, Turkey and Greece joined at the same time. That would seem to mean that Turkey couldn't have vetoed Greece joining because it wasn't a member before Greece.
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  4527.  @kilerik  At least Wikipedia says that Greece didn't withdraw from NATO entirely but only from the NATO command structure (similarly to France).
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  4528. To nitpick a bit, I think this is an issue of knowledge (or sometimes laziness), not skill. These tips aren't hard to do at all. People who don't do them most likely just don't know about them (or can't be bothered if they do).
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  4529.  @pepita2437  There's always going to be a section of the population that's more politically active than others. Even if the population is less politically active than in other countries it doesn't mean that the actual politicians are somehow passive. I'm sure Germany has a lot of supporters of the Greens who are not that active and mostly show their support in elections years.
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  4530. Is there any point in using a spy balloon? Do they have any advantage over spy satellites that China surely has?
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  4531. I think they also can vote in whatever committees they might be in and also on the floor in purely procedural matters.
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  4532.  @khenricx : At least the fuel from air concept doesn't make sense as long as CO₂ is produced in electricity generation. If you're burning fossil fuels you will then need at least as much energy to convert it back to fuel. For that concept to work, you need some kind of low emission source for electricity.
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  4533.  @khenricx : I think rooftop solar can make sense as well (if the panels are efficient and cheap enough). Often roof area doesn't have a much better use and producing electricity near the sites where it's consumed may reduce grid transfer losses.
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  4534.  @TotallyJoel  "There is just not much to do" That sounds strange to me in the age of the Internet and video games.
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  4535. Did you hear about the man named Rolf Kaestel? He got life in prison for a robbery done using a water pistol and was recently granted clemency after 41 years in prison. I tried posting a link but the comment was removed. I'll try again below this comment.
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  4536. Better than the alternative.
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  4537. I feel that some of the arguments given in this video exist mostly because car users aren't being charged for their usage of roads & streets and hence the need to compensate. It might be more efficient to charge both for their use of a limited resource.
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  4538. "EU: Shut down all Nuclear power!" Not all EU, just a couple of member states.
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  4539.  @amorag59  "The video wrongly suggested the high carbon in the coke is there to chemically add carbon to the finished product to make steel. This is wrong.. You don't make steel by adding carbon to iron." At least in the case of recycling steel it's not wrong for them to say that the coke is there to add carbon to the steel. Steel is often recycled in electric arc furnaces. They don't need fuel for the heat since heat is supplied with electricity. In the case of refining iron ore you're correct in that a blast furnace first produces a high carbon pig iron which is later decarburized to make steel or cast iron. However, I don't think they were talking about this when saying that the steel recycling plant needs coke. Their one sentence about the history of steel production was slightly wrong (EDIT: or not necessarily even wrong after all) but the similarly you mention of coke being a heat source is somewhat wrong. It's reasonable to point out either of these.
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  4540.  @amorag59  "Case hardening is a surface treatment, not a way to make steel" The surface layer is turned into steel. "moreover you are already starting with low carbon steel" Not in the case of when the method was first used. Back then it was used on wrought iron with little to no steel. You can use it on e.g. mild steel too but it was used on wrought as well in the past. "Why did you just nerdsplain the bloomery process?" It was just to note that far in the history iron refining produced iron with little to no steel. Therefore it's not incorrect to describe that at first steel was made by adding carbon rather than removing it. With blast furnaces things are different, of course. "You have to flagrantly ignore the rest of the process which is spent removing relatively much more carbon overall." That's not the case for the first instances of refining iron ore or steel making since the iron refined in a bloomery and then worked had little to no steel. The process of making steel by decarburizing cast iron or pig iron is a somewhat later invention. Therefore the short description in the video at 0:27 wasn't wrong.
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  4541. You'd think that the lack of such a feature would make new batteries cheaper (if still bad).
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  4542. There isn't a person that rich in the world.
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  4543. I agree. The €200 and €500 notes are a too high denomination. They primarily help criminals and we should get rid of them. €100 is high enough denomination.
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  4544. Just edit the video so it seems you're talking to yourself.
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  4545.  @KubiIay  "destabilising the nation trough covert action and propaganda" For the purpose of trying to do something like that to Russia it doesn't seem that relevant whether Belarus has pro-Russia leadership or not.
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  4546.  @M0du5Pwn3n5  "The main problem with git will forever be its UI." How so? If you don't want to use it from command line can't you just use from your IDE?
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  4547.  @pappaflammyboi5799  "He barely qualifies as a mechanical engineer, for which he has a BA." While I agree that Nye isn't a scientist you're not treating him fairly here. Besides his degree he has worked for Boeing designing some hydraulic systems so clearly he's qualified. Also, his degree is BS (bachelor of science), not BA (bachelor of arts).
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  4548. I think the Republic of the Pirates was pretty strange.
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  4549. I'm sure he does some preparing and checking for his videos.
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  4550. That trial was a bit of a farce.
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  4551. I disagree.
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  4552. Blue bored in Greek class? How's that possible?
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  4553.  @Omer1996E.C  Thanks for the info. I have to say I'm a bit surprised that he has directly said that he personally doesn't care about the Palestinian issue.
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  4554.  @Mike22313  I don't think nuclear waste processing is a very pressing issue. The volume of waste from nuclear plants is quite low and it can easily be kept in temporary storage for a long time.
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  4555.  @Mike22313  Not by much. In the case of nuclear energy most of the cost is the capital cost of the nuclear plant. Other costs are much smaller.
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  4556.  @Mike22313  Nuclear waste can sit in temporary storage for decades without much of an issue. This war will be long over before that, one way or another.
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  4557. Concentrated solar has in practice tended to suffer from unreliability. Since PV prices have come down a lot it tends to be the more practical option.
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  4558.  @junelawson5719  Storage is not free but it and adaptive demand are possible. In practice, concentrated solar has struggled far more with various issues such as the corrosive nature of molten salt etc. So far, PV has been the economically more viable option. It's possible that with R&D the problems of concentrated solar could be fixed (more so than energy storage). However, that's at least uncertain. Concentrated solar also doesn't need less transmission infrastructure.
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  4559.  @junelawson5719  I'm not convinced that the costs would skyrocket any more than with CSP. Rooftop PV is already very common in Australia and it clearly works despite the need for storage, at least in a favorable climate like Australia (and I'd guess Iraq too). A large CSP plant is concentrated in one location and does need good connection to the electric grid. Rooftop solar can utilize the existing grid. Of course a very high level of production would require more investment into the grid but the same is true for CSP. I think at least for CSP using molten salt the problems with corrosion haven't been solved (though maybe they will be in the future).
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  4560.  @junelawson5719  I don't think I'm incorrect about corrosion. There are CSP plants in operation but many have suffered from frequent leaks and have been down for maintenance more often than predicted. There was one CSP plant in Nevada which had to stop operation because it wasn't profitable to run it even though the capital cost of the plant had already been paid for. Some other CSP projects have fared better but on average its future seems cloudy compared to PV. Needing storage doesn't obviously make PV more expensive. CSP also uses storage it's just in a different form (heat in molten salt) and it's always in conjunction with the plant. Maybe it's a cheaper form of storage but that's not obvious. At least the whole combination hasn't so far been cheaper. Also, since the storage is an integral part of a CSP plant it means that if the storage fails (say, due to a leak) the whole plant cannot function whereas a PV can still function even without storage. If a lot of storage comes offline it might make PV less useful but not completely inoperable.
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  4561. I'm really sorry for your plight. It pains me to say it but I think I'm still in favor of the sanctions, at least as long as this war is still raging. While I don't think Ukraine is totally innocent, a full-scale invasion cannot be justifies IMHO and it has to be combated somehow. However, NATO probably won't dare to send troops to actually clash with Russian troops in Ukraine so the only option seems to be maximally tough sanctions. As an interesting philosophical question, I wonder whether sanctions or sending troops into combat in Ukraine would be morally better (if we ignore the risk of nuclear war in the latter case). If troops are sent into Ukraine then some of the Russian troops facing them will be getting killed or maimed which is a pretty severe result, but the number of people in the harm's way represent a very small portion of the total Russian population. Sanctions, on the other hand, don't kill (most) of the people they affect but on the other hand they can make life quite difficult for large swathes of the Russian population. Which is one is the gentler measure, some people killed/maimed or many more rendered destitute?
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  4562. He might have meant say "to" rather than "from".
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  4563.  @AnnedolfFrankler911  "Finland was not neutral in WW2." Finland was neutral up to the Winter War but was invaded nonetheless.
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  4564.  @AnnedolfFrankler911  "Finland had claims on Soviet land." That's not true. Finland didn't claim any Soviet land.
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  4565.  @AnnedolfFrankler911  "Greater Finland, mate." This was just the dream of some people in Finland. Finland a state wasn't making any claims on e.g. East Karelia. Prior to the Winter War, Finland had declared neutrality in the war between Germany and Poland, Britain, & France. However, neutrality didn't prevent it from getting invaded.
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  4566. It's pretty ironic that the literal Eastern Realm (Austria / Österreich) is actually Western.
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  4567.  @ablorenz  Maybe it should be renamed to Zentralreich. That would be an awesome name. :)
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  4568. That sounds a bit odd to me. If the heat ruins the taste of the coffee over time it shouldn't matter if it's heat coming from a hot plate or heat retained from the brewing.
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  4569.  @awandererfromys1680  I wonder whats the reason for the difference.
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  4570. You could also word that as "I was got" if you wanted to avoid the tautophony.
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  4571. One cannot let someone from the enemy faction look good because that makes the enemy more powerful relative to your own faction. For example, if you're left/right wing then you can't let right/left wingers look virtuous because that could shift the public opinion more right/left. These factions don't necessarily have to be political; this was just an example. Similar logic can also apply to purely personal rivalries without any larger factions.
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  4572. "the lowest rungs of society already there" What about the potential migrants? Aren't they in an even weaker position than the "the lowest rungs of society already there"? If the latter deserve compassion why not also the former?
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  4573.  @ektekp  I don't mean a conquest is morally less objectionable just because it's not a colonial conquest but another type of conquest. This is bit of a technicality.
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  4574.  @ektekp  Well, I didn't give a definitive ruling on that. It's a bit of a semantic issue and IMHO not that important. Russian territory certainly includes a lot of past conquests. Do those count as colonies? That depends on how you define "colony". One possible definition is based on how they're administered. E.g. the UK had a bunch of colonies that were technically not a part of the UK but still, in practice, under its rule. This definition is why e.g. some have insisted that French Algeria wasn't a colony but an integral part of France. Of course, not all accept that kind of definition. Another possible definition would be that conquests by European powers (and Japan) in the 1500s and later are colonial conquests but e.g. earlier conquests aren't. Thus you could say that e.g. the Ottoman empire didn't have colonies but the British empire did. This definition could include the Russian conquests in the 1600s and later. Yet another definition could be that conquests that overseas and sufficiently distant count but conquests of a land neighbors don't. Were e.g. Alsace & Lorraine German (or French) colonies? Usually they're not called that. This definition would seemingly exclude the Russian conquests, though maybe you could count the ones that are really far away from the lands Muscovy previously held.
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  4575. Do bar associations regulate how much you can charge for test cheating help?
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  4576. Out of curiosity, what kind of identity do Egyptians have? I mean, do they more identify with other Arabs or with Ancient Egypt (before the Arab conquest in the 600s)?
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  4577.  @user-or1rm1ol3q  Thanks for the info.
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  4578.  @whuzzzup  Now that I think of it, that sounds a bit weird. Does that actually happen or is it just movies. Where I live (Helsinki, Finland) also has district heating but I don't recall ever seeing such "steam", not IRL nor in movies or TV series.
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  4579. ""Move fast and break things" doesn't exactly translate into Mandarin." Google Translate translates it as 快速行动并打破事物. I wonder how accurate that is. You'd think such a simple sentence would translate well in both literal meaning and intent. (Yes, I know "doesn't translate" wasn't meant to be taken 100% literally but I was still interested in the linguistic aspect.)
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  4580. Smaller individual landlords often also have jobs. However, if they've only pledged their property as collateral against the loan it may be more beneficial for them to just let the bank take it if its value and cashflow has declined enough. Some might argue that it would be more ethical to keep paying from their other sources of income but that might depend on the loan. If the bank is taking into account that the landlord isn't pledging to keep paying when the property investment fails they probably charge higher interest rate to reflect that.
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  4581.  @cklinger500  "As a result, this initiates a demand for that currency." But even if this is the case, isn't it still true that the level of taxation (as long as it's meaningfully above zero) doesn't affect the rate of inflation much? To me, it seems clear that the rate of inflation is basically determined by monetary policy.
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  4582.  @cklinger500  "It is also true that when taxes is increased, people have less money to spend, and as a result demand decreases." But I think this argument is flawed for the following reason. If we assume constant government spending collecting more taxes will lead to less government borrowing. So the government is taking more money from the public through taxation but an equal about less through borrowing so there shouldn't be much net effect. If we instead assume more taxation leads to more government spending the conclusion still shouldn't change. In that case, the government is taking more money from the public through taxation but returning more money to the public through spending so again, I see no reason for much net effect. "the fact that interest rates around the world have been super low near zero for like 13 years and there still is yet to be any meaningful inflation" At least I personally could respond that low inflation should result in low interest rates through the Fisher effect. At any rate, it would seem very strange if the monetary policy couldn't increase inflation if it's loose enough. What would happen if the central bank would announce that they're going to expand their QE program by, say, 5% each month until the inflation target is reached. Either the inflation target will be reached or soon the central bank and the government is earning so much money through seigniorage that there's no need for taxation anymore. Of course, the latter scenario is too good to be true so the inflation target should be reached far before that point. "which is what is supposed to happen according to neoclassical economics" Which neoclassical model or argument are you talking about here? Can you give a reference because this sounds rather strange to me. Also, I thought the neoclassical school was mostly about micro, not macro. (Disclaimer: I'm not an economist. I'm just a layman interested in the subject.)
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  4583.  @trollamos  "As to monetary policy, looking at a graph of inflation VS rate convinced there's no real relation there." How does that convince you there's no relation? Below there's a link to a graph of US inflation vs. fed funds rate and there seems to be a strong correlation. What would you expect the graph to look like if there was a relation? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_funds_rate#/media/File:Inflation_compared_to_federal_funds_rate.jpg
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  4584.  @cklinger500  "Government borrowing isn’t actually a necessity today since the US dollar is a free floating currency. [...] One of my points from before is that taxes do not “pay for” government spending. This is because under this framework, there is no inception point of money." But neither of those points makes sense. That the currency is free floating or "there is no inception point of money" (whatever that means) doesn't mean that spending needn't be funded somehow. The goverment needs either income (which is usually mostly taxes) and/or it needs to borrow (usually by bond issuance). Note that this is again the thing that UE considered weird about MMT (except you're going a bit further in saying that it's not just taxes that are unneeded for spending but borrowing as well). "When people buy bonds, they are pretty much getting a savings account (something with interest returns and also a maturity date), so if anything these bonds are increasing the amount of money that the general public has." It doesn't really. First, the various definitions of money, M0, M1, M2, etc. don't include bonds. Maybe you think some alternative definition would be better but bonds are rather different from at least M1 money. You can't pay groceries with bonds. Also, bonds have a market value which can fluctuate when interest rates fluctuate, possibly by a lot if it's a very long maturity bond. Also, some bonds (TIPS) are indexed to inflation. "QE is just the replacing of securities to reserves in the banking system. It is a misconception that QE is just when the government mass prints a smack ton of money." But there isn't really much difference assuming that "smack ton" would be given to the government to spend. Either the Fed could (electronically) print X dollars for the government to spend or the government could borrow X dollars for that spending via bonds and the Fed just buys those bonds off from the market. The end result is pretty much the same so there's no difference. "What I meant my neoclassical is just mainstream economics. The neoclassical argument I was referring to is the argument that lowering interest rates leads to more people borrowing. As a result of more people borrowing, that will lead more people to spend, and if the interest rate is too low, the economy will be become overheated and lead to inflation." I don't think there's quite this kind of mainstream consensus. Do you consider e.g. Milton Friedman to have been mainstream or heterodox? He remarked that low interest rates are usually not a sign that the monetary policy is loose but rather that it has been tight. Both the low interest rates and low inflation are the result of tight monetary policy.
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  4585.  @cklinger500  "The way spending is “funded” in the US federal gov is when the Fed changes numbers in bank accounts, creating new money after Congress appropriates the money." That's not the case. Spending is handled from Treasury General Account (at the New York Fed). When the government pays someone their account balance is increased and the balance in the TGA reduced so no new (base) money is created. Similarly, the balance in the TGA is increased when receipts from e.g. taxes and bond emissions come in. In those cases the balance in the payer's account goes down so again the amount of (base) money doesn't change. If the Fed just increased the balance in the TGA without any corresponding payment from elsewhere that would increase the supply of base money. It would effectively be a type of QE. Theoretically, monetary policy could be handled that way but currently Fed is banned from doing that. They implement their monetary policy by buying securities, usually government bonds on the secondary market. "It is illogical to assume taxes or selling bonds fund the federal government because without money being created, there would be nobody being able to pay taxes." Taxes could still be paid as long as there's money in circulation. Even if no new base money were created anymore taxes could still be paid using the money in circulation (though not creating money anymore would be bad monetary policy and would likely harm the economy). "The gov selling bonds is completely necessary under a fixed exchange rate b/c it would restrict the currency that the gov doesn’t create." That makes no sense. Inflows into the TGA need to at least match the outflows or else the balance would eventually go to zero. Most of the inflows are taxes and borrowing (through bonds). Those are needed to fund spending (assuming no increased money creation by just increasing the balance in the TGA). "but you can convert treasury bonds into US dollars" A lot of things can be converted into US dollars. Stocks can very easily be converted into US dollars but we don't call that money or say that a company issuing new stock is expanding the money supply. Bonds are similar. The Fed buying bonds at the very least expands the supply of base money. I would also say that it does more expand the money supply because bonds are not included in the definion of "money". "I do not understand what this and the rest of your response to what I said about QE has to do with QE?" I mean, the main effect of QE is that it increases the supply of base money. That the Fed puts this money into circulation by buying bonds is secondary. "I considered this the mainstream consensus because it is what I learned in school [...] I wouldn’t consider those specific remarks by Milton Friedman mainstream because of this." Fair enough, but at least my perception is that the acceptance isn't as wide as you say, and this way several economists (e.g. Scott Sumner) who would at least broadly be classified as neoclassical wouldn't be "mainstream" on this issue. FWIW, I don't accept that description either though I'd think I don't stray all that far from economics mainstream.
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  4586.  @cklinger500  "Scott Pelly: is that tax money that the fed is spending?" Note that he's asking how the Fed (i.e. the Federal Reserve) spends money, not how the Treasury spends money. "This proves that when the fed gov spends..." No, it doesn't. He was talking about how the central bank a.k.a. the Fed spends money. "my point was that by logical necessity, the gov must spend first, and then tax and “borrow.”" It's not a logical necessity as long as there currency in circulation. That can be used to pay for bonds or to pay taxes. "Or below zero, the federal deficit is the balance if my understanding is correct." But that's not correct. A deficit means that expenditures exceed income. The difference is covered mostly by borrowing (through bonds). The inflow from borrowing keeps the TGA from being depleted. That's still a deficit because the borrowing doesn't count as income. "I would consider stock a form of money." Well, then you're pretty radically departing away from how almost everyone defines "money". Do you consider real estate a form of money? It too can usually be converted to cash (albeit with some effort and delay). "I wouldn’t say that a company issuing new stock is expanding the money supply for the reason that the money is already existent somewhere in the private sector(no net financial assets are created)" I don't think this makes sense. When investors pay for the new stock with money that money also still exists even afterwards in the company's bank account. (I don't consider stock a form of money but I wanted to comment anyway.) "issuance of treasury bonds with interest rates above zero implies more money in the private sector that can be used to buy groceries eventually" Issuance of bonds with interest doesn't imply more money. "This is misleading because if you consolidate the Fed’s and the treasury’s balance sheets into a single balance sheet, then QE does not actually expand that balance sheet." The balance sheet is expanded. Both the assets and liabilities (when base money is considered liabilities for the Fed).
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  4587.  @seabreezecoffeeroasters7994 : "Espresso is the Italian spelling of it." But "expresso" is the French spelling of it.
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  4588.  @seabreezecoffeeroasters7994 : "the original term is Italian" But it's quite common for loanwords to change from the language they're borrowed from. In general, words tend to change in both spelling and pronunciation over time and to a nitpicker, any change would be an error until it becomes so common that it's the norm. (Though it's probably fair to point out that "espresso" is still the dominant spelling in English.)
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  4589.  @sirjmo  It's still the same issue. If a cap on rent raise forces the rent to be below what a market-clearing rent would be same problems ensue. "Supply and demand shouldn't be so volatile that old properties require massive raises in rent without increasing services." If you're right, then rents won't increase quickly unless they were too low before. Either way, limiting rents or rent increases is either unnecessary or harmful. (Though I can imagine demand increasing quite quickly in some places.)
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  4590.  @justicejoycetv  "the data shows" Do you have a reference?
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  4591. Wikipedia gives several countries higher percentages (with Poland suffering the highest percentage): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:World_War_II_Casualties2.svg
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  4592.  @JohnDoe-dn9ez  At least Wikipedia says that the Greeks suffered 13,325 men killed in action in the Greco-Italian War and 13,408 in Operation Marita. That might be too little to be visible on the scale of this graph.
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  4593. 54:55 I have to disagree with you here. The damage to the hospital seems quite extensive. I don't think the small warhead of an anti-aircraft missile would be big enough to cause that much damage, so it's likely some kind of missile with a significantly larger warhead.
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  4594. It's minimum for (maximum) speed limit.
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  4595. What would be the benefit?
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  4596.  @spicyice3754  "all precedent does is allow the courts a easy way of saying "This is how the people before us saw the law and we agree with them/ look at their arguments"" But it's not merely that. Stare decisis means that courts won't overturn precedent merely because they would have decided differently than the court that set the precedent. They need a stronger argument for that.
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  4597. You can't circumvent supply and demand without causing worse problems.
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  4598.  @peteypeterson80  "Graham, as someone from the UK alllow me to just say you've just explained the whole economic situation happening here better than anyone else in the UK has!" I disagree. At least Patrick Boyle (who is in the UK) explained the situation better. Graham didn't e.g. explain the derivatives that the pension funds use.
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  4599. Presumably, the cataphracts didn't use lances as one use discardable weapons for a charge? How exactly were they used? A long lance or spear seems a bit unwieldy and if used while moving seems to run the risk of getting stuck in the enemy.
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  4600. But batteries have much better efficiency.
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  4601.  @darkcloud164  Belarus allowed invasion through their territory and Iran is supplying drones that are used to pummel Ukraine.
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  4602.  @darkcloud164  "Then Poland allowed invasion through their territory." Not at all. Assistance to Ukraine is going through Poland but Ukraine isn't invading any other country. The fighting has taken place almost entirely withing Ukraine (with some minor incursions into Russia like e.g. blowing up those fuel tanks in Belgorod but that hardly constitutes an invasion). "Iran is not supplying drones to Russia." That seems unlikely to me.
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  4603.  @andyg4929  "The only one I know of is MrBeast." Have you ever heard of PewDiePie?
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  4604. But that then also takes away the speed and efficiency benefits of the induction stove. That interface plate will basically act like the cast iron hot plates in the older style electric stoves.
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  4605. Björk
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  4606. "How much is this going to cost them compared to what paying him off would have?" Based on short googling, an average wrongful death award is $1.5 million. It's not a trivial amount. (Disclaimer: I havent tried to verify this. The amount sounds plausible but IANAL.)
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  4607. Peter Pellegrini?
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  4608. "Indian Navy better stay out of this situation." It's pretty natural that India would want to protect maritime trade flowing into or out of India regardless of who provides the shipping services. "Because Iran and their militia fighters are far more experienced" What does that have to do with naval operations like this?
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  4609. Maybe this guy has the required licence?
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  4610. ​ @noamto  A short position can absolutely be a mere bet. If you think a stock is going to go down (irrespective of your actions) you can profit from that with a short position if you are correct even if you don't do anything to drive down the price.
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  4611.  @noamto  The stock price dropping as a direct consequence of a short sale doesn't help the short seller because that drop already applies to that trade. For the short seller to profit, the price needs to drop even after they're done selling.
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  4612. They've also won against Russia.
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  4613. What about income tax or VAT? Do those go to the national government only?
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  4614.  @TheFirebird123456  Thanks for the info.
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  4615.  @TheFirebird123456  Btw, China has multiple levels of government. How are all the levels funded? Surely land leases aren't sold by both provincial and municipal government?
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  4616. It shouldn't be any different than for the kind of offshore wind turbines that are use in today.
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  4617.  @AlexB-se3lx  Нет войне!
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  4618. Impact Factor technology.
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  4619. Or between Funen and Jutland.
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  4620. The plan for fusion reactors is that they could produce their own tritium from lithium.
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  4621. 15:10 It might not necessarily be hypocritical. They could perhaps argue that the process should just go through a federal court rather than a state court.
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  4622. "Neum have 100% Croat population" Are you sure? This video said 98% at 11:10.
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  4623. 55:20 Whatever you may think of the scale of the problem, you should note that the anti-immigration PS party is currently in the government. Even if the amount of asylum seekers isn't (yet) all that high, it's not that surprising that the current government would react by closing many of the border crossings, especially if the inflows of asylum seekers are seen as deliberate mischief by Russia. I don't think there is a need to look for alternative motives.
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  4624. Does Greenland even have unionist parties? I was under the impression that every single party there is at least in principle in favor of independence and they only disagree on the conditions and timetable for independence.
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  4625. But bad for the Turkish economy.
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  4626. 13:05 Is there a some kind of misunderstanding here? IIRC, in an earlier video about the appearance of Jesus you mentioned some Bible verse describing his skin being like burning bronze whereas here you're talking about burnished (i.e. polished) bronze. Have I misunderstood something or are you confusing "burning"/"burnt" and "burnished"?
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  4627.  @metatronyt  But "burnish" and "burn" are different words and I think their etymologies are different too. From what I can tell from your videos it seems that the "bronze glowing in a furnace" description was in the New Testament in Greek and the "burnished bronze" description of cherubim was in the Old Testament in Hebrew. Of course, I don't know any Greek or Hebrew so I can't check these myself so I have to rely on your videos and other translations. However, these seem somewhat different descriptions. Bronze that has been heated in a furnace to the point of liquefaction actually glows due to the high temperature. Burnished bronze doesn't glow but the surface is shiny/glossy due to being so reflective due to being smooth. I don't have an etymological dictionary but here's what Wiktionary says about the etymology of "burnish" (i.e. it's not related to "burn"): "The verb is derived from Middle English burnishen, burnysshen (“to polish, burnish; (figuratively) to brighten, give lustre to; to clean (something) until shiny; to decorate (with something shiny), adorn”) [and other forms], from burniss-, a stem of Old French burnir (compare, for example, the first-person present singular indicative form burnis), a variant of brunir (“to make clean and shiny, polish; to make brown”) (modern French brunir), from Frankish *brūnijan (“to polish, make resplendent”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnijaną (“to decorate; tan”), from Proto-Germanic *brūnaz (“brown”, adjective), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH- (“brown”, adjective)."
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  4628. That's only in the beginning. Once the cart starts going faster than the wind it's as she described.
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  4629. That pronunciation of "Jäger" isn't too far off.
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  4630. On the battlefield, you'd more likely use polearms or bows rather than swords. Swords are more often self-defense weapons and backup weapons on the battlefield, not primary battlefield weapons (though there are exceptions).
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  4631.  @toomanyaccounts  In pecuniary terms, Tesla was the underdog.
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  4632.  @Vasanistis12  Who was that?
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  4633.  @Vasanistis12  Thanks for the info. After having read on this a bit I think it might be bit of an exaggeration to say that he developed the cantonal system since cantons had also existed before in the Old Confederacy but I admit that it's still interesting that he had a hand in crafting the new constitution after Napoléon.
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  4634.  @Chris__-ky4ci  "There is no fair solution to this." Do you have an opinion what the government of the Republic of Cyprus and/or of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus should do or try to do about this? While you're probably correct that there is no solution that doesn't make someone angry, keeping the status quo for longer and longer might eventually just ensure that the division of the island becomes permanent.
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  4635. Sue him if it doesn't work out well!
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  4636. Should have been the Tukish Epublic of Nothern Cypus.
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  4637. Surely there's some sort of limitation on that? An entire shot of whiskey seems a bit much. Besides, mightn't the bartender still be prohibited from serving to minors?
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  4638. But you would also need to store the wood so that it doesn't eventually rot and release the carbon back into the atmosphere.
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  4639.  @joep359 : I don't think it's denser. It's made from ancient trees.
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  4640.  @chrisE815  Patrick for the head of FCA, then.
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  4641. It's not that easy. Maybe you could expect him to have worded his email in a friendlier manner but it's another thing entirely to expect him to not ask to be paid for his work. Would you be satisfied if your employer just sent you thanks instead of a paycheck?
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  4642. You mean this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ditema_tsa_Dinoko
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  4643. More dakka!
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  4644. 3:00 I think the word "contagion" is supposed to use contractible diseases as a metaphor and I think it fits better than a nuke.
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  4645. "The Russians do have those communications systems" I think by "satellites" he meant GPS and spy satellites.
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  4646. FAT MANG? Why not GNAT FAM?
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  4647. You can't expect legislators to be experts on everything or even most things. Similarly, legislators working on, say, healthcare regulation probably can't tell you that much about human microbiology (e.g. what kind of white blood cells humans have and how they function). Legislators working on chemical industry regulation likely can't tell you the ionization potential of most atoms. Same goes for other fields also. This is completely normal.
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  4648.  @daryl9799  Methane is known to be a strong greenhouse gas.
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  4649. Here's a channel called Martial Arts Journey. You might find it interesting. Basically, it's by an Aikido guy who moves into more practical martial arts. https://www.youtube.com/user/AikidoSiauliai
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  4650. Bismarck never said that.
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  4651. What? Are you saying that politicians should all be men?
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  4652. What's a half samurai?
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  4653. Is it liquefaction or regasification facility? Peter was specifically talking about liquefaction facilities.
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  4654. "You never justify moving ahead with a project based on how much you've already spent." Well, his wording was that "it's cheaper to finish it". He mentioned the cost to finish rather than the sunk cost so he wasn't committing the sunk cost fallacy.
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  4655. So the actual solution is making driving a car more expensive.
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  4656.  @gkagara  Russia at least has depleted uranium rounds. See Svinets-2.
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  4657. "Isn't providing depleted uranium material a war crime or at the very least, an atrocity that is prosecutable in the ICC?" No.
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  4658.  @gkagara  How do you know? I tried to search it but couldn't find info on it.
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  4659.  @gkagara  That seems still rather uncertain.
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  4660.  @gkagara  For it to be certain there would have to be a proper source for your claim. The argument you gave is highly uncertain. Do the Ukrainians even know whether the Russians have used uranium or tungsten penetrators?
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  4661. Decisions about policy interest rates are (implicitly) decisions about how much money to print. These aren't separate things.
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  4662. 15:15 Are you seriously saying that the Brits managed to make their nuclear plant even more expensive than Olkiluoto 3 and Flamanville 3?
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  4663. A refugee is a type of migrant (excluding maybe internal refugees).
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  4664.  @peterebel7899  Don't put words into my mouth. I never claimed that anyone wouldn't be worth thinking about nor did I claim that this is voluntary. My only point was just that the word "migrant" also applies, not more.
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  4665.  @peterebel7899  Temporary migrants are still migrants. Also, many refugees never go back but that doesn't mean they aren't refugees.
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  4666.  @peterebel7899  I don't have a comment on the discussion on this topic in the UK. I'm only saying the term "migrant" applies (even if it might be bit inspecific), not any more than that.
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  4667.  @peterebel7899  You can say that TLDR should be more specific but saying that the term "migrant" isn't correct is going too far because the terms just means "a person who moves from one place to another".
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  4668. Very little trolling, in fact.
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  4669. "A lot of environmentalist seemed to have so much power here in the EU in order to make the countries "shut their nuclear power plants" and they did" That's just Germany, not the whole EU.
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  4670.  @HBToastedAlmond  To my knowledge, the French nuclear plants are just closed for maintenance because maintenance had been delayed due to the pandemic. France has also been building a new reactor (Flamanville 3) though it's far behind schedule.
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  4671.  @HBToastedAlmond  But in any case, temporary shutdowns due to maintenance are very different from a planned permanent shutdown as a political decision like we saw in Germany. I still think what you said about environmentalists having political power and causing nuclear shutdowns only applies to Germany and not the whole EU.
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  4672. But consider the following. In the past, all of Israel's Arab neighbors refused to recognized it. However, at some point something changed and now Israel has recognition from and diplomatic relations with all its Arab neighbors except for Syria. Of course, e.g. Egypt is still not a democratic country or anything but at least you're able to have some levels of amicable relations and cooperation with it despite the past wars. It's not implausible that the Palestinians would at some point have a similar shift in opinion even if that doesn't seem likely any time soon.
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  4673.  @sunshine6522  "Israel made peace with secular regimes" I'm not sure that's the case with Egypt. Nasser certainly was rather secular but he didn't try to make peace with Israel. His successor, Sadat, was a much more religious person (compared to Nasser at least, not necessarily compared to other Arab leaders) yet he was the one who made the initiative to make peace with Israel (albeit after a major failed war).
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  4674.  @sunshine6522  The Palestinian Authority seems at least reasonably secular, at least if the point of comparison is Egypt. Hamas maybe not so much, but regimes can change. Egypt too has fallen under the Muslim Brotherhood but then reverted back to more secular rule. Note that I wasn't talking about the near future in my original comment.
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  4675.  @archernaqasiuni2043  They're the main rebel group in Yemen.
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  4676.  @archernaqasiuni2043  I'm not saying anything of the Armenians here. I only answered your question about what the Houthis are.
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  4677. After these sanctions immiseration awaits.
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  4678. It's a major construction effort and can't be done overnight.
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  4679.  @tuloski  "I don't see where the energy is coming from." The propeller decelerates air (relative to the ground). Therefore the air is losing kinetic energy and the cart gaining some.
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  4680. I guess I would recommend giving a crypto wallet address like you did when the war began.
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  4681.  @bogodoyandex9654  I don't think Russia has death penalty.
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  4682.  @ThamizhanDaa1  Every country except North Korea. ;)
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  4683. English doesn't have front rounded vowels so we can forgive him for not pronouncing it correctly.
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  4684. "Whenever I hear about how high tech the West is, I remember when NASA/US Govt made a big deal and spent MILLIONS on the pen that could write upside down. The Soviets countered that, with a 5 cent #2 pencil." Except that isn't a good description. The NASA (I think) also used pencils initially but they are rather problematic in microgravity. Writing with a pencil can produce graphite dust which conducts electricity. Here on Earth that's not a problem but in microgravity it would float around and it can come in contact with electronics and cause short circuits. Grease pencils are one solution but ballpoint pens leave clearer marks. Also, that space pen was developed by a private company with private money (in the hopes that they can profit by selling "space pens" to the public), not by the NASA or the US government as you erroneously claimed. I think the Soviets also switched to using these space pens because they are a superior solution. Additionally, spending "millions" on developing something NASA uses is tiny compared to NASA's many other expenditures so that kind of spending still wouldn't seem wasted.
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  4685. The UK didn't bail out Iceland. They bailed out the UK depositors of the Icelandic banks.
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  4686.  @monsmeg9657  No, it wouldn't have. The depositors would have suffered the loss. Iceland bailed out only the depositors of the banks' domestic branches but refused to do so for the depositors of the overseas branches.
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  4687.  @daviddecampii8448  I think it's just Ontario.
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  4688.  @JohnDoe-qz1ql  "They may be citizens but they have Limited citizenship." Their citizenship as such isn't any different. If a Puerto Rican moves to any one of the 50 states they get all the same rights as any American citizen. If an American citizen from one of the 50 states moves to Puerto Rico, they can't e.g. vote in presidential elections anymore putting them in exactly the same position as a Puerto Rican (but if they instead move abroad they can still vote in the last state they lived in before leaving). It's a matter of where you live, not that they have some kind of "lesser" citizenship.
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  4689.  @B_Bodziak  "They have representation in the house and senate but they are non-voting delegates" It's only the house, not the senate.
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  4690.  @martenkahr3365  "No, U.S Territories are part of the U.S" At least in the past the SCOTUS has ruled that the territories (or at least Puerto Rico) belongs to the US but isn't a part of it. However, I'm not sure if that ruling is relevant anymore. "their people are U.S Citizens" But there's at least one exception, namely American Samoa. The Samoans are merely American nationals, not citizens.
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  4691.  @masoquistaeo  "Being born in Puerto Rico is like being born in a State. If your parents are US citizens, so are you." The US has nearly unqualified jus soli so being born in one of those places automatically (and involuntarily) makes you a US citizen even if your parents aren't citizens.
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  4692.  @tamerlane3931  I've seen some comments suggesting that the Neanderthal genes are due to Neanderthal males raping Homo Sapiens females. Of course, both that and your comment sound like just speculation.
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  4693.  @rafaelcosta3238  "they would probably be left to die after birth" That seems hardly certain to me.
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  4694.  @rafaelcosta3238  "why would the men of a homo sapiens tribe waste resources with the rape baby of a Neanderthal male?" It's hardly clear that they would see it as "waste" any more than raising any other child. The baby can still grow to be a normal member of the community just as any other. I mean, what you describe certainly could happen but it's far from clear that it would be the case always.
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  4695.  @corneliuscapitalinus845  Asians have most Neanderthal DNA in the world and Europeans have the second most.
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  4696.  @TimpBizkit : Yeah, that's why I wanted to nitpick about the efficiency being "over 100%".
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  4697.  @thewhitefalcon8539 : Yeah, that's the problem I had with the "over 100%" efficiency.
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  4698.  @qjtvaddict  "they all suck" That "least" should still apply to some city (by some standard) unless there's a perfect tie, which seems unlikely.
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  4699.  @afinal3746  There's still a significant difference. Blackwater personnel were not used as regular combat troops, just in tasks that came awfully close to it (like bodyguards for important people which may cause them to fight if attacked). Wagner personnel on the other hand are used in actual combat roles just like the regular army.
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  4700. We don't really know how competent the Chinese are. They haven't fought a war on this scale in quite a while.
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  4701. Did you like the electoral highschool?
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  4702. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  4703. It's just a dialectal variation in pronunciation, much like the Brits and the Americans pronounce "bath" differently (with a back vowel in British English and a front vowel in American English).
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  4704. The Houthis have also attacked many ships that have nothing to do with Israel.
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  4705.  @joem0088  One example is Norwegian tanker ship named Blaamanen. You can easily find many more such examples.
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  4706.  @joem0088  At least I wasn't able to find an Israeli link with a short googling, though I wasn't very thorough. In any case, there are more such ships, e.g. Swan Atlantic. I've also seen many news stories state that many ships without links to Israel have been attacked.
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  4707. That's an exaggeration. Lukashenko has been rather brazenly rigging elections. Orbán, on the other hand, has been winning free elections (though he has bent the system in his favor in various ways) and still has the support of a majority of the electorate.
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  4708. The video title says "it failed" and the video thumbnail also says "failed" but at the end of the video you say it hasn't failed just yet. That's a clear contradiction.
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  4709. They're just interviews. They're not any worse than interviews in general. It just depends on the questions asked, the reliability of the interviewee, etc.
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  4710.  @dingahaban2288  "We would rather die than sell out to some western/white puppets" Aren't the opposition blacks too? Surely there are next to no whites left in Zimbabwe?
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  4711.  @yvettepugin4035  Which one of my comments are you referring to?
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  4712.  @blackmaster999  Based on economic statistics it doesn't seem like that. Also, are there more people trying to get from Zimbabwe to SA or vice versa?
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  4713.  @jys76  "Since Russia is not a British colony..." According to the Russian nationalist Dmitry Galkovsky, Russia is a "cryptocolony" of the UK.
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  4714.  @wadde_fakman  At least when it comes from Trump's disqualification from e.g. the Colorado ballot, the case failed in the SCOTUS. I don't know enough to have a firm opinion on the merits of that case but, if the SCOTUS made the right decision, then clearly the rule of law is still alive and well in the US. By contrast in Russia, the rule of law is not followed and any semi-credible opposition candidates get disqualified based on fake reasons or jailed based on trumped up charges. (Haha! "Trumped")
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  4715.  @danwelterweight4137  "Renewable energy produce tremendous amounts of CO2 emissions" That's not true. Solar, wind, and hydro have low greenhouse emissions. Wind in fact has the lowest greenhouse emissions of all forms of energy (whereas nuclear has the second lowest).
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  4716.  @gregorythompson8627  You still have to note that slaves weren't used only in cotton farming. E.g. a lot of the railroads in the south before the Civil War were mostly built by slaves. I'd venture to guess that at least some rich people in the US in the past were railroad tycoons though I can't be bothered to check if any were direct beneficiaries of slave labor.
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  4717. "The big question now is does Finland really become more secured after joining NATO as compared to stay neutral?" Russia probably doesn't want to invade a NATO member because starting a war with NATO is too big of a risk.
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  4718.  @charlesyang4923  "Will all NATO member states willing to take risk waging a nuclear war with Russia because of Finland or any Baltic state?" I think there is at least a good chance that they would defend the Baltics or Finland. Russia's nuclear doctrine only calls for the use of nuclear weapons if the existence of the state is threatened. Thus merely defending Baltic or Finnish soil without an attempt to push into Russia should not cause a nuclear response. Also, letting Russia gobble up unwilling neighbors by using nuclear blackmail would be too risky of a precedent to set and almost certainly lead to nuclear proliferation which is something the other NATO member would like to avoid. But most importantly, I don't think Russia would risk invading a NATO member which makes membership a great security boon even if the Article 5 were a total bluff (which I don't think it is). "Always remind oneself threat is always acting counterproductive and reciprocal, so why keep pushing NATO military power to Russia doorstep without thinking Russia will do the same towards NATO." What would be Russia doing the same? Admitting new CSTO members bordering NATO countries? I don't see a problem with that (as long as those countries join willingly). If you say e.g. the Baltic countries or Finland shouldn't be NATO members then could we similarly demand that e.g. Belarus shouldn't be a CSTO member nor host any Russian troops? "Why not consider develop indivisible security within European continent including Russia and Europe but excluding US who has repeated shown its war-mongering ego." How would that be done? Remember that most European countries don't trust Russia. Your suggestion would need to take that into account and provide safety to e.g. the Baltic countries from Russia that's based on something more tangible than just a promise given by Russia (which can't be trusted).
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  4719.  @ayoCC  Tokyo has road tolls on it's express ways at least. It makes sense that people pay for a limited resource like space on a road. That makes sure that they only use it when it's worth the cost. It's basic economics. There should be a price for negative externalities. LA and other cities should definitely charge drivers for the space they take.
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  4720. Multiplying licensing fees when the work was initially used without licensing it first is entirely common.
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  4721.  @btbt7496 : In principle, it shouldn't matter whether the tax is paid before investing or after taking the money out (as long as the rate isn't different).
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  4722. Cars take too much space in cities.
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  4723.  @hassanm4489  "It can not be compared to the secessionist movements of Eritrea and South Sudan that were rewarded with recognition to end wars because of special self interest of other nations." This may be somewhat beside the point you were making, but when comes to the case of Eritrea I thought that the Ethiopian constitution had a clause that allows states to become independent giving it some legal basis.
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  4724.  @jonyemm  I guess it for basic expenses or something like that. A single day fine is, in principle, supposed to be roughly equal to one day's worth of disposable income (though in practice it's usually less than that).
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  4725.  @jonyemm  It's not 1/4 of the daily income, at least not in Finland. In Finland it's your monthly income minus 255 € and then divided by 60 which is closer to 1/2 of daily income unless your income is very low.
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  4726. Could and would the foreign agents law also be used against Russian funded organizations in the country?
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  4727. "Time to stop this war" I don't think Putin wants to stop.
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  4728.  @darkcloud164  That assertion makes no sense. The US hasn't ordered Putin to invade or to continue with the invasion. If the US could somehow order Putin to withdraw it likely would; however, it can't.
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  4729.  @richdobbs6595  They can at least be made controllable. France uses load following nuclear plants.
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  4730.  @richdobbs6595  Highly controllable might be an exaggeration.
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  4731.  @Alqoaity  Thanks for the info.
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  4732. "However, I think that modern guided ammunition can easily take down bridges." I'm not so sure since bridges tend to be sturdy. Take the Antonivka Road Bridge. The Ukrainians apparently did successfully render it unusable. However, that took many precision strikes with HIMARS. That didn't seem to even cause any span to collapse. It just made some holes to the bridge but apparently it's now structurally sufficiently unsound that the Russians aren't using it.
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  4733. "The people should be totally protected from this tax" No, they shouldn't.
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  4734. How do the internal (non-geographic) trade barries inside Canada compare to those inside the EU? Which ones are bigger?
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  4735. Is this the fabled "missing middle"?
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  4736. Well, "hufvud" is an archaic spelling of "huvud" (similar to e.g. "silfver").
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  4737. Not all of North Korea.
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  4738.  @braynstorm3149  Also Sweden vs. Switzerland for some reason.
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  4739. "Yemen has the right to defend itsself." However, the Houthi rebels aren't the Yemeni government and don't represent all of Yemen and attacking ships passing nearby isn't defending oneself.
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  4740. It might be that Ukraine couldn't hide a planned attack anyway. If that's true then there might be little downside to announcing it.
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  4741. 1:40 As a small nitpick, that isn't entirely accurate. While there wasn't much land action there was at least some naval action like the Battle of the River Plate.
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  4742. I don't think these claims make sense. 1) You don't provide any reason to believe that any observed wage stagnation is due to the US dollar being unlinked from gold. 2) As you said, inflation does reduce the value of the money you have in your bank account. But how much do you have in your bank account? For most people this "inflation tax" is negligible. Poor people don't have that much cash (and rich people have assets other than cash, like real estate or stock). 3) Inflation hasn't been high after the '80s. 4) If you're expecting high inflation why are you advising against going into debt? Inflation would reduce the value of your debt.
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  4743. It's not always easy to foresee things like that and we don't know what the result would've been if they had chosen to be a minority in Nigeria instead. IIRC, Biafra is close or next to that area of Cameroon so being a part of Nigeria might have brought about a whole different set of problems.
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  4744.  @retishe7660  That might be the case now. But if South Cameroon had decided to join Nigeria, they would presumably have had to also live through the past coups and the Biafra War.
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  4745. A clear majority of Finland's population is in favor of NATO membership. It wouldn't have happened otherwise.
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  4746. I didn't know that US had a foreign agents law.
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  4747. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  4748. A war in which fighting happens on multiple continents?
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  4749.  @netyimeni169  At least I wouldn't count Wagner operations in Africa as a part of the same war, though it is a matter of definition. Nonetheless, this is not a huge was compared to many others even though weapons are being supplied by a large number of countries. E.g. the Tigray War (in Ethiopia) has killed more people (at least so far).
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  4750. 4:15 Thunderf00t once did something similar.
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  4751. "If soviet troops try to surrender they would have been shot by their political officers and then their families would have been sent to gulag at best. So they simply haven't any other chance." But that doesn't detract from the main point. If that's true, then that kind of policy did contribute to the Red Army's effectiveness (even if it was horrific policy). In hindsight, the Germans should have considered that.
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  4752.  @samsonsoturian6013  Tesla's debt is about $1.8 billion. That won't bring it anywhere near e.g. Lehman Brothers.
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  4753. What? Do you mean while he still has his hands full of Ukraine? Or do you mean after the current war if he wins against Ukraine first (let's hope not)?
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  4754. ?
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  4755. I'm not an engineer but here's my opinion about the controller thing. I think using a game console controller is probably fine as such and sufficiently reliable. However, using a wireless controller (as they seemed to be doing) seems like an unnecessary risk to me (even though it doesn't seem to have been the reason for this accident).
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  4756. But is Kim Dotcom going to change his name?
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  4757. But what about sales tax?
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  4758. A purchase agreement with such escape clauses for the dealer seems one-sided. Does it have consideration?
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  4759. Pretty sure that's a crime. His license should be suspended.
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  4760. A slinger wouldn't typically swirl around but just use a one swing (except maybe they could use a couple of rotations if they have a very long sling).
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  4761.  @aldrinmilespartosa1578  At least to me it's not clear whether this more resembles a sling or a catapult. These modern devices are quite different to ancient technology in any case. I think one could argue that "catapult" is a better word to use because it's been taken into the use of calling some modern devices that throw things like e.g. the catapults that launch fighters off aircraft carriers. Thus it feels the more natural word to use here as well, though that is a subjective experience.
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  4762. China and India are nuclear powers and they have clashed in Ladakh...using wooden clubs and sticks with nails in them.
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  4763. 0:30 Based on what I've heard the canal isn't good news either. Its benefits are far too small compared to the price tag and the disruption it would cause in Istanbul.
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  4764.  @dangray4086 : "There is more than mere force at play." What are you suggesting then? Btw, the other conquerors you mentioned didn't have such worldwide empires (except France). Also note the prominence of the USA after the world wars. (Also, the Arabic script is the second most used script today.)
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  4765.  @telsat  "They said in the video. Don’t pretend to listen and start talking about that disingenuous..." What do you mean? I know they said in the video that it's too wide for the Suez Canal. I just further pointed out to El Ciclista that it means that it should have less reason to go near Somalia. That's not disingenuous in any way.
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  4766.  @PartisanTheFirst  How so? They speak a Slavic language at least.
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  4767.  @PartisanTheFirst  How are Serbs not Slavs then in an ethnic sense? I'm pretty sure most people, including most Serbs, count Serbs as Slavic.
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  4768.  @PartisanTheFirst  Are you using some genetic definition then? If so, what precisely?
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  4769.  @mariorossi7149  A non-leveraged ETF doesn't have volatility drag. If the index it follows drops, say, from 100 to 90 and then rises back to 100 a normal ETF following that index will also bounce back to where it was (ignoring fees) but a leveraged ETF will not.
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  4770.  @fox280-mb6jy  They later found a broken anchor from the seabed.
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  4771. "I guess Armenia just found out how true Kissinger said about being an enemy of the US and also about being US friend." What Kissinger said was the message that would be sent if the US were to depose Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (which ultimately did not happen). The analogous case for Armenia would be if the US supported Armenia or Artsakh in the conflict against Azerbaijan but still deposed or assassinated an Armenian or Artsakh leader it didn't like. That would be a case of being a "fatal fried" Kissinger (allegedly) mentioned. Nothing like that seems to be happening in Armenia or NK.
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  4772. Companies traded on the stock exchange are (mostly) real companies.
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  4773.  @aksHandler  It's because 372x is a large factor. Even if the present UK doesn't have a large area if you multiply it by that large of a factor that results in an area that's larger than the British Empire ever was.
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  4774. ​ @dirtysilver2841  Of course you can pay them. Maybe not in full. Benefits might be cut somewhat (though not as much as what allowing those under 45 to opt-out would require) and retirement age raised. Also FICA taxes are also likely to increase in the future.
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  4775. I'm not sure it's a good argument. Having a real human handing out tickets can be similarly fooled.
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  4776. You just need to find a brick-o-mancer. Touvlomancer? Plinthomancer?
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  4777. Zing!
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  4778. He didn't print enough. The monetary policy was still too tight but at least not as tight as that of his predecessor, Trichet.
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  4779. I wonder how many Russians are considering emigration.
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  4780. Those pesky freemasons!
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  4781.  @alexhumble7653  "actually annexed by the US" It's not annexed by the US. "Even if Alaskans and Texans probably don't want to fall under the rule of some other power, but they could aspire for independence" At least currently a majority of them don't.
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  4782.  @wayando  I partially use that phrase to sound poetic. It may not be necessary to go that far. If you're willing to persist in a fight significantly after what would seem to be rational (when you only consider that particular fight after it has already started) you may be able to deter attackers if you can credibly signal that willingness.
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  4783.  @alexhumble7653  Are you talking about me? No one is paying me to write YouTube comments. Also, I think we've only talked in this thread and nowhere else. I don't think you could in any case determine that I'm being paid just based on this conversation. If you really think I'm paid it seems like a kneejerk reaction to someone having a different opinion from yours. Or did you mean someone other than me?
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  4784.  @alexhumble7653  I don't agree that I'm ignoring facts but even if I were that hardly means that someone's paying me to do it.
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  4785.  @moestietabarnak  I don't see any evidence of that.
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  4786.  @johnnybrown689  Hmm, did you mean to tag someone other than me?
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  4787. There's a big difference between Navalny and Assange. Now, I'm not claiming that Assange should be extradited. You can say that his work is morally good and/or that it's tyrannical for the US to try extend its jurisdiction abroad. However, someone who disagrees with that can still be angry about Navalny's fate without being hypocritical. Assange had clearly broken US laws. Navalny had just revealed corruption and tried to run against Putin neither which are crimes but he was still imprisoned based on trumped up charges. Also, it's at least possible that Navalny was killed by the Russian state in prison which, if true, is pretty bad whereas I think that probably wouldn't happen to Assange in a US prison, though that's not certain.
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  4788. Solar output is greatest when there is greatest need for air conditioning. Thus, those two should go well together.
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  4789.  @creamofbotulismsoup9900  "Not really, pretty much any building with A/C will be insulated to prevent the heat from immediately transferring in." A delay of 3 h or something doesn't ruin it. Houses also have thermal inertia so you have some leeway to run AC when electricity is the cheapest. Doing it during the day if solar PV is very plentiful is still easier than doing it during the night (which is also still feasible if the house has enough mass not heat up too much in one day).
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  4790.  @micaledayurst7462  That does not comport with figures I find with short googling. Based on what I found AC would use about 3 kW on average whereas a fridge would be closer to 250 W on average meaning AC uses more than 10x more. Also, AC usage tends to be higher in regions where solar power is more viable.
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  4791. He might have meant say "to" rather than "from".
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  4792. Langfocus has a nice video on Maltese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7VdeHdBn-g
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  4793.  @springyard20xx42 : You're known for "The Toubles", right?
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  4794.  @petrmaly9087  perus = basic/ordinary
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  4795. Btw, you left out the most important unanswered question. What's gonna happen to .io, which is the country top-level domain for the British Indian Ocean Territory, now that this "country" is no longer going to exist?
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  4796. One relevant thing I've sometimes seen in the news is that apparently not many people aspire to be teachers in Sweden so those that train to be teachers tend to be ones that didn't get anywhere else. (Disclaimer: I'm from Finland so I'm not super familiar with the situation in Sweden. This is just something I've sometimes seen mentioned in the news.)
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  4797.  @harrywoodman2988  "plenty of Chinese remember the failed glorious revolution and the starvation it brought" Sorry to be a nitpicker but I think you mean either the Great Leap Forward or the Cultural Revolution. The Glorious Revolution happened in England.
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  4798.  serriajohn  The Fed hasn't ordered Japan to accumulate big dollar reserves.
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  4799.  serriajohn  In the past, the US has complained more about some countries keeping their exchange rates too low compared to the dollar.
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  4800. Russia is the one bullying Ukraine.
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  4801. 4:40 I don't think that description makes much sense. If there had been a Ukrainian offensive then the justification for sanctions would have been much, much weaker. If Ukraine was indeed going to initiate conflict then what reason would Russia have had to villainize itself by starting it first instead of letting Ukraine villainize itself? It seems clear to me that, at least in Putin's mind, there wasn't going to be a Ukrainian offensive into LPR/DPR, at least not any time soon.
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  4802. Minorities are preferentially sent in the current conflict too so that probably doesn't affect the casualty ratio between those wars that much.
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  4803. In the short term coal is going to be used more leading to increased emissions.
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  4804.  @GwainSagaFanChannel  Yeah, but the usage is going to at least temporarily be even higher than before.
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  4805. Lithuania doesn't have as many unicorn companies so it's not as striking of an example.
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  4806. "What if Ukraine was working on a dirty bomb" That's extremely unlikely. There's no reason for them to do so.
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  4807. Ukraine has no motive to blow up the Balticconnector.
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  4808.  @kordellswoffer1520  It is probably fair but one does have to recognize that it falls outside of "no taxation without representation". What I think is actually unfair is the US taxing non-resident citizens (even though they usually have representation).
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  4809.  @kordellswoffer1520  Resident non-citizens.
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  4810.  @kordellswoffer1520  Foreign workers are probably a large part and what I was primarily thinking about.
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  4811.  @kordellswoffer1520  I said in my previous comment that "it's probably fair".
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  4812. "Under 401K, if the economy is in the dumps when you retire, your problem." If you invest with a long timeframe there are going to be some bear markets but overall gain. It doesn't matter that much whether the market slumps happen at the end, in the beginning, or somewhere in the middle; ultimately you're going to come ahead either way.
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  4813.  @kevinwest3274  "But that makes retirement a game based on luck." No, it (mostly) doesn't. With a long enough timeframe market fluctuations mostly cancel out.
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  4814. "if tanked used its uranium shell (a small dirty bomb)" Depleted uranium rounds are kinetic penetrators. They are not shells, nor dirty bombs, nor any kind of bombs.
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  4815.  @doublehelix7880  It's not a big deal. Uranium is cheap compared to the amount of electricity it contains. Most of the cost of nuclear power is the capital cost of the plant and the cost of fuel is minor in comparison. More expensive uranium doesn't affect the cost of nuclear power very much.
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  4816. Bulgarian has definite articles (though they are suffixes rather than free articles).
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  4817.  @mladenmatosevic4591  I don't speak Bulgarian. I'll give you a link in a separate comment (so that in case YouTube doesn't like the link it won't delete this comment).
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  4818.  @mladenmatosevic4591  I studied German in school and I struggled to remember the grammatical gender. Even if you always quote words with the article it doesn't feel like a part of the word and it's much harder to remember, or at least that was the case for me.
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  4819.  @mladenmatosevic4591  I find online the following claim for Bulgarian: "The gender of the noun can largely be inferred from its ending: nouns ending in a consonant are generally masculine; those ending in –а/–я are normally feminine; and nouns ending in –е, –о are almost always neuter." This actually sounds easier to me since the ending of the word feels more like a part of the word than a separate article so I think it's easier to remember.
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  4820. 22:27 I think Rolls Royce isn't selling one yet.
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  4821. Then a bit under a quarter of a millennium later both the Habsburg empire and the Ottoman empire would fall fighting on the same side.
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  4822.  @pyongyangbroadcastingservi3086  "If 1.26 million annual maternal deaths comes from an 8 billion population" I'm guessing you're taking this number from Our World in Data which gets it from using the maternal death rate for Finland and Sweden in 1800? It should be noted that other places may have had a higher rate, possibly much higher, in the past. It seems e.g. South Sudan today has more than 3x that rate.
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  4823.  @pyongyangbroadcastingservi3086  That doesn't really affect what I was saying. I just meant that if the rate of maternal death due to giving birth in the past was similar to South Sudan today (which sounds plausible, though hardly certain), the numbers of deaths from giving birth in the past might be 3x or 4x what you calculated. That might still not be enough to overturn your argument but I still wanted to mention it.
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  4824. It's not extortion.
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  4825. It sounds like you're criticizing oil companies for not drilling more. Shouldn't you be happy that they're restricting supply because it means less greenhouse emissions?
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  4826. 8:00 Hmm, are "xanthos" and "leukos" swapped here or am I missing something?
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  4827. The Three Gorges Dam spans the Yangtze River, not the Mekong River.
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  4828.  @militaristaustrian  "the ussr Was illegaly broken up" But the USSR also wasn't set up legally. The earlier provisional and Tsarist governments were not ended legally according to their laws. Also, some republics were illegally incorporated into the USSR.
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  4829. Palm is the only on the palmar (a.k.a. volar) side, not on the dorsal side, of the hand.
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  4830. I think in German adverbs are the same as the adjectives (though I could be wrong because my German is very rusty). In Swedish adverbs are just the neuter form of the adjectives.
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  4831. How do you say "get 'em" in French?
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  4832. His expertise is not in atmospheric sciences. I don't think there's much reason to give much weight to what he says about the climate.
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  4833. @Dan Debauchery USA: Fools might need protection by law.
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  4834. @Dan Debauchery USA: Then it might be better to protect the fools because their suffering is a bad thing (though one must be careful not go overboard as that might disincentivize avoiding foolishness). But did they have at the time an option that they could both afford at the time and would have been better in the long term? It might be that other options could have been too expensive.
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  4835. @Dan Debauchery USA: I certainly would not want to outlaw renting and I don't see a problem with renting at market rates. The problem here was these unanticipated increases of rent. The rents for the lots can't be super high when the homes are first being installed there because then no one would rent it that rate because they could probably go somewhere cheaper. But once the house is already on the lot and cannot be easily relocated and the lease expires then the rent can be raised above what would be the market rate if the lots didn't already have houses on them and you'd need to attract customers to install them there. I'm not proposing any kind of law here because I don't know what would be a practical solution. Rent control can easily create a number of problems. But if there were a practical solution, I certainly would be willing to protect these fools from their own mistakes even if that would mean limiting their freedom to enter into deals a little bit. Buying land in the middle of nowhere might not be an option for many because many people might need to live a reasonable distance from a source of employment.
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  4836. @Dan Debauchery USA: I don't think it overly penalizes the owner of the land since they can take legislation into account when buying the land (assuming any law change is not applied retroactively to existing leases). In my country the law on renting land says that if the lease expires and the landowner and the owner of the property on the land can't/won't agree to a renewal, the owner of the land is required to buy the property at a market rate. That kind of law might alleviate the plight of some people to some degree, though probably not hugely so since in this video it was said that the value of the manufactured homes tends to depreciate fast (but this would also mean that the burden on the landowner wouldn't be unduly large). Maybe something like that would help, although I don't know how existing leases should be treated.
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  4837. He also spelled "Karelian" as "Carillion".
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  4838. That's a good point but Patrick still has a point in that at least billionaires typically pay way more taxes than $750.
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  4839.  @archingelus  But that doesn't mean it's good for business. It might be if you're a weapons manufacturer but most other businesses will suffer.
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  4840. Seems they're at least doing better than expected.
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  4841. "That's a bit of a misleading title, as most Russian assets have been trapped/stolen by the Western countries" What are you on about? This video is about the assets of Western companies in Russia. It's not necessary to mention Russian assets as that would be an unnecessary tangent.
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  4842.  @isomz638  "in many nations the average income is far below the median income" This is plain incorrect. Average income is pretty much always above median income. "most people (around 90%) in India, for example, would not be purchasing your product..." I already answered this point which you made in your previous comment as well. I would say that even when looking at the segment of the population that might buy the product, the income gap presumably remains (though it might be smaller than the gap in average incomes).
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  4843.  @2st_duallist  A long-haul flight can easily consume 10s of tons of fuel. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Long-haul_flights
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  4844.  @white-noisemaker9554  Why were they considered to be on the same side. My understanding is that they had been e.g. raiding Korea before. During the Imjin War, the Jurchen offered assistance against the Japanese (because the Japanese had attacked them) but the Koreans and the Chinese refused.
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  4845.  @useritiswhatitis4655  Permanent residency? He's already an EU citizen, isn't he?
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  4846.  @alexm566  "vw was 1,200% shorted in 2008" It was only 12% of all the stocks of the company. It was just that suddenly it was made public that Porsche had bought a lot of VW shares and the stock available for trade was only 1% of all the stock.
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  4847. Instead of absolute discharge, could the sentence hypothetically have instead been some kind of warning or censure?
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  4848. I think that wouldn't happen on a large scale in any case.
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  4849. Germany?
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  4850.  @Raadpensionaris  ". I recommend that you read upon Maurice of Orange and Frederik Hendrik." That might not be a bad recommendation but I'm too lazy to do that. YouTube videos on history are easier to get into.
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  4851. But what about Canadian or Australian football?
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  4852. Next: What if every country ending in -ia united?
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  4853.  @advancedomega  No, it isn't.
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  4854.  @johnschuh8616  Is the theory that it actually passed through the body, or did I misunderstand?
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  4855.  @johnschuh8616  OK, thanks. Obviously, I don't believe that theory. And once one is willing to offer a literal miracle as an explanation then I don't see to point of speculating with details like whether the body passed through to veil. You could just as well say that image just suddenly appeared on the veil without such things happening and that would be just as believable.
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  4856. "Believe it or not, but at the moment not a single European country, not a single country of the so-called Western world has provided humanitarian assistance to Syria" At least the Wikipedia page for the earthquake says: "The European Union's European Civil Protection Mechanism, which Turkey is a member of, was activated at the request of Turkey.[321] The EU dispatched thirty-one rescue teams and five medical teams from 23 member states to Turkey and Syria, committed €3 million and €3.5 million to Turkey and Syria respectively, and announced a donor conference to raise money." So it seems you're mistaken, though admittedly I didn't bother to check the sources Wikipedia cites for this.
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  4857.  @LevanGudadze  "If someone sent something to the territory not controlled by the Syrian authorities and handed it over to terrorists who supposedly should help the population affected by the earthquake, this is not help for Syria, because Syria has an official government through which such issues should be resolved" I disagree. If it helps the people in that region it's a good thing regardless of whether you count it as help for Syria. I think there is a good argument for temporarily setting aside disputes and conflicts over which government controls which area when there is a great need for humanitarian aid. It's not reasonable to say that rebel areas not under the country's government should not get aid if the government isn't willing to engage in cooperation that would allow the aid to reach that area.
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  4858. Just have them join Schengen and the customs union but remain in the UK (unless the population wants to join Spain). Having border control between Gibraltar and the rest of the UK shouldn't be a major issue.
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  4859.  @FutureChaosTV  You misspelled "English". It's spelled with an upper case E.
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  4860. I wish Helsinki had an "anything goes" policy when comes to architecture.
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  4861. Offshore wind is already a thing. This thing can use the same kind of transmission lines as existing offshore wind projects.
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  4862. 4:35 While I broadly agree with your take (though not all details) I don't think this particular point makes sense. Demographics don't for the Eurozone to run a trade surplus; the trade balance of the Eurozone is in fact in the negative. I'd say the Euro could function as a global currency (and to a degree it does) but the US economy is bigger and the US Dollar has an established status so it ends up being used much more. (Of central bank forex reserves US dollar has about 3x bigger share than the Euro.)
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  4863. "If it costs too much to recycle, it should not be made." That makes zero sense. Recycling isn't of inherent value itself. Rather it can help bring down costs and environmental impact. But all of those things are of finite value and have to be compared against other options. Sometimes, disposable products just make sense.
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  4864.  @nc3826  "OK, what's the more environmentally sound alternative?" That depends on the case. Sometimes it could be to e.g. burn it for energy. Let's take the example of, say, shoes? Can you somehow make them recycleable? If not, are you going to say (like OP seemed to say) that then you shouldn't make shoes?
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  4865.  @nc3826  I did not claim that specifically disposable plastic bags make sense. Don't twist my words. Also, they are actually recyclable unlike some more durable alternatives which may last much longer but in the end can't be recycled but only e.g. burned. But again, I'm not defending plastic bags here. I only said that some products (such as maybe shoes) can't reasonably be made recycleable and thus I think OP's statement that products that cost too much to recycle doesn't make sense. It goes much too far.
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  4866.  @nc3826  ""Single use plastic disposable bags" was just a specific counterpoint example, of your generalized assertion that disposable products can be more environmentally sound." I don't see how one example would in any way contradict what I said. I only said that for some products recycleability doesn't make sense, not all. Also note that recycleability and durability are two different things. OP was only talking about recycleability, not durability, and my response was aimed at that too, not so much durability. FWIW, where I live plastic bags are recycled, at least if consumers put them in the right bin. "Plus you could have given a different example, instead you mentioned, shoes?" Shoes are a specific example of a product that would be too difficult to recycle once they are too worn out to be used anymore. How would you recycle them? It makes more sense to e.g. just burn them for energy than to recycle the material in them. (Sometimes burning is called "thermal recycling" but I don't think that comports with what people usually think of as recycling.) "My true salient point, is the economic principles I gave earlier, based on negative externalities." Yeah, negative externalities can exist. How big they are depends on the case. I'm just saying that in some cases they're not big enough to warrant recycling (or recycling could itself have too much negative externality). On the other hand, in some cases recycling does make sense. If you're worried about the negative externality of plastic bags, you can implement a Pigouvian tax on them like some places have.
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  4867. "The "cheap labor" sounds even more dubious when these alleged cheap laborers are going to be paid at least the SK's minimum wage." Surely an exception would have to be made for northern workers in case of a unification. Otherwise there would be too much unemployment.
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  4868. There's a minimum of 6 € per day and for the total fine there's a minimum of 100 € for moped drivers and 200 € for drivers of other motor vehicles.
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  4869.  @Hellllllo852  Russia could still stop the war if it withdrew from Ukraine.
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  4870. I think the South Sea Company did get the right to send one ship per year to each Spanish port in South America. Of course, that's not nearly enough.
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  4871. I wonder if European bankruptcy laws should be amended. It just seems inefficient that the planes that are about to take off suddenly can't because it isn't clear that who would pay for them. Someone is going to pay for the travel back home at some point regardless.
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  4872. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it's not anymore.
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  4873.  @AnaIvanovic4ever  "The awful agriculture and fishing policies, that is basically subsidizing environmental destruction" The individual countries would definitely be subsidizing their agricultural sectors even without EU. Having that under CAP doesn't seemingly make it worse. I'm against agricultural subsidies myself but the EU doesn't make them worse. "the European parliament moving to Strasbourg every once in a while" It's stupid and should be ended but the cost is really a drop in a bucket and it doesn't make sense to leave the EU because of that. "the large amount of money taken from the member states to EU structural funds" These are not large. The whole EU budget is rather small compared to national budgets.
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  4874.  @AnaIvanovic4ever  The EU does some things that states do but it's a relatively loose union with a comparatively lean budget, somewhat like the US in its early years. The (current) US federal budget is very "bloated" in comparison.
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  4875.  @AnaIvanovic4ever  "you can not compare EU with the US. United States of America" I think the EU is comparable with the early US (except that the EU doesn't have armed forces). "Tell me what EU should do exept being a free trade zone?" To make trade flow freely having regulation be harmonized over the entire zone is useful. Thus the EU needs some powers in that regard. Having free trade in food requires limiting how much countries can subsidize their own food production sectors as many countries would not be willing to enter into a union where their own food production sectors would have to face a race of who can subsidize their own agriculture most. I think it's reasonable that the union helps poorer members grow quicker. Things like the emissions trading scheme are easier to implement on a union level.
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  4876.  @okaytheclown6480  "Guys yall forgot about East Timor...which means the same thing too😂😂😂😂" No, East Timor and Timor-Leste are the same thing.
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  4877. Just a quick note, "climate change" is the older term and "global warming" the newer one.
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  4878.  @kenho5209  "the russian including gazprom cannot exhange /transact in euro/USD, how is gazprom's bank a/c getting receipts?" No, energy transactions were excluded from sanctions. Gazprom was able to receive payments.
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  4879.  @kenho5209  The SWIFT ban has exceptions for energy transactions. Those have not been prevented because Europe still wanted to receive gas, oil, etc. Also, SWIFT ban doesn't prevent you from accessing your bank account. SWIFT is just a messaging system that banks use for announcing and confirming transactions. If that wasn't the case Europe would have already stopped receiving gas long ago.
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  4880.  @kenho5209  "so because i want gas, i allow the transaction of gas, but all ur other sales are banned?" Kind of (and same for oil etc.). Whether you like it or not it's the reality. Any claim that the money used to pay for gas was frozen is just false. "do i need to say it again and again? RUSSIA IS REMOVED FROM SWIFT can u read??????" Do I need to say it again and again? Energy transactions have exemptions carved out for them. They can be processed through SWIFT even if many other transactions can't. Can you read?
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  4881. Which one of them was the harasser?
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  4882. "But if you mean each year 10% of the population is conscripted." I'm pretty sure that if he meant each year then he meant 10% of the relevant age cohort.
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  4883. I like Huel, though I still eat more regular food than Huel.
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  4884. Donbas is different in the sense that it has been formally annexed. Transnistria hasn't been annexed by Russia nor Kosovo by Albania.
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  4885.  @bilic8094  It's incorrect to say "both" since 3 territories were mentioned, not 2. In any case, whether the territory gets (formally) annexed by another country is a meaningful difference.
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  4886.  @ItsJustnotCricket  Mercouris already included "Russia Encircles Bakhmut" in the title of his video on September 16th 2022, i.e. about half a year ago.
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  4887.  @ItsJustnotCricket  What? Is that somehow related to my comment?
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  4888. 12:03 "Parallel Systems" Their idea doesn't make much sense.
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  4889. I don't think your analysis makes much sense. In the longer term inflation is largely determined by monetary policy so it's really up to what the Fed decides (in the case of the US). Even part of the pandemic related increase in inflation was due to the Fed creating a lot more dollars. Also, even if you want to argue the importance of real factors for inflation, you should note that many of the factors you mentioned should depress people's incomes which is disinflationary due to less money chasing the goods that are available.
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  4890. Taxing X dollars per tonne of carbon is simple. Doesn't get much simpler than that. Other solution are more complicated.
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  4891.  @serpalex2922  Do have a source or is that just an assumption?
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  4892. In the case of PV solar it's possible to not use extra land at all by using rooftop installations (though I guess that increases installation costs relative to solar farms on land).
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  4893.  @charlesbeaudry3263  I would claim even in the case of offices or factories it can work in the sense that an investment into rooftop solar can have a good return even if it can only provide a small portion of the required power. This is assuming that the rooftop doesn't have a better use. Even if having some PV panels on the roofs of such buildings might not reduce the requirement for electric cables it can still reduce transmission losses as a portion of the electricity is produced locally.
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  4894.  @charlesbeaudry3263  "you need to consider the additional capital cost of doing this vs just staying on the grid, which entails no additional CAPEX" Yes, but the cost of PV has come down a lot. I think the return on investment is good enough in many (sufficiently sunny) places.
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  4895.  @charlesbeaudry3263  "The bigger issue with renewables for them to become say 75% of the grid power is that it cannot be sustained." It might not be worth to invest in, say, PV that much but a lower percentage probably makes economic sense (in sunny places). If storage becomes more common, it makes a higher percentage make more sense.
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  4896.  @charlesbeaudry3263  "You seem to think that it binary, either we go only renewables or we no renewables." Not at all. Whatever gave you that idea.
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  4897. The nuclear shutdown was already decided during Schröder's administration. It was only sped up after Fukushima.
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  4898. Which treaty specifically are you referring to here?
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  4899. It sounds like it would be easier to just live in space (in spaceships and spacestations).
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  4900. French has made a video on this and estimated that the fair use tests somewhat favor Mahlman here.
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  4901. On the World War Two channel in episode 214 (early October, 1943) they say that at that time the u-boats were ordered to focus on sinking destroyer escorts rather than the merchant ships.
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  4902. That's what they're intended for, not long-time holding.
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  4903. 9:48 But does that work for double-sideband or single-sideband signals?
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  4904. I'd hope that they'd join the EU though I think they likely won't, at least not any time soon. (As for NATO, there is no need to join it at all since they're already surrounded by it.)
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  4905. "the cost of the Coronavirus stimulus" If it's the Fed's action, it's not a cost. In fact, it's income for the Fed and thus the government.
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  4906.  @DavorBa  "You mean those small cessna planes ?" As a minor nitpick, I've seen claims that the small aircraft converted into drones by Ukraine were manufactured by Aeroprakt, not Cessna.
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  4907. I think you should've also listed the Entente casualties so that we could compare them to the Ottoman casualties.
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  4908. "Secondly, unlike the US' nuclear doctrine of preemptive strike, the Russian nuclear doctrine is to use only when attacked with nuclear." You're misinformed. Russia's nuclear doctrine does include using nukes in a conventional war (though in principle only if Russia's existence is at risk). The US nuclear doctrine says (among other things): "the US will not use or threaten to use nuclear weapons against non-nuclear weapons states that are party to the NPT and are in compliance with their non-proliferation obligations". So under these doctrines the US would not use nuclear weapons against a country like Ukraine whereas Russia could (at least in principle) do so if Russia's existence was deemed to be at a risk.
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  4909. I think he understands it now even if he didn't before.
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  4910. And why is it pronounced like that? Aswer: Because Swedish orthography is stupid, that's why.
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  4911. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_immunity
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  4912. It's not meaningless. The F1 race is also an annual event. Thus, if the stadium e.g. has 2 events per year, you can divide the cost of the stadium by 2 when making a comparison to the cost of the F1 track. Note that he didn't say "cost per event" but rather "cost per annual event" [emphasis mine].
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  4913. ​@nightstorm16 It would make zero sense to ignore the initial capex because it's so large. I think if you converted it into an annual cost with, say, 5% interest rate it would still be larger than the running costs you mention. In any case, it doesn't really matter whether you convert it to an annual cost or not because what Wendover did was look at the ratio of the costs of the F1 track/paddock etc. and the Stadium. The result is in any case going to be the same unless the running costs large enough relative to the capex that they can noticeably affect the ratio.
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  4914. "this is a country whose people thought Nokia was a Japanese company" I'm pretty sure that's not the case.
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  4915.  @azanudniy  There is no evidence that the problems of Boris Johnson are in any way related to Ukraine. If anything, the Ukraine war helped him politically and allowed him to stay in power longer than he otherwise would have.
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  4916. 9:15 There's a bit of a problem with those referendum questions since they seem somewhat leading.
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  4917. Is it "niche" or "niche"? I think it's the latter, but English isn't my first language.
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  4918. "The fact that the only city they have committed to full urban warfare in is Mariupol is consistent with their objective of "Denazifying" Ukraine as Mariupol is the base of the largest/strongest Far Right "AZOV" Battalions." It doesn't make sense that they would start a full scale invasion just to defeat such a small part of the Ukrainian armed forces. They have called the Ukrainian government Nazis so "denazification" quite likely referred to a goal of changing the government. Otherwise, why invade the north of the country at all?
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  4919.  @andrewszigeti2174  It could conceivably happen but it probably wasn't the only goal initially because otherwise there wouldn't have a reason to invade the north.
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  4920.  @andrewszigeti2174  The reason 1 would mean that at least initially the goal was to get the whole country or at least significantly more than the regions you mentioned. Of course, that might no longer be the goal.
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  4921. 3:14 But not Bosniaks?
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  4922. That would be unviable.
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  4923. 9:40 Is that really true? The southern part of present-day Vietnam used to be a different kingdom called Champa and it wasn't fully conquered by Vietnam until 1832.
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  4924. Between Italy and Croatia?
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  4925.  @croatianwarmaster7872  My comment was a reply to commenter UNS GUS and he was talking about the war as a whole, not just the Siege of Dubrovnik.
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  4926. "the POINT was that the water on Earth today could cover the Earth if it was more of a perfect sphere" It couldn't even if the Earth were a perfect sphere because even then the water layer would be thinner than a monolayer of water molecules. (Yes, I'm a bit hung up on trivialities but I still had to point out that this point wouldn't be correct.)
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  4927.  @medexamtoolscom  Actually I somehow misread and missed the "the water on Earth today" part.
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  4928.  @EliF-ge5bu  Compared to other countries at the time it was rich. I think it wasn't that far from being the richest country in the world. Of course, the whole world in the year 1900 was poor compared to today's world. (Btw, in my previous comment I didn't mean to reply to you. I tagged the wrong person by mistake.)
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  4929. "Making goods and services for consumption is hard, time-consuming, and subject to fluctuating demand. Trading papers is far easier." The airlines still do produce the service and their banking business wouldn't work if they didn't.
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  4930.  @elnuridrisov7069  But Azerbaijan now also occupies a part of Armenia's internationally recognized territory.
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  4931.  @elnuridrisov7069  "it was agreed that Armenia will also remove its military on the remaining part of NK" Was it? I tried look this up I only found claims that according to the ceasefire agreement Armenia would withdraw troops from around N-K but I didn't find any mentions of withdrawal from N-K itself.
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  4932.  @elnuridrisov7069  That paragraph only speaks about withdrawal of Armenian troops but it doesn't specify where the troops should be withdrawn from (i.e. from N-K itself or only the surrounding regions).
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  4933. Is it possible to control the blade pitch passively? I mean, could the member that the blade is connected to be flexible such that it would bend with the wind and rotation to produce a closer to optimal pitch? Or would the wind tend to bend the blade to the wrong direction?
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  4934. Would the bridge be useful if crossing Neum could be done without checkpoints? It's kind of unfortunate if such spending is necessary merely to circumvent purely bureaucratic, rather than real, obstacles.
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  4935. Who's gonna take Brčko District?
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  4936.  @Bastiaanspijkman  "environmental impact? Reduced packaging?" But cardboard can be recycled.
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  4937. Part of the reason why the natives of the Americas were conquered is probably that diseases killed such a large fraction of them. Also, part of the reason why Pizarro was able to conquer the Incas is that their ruler had been killed by smallpox and his sons started a civil war of the throne.
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  4938. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  4939.  @Alfram  Are you sure it's respectable? The bonds are probably inverse floater bonds.
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  4940.  @pebbleman721  Maybe he should go short on stocks so he could have 120% of his position in bonds.
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  4941.  @noraarelee3863  "high interest rate can kill economy too...look what happen to greece" In that case ECB's policy was too tight. Inflation was not high in Greece or elsewhere in the Eurozone. That's opposite of the case of Turkey now. The monetary policy of the Central Bank of Turkey is too loose and inflation is high.
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  4942. The second part seems to be in a forest.
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  4943.  @stripe1000  Capital gains count towards it also (and I think employee stock options count as ordinary income in both the US and Finland). I'm not sure what's the case if you just have a lot of unrealized gains in appreciated stocks or other assets.
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  4944.  @muslimresponse103  I would like to check what the treaty says but I'm unable to find it online. Do you know a site where I could view it (without paying etc.)?
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  4945.  @seasong7655 : Water desalination is already used in many places on a large scale. According to Wikipedia 1% of the world's population depends on it for their water. Of course, it's still a small fraction of the total population but the absolute numbers are still large. Water from other sources is probably usually preferable when available due to lower energy consumption but in some places, there isn't a better option. On the other hand, I don't see why desalination would be better than groundwater even if very cheap electricity were available.
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  4946. Nonetheless, I don't think there's any reason for modern-day Mongolians to feel bad about past massacres any more than any other ethnicity should feel bad about any atrocity their ancestors might have perpetrated. E.g. I don't think modern-day Japanese would need to feel bad about, say, the Imjin War. It's all ancient history.
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  4947. Richard, would you count yourself as a finfluencer?
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  4948. 8:10 Out of curiosity, does that text say something about immortality?
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  4949. The video didn't explain why one should stay away from square waves (if you aren't in a boat).
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  4950.  @abcddef2112  I can understand that in the case of transport but a whole building doesn't seem that much of a risk.
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  4951. 23:05 Since you seem to care about pronunciation a lot, you might want to know that the 'c' in "ostracism" is pronounced as an 's'. Or at least I think it is, I'm not a native English speaker either.
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  4952. What about the Mughals?
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  4953.  @dr.pingel2447  I just used Google translate to translate it from German to Italian without checking the meaning. How would you say "excuse a debt" in Italian? (Apparently "entschulden" can refer to both excusing and paying off a debt.)
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  4954. Guns are too modern for him (except for matchlock arquebuses).
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  4955. "looks like Finland is the 1st to fall" What do you mean "fall"? There's a change in government coming but that's just a normal democratic process. It isn't any kind of "fall" for Finland as a whole (though it is for the Finnish Social Democrats).
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  4956.  @flaminmongrel6955  The war had little to do with the election result in Finland. The war wasn't a major election theme and basically all of the non-fringe parties have roughly the same position on Ukraine.
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  4957.  @ichbinueber18  "wind is actually safer" Wind has the lowest greenhouse emissions (and nuclear the second lowest) but wind isn't the safest. It kills more people per kWh than nuclear.
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  4958. "We might even see culturally noneuropean countries i.e. India, China "whiteshift"." Why wouldn't you expect to see European countries to "asianshift" instead?
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  4959. "Tax the billionaires and people with over 100 million of assets." Those people are not very numerous so you're not going to raise much revenue that way. "Take the money out of the system." Taxes don't take money out of the system. The government spends it tax revenue. It doesn't destroy the money.
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  4960.  @SS-ub5qz  None of that is destroying money. Tax money doesn't get destroyed. Government pays its bills with tax money. The money just gets transferred from taxpayers to e.g. government employees and other people and organizations that the government is paying. That's not destroying money.
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  4961.  @grimaffiliations3671  "Not true, federal taxes actually do get destroyed by they IRS." No, what you are saying isn't true. Taxes do get put to the general funds that the government spends.
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  4962.  @grimaffiliations3671  "They are deleted by the IRS" They are not deleted by the IRS.
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  4963. Dogecoin is better.
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  4964. So there was a Han vs. Hun war. Well, that's confusing (when said out loud). Incidentally, why didn't you mention the best ancient Chinese philosopher, Mozi (墨子)? :)
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  4965.  @captainvanisher988  "So unless the migrants since 1974 are deported back to Turkey, the reunification will never happen." What about the children of those migrants who were born and have lived only in Cyprus? Wouldn't it be unreasonable to send them to exile from a country where they have lived their whole life?
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  4966.  @captainvanisher988  "Not exile, relocation." A forced relocation is basically an exile, at least in the case of those people who were born in Cyprus and might have never lived in Turkey. Exiling or forcibly "relocating" them would seem unethical to me.
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  4967.  @archaeaoris900  It having happened before doesn't make it right. I won't try to judge the Israel/Gaza case here but I think at least expelling people who were born on the island and have lived there a long time would be a wrong thing to do. In the case of recent immigrants from Turkey it might be more understandable but insisting on expelling for whom Cyprus have been their only home goes too far.
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  4968.  @archaeaoris900  "Using settlers is a war crime." But two wrongs don't make a right. Mass expulsion can be a war crime as well. "The biggest problem are the settlers, what can you do with them?" It might be possible to expel recent immigrants but those who have lived on the island all their lives shouldn't be expelled. So what can you do with the latter group? I can think of only 3 options: 1) Accept that they should get at least a permanent residency in a reunified Cyprus and probably a citizenship in the long term. 2) Permanent partition of the island (with the North probably ceding some territory to the South, e.g. Varosha). 3) Current unhappy status quo. This might mean that at some point some countries (mostly Turkic ones) would start recognizing the North if no progress is made in untangling the problem.
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  4969.  @archaeaoris900  "Mass expulsion is not a war crime, under specific circumstances. Else no country would be able to remove illegals from its territory." Illegals usually haven't lived in the country all their lives. "Also, we have seen it before many times, with the biggest such case being the population exchange between Greece and Turkey" Well, that wasn't a good thing by any measure. At least to me, this comparison makes the proposition seem less acceptable, not more. "Where will they live and work?" At least if they have paid for the properties they would have to at least receive some financial compensation. Or alternatively the Greeks who lost their property could be just financially compensated. Who would pay for it? Ideally Turkey but getting Turkey to agree seems too difficult. Probably it would have to fall on the government of the reunified Cyprus with maybe some outside contribution from e.g. the EU. "3) Yes, this can happen but it doesn't matter." If the Greek Cypriots think that this kind of expulsion is a non-negotiable condition for reunification, then I guess this is the only somewhat reasonable outcome that can actually be achieved. It's not a very good outcome for either the Greek nor the Turkish Cypriots but I just don't see any alternative (assuming your opinion is common enough) for better or for worse.
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  4970. "Then non western should sanction western countries too" Which non-Western country would want to do that? Probably (almost) none.
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  4971.  @Leonid_Brezhnev1  "Soviet Union was the last state who concluded a non-agression pact with Germany after France, Britain and even Poland" I don't think that's the case, at least for Britain. The only non-aggression pacts Germany had at the start of the war were with Estonian, Latvia, Denmark, Soviet Union and possibly France (but it's unclear to me if the Franco-German Declaration was a pact or not).
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  4972.  @austinduke8876  " It's a sovereign fiat currency in a democratic nation. It cannot default unless that is the will of voters." That's a very misleading way to put it. When the government debt is denominated in its own currency it can always technically avoid a formal default by inflating away the value of its debt through money printing. However, this is mostly a theoretical option. Causing additional economic damage with high inflation while still being seen just as unreliable lender as with a formal default likely won't be chosen in most cases. That said, I don't think the UK is going to default on its debt nor monetize it for the foreseeable future.
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  4973.  @austinduke8876  "it's the exact opposite o misleading. Its perfectly correct." No. I argue that while it is technically correct it isn't very relevant. A formal default can be avoided but it practice the choice of default is usually better than debt monetization so it's the one that will usually be chosen. Saying that it "can only happen by choice" doesn't mean much because in practice that choice will almost always be taken in situations of distress.
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  4974.  @austinduke8876  Like I said earlier, I don't think this crisis is severe enough that the UK will default on its debt (nor monetize it), but that's not the same reason as having a fiat currency.
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  4975. @tripplefives1402 I don't buy that. Products like Soylent, Huel, Jimmy Joy, etc. are actually fairly affordable. I think you could get your necessary nutrients for somewhat cheaper by careful shopping in grocery store but I suspect that a majority of the people living in food deserts are probably paying more for their food.
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  4976.  @aaroncousins4750  Of course it makes sense. Exports is less than total supply since a portion of the production in each country is consumed domestically. I'm not entirely sure but I've seen these percentages quoted as Ukraine's and Russia's share of global exports, not total global supply.
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  4977.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  "If that draws the US navy to their coastline, all the better." How's that better for them? The US navy is powerful and it only needs to go to the Taiwanese coast, not the coast of the mainland. Also, that kind of fight with a blockade would be drawn out and the resulting sanctions would wreak havoc on the Chinese economy.
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  4978.  @aaroncousins4750  No, it means their exports are 20% of the global exports.
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  4979.  @aaroncousins4750  "exports make up the majority of the food supply?" I don't know the answer to that one.
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  4980.  @ArawnOfAnnwn  "Sanctions would wreak havok on both, stop pretending the US is immune." I have not pretended the US is immune but the West has clearly showed that it's willing to take the pain. Also, at least at the moment China's access to oil is easy to blockade since so much of it goes through a single chokepoint (the Strait of Malacca). "And all of Taiwans' coast is well within China's range." The eastern coast is 300 km from mainland as the crow flies and at least twice that along a route they would have to take. That is not nothing considering they would have to face the US navy while being so close to Taiwan's airforce. It certainly wouldn't be a cakewalk for China.
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  4981. Note, Mercouris may be claiming that Erdoğan is alarmed but he doesn't present much evidence for that being the case.
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  4982.  @yaroslavsobolev6868  Thanks for the info.
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  4983. In case anyone's wondering, "korsu" means "dugout".
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  4984.  @RR-ll2ns  The burden on Western citizens is going to be smaller than on Russian citizens.
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  4985. If you're talking about the nuclear shutdown that was already decided during Schröder's government.
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  4986.  @karora  Directly downwind with a static sail cannot produce a speed in excess of wind speed.
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  4987. Did you buy 50 Shades of Gray to make that joke or had you bought it earlier to actually read it?
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  4988. My understanding is that Greek Cypriots don't want a union with Greece anymore.
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  4989. I've been told that the WTO rules don't prohibit political tariffs etc. though I've not checked that myself.
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  4990. ""Viking" is a job." Was it really? At least for the raiding/piracy part, I thought it was something some people occasionally did and not like every year or something. (Trading expeditions might have been a more frequent thing.)
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  4991.  @illahham  There's very obvious evidence for fraud. According to the official results, Maduro got 51.20000% of the vote and the main opposition candidate got 44.20000%. Why are the results so close to a tenth of a percent (and even to a fifth of a percent)? The odds of that happening by chance are extremely low. It's clear that the official result is fabricated.
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  4992.  @bexdkolimited1889  The fraud is extremely obvious.
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  4993. 6:00 A creative solution? You could say it was creative...about 10k years ago that is. Now it's pretty much the oldest trick in the book.
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  4994. 28:30 In case you're curious, the correct pronunciation would basically be "Lestadian".
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  4995. Weren't there some bombing raids on German soil already at that point, or do I misremember?
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  4996. "or legitimate acts of self defense" Typically I would expect a defensive war to result in territorial gains for the defender or else it's not purely defensive (even if it might have been in the beginning).
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  4997. Even if it's badly run, that doesn't obviously mean that more money wouldn't translate to benefits. That would mean that less money hurt because the agency is badly run (because A<B is the same as B>A) and that would sound rather counterintuitive.
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  4998. "its just how you say airforce in russian (Vozdushno-desantnye voyska), its like RAF or USAF" No, they are airborne troops a.k.a. paratroopers which is not the same as an airforce like RAF or USAF.
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  4999.  @retard1488  No, problem. I might also add that it's common for airborne troops to have at least somewhat of an elite status. This is because they are given a very difficult job, namely being dropped in the enemy's rear where there is a risk of being cut off if regular infantry doesn't reach them. Thus airborne troops are often more selective than regular infantry.
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  5000. Relative depreciation isn't necessarily "worse". It depends on the specifics. Sometimes countries may purposefully seek to depreciate their currencies to make their exports more competitive.
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  5001.  @Deepthought-42  Yeah, exchange rate movements can reflect market optimism or pessimism but that doesn't mean that the movement itself is necessarily bad. If some country's economic prospects worsen then it's probably better for that country that its currency weakens somewhat.
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  5002. Debit?
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  5003. Probably not the Turkish one.
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  5004.  @Rizhiy13  Russia can exchange their Euros for RMB (or they can exchange Euros for Rubles so that when they exchange Rubles for RMB there isn't net downward pressure on the Ruble because of this trade).
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  5005. Finland used to also be counted among the Baltic states after its independence.
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  5006.  @POLITICUS-DANICUS  You're mistaken. After the WWI the term "Baltic country" was used to refer to the countries on the Baltic Sea which had for the first time acquired independence from the Russian Empire. This included Finland. The term ceased to be applied to Finland after it joined the Nordic Council.
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  5007.  @POLITICUS-DANICUS  It is true.
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  5008.  @POLITICUS-DANICUS  It is. Just claiming otherwise doesn't burst any "bubbles".
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  5009.  @POLITICUS-DANICUS  The whole term "Baltic country" is mostly an informal rather than some kind of official categorization by some international organization and the meaning has varied over time. Currently there is the so called "Baltic Assembly" which is kind of official but it has only existed since 1990. Prior to the 1900s the term was used of various countries that have shoreline on the Baltic Sea, including e.g. Sweden and Denmark. After WWI it was used of those countries on the Baltic Sea that had recently gained independence from the Russian Empire, i.e. Finland, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (not sure about Poland). After Finland joined the Nordic Council after WWII the term stopped being applied to it. All of this is mostly informal usage which has shifted over time. If you want to be a pedant you could say that any country with Baltic shoreline is a Baltic country. Or you could say that only countries speaking a Baltic language are Baltic which would exclude Estonia.
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  5010.  @POLITICUS-DANICUS  You're similarly just repeating your claim that it wasn't. In fact, it was after WWI but not anymore.
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  5011. If you get beef when you ordered chicken, isn't that actually a pretty good deal (assuming you're not Hindu or something)?
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  5012. "US $12,000 +" That's not how the extreme poverty is defined. It's defined as living on less than $1.90 per day with 2011 prices (equivalent to $2.19 in 2020). The threshold hasn't been lowered. Millions upon millions of people have in fact been lifted out of this extreme poverty though even after that most remain quite poor by 1st world standards.
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  5013. 1:28 The Congress of Vienna had already started before the 100 days and Waterloo.
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  5014. Comparison to Norway would be unfair because they have a lot of oil.
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  5015.  @ahkkariq7406  The UK may also have handled its oil wealth less well than Norway but even if had done what Norway did the effect on the British economy would've been smaller than the effect on Norwegian economy because the amount of oil relative to the size of the country is smaller. Thus, I still think a comparison to Norway would be unfair.
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  5016. It's (mostly) not politics limiting economic options. It's primarily an engineering issue. The grids of Russia/Belarus and of Continental Europe are not synchronized with each other. Thus the grids in the Baltic countries can only be synchronized with one or the other but not both. Synchronizing the Russian and Continental European grids would be a major effort. It wouldn't just require a political agreement but there would be a lot of technical work and construction that would have to be done.
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  5017. "A catch-22, as described in the novel Catch-22, would be a situation in which a police officer charged with a crime cannot be granted immunity..." I disagree. The novel (and movie) describe a specific issue in the armed forces making it impossible to get away from military duty due to insanity. A very narrow reading would exclude e.g. police officers. Of course, the concept of "catch 22" that originated in the novel has taken a broader meaning than just the specific circumstance occurring in the story. I would argue that the concept is indeed much broader than what you describe. Indeed, Google brings this definition for catch 22: "a dilemma or difficult circumstance from which there is no escape because of mutually conflicting or dependent conditions" I would argue that a lack of precedent (for disallowing QI) preventing a situation from becoming a precedent does fall within this definition of catch 22.
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  5018. "Second, the Opéra de Paris régime is motivated by the fact that you just can't work anymore after your 40s in that line of work." What about ballet dancers in other French operas? I got the impression that they have a higher retirement age. Is that correct? If so, is there a justification for that discrepancy?
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  5019.  @Ragondyn  It just seems weird to me if this one opera house has a special privilege. Professional athletes need to save a lot during their careers (or do coaching or product endorsements or something after it).
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  5020. I think previously they were able to transit through Moldova. Not sure if that's the case anymore.
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  5021. Plenty of people cared about Nord Stream.
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  5022.  @darthtrucker489  I saw plenty of people talking about it. It's clearly false to say that "nobody cared".
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  5023. I think this was less bad than I expected considering the negative news I've heard of Boeing before.
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  5024.  @lucius1976  "If you have both that is EU membership then it all but name." But I think being in both is not legally possible (without being an actual EU member). EEA membership is only open to EU and EFTA members but EFTA membership is incompatible with being in the customs union. Maybe you could be in the EEA (and EFTA) and have a customs arrangement with the EU that's almost the same as being in the customs union.
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  5025. They have at least some missile production so their use might not decline that much even after warehouses run empty.
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  5026. This is just my speculation but maybe in the case of SVB the fact that the depositors were tech companies affected the decision. Quickly growing tech companies have contributed a lot to the US economy so maybe there was a fear that having their operations disrupted would have a significant effect on economic growth.
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  5027. The US population is also more productive on average.
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  5028.  @gabbyk1391  "It [...] betrayed the native population and its culture." What do you mean by this?
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  5029.  @gabbyk1391  Well, of course since then the share of e.g. Koreans and other Asians have increased but how is that a "betrayal". Those groups also seem to be doing just fine so I don't think they are a significant cost.
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  5030.  @gabbyk1391  Asian's are about 6% of the US population (or more if you count those with partially Asian lineage). This is significant and is in significant part due to immigration in the period you mentioned (though of course the US has had e.g. Chinese immigrants far before). Has any other group increased by a similar amount since 1965 due to immigration?
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  5031.  @seanlander9321  "The embargo was designed and is maintained in order to achieve economic damage to Australia." What is your evidence that this is the motivation for the tariffs? The most common motivation for tariffs is to protect domestic production. Also, tariffs aren't an "embargo" since plenty of import from Australia does occur. "€1.4Bn of mostly tariff free Russian grains imported" Why do you claim Russian imports are "mostly tariff free". The latest figures for the tariffs on e.g. Russian cereals is €95 per tonne which is quite far from "tariff free". I kind of seems you're making stuff up. "Australian grains with a minimum of 50% tariff" Again, where does this figure come from? Or are you just making stuff up? I found a PDF from the Australian National Farmers' Federation stating that the average tariff on agricultural products imported to EU from Australia is 14.2%. The PDF was from 2021 so the tariff may have changed. However, it seems unlikely that it would go that high.
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  5032. You can become a candidate before you fulfill all the requirements.
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  5033.  @stevebuckley7788  ?
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  5034. "The modern wonder weapons like loiter drones seem pretty ineffective" Really? My impression is that they have been fairly effective.
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  5035. What about PPP-adjusted salaries?
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  5036. Just take a bus.
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  5037.  @kucingmiumiu854 : "uh civil asset forfeiture is not a court decision. Most cases happen when the police learns that some amount of money is in a vehicle." But after taking the money, they have to file a forfeiture action within 2 years to keep it and the person who had their stuff forfeited can oppose that. Not a very good system but a court decision is nonetheless required if the forfeiture is opposed.
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  5038. Is there a part of the video which you think is incorrect or offensive, or what exactly are you complaining about?
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  5039. 7:00 On the other hand, the reparations Germany had to pay were lighter than those that the earlier Treaty of Versailles had imposed and Germany also received economic support in the form of Marshall Aid avoiding the kind of economic hardship Germany experienced after WWI.
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  5040.  @stejannaone4141  I'm sure you can still effectively hold a short position for longer by e.g. owning derivatives that follow the stock inversely or put options on it.
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  5041.  @heist3197  "finland has small population so it could work" It's the opposite. The higher the population (in a given area) the less sense cars make.
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  5042. 17:00 Oh so that's how you pronounce "Hong Kong".
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  5043. The result is still mostly the same. Usually it's more economical to first reduce output from sources with more expensive fuel than nuclear so in practice nuclear output stays flat. France is a special case because the share of nuclear there is so high that nuclear plants also need to participate in load following.
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  5044.  @MrNewAbortion1 : OK, I can understand that. I was just thinking that in cases where the Soviets manage to push a salient forward, it would seem better to at least be able to cut of the tip of the salient and form a pocket, even if it would have been even better to completely stop the progress of the salient.
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  5045. You'd need to somehow store the wood to prevent it from eventually rotting and thus releasing the carbon back into the atmosphere.
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  5046. LonerBox has responded to this video. What are your thoughts on his response.
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  5047. But that's not very much. According to Statista, the US had 124 operating refineries at the start of last year.
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  5048. Presumably because in Goa they speak an Indo-European language (Konkani) and in Andhra Pradesh and Telungana they speak a Dravidian language (Telugu)?
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  5049. Well, a part of it is.
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  5050. That's just economic cooperation. That alone doesn't make then not neutral.
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  5051.  @nonyabisness6306  Generally "neutral" is understood to mean that they're not militarily aligned. The EU is primarily not a military alliance. It's not a requirement to not adhere to certain regulations to qualify as neutral.
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  5052.  @nonyabisness6306  How distant would they have to be to count as neutral? Would they need to cease all cross-border trade (except with Liechtenstein) to be neutral? If not, do they purposefully need to have different regulations from the EU?
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  5053.  @nonyabisness6306  I don't understand what you mean. A military alliance could also be equal but it wouldn't be neutral.
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  5054.  @nonyabisness6306  "But if you take 2 NATO countries and a third non-aligned...well no neutrality there." This is a very confusing sentence and I don't understand what you're saying. You seem to say that "non-aligned" implies there's "no neutrality". "Who do you think they are closer to, Russia or the EU? a quick look at their agreements makes it very clear they are firmly on the EU side." Trade agreements don't necessarily mean that they'd be on the EU's side so they alone don't make them non-neutral. A decision to participate in e.g. sanctions might make then non-neutral but that's a different thing from agreements making them non-neutral.
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  5055.  @nonyabisness6306  "If there was a dispute for which you'd want arbitration, you would never in a million years accept an arbiter who has strong economic ties with the other partyr....because that makes them biases i.e. not neutral." That definition of "neutral" is so strict that almost no country can ever fulfill it. E.g. Belgium at least used to be neutral by the virtue of the Treaty of London. However, due to their geographic location they still had strong economic ties to France and the Netherlands so apparently they never were neutral to begin with. Who can be neutral by your definition? I guess a remote island nation or a self-isolating nation like North Korea if they are also actually self-sufficient. Other than that, no one be neutral and the term is largely useless. In practice, people don't use the term "neutral" this strictly. Generally countries can still be neutral despite economic ties if they're not militarily aligned. E.g. even the EU members Austria and Ireland are generally considered neutral (and previously also Sweden and Finland but probably not anymore due to their NATO applications).
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  5056.  @nonyabisness6306  "So, would Russia agree that Switzerland is neutral? No, they wouldn't." I'd say if Switzerland had refrained from sanctioning Russia then Russia likely would have considered them neutral despite their integration with the EU. Of course, Switzerland did participate in sanctions so that does probably mar the neutrality in Russia's eyes but it's specifically this decision and not the earlier agreements with the EU.
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  5057.  @unconventionalideas5683  If James had worded his sentence in a past tense that would've been understandable. However, his wording was "a country occupying Irish territory" which would mean that it's something that's ongoing rather than fully in the past.
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  5058.  @casteretpollux  The one that was amended in 1998 was the Irish constitution. Ireland no longer claims Northern Ireland as its territory.
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  5059. Line seems like the worst possible layout. It maximizes distances within the city.
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  5060. The Germans lost a ship called Blücher in both wars.
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  5061. Just apply carbon tariffs.
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  5062. What river is that "rather tough river"?
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  5063. Does the hex screw head have any advantage over Robertson's square screw head?
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  5064. It's actually ten times that. He made an error in the calculation.
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  5065. "Point your fingers to the real polluters like China and India." In terms of greenhouse emissions the US emits much more per capita than China and especially India.
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  5066. Short selling is like a loan; it's just denominated in some stock instead of dollars (or some other currency).
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  5067. If the Security Council is going to be reformed then there should be no veto power for any country.
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  5068. You know, I'm something of a samurai myself.
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  5069. It's not. I think even Armenia doesn't officially recognize it though it practice it supports it.
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  5070.  @itsgoodforyou4235  Why does everyone keep repeating this inaccurate quote? Doesn't anyone bother to check what they're copy-pasting is correct? What Kissinger (according to one source) is supposed to have said is: "Nixon should be told that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." Clearly Kissinger wasn't saying that it is fatal to be America's fried but rather that that would be the message that the world would get if the US were to overthrow Nguyễn Văn Thiệu (which it ultimately didn't do).
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  5071. Maybe it's actually 400 Mm long.
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  5072.  @punishedgloyperstormtroope8098  Would you reduce immigration all the way to zero?
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  5073.  @punishedgloyperstormtroope8098  I think a blanket ban goes too far.
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  5074. It's not the Taiwanese flag. That flag used to be the flag of Myanmar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Myanmar#/media/File:Flag_of_Myanmar_(1974%E2%80%932010).svg
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  5075. "cynical soulless politicians" These, of course, include Putin.
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  5076. The broker isn't really in the business of speculating that the prices will rebound.
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  5077. Salt is cheap. It's not worth the effort.
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  5078.  @jamesthomaspaulJTP  Do you think it will top the death toll from e.g. the Siege of Candia?
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  5079. It's a simple fraction that's somewhat bigger than 1/2. Wouldn't it seem more arbitrary if it was, say, 9/15 or something like that?
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  5080.  @alexhunt7810  On the other hand, the Versailles treaty imposed a significant economic burden on the German population who I think cannot be blamed because they weren't the ones deciding to attack Russia, Belgium, or France.
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  5081.  @alexhunt7810  "They voted for the government that declared war." No, they didn't. In the previous general election the Social Democrats won but that didn't matter because the Reichstag didn't have much real power. It didn't have a power to select the government or declare war. The real culprits are the likes of Falkenhayn and Emperor Wilhelm.
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  5082. Which country's citizenship should the Palestinians have then?
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  5083.  @jonahs92  "Well, they live on Israeli land, so they're Israeli." That might be a reasonable solution if Israel actually accepted that. At any rate, they should get a country whether that's Israel or some other country (without having to move if they don't want to move).
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  5084.  @jonahs92  "Except Israel does accept that. Because they are Israeli." No, they mostly don't have Israeli citizenship and can't get one. Israel doesn't want to allow that because if all of them got Israeli citizenship then the Arabs would outnumber the Jews in the country. (I think the people in East Jerusalem can, or at least could in the past, apply for Israeli citizenship but that's a small exception.) Their current statelessness isn't an acceptable status quo. They should get the citizenship of some sovereign country at some point (without moving if they don't want to move).
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  5085.  @jonahs92  Arabs living in Gaza and West Bank are not automatically eligible for Israeli citizenship and in 2003 Israel even passed a law that barred them from getting citizenship through marriage as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizenship_and_Entry_into_Israel_Law Note that Israel doesn't even claim Gaza or the West Bank as Israeli territory (though the exact border may be a bit unclear).
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  5086. Which part would be relevant to this?
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  5087. Is that Rolls-Royce a car or a jet engine?
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  5088.  @synewparadigm : I don't know. I'm from Finland. That 0.75% is the rate offered for a savings account by Bank Norwegian here (with the account denominated in Euro, not Norwegian Kroner).
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  5089. 6:37 I find it funny that they have to say they're not selling their services in the unrecognized LPR & DPR.
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  5090. Boing might need to jump through numerous hoops with the regulators of other countries as well since now they might be less likely to just follow FAA.
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  5091. 7:55 "which means we're going to have to turn to, and I hate to say it, the politicians" Worry not. Many of those politicians are lawyers as well.
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  5092. Give him a break. It's not always easy pronounce sounds that one's own language doesn't have. Many English dialects only have the vowel [o] only as a part of the diphthong [oʊ], not as a standalone vowel. There are surely a plenty of other Ukrainian and Russian phonemes that he isn't pronouncing correctly and it doesn't make sense to complain about every mispronunciation every time. He's not a linguist.
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  5093.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  "Which one? Ive never seen such a dialect." At least according Wikipedia, General American has the diphthong [oʊ] but it doesn't have [o] and also [ɔ] is given in parentheses with the note that many speakers don't distinguish between [ɔ] and [ɑ] (this is called cot-caught merger). "One shouldnt be a linguist to know how to read." You're not just expecting him to know how to read. You're expecting him to know how to read a language he has (probably) never studied.
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  5094.  @baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714  "Ser, the sounds /o/ /ɔ/ /ɑ/ are all reprisented as "o" in the latin alphabet." According to Wikipedia, the letter 'O' has been used to represent the following sounds: [o], [o̞], [ɔ], [oʊ], [uː], [ʌ], [ɒ], [ø], [a], [ʕ], [w], [◌ʷ], [ʊ], & [ə]. You can't expect him to know which one of these to pick in the case of a language he hasn't studied (and some of these might also be difficult for him to pronounce). "To read phonetically means to turn written symbols in to sound, and that is largely independant of knowing what that sound means." The correspondence between letters and phonemes is language specific. It's not enough to learn the Latin alphabet to sound out any language using it (or a transliteration from a language using another script). You can't expect him to know what the sound is in another language he hasn't studied and even if he knows it it's not necessarily easy to pronounce for him if he's monolingual.
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  5095.  @Alan-x8v8v  Presumably the "black"/unregistered workers don't pay taxes on the income from their work. I think that's why they weren't included.
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  5096. The French aren't shutting their nuclear reactors, though many were down for maintenance last year.
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  5097. Erdogan hasn't (I think) defrauded elections and can be expected to face real competition next year, so he's not quite a dictator in the sense that he would have destroyed democracy in Turkey. However, he seems to have nigh-dictatorial powers in the sense that he can functionally order around many government organs that in theory should be independent. E.g. the president is not supposed to manage the monetary policy for the most part but he just kept sacking central bank governors until he got the policy he wanted. Giving one man the power to decide on everything with no checks on that power is risky.
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  5098. "to get to Sweden you'd have to get past a NATO country first" Not quite. Russia could (theoretically) still try to take Gotland.
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  5099.  @anarcho-boulangistllamaent2023  Technically Ireland also didn't have effective control of all the territory it claimed before 1999.
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  5100. And what's that?
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  5101.  @GlennRA3  "The Ukrainian letter "X" is pronounced like the English "H"" No, it's pronounced [x], not [h].
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  5102.  @GlennRA3  "No, it is not pronounced as the English letter "X."" I didn't say it's pronounced as the English letter 'X'. I said it's pronounced as [x] which is the IPA symbol for the voiceless velar fricative. It's the same sound as in the "José" example you gave. "the closest sound in English being "H"" Which sound is the closest is subjective. Some people might think that it's [kʰ], some that it's [h]. There isn't one objective answer. One point to note is that apparently in English [x] can act as an allophone for [kʰ] when speaking quickly which might be the reason why some feel that [kʰ] is the closest sound.
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  5103.  @GlennRA3  "Really? You think it is subjective? Ask 100 people what English letter the Spanish "J" (José) sounds like. Do you think you will get any answer other than "H"?" Well, I don't have the time to do something like that and I don't live in an English speaking country so getting the perceptions of English speakers would be even more difficult. But what would I predict to get if I did that? I don't know for sure but I wouldn't be surprised by either answer. Also note that [x] and [k] are both velar sounds whereas [h] is not velar, so [x] and [k] are closer to each other in that regard (but [x] and [h] are closer in the sense that both are fricatives). "As to the Ukrainian "X", in my six years of studying Ukrainian since I moved here in 2016, I have only heard it pronounced as "H."" I'm assuming you mean that you perceive [h] being the closest sound to it that English has (not that it's the same sound). However, that's subjective. There's no guarantee that other people perceive it the same way.
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  5104.  @GlennRA3  I don't think I disagreed with you on semantics.
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  5105.  @GlennRA3  "Then I am not sure what your point is. We are not talking about what the letter "X" sounds like when spoken by native Ukrainians." The remaining point is that it's subjective whether [h] or [kʰ] is the closer sound. Unless there is some kind of official English pronunciation for these city names, both [h] and [kʰ] are fine to use as approximations for [x] when not aiming for native pronunciation. Initially you also said: "The Ukrainian letter "X" is pronounced like the English "H"" but it seems that might have been just slightly sloppy wording.
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  5106.  @GlennRA3  We both agree that it's pronounced [x] (since you said it's the same as 'J' in José). We didn't disagree on that. The only disagreement was on whether [h] is the closest sound to [x] in English or whether it can be either [kʰ] or [h] depending on the person (and therefore subjective). That has nothing to do with knowing Ukrainian.
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  5107.  @Alexman208GR  "French didn't acknowledge that thunderfoot was making fun of the guy so his analysis was incomplete." That might a factor that shifts the balance in a direction favorable to Thunderf00t but it still doesn't make it a clear cut case.
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  5108. There are several examples where a democracy has been turned into a dictatorship by a straightforward coup.
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  5109.  @otm646  "Cards are a convenience, they should be charged at a premium because of that." I'm not sure I agree. You can turn this around and say that they're a convenience for the vendor and therefore should be charged at a discount.
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  5110. Maybe he should add fake ads to the menu.
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  5111. The word "socialism" is too vague to be explanatory. It's better to tell what the specific policies were.
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  5112.  @ae2948  This video specifically mentioned sales tax as the reason, not payroll taxes.
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  5113.  @xamyx725  "Actually, it will be taxed, to the employees, as their wages." I think you didn't understand. Things like income tax don't matter here because they apply (in principle) to tips too so there's no difference in that regard. However, sales tax is different. It applies to the normal price what you pay in a restaurant (which is used to pay wages) but not to tips. Thus tips are a more tax-efficient way to pay employees. One could try to argue that this "labor fee" is similar to a tip and should be treated similarly.
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  5114.  @xamyx725  "You do realize that the “labor fee” also extends to BOH & support staff, right…?" My understanding is that tips are also shared with support staff etc. so there doesn't seem to be a difference in that regard.
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  5115.  @xamyx725  Based on short googling it seems to not be rare for at least a some portion of the tips being shared with BoH.
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  5116. Ebola is much deadlier but it doesn't spread nearly as easily.
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  5117. What if you traverse the land with a hovercraft and argue that you're not actually touching anyone's property?!
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  5118. Did you know that at 10 Downing Street the previous tenant, before it was made into the Prime Minister's residence, was called Mr. Chicken?
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  5119.  @MsHumanOfTheDecade  "in the second part he is explicitly commenting on elon musk FANS." Yes, which might mean it's not fair use. It would more likely be if he had been criticizing Mahlmann's video instead of merely using it to criticize Musk fans.
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  5120. It's due to a redefinition of M1.
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  5121. It's not the only one to have volcanoes. Also, the Icelandic volcanoes are calmer because it's a place where the tectonic plates are coming apart instead of colliding.
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  5122. It's never RICO.
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  5123. Red just means the aggressor in the scenario.
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  5124.  @josejuangomez83 : He might not have referred them as such but I think he has adhered to that convention. Or where you only referring to the "Red Canada?" text in the thumbnail (which I only just now noticed) and not to the choice of colors in the video itself?
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  5125.  @josejuangomez83 : OK yeah, I agree that was a bit silly.
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  5126. "Concepts such as MAD and nuclear deterrence take nuclear blackmail for granted." I don't agree with that statement. The point of MAD is that nuclear blackmail against another nuclear state is not credible because the blackmailer wouldn't actually risk MAD and therefore can only bluff (and thus the opponent never accedes to blackmail).
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  5127. Surprise, different dialects exist.
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  5128. "But solar power is inherently DC." The voltage is too low. It needs to be converted AC so that the voltage can be stepped up with transformers.
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  5129.  @scottfranco1962  "I seriously wonder if transformers are still a thing in HV stepping." I'm pretty sure they are.
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  5130.  @scottfranco1962  That page says that those capacitors used either on the primary or secondary side of the converter transformer i.e. a transformer is still used to change the voltage and the capacitors are (based on the description) used to offset inductive load. (And even if this weren't the case the page also notes that capacitor commutated converters have only been used in a small number HVDC systems.)
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  5131.  @tehice23  I would think that even with future technology it wouldn't make sense to make it so long and thin. Wouldn't it be better to e.g. have two lines next to each other. Then they could be half the length (for a given city size) which would cut down travel times by a lot.
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  5132.  @tehice23  I don't think the price of the "spine" changes things. If it costs X amount of dollars (or rather riyals) per km then there shouldn't be much difference between one long spine or two shorter ones. To be honest, I don't think even the half-length double-wide city would be that good either. It would still be long which increases distances. It was more just to argue that moving away from the long and thin layout would be improvement. I think the best layout would rather be just a square or a circle or something like that. You could have a grid of such "spines" in both directions and they wouldn't have to be super fast because distances are minimized for a given city size. I don't think the idea of using high-speed rail or maglev would save the idea of a linear city. The train would need to make frequent stops to ensure all sections of the city are reachable but that would inevitably bring the average speeds down. A linear town could work if it's not too large but for a large city a linear layout seems to be the worst possible one because it maximizes distances.
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  5133.  @johngamble5270  It seems like the most viable fallback option if rewiring doesn't get approved.
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  5134.  @mariusvanc  It's at least fairer than not paying or not being able to charge an EV at all. Of course, installing proper equipment is better.
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  5135. There's no reason accidentally killing civilians couldn't happen. There can also be reason's to avoid targetting the enemy's civilian population, namely avoiding a retaliation on your own population. This was the case for a while during the Battle of Britain.
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  5136. 58:20 Bharat (or some cognate thereof) is just what India is called in most languages in India (though some use a cognate of India/Hindustan, e.g. Kashmiri). How is wanting to use an endonym a case of "distancing itself from Western powers". It's not that unusual for countries to insist on endonyms. One other example is Swaziland wanting the name eSwatini to be used. I don't see why this would have any connection to relations to the West. If, say, Greece suddenly wanted to be called Ellada would that indicate distancing from some countries? Which ones? 1:12:30 "which one never sees around president Putin" Never? Really? What about e.g. that big palace in Krasnodar Krai? Putin might not admit that it's his but it seems likely. Also, many other high-ranking people in the Russian government (e.g. Shoigu) have similar unexplained wealth e.g. in the form of very luxurious housing.
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  5137. 4:05 "acoustic bicycles" :D
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  5138.  @anthonycekic4509 : "Say I want to take out a mortgage as a first time home owner. What would my interest rate look like?" Here in Finland mortgages are usually ARMs. When me and my wife bought our first home, the interest rate was 0.45% + 3 month Euribor. At the end the total rate went as low as 0.12% because Euribor went negative. We moved a bit over a year ago and our current mortgage has the interest rate 0.4% + 12 month Euribor. However, now the banks are a bit wiser and negative Euribor doesn't count so the interest rate is sitting at 0.4%.
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  5139.  @M131A  "And the same goes for the Greek Cypriots. They can’t refuse the Turkish Cypriots their independence stating they are part of the RoC and simultaneously refuse to work with them on hydrocarbons as a real CBM whilst trying to attain reunification." This isn't necessarily an inconsistent stance because what they are refusing to work with is an unrecognized entity. They are not claiming that the TRoNC government is a part of the RoC government. Something like that could happen in the future if reunification talks succeed. However, claiming the territory of TRoNC, the hydrocarbons, and not recognizing nor working with the unrecognized government of TRoNC is a perfectly consistent stance (regardless of how moral it is).
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  5140. I kind of feel that the French are sometimes a bit too protest prone. This kind of blockage may profit the French fishermen but not necessarily the French nation as a whole. It can be a bit problematic if a small group can always get concentrated benefits by pulling stunts like this.
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  5141.  @habiks  The iron that we can find on earth is mostly in the form of oxide ores. Refining that generally causes carbon dioxide emissions.
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  5142. It is decriminalization.
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  5143.  @RoderikPlas  "That's because there are still legal restrictions that criminalise the possession of drugs." Possession is criminalized only for amounts above a certain limit. It's reasonable to call that decriminalization (of use and possession of small amounts).
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  5144. It's probably lesser harm than leaving the plastic unrecycled.
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  5145. Gasp! You're wearing shoes indoors?
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  5146.  @BertMMA : It brings dirt inside which is annoying.
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  5147.  @BertMMA : Not really to the required extent. They're still going to bring some dirt inside. Seeing someone wear outdoors shoes inside makes me cringe.
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  5148.  @BertMMA : That's fine of course since they can't bring dirt inside if you don't wear them outdoors. Graham's shoes just looked like they were made for outdoors use.
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  5149. 4:10 "under $1,400" But the graphic shows above $1,400.
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  5150.  @ultrab2777 : I did see it. The point was that is should have been <, not >.
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  5151. The Time of Troubles is ahead.
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  5152.  @answerman9933  If Russia were to attack Sweden the most likely target would be the island of Gotland. In any case, it would be good to have the Swedish airforce provide air support to the Baltic countries if they're ever attacked.
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  5153. But "refugees" is a subset of "migrants" (at least if you exclude internal refugees).
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  5154. At least Wiktionary lists both [æk.ˈsɛ.ʃən] and [əˈsɛ.ʃən] as pronunciations for that word.
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  5155.  @krakhedd  Merriam-Webster also gives e.g. only one pronunciation for "bath" even though it has multiple (often it's pronounced with a front vowel in American dialects and a back vowel in British dialects). Clearly it doesn't try to include all variation in pronunciation so if one pronunciation being left out of it isn't a claim by Merriam-Webster that it doesn't exist.
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  5156.  @krakhedd  I just gave that example to show that Merriam-Webster doesn't list everything. That Merriam-Webster doesn't list it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Variation is pronunciation can be either dialectal or another type of variation. I don't know if this difference in the pronunciation "accession" is dialectal or something else.
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  5157. "And yesterday, Ukraine have blown up the biggest oil refinary in Russia, things are so bad that they stopped exporting oil" I don't see how blowing up a refinery would stop oil exports. I would expect it to stop the export of some products refined from oil such as gasoline or diesel.
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  5158.  @wrayday7149  Everyone gets hurt. There's no need to rethink that.
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  5159.  @hoangle2483  The CEO of Nokia during the years 2014-2020 was an Indian named Rajeev Suri.
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  5160.  @pjhgerlach  Yeah, but what I was saying is that admitting Hungary wasn't a mistake considering the information available at the time. If you make 100% rational decisions based on info that you can get that should minimize the likelihood of bad outcomes but not all the way to 0%. Bad outcomes are always a risk.
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  5161.  @emperornil1690  No, I didn't. Can you read? I said that Syria attacked Israel in '67 and during that war Israel occupied the Golan Heights (which OP mentioned in his comments). Also, their annexation later has been declared illegal by the security council. If that doesn't happen for the annexed Ukrainian territory, it will probably be the only such case.
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  5162. According to CNN, he's also accused of stealing cash meant for an Iraq War veteran's dying dog.
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  5163. Does this only apply to government employees? I wonder if the fake cop that Leonard French ran into could have used this argument in court.
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  5164. The state treasury of Finland would certainly appreciate his contribution.
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  5165. Well, it's not that unheard of. The Czech Republic and Slovakia separated peacefully. Many British Dominions became independent without a war.
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  5166. There wasn't a taboo on using nuclear weapons in war back then yet. Now there is and upholding that taboo is important.
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  5167. Ukraine denies doing this.
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  5168.  @suokkos  Tunneling is expensive. For the most part the benefits are not worth the cost (except maybe in a few specific locations).
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  5169. Saying it like that is extremely misleading. Firstly, it's not known for certain whether Kissinger said this quote that's attributed to him, but for the sake of argument let's assume he did. More importantly, putting the quote like that is a partial sentence taken out of context. The full quote is: "Nixon should be told that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." [emphasis mine] Note the word "if" there. It means that Kissinger not making an unqualified statement about the US as a friend but rather a conditional statement. Clearly his message was that Nguyễn Văn Thiệu should not face the same fate as Ngô Đình Diệm who was deposed and killed in a coup.
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  5170. "Germany’s final nuclear phase-out was passed after the Fukushima disaster, during chanchellor merkel" Originally, the phase-out was decided during Schröder's government. Merkel's government only expedited the schedule for it.
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  5171. @jimrrussell8250 That isn't the case. For coal and gas the primary cost is the fuel, not the plants (i.e. the opposite of nuclear).
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  5172. @jimrrussell8250 "so how does a multi million investment make profit then?" Even if the capital cost of the plant were zero, the price of the electricity has to be high enough to cover the cost of the fuel. This is a bigger factor. "Ofc you have to demand a high price for idling it 50% of the time" An electricity producer can't demand a price. It takes the market price and either produces electricity for that price or doesn't. Once a power plant has already been built, its capex is sunk cost and no longer affects the decision whether to run the plant or not.
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  5173.  @Jurjen.  "They can't due to the legal construct of the treaty." I don't think that's correct. NATO did e.g. use military force in Bosnia during the Bosnian War. These were actual NATO operations (e.g. Operation Deliberate Force), not merely operations that were done by countries that merely happened to also be NATO members. Of course, the NATO charter doesn't obligate any member to participate in an operation like this which isn't a defense of member under attack, but it can still be done by NATO, at least potentially.
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  5174.  @Jurjen.  "it was not a NATO army since that doesn't exist" In that sense there wouldn't be even a NATO army if a member was attacked and NATO members sent their armies to help the member under attack as per Article 5. It was a NATO operation because it was decided by the North Atlantic Council. A similar decision could theoretically made about Ukraine (though I think it's unlikely).
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  5175.  @richardsmith2879  "Romans emptied chamber pots from their windows into the street" Was that common and was it legal? If I remember correctly, at least in medieval London doing that was banned, though that was of course a different time and place.
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  5176.  @richardsmith2879  Thanks for the info.
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  5177. Except the Mongols! (They're the exception.)
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  5178.  @NemanjaRajic  "Trucks are paing 0,2€ per 1km." In Germany?
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  5179.  @DeteCT0R  I'm actually somewhat surprised. The reason is that in my country, Finland, there is no mileage tax at all. I googled a bit and it seems that such tax was planned in 2019 for vehicles weighing 12 tons and above but the plan was scrapped for some reason. It seems that Estonia and Cyprus also have no mileage tax.
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  5180.  @michaelbrown865 : "Past tight monetary policy after the loose monetary policy that got us to the point where we had to become tight ?" No, there was no need for ECB's policy to become as tight as it did.
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  5181.  @michaelbrown865 : I'm not sure. But in any case they let inflation slide far below their target.
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  5182.  @michaelbrown865 : Reaching the inflation target should be possible. Just increase the amount of money printing constantly until either the inflation target is reached or we get so much seigniorage that there's no need for taxes anymore. Of course, the latter option is too good to be true and the inflation target will be reached far before that.
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  5183. "Those tolls will generate money and that's about it." Are you claiming that they don't reduce traffic?
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  5184. "upper caste Hindus are getting the same treatment these days... both in India and in America." In America? That's rather hard to believe. Do Americans even know any person's caste? I would guess not since most of them are probably not familiar with the Indian castes and thus would be unlikely to discriminate based on caste. They may, of course, discriminate against Indians but probably not based on caste.
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  5185.  @sharadskywalker  Do you mean that there are cases where specifically "upper castes" are mentioned or do you mean that there are court cases against some companies whose owners and/or CEO incidentally happen to be from India and e.g. from the Brahmin caste? Is this prevalent or just one or two cases or something?
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  5186. Cars still take too much space in cities.
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  5187. "Wy threatened the Ukraine Slovakia, Hungary, Austria... Ukr.has got to much from all the EU Members." The answer seems simple. Hungary has been against supporting Ukraine and so has Slovakia after Fico took office in late 2023. Thus Ukraine doesn't have to worry about losing the support of those countries if it doesn't have their support in the first place. As for Austria, it has recently had a dispute with Russia and wasn't going to receive gas from Russia in any case.
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  5188. 0:50 In Finnish "parsa" means "asparagus".
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  5189. "Elon should not have helped Ukraine." Why? Because some people say mean things on Twitter?
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  5190. "Its almost like the West(led by the WEF) wanted this war" There is no indication of that.
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  5191. 9:15 I think watching a too small of a portion of a video doesn't count as a view.
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  5192.  @optimusprinceps9875  "Do you think that this is only a coincidence that the “official term” came to ressemble the Romanian endonym (singular: Român, plural: Români)?" Yes, it's a coincidence. The word "Rom" has its origins in Sanskrit, not Latin. There are other words that are used for the Romani or their subgroups like "Sinti" or "Kalo" and others but in most places, most people wouldn't recognize them whereas "Romani" is quite widely used. Maybe I would use some other word in Romania but I see no reason to do that elsewhere.
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  5193.  @optimusprinceps9875  I don't want to use "Gypsy" because it has gained a pejorative connotation in many places.
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  5194.  @optimusprinceps9875  I'm pretty sure the Mongols don't consider "Mongol" pejorative. The perception of an ethnic group is a different thing. You might perceive them positively or negatively but I would urge you to not use terms that are widely perceived as insults (in languages and areas where they are thought of as insults). Similarly, I would urge you to not use the N-word of Blacks regardless of what your perception of them is (though "Gypsy" probably isn't quite as bad as this). Also, using "Romani" doesn't feel like a change to me because that's what I've mostly heard them called. Anyway, I'm certainly going to switch away from it.
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  5195. "Tearing down freeways will just move people [...] to neighbouring cities." This part makes no sense. Tearing them down makes room for more housing and based on the price of housing in Helsinki there is enough demand that that housing is going to be occupied. That means (in the net) more people moving into Helsinki, not out.
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  5196. "Yemen has the right to defend itself!!!!!" However, the Houthi rebels aren't the Yemeni government and don't represent all of Yemen and attacking ships passing nearby isn't defending oneself.
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  5197. "EU still trying to appease the Monster of Moscow, huh?" No, not really.
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  5198. "kinda like our government" Have things been improving?
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  5199.  @jwellsmediainc.4593  "More tollways do not discourage people from driving when they have no other options." There's always an option, i.e. not going anywhere. I understand that people can't reasonably avoid e.g. going to work but not 100% of all trips are absolutely necessary. People do e.g. drive to visit friends or go to movies etc. If tolls are high enough some of those trips won't happen and the rest of the traffic speeds up. Also, the city collects additional revenue.
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  5200. What's the point of asking trivia like this?
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  5201. Is it by 10% or by 10%-points?
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  5202. If they want low interest rates they should raise rates. Higher rates would bring inflation down and thus also (nominal) interest rates down due to Fisher effect. Cutting rates only leads to higher rates.
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  5203. And don't they have a base in northern Norway as well?
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  5204. It's not at all clear that it would (though I'm not denying the possibility): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact#Compact_Clause
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  5205. The all-glass walls of skyscrapers look a bit boring IMHO. They'd look nicer if they instead had at least some amount of wall between the windows that could be painted some nice color and/or have some ornamentation.
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  5206. It's ten times that. He made a calculation error.
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  5207.  @AoiLucine : But because Napoléon was an artillery officer isn't it more of a cannon rush?
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  5208. It's sales, not theft.
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  5209. Does he have a Ph.D.?
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  5210. In 1980 it was more like 1/10 so there has been improvement there even if only to the previous level (in relative terms).
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  5211. It's "Commissar" not "General".
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  5212.  @g-rexsaurus794  War on one's own soil tends to do that.
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  5213. The real question is whether Tribune Aquila approved of homosexuality.
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  5214. "She failed due to 2 reasons, High inflation and other she stopped allowing Russian tourists so economy and business of local people fall down." I would say that you're mistaken. The inflation wasn't perceived (and wasn't in actuality) something she could have prevented. The tourists weren't really a theme in the election and those restrictions had been lifted before the election in any case.
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  5215.  @cameliaburdusel5766  "Yes, Finland will be next" What? Are you saying that Russia will invade Finland?
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  5216. Norway is more reliable.
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  5217. "everyone here visits WSB where we see newbies post 1000% gains" Clinton's gains were 10 times that which is much less probable.
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  5218. The fund has "only" about $200k per person so it doesn't make every Norwegian a millionaire (unless you meant in Norwegia Krone terms rather than USD terms).
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  5219.  @Ziggy_Wolf  "That's one of the reasons we will never join the EU." Would EU membership really affect pensions? I thought the main reason for you not joining the EU was to avoid being subject to the Common Fisheries Policy.
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  5220.  @Ziggy_Wolf  "our way to make cheap electricity [...] pensions" I'm pretty sure electricity and pension won't be affected. (Fisheries obviously would, though.) "pension funds merged into EU budget" No, nothing like that exists so that's a non-reason.
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  5221.  @Ziggy_Wolf  No I'm not Icelandic but I don't need to be from Iceland to know that pension policy is not set on union level and national pensions are certainly not merged to the EU budget.
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  5222.  @Ziggy_Wolf  "PERSONAL PRIVATE PENSION FUNDS...........! Not TAX BASED like other nations. They are doomed when tax income drops." The EU doesn't set income tax rates either. None of this would be materially affected by EU membership. (Though Iceland might still want to not join due to other reasons like fisheries.)
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  5223. An interesting tale from legitimate medicine. Do you know what was one of the earliest ways to cure syphilis? Why deliberately contracting malaria of course. It induces a fever high enough to kill the syphilis bacterium.
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  5224. 2:15 Wow! They're teaching IPA to small children now?
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  5225.  @Lithuanian_NAFO_lad  OK, I think at least Latvia doesn't have conscription but based on googling they're planning to reintroduce it.
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  5226. I wonder if this video is going to help this game.
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  5227. "For the car to move faster, its kinetic energy K2 MUST be greater than the kinetic energy K1 that it receives from that moving "mass of air"." No, it doesn't. It just needs to receive kinetic energy from a sufficiently large mass of air.
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  5228.  @normbarrows  "cash deposits in US banks are FDIC insured" But a) there's a cap to that insurance ($250,000 per person per bank, I think) and b) a sufficiently large banking crisis could in theory cause losses too large to be paid by deposit insurance. E.g. in the 2012 Cyprus banking crisis, losses were imposed on depositors. Maybe that's unlikely in the US but it's not impossible.
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  5229. Santander is a strange name. It's a city in Spain but the name sounds Germanic, at least to me.
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  5230.  @DJTrancenergy  I'm not referring to minor details like how 'A' or 'R' are pronounced. To me the word looks quite Germanic though I can't explain why. Of course, this is just my subjective experience.
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  5231.  @DJTrancenergy  "The accent is in "der", not in "tan"." Shouldn't it be written "Santandér" then? (EDIT: Forget the previous sentence. It's because it ends in a consonant not 'n' nor 's'.) Either way, it wasn't where the stress is that makes the name sound Germanic to me.
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  5232. Title: "The Fed is BROKE" This is rather implausible. The Fed is a central bank. It's in the business of creating money. It's almost impossible for it to go broke. This is just a stupid and verifiably false claim.
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  5233.  @jblue1622 : Sounds pretty small for an empire. Why is it called the Inland Empire?
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  5234. They still exist.
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  5235. Who's Grant?
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  5236.  @dunkelsteinen1747  "What exactly prevents Iran from using the same rockets it used to hit Israel, from hitting Saudi's oil infrastructure?" Well, for one, there's less obvious justification now as Saudi Arabia isn't bombing Yemen like it used to. Also, they probably care about not antagonizing the Saudis too much since they now have diplomatic relations.
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  5237.  @dunkelsteinen1747  It might be more likely in such a case but the risk of a direct retaliatory strike by the Saudis probably would make Iran hesitate.
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  5238.  @Reichsritter : In linguistics, the difference between languages and dialects of the same language is defined by mutual intelligibility. Swedish and Norwegian are easily mutually intelligible so by that criterion they're not different languages. The dialectal differences inside Swedish or Norwegian can be as large as the ones between them (at least if you include Skåne).
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  5239. 9:05 IT WAS 1527
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  5240. Turkey is white, not red.
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  5241. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Vernet
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  5242.  @Blunthammer  What? Surely any problems with feminism pale in comparison to a president grabbing dictatorial powers?
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  5243. "the British invaded and occupied neutral Iceland" To be fair, that "invasion" didn't involve any actual fighting.
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  5244. At first, I read this as "biased" instead of "based".
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  5245. If you plan to live cheaply and withdraw your funds slowly and not have other sources of income you'll probably end up in a lower tax bracket.
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  5246.  @johnparsons1466  "Glyphospate is an herbicide which is not banned in the US, but I'm unaware if it's banned in the EU. I think it should be in both places." Glyphosate isn't banned in the EU either and I don't banning it would make sense. The alternatives would be either more harmful products or practices or a significant fall in agricultural output.
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  5247.  @floydisnutz8443  I'd say Academic Agent's video mostly falls short here. In the earlier parts of the video he just ignores the fact that Patnaik's number is a present-day value calculated using an annual discount rate of 5% (presumably real, though I'm not sure) and compares e.g. undiscounted historical GDP figures to Patnaik's number which is totally uninformative. He does mention the 5% rate later in the video but he then doesn't say (at least not explicitly) anything about whether such discounting should be applied or whether the rate should be 5% or something else. He does make one good point at this point in the video namely that in pound terms Patnaik's figure was actually "only" £9.2 trillion and she got the $45 trillion number by using a historical exchange rate between the Pound and the Dollar which is not a sensible thing to do. Note, I'm not making a claim about whether Patnaik's figure is right or not. I'm only saying that Academic Agent's video doesn't properly address it.
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  5248. What do you mean? Interest has to be taken into account.
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  5249. I don't see a reason for political explanations here (like the Ukraine war). Is there any evidence for it? Isn't it a simpler explanation that this is just a hedge fund seeking to make some money? Honestly, this political explanation seems like an unsupported conspiracy theory to me.
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  5250. "western GDP is all water vapour" But that's just not true. The West has plenty of manufacturing (if you think that that's the only thing that counts).
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  5251.  @ВладиславКотельников-я1и  Even if you only count manufacturing as "real" the US is still economically strong. Things like finance aren't a much bigger share of the economy than elsewhere.
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  5252. "So what's wrong with pumped hydro?" Not much where you can build it but the amount of suitable sites is limited.
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  5253.  @alex_zetsu  "Businesses only conduct trade when it is profitable for them, so if an American business buys something from Russia, it must be profitable" But when an European business buys gas from Russia, that maybe worse for the US than Europe buying American gas. That could even be a bigger effect than the benefits from trade between the US and Russia. Of course, this is just theoretical as I don't have data on this.
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  5254. Then they just have to use the propellers. To my knowledge, even on windy days these only provide a portion of the thurst and you still need the propellers as well. The benefit is merely reduced fuel consumption.
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  5255. It wasn't a ship. It was Commodore William Goodenough in charge of the 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron.
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  5256. That would just bring more economic problems without solving the gas issue.
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  5257.  @justinspeaks.1652 : True but Russia (along with others) was fighting a coalition of Central Powers anyway so it shouldn't matter who it's against. It would seem to me that "the situation only worsened for the Tsar from then on" is not true though Brusilov's success was of course only a temporary respite.
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  5258.  @justinspeaks.1652 : "the Tsar's popularity got lower and lower" Ah OK. I wasn't aware of that. Sounds reasonable.
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  5259. Be glad that you added a 0 instead of multiplying by it.
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  5260. Probably the Italians could have eventually ground the Greeks to submission even if Germany hadn't intervened, though it might then have been a lot slower and costlier.
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  5261.  @noop9k  "This is wrong, Renewables don’t produce that much usable energy in Germany." What is wrong? I didn't talk about renewables. Did you mean to reply to someone else?
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  5262.  @kalterverwalter4516  Why not?
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  5263.  @pugdad2555  The downsides of fossil fuels are far greater than a small probability of a meltdown. "If Russia would bomb the nuclear plant in Ukraine, make makers you think another country won’t bomb your country’s plants?" In Finland the new reactor is on the western coast. If Russia troops were to reach that things would already be rather dire. Also, the site already has 2 previous reactors so adding a 3rd one probably doesn't increase the risks of Russian bombardment.
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  5264. 16:50 Pfft, that's nothing. Kowloon Walled City had over 3 million people per square mile.
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  5265. The US isn't the only country to tax non-resident citizens. Eritrea, Hungary, and Myanmar do it as well. Still, it's very rare globally.
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  5266. I'm not as pessimistic. A larger device would need a lower rpm for a given launch velocity which somewhat offsets the other problems with scaling it up.
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  5267.  @nomadicgrenada  "there's a physical limit on the materials we have available" But I still think scaling this down would be more difficult than scaling it up because a small device would require much higher rpm. "any small faliure would be catastrophic" Possibly, but that's not inherently unsolvable. It's not inconceivable that the likelihood of a failure could be brought sufficiently low (though I'm not sure how difficult that would be).
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  5268. Not necessarily.
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  5269.  @TheGlull  It's OK. I just thought you weren't aware of the feature (but seemingly you were after all).
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  5270. The prosecution is looking for a 7 year sentence.
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  5271. 20:20 I think here you're being even more confused about statistics than the authors. A normal distribution would be about how the SF-36 score is distributed. The x-axis would be the SF-36 score, not age. The study you show later doesn't show at all whether SF-36 score is distributed normally. It shows how average SF-36 score depends on age which is a completely different thing. I think you really should redo this part of the video because it's completely wrong.
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  5272. Many of those people were born in Estonia and have never been to Russia.
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  5273. A part of it is a part of Europe.
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  5274. I would say that it makes sense for a pension fund to diversify away from its home country because otherwise an economic downturn in the home country would hurt both the pension contributions and investment returns at the same time.
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  5275. Since you asked for examples where infantry managed to beat knights, my favorite example is the Battle of the Golden Spurs. Knights are good but even they shouldn't get too cocky. :)
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  5276. Do you need to turn screen rotation off for this to work?
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  5277. Clearly the name is justified.
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  5278. Isn't the president the one in the center? Not that it matters that much in the case of Switzerland but I don't think WSM was incorrect since he did show the president along with the rest of the Federal Council if I'm not seeing wrong.
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  5279. 7:23 Why is it unfortunate?
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  5280. "The real problem is that public opinion doesn’t really matter much in an autocratic society." Public opinion did somewhat matter in 2018 when Putin partially backed out from his unpopular (though probably necessary) pension reform. Of course, things might be different now as the laws against dissent are more draconian.
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  5281.  @havencat9337  That McDonald's has a similar attrition rate seems irrelevant. Probably many McDonald's employees intend to only work a short stint there, e.g. as a summer job.
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  5282.  @johnborton4522  If it were a turbine it could exceed windspeed if it were travelling against the wind. However, travelling downwind faster than the wind indeed requires a propeller as you said.
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  5283.  @matthijsklomp  "No wind powered vehicle can travel upwind faster than the windspeed, only downwind." They can by the same logic as this cart can. It just works in reverse with wheels being powered by a turbine rather than the reverse.
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  5284.  @matthijsklomp  "Explain to me what powers the cart if the blades were powered by the wheels." The propeller pushes the cart forward and that allows the wheels to power the propeller. The wheels powering the propeller does cause a decelerating force but that can be less than the accelerating force from the propeller because of the movement of the air relative to the ground.
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  5285.  @matthijsklomp  "You can simply view this vehicle as wind turbine on wheels with the turbine driving the wheels" No, it's the other way around. The wheels have to power the propeller/turbine when going downwind. You can even see in the videos that the turbine spins the opposite way from what it would be if the wind was turning it. However, a turbine powering the wheels would work if the vehicle was were going against the wind.
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  5286. He did have that option. However, it seems that wasn't enough for him and he decided to go for a big land grab.
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  5287.  @ashenverdict  "He is liberating more and more territory in Ukraine that wants to be part of Russia." I'm rather skeptical of that claim. Do you have polling data or something on this?
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  5288. I have a better idea. They could put 2 lines of half the length side by side. Commute lengths would almost be halved on average. It could be improver further by putting 3 or more lines side by side with connections between the lines, not just along them. The optimum layout would be reached where the whole thing would be as wide as it is long. The average distances are minimized and even much slower transport is just as viable without any longer commute times. Transport could be done by regular trams and buses and some metro lines. These could use already existing technology so they could be much cheaper.
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  5289. I everyone followed that advice and the housing stock were built to match then the population would be spread unworkably wide.
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  5290. It's total casualties, not only KIA.
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  5291. Easy, just be Napoléon.
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  5292. 2:05 "A shotgun is not a weapon of war." It was during WWI.
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  5293. "not European at least culturally" Cultural categories are kind of nebulous. What do you think makes Turkey not European culturally?
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  5294.  @bailey2103-3  "its markets, foods, religion, clothing, and other cultural characteristics" When it comes to religion, that could be used to say that Albania and Bosnia are not culturally European. As for food and clothing, are those that different from e.g. Greece?
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  5295. The ECB hasn't been printing enough money. Inflation has been below the 2% target for a long while.
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  5296.  @rashmigupta9  What incentive would Prigozhin have to stop whatever he's attempting if that doesn't mean he can avoid prison?
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  5297. Text-to-speech or speech-to-text?
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  5298. Couldn't you argue that Plotkin's many successes in the past suggest he's a good investor even though he also failed at least once? Granted, the recent failure was rather big but that doesn't necessarily mean you wouldn't expect him to perform well in the future, especially if he's learned something from his failure.
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  5299. English doesn't have that phoneme so it's understandable that the might mispronounce it.
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  5300.  @liamnixon4428  That's somewhat subjective. The correct pronunciation and K are both velar sounds whereas H is not velar. Maybe it sounds closer to K for an English speaker. I've read that in fast speech English speakers may pronounce Ks as [x] so they might have trouble distinguishing those sounds.
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  5301. If you support one side in this conflict then it's entirely natural (depending on the situation) to try to hinder those supporting the other side. There's nothing hypocritical about that.
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  5302.  @jhsar1375  It's entirely reasonable to assist a country under an unjustified invasion and "don't go on an imperialist land grab" is not an unfair dictation.
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  5303. Mars is cold, not hot.
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  5304.  @fox280-mb6jy  No, it was (almost certainly) a ship dragging its anchor. A broken anchor was found from the seabed.
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  5305. Prices don't have to go down for inflation to go down. It's enough that the rate of price increases is reduced.
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  5306.  @alancient8463  "a million did die if you count the deaths from the sanction" If you mean sanctions before the 2003 invasion then including those doesn't make sense in this context (i.e. evaluating how good or bad the 2003 invasion was).
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  5307.  @grisflyt  At least some of these estimates include indirect deaths. (The lowest estimates i.e. 100k only include violent deaths.)
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  5308.  @grisflyt  Which part is nonsense?
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  5309.  @craigthebrute6385  "its completely credible inside academic circles." I don't believe that, at least not without a reference. "Look up the “exorbitant privilege”." That was said by Charles de Gaulle (EDIT: actually it was Valéry Giscard d'Estaing). He wasn't an academician. Also, the situation then was that most currencies were pegged to the US dollar which isn't the case today.
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  5310.  @craigthebrute6385  "the concept of an exorbitant privilege is so widely accepted, I barely need to provide a reference." I don't think it is. You can e.g. see the paper titled "Does the US dollar confer an exorbitant privilege?" by McCauley which argues that the benefit from the reserves status of the dollar is small (though it does exist). But more to the point, Iraq using some other currency instead of the dollar for oil transactions hardly affects how much dollar reserves central banks want to hold. That being the motivation for the 2003 invasion is just not credible at all.
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  5311.  @craigthebrute6385  "If you cannot purchase oil with dollars, then investors & nations have little use in holding dollar denominated assets." That's not true at all. Central banks don't hold dollar for oil transactions (in most cases) but for other reasons. If you need to buy or sell oil, it's enough to buy dollars just before you need them and/or sell them after you've received them (if you don't need for some other reason); you don't need to hold them long term because of such transactions. Also, Iraq is just one oil exporter among many in any case.
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  5312.  @craigthebrute6385  "The manufacturers pay for oil in dollars, so they charge the consumer in dollars." Not at all. E.g. gasoline and diesel are made from oil but still you don't pay for those in US dollars at the pump (except in the US, of course).
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  5313.  @craigthebrute6385  Yeah, but anyone buying oil from them doesn't need to hold dollars long term. They just need to be able to get them for the transaction. Similarly, Saudi Arabia doesn't need to hoard dollars just because they receive them. They do have sizable dollar forex reserves but that's an entirely different decision and isn't strongly connected to the currency used for the oil transactions.
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  5314.  @craigthebrute6385  "not true, all savings are in dollars. All developing nation debt is in dollars. So investors do hold dollars long term." But that's (mostly) not because the dollar is used for oil transactions but for other reasons (and not quite "all savings" are in dollars). Even if some other currency was used that wouldn't much affect the need for dollar forex reserves or whether government debt is denominated in dollars or some other currency (when it's something other than the local currency).
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  5315.  @craigthebrute6385  "so you agree the economy is completely oil based" Well, "completely" is a bit of an exaggeration but it is certainly very important. "but you argue that foreign nations using USD has little to do with oil?" Basically yes, at least in the case of things like forex reserves. That has more to do with the fact that the US is the largest economy, especially so in the past, and NYC is also a very important financial center.
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  5316.  @Mmjk_12  Technically that isn't quite true since Yugoslavia also included Slovenia and Macedonia. Slovene and Bulgarian aren't mutually intelligible with Serbo-Croatian (though all of these are still South Slavic languages).
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  5317.  @ridetheion5584  Finland's GDP per capita is about 54% higher than that of Croatia, not 3x higher.
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  5318. Those troops being sent are probably professional soldiers that volunteered for that position because you get a better lot in life that way in North Korea. OK, they might not have know that they would be sent to actual combat but it still applies that they're probably not ordinary conscripts.
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  5319. Props for the puns.
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  5320. "Every time Ukraine strike Russian oil facilities it raises the cost of fuel stock and chemicals for all of Europe, and themselves." The impact on Russia is much bigger. Your logic is flawed.
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  5321. Objection! You just want to prevent future lawyer because you're scared of the competition!
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  5322. "thus an adjustment must be made to compare outputs" Price level adjusted (PPP) GDP figures are routinely calculated. Even with that metric the US GDP per capita is over twice as high as that of Russia.
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  5323.  @istvankovacs6969  One sub won't make a significant part of the price level.
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  5324. "The cost of building, integrating, fueling and launching a multi-stage launch vehicle is still much much less than building, integrating and launching a vehicle using that big salad spinner." How do you know?
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  5325.  @monacorising  "Why can't local people be their own middle-men in their own communities?" Sometimes they can. Sometimes they can't, at least not as efficiently as some other group in which case that other group just tends to win in the competition.
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  5326. It's just a dialectal variation in pronunciation of "nuclear", much like the Brits and the Americans pronounce "bath" differently (with a back vowel in British English and a front vowel in American English).
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  5327. Though Japan doesn't have the same kind of public pension system.
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  5328. It's "Crock" not "crook". Crock-Pot™ is a brand of slow cookers.
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  5329. In Finnish, the stress is on the first syllable and the letter 'O' is just a single vowel, not a diphthong like in English. However, IMHO it's not important to aim for a native pronunciation of names like this.
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  5330.  @thegreatoutagesign9204  "its not the gasses that conduct the electricity. Its the fire" The fire is just hot gas. "its a plasma" No, it's not.
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  5331.  @thegreatoutagesign9204  Plasma by definition means: "a state of matter in which an ionized gaseous substance becomes highly electrically conductive to the point that long-range electric and magnetic fields dominate the behavior of the matter". A sufficient amount of ionization for that requires temperatures in excess of 10,000 K. The fire in your heating furnace is nowhere near hot enough for that.
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  5332.  @thegreatoutagesign9204  10,000K was a figure I found googling for a lower limit for (thermal) plasma temperature. "Natural gas burns at 3,043K" Where are you getting that number? Wikipedia lists it as burning at 1950 °C (2220 K). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_burner
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  5333.  @Owen_loves_Butters  It's not according a typical definition because the degree of ionization in a typical flame is rather low. Of course, that depends on where exactly you draw the boundary between plasma and gas which is somewhat arbitrary. However, fire isn't usually considered plasma.
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  5334. I think his main source of revenue is crypto scams.
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  5335.  @mrshhjj8899  But Zeiss is German, isn't it?
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  5336. Usually inflation figures using consumer basket of goods is called "headline inflation" and that minus food and energy (which tend to be very volatile) is called "core inflation" and it's used to get a more stable figure that doesn't jump up and down.
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  5337. While we don't know who did it I'd say it's more likely that it's more likely that Russia destroyed the dam.
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  5338.  @GavinMaGrath  "I'd like to ask you what motive Russia has to do it?" They might prefer to destroy it over Ukraine getting it back. Also, this probably makes it more difficult for Ukraine to cross the Dnieper because of the flooding and the (previously damaged) bridge now being gone. I don't claim this as certain; I'm only saying that Russia seems a more likely culprit than Ukraine.
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  5339. Is East Thrace Balkan or not?
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  5340.  @cheerful_crop_circle  Is it Balkan or not?
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  5341. @tripplefives1402 In the original novel (Make Room! Make Room!) that the movie is very loosely based on, soylent is just made from soy and lentils (hence the name). There was no cannibalism in the novel. This real world product called Soylent is also partially made from soy (though not lentils).
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  5342.  @Dorgpoop  "The difficulty would be the jungle warfare." I think the UK can ignore the jungle if it can protect the Guyanese offshore oil installations.
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  5343. Frame locks are common in Finland (or at least they were back when I was still using a bike).
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  5344. I think the term "hard R" is a bit strange because the word that it's referring to doesn't start with an R. No wonder Linus got it mixed up. I had to look this up on Urban Dictionary to be sure.
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  5345. For DC the cables are cheaper for a given amount of capacity. "increasing frequency" No.
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  5346. There is no reason to believe that scripture could be used to predict future events.
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  5347. The trouble with Belgium has been the tax breaks on "excess profits" and other rules benefitting multinational corporations. Individual taxes have nothing to do with it.
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  5348. Not necessarily only general aviation. Short-haul flights could be viable as well.
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  5349. "Most of all the energy electricity in the world is produced by fossil fuels in order to run one of these slingshots or whatever would take up so much energy that you might as well forget the plan because your burning more coal and fossil fuels" Rocket fuel also has the same issue but way worse. Rocket engines are less efficient and you also have to consume fuel to move enough fuel with the rocket.
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  5350. I guess it's typical to think of e.g. the stock market in the following way: Companies have fundamentals that determine a fair price for the stock. The fundamentals themselves are generally not affected by the stock price. The market price of the stock is a good estimate of a fair price. A speculator that can determine the fair prices more accurately than the market on average can earn above-market returns and this profitable trading nudges the prices in a more correct direction.
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  5351. "theyre at war" They're not at war. No declaration of war has been made and they're not participating in hostilities.
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  5352. He didn't promise to attack. He, or other Russian politicians, only said vague things like that there would be a "military-technical response" etc.
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  5353. 15:40 To be fair, I think amphetamine use is probably common among traders. It alone wouldn't sound especially worrying to be as it doesn't turn finance professionals into criminal frauds. The fact that these guys were frauds is probably not related to the amphetamine use.
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  5354. "I believe going fully free-market mode is the way to go." I believe (live) kidney donors should be paid from the public purse.
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  5355. "housing should be [...] treated as a public good" So housing should be treated as not being rival and not excludable even though it's clearly both?
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  5356. If there's doubt about the constitutionality of a federal cap-and-trade program for greenhouse emissions how come the one for sulfur dioxide to combat acid rain hasn't been hampered by that issue? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Rain_Program
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  5357. Was the sphericity of the Earth discovered anywhere independently of the Greek philosophers? I wouldn't be surprised if e.g. the Chinese had come to the same conclusion independently but I've never heard any mention of such discoveries by other than the Greeks.
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  5358.  @davidribeiro1064 : Thanks. It would be interesting to read some details on that.
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  5359.  @davidribeiro1064 : Thanks. I'm actually a bit surprised that the Chinese didn't discover it.
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  5360.  @NotJustBikes  You could always use Google Streetview (which you have used at least a couple of times).
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  5361. Relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyranny_of_small_decisions
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  5362. One example of a Polish-Lithuanian naval victory against Sweden is the Battle of Oliwa.
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  5363. 7:25 What's the point of extracting water from the air if you're already going to have a desalination plant?
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  5364.  @angelsanchez6028  "works as fertilizer" I find it hard to believe that the rice water would have enough phosphorus or nitrogen to work as a fertilizer (though it shouldn't any worse for watering than "regular" water either).
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  5365.  @boulderbash19700209  "So there's no reason to wash it." There can still be a reason to wash it if you don't like the free starch making the rice sticky, but that's a matter of taste.
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  5366. "Many EU citizens do not want their goverments to keep supplying this war." But many also do.
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  5367.  @bixbysnyder-00  He lists his location as "Greece".
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  5368. There's a minimum of 6 € per day and for the total fine there's a minimum of 100 € for moped drivers and 200 € for drivers of other motor vehicles.
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  5369. Valletta?
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  5370.  @planet_earth936  But rawkarp's wording was "European nation". One might possibly count the Maltese as a "nation" even before them having their own independent country.
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  5371. Better than Christian II? :)
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  5372.  @tylern6420  "And this massless battery has mass" The claim wasn't quite (except for a clickbait title) that the battery wouldn't have mass but rather it wouldn't bring extra mass to the vehicle because it would double as a load bearing structural part (which you would need in any case). However, as explained by Thunderf00t even that doesn't really work because a battery doesn't have good properties for bearing mechanical loads.
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  5373.  @nicholasgardiner9601  At least the last one is more difficult if the battery were also a structural part.
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  5374. 5:45 Auto-captions: "Voki the Chinese Serbian Monastery"
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  5375. Antioch was probably created in opposition to the city of Och (a.k.a. Uch) in Pakistan.
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  5376.  @sudnnk5138  Just in case it wasn't clear, I was just making a bad pun. :) (You might have realized that but better be certain.)
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  5377.  @lizexi7115  Interesting, thanks.
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  5378.  @danr1920  "And what does "Bolt" really mean?" One meaning is a short type of arrow used in crossbows. However, I think in this case it's probably a reference to lightning bolts. (Bolt is also e.g. the part of a lock that prevents the door from opening but that has probably even less to do with this name.)
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  5379. "Little countries the size of Rhode Island are not really considered a Country." Well, Moldova is not the size of Rhode Island. It's about 2.5x bigger in terms of population and 10x bigger in terms of land area.
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  5380. "the ready to use gas pipeline is not used because that would make us dependent on gas ???????? Which we are, there is shortage and Russia want to give it. How evil." It's just waiting normal regulatory approval. The German regulators want the company responsible for the pipeline at Germany's end to be incorporated in Germany rather than Switzerland.
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  5381. Well, Visualpolitik is a Spanish channel, though the English language versions of the videos may be recorded somewhere else.
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  5382. Ilmanottoluukkuun, ei pakoputkeen.
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  5383.  @DEADMANRIDING1  Note that my "if Romania had remained neutral" hypothetical was in the context of WWI, not WWII. Do you really think that Imperial Germany would have just invaded Romania without a casus belli?
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  5384.  @MrQ454  "CP did not occupy the whole country" But they occupied enough to get a lot of oil and wheat from Romania. That likely allowed Germany to withstand the blockade longer than it otherwise would have.
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  5385.  @MrQ454  "Romania's entry into the war diverted many German forces from the Western front and also weakened other forces of the Central Powers on other fronts as well" Some forces were diverted but I think that was probably not worth of Germany getting its hands on Romanian oil & wheat.
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  5386.  @dandondera2618  From what I've read the Germans repaired the sabotaged oil fields and pumped about a million tons of oil from them.
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  5387.  @dandondera2618  It was a lot more than if Romania had never joined the war. Also, don't forget about the wheat the Germans were able to get from Romanian fields (of a different kind).
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  5388.  @dandondera2618  "not so much quantity for not so much time" One million tonnes of oil (and two million tonnes of grain) seems like a large quantity to me, especially considering Germany was able to obtain them at a time when they were running very low on those supplies due a blockade thus giving an extension on how long they were able to stay in the war.
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  5389.  @danielandrone8795  Germany was quite short of them towards the end.
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  5390.  @pacbdnabcde9203  Search "Ukrainians Support Fighting Until Victory" by Gallup. Though I have to admit I remembered the number wrong. It was about 70%, not over 80% as I had written earlier. A clear majority in any case.
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  5391. Only if that enemy stops attacking non-members.
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  5392.  @anappropriatehandle  They might get attacked by Russia which is the reason they want to join. If Russia hadn't invaded Ukraine Finland and Sweden wouldn't have applied to join, at least not any time soon. If Russia wants that more countries don't join NATO then it should show that it's not a threat. Instead, Russia has been doing the opposite.
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  5393. 5:35 Honolulu is even more isolated, though it's not in the top 30.
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  5394. Salt is too cheap. It's not worth it.
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  5395. Serbia isn't a member of the EU.
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  5396.  @samuelcrozier3661  Нет войне!
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  5397. " I love how poland built their LNG port literally as far away from russia as possible... lol." Or alternatively, as close to Germany as possible.
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  5398. "The move to renewables was not naive." What was naive wasn't the move to renewables but the move away from nuclear (in some countries).
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  5399.  DarkEternal6  "Germany also had the 2nd largest air force" Bigger than that of Japan? Or is this due to navy planes not counting towards it?
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  5400. Ironically, Deutsche Bank has been getting cheap credit partially because various investors have thought it's the German central bank and therefore safer than a regular investment bank.
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  5401. I'm surprised that those HAWK crossing traffic lights have such long cantilevers. Wouldn't connecting them to the ground on the other side too make them more durable? I guess there must be some engineering or economic reason for it.
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  5402. Roundabouts are on average safer and with them you avoid the cost of traffic lights.
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  5403. There's always an opportunity cost. They could instead just sell it to some other area and displace a more polluting energy source. (Of course, that applies to some degree to Iceland as well.)
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  5404. Why'd they send paratroopers there if it wasn't a part of the mission?
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  5405. In addition to Lionel Hutz, you could also react to that bird lawyer from Futurama.
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  5406.  @give_me_my_nick_back  "I'd rather [...] not live in a completely empty cities, completely made up of suburbs with next to no stores" I don't think that's an accurate description.
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  5407.  @tomalata5742  If there are some bases that fulfill the criterion and some that don't, then you can choose the percentage to be anything in 0%-100% by choosing the distribution appropriately.
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  5408. Put the sword part in a separate video.
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  5409.  Pichkalu Pappita  High-speed rail might not be viable in (most of) the US but regular trains would probably work reasonably in many areas.
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  5410. "This idea that money lending- the practice that Jesus christ himself called out, is a necessary or useful tool that can only be done by certain groups and that interest is profitable to the society at large is a farce." Money lending is certainly useful and necessary and profitable to the society. Also, is someone claiming that it can only be done by certain groups? If so, who's making that claim?
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  5411. "The millions of TONS of concrete poured would make me think otherwise." I would think the emissions coming from this are not high per kWh produced.
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  5412. It's just greedy individuals. They're not sent by the Chinese government.
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  5413. "nobody cares about us!" Everybody cares about you. You're where that big explosion happened a century ago.
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  5414.  @ericp1139  I only mentioned it because it's rather difficult to square with the claim by OP (Mike Lee) that this is a normal rotation decided by the Russian MoD due to the assaults on Bakhmut having done their job.
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  5415. Does that then imply that he was the one who had Prigozhin killed?
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  5416. Objection! If you think PewDiePie's surname (Kjellberg) is difficult to pronounce, just pronounce it as "shell-barry" and that'll be a half decent approximation.
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  5417.  @larrybrennan1463 : "Another point is batteries do not hold power in extreme heat or cold. You wouldn't want to depend on an EV in Minnesota winter." I can't speak from personal experience but I recently read one journalist's experience about using an EV (Nissan Leaf) in the winter in a magazine. He wrote that it's the best winter car he's used so far. You get heated air immediately unlike in many ICE cars (though of course, you could get that with an electric heater in any car) and there's no need to pump gas in the cold as the car can just charge whenever it's parked at his home or at his workplace. He was writing when the temperature had gone below -20°C (-4°F) for the first time this winter. The range suffered noticeably but was still above 200 km which was more than enough for his needs. "Ignore the rare metals that go into it" By "rare metals" do you mean metals that are actually rare or do you mean "rare-earths" which are not rare at all (except for promethium)? What elements specifically are you talking about?
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  5418. The model that's most fair (and giving the best incentives) is such that there's a fixed subscription fee that covers the capital and maintenance cost of the electric grid and then the electricity price should be the market spot price plus a small comission (and for any electricity from solar panels that's fed into the grid the consumer should be paid the spot price minus a small commission).
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  5419.  @Br3ttM  There's no requirement to think about them, your bill just might be a bit higher as a result.
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  5420.  @darren871 : Didn't SARS have much fewer cases?
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  5421. When you were talking about the instructive vs. comitative distinction you mentioned that Finnish denotes the difference with suffixes. Are you talking about the actual instructive and comitative cases here? If you are, I think that's a bit misleading. In common speech, the instructive case is quite rare and mostly used in certain set phrases like "omin silmin" meaning "with (one's) own eyes", and the comitative case is used, well, basically never.
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  5422.  @VTh-f5x  Maybe Israel should be sanctioned. I don't know. I don't have a good answer to what should be done about Israel and its actions.
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  5423.  @VladTevez  Most of that seems to primarily apply to the US. You can say that the US is the "core" of NATO but I think the distinction should be made. Also, Northern Cyprus has been under an embargo after it made a formal independence declaration and most NATO members are participating (though Turkey obviously isn't). I would like to add that the Cyprus situation is somewhat less severe since Turkey hasn't (at least so far) tried to formally annex Northern Cyprus, though this might not be so strongly related to the question whether Cyprus reveals a NATO double standard.
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  5424. Ukraine is denying they did this (after first saying they neither confirm nor deny). I've heard some speculate that whoever was managing that fuel storage in Belgorod might have sold part of the fuel on the black market and then blew the thing up to hide that.
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  5425.  @SihirbazTsar55  Covid is not something that happens every year.
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  5426. I don't know if the arrows could penetrate the knights' armor or not but even if they couldn't they could still kill their horses.
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  5427. Did you measure the caliber with a caliper?
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  5428. 1:28:00 I think you have misunderstood something here. The Baltic countries haven't imported electricity from Russia since 2022. After that, the connections to Russia were only used for grid frequency stabilization. The recent desynchronization with the Russian grid (and synchronization with the continental European one) is not going to prevent any electricity imports since imports from Russia were not happening in any case and thus it shouldn't affect prices.
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  5429.  @Grant80  Wagner group has been active in numerous countries. It's quite likely that they have killed significantly more people than that.
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  5430.  @Grant80  Blackwater has killed more than a million? Sounds rather doubtful. Besides, in your previous comment you said "thousands". Why'd you suddenly jump up 3 orders of magnitude?
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  5431.  @kaiwren2604  They have committed some rather brutal acts. I'll describe one or two in a separate comment (so that this one doesn't get removed).
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  5432.  @kaiwren2604  There's one case from the Syrian Civil War where they captured a soldier of Assad's army who tried to desert. They killed him with sledgehammers, cut off his head and hands, and burned the body. There's also the case of one Wagner fighter who had been captured by the Ukrainians and was returned in a prisoner swap. He was also killed with sledgehammers. Mind you, Russia does not have a death penalty nor would the Wagner have any legal right to administer it. However, they don't (and don't have to) care about the rule of law at all.
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  5433.  @adilevnatimasheva4370  "give one example" I gave a couple of examples above to Kai Wren.
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  5434.  @adilevnatimasheva4370  "sources" You should be able to find many news stories by googling the names of the victims I mentioned which are "Hamdi Bouta" (or e.g. "Wagner deserter Syria") and "Yevgeny Nuzhin". I don't know how the names are written in Arabic and Cyrillic scripts but these transliterations should be enough. I'd give you direct links but my experience is that comments with links are almost always removed. These two are just examples and there are more such cases reported.
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  5435.  @kaiwren2604  But my point was that Wagner openly doesn't care about rule of law. (I'm against death penalty but that's not important here.)
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  5436.  @John-us9rm  "USA did kill others..." This thread was specifically about Wagner vs. Blackwater/Xe Services/Academi/Constellis. It's not credible that that one company could have killed millions.
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  5437. Considering the increased living costs cheaper wheat should be welcomed by consumers.
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  5438.  @julianjenkins5553  "so that it is not traveling directly downwind" But note that this cart could exceed the wind speed while travelling directly downwind. A boat using a static sail cannot do that.
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  5439. Interest rates fell after 2008. They've been super low in Europe for quite a while now.
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  5440.  @powerful_smr5383  "In times of crisis your mortgage rate will go" No, you got it the wrong way around. In a crisis rates will usually go down as happened after 2008. My mortgage was 0.12% at its lowest. Of course, adjustable rate can still be a risk but using such mortgages isn't really "metal". At least here banks don't even offer any good deals for a fixed rate. You can pay extra to have a capped rate for a few years but those deals tend to suck.
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  5441.  @powerful_smr5383  I guess I was lucky in that I bought my first home after 2008. However, in Europe rates fell across the board so it would make paying your mortgage easier, unless the recession causes you to lose your job which is the main risk. What interest rates are adjustable mortgages tied to in the US?
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  5442.  @Man_from_UNCLE  "Cars??? -- more expensive than anywhere else in Europe!" I'm pretty sure cars are more expensive in Denmark than in Finland.
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  5443. This isn't extortion.
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  5444.  @xsweetx6  For it to be extortion the threat has to be wrongful. Threatening to use legal remedies to protect your copyright isn't wrongful or extortion.
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  5445.  @xsweetx6  "Extortion is the wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or intimidation to gain money or property from an individual or entity." Using a legal remedy isn't wrongful.
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  5446.  @xsweetx6  "Extortion is the wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or intimidation to gain money or property from an individual or entity."
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  5447.  @xsweetx6  "Extortion is the wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or intimidation to gain money or property from an individual or entity."
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  5448.  @xsweetx6  "Extortion is the wrongful use of actual or threatened force, violence, or intimidation to gain money or property from an individual or entity."
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  5449. "In order to stop coal burning there has been an increase in natural gas infrastructure which is even worse. It still emits just as much CO2 per energy" That's not true. Natural gas is mostly methane which has 4 hydrogen atoms for every carbon atom which is the best ratio of all hydrocarbons.
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  5450. I was going to mention this but didn't have to.
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  5451. @El Dimos Karam The Roman citizens could vote and be elected to positions too so it wasn't that far off.
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  5452. @El Dimos Karam After a certain point plebeians too could be elected to the highest office of consul. Even before that, all citizens could vote in the consular elections.
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  5453. Or like Moldova.
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  5454.  @SpykerSpeed  "He's not Hungarian, he's Jewish." Being Jewish doesn't mean he's not Hungarian. Most countries have minorities. Those minorities are still nationals of that country.
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  5455. What if you just happen to live in DC and need a lawyer because of divorce or inheritance dispute or some other "normal" reason for individual people not involving government or business? Do you have to pay a lot more than in other places?
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  5456. 3:45 "Secretary of State" But aren't almost all ministers in the UK cabinet formally called Secretaries of State? E.g. the Education Minister is actually the Secretary of State for Education.
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  5457.  @ulikemyname6744  "The main issue that we have as a Union..." But most of what you mention after that is specific to Germany.
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  5458.  @ulikemyname6744  You said: "We are very quick to phase out coal plants and even nuclear plants". Well, Germany did phase out its nuclear plants but some other EU members have been building more. It doesn't apply to the entire union and these decisions aren't really made at the Union level.
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  5459.  @ulikemyname6744  France's new reactor is already complete and running. There was also a reactor completed in Finland a few years ago (and another one was being constructed but unfortunately the contractor was Rosatom so that project was scuppered by the war in very early stage).
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  5460.  @ulikemyname6744  Those closures were decided by Germany (and maybe some other member states). It wasn't a union level decision. The problem basically lies with Germany.
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  5461. They desalinate it.
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  5462. Btw, could the Lexx family have said to the police that they can't enter their home without a warrant?
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  5463.  @andrasadam8256  Northern Ireland wouldn't join as a new member state but as a part of Ireland, so it wouldn't be the same.
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  5464. Why are so many people mentioning Saar in the comments?
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  5465.  @windhoff1417  "You mentioned that a LNG facility takes 7 years to build, the Germans built two new facilities in a few months." I think you misunderstood him. He said that the liquefaction facilities take 7 years to build whereas Germany acquired regasification facilities. His claim is that the supply of LNG can't be quickly increased even if Germany were able to receive that LNG. I don't know whether his claim is correct or not but I hope this clarifies what his claim actually was.
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  5466.  @Withnail1969  "the industrial savings have been achieved by shutting down plants" I don't think that's the case for all savings. Some of them have been done by replacing natural gas with propane or oil.
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  5467.  @rickv1007  From what I've read, LNG tankers usually have turbine engines which can use both oil and natural gas.
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  5468.  @johnrickard8512  "their operations have always been a clusterf**k" Don't say that! GNU Hurd is going to be released any day now!
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  5469.  @johnrickard8512  "their operations have always been a clusterf**k" Don't say that! GNU Hurd is gonna be released any day now!
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  5470. What? It costs $100 billion or something?
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  5471. "Swiss industry is worth jackshit. They produce some milk, beef, Some vine, Lui viton bag assembly and Rolex watches... Basically nothing. Whole economy is based on secure money in bank." This is completely incorrect. The Swiss economy is fairly industrialized. Banking services bring Switzerland a lot of fame but they're not as large of a percentage of the economy as that fame would lead you to believe.
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  5472. Are you thinking about AIG?
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  5473. If it's 1% of gas reserves per day then those reserves should last at least 3 months even with zero gas inflows and a lot longer when you consider incoming LNG as well as gas from the Netherlands, Norway, and north Africa.
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  5474.  @enriquelaroche5370  Gas consumption will likely go down by a large amount by that time.
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  5475.  @enriquelaroche5370  "How do you fill your storage for the winter of 2023? Russian pipelines are closed. the rest of the world can replace 15% of Russian gas." Considering that Russian gas was about 40% of Europe's gas that means a shortfall of about 1/3rd. Reducing gas consumption by 1/3rd seems to be in the realm of possibility. Especially in Germany and Italy gas was used directly by many households for heating and cooking. I'm sure many will now replace their gas stoves with electric ones and heating with heat pumps or some other non-gas alternative. Many industrial users have already switched to alternative hydrocarbons (e.g. oil or propane) for chemical processes.
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  5476.  @enriquelaroche5370  There are other sources for oil, like the North Sea, and it's easier to transport by ship than gas. Some production will suffer (with largest effect in Germany) but that is hardly the end of the world. Europe has plenty of production which isn't dependent on gas. If Europe loses comparative advantage in those gas using industries it will gain it in something else.
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  5477.  @enriquelaroche5370  "Using Gas at a 1%/day rate means the EU has not met your proposed 30% number." I didn't give a 30% number, not sure where you got that. In any case, next year's winter is still roughly one year away and there is time to reduce gas usage by households before it arrives.
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  5478.  @enriquelaroche5370  "Have any of you been notified by your power / gas company of dramatic rate increases this winter?" I don't personally use gas. Household use of gas is pretty marginal here. The problem cases are chiefly Germany and Italy. However, I'm pretty sure that household use of gas there will decline significantly in the coming year as people will replace their gas heaters and stove tops. "Did you hear that Someone blew up the Nord stream pipelines that supplied Europe with 40% of it's gas?" That 40% was the share of all Russian gas of EU's consumption. NS1 was only a portion of that. "How our suffering will help Ukraine which is not a Nuclear power defeat the country right next door which has more nukes than anyone on earth?" I'd estimate that Russia is unlikely to nuke Ukraine.
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  5479.  @enriquelaroche5370  "What does the USA do the day after Russia hypothetically nukes London?" In that case the UK would retaliate regardless of what the US would do.
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  5480.  @enriquelaroche5370  "well the UK ceases to exist after that." Russia too would be at least be seriously diminished due to retaliation. However, I don't see Russia suddenly nuking London.
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  5481.  @nono99136  Hmm, I don't quite understand what you're asking.
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  5482. Moscow is too far away and attacking it would not have military value for Ukraine. Ukraine also denies being behind this attack in Belgorod.
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  5483. Can someone explain why it's spelled like that?
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  5484. "many other countries have greater gdp debt ratios" I think that's 8 countries. Does 8 count as "many"?
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  5485. $5 per gallon doesn't sound expensive.
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  5486.  @cantstopthemusic456 : Here in Finland it's more like €1.40 / l, apparently. (Had to google this as I don't own a car.)
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  5487. What about Jan Mayen?
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  5488.  @bananadirt7670  I previous videos Matt has mentioned that swords with longer grips need smaller pommels and at least the zweihänders he has shown indeed seem to have small pommels.
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  5489. @Hogu Ho Lol!
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  5490. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  5491. 8:45 Who has clarified that? Is it a reliable source? Maybe you should watch a video on this made by Ryan McBeth. At least based on his analysis the missile seems to be too large to be an IRIS-T (though that doesn't necessarily mean it was a Kinzhal).
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  5492. Should you marry your partner or cohabit without being married? The most romantic option is whichever results in a lower tax bill!
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  5493.  @JohanKlein  "the conclusions of the Nuremberg Trials still hold the Nazis responsible for the Katyn massacre" I don't think it is. Wikipedia says that that indictment was dismissed by British and American judges. (Yes I know, Wikipedia can be unreliable but at least it's better than no source at all.)
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  5494. "Those who abandon friends are worse than scum." Does that same logic also apply to e.g. Poland meaning they should never abandon Ukraine?
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  5495.  @AkashKumar-1989  That sounds rather unlikely to me.
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  5496.  @hitfan2000  "the problem is that single men far outnumber single women (in the under 40 category)" It's mathematically impossible for single men to "far" outnumber single women. There are slightly more men born than women but the difference isn't that large and probably isn't the reason why men have it harder on e.g. dating apps. And on average women might have older partners more often than the other way around and some such pairs straddle your cutoff of 40 but I don't think that effect is so large either. I think a much bigger part of the reason is that men are, or at least want to be, more promiscuous than women. (Well, I'm simplifying a bit here but I'm sure you get what I mean.)
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  5497.  @hitfan2000  "So if a 20 year old woman is in a long term relationship with a 30 year old man..." This age difference seems higher than average and this particular example wouldn't create imbalance in the "up to 40" group you used in your previous comment since both still fall within that group. "You might believe that sex ratios are a non-factor, but the dating apps don't lie." I'm fairly confident that even if the sex ratio was 50/50 that would only slightly mitigate the difference of the experience of men and women on dating apps. Most of the same dynamic would remain due to the different behaviour of the sexes. "The millions of young men in China who have no hope of ever finding a wife bears this out." The sex ratio in China is far more skewed than in e.g. North America or Europe. This video didn't really touch on dating app experience in China so I'm not focusing on that.
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  5498.  @hitfan2000  I'm fairly sure the difference in the behaviour between men and women is bigger than that 3%-point excess (over 50/50 split). Based on a short googling men haven't had it that easy on Tinder in Russia, unless one is good-looking. This is despite Russia having excess of women (largely due to men having a dramatically lower life expectancy than women) unless one is good looking.
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  5499.  @asdf-fl1ib  Did you mean to reply to me or hitfan2000? You tagged me but you're quoting something that hitfan2000 wrote.
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  5500.  @asdf-fl1ib  "You used the quote, in post." Yeah, I quoted him (hitfan2000) to reply to him. Now it's a bit unclear to me whether you're commenting on something I wrote or only on what he wrote.
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  5501.  @artcurious807  "hyperloop?" I'm quite pessimistic about the economic viability of the hyperloop. There are just so many technical challenges and the cost of solving them will likely add up to too much.
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  5502. Well, that's not the only thing that matters. Still, have you taken a look at Cuba recently? At least Bangladesh isn't having blackouts like Cuba (I think).
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  5503.  @taoriq3632  "afghan,iraq Libya, syria" Pretty sure those were called wars and not mere crises.
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  5504. At least in the Netherlands you can just continue extracting gas from the Groningen field without that much extra investment as it's still operating and closure was slated for 2025-28. The reason it was to be closed is that extraction resulted in ground subsidence which caused earthquakes. However, in the present situation that might be seen as a price worth paying.
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  5505. YouTube is likely getting banned there so he wouldn't be able to earn money.
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  5506. No, but there was a Karelo-Finnish SSR until it was absorbed into the Russian SSR. However, this map seems to mostly use the territories possessed by Imperial Russia (though not exactly as the Kurils are included whereas Alaska is not).
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  5507. "Napoleon and his commanders hunkered down in Moscow for a short period but then, with the onset of an early winter, realized they faced annihilation if they stayed and chose to try to return to France." I think the winter only began a week or two after they had withdrawn from Moscow.
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  5508. Regarding the involuntary commitment, here's an interesting blog post by a psychiatrist about inpatient health care (though the author (Scott) is a psychiatrist in California and not in New York). There were some surprising things there like that from a legal and administrative point of view there's not much difference between voluntary and involuntary commitment, and that it's legal to involuntary commit someone and the bill them for the cost. http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/03/22/navigating-and-or-avoiding-the-inpatient-mental-health-system/
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  5509.  @shawnsg  The FDIC fees are basically taxes on banks. They might not call them taxes but functionally that's what they are. E.g. income taxes wouldn't stop being taxes even if the government called them something like "income based fees" instead.
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  5510.  @shawnsg  OK, I had thought FDIC insurance was compulsory. If it were compulsory I'd say it would definitely be a tax (or a tax-like payment). However, if it's not compulsory then you can say it's not a tax.
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  5511.  @budrome4247  I had thought FDIC insurance was compulsory.
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  5512.  @budrome4247  "yes, it is compulsory. If you are a deposit taking bank. If not, then not." If that's the case, then it's clearly a type of tax on deposits. Based on some other comments here and some google results it would seem that it actually might not be compulsory and banks just opt for FDIC insurance because it would be difficult to attract deposits otherwise. If that's the case then it's not a tax but if you're right then it is a tax.
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  5513.  @Jkatharsis  "There is only one way to fix demographics. Remove retirements paid by state." Are you sure that would work? One way people might deal with a lack government pension is by just saving for retirement and doing that can be easier if you don't have the financial burden children bring.
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  5514.  @Jkatharsis  For most of those thousands of years there wasn't a practical option of securing your old age by accumulating financial assets, unlike in the present day. Also, in the days of yore even fairly young children were assets rather than a burden as they could be used for things like farm labor. Not so in the present day. Also, in this modern era you often can't force your children to do anything when they reach the age of majority; that includes them supporting you (except in some countries that have filial support laws).
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  5515.  @vincenth3267  Does that saying also apply to the CSTO?
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  5516.  @vincenth3267  Why then use the quote at all? The quote would seem to say that it's bad to ally with a powerful country (like the US or Russia) but you don't seem to use that criterion. You judge whether it's good to ally with either of them with completely different criteria.
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  5517. Objection! They won't get disbarred if no one (who won't keep it secret) finds out! Granted, the risks are massive.
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  5518. 7:08 "I think if government[sic] gets out of the way of deciding which transportation modes we need in the future, the private sector will do a much better job of innovating and creating profitable transportation modes that people will want to use" Does that include roads? Will taxpayer money no longer be spent on roads and streets? Or is the car the only transportation mode deserving of a government subsidy?
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  5519.  @znyooom  They are Marxist-Leninist. They're going to ruin the economy.
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  5520. I don't think that's what people mean when they say it was controversial. I think the claim is more like that Britain caused unnecessary deaths for no military purpose because the vessel wasn't at the time headed for the Falklands. I haven't checked if that claim is actually correct or not. Nonetheless, I think you can understand why some people would think it would be morally incumbent on Britain to have refrained from the sinking even if it wasn't against the laws of war. I'm not saying that you have to agree, just to understand what is being claimed.
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  5521.  @puellanivis  You can still say that the accent is on a certain syllable.
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  5522.  @puellanivis  Yes, I know. I provided a small amendment to OP's wording.
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  5523.  @kscod6108  "It was all a lie from the beginning." Do you still think that?
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  5524. He made a calculation error. It's 10 times that.
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  5525. Being a reserve currency doesn't matter that much.
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  5526. I'm assuming calling it a "medical call" means that the person had some kind of emergency not related the job they were doing (such as e.g. a heart attack).
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  5527.  @liambenjamin.w  It might not be impossible though not the most likely reason. It was just an example what could be the reason for the call such that it's not related to the work which was what "medical call" seemed to mean.
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  5528.  @Sintesi.  Norway has a lot of hydro.
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  5529.  @matejsochor1673  I don't think he has defrauded the earlier elections. Of course, it's possible that he might try this time. Earlier he didn't need to because he was sufficiently popular to win fairly.
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  5530.  @mardus_ee  I think Serbians are taller.
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  5531.  @blackwersus  But I think in the whole of Europe they're not quite the tallest (though they are very close).
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  5532. Haha!
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  5533.  @shainshoesmith8840  The pressure difference alone wouldn't cause air to move because the pressure gradient simply matches gravity. Having bigger or smaller opening won't change this.
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  5534. Why do you describe this as "explosive"? It didn't seem like that to me.
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  5535.  @deadeye_john  I don't think you can just inject glue inside solid material.
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  5536.  @deadeye_john  Yes both, at least to my knowledge.
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  5537.  @deadeye_john  Surely it can't prevent cracks from forming. A (cured) glue is a material like any other. It's not magically immune to cracking.
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  5538. Does Campfire's timeline feature support time travel, alternate timelines/worlds etc?
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  5539. @mariaadelecagna3540 It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  5540. There's no congestion charge...
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  5541.  @neilsaunders6009  Here are some reasons. These are not decisive arguments but I think they're reasons to lean more to the side of the Russians having done this: -Back when the Ukrainians were bombarding the bridge going along the dam with HIMARS in preparation for the Kherson offensive, they judiciously avoided damaging the dam by bombarding the part at the southern end where the bridge curves away from the dam. This seems to indicate that they don't want to damage the dam. -The Ukrainians would probably most prefer to recapture the dam intact because it's a valuable asset whereas the Russians might prefer to destroy it over the Ukrainians getting it back. -The dam was still under Russian control. That would make it easier for them to blow up the dam since they can lay explosives (or have them laid in advance) rather than having to try bombard the dam with something. -I see no obvious reason for the Ukrainians to destroy the dam now (rather than earlier). The most advantageous time would probably have been during the Kherson offensive before the Russian troops withdraw to the Left Bank possibly trapping them and hindering supply. If the motivation were to reduce the water supply to Crimea it would also make sense to destroy the dam as early as possibly as opposed to only now. If the reason was to make crossing the Dnieper upstream of the dam easier it would also have made sense to destroy it earlier. -As far as I know, the Russians haven't after their withdrawal from the Right Bank crossed the Dnieper whereas the Ukrainians have (though these have been rather small scale operations). Thus the flooding seems to affect Ukrainian operations more than Russian ones. -A few months ago the Russians had left one of the sluice gates open lowering the water level a lot in the reservoir. This may indicate that they prefer some flooding downstream, possibly to make the Ukrainian crossings more difficult. -Recently they have done the opposite and let the reservoir fill to a very high level. This is suspicious and may indicate a motive to cause flooding.
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  5542.  @seeker2118  What? Of course I did write it. It's not even that long. Given to say by whom?
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  5543.  @seeker2118  Yes, I did. A commenter called Neil Saunders asked for the reasons for my belief in both threads so I just copy-pasted the response I wrote to both of them. Otherwise, some people might only see one of those threads and think I don't have an answer.
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  5544.  @seeker2118  An accident is possible. However, if it's deliberate I think Russia is the more likely culprit (though this is still uncertain).
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  5545.  @seeker2118  "In the end I don't subscribe to the idea of Ukraine regaining any territory so Russia will have to foot the bill." But this is just your assessment and the Russians/Ukrainians might not be so optimistic/pessimistic. I just don't think it makes any sense for Ukraine to time the destruction of the dam to the start of their offensive. If they wanted to destroy the dam (e.g. to reduce Crimea's water supply) it would have made far more sense to destroy the dam much earlier.
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  5546. "jet fuel is 50 times more energy dense than batteries. Until batteries make a quantum leap in technology there’s no overcoming that." I'm not convinced of that. Electricity is cheaper and for short-haul flights the weight of the batteries matters less, so on sufficiently short distances, they're probably viable.
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  5547. "The russians showed they can just go around these places and the enemy has to stay put." No, they can't just go around because Bakhmut is just a part of a fortified line rather than some kind of single strong point. Going around also means assaulting fortified positions.
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  5548. "or used in breeder plants" I don't think anyone has yet managed to make an economical breeder reactor. I wouldn't rely on something like that. (Nonetheless, nuclear waste is still easy to deal with because the amounts are rather small.)
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  5549. 6:30 Is there a reason why Guyana, Suriname, Belize, and Jamaica are grey?
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  5550. 1:06:55 The video feed becoming grainy or going black is probably mostly not due to jamming, at least when that happens right when the drone dives to hit its target. It would be quite the coincidence if jamming always intensified when the drone dives and there's no reason to expect that that would happen gradually rather than suddenly. More likely the operator's antenna is just losing line-of-sight to the drone and obstacles like trees are degrading the signal.
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  5551. "you took out French Guinea there at the end despite the fact that France somehow still owns it" Well, actually French Guinea became independent from France in 1958. And don't you dare complain about me being a nitpicker. You started it! ;)
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  5552. It was just a joke in any case. Also, Finland doesn't have the same kind of census as the US anymore. You can just query the population information system at any time and get a far more accurate answer.
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  5553. Does that mean that you get both tax benefits i.e. you get to invest pre-tax money but then don't pay a tax on it when you withdraw?
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  5554. 40% exit tax? Wow! Is that on your whole net worth or only on the unrealized untaxed part?
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  5555. "Well, fuck the Danish." -Natalie Wynn, 2020
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  5556. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  5557. Stenography seems quite interesting. Why is phonetic (or maybe phonemic rather than phonetic?) typing faster? If it's phonetic/phonemic, does that mean that some dialectal pronunciation differences get represented in the typing? What about pronunciation differences due to speech impediments?
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  5558.  @gjb520 : Thanks. But apparently the stenographic is not just quick typing the most common phrases like that and the rest like normal English? How does it work those parts that don't have shortcuts like that?
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  5559. The classic solution is to divide people under you into competing factions which you balance against each other. I suspect that's one of the reasons for Putin using PMCs parallel to regular military. Prigozhin can't easily stage a coup because people like Gerasimov and Shoigu wouldn't allow that but similarly Prigozhin can make it more difficult for Gerasimov to stage a coup
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  5560. @ "isreal occupied Palestine after world war 2 and the West support's them" I don't think most Western countries accept e.g. East Jerusalem as a part of Israel (and ditto for Golan Heights). "western countries not accepting something done t carry as much weight as you wish it could" I don't think e.g. China is going to recognize it either, at least not officially. They don't want to open that can of worms. Some African countries might recognize it.
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  5561. IPA please.
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  5562. Peter Zeihan is less informed about these kinds of topics. He doesn't have much interesting stuff to say about economic data like this.
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  5563.  @Zagriel.  "Estonia will never reach Finland's standards." Don't be so sure. Estonia has been catching up since regaining its independence. In 1992 its real (PPP) GDP per capita was about 1/3 of that of Finland. Today that gap is much narrower. Also, I think during its first stretch of independence, Estonia was richer than Finland.
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  5564.  @Zagriel.  That's today. Future might be different. 30 years ago the difference was much larger. I think there's a good chance that after another 30 years there will be no real difference anymore.
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  5565. So it's pronounced Huningon?
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  5566. Western missiles are unlikely. Strikes like this deep inside internationally recognized Russia with Western missiles haven't (yet) been authorized and AFAIK Russia hasn't be claiming that such missiles were used in Toropets.
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  5567. "Considering all the rumors of Israel providing Iron Dome to Ukraine. Along with all the photos of AA missiles over Kiev looking surprisingly similar to the Iron Dome, I for one am not at all surprised they are short on those missiles." I don't agree with this logic. If it's only a rumor then, even if it's true, it can't imply all that many Iron Dome systems having been sent to Ukraine.
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  5568.  @rodiculous9464  I only said that the amount of Iron Dome systems sent can't be large if that particular system having been sent to Ukraine is a rumor (as OP described it).
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  5569.  @josefodium8888  I would think if Ukraine had been firing a lot of Tamir missiles, that would likely also have been noticed to a degree such that it wouldn't remain a mere rumor.
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  5570.  @yaelz6043  OP described it as a rumor. If it's a rumor in the sense that it's not widely publicly known for sure, it likely means that the amount of systems and missiles used isn't that large.
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  5571.  @ObIitus  "western-imported Christianity" Christianity comes from the east, at least from the perspective of most of the West. "Ex oriente lux" and all that stuff.
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  5572. He said "mainland Africa".
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  5573. He's not.
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  5574.  @shugdee  He isn't. His degree is in political science, not economics.
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  5575.  @shugdee  No, that one is in Asian studies (at least according to Wikipedia).
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  5576. Next: An actual personal AC. The way it should work is through an actual closed cycle. Then it can blow the cool air into your face and the hot air in the opposite direction. Might not be a paragon of efficiency but it should at least give you an illusion of working when you switch it on. Btw, if one already has a fan, I wonder if just hanging a wet towel in front of it would work as well as the devices in this video. (I saw this trick mentioned in a great anime called Battle Programmer Shirase.)
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  5577.  @randomeverything3023 : "Inside, however would increase the rooms temp by adding the heat from the compressor." But I think that alone wouldn't stop a device like that being peddled. The rise in room temperature comes with a delay whereas the cool breeze to one's face would be immediate. People might not realize how inefficient that would be.
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  5578. Napoléon was an artillery officer so a cannon rush would suit him much better than a Zerg rush.
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  5579.  @AAhmou  I was just wondering whether independence was really necessary at that point. The Americans got angry at e.g. tea policies that made tea cheaper mostly on principle. Also, gaining independence much later might have meant that the US would've had Canada as well.
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  5580. "How to destroy your Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in 1 single step!" I'm not so sure about that. This proposal would seem to affect foreign portfolio investment rather than foreign direct investment. Of course, that depends on the details and I may have misunderstood.
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  5581.  @lordanonimmo7699  The more north you go the less gas is used. North of the Baltic Sea gas isn't used very much for heating so I think you're mistaken.
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  5582. I don't think that's the case. I've seen Erdoğan's religious views on interest rates reported many times. I'd imagine it's fairly common knowledge among people who have followed news about Turkey or Erdoğan in recent years.
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  5583. 3:50 "One problem is the sample size. It's often too small. Consider the World Happiness Index. They sample just 1,000 people every year. For a country like India that's nothing. 1,000 out of 1.4 billion people." I think when it comes to this particular argument, you don't understand statistics sufficiently well. What matters is the absolute size of the sample, not its size relative to the population. 1,000 people is already a decent sample size. That probably can't explain the results (though that doesn't rule out other methodological issues).
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  5584. Is it really accurate to say that Australia is isolated from major economic blocs. I mean, it's pretty close to ASEAN.
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  5585.  @idontexist1681  I think in the US congressional districts also have to be contiguous but that still allows for almost separate areas that are joined only by a very narrow strip of land.
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  5586.  @blackoutgo2597  But that doesn't make gold mining necessary. There's plenty of gold mined already, a lot of it just sitting in vaults idly.
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  5587.  @artandarchitecture6399  In most high-income countries inflation is not that high in the long term and most people don't hold that much of their assets in the form of cash or bank deposits anyway. Also, using crypto doesn't make you exempt from any possible wealth tax.
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  5588. This video is reasonable but the title is total clickbait.
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  5589.  @Flo_Henk  They basically use the US dollar. The paper money used is just the US dollar. They, however, mint their own coins because coins are much heavier than paper notes, and importing them from the US would be too expensive.
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  5590. He did show Ireland as a part of the EU.
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  5591. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kM7W_3z_3c
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  5592. @GE B Yeah, but that's quite not what I was talking about. In this video WSM said basically that a single broker might only give Hwang 2x leverage but he could get 5x leverage by going to multiple brokers. However, that makes no sense. You can't multiply the leverage ratio by using multiple brokers. By using multiple brokers Hwang was able to hide from his brokers how large portions of several companies he owned (well, not technically "owned" but you know what I mean). However, that's quite different from somehow increasing the leverage ratio.
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  5593. Even if he couldn't prove his citizenship, surely that alone shouldn't be grounds for also revoking his license? I mean, surely non-citizens can get a driver's license too. What was the basis for also revoking his license?
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  5594.  @KJ-md2wj  That doesn't explain anything. Surely there are many non-citizens living in Tennessee with driver's licences. Why would this particular person be an exception even if he wasn't a citizen?
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  5595. The maximum speed depends on friction and air resistance so it's not simple to calculate.
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  5596.  @firstlast8190  "Only if they're Thorium based." Thorium is too untested. It should be developed but in the mean time we also need to build more conventional nuclear plants as to not delay decarbonization too much.
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  5597.  @firstlast8190  "you're stating this as though it's theoretically impossible to implement" No, not at all. I only said that it's (still) untested and that it should be developed. I wouldn't say that it should be developed if I thought it would be theoretically impossible to implement.
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  5598.  @firstlast8190  "it's only untested because most countries apparently crave developing nuclear weapons more than developing safer and more sustainable energy." You have it backwards. The interest in thorium reactors (and some other alternatives like fast breeders) was sparked by the apparently looming running out of uranium which partially due to high demand caused by the nuclear arms race. Interest has waned because many new sources of uranium have been discovered and arms limitations have seen many decommissioned nuclear weapons turned into fuel. As long as uranium is cheap there's less incentive to develop alternatives. "You're argument could have been used against Tesla developing EV 10 years ago" No, it couldn't. I literally said it should be developed.
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  5599.  @firstlast8190  "you're forgetting that it was shelved because Thorium only generates a small fraction of waste compared to Uranium(ie. Useless for countries that desire to build nuclear weapons)" Commercial reactors have a high burnup making them unsuitable for producing weapons grade uranium. There are a lot countries using nuclear power but most of them have promised not to develop nuclear weapons under the Nuclear Non-Profileration Treaty. For the most part choosing to use uranium as a fuel in nuclear plants has little to do with nuclear weapons manufacturing. Also, thorium reactors operate by converting thorium into uranium-233 which is, at least theoretically, suitable for making a nuclear weapon so it's not clear to me that it would be better in that respect. "Of course it could be used. 10 years ago you'd probably be saying that EVs wouldn't be viable because more research needs to be done" Of course it could not. I wouldn't be saying things like that and I have not used the word "viable" (nor "unviable") here. At any rate, developing a new vehicle takes at least some time (though much less than a new type of power plant). Saying (back then) that it probably makes sense to continue using ICE vehicles until EVs hit the market on a large scale would probably not be controversial at all. Change doesn't usually happen in an instant.
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  5600.  @firstlast8190  "it totally has to do with weapons manufacturing" It (mostly) does not. "Ask Iran about those bs treaties cause they sure don't work by your reasoning." Iran is just one country. Most countries using nuclear energy don't make weapons manufacture an consideration. Even in Iran there's no technical requirement for the nuclear electricity plants for weapons manufacture. "There's no risk of meltdowns" That's a potential benefit but it's not clear to me how large that is since most nuclear reactors don't meltdown. "Its clear you just want to argue and be the smartest man in the YouTube comment section at this point." I don't think so and couldn't I levy the same accusation at you if just responding to comments warrants it? "Personally I don't think there's any realistic downside in attempting to implement that technology." I have not even argued against that. I only said that we should also build uranium reactors in the meantime. That's all.
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  5601.  @firstlast8190  "Even when Fukushima went off, it affects reached the west coast over hear." There was no real effect there. I don't hear people saying that we shouldn't have hydro plants because some of them have failed.
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  5602. He did mention them.
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  5603. I think it would make more sense to compare the game prices to income levels in each country, not to the price of a Big Mac. I agree that some of this price discrimination appears to make very little sense. However, I don't think it makes sense to say that games should be cheaper in Japan just because food is cheap there as well.
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  5604. He's really Astinus in disguise.
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  5605. Or Argentina.
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  5606. Good point!
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  5607.  @ravindrakumar1630  They receive euros and dollars for oil and gas. They could use those (at least if they can wire that money).
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  5608. 0:40 "Trillions, with a capital T" I spell "trillion" with a lower case t.
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  5609. "a note about median age...doesnt it increase because people in the west live longer?" For median it doesn't matter how much beyond the median age people live. Maybe you were thinking of mean rather than median?
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  5610. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  5611. American vs. British pronunciation?
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  5612. Being neutral is not safer as we saw in 1939. Russia is very unlikely to invade a NATO member which adds to Finland's safety.
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  5613. But to be fair, that was a lot shorter wall and thus could be guarded more effectively.
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  5614. "only half of the steel can be recycled" My understanding is that only half is recycled whereas more could be recycled (though that requires effort and isn't free).
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  5615. "No, that does not mean building roads is bad." It does, however, weaken some of the arguments for building more roads or widening them. Still, I agree that it alone doesn't mean that building roads is bad. It's a bunch of other stuff which means that building roads is bad.
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  5616.  @gsilva220 : "Electric primary propulsion is very efficient wherever you put it (cars, machines, planes, boats, etc.)" I'm not so sure about that "planes" part. In planes, the extra weight from the batteries degrades the efficiency much more than in vehicles that travel on the surface which supports their weight.
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  5617.  @gsilva220 : The point is that the extra weight increases the losses due to drag. I don't think it matter whether any losses are due to drag, due to battery losses, or some other source, for the purposes of calling something efficient or inefficient.
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  5618.  @gobil5274  It doesn't raise the average salinity of the world's oceans since no salt is added. The ecological damage from the brine is also just local. Further out the brine gets diluted.
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  5619. 1:25 That image doesn't even look digital. It looks like it's on a physical piece of paper. Are you sure you weren't scammed?
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  5620.  @Caktusdud.  "Without using water." Presumably it would still need water to clean the glass even if doesn't use a steam turbine.
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  5621. "Something else you may notice, is that a fair number of deadliest snipers in Soviet history are women." My guess is that it's because there were far fewer women than men in the Soviet forces so the women who were there were a highly self-selected group.
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  5622. Grid is good.
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  5623. It hadn't occurred to me that someone might want to synchronize turn signals this much.
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  5624. I think waste oil collected from e.g. restaurant kitchens for the purpose of recycling could probably be transported in actual barrels.
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  5625.  @yournamehere7329 : I think he was just using a weird wording. Note that he said "pre taxed" not "pre tax". I think he meant that taxes happen before contributions, not when you withdraw.
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  5626. "couldn't she sue" In her current state that's probably difficult. She's not deemed fit to enter into contracts by herself so hiring a lawyer would be difficult.
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  5627. Are you thinking of the old Edison vs. Tesla thing? Back then Edison wanted to deliver DC directly to homes which is a different thing. The problem with that was that the voltage was low for the entire length of the transmission meaning high current and high losses. With AC the voltage could be stepped up for much of the length using transformers and then stepped back down again. This is not an issue with HVDC which uses a high voltage.
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  5628. @Alexander Hanley: Norwegian is kind of between Danish and Swedish but closer to Swedish. (At least, that's what I've been told. I only know Swedish so I can't attest to this personally.) Norway was a part of Denmark for longer but it was a part Sweden more recently and is in any case geographically closer.
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  5629. One flat earth claim I've seen is that the other planets are supposedly just lights and not solid objects. Not sure if all flat earthers believe that though.
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  5630. John Clauser's expertise is not in atmospheric sciences. You shouldn't that much weight to what he says about the climate.
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  5631.  @luisnunes3863  You shouldn't take the word of a single person. A clear majority of climate scientists agree that the climate has warmed and that it's in significant part due to human caused emissions. You don't have to care what Michael Mann says. He's just one climate scientist among many. Discounting one person doesn't meaningfully change the picture.
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  5632. "France and other countries which have a pension based retirement fund need to look at Australia's superannuation system" That isn't much help without a proposal to how to make the switch.
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  5633. I think it's because they can be thin so they require less material.
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  5634. "The streams and tributaries that feed the reservoirs freeze." I'd think it's usually only the surface that freezes. The water doesn't freeze all the way to the bottom unless the stream is very small.
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  5635. "Finland propably doesn’t want or need foreign NATO troops on it’s soil during peace time." Why not?
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  5636. Detergent pack manufacturers should start to make 2-piece packs that can be broken into 2 so you can put the smaller one into the pre-wash compartment. That should be fancy enough to catch the consumers' attention.
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  5637. "And are you aware the the so-called man-made CO2 impact on global climate change is substantial not even measurable?" Man-made greenhouse emissions are responsible for more than half of the recent warming.
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  5638. Do a debate on whether planes or ships are better.
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  5639.  @nathan43082 : "My big problem is with the initial premise: that we must have personal transportation vehicles for everything. [...] There are many places in larger European cities where an automobile is unnecessary for most of the things you do because 1. They have very good public transportation infrastructures and 2. Their cities are more “walkable,” meaning you need not travel far for most of your needs." Well, I live in a European city (Helsinki) and don't own a car. However, the buses that transport me still need to run on something so roughly the same logic applies to them. There are some electric buses (and some that run on natural gas), but most run on diesel and it would be good if that changed at some point.
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  5640.  @SuperFlamethrower  It may be difficult for her to hire a lawyer because she's deemed not fit to enter into a contract by herself.
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  5641. "One thing I would add to the list of solutions is property tax reform so that property owners are taxed based on the value of unimproved property, rather than improved property values." The argument for that is good but I still feel that it's good to tax the improved value to some extent. That's because living in a house/apartment is consumption and ideally should be taxed like other consumption. A lot of consumption is taxed through sales tax (in the US). As long as sales tax doesn't apply to rent (or owner-occupant's imputed rent) property tax can compensate for that. Since in the case of housing the consumption includes the improvements, that should be taxed at least to some extent. However, it might make sense to tax the improvement part of the value less than the unimproved part of the value.
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  5642.  @Bennyboy-dog  Waste treatment is probably not any different than for more traditional reactors. Same procedures can be applied.
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  5643.  @Bennyboy-dog  How has waste been badly managed. I'm not aware of problems (at least not in high-income countries).
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  5644.  @Bennyboy-dog  I have heard of the plastic waste in oceans (though it's not a literal island) but I meant that specifically nuclear waste is to my knowledge generally well managed (excluding in poorer countries like Russia). The volume of waste, or at least spent fuel, is pretty low compared to the amount of power generated. The low volume makes it easier to manage than other waste types which have much higher volumes.
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  5645.  @Bennyboy-dog  "Radioactive waste is cumulative over time time" Even with cumulation the volume is really small. You can e.g. search for image labelled "45 years worth of Swiss nuclear waste is not enough to fill a single room". The difference to other forms of waste is enormous. Even one day worth of plastic waste (in Switzerland or elsewhere) far surpasses the amount seen in that picture.
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  5646.  @Astronurd  Kinzhals are ballistic missiles.
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  5647. In English "Persian Gulf" is used.
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  5648.  @evilsheepmaster1744  Lehman Brothers wasn't invincible.
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  5649. That was the Germans, not all EU members.
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  5650.  @geraldheinig1473  There's no functional difference in reducing a farmer's taxes by X € and giving them a subsidy which amounts to X € (after possible taxes). That's just accounting nitpicking without a real difference.
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  5651. "Ultimately it benefits German consumers." This is a very inefficient way of trying to help German consumers. It would be better to just e.g. give this amount of money to consumers directly (whether by transfer or tax cut) rather than trying to route it through farmers.
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  5652.  @geraldheinig1473  "The point is whose money it really is. The money belongs to the farmers." That's your point and I'm saying it's an irrelevant point. If you were to say that the farmers are being taxed to, it wouldn't really matter whether you rectify that by giving them a tax break or giving them a subsidy of equal size. The end result would be the same. Also, it makes sense to tax fuels because their usage results in CO₂ emissions. Farm equipment isn't any different in this regard. If you think taxes are too high in Germany it makes more sense to just lower e.g. income taxes for everybody rather than giving a special tax break to one group of people (such as farmers).
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  5653.  @geraldheinig1473  "My point is who is doing whom a favour." To me, that's quite unimportant. What matters for tax policy are things like the net income (after both taxes and transfers) of farmers and other people, the tax revenue collected by the government, and the incentive effects felt by farmers and other taxpayers. I don't see a reason to consider philosophical points like "who's doing who a favor" etc. "It makes sense to tax fuels if there's an alternative. There isn't, really." I'm pretty sure the demand on fuels (both by farmers and others) is not completely inelastic so there's still an effect on usage. "And C02 emissions have only very recently been given as a reason for taxation." But nonetheless they IMHO justify taxing fuels (including those used in farm equipment). The reasons why I consider it to be a good tax still applies even if the fuel tax originally implemented for some other (possibly bad) reason. Incidentally, the German government initially also planned to make farm vehicles subject to vehicle tax but then backed out. This exemption is probably more justified than the fuel tax exemption since tractors etc. are rarely driven on roads. "It certainly does make sense to lower fuel taxes to the level of the farmers" I disagree because it makes sense to discourage greenhouse emissions through taxation. If the taxpayers' burden should be lowered it makes more sense to lower some other tax like income tax or VAT.
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  5654.  @geraldheinig1473  "If you're OK with the government just helping itself to whatever is on your account, then I guess that's fine for you." I merely gave my opinion about what kind of tax breaks I consider bad/good and why, that's all.
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  5655. Based on quick googling about $7.57 per gallon.
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  5656. Does Japan have a comparable government program?
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  5657. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  5658. 1:23 "We're gonna get through this totally fine and the only way to do that is not to lose your panic."
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  5659. It's taking kinetic energy from the wind and therefore the laws of thermodynamics aren't being violated.
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  5660.  @duncangroenewald  My point was that the first law of thermodynamics, i.e. the conservation of energy, is not being violated because the energy is extracted from the wind.
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  5661.  @villeuusivuori7150  Minimum per day is 6 €. For the total fine there's a minimum of 100 € for moped drivers and 200 € for drivers of other motor vehicles.
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  5662. The idea is that eventually miners would be compensated entirely by transaction fees by people making BitCoin transactions.
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  5663. "this analysis is [...] full of errors" What are those errors? You didn't mention any errors in your comment.
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  5664.  @fredrikbystrom7380  Yeah I know, but I couldn't resist trolling a little bit. :)
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  5665.  @PikkaBird  "egonomics[sic]" Did you mean to write "ergonomics" or "economics"? Both are salient.
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  5666.  @PikkaBird  I would have thought that the economics of using aluminium would be simply worse (because it's more expensive).
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  5667.  @PikkaBird  I guess one could use stainless steel though it's more expensive so I'm not sure it would be cheaper than aluminium.
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  5668. "raising interest rates does not suppress inflation [...] central banks have to stop printing money in order to stop inflation" An interest rate hike is (implicitly) a decision to print less money.
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  5669.  @The_Angry_BeEconomist  It is. Here by "less" I mean "less compared to the alternative where rates are not hiked". Maybe you can argue that central banks haven't tightened enough but that would just mean they haven't raised rates high enough.
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  5670.  @banksrail  My point wasn't so much about whether it's good or bad, there are always pros and cons, but rather that the term seems to not be very descriptive.
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  5671.  @Alfsrapedungeon  "you really thing us tiny humans have that big of an impact against natural occurrences?" We can quantify the amount of impact we're having on Earth's climate. You can read the IPCC reports on those numbers.
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  5672.  @duketoby0  "how the conservation of energy is respected here" The propeller decelerates air (relative to the ground). Therefore the air is losing kinetic energy and the cart is gaining some.
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  5673. Both terms are in use.
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  5674. "The EU is not like the USA." The USA in the past was a lot more like the EU is today (though obviously not exactly the same). It just has gotten more centralized over time.
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  5675. Diluting?
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  5676. That would be a violation of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
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  5677.  @danhubert-hx4ss  They can do that but they would indeed have to withdraw from the Treaty first. I think doing that would be a bad idea. It's important to not weaken the taboo on nuclear weapons. However, if Russia decides to use nukes then that changes everything.
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  5678. Ideally, pension systems should be at least partially funded rather than pure pay-as-you-go. However, if the existing system has a very low funding rate or is a pure pay-as-you-go then the funding rate can't be increased all that quickly or else you'll completely screw over one generation (who ends up paying for both their own pension and that of the one before them).
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  5679. Hmm, the NordVPN hack happened to a data center in Finland. I wonder if the data center provider was Tieto.
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  5680. "Well he's not wrong about China's real estate market in a bubble." Are you sure? If so, how can you be sure? These things aren't easy to get right.
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  5681. Of course he meant "survive long enough to get major assistance".
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  5682. Time to repeal the Jones Act.
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  5683. "He never should have stated a dollar amount" How can he ask Thunderf00t to pay without stating a dollar amount?
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  5684. No. Firstly LegalEagle has covered in an earlier video arguments why the president wouldn't be able to pardon himself (e.g. no one should be a judge in their own matter). Secondly, and more importantly, a pardon cannot be given before a conviction because there's nothing to pardon yet.
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  5685.  @k2ted  OK, I checked Wikipedia and it seems I was mistaken. Pardons can be before indictment and even for unspecified offenses. I still suspect that a self-pardon isn't possible. E.g. the DoJ opined during the Watergate scandal that Nixon can't issue a self-pardon, though that's not the same thing as an attempted self-pardon being tested in courts. In any case, at least one limitation is there. Namely, the president's power to pardon is limited to federal crimes. Pardons for state crimes are instead handled by that state's governor or a state pardons board.
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  5686.  @avae5343  Are you confusing "barrister" and "barista"?
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  5687.  @avae5343  Then what does that "barrister at Starbucks" mean?
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  5688.  @avae5343  You wrote (and this is a direct copy-paste): "At least he was a barrister. You’re a barrister alright - at Starbucks."
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  5689.  @avae5343  That "alright" and a hyphen between "barrister" and "Starbucks" hardly changed the meaning. I only added the essential elements to the earlier quote. But if you insist, then what do you mean by "barrister alright - at Starbucks"?
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  5690.  @avae5343  You did write that. It's a direct copy-paste.
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  5691.  @avae5343  I was only interested what that particular part meant, not the ones before it.
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  5692.  @avae5343  Well, what does the whole comment mean then? I focused on the part that seemed the strangest but if you can't explain that can you explain the whole comment? What do barristers have to do with Starbucks?
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  5693.  @avae5343  But I don't think I have refused? I did also quote your whole comment and you called it accurate. In any case, can you explain it? What do barristers and Starbucks have to do with each other?
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  5694.  @avae5343  You mean you want me to quote the comment again? Well, it was: "At least he was a barrister. You’re a barrister alright - at Starbucks." Now, what do barristers and Starbucks have to with each other (in this context)?
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  5695. Wrt Hong Kong the UK is doing the right thing (whereas with the Windrush people it didn't do the right thing).
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  5696. I think the claim was that they'd try to expand their influence. I can't think of any place where Turkey would want or try to expand in that kind of sense (except maybe some Greek islands on the coast of Anatolia if they're really bold).
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  5697. "Oil is better truest me" It's not.
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  5698.  @toannguyen214dallas  "a lot of people make that trip every summer" Once a year is pretty rarely. You can just rent a car for such trips. "Plus u said it electric door an ice not me lol." What? I didn't say anything about electric doors or ice.
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  5699. "yet the propeller proceeds to accelerate" To me it looks like the propeller isn't accelerating but rather the earlier frames in the video are just slowed down.
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  5700. 42:15 What is it that Americans understand about this picture but others don't?
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  5701.  @Devil_Dog_98  The choice between candidate A and candidate B is binary. You can't easily determine a distribution (and thus whether there's a clear median) from just that. Also, consider that voters may change their opinions between elections.
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  5702. "Dutch disease is defined as an increase in the exchange rate" The exchange rate is not part of the definition.
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  5703.  @JJP-lb3ek  Exchange rate movement isn't necessary. Even if the country were to e.g. peg its currency to stop the exchange rate from rising, that still wouldn't prevent the Dutch disease (except maybe in the short run) because then the exports would still become expensive and imports (comparatively) cheap through inflation.
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  5704. 7:20 Did the Soviets really destroy that dam to slow German troops? The impression I got from watching the series on World War Two channel is that the Soviets mostly destroyed the dam so that it wouldn't fall into German hands and destroying the dam actually washed away some Soviet troops downriver.
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  5705.  @bobing1752  "yes, our energy companies are making a butt ton of money and that could indirectly benefit us. But the problem is that we are also paying a lot more, which is directly hurting us." If Germany etc. are willing to pay enough it makes economic sense for France to export.
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  5706. "which was met with fierce and unprovoked attack from Finnish side" No, it wasn't.
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  5707.  @kale8133  It's not obvious that alone would explain it. If a building in a commercial district would fetch a higher price as a residential building then it seems that the residential use is valuable enough to overcome the agglomeration benefits. Is there an actual negative externality from the different use? Secondly, zoning doesn't control many of the factors that would matter for agglomeration. E.g. zoning usually doesn't tell whether some office building can house a software company or a financial company.
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  5708. Gesundheit.
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  5709. It was only tarred, not compressed, so it shouldn't take that long.
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  5710.  @FrithonaHrududu02127  If I understood correctly, under this deal the Chagossians can return to their islands except for Diego Garcia.
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  5711. 54:20 Well, during the first Gulf War those bunker buster bombs were designed and produced even quicker and they did work so it's not necessarily an impossible feat.
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  5712.  @Cohen.the.Worrier  With a system like that the AG would do everything in his power to stop an innocent person from being released if that meant he would have to pay millions.
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  5713. You could argue it's more equal than a flat fine.
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  5714.  @boedude8496  "equal in justice means equal in punishment" I mean, a fine based on income can be argued to be more equal than a flat fine.
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  5715.  @boedude8496  "we both get a ticket for the exact same offense why do my employment choices affect the fine?" A flat fine would have a smaller impact on the person with a higher income. Tying the fine to income (roughly) equalizes the impact.
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  5716.  @boedude8496  I don't get what taxes have to do with this. Yes, income taxes are progressive but a certain dollar amount is still less impactful for a rich person so an income tied fine is more equal. Tying fines to income isn't (for me at least) about redistribution but mostly just ensuring that those with higher income also disincentivized from dangerous driving. A flat fine can easily become irrelevant for sufficiently rich people.
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  5717.  @rohithdsouza8  "the Balloon is filled with helium" Do weather (or spy) balloons use helium? I thought they used hydrogen which is cheaper.
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  5718.  @nishyanthkumar  But that shouldn't be a big issue for unmanned balloons that fly fairly high. Of course, accidents are possible when filling the balloons but that's not a Hindenburg level danger. Many industrial processes are more dangerous (or even use hydrogen).
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  5719.  @agusedyanto3324  But that shouldn't be a big issue for unmanned balloons that fly fairly high. Of course, accidents are possible when filling the balloons but that's not a Hindenburg level danger. Many industrial processes are more dangerous (or even use hydrogen).
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  5720.  @willielim3269  Weather balloons don't last years in any case.
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  5721. "Signing up to NATO might not be what voters wanted" You're mistaken. That's exactly what a clear majority wanted.
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  5722. It's not because it extracts energy from the wind.
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  5723.  @PranavSinganapalli  It's not a perpetual motion machine.
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  5724. Even LNG still likely has a lower amount of greenhouse emissions per kWh.
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  5725. Is that guy Spain's foreign minister now or was 13 years ago?
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  5726. Could Paradox Interactive accuse these companies (or at least the game company) of infringing on their trademark?
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  5727.  @theredscourge  The main span of the bridge is a truss-arch so I don't think it uses cables.
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  5728. Germany should start reopening their nuclear plants. Those shouldn't have been closed (before their end-of-life) to begin with.
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  5729. "It's obvious we are headed for hyperinflation" If you're talking about the US, then not at all. There is no indication that the US is headed for hyperinflation.
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  5730. I suspect most of them have real jobs (or had if they're retired).
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  5731.  @lolboi7434  But the construction on those hasn't started yet. To my knowledge, Flamanville 3 is the only nuclear plant in France under construction.
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  5732.  @MM-kz9pd  "Unfortunately the west is providing more and more ammunition to Ukraine which means there will be more and more blood." It's not good if aggression, such as by Putin in this case, is allowed to happen unimpeded.
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  5733.  @JohnDoe-uk2iu  "No Archegos gave the same collateral to all the banks." I don't think that's the case. Where did you hear that?
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  5734.  @justold4810  That "Brits have bad teeth" is a bit of a myth, isn't it?
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  5735.  @antonystringfellow5152  "It's not a mere "difference in pronunciation" to insert the vowel 'U'" Of course epenthesis like that is a difference in pronunciation just like e.g. swapping a back vowel for a front vowel in the word "bath" is. "And just because the people of an entire region do it, doesn't mean it's not wrong." What kind of criterion are you using for "right" or "wrong" here? Why should anyone care about your criterion? This kind of regional variation is what dialects are. Saying it's wrong makes just as much sense as for a Brit to say that Americans are pronouncing English wrong.
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  5736. "Because of interstates, urban sprawl spread farther resulting in less dense cities" Isn't that because of zoning policies?
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  5737. Alcohol tax is high to reduce drinking (but that 27 € price cannot be correct unless he bought a 1 l pint or something).
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  5738. He meant the speed limit (setting the maximum speed for vehicles) has to be at least that high.
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  5739. All of them? That's statistically unlikely.
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  5740. "The Baltic States. Total population about 5.5M." No, the total population is about 6.1 million.
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  5741.  @garyhalmbacher6875  Their economies have grown quite fast during their a bit over 3 decades of independence, so they don't have declining economies.
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  5742. If Russia is the culprit they could have also sent the explosives inside the pipe onboard a maintenance robot.
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  5743.  @orionlt1028  That didn't stop that particular winter from being a major hindrance for their war efforts.
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  5744.  @orionlt1028  Of course they are the same for both sides. I never said they're different.
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  5745.  @yuzuki7531  "Japans Stock Market is the 3 largest in the world, almost the size like the EU." How are you measuring size here? By market cap, Tokyo Stock Exchange is 5th in the world (behind NYSE, Nasdaq, Euronext, and Shanghai Stock Exchange).
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  5746. Some of those tanks were destroyed by more conventional means such as artillery or anti-tank mines.
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  5747.  @snipergod5216  Yeah. My comment was about where the fighting happened. OP (Jason Blalock) commented that it happened in colonies rather than on French or English soil. I replied that the French would have likely wanted to fight on English soil but couldn't get across the Channel.
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  5748. I heard Baked Alaska's finances aren't in good order either.
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  5749. This reminds me of Red November.
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  5750.  @svetlananikolic265  Did you mean to reply to OP (Rainst0rm) rather than me? In any case, Kosovo is de facto independent at the moment; I don't plan on commenting on whether that is legitimate or not. The biggest ethnic group in Kosovo is Albanians.
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  5751.  @stevanjakovljevic8390  "But albaniians are is minority in Serbia" I only replied to your comment "no Kosovar ethnic group".
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  5752.  @AnaB012  If you're right that an "end" is necessarily ugly then it's better to perpetuate the status quo instead of trying to reach and "end" to the dispute.
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  5753. The golden dog is obviously explained by time travel.
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  5754. Would it be possible to use water at the condenser end to increase efficiency?
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  5755. Well, sanctions on hydrocarbon exports are more powerful than those on uranium exports because the former has been bringing Russia more revenue. That said, I think the uranium exports should be sanctioned too.
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  5756. The US parties are basically coalitions.
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  5757.  @thomasstone3480  I wasn't trying to suggest that only major shareholders should be able to sue, though admittedly my original comment probably wasn't as clear as it could have been. What worries me here is that the method for calculating the compensation for the lawyers seems result in an enormous payout (in case of a victory) which may give an excessively strong incentive to sue. Maybe the lawsuit was the right thing to do in this case but I can imagine that in other cases lawyers may want to litigate even very weak cases for a small chance of a huge payout. The part about getting a random minor shareholder to sue was mostly just to say that a lawyer that wants to sue can probably always find a way to do it; it wasn't the heart of my contention.
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  5758.  @Freerider93  "strong incentives to litigate is not a bad thing" There should be an optimal level for the strength of incentives; below the incentives are too weak and above too strong. Since in this case the payout was so enormous, it leads me to suspect that it might create excessively strong incentives to sue (and in this case a smaller payout would likely have been sufficient to incentivize a lawsuit). "The only way to determine if a corporation is "likely" to have broken the law can only be determined by suing a company and going through the discovery process." Even before starting that process the litigant probably tries to evaluate how likely it is to make sense. You have to remember that the whole process is rather expensive and consumes society's resources. The incentives to do so can definitely be too strong in which case too many such cases may be started with most of them turning out to be a waste of time and resources.
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  5759.  @ChristopherSadlowski  Mostly the way the lawyers' compensation is calculated shouldn't result in too large of a sum (but not too small either). In this case the sum seems excessively large.
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  5760.  @Art-is-craft  At least based on this video, the main problem seemed to be that proper procedure wasn't followed, i.e. the shareholders weren't properly informed.
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  5761. Maybe you place navigational buoys such that they need to be evaded forcing lower speeds.
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  5762.  @waynejohnson1786  It's much, much higher.
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  5763. In general I don't like the word "collapse" because it's so vague. What does it mean that the economy collapses? One interpretation would be that economic output falls all the way to zero. However, such an extreme situation basically never happens. Another interpretation would be that economic output falls a lot. But how much is "a lot". Almost no one who uses the word "collapse" specifies what they mean. IMHO they should either give a definition or use terms that have official definitions (e.g. "depression").
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  5764. I don't think you understand what he meant. When Zhou Enlai was asked that question he thought it was about the 1968 student uprising in Paris which had occurred only about 4 years earlier. It's not the same as the French Revolution which happened almost 2 centuries earlier.
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  5765.  @alexlazar4738  "we can all just guess what he really thought the question referred to" I've seen it mentioned that supposedly it's clear that his response was about the 1968 riots according to both Nixon's interpreter (Chas Freeman) and Chinese archives. Of course, I've not perused these archives myself so I'm relying on what people written but at least my impression is that it's pretty clear what he thought.
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  5766. Can you buy just 1 ticket if you're willing to stand?
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  5767. 2:00 AFAIK, the oil embargo was done by OAPEC, not OPEC.
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  5768.  @mayer14474  Lol! Seriously speaking, I think that probably wouldn't work in general but might in some special cases.
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  5769. If it's a private agreement I'd assume that it could be changed if every property owner agrees to it. I'm not sure how that would work in Houston, though.
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  5770. Objection! 16:40 "...and they would probably be able to sue this poor gentleman out of existence for a whole raft of things including intentional interference with contract, disclosure of trade secrets..." What? How can they sue for intentional interference with contract if they just took the poor gentleman's designs without making a deal with him? And how could they sue for disclosure of trade secrets when the designs are his (and presumably he didn't sign an NDA which would prevent him from using his own designs while allowing them to do whatever they want with them)?
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  5771. Remember that navigation technology was less advanced back then so it's not that incredible for night-time bombing raids to go astray.
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  5772. 2:30 Why are e.g. Japan, China, and India missing from that list? I would have expected them to drink a lot of tea.
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  5773. The beginning of the video sounded very much like a lead-up to Ground News sponsorship.
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  5774. How would you have ruled if you were a supreme court justice?
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  5775. The DU rounds are not shells.
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  5776. Stirling engine works on a temperature difference which is a bit different.
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  5777. 26:30 Well, similarly human intelligence is also just electrons or ions flowing around in neurons.
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  5778. It's Luhansk in Ukrainian and Lugansk in Russian. Both are correct.
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  5779. OBJECTION! It's not 100% more lamps. That would mean doubling the number of lamps. Since you started from 0 lamps, any kind of increase infinite percent more lamps.
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  5780. Wrt. the Ottomans, what about their Janissary corps?
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  5781. "country wholesale" Why not country retail?
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  5782. Blue leans more towards ancient history.
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  5783. 8:52 "the Continental Navy" What a funny name. :)
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  5784.  @mikam8801  It can make sense if he's still at least somewhat generous and/or enjoys likes he might get if he posts about this on social media, but he isn't so generous that he would be willing to pay a sum that large 100% out of his own pocket (possibly after some reflection).
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  5785.  @rahul.83  "Then wouldn't Russia have done this AFTER losing Crimea ?! How does it help Russia in ANY way whatsoever to blow this dam right now." If Russia were to lose Crimea they probably wouldn't be in a position to destroy the dam anymore. Also, if the motivation is to hinder Ukrainian operations across the Dnieper it certainly wouldn't make sense to wait that long. On the other hand, if Ukraine wanted to destroy the dam (e.g. to reduce water supply to Crimea) they would have likely destroyed the dam much earlier. It wouldn't have made sense for them to wait this long if they were going to do it.
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  5786.  @amaqteganang4948  Can you understand any Malagasy?
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  5787. The ending of that last story reminded me of Pyrrhus.
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  5788. "So basically they get all the benefits of being American but don't pay for anything and just complain all the time." They still pay federal taxes. They might not pay state taxes but presumably they also don't receive as much state services.
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  5789.  @RS-ls7mm  To my knowledge, they are subject to federal income taxes, though if you make less than about $12,000 the tax rate will be zero. If they do business outside the reservation then they're also subject to state taxes.
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  5790. "harder for Builders getting to work" It's the opposite since housing is going to be built where the highways were.
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  5791. "ran a successful campaign for president." But did they specify the country?
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  5792.  @Nista357  Sorry, I confused this with another thread (under a different video) where someone said that the West is going bankrupt. However, I also haven't seen any Muslim secessionist movements in the EU either.
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  5793. @ Which EU members are you thinking about?
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  5794. @Gaming101-r9o What are you referring to?
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  5795. @ "Hyperdnisteria in Modern day Romania" What's that? Sounds made up.
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  5796. @ None of those things have really happened after the original comment so they don't really say anything about how well it has aged.
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  5797.  @Karaflas-v8x  If you mean Transnistria, it already broke away in the early '90s. Not intervening in Kosovo/Serbia wouldn't have affected that in any way.
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  5798.  @Karaflas-v8x  Also, Moldova isn't even an EU member. Note that OP's comment and my first comment here are specifically talking about EU members.
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  5799.  @Karaflas-v8x  There might be dangers to it but OP made a much more specific claim which is what I responded to.
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  5800. Not to mention that a linear layout would maximize average distances within the city.
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  5801. Why not Kiribati?
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  5802. Well, it (probably) isn't since he's apparently Estonian not Russian.
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  5803.  @Levon_RnD : Really? How can you tell?
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  5804.  @Levon_RnD : OK. I was just curious about what specifically in his pronunciation makes it sound Russian, because phonetics is interesting.
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  5805.  @Levon_RnD : Hmm, I checked the Wikipedia page on Estonian phonology and it says that Estonian also has palatalized version of all alveolar consonants in the language (except the trill) though it doesn't have the [vʲ] in "soviet". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_phonology#Consonants
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  5806. What about Sumatra? Why doesn't it have more people than Java?
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  5807. The digraph 'kh' denotes the sound [x] which English does not have. It reasonable that they approximate it with a sound that English does have like K.
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  5808. But presumably any current South African citizen residing in those areas could become their citizen regardless of race/ethnicity?
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  5809. You failed to mention that Britain switched to Swedish side at some point (though I think Charles XII was already dead then).
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  5810.  @charlesbeaudry3263  To my knowledge, gas fields can be closed and restarted without much trouble but oil fields are a different story and can't necessarily be reopened after closure.
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  5811.  @charlesbeaudry3263  I don't have a proper source. I've just seen it mentioned in many places that gas extraction is easier to restart than oil extraction. One possible difference is that colder oil can more easily block the well and the porous rock whereas natural gas doesn't even liquefy at a naturally occurring temperature.
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  5812.  @jaelynn7575  "I don't think you understand what "going on strike" means! No need for authorization, you just all have to choose to do it to bring attention to the problem." When the air traffic controllers went on a strike during Reagan they (all the striking ones) were fired. Reagan also banned the federal government from hiring them again.
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  5813.  @LS-ys8nr  Railway Labor Act regulates the right to strike.
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  5814.  @SeanRyno  They are only allowed to strike once other methods have been exhausted: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Labor_Act
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  5815.  @overdose8329  "Unfortunately, that’s not the case." Any evidence for that?
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  5816. "The contraction of supply of goods meant "more & more dollars chasing less & less goods". [...] It is supply of goods issue, not having too much currency." It's (mostly) too much currency. Inflation exceeded a million percent per year. Production was not shrinking by a factor of 10,000 per year but the money supply was increasing at an insane pace. The money supply was the main factor.
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  5817.  @superneenjaa718  I was also talking about per capita.
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  5818. 5:10 "the Russians did launch some ballistic missiles [...] but [...] most of the missiles [...] were air-launched [...] but also [...] Kinzhal missiles were used" This is a rather strange wording since Kinzhals are both air-launched and ballistic. Are you excluding Kinzhals from one or both of these categories for some reason?
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  5819.  @homieland  "you covert the amount of 440 million everyday to ruble, that’s a massive devaluation in Euro" Hardly. 1) That's like 1% of the Eurozone GDP. 2) Those payments have already been going on for long. "Russia have prepared this war for years, this can tell from the gold reserves they have of 2300tons" The gold reserves are of limited use. It wouldn't be easy to do transactions with gold or transport the gold out of Russia. "when you cut supply natural gas the whole EU go Stone Age" That is an exaggeration. The '70s oil crisis was worse.
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  5820.  @homieland  Saying "no electricity" is an exaggeration. In the EU natural gas is less than 25% of all energy (though more in some member states) and a lot of that goes to heating rather than electricity. You might argue that some of the heating lost would be replaced by diverting more electricity to heating but it's still a far cry from "no electricity (for anything else)". Likely heating and such would be rationed but it would be survivable though rather unpleasant. "we can say they have nothing to lose" That is not the case. Oil and gas exports are a big part of the federal budget. If a significant part of those are lost the government will find it hard to function very soon. Using deficit spending would not be an easy solution either since the sanctions make debt financing very difficult.
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  5821.  @homieland  Of course, if they cease all other energy exports to the EU as well then that's tougher but Russia too will then run out of money sooner. It is survivable for the EU but not for Russia in the sense that they could continue the war (though Russia as a state can still survive it).
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  5822. No.
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  5823. I think Strelkov has claimed that munitions were stored in the same building which increased the damage. Not sure if that's true or not.
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  5824.  @markusgarcia4136  How is Berkshire Hathaway different from a hedge fund then?
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  5825. "This is a misinformed piece if not intentional disinformation. 1. The GERD is a hydro electric dam not an irrigation dam. Every drop of water that enters the GERD will pass to Sudan and Egypt after producing electricity. 2. Building dams in Ethiopia increases the water that reaches Egypt not reduce it, because of reduced evaporation." I would say you are wrong here and this video is not misinformed. Of course, once in operation GERD has to let water through. The problem is the filling phase because during that time the flow has to be reduced and this was clearly stated in the video. Evaporation from the dam reservoir shouldn't be a big issue in the case of the GERD as it is in a cooler and more humid location than Egypt meaning the rate of evaporation isn't that bad.
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  5826.  @geletagammo3705  "Ethiopia repeatedly stated the filling phase can be done without any significant harm to Egypt or Sudan and done only in the rainy season of 2 months, while the Nile flows all year round." Even filling it for 2 months per year during the highest discharge rate can potentially be too much, if too large part of the flow is arrested. Now, I'm not going to just uncritically believe Egyptian claims that the planned fill rate is too fast but I'm also not going to just uncritically believe Ethiopian claims that it isn't. We would need to get some kind of independent assessment.
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  5827.  @geletagammo3705  "Better yet do your own simple calculation of the annual flow rate to the number of years" The average discharge rate of the Blue Nile is 1,548 m³/s (according to Wikipedia) and the volume of the GERD reservoir is 74,000,000,000 m³. That volume is equal to about 1.5 year of average discharge of the Blue Nile. Of course, the filling has to be (and is planned to be) slower than that because arresting 100% of the flow would be too much. But I'm not sure how much reduction in flow Egypt can take easily so I can't say what would be an appropriate fill rate.
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  5828. "Should do what Iceland did. Let the banks fail and prosecute those in charge." Iceland couldn't afford to save the banks. They still did bail out all Icelandic depositors with tax payer money.
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  5829.  @vidarodinson5246  Arabs are not the majority, at least not in the genetic sense. You can e.g. check the results of the National Geographic Genographic Project. According to it, contemporary Egyptians are only about 17% Arabs genetically (despite speaking Arabic).
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  5830. But the US doesn't have a motive to destroy the Balticconnector.
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  5831. The Belarusian army is weaker than the Ukrainian one and there are already Russian units inside the country. Belarus would have much harder time resisting.
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  5832.  @nitehawk86  No. In German: kurz = short gesagt = said The narrator's name is Philipp Dettmer.
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  5833. Are the Umbrians related to Northumbria in Britain? (Why is the closeup map different from the one in the main parts of the video, btw?)
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  5834.  @LuisBrito-ly1ko  Thanks. I checked Wikipedia on Humber and apparently one theory about the etymology of that name is that it comes from the Latin word "umbro" meaning "to cover with shadows" (though there are other theories as well), though I didn't find any mention of the name of Umbria being related to shadows.
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  5835.  @LuisBrito-ly1ko  But just based on the name the Umbri could plausibly have been named after shadows or something (though that doesn't seem to be the case or at least I didn't find anything to that effect).
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  5836. "One thing that confuses me is talking about wheel speed relative to the ground." It's just the speed of the wheels' axis of rotation relative to ground. It implies how fast the wheels rotate assuming a good grip.
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  5837. Stimulus checks are cheaper because they're a temporary measure.
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  5838.  @donrog5035  "I mean the US lost the Vietnam war and paid no reparations." The US has paid a lot of aid to Vietnam, though. I think if Russia paid e.g. "development aid" to Ukraine, that would satisfy most calls for reparations even if they weren't formally called reparations.
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  5839.  @donrog5035  Like I said, I don't think the distinction matters all that much. I think most people who demand reparations would be satisfied with "aid" that isn't formally called reparations as an acceptable substitute.
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  5840.  @laujack24  Why screw over the oil companies?
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  5841. Russia is a more likely culprit here than Ukraine.
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  5842. Note that the power company has in any case to ability to cut off all of your electricity and not just your AC. Maybe strain on the electric grid necessitating rolling blackouts is rare but it can happen. These kinds of deals can at least in principle help the grid operator such that blackouts might not be needed when they otherwise would have.
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  5843. The US has a 16.6% share of global manufacturing while only having 4.25% of the global population. The US is still a manufacturing powerhouse.
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  5844. LA being bigger than Helsinki means there's more reason to remove highways there.
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  5845.  @RedroomStudios  "he has also told them that they are welcome to sign contracts with the Russian military." Are you sure? I've not checked the speech itself but all the descriptions I've seen seem to say that the personnel who didn't participate in the coup attempt would be rolled into the regular Army and those who did would not be.
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  5846.  @mandrews1245  "Putin offered those who did not support Prigozhin have been offered to join Russian army or go home." Really? I thought joining the Army was compulsory. It's a bit surprising if they're really allowed to leave the fight if they so choose.
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  5847.  @inisipisTV  "They’re a private company" Yes, but surely their contract doesn't just allow fighters to quit whenever they wish? When it comes to contract soldiers in the regular Russian army, I think there is already a stop-loss order meaning contract soldiers can't quit when their contract expires (let alone mid-contract).
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  5848.  @johnblomberg389  "but still he cashed out at the top and made a lot of money" But at the end of the video there's a statement by him saying that he's in financial hardship as well. He might still deserve anger or maybe even prosecution but it still seems incorrect to claim that he's well off at the expense of he's viewers; it seems he isn't well off unless he's lying.
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  5849. So, what is the difference between an open boot/shoe like this and a true sandal?
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  5850. Natural gas is more of a complement than a competitor. Electricity from natural gas can be adjusted to compensate for the variable output of wind and solar.
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  5851. Tunneling is too expensive.
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  5852.  @joedd215  "still falls under 'Arabic' which was my point" No, Farsi and Pashtu don't fall under 'Arabic'.
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  5853. So Takashi Mifune is basically the Kevin MacLeod of clipart.
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  5854. "The Russian army is mostly mechanized, with few purely infantry units. This meant they had to stick to paved roads to carry out their offensive." I think even large infantry units plodding through mud would be quite problematic (even if they can't get as badly stuck as heavy vehicles).
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  5855.  @xanderkai6353  Don't feel sad for them. They're still making decent money by scamming people.
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  5856. I've heard it being described as "Napoleon's Vietnam".
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  5857.  @banto1  "Many wars have been fought to gain access to vital resources." Mostly not since WWII. "When you have millions of Europeans freezing to death and Russia trying to destroy the world economy, that is more than a good reason to go to war." It's not a good reason at all. "If NATO isn't ready to confront Russia, why does it exist at all?" It would be ready to confront Russia if Russia attacked a NATO member.
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  5858.  @banto1  Dictatorships might sometimes try to steal resources through military means but there is no reason to expect the West to do something like that in this day and age. No resources were gained from the wars against Iraq. Your option 5 is so unlikely that there's no reason to consider it. If NATO were to directly intervene militarily (unlikely) it would almost certainly be limited to within Ukraine. Invasion of Russia is not going to happen.
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  5859.  @banto1  "Don't be naive. When the West gets hungry enough, cold enough and fed up enough with Putin destroying the world economy they will act." Don't be ridiculous. The West will not go hungry. Some parts may be a little bit cold for this winter and the next but that's still far cry from going to war directly, with a nuclear power no less. "And you're a fool if you think everything the US ans UK did in the middle east over the last 100 years wasn't 100% about oil." If the wars against Iraq (which you mentioned) were about oil then the US and UK did a really bad job as they didn't get any oil from those wars despite winning.
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  5860.  @javiTests  Greenland voted to leave the EU* in 1982 and left in 1985. (*Technically, it wasn't the EU yet back then, but you know what I mean.)
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  5861. Russia doesn't care.
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  5862. I think it's powered by gas, not gasoline. OK, "gas" can also be short for "gasoline" but I think in this case it's actually gas. (Or maybe you were being sarcastic and I failed to detect it?)
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  5863. Dectupling your capital in 10 years means almost 26% annual return. That sounds overly optimistic.
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  5864.  @ToroMontana  Indeed. Medallion Fund has had an even higher yield but it doesn't accept funds from outside investors.
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  5865. What about the Japanese Quasi-Zenith?
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  5866. "Airplanes, trains, ships, cars were just improved." That's a rather broad definition for "no change". By that definition, same is true almost everywhere. Flying cars and Hyperloop (and vactrains in general) are ill-conceived ideas.
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  5867.  @animationcity8178  I'm at least 85% sure that the NAFO in this video was also a reference to that NAFO.
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  5868.  @SuperLusername  "sorry, I dont really understand why would anyone lend currency to Soros so he can short it. Dont you screw yourself then?" You're not better off by not lending him money. By lending him money the banks that serve his hedge fund can still charge interest and fees. Theoretically, they could themselves bet against the Pound but banks aren't generally in the business of making such speculative bets. They're just middlemen. Also, the Pound falling isn't a disaster for them or anything because they also have debts denominated in the Pound, not just assets (like loans to Soros' fund).
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  5869. Though the dam reservoirs do increase the surface area from which water can evaporate.
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  5870.  @tobiwan001  "it was hardly foreseeable 20 years ago when the exit was decided." There wasn't a rational case for the nuclear shutdown 20 years ago either.
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  5871. "Income per person might be higher, but inflation/cost of living adjusted it’s going worse and worse." No, even the real incomes have risen.
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  5872.  @sherrykda3511  "This is sadly false." No, it's true, luckily. You can e.g. check FRED data with the title "Real Median Household Income in the United States". I challenge you to find data that would show real incomes falling.
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  5873. 1:00:20 Why do you think it's more likely that Erdoğan will will? Isn't he behind Kılıçdaroğlu in the polls?
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  5874. +Luceafarul From what I've heard the differences between Chinese languages (like Mandarin and Cantonese) are much larger than those between English dialects and even between English and say Scots (which at least some classify as a different language). More apt comparison would be the difference between English and say Swedish. No matter how weird your English dialect is, it still wont have say grammatical gender or front rounded vowels (right?).
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  5875. +Luceafarul Thanks for answering, as this is quite interesting. You mention the threshold for intelligibility. But one can just as well argue that the foreigners' mispronunciations of Mandarin differ more from the native pronunciation than their possible mispronunciation of Italian would differ from native Italian. Also, I'm not convince your alternative criterion is necessarily better. I have two issues with it. Firstly, how large part of the vocabulary needs to be different? Of course, you could pick some arbitrary amount like e.g. 80%. Secondly and more seriously, how different does a word need to be to count as a different word. Presumably e.g. English 'father' and German 'Vater' are similar enough that they count as "same" word? But what about Frech 'père'? All these three are cognate and have slowly drifted apart starting from Proto-Indo-European. Elsewhere you mention intelligibility between different Chinese languages/dialects in writing. However this is at least partly because of the nature of the logographic script which makes intelligibility between languages much easier than an alphabetic or a syllabic script would. At least you can't count a word in two dialects to be the same just because it's written with the same hanzi. You might just as well say that the word 'and' is the "same" in a lot of languages because you can write it with the '&' sign in all of them. Of course the more interesting point (than the definition of the word 'language') is how big the difference between say Mandarin and Cantonese is compared to the difference between say Italian and Spanish or English and Swedish. Do you think Mandarin and Cantonese are more similar than Italian and Spanish? Metatron seems to say that they aren't.
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  5876. +Gear5 ZYF: "EU can never become one country, if english (or some language) is not only one official language" I'm not so sure. There are counter examples. Switzerland is a country even though it has 4 official languages. India is a country with many languages and the state borders tend to follow the language borders. However, I think EU is fine as the current kind of entity that is looser than an actual country.
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  5877. +Luceafarul (I thought I has answered to you earlier, but for some reason I don't see the earlier reply I thought I gave, so I'm replying now.) "Can you get all the vocabulary by just completely mastering one language or can you not?" By this criterion British and American dialect are not the same language because not ALL the vocabulary is the same. "Same thing, it's not about how different the word is, it's about whether or not that word exists in your current lexicon." But what do you count as same or different word? Are the words [bɑθ] in British dialects and [bæθ] in American dialects the same or different word? Do you say that [bɑθ] doesn't exist in American lexicon and [bæθ] doesn't exist in British lexicon? "Yes I would say that the writing system IS one of the most important criterion for determining the same or different language family" Well it doesn't make sense to use it as a criterion when talking about whether some spoken language/dialect is the same language or in same group or family. These linguists genetic categories refer to spoken languages. And that's what this video talks about here as well. "Chinese is actually one of the languages that is one of the most continuous" What do you mean by "continuous"? Do you mean that it's changed less than others? If that's what you mean, then at least Icelandic has to my understanding changed even less, with so little change that people still could understand Icelanders from 800 to the past.
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  5878. +Luceafarul I'm not trying to strawman your points. I'm only asking for clarifications. "It's the same word, they are both understood as the same word. They just pronounced a bit differently." What I wanted to know was how do you decide, how differently the words have to be pronounced before they count as different words. As dialects diverge into different languages words (at least some of them) do eventually become "completely" different. But the process is gradual. Similarly (wherever you draw the line) the entire lexicon changes gradually. I was just curious and wanted to know where roughly you would draw the line of counting words or lexicon's as different. E.g. if two languages/dialects have 80% same words and 20% different ones, would you count them as same or different languages? I'm not asking for a precise definition, just a rough guideline. "Using intelligibility as a criterion the mandarin Chinese spoken by Robert Downey Jr. And Gal Gadot is not Mandarin Chinese apparently." Before you gave the example: "imagine if there arises a demographic of people who spoke Mandarin Chinese as bad as Robert Downey Jr. or Gal Gadot in Wonder Woman, would you then say that what they are speaking is no longer Mandarin Chinese?" If this demographic could communicate with that language among themselves, it might indeed count, by the definitions used by linguists, as a separate language from Mandarin, though still a closely related one. It would probably also count as a creole language. A real example that's at least somewhat similar to this is Tok Pisin, which takes the majority of it's vocabulary from English, but still you probably can't understand it even if you know English. I think most would count Tok Pisin as a different language from English. Here's what it sounds like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H61y75G0A24 "Nobody only classifies a language based on what it sounds like" To my understanding the genetic/genealogical categories are classified precisely based on that. At the very least you can say that the spoken Chinese languages are indeed different languages. "Metatron here also did not only talk about SPOKEN language." I meant that Metatron meant, calling Chinese languages different languages is, I think, based on spoken language (and saying that they're more different than Italian and French and sometimes even Italian and English). "Did I say Chinese is THE MOST continuous language EVER?" No, and I did not mean to suggest that. Icelandic was just an interesting tidbit, which I wanted to mention. My comment may have inadvertently sounded aggressive, which is not what I wanted convey. If that's the case, I apologize.
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  5879. +Gear5 ZYF: "if u speak french, u can learn german in few months" I'm fairly sure that's not true. Frech is a Romance language and German is a Germanic language, so they are fairly different (though of course both are Indo-European, but that's a rather distant relationship). Btw. English and German (both being Germanic languages) are more similar than French and German, but knowing English does not allow you to learn German in a few months. I know from experience since I have studied both English and German in school.
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  5880. +Luceafarul "It means you are arguing for little details instead of trying to understand what the person's main points and arguments are." A lot of what you called strawman arguments were not arguments at all but questions I asked to understand your points better. "Why don't you ask the EXACT same question regarding intelligibility?" Of course, this is an interesting question I would like to ask from a linguist. I didn't mention the fuzziness/arbitrariness as a critique against your definition, I just wanted to understand your preferred definition better. "Which is why I reject the definition of the linguists" To me it doesn't seem in any way problematic that that kind of hypothetical foreigner created from of English might count as a separate language. So I don't personally see that as a reason to eschew the standard linguistic definition. "And btw, how large should the "demographic" be for it to become another language?" I don't think the size matters so it could be pretty much arbitrarily small. But you need at least 2 people to consider intelligibility, because the demographic needs to be able to at least communicate among themselves using it. "Can I learn [Tok Pisin] just by the English of lexicon?" I suspect not, but I don't think that I could learn Cantonese just by learning the Mandarin vocabulary and grammar either. "I on the other hand have pointed out boat loads of problems intelligibility has that my criterion does not have." I don't really see those as problematic. E.g. to me, counting your hypothetical creole derived from Mandarin as a different language seems more natural than saying it's still Mandarin.
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  5881. + Luceafarul "Then there is no distinction between a language and a dialect or even accent." The distinction is fuzzy and there are disagreements on where to draw the lines (which probably can't be avoided with alternative definitions either). The example you gave was Robert Downey Jr's attempt at speaking Mandarin which you didn't understand at all or even recognize that it was supposed to be Mandarin. Despite fuzziness in the intelligibility criterion, this one would seem to clearly stray too far from Mandarin to meet it by any reasonable account. Now I don't think Robert Downey Jr can actually communicate with anyone using his "Mandarin", but if hypothetically there was a group of people who could communicate speaking like that, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to call that a language that is separate from Mandaring (but closely related to it). And you can still draw similar boundaries between languages elsewhere with the intelligibility criterion. Of course, there is going to be hard cases (like Papuan languages) but I don't think there's a definition that can avoid those. "In fact, there would also be no such thing as "good" or "bad" language skills" Generally the goal is to understand and be understood by some group of people (like native speakers of some language) and generally use the language in a similar manner to them. You can say that a person's skill in doing that is good or bad. "or even "right" or "wrong" usage of a language" Well, when linguists study languages, it's often useful for them just describe how people use language etc. rather than saying whether the use is "right" or "wrong". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_description When it comes to dialects say with small differences in pronunciation, you don't usually say that one dialect is "correct" and the other "incorrect", do you? (One of the dialects may be considered "standard", but that doesn't make the other "incorrect" even if for foreign learners of that language it might be practical to aim to speak close to the "standard" dialect.) "Metatron speaks is not mandarin but a form of "creole" Mandarin." I don't speak Chinese, so I don't know how close to Metatron's Mandarin is to native speakers' Mandarin, but got the idea that he can actually communicate with native Mandarin speakers. That's very different from Robert Downey Jr's unintelligible "Mandarin".
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  5882. It's not a crime to threaten to use legal remedies like a lawsuit over copyright you own.
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  5883. Maybe Denmark could demand Skåne, Halland, and Blekinge as a price for not vetoing Sweden's entry.
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  5884.  @JB-yb4wn  It seems even fewer know about the original novel (Make Room! Make Room!) which didn't feature any cannibalism.
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  5885.  @HgHg-yp6ft  "So they gave Russia another reason to utterly destroy whatever is left of their power grid..." Russia was doing that already so it actually changes nothing.
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  5886.  @joshuatoms7664 : The population mean is (by definition) 100 and the means for men and women are quite close to it. If by your logic the couple point difference in the mean is negligible.
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  5887.  @heavensbutterfly  It's entirely possible to voluntarily save for retirement so you have something on top government pension (or you can use it to retire before you start receiving government pension). Yes, some people are poor enough that they can't save without an unreasonable sacrifice but most people who have a typical middle-class salary (or more) should be able to save at least a little bit.
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  5888. I'd say real GDP matters more for most purposes than nominal GDP.
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  5889. Additionally, a rotor sail would be much larger relative to a car than relative to a ship (even if the ones on cars were smaller in absolute terms). In very strong winds they might risk tipping the car over. They might also prevent them from going under many bridges or being driven to parking halls or garages.
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  5890. "I still think hydrogen is a way better option for airplanes, since the range can also be way longer and hydrogen is very energy-dense." But batteries have higher efficiency.
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  5891.  @MickenCZProfi  Efficiency matters for the cost. Obviously, battery-powered airplanes are only for short-haul flights but for that purpose, they seem more viable than hydrogen planes.
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  5892.  @MickenCZProfi  When you said: "I still think hydrogen is a way better option for airplanes", I thought you meant they would be better for short-haul flights as well (which I wouldn't agree with) since you didn't specify.
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  5893.  @max9074  "the dam enabeling more irrigation in ethiopia" At least according to what I've read there are currently no plans of using the dam for irrigation in Ethiopia. Even if it were used for irrigation, a lot of that would probably have to be in Sudan rather than Ethiopia due to the location.
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  5894. 4:35 Wait! Are you saying that there's still at least a 20% chance that it's a sniper? That seems a bit high to me.
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  5895.  @TwoBassed  It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  5896.  @TwoBassed  Moldova claims they only owe $8 million and offered to pay it whereas Russia claims they owe over $700 million. Do you automatically accept Russia's claim over Moldova's? If so, why? (Just for the record, I don't know who's correct and I don't know how to check.)
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  5897.  @TwoBassed  Moldova says they owed only $8 million and they offered to pay it but Russia wouldn't accept that. I don't who (if anyone) is telling the truth here but I don't see an obvious reason to automatically accept the Russian claims.
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  5898. "1000 sample size for India is (in Neil de Grasson’s language)… going to an ocean with a small glass, filling it water and inspecting it to conclude… “there are no whales in this ocean”" No, it isn't. 1,000 is a decent sample size to get things like average happiness.
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  5899.  @CyberArc1711  "if for example these 1000 people are being interviewed from only one region" That would be an issue of sample selection, not sample size. That issue could exist for larger sample sizes too. I haven't read this study so I don't know how well randomized their sample was (in India or elsewhere) but at least Palki Sharma didn't make any claim of this survey having sample bias; she only mentioned the size of the sample. A sample of 1,000 people surveyed is already decent assuming it's sufficiently well randomized.
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  5900.  @CyberArc1711  "a survey company pursuing a certain agenda could choose a region..." A survey company could do the same thing with a larger sample as well. A larger sample doesn't really help with sample bias. Those are two different problems. In any case, Palki Sharma didn't make any claim about sample bias here, whether accidental or deliberate.
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  5901.  @davebhaumik5455  It's not a good analogy at all. Firstly, the water filling the glass would presumably come from a single place. A survey of 1,000, on the other hand, can be randomized. It's not certain that the survey used good randomization but at least Palki Sharma didn't claim otherwise here. Secondly, it concluding that the share of ocean volume made up of whales is close to 0% wouldn't even be incorrect.
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  5902. "Why don't they speak Estonian? Is it a very hard language to master? Like Chinese?" I think you're exaggerating the difficulty differences between different languages.
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  5903.  @tnsrs2719  Everyone can make their own conclusion about the method used. It's not manipulation if the report isn't dishonest.
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  5904.  @tnsrs2719  "their conclusion however may not be a reflection of objective reality" Anyone who thinks they're wrong can make the opposite bet. It's not manipulation if they're not lying in their report.
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  5905.  @tnsrs2719  "did the report cause the Stock price?" It may cause it to fall but if the report isn't e.g. dishonest, that's not manipulation. Researching a company's fundamentals based on publicly available data is supposed to affect the stock price.
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  5906. 5:17 "Me, I'll continue to put cheap Pinot Grigio in just about everything I cook." Adam should be an accountant. It'd be very easy to notice if he ever cooks the books.
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  5907. Have you ever heard of the Kalmar Union?
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  5908. Rail can be fixed, if that's what you're thinking about.
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  5909.  @ramakrishnaboini5689  They probably don't know sufficiently precisely when and where they cross into Ukraine. If you instead were thinking about damaging roads or railways, that probably wouldn't keep them closed for long. This is just my guess, though. I don't know the answer for certain.
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  5910. Let's make the entire planet a gated community.
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  5911.  @toddmoore9841  "Once the car reaches windspeed, the only energy it has to turn the wheels is the kinetic energy from the vehicle itself." No, the propeller is decelerating the wind (relative to the ground) so the cart is still getting kinetic energy from the wind.
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  5912. He sold his entire stock of Tesla cars. :)
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  5913. I don't think so. Or what are you trying to communicate with that analogy?
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  5914.  @العهدالجديد-ن9خ  : "oil refinery which transform crude oil to petroleum proudct" Sorry to be a nitpicker but you've got your terminology mixed up. Petroleum just means crude oil. Maybe you were thinking of the word petrol which means the same thing as gasoline.
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  5915. 40:05 "It seems that the water levels in the Kakhovka reservoir have been rising to extremely high levels." How would that "point to some Ukrainian responsibility for this breach"? It's the Russians who have been in control of the dam's sluice gates. Earlier they let the water level fall very low and now they have let it rise very high. I'm not sure what was the reason for those choices but they were clearly Russian choices. If the high water level was what caused the dam to fail then that is an indication of Russian responsibility (even if in that case the dam failure might have been inadvertent).
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  5916. Not if the distance is small enough. The distance where AC and DC reach parity is shorter than with cables in the air but it's not 0 km.
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  5917. TL;DR Less demand for transport and more demand from scrap steel.
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  5918. Technically Hindenburg wasn't a blimp because it had a rigid frame.
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  5919.  @fematrailer  Switzerland has 4 official languages and choosing one of them to be the basis for the abbreviation would be problematic because the speakers of the other languages wouldn't like it. CH is a more neutral choice.
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  5920. What about the two electors that come from senate seats?
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  5921. Objection! Why is it A- and not A? I mean, it's not surprising that it's not perfect in terms of realism, but you didn't say what were the minor flaws that justified that minus.
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  5922. Now that I think of it, maybe it's the storming right into the well part?
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  5923. "Voters rank candidates in order of preference. If no candidate wins an absolute majority, the candidate with the fewest votes is eliminated, and their votes are redistributed based on voters' preferences, continuing until a majority is achieved." This isn't really the best system for ranked votes. Some kind of Condorcet system should be used instead.
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  5924. 6:20 I think it's also pretty salient that both men and women were more likely than not to consider their marriage "very happy" regardless of the number of past partners. It would have been more apparent if the y-axis hadn't been cut.
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  5925.  @TheSeafordian  Except for the Suez War.
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  5926.  @teivu5292  Thanks, it hadn't occurred to me to check the description. However, it seems that as Kusenko was eventually swayed he modified his slides to reflect that so I can't seen the incorrect equations there.
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  5927. In Finnish, the adessive case is used to indicate possession.
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  5928. He didn't claim that Europe has left Russia alone.
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  5929.  @rosameltrozo5889  When he says that Russia is seen as aggressive and antagonistic I think he means it's because of this whole invasion thing. I think it's fair to say that starting the invasion early this year is the biggest escalatory step any side has taken in the present conflict. Thus Russia is probably seen as more antagonistic even if Europe isn't strictly passive.
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  5930.  @rosameltrozo5889  No, but even invading another country, especially one bordering 4 EU member states, can make it seem rather aggressive.
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  5931. "The Houthi has told the companies that they only want to stop Israeli linked ships." Despite what they say, they have attacked many ships that have nothing to do with Israel.
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  5932. Also not to be confused with his brother Harald, a mathematician and footballer who developed the theory of almost periodic functions.
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  5933. Let's come to a compromise: Taxation is theft that's necessary for society to run. Maybe you need to be employed in a college to come to that conclusion.
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  5934.  @Phrancis5 : I think per surface area a spinning cylinder creates more thrust and they have the advantage that a wind coming from a wrong direction won't exert a large force on them that could reduce the ship's stability or tear the sails off.
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  5935.  @dexxus8078  The price of solar panels have gone down a lot. They are now a very sound investment, at least in sunny locations. "HILARIOUSLY energy-inefficient" Commercial panels are something like 20% efficient. That's not hilarious. Nuclear plants are something like 35% efficient so the difference isn't so great. With the current low prices they do make a lot of sense in favorable locations.
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  5936. EV = electric vehicle
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  5937. I personally dislike it. Hearing about the difficulties faced by the victims is uncomfortable and I don't think I need it to realize that scams and other bad businesses are bad.
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  5938. The poorest wouldn't have a car anyway (at least in cities).
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  5939. They are nuclear.
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  5940. Not even during the Kingdom of Montenegro?
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  5941. She's still going to be the leader of her party and an MP. That's still a lot a decent amount of work.
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  5942.  @Valokaari  Well, still an MP at least.
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  5943.  @Relugus  "She will probably [...] quit being an MP early next year." That's rather unlikely. Doing a stunt like that would be rather frowned upon as it would be seen as deceiving the people who voted for her.
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  5944. "It's 1/2 or 1/3 of the army." It's not that big of a percentage. You have to include the LPR & DPR forces to the Russian Army in Ukraine because they are probably included in the 80k figure. That said, I'm not making claims on whether the 80k figure is believable or not. I'm only saying that if it were true it wouldn't yet be 1/3rd.
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  5945. I wonder if now anyone who has lost money following Bitboy's advice could sue him arguing that he was giving financial advice because he's saying so (through his lawyer) in the court documents. Btw, I think that at least in the US calling him "dirtbag" is probably safe because it will likely be deemed an opinion rather than a factual claim that could be true or false.
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  5946. Well, this is "the news you missed" so presumably he's deliberately choosing smaller stories. E.g. for the UK he could have picked the Brexit deal instead of some wind farm etc.
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  5947.  @СергейЗахаров-й3в7к  Norway is probably the biggest one.
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  5948.  @PerceivedREALITY999  "Thousands of Palestinian civilians have lost their lives (more than 2050 children)." I've heard some claims that some portion of those children are not civilians but 16 or 17 year old Hamas fighters. However, I've not tried to verify those claims so take this with a grain of salt.
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  5949.  @PerceivedREALITY999  Do they give a more detailed breakdown based on e.g. age?
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  5950. Shouldn't that be roughly 8.1% rather than 7.5%?
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  5951.  @migooknamja  "This is all due to unnecessary sanctions" They aren't unnecessary. There's a war going on.
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  5952.  @migooknamja  There were sanctions in 2014 as well though they were lighter.
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  5953.  @migooknamja  Trying to save Ukraine isn't nuts (money laundering notwithstanding).
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  5954.  @migooknamja  Plenty of people complain about it so "nobody" is certainly not correct. Maybe something should be done about that war but it's at least better if the West at least sometimes reacts to unjustified invasions like this. Btw, what do you think should have been done about Yemen?
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  5955.  @migooknamja  "Nothing should be done about Ukraine." Well, I disagree with this. At least the current sanctions are warranted. It's better if the whole world sees that invasions are at least made as costly as possible so there will be less in the future. "The USA is falling apart from within and the USA needs to focus on itself." The USA is not very reliant on trade with Russia. Current sanction regime is fairly cheap for the USA to implement and doesn't come at the cost of any domestic policy. "The EU is a globalist organization that needs to be disbanded immediately." Well, I disagree but that's a whole different question in any case.
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  5956. Is it necessary to pasteurize the juice when making cider? I'd imagine it would destroy some of the vitamins present in the apple juice.
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  5957.  @kjdude8765  I meant hard cider. (Presumably unfermented juice can be preserved by freezing it but that's not possible during fermentation.)
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  5958.  @kjdude8765  Thanks for the info.
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  5959. "We would settle for demilitarization..." Accepting demilitarization would just mean that Russia would regroup reinvade later with Ukraine not being able to resist (unless the demilitarization deal would involve stationing substantial NATO troops into Ukraine or something like that).
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  5960.  @skwish6401  "Ukraine belongs to Russia" No, it doesn't if Ukrainians don't want that.
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  5961.  @puppyupper4565  "Russia is the one demanding Ukraine demilitarize." Yes, and if Ukraine agreed then Russia would just reinvade later when Ukraine can't resist. Thus there isn't much point agreeing to demilitarize because it's basically tantamount to an unconditional surrender. "If Ukraine does not agree to demilitarize there will not be a Ukraine" But if Ukraine does agree there won't be Ukraine either because Russia will just reinvade. Thus continuing the fight now has a higher chance of success than agreeing to demilitarization.
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  5962.  @puppyupper4565  "Russia does not want all of Ukraine but it does want it to agree to demilitarize. [...] But if Ukraine keeps fighting then Russia will destroy Ukraine." If Ukraine agrees to demilitarize then Russia will just reinvade later and change the government so the result won't be any better.
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  5963. Why not go a step further and just call it an animal?
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  5964. "if the Ukrainians didn't capture Sudzha" Well, it seems they have captured Sudzha (though I'm not sure what the situation was at the time you posted your comment).
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  5965. Remember when Doge was the leader of the Venetian Republic?
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  5966. His English was good enough.
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  5967. OK, so buyers and sellers of futures need margin but the owners of an ETF don't. But doesn't the ETF itself need to have margin since it's holding futures?
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  5968.  @victorespino5650  That doesn't matter. Looking at the spike in the M1 stock doesn't tell anything about that because the spike is due to a redefinition.
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  5969.  @johnhughes2124  "the Icelandic steel industry which uses Geothermal power" I don't think they do. Iceland mostly uses Geothermal to heat homes. Maybe you're thinking of hydropower, which is also abundant in Iceland?
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  5970.  @genstian  "they are salary linked, not inflation linked" Pensions that are in payment are subject to indexation.
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  5971. "The US done this" That's unlikely. Do you have any evidence or is that just a baseless accusation?
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  5972. Presumably, WhatsApp wouldn't need to leave India. Surely it could simply not comply. That might lead India to try block the use of the app in India but it would still have to be India that does it.
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  5973. "Just because the debt is held in crumbling bridges and leaking pipes doesn’t mean it isn’t debt." While it makes sense to consider such factors when deciding on economic policy, I don't think it makes sense to include it in debt statistics. It's not clear to me what should be included. Bridges and pipes that don't even exist are even worse that crumbling and leaking ones that do. But how would you count the amount of those?
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  5974. 16:50 Strictly speaking, this doesn't seem to be a closed time-like loop. The relation between the events of Bob sending the message and it arriving in Andromeda is space-like, not time-like. Same goes for the events of the message leaving Andromeda and arriving to Bob.
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  5975. It wasn't Ukraine. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  5976. @ There isn't any doubt about what Russia and Moldova are claiming about the gas bill. However, I haven't seen any report which would clearly support one side over the other.
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  5977. Dude. You're Dutch meaning you live next to Belgium. Government shenanigans isn't something that should be new to you.
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  5978. What does being a lawyer have to do with pronouncing foreign names?
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  5979. Maybe the release the clamps at slightly different times to compensate.
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  5980. They're not gold coins but maybe you could have shown those huge Swedish copper coins.
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  5981. "USSR allowed on purpose us to see Finnish" Isn't it more like that the TV broadcasts from Finland were just close enough to reach Estonia. It's not obvious how the Soviet government could've prevented Estonians from watching Finnish TV barring some kind of drastic measure like sending a jamming signal to drown out the broadcasts.
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  5982. Why are the names of the American vessels written in all caps whereas in the names of the Japanese vessels only the initial letter is capitalized (aside from the names that are just alphanumeric sequences)?
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  5983. "I feel it's important for Russia to preemptively attack the West at one point in time." You can't be serious.
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  5984.  @fabianpillay860  "England Germany America France Spain Finland etc will all be targeted" If you mean by nukes, remember that the US, the UK, and France could and likely would retaliate.
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  5985.  @HungNguyen-bf8qs  Carrying out a nuclear first strike against a country which isn't currently invading your territory would be morally bankrupt.
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  5986.  @HungNguyen-bf8qs  There is a clear choice: just don't do it, it's wrong.
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  5987.  @HungNguyen-bf8qs  "Tell the same thing to the Americans." I'm pretty sure the Americans aren't going to launch a nuclear first strike against anyone (and I don't think the Russians will either despite you thinking they should). "If Russia could massacre the US without any consequence, they would do so." If that's true that would make them rather evil. "Native Indians in the US are extinct because the human spirit made them fight to their death." Something like 90% of their population was lost to disease, not war, and they're not quite extinct despite that.
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  5988. They're replaced with streets, not tunnels. Some of the proposals were rejected but not all. One of these is already under construction (in Laajasalo).
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  5989. I think there hasn't been a full-scale war in the Balkans for almost 3 decades (since the Yugoslav breakup wars) though tensions still exist.
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  5990. Raspberry jam is the best.
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  5991. "There is no desert called Arabian desert" Yes, there is.
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  5992.  @ilnigromante666  "Because they didn't want to be nuked by the US." Do you mean that China intervened in the Korean War because they didn't want to be nuked by the US or something else? If you mean that then I have to say that doesn't make any sense; the Chinese intervention only increased the likelihood that they might get nuked (though ultimately that didn't happen in any case).
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  5993.  @ilnigromante666  "The USA is so good and righteous." I didn't make any claims about that one way or the other.
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  5994. My understanding is that Hero Wars (or was that the name?) is also a good example.
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  5995. "Sure, I would like rooftop solar PV, but utility scale is better in terms of LCOE." I'm not so sure about that. One advantage of PV is that it doesn't come much more expensive per unit in smaller installations. Also, rooftops don't have much other high value usage whereas large solar farms have to pay for the land that they use and therefore only make sense where low-value land is available. Also, in addition to avoiding transmission losses rooftop solar can be helpful during a power outage.
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  5996. It's de facto independent.
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  5997. Isn't the well-foundedness a bit of a red herring here? Like mentioned in the video, this paradox is basically the same as Russel's paradox. That paradox is not present in ZF but it's not the axiom of regularity (which guarantees well-foundedness) but rather the lack of unrestricted comprehension, as opposed to naive set theory, which does away with the paradox in ZF.
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  5998. "“It may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal.” Kissinger meant it." I think you haven't bothered to check what Kissinger actually said (allegedly, as there is only one secondary source for this quote). The full quote is: "Nixon should be told that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." Clearly, he isn't saying that it is fatal to be America's friend but rather that that would be the message that the nations of the world would get if Nguyễn Văn Thiệu were to be overthrown by the US (which never actually happened).
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  5999. To me, that image doesn't seem genuine at all. He just chose to present himself as down-to-earth whereas he earlier chose to present himself as more professional, both just based on what saw as more advantageous to himself at that time. Of course, he still (probably) is human like the rest of us, just perhaps more shrewd and dishonest than an average person, but that's not something you can see from manufactured images like these.
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  6000. It's gotta be intentional! :D
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  6001. 5:45 It's a bit funny that as a nod their Turkic heritage they use a suffix (-stan) borrowed from Farsi, an Indo-European language.
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  6002. Except for Zhukov.
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  6003. Same grade as It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia got.
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  6004. 1:10:45 That might be the case but there isn't really a good reason for Lavrov to be bitter about that. To the degree that the friendship between Finland and the USSR/Russia wasn't real, it's really the fault of the USSR/Russia, not Finland.
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  6005. Does RCD/GFCI work differently with split-phase 240V and "normal" 240V (i.e. with hot and neutral wire)?
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  6006. It's not a closed loop because the propeller decelerates air (relative to the ground).
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  6007.  @JamesKerLindsay  Nice!
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  6008. My understanding is that it's reasonably close. In modern Turkish 'ğ' is usually silent (whereas it used to be pronounced [ɣ] in the past).
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  6009. I wouldn't.
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  6010.  @jeffmaxwell7391  "Finland used to require a referendum to join NATO" There was never such a requirement. That may have been the opinion of some politicians, that's all.
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  6011.  @micnorton9487  "in the past Russian energy has allowed those Finnish corporations to bloom" Russian energy has played a much smaller role in Finland than e.g. in Germany.
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  6012.  @jeffmaxwell7391  "It was always Advised to have a referendum on such important matters" Advised by who? In any case, advise isn't in any way binding. Also, referenda haven't been very common in Finland. To my knowledge, there have only ever been 2 nation-wide referenda in Finland during her independence.
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  6013.  @jeffmaxwell7391  What does any of that have to do with Finland. None of that means that a referendum would somehow be a requirement for Finland joining NATO.
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  6014.  @jeffmaxwell7391  That was just their opinion, nothing more.
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  6015.  @jeffmaxwell7391  There is nothing wrong with them. I think in this case the politicians probably thought that the situation is somewhat urgent. In any case, the public opinion had swung decisively in favor of applying for membership which is probably one of the most important reasons why Finland applied.
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  6016.  @jeffmaxwell7391  We do, in fact, know it with high enough precision. Early this year the support for joining stood at about 80% and opposition at about 10%. There's always a few percentage point margin of error but it's not large enough to significantly change the result even if you assume statistical errors that start to be extremely unlikely.
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  6017.  @jeffmaxwell7391  "BS, a poll means Zero" You're not very familiar with statistics, are you? A sufficiently large poll with sufficiently good randomization gives a reliable indication of what the population thinks. You're grasping at straws if you think there can be a 10-sigma deviation from the poll results, or something.
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  6018.  @jeffmaxwell7391  "Depends on the people you ask" Pollsters use randomized samples. "and how you word the question" Whether Finland should apply to join NATO or not is a fairly simple matter without that much room for interpretation. Also, different polls haven't found radically different results. In any case, MPs have been elected by the people and the constitution empowers them to make decisions like this.
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  6019.  @jeffmaxwell7391  "Trudeau didn’t get the majority" But that's in no way a comparable situation to Finland's NATO application. In Finland the opposition was probably even more in favor of NATO application than the government (because at that time the Left Alliance party was in the government). Also, a very clear majority of the public was in favor of NATO membership (and we know this with a very high certainty) so it was a rather uncontroversial decision unlike the typical political decisions like whether to raise or lower taxes.
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  6020.  @jeffmaxwell7391  "The problem is you don’t know that" But I do know that. If you mean the opinions of the political parties, we know how they have voted and what they have said about the matter. I think only a few Left Alliance MPs (+ one other MP) voted against applying for NATO membership. If you mean the public opinion, we know that it's overwhelmingly in favor of NATO membership. Polls have always some statistical uncertainty but you can't realistically use that to explain away 80% support vs. 10% opposition. A measurement error that large is so unlikely that it doesn't matter. "Would South American or Caribbean Countries joining some military alliance with Russia or China make the world safer and would NATO be OK with it?" Predicting what would happen in that case is rather difficult. But if you mean that, by analogy, Russia is not OK with Finland joining NATO, I would reply that Russia has only itself to blame. Before the 2022 invasion there was more oppostion than support for joining NATO in Finland. The invasion made the public opinion swing decisively in favor of joining NATO. If Putin hadn't invaded Ukraine, Finland would almost certainly still be outside NATO.
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  6021. "12 nautical miles" The ships range was 80 km i.e. about 43 nautical miles, not 12.
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  6022. "Oh no now they have to buy american fracking gas." This has no effect on that. The gas coming in was seaborne anyway (from the US and elsewhere).
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  6023.  @orbitalvagabond7371  "Mahlmann states that he refuses to watch the video, and thus refuses to watch the context within what the video was used." He refused to watch Thunderf00t's first video about this dispute, not the video in which his clip was used.
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  6024. But where are the sunglasses?
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  6025. Really old fashioned way.
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  6026. "and the wind blew full force everyday" No, the $400 was the daily average. Some days would get stronger winds and some weaker.
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  6027.  @hijackstudios  "clever one directional barriers which allow any water that does get inside to easily escape" How do those work?
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  6028.  @hijackstudios  Thanks. Does the thing have a name so I can search more info on it?
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  6029. For comparison, Russia's inflation was already above 9% before the invasion even began.
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  6030. But in this context they're clearly talking about C macros and other similar macros.
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  6031. No.
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  6032.  @andenture  "most votes is most votes" Yes, but "most votes" isn't "most popular" which is the wording you used in the first sentence in your comment.
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  6033.  @andenture  "more individual and party votes. More is more and more is more popular." Purra's higher amount of individual votes seems to mostly be because her district (Uusimaa) has a higher population than Marin's district (Pirkanmaa). Marin's individual votes are a higher percentage of all votes cast in her district than Purra's. When it comes to party votes that reflects the popularity of the parties as whole and not necessarily the popularity of individual politicians.
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  6034. Deutche Bank?
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  6035. I'm not convinced that's usually the case. Consider e.g. the Jones Act mentioned in this video.
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  6036. At least his batteries are full of electrolytes. I wouldn't want to drink them, though.
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  6037. "The U.S. prints money indirectly by creating debt. Debt is repaid from the existing monetary pool, which means in short that the newly created debt can never be repaid in full." None of that is true.
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  6038.  @junkerzn7312  In the case of base money the Fed just decides (explicitly or implicitly) how much to create.
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  6039.  @junkerzn7312  "how exactly do they add the newly created money to the money supply again?" Basically they buy something with the newly created money, usually short term government bonds (though it can be something else too). "it is deployed as debt that must be repayed with interest" No, it isn't.
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  6040. The car he used was Mercedes SLS AMG. Maybe it has good acceleration.
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  6041. Of course it's not "just as bad". It's quite bad but not as bad.
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  6042.  @katamarankatamaranovich9986  "Belarus dictator swore on his "officer's honour" that he will not allow russian attack to come from his territory" Btw, do you have a source for this? I think a lie like this could be a nice "gotcha" in some future high quality internet discussion for me.
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  6043.  @katamarankatamaranovich9986  Thanks.
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  6044.  @demirel8918  "However, isolation continued." I don't think the isolation can be dropped without any kind of concession from the Turkish side (even if the Annan plan was rejected by the Greek side). The isolation began because the Turkish side made a formal and unilateral declaration of independence. That was something that many other countries didn't want to see and the Turkish side was strongly warned against it but went ahead with it anyway. You can't just expect the isolation being suddenly dropped when nothing has happened to the original reason for it.
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  6045. It's just less efficient.
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  6046. Turkey is in the EU customs union. That surely has a bigger impact on Turkey's economy than any deals it might arrange through BRICS.
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  6047. "Bast time battle with use of bows by british" Does "Mad" Jack Churchill count?
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  6048. Then Italy did the opposite in the invasion of Greece.
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  6049.  @fenrirgg  Unless it's from DC!
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  6050. It's unlikely that Russia will pay anything even if it loses.
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  6051. That US anthem sounded a bit fast. I had to check that I wasn't playing this at 1.25 speed.
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  6052. A partial alternative would have been not close down the nuclear plants. Then there wouldn't have been as much need for gas in electricity generation. Another would have been to speedily move away from heating homes directly with gas and replace it with something else like heat pumps. Many Germans are doing it now but in hindsight it would have been better to start earlier.
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  6053.  @hahne9  It's only a partial solution but many other European countries do with much less of the energy produced with gas than Germany so clearly major reductions should be possible despite the need for quick load following power.
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  6054. Yes (barring some nitpicking which I don't remember).
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  6055. What do you mean? France lasted a bit longer (though not much).
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  6056. "Trained technicians can burn hydrogen for electricity and heat" I don't think that makes sense. Why not just burn the natural gas directly for electricity and/or heat?
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  6057.  @Ikbeneengeit  Pipelines are cheaper than ships, at least for sufficiently large volumes. There's a reason why they're used. The more expensive option of using ships makes hydrogen from North Africa seem even less viable. Just building more electric transmission capacity seems a much simpler option (though it's not clear to me whether North Africa even has a sufficiently big advantage in electricity generation). The 30% round-trip efficiency of hydrogen is pretty dismal when compared to just using electricity directly when possible.
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  6058.  @jrfish007  I'm just guessing here but I suspect a superpac wouldn't get the contribution match from public funds.
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  6059.  @bubba200874426  What was his reason?
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  6060.  @PerthScienceClinic  Sorry but I'm too lazy to send an email to anyone about this. I'm sure the opinions of all the supreme court justices can be accessed online but I'm too lazy to read those as well.
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  6061. "while he's resting" Resting? Russia wasn't "resting". It was still conducting its invasion. Attacking some warships during a war is nothing new.
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  6062. "Russian gas/oil monopoly safe" But the main customers lost, at least on the scale of some years. "Separatist regions still firmly under Russian control and more fortified by the day, so no chance of Ukraine ever joining NATO." That was already the case before the present invasion. "Crimea connected to Russian mainland, so no more supply problems." It was already connected to the Russian mainland by a bridge (and could be supplied by sea even without it). There weren't supply problems (aside from the water mentioned in your point number 3).
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  6063. This was kind of interesting because the description is quite different from what I've heard elsewhere. The other descriptions I've heard were that the r/wallstreetbets people were more like trying to "stick it to the man" and impose losses on the institutional short-sellers as a punishment for their greed full well knowing that they too might very well lose money but considered that worth the satisfaction.
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  6064.  @eymeeraosaka2954  "Taiwan has always been part of China long before the Qing Dynasty. Look at where Taiwan is located. Only 150 km away from mainland China. Look at the people of Taiwan. They are also Han Chinese similar to that of mainland China. They speaks the same language and share the same culture." That isn't really correct. Taiwan used to be inhabited by Austronesian people, not Chinese people, at it's probably the origin place for many Austronesians as indicated by the linguistic diversity of Austronesian languages there. Taiwan was never controlled by the Chinese before the Qing dynasty. It used to be in the Dutch hands but during the Qing conquest of China, Ming loyalists managed to seize the island from the Dutch. It was later annexed by the Qing. A significant amount of Han immigration happened during the 1600s and after. Before that the population was predominantly Austronesian.
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  6065.  @danijelprljic5565  "SERBS would destroy Albanians" Would they? That's horrible.
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  6066.  @danijelprljic5565  The wording "destroy Albanians" would seem to imply mass murder. That can hardly be justified.
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  6067. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it's not anymore.
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  6068. Cars still take too much space in cities.
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  6069. 8:10 "until eventually the issue was settled" I like this phrasing.
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  6070. 48.4 years based on a short googling. Are you perhaps confusing average age and life expectancy?
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  6071.  @arminxvs3372  "Because a referendum always need to be held in the whole state, not just a region. If that would be possibly, every region, every community, heck even cities could just split up and do what they want." I would say that it doesn't necessarily have to be on a state level. Having that as a requirement would be somewhat problematic because then an existing state can always just deadlock any aspirations by a minority (unless that minority has the requisite military might to defeat the state). There probably has to be a requirement that referenda on secession etc. should be held in some reasonably sized area so that e.g. a single family can't decide that their house and lot secedes. I think e.g. Switzerland handled the case of Jura reasonably well (though that was somewhat easier since it didn't involve total secession from Switzerland but only from the canton of Bern).
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  6072.  @arminxvs3372  "I think the main issue is that historical regions and constitutional rights can split up but random territories can't." I disagree, that is a bad rule. I don't know where the line should be drawn but what you suggest isn't a good solution. Historical regions isn't a good standard for various reasons, for example any historically independent region was independent for the first time at some point. Also, constitutional rights may be a bad standard because a state that is in power at some point makes the constitution. In both cases it just seems to make separatism before some arbitrary cutoff date valid any occurring after it non-valid which isn't a good rule. E.g. a bit over a century ago you could say that of course the Irish don't have the right to independence from the UK because there is not constitutional provision saying so (because the UK doesn't have a "real" constitution) but I don't think following that kind of logic is moral. (Just to be clear, I'm not saying that Krajina obviously had the right to independence from Croatia but only that morally speaking it's not sufficient to say that they don't because Krajina hadn't been granted constitutional right to secession.)
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  6073.  @arminxvs3372  I don't have a good answer. I think in practise it has to be decided on a somewhat case-by-case basis (which isn't ideal but I don't know a better alternative). Salient factors would probably include the treatment of minorities. I.e. if a minority has been mistreated that makes their case for secession stronger but if they have mistreated or given independence would mistreat some other ethnic group which is a minority in their region then that makes the case for secession weaker.
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  6074.  @DumbledoreMcCracken  France's population density isn't that much higher. That the population is concentrated in a few places shouldn't make rail less viable. Tracks don't need to reach every corner of the state.
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  6075.  @l4m41987  I'd say even in a world war it would matter where your investments are. Some investments are going to lose more value than others. Note that if the S&P500 still retains 37% of its value it means that not everybody is dead.
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  6076. In North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
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  6077. 8:17 "£400 hacker" Well, that's cheap.
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  6078. I think the "US is a republic, not a democracy" is stupid IMHO. A representative democracy is still a democracy. You might indeed place different forms of government on a continuum and say that a direct democracy would be more democratic, but "not a democracy" is an exaggeration.
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  6079. "What would it possibly look like?" Ugly. It would look ugly.
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  6080.  @alilabeebalkoka  Just look at what the current and past administration has done to North Korea. Them ruling also the South likely wouldn't be prettier.
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  6081.  @alilabeebalkoka  "well they could start looking like China" While it's not impossible I don't think it's very likely. For some reason (unknown to me) North Korea has not been able to reform itself nearly as much as China has.
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  6082. "how the Qing were viewed during their late period" And early on in their rule as well?
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  6083. Is there a Danish soldier from WWII that you have heard about (and who isn't like a general or something like that)?
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  6084.  @rachelle3796  Both would lose a lot. This moment would not the best moment for China to face it.
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  6085.  @Theorimlig  "It does cause air pollution, but not inside the house." You're kind of mistaken here. It pollutes the surrounding air which is where you get the indoors air from as houses aren't sealed. (Of course, fumes aren't vented directly in the indoors air but it's not like any heating method has done that for centuries so it's a rather irrelevant point.)
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  6086.  @supposedlysavvy  When it comes to oil it makes sense to blame the consumers of it. Many of us still need it though many could also cut down on its use. It doesn't make sense to consider those countries that just happen to have oil deposits to be environmentally worse.
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  6087.  @waxxxi  "if Russia were to make Mexico their allies and send their army kn the US border the US would be dropping nuclear bombs on Mexico" I'm pretty sure that's not the case (EDIT: and it wouldn't be justifiable in any case).
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  6088.  @AradaAqIyo  I meant that at least Russia didn't take over the whole country. This time Russia is going much further. "We don't care about cities we care about people here." This time a far larger share of the Ukrainian people who are going to be directly affected than the share of Ukrainians affected in 2014 or the share of Georgians affected in 2008. All of these events were bad but there are still degrees to how bad they were. The current war is the worst of them.
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  6089.  @AradaAqIyo  I know that Russia didn't push into the entire country but only into Tskhinvali and Abkhazia. That's still less bad that what Putin is currently attempting in Ukraine.
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  6090.  @leykimayri  "Then what is the reason for the NATO's expansion" Probably that these countries want to join and NATO members generally want to admit new members that they're friendly with. The proposition that the US would want to attack Russia, a nuclear armed country, is rather unlikely. Clearly, the US doesn't even want to clash with the Russian forces in Ukraine; attacking Russia itself would go way beyond that so there's little reason to believe there's any desire for that. If you (or anyone) thinks that the US wants to attack Russia, then why do you think that they're not attacking the Russian forces in Ukraine now? That would be a perfect justification.
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  6091.  @leykimayri  "Again, there is no reason for the NATO’s expansion." I gave one possible reason above so I don't agree but if you're right that there is no reason then the reason can't be a plan or desire to attack Russia since that would be a reason as well. "for sure though they want to block Russia and have missiles a few dozens kilometres away from Moscow in order to easily put pressure on Russia whenever they want and try to control it." That kind of plan makes no sense. Both the US and Russia have ICBMs that reach the other side of the globe. "The best interest of the countries neighbouring Russia is to stay unaligned." I'd say at least EU membership has been economically beneficial for those that have joined. Ultimately this is a complicated question and people can disagree about this. Thus also the decision maker in these countries may or may not agree with you.
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  6092.  @leykimayri  "Again, there is no reason for NATO’s expansion, especially after the fall of USSR." Well, that's your opinion but even if you're right that hardly implies that the US or NATO had any intention of attacking Russia. "In addition, NATO, a self-claimed “defensive” alliance, attacked, bombed and invaded twice non aligned countries which had not attacked any NATO country with the justification of “humanitarian intervention” (Yugoslavia and Libya)" Whatever you think of these actions, they hardly mean that NATO would attack Russia, since Russia is much bigger and has nukes. "In addition there is a HUGE difference between having missiles thousands of kilometres away from you even if they can still reach you and having them in your doorstep. Remember USA and Cuba" There isn't a big difference nowadays. Back then ICBMs were new and thus there weren't that many of them and they were inaccurate and unreliable. That's why medium range missiles in Cuba (and Turkey) were such a big deal. That's not the case anymore. But in any case, Ukraine quite clearly wasn't going to join NATO anytime soon, so the above is a moot point anyway.
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  6093. 16:45 It shouldn't be impossible to undo seizing. Western countries could simply pay Russia out of their own pockets, if that means that Russia agrees to end the conflict on sufficiently favorable terms.
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  6094. Strictly speaking, he said that he doesn't want to use the race card everywhere he goes so he can technically achieve that as long as he doesn't use it in at least one place he goes to.
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  6095. Trump shouldn't have withdrawn from the nuclear deal.
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  6096.  @goldengun9970  Why?
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  6097.  @timotheatae  I suspect the EU didn't provide 100% of the funding.
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  6098.  @andrewshaw1571  "you dont retreat that far without a serious fight and allow the enemy to burn down one of your holiest cities and threaten THE holiest city without a fight" I agree that it's understandable that they tried to save Moscow. It might have been a reasonable attempt ex ante. It's only with the benefit of hindsight that we know that Moscow still wasn't saved. "on the command of a jumped up German" Wasn't Kutuzov in charge at that point? I'm not able estimate what the effect on morale would have been but at least in purely material terms it would seem that knowing how Borodino went in real history not trying to fight there would leave the Russian army in a better shape but leave Napoléon with significant supply difficulties. I'm not saying morale doesn't matter, however.
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  6099. The US has a much stronger federal government.
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  6100.  @Landrassa1  But they're sufficient for "no garbage day".
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  6101.  @Arayig1982  But it only refers to raiders (and maybe also maritime traders?) of Scandinavian/Norse/Danish origin. Baltic people are not Vikings even if they go on raids.
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  6102. I think he did become emperor in 1804. In 1802 he merely became the "First Consul for Life" (having been the even lesser "First Consul" since 1799).
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  6103. I think in the Battle of Cape Ecnomus the casualties were more than twice as high. The winning side (the Romans) alone lost 10,000.
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  6104.  @weird-guy  At least in the case of Finland there's been more than 2 decades of decline, at least if you use PISA results as the metric. In 2000 did extremely well compared to most other countries participating in PISA but it's been downhill since then. PISA results have flaws as a metric for education quality but it probably still tells you something.
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  6105. At least he didn't wear a blue apron. :)
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  6106. What about the Nostratic family?
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  6107. Is there any other country that could plausibly do an anti-satellite weapon test? Can we expect this to be the last one assuming no country does repeat tests?
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  6108. Нет войне!
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  6109. 16:45 The transliteration here is pretty interesting.
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  6110. "It's not a Ponzi unless the initiators of the scheme run off with the money." Calling it a Ponzi scheme is an exaggeration. However, it's still the case that this kind of (less than 100% funded) system is also a transfer to the first generations enjoying the system from the later generations. If e.g. economic or population growth is less than expected then some generation (or generations) have to cover the shortfall and there often is a temptation to pass the cost onto later generations.
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  6111.  @fovika : According to Wikipedia it's [ɕɛlbærj] so no "hard K" (plosive) sound though I think that depends on dialect. I think in Finland Swedish the 'kj' would be pronounced [tɕ] or [tʃ] (like 'ch' in English).
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  6112. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  6113. 18:20 As a nitpick, it's only against anti personnel mines, not all landmines.
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  6114. Don't artillery men wear ear protection? Or does the guy have earplugs?
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  6115. 12:38 Why would being in the Supreme Court be a terrible job?
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  6116.  @Steelrat1994  "no one [...] can do what russia just did without paying a severe price" That is a good message.
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  6117.  @Steelrat1994  Ideally, no should be able to do what Russia did without paying a severe price. Barring that, it's better that as few as possible can. "It's about power and domination over others." Same goes for Putin's invasion.
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  6118.  @Steelrat1994  "Well currently only USA can really do that with the support of other western countries. Is that a good thing?" I think (and hope) that we're headed for a world where the US can't easily do that either. Also, the US used to be more brazenly interventionist in the past with e.g. overthrowing some governments in Latin America. In more recent times there has be less of such intervention by the US though there's still some way to go. "The way I see it, this whole situation isn't about Ukraine, it's about trying to create a multipolar world and unseat USA as the hegemon." Maybe it's about that for Russia but IMHO that doesn't justify the present invasion. Thus I think it's good to make this costly for Russia so that in the future other would-be-invaders are disincentivized from going on conquests.
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  6119.  @Steelrat1994  At least those fall short of a full-scale invasion. In any case, maybe there should have been backlash, I'm not sure (as I'm less familiar with the Yemeni civil war and the situation in Iraq). But we should strive towards a world where aggressive acts are tolerated. At least some acts of aggression leading to backlash are a step towards that though we can't reach perfection immediately.
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  6120.  @Steelrat1994  "I'm arguing that the backlash has nothing to do with not tolerating aggression." I'm not a mind reader so I can't know what politicians are thinking when issuing sanctions. However, I'm arguing that in this case the sanctions are the right choice whether the politicians making that choice for the right or the wrong reason. "Sanctions are just a declaration of economic and informational war from the west to Russia." That can hardly be said to be worse than Russia starting an actual full-scale war. "Because all it does - provides more power to those who can do it unpunished over those who cannot." I disagree. The nations you mention can hardly do whatever they want. E.g. Saudi Arabia did receive quite a lot of backlash for murdering Khashoggi. The Yemeni civil war is a very messy situation. There isn't one party who's defending against a foreign invasion so it's more difficult to pick sides. Similarly, Russia could get involved in the Syrian civil war without incurring a huge backlash. Even if you still disagree by your own logic it should also be bad if Russia can just do whatever it wants to smaller countries without punishment.
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  6121.  @ChiChiLand299 : I don't have charts of relative GPD per capita at the time for e.g. Britain and Switzerland, but I would guess the difference isn't huge. Certainly not of the size that it would much affect the possibility for scientific advancement.
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  6122. "Orthodox economist have no clue on how to handle inflation either." They handle it a lot better than Erdogan at least.
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  6123. "I get the strongest impression that Israel as a state is not long for this world" Seems unlikely. If the very existence of Israel was seriously threatened then at least the US would likely intervene much more strongly than it has so far. Also, who would threaten the existence of Israel? At least Hamas and Hezbollah don't have the strength to do that.
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  6124. Just how many different kinds of IRAs are there?
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  6125.  @user-of8ex8ne3v  Maybe some have already been training in Poland in expectation that these deliveries might come. This is just a guess, though; I don't know of any evidence for it.
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  6126. But aren't the teaspoon and tablespoon just 5 ml and 15 ml respectively?
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  6127.  @DokterRoetker  "I had a recipe call for a teaspoon of pepper. It didn't specify ground pepper, or how course of a grind." I don't think stating the amount in weight would help much in that particular case. Measuring such small amounts by weight accurately would at least be annoying, if not necessarily super difficult. Also, getting the amount right might not help all that much if the ground vs. non-ground is wrong.
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  6128. Isn't "kuso" a fairly mild swear word?
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  6129. "then shows a picture of a patriot system exclaiming its to much for Russia to handle" Binkov is talking about the Ukrainian air defense in its entirety so e.g. S-300 and BUK missiles have to be considered too. You shouldn't get too hung up on the stock footage parts of the video.
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  6130. Putin doesn't want to stop.
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  6131. Does that mean that the line for "reasonable doubt" goes at 1% probability?
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  6132.  @weege5.45  That's one in one hundred million. With that strict of a standard almost no criminal would ever be convicted and the efficacy of the criminal justice system would be severely degraded. I don't think that small of a probability is "reasonable doubt" anymore nor do most justice systems.
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  6133.  @weege5.45  There needs to be some kind of balance. Nothing in life is 100% certain. Requiring one in one hundred million chances of error is excessive and not very workable. I'd personally say that 0.1% would work as a limit for "reasonable doubt".
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  6134.  @mediterraneanmapping9657 : The verb (not noun) "ship" is used for other means of transportation as well (even though etymologically it comes from ships).
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  6135. @@abitmorerational But remember that the amount of risk from each of these factors depends on the person. You can drastically reduce your chances of being the victim of the most typical kind of violence by e.g. not binge drinking in a rowdy sort of company but gang violence is more likely to strike uninvolved bystanders so depending on your situation it may be rational to be more worried about it. Also, it may also be appropriate to react before the gun violence becomes a bigger threat on the whole.
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  6136.  @haiwang2857  "wealthy Chinese can invest in the financial market and buy stocks" Yes, but they can (for the most part) only do it in China, so basically the Shanghai Stock Exchange. They can't (for the most part) buy stock listed on foreign stock exchanges nor even ones on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. The problem with China's domestic stock market and the Shanghai Stock Exchange is that returns aren't great, maybe due to issues of government policy and/or things like insider trading. Thus for many Chinese real estate would seem like the only kind of investment that made sense.
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  6137. @Best Boss Is that different from the "efficient market hypothesis"?
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  6138. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  6139. For a long time there were to many permits issued and their price was low. Now they have become expensive and are having an impact.
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  6140. I think in the Bosnian War there was also one Japanese fighter (on the Serb side).
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  6141.  @rafaelmolina123  "Even i who is just an average Filipino knows Russia will not fire 2 rockets to Poland." It's obviously a stray rocket regardless of who fired it. Of course, neither side would deliberately shoot it into Poland but both Russia and Ukraine could do so accidentally so motivation or lack thereof to shoot Poland is irrelevant here. (I think currently it being Ukrainian seems more likely.)
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  6142.  @rafaelmolina123  "That's NOT a stray rocket. Mainly because after it hit Poland your boy zelensky quickly blamed Russia" Why wouldn't he blame Russia if it was a stray rocket? And he may have believed that initially. Or did you mean that it was a non-stray rocket launched by Russia?
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  6143. In a certain sense, water towers are used to store energy but that energy can only be used to deliver water. However, that is actually storing energy because water towers can deliver water to homes even when pumps are not running (until emptying completely).
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  6144.  @ArchOfficial  "The argument here was that..." Well, I'm not claiming that the "Ukrainians changed it". I just wanted to say that both are fine because I've seen some claims that using "Kiev" would be disrespectful (though I'm not claiming you were saying that) which I think is going too far.
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  6145. He's encroaching on Leonard French's territory.
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  6146. "Go and figure out what influence they can possibly have in the world." Even if this had no effect on the outside world it's still a benefit to the people who can live in the places previously used for highways.
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  6147. Those taxes are still lower than in Finland.
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  6148.  @rafaeltorre1643  I didn't claim bad people don't exist. Rather, I objected when SuperCatacata stated that peace would require "human beings not being human" which would seem to exclude that possibility from every inhabited place. A few bad people are usually not enough to cause wars.
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  6149.  @waltermh111  "name the place you are thinking of that hasn'tseen conflict in history." First, not that I didn't say "in history". I said "within living memory". The best example is probably the country which hasn't been in war for the longest, i.e. Sweden. Switzerland has also not been at war for almost as long.
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  6150. Then if the Kalmar Union would have also been reinstated we could have had Polish-Swedish-Danish-Norwegian-Lithuanian commonwealth.
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  6151. 9:30 IPA is boring? That's untrue and intolerable slander! :) (JK) As an aside, that chart seems to show the pronunciation of 'R' as [r] while most English dialects don't use that sound (though some, like Scottish English do). Maybe writing [ɹ̠] is too much of a hassle.
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  6152. The ammunition depot likely had military personnel working there so I'm fairly sure there were casualties. Russia just doesn't want to report them right off the bat.
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  6153.  @Dan-vz7xu  "it has the population the size of a small U.S state" Well, can't similar things then be done at the state level in the US?
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  6154.  @ludai602  Haven't most of those places experienced conflict. Certainly they don't seem to be evidence against redrawing borders causing conflict.
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  6155. 3:40 "a shortage [...] of [...] food and even vodka" Even vodka? Now, that's serious!
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  6156. 9:45 I'm sure you can find a lot of men attracted to muscular women, but preferences vary.
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  6157. He has actually won elections without fraud so far so I would still say that Turkey has been a democracy. Now that democracy seems to be at risk.
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  6158. I suspect you already know this but Luftwaffe basically threatened to bomb Copenhagen if Denmark didn't capitulate.
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  6159. OBJECTION! 10:40 "Why is the judge asking questions." Because to my knowledge Japan has an inquisitorial system (like some other countries, e.g. France) which means that the court also participates in the investigation (or at least may do so) and therefore the judge can ask questions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitorial_system Note on the setting. I've understood that this anime is based on a game that originally made in Japanese and set in Japan and therefore the judicial system is like the Japanese one (or not necessarily, because there can still be serious lack of realism, but at least it's not probably even partly based on the US one). In the English language localization, they didn't just translate the game but also moved the setting to the US and changed the names of the characters (like Naruhodō Ryūichi -> Phoenix Wright). But they, of course, couldn't or wouldn't overhaul the plot entirely so the elements of the Japanese court system stayed. I think that's explained as the games taking place in an alternate world where California has been shaped by massive immigration from Japan. I've also heard that some of the later games contain more references to Japanese culture than the first game which can then seem rather jarring in the localization for some, at least according to this comic: http://www.awkwardzombie.com/index.php?comic=120913
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  6160. Seems like the farmers and Extinction Rebellion have some things in common (i.e. tactics).
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  6161.  @joseph-mariopelerin7028  All I meant was the blocking of roads/streets as a tactic.
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  6162.  @EVOpower  Both block roads/streets which is what I meant.
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  6163.  @EVOpower  Even if that were true it doesn't seem to have any implication on what I said (which was squarely about the blocking of roads/streets as a protest tactic).
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  6164.  @EVOpower  What does that have to do with my comment? I was specifically commenting about the tactic of blocking roads/streets. That farmers produce food, which we need to live, doesn't in any way mean that farmers haven't done any blocking of roads/streets in these protests.
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  6165.  @EVOpower  What does that have to do with my comment? It's a total non sequitur.
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  6166. Continental European stereotype of the British: Always drinking tea Japanese stereotype of the British: Always drinking black tea
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  6167. I think it might be pertinent to add that demographics may increase the risk of ethnic separatism, even though that may seem a distant prospect that this moment. My understanding is that in many ethnic minority republics the local ethnicities tend to have higher birth rates than ethnic Russians and ethnic Russians have been moving to more Russian parts of Russia (or in some cases abroad). That may somewhat increase the risk of them wanting to break away from Russia at some point, though that depends on many factors.
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  6168. "given that SOMEONE ACTUALLY HAD TO sneak a ship or a submarine in order to blow the pipeline up" Not necessarily. If it was Russia that did it they could have just sent maintenance robots carrying explosives inside the pipes. (Note, I'm not claiming that it was Russia that did it but only that if it was them they could have done it without a ship or a submarine.)
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  6169. Wouldn't the driver eventually lose his licence?
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  6170. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  6171.  @Tilten  "Sweden didn’t “gain” Norway by winning a war" But it did. In 1814 Sweden waged a military campaign against Norway. The Norwegians didn't want to fall under Swedish rule and resisted but they were ultimately defeated.
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  6172.  @Tilten  "if Sweden "gained" Norway in a war, it was the Napoleonic wars" Fair enough. You can reasonably say that those were the main reason for Sweden gaining Norway though I would still say that if the Norwegians would have won Sweden wouldn't have gotten Norway. In any case, my main point (in my original comment) was that the Finnish War wasn't quite the last war that Sweden fought as both this campaign against Norway as well as the Swedish participation in the War of the 6th Coalition (which you mentioned) happened after the Finnish War.
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  6173.  @archmad  Having Finland and Sweden in NATO makes it much easier to defend Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania due to e.g. the possibility of using planes deployed from there.
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  6174. ISA?
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  6175.  @WayneSzwarc  "I think you will find that, in financial markets, no one can predict anything with any level of certainty." Prediction can be difficult but I only wanted to say "Central Bank intervention" can only be of temporary effect in this regard.
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  6176. I bet Sam wishes he would get sponsorship from Airbus.
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  6177.  @Austine1452  "I don't think this dispute would really make any government change their mind about the supposed hypocrisy of Western governments vis a vis international law." You could argue that the attitude of others isn't the only reason for following principles and rules consistently but that it also has inherent value.
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  6178. Maybe you should've taken that $50,000 and then written a scathing review of the platform. :)
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  6179. Then Robin Hood could probably take that money back (assuming he didn't spend it before that) and he wouldn't end up with a net win. If his investment paid off though, he'd actually make some money.
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  6180. How are those Ponzi schemes?
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  6181. 1:09:00 IIRC, Nabiullina tried to resign but Putin didn't accept her resignation.
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  6182. 2:10 Leaving a 10-year-old and a 16-year-old to play in a park is neglect? WTF? Who's idea was that nonsense law?
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  6183.  @HHXOXHH  OK, but still sound rather excessive.
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  6184. Maybe he was speaking only about federal law.
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  6185. So the UK news was a wind farm and not some Brexit stuff. Is that because a lot of people have heard about Brexit too?
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  6186. Do you think Erdoğan is going to lose the next election?
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  6187. "My feeble Monkey brain can't understand the effective difference between the demand curve shifting out and moving along the existing demand curve to a new equilibrium" Just look at what happens at 11:45. Here you see the supply curve moving (and the demand curve staying put) and thus the point where the supply and demand meet moving right (and down). Now imagine if the demand curve moved to the right instead or in addition. How would the point where supply and demand meet move then? Does this explain the difference at all to you?
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  6188.  @StartCodonUST  "To me it really seems like a distinction that EE is making without a meaningful/relevant difference" No, the difference is meaningful though the terminology is often misused. "So, even if "Induced Demand" doesn't exist" But EE didn't claim that it doesn't exist. In the part where they have the supply and demand curves the point is that increasing supply doesn't mean that demand is increased but it does mean that quantity demanded does increase.
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  6189. Not a chance. The leading party (National Coalition) has long been the most pro-NATO party in Finland. Before it was the other parties as well as the public opinion that were against joining. That all changed soon after the 2022 invasion started.
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  6190. At least the police was able to find and catch the suspects (or some of them at least).
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  6191. "yes there was base load and in the U.K. anyway, that was nuclear which is inflexible. Coal, hydro and gas are flexible" Many coal plants are slow to ramp up and down. They can easily take hours or more to make a cold start. "it is robbing Peter to pay Paul" No, it's not. It's a genuine benefit to shift demand to the times when there's more supply.
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  6192. "5-7 years to build an LNG terminal…Germany built 3 since the war started." No. Peter was specifically talking about liquefaction plants whereas Germany acquired regasification plants.
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  6193.  @michall6376  That doesn't seem to have anything to do with my comment. Your original comment doesn't contradict what Peter said since Germany hasn't built any LNG liquefaction facilities and it wouldn't make any sense for them to do so since they're in importer of gas not an exporter.
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  6194. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane_(tool)
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  6195.  @ronalddump4061  That's not true. Wind relative to ground is crucial for it to work.
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  6196. The US Congress has so far never failed to raise the debt ceiling (as far as I know). Most likely they'll raise it this time too.
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  6197. "The Armenian government also didn´t join the war in September 2023. Not that surprising that Russia did nothing." The reason Armenia didn't try to intervene might be that Russia didn't react.
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  6198. 25:00 I've seen a claim that the so called "soldiers' mothers" were just fake actresses and this claim was from a pro-Russia blogger (Anatoly Karlin). Whether that's true or not doesn't even matter that much. Even if the women are genuine soldier's mothers and not fake they're still almost certainly a small-handpicked group who are not going to be representative of soldiers' mothers in general.
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  6199.  @redred2  Turkey seems to have change its mind since.
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  6200. Then there's Prenda Law, etc...
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  6201. "OJ was wholly innocent" But he was found liable for wrongful death and had to pay tens of millions for it.
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  6202. Could an actual etymologist confirm which theory is correct?
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  6203. "The EU law becomes local when the local parliment 'mirrors' EU law, which almost always happens (there are extremely rare cases when in past it did not happen)." That's not quite the case always. What you describe is how directives work. However, EU laws (not directives) supersede national law. Any conflicting national law is considered disapplied if e.g. cases come up in courts.
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  6204. 7:40 Turkey doesn't claim Northern Cyprus as a part of itself.
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  6205.  @gchampi2  "Dumping an equivalent weight into the ground would create a pretty massive explosion, possibly into the kiloton range" (EDIT: Fixed the speed.) Not even close. If the weight is 1,000 kg and goes at 10 km/s its kinetic energy would be equivalent to about 0.01 kilotons.
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  6206.  @gchampi2  "I think you meant 1,000m/s" Actually I meant 10 km/s (which is close to escape velocity). I've edited my comment accordingly. With this speed I think my calculation is correct though I can't be bothered to check it. At least the order of magnitude comports roughly with your calculation.
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  6207.  @gchampi2  "59 tons of blam going off next to a phenomenally expensive and highly energetic YEET! system still seems a bad idea" Maybe they could throw the counterweight down a borehole; maybe it could be filled with water to dissipate the energy gradually. One possibility would also be to have the counterweight be closer to the axis of rotation so it would have a lower velocity. It would then need to be heavier but its kinetic energy would still be reduced.
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  6208.  @gchampi2  "Not quite. Yes, you'd have a heavier object traveling at a slower speed, but the kinetic energy would stay the same. Newton's 3rd law's a thing." You're mistaken. If the counterweight would have, say, half the distance to the axis of rotation it would have half the velocity and would need to have twice the mass. The formula for kinetic energy is m*v²/2 which means that when you half the velocity and double the mass then the kinetic energy would be halved because it's dependence on velocity is quadratic but on mass only linear. The momentum of the counterweight would be the same but not the energy.
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  6209. @JCC "The Dutch prefer "Netherlands" instead of "The Netherlands"" I don't believe that at all. Do you have any poll data on that?
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  6210. @JCC "how about the Ukrainians?" I myself didn't make any claims about Ukrainians. In any case, I've at least sometimes heard the claims that using "the Ukraine" is disliked but I've never heard the same claim made for the Netherlands. Also, names in plural usually use a definite article whereas names that aren't don't use it (though the Gambia is an exception).
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  6211. Yes, but it's only for the oblast surrounding the city of St. Petersburg. The city (which isn't a part of the surrounding oblast) was renamed back to St. Petersburg after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.
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  6212.  @okn712  That would obviously be a bad choice.
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  6213.  @vital-wyn1310  "you mean they are only “following orders”?" No, or at least that wasn't my main focus. I mean it makes sense that they use the word "customers" or something similar even though taxes are compulsory. Even if you think something like "subjects" would be more honest that would anger way more people than using the word "customers" does.
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  6214.  @vital-wyn1310  What word would you use if you don't like "customer"?
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  6215.  @akaku9  Lol!
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  6216.  @angieherrera1850  That's a reasonable option.
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  6217.  @jcrowley1985  That doesn't make sense. Hostages are held captive to compel another party to do or not do something. Who would that other party be in this case?
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  6218. There's a comment by him above.
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  6219. 0:20 My impression is that the Chechen forces aren't really "at the forefront". In Ukraine the do photo-ops and internal security (e.g. preventing Donbass conscripts from deserting) but not that much frontline fighting. If you look at the Russian casualty figures by ethnicity you'll notice that there aren't that many Chechen casualties suggesting that they aren't a part of the heavy fighting. Of course, casualty figures reported by Russia are suspect but these relative casualty figures by ethnicity probably tell a lot more than the total figure (which is almost certainly a low-ball estimate).
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  6220. That's situational.
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  6221. 10:10 "insecurities markets"
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  6222. I would say that if you're not going to show your receipt, just say "no" politely or just walk by silently. Don't be rude and aggressive to a person who's just trying to earn their living and might have trouble finding a better job.
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  6223. 9:20 In game theory that concept is called "time inconsistency" or "dynamic inconsistency".
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  6224. And Russians are mostly Europeans so this presumably applies to them as well.
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  6225. 10:25 Wasn't that OAPEC rather than OPEC?
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  6226. "A better approach would be to accelerate the energy generation needs of poorer countries to switch from coal to renewable since poorer countries are unable to afford easily transition over." Poorer countries also emit much less per capita. It's important for rich countries to reduce their emissions. "Another point is carbon tax is really just carbon forgiveness. A larger business can easily eat the tax cost and still slowly continue to expand while meeting the objective to reduce CO2 emission. Smaller business cant afford to take the hit, otherwise they have raise price enough to be profitable. Which for large business can easily undercut small business since the economy of scale will completely wipe or several cripple small business which in turn stunned their growth and in turn just only allow large business to continue to grow." This argument makes no sense. Each carbon tonne should cost the same. The climate doesn't care whether it's emitted by a small or a large company. If a large company has an inherent advantage they have that with carbon tax or no carbon tax. There's no reason to assume that a carbon tax is better for big companies and no tax for smaller companies.
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  6227.  @silverliew0093  I don't think it leads to consolidation.
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  6228.  @silverliew0093  Carbon taxes are still needed in rich countries. Otherwise, emission reductions in them will be too slow.
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  6229.  @silverliew0093  Is there a reason to believe that there would be less consolidation without quotas? E.g. a lot of the market for beers have been consolidated to a few companies even though there are no beer quotas. (Many countries have alcohol taxes but many major countries also do not.)
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  6230. I think in Japanese 'ei' is often just a long 'e' rather than a diphthong.
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  6231.  @Mr.Nichan  Yeah, my impression is also that they're usually spelled that way. There are some exceptions though. I think e.g. "wolf" is spelled "ookami" rather than "*oukami".
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  6232. 16:10 Why is this incorrect quote being thrown around all the time? Doesn't anyone bother to check that they quotes they hear before repeating them without any criticism. That is not what Kissinger said. According to William F. Buckley (though there is no other source for the quote) he said: "Nixon should be told that it is probably an objective of Clifford to depose Thieu before Nixon is inaugurated. Word should be gotten to Nixon that if Thieu meets the same fate as Diem, the word will go out to the nations of the world that it may be dangerous to be America's enemy, but to be America's friend is fatal." [emphasis mine] Note the word "if" there. Kissinger is clearly saying Nguyễn Văn Thiệu should not suffer the same fate as Ngô Đình Diệm (who was killed in a coup). He wasn't giving some kind of unqualified statement that being a friend to America would be deadly.
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  6233.  @midlander8186  "I saw the terms stated in a CNBC YouTube video. I don't know why they're so difficult to find" I tried searching for it again and watched a couple of CNBC videos but I could find mentions of such terms. "Russia offered to pay the loans in Russia, where the US of course could not freeze funds. If creditors could legally take payment in Russia, they could of course take payment in rubles and convert rubles immediately to most foreign currencies of their choice." It's not entirely clear that that would be possible. Russia has implemented capital controls to support the rouble exchange rate. Most people can't sell roubles, only buy them. Unless bondholders get some kind of exemption any receipts in roubles might be stuck inside Russia. However, I didn't try to check whether they would be affected by the capital controls.
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  6234.  @midlander8186  "I'm sorry you've spent time searching through CNBC YouTube videos for the terms of the loan to Russia." No need to apologize. When I tried to search this YouTube brought up two videos which were about 2 min long (and after that the search results weren't from CNBC). The time spent on that wasn't that much.
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  6235.  @paxdriver  "but they needed those funds given the fact it's the only access they have to usd and they're at war. That makes usd more valuable to then due to scarcity." Sure. I just wanted to point out that (to my understanding) they would have still had the technical capacity to pay in dollars or euros so in that sense it was still a choice at this point.
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  6236. It's not like the whole of Switzerland would fall.
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  6237.  @9_9876  "You should get Galicia" Maybe, if it's the one in Ukraine and Poland.
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  6238. "This video gives some possible reasons why, if humans did first arise in Africa, why so many of our ancestors left!" I don't think this has much to do with it. If humans see previously unsettled but habitable land nearby they're likely to spread there eventually.
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  6239. "About the not close down the airspace , because enemies is just a rebels that not suppose to have a Military-grade Anti-Air missile" Even so, not closing the airspace is a risk. Maybe without the benefit of hindsight the risk may have seemed small but in the airline industry and airplane manufacturing safety is a top priority. In airplane design and operating procedures much smaller risks are taken seriously. I think here the risk was big enough to warrant closing the airspace (and for the airlines to avoid it voluntarily).
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  6240. Chile is lean & mean.
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  6241.  @syahidali3073  All of this is purely hypothetical in any case.
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  6242.  @syahidali3073  ?
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  6243. "cavalries could still be used for utility purposes, like [...] logistic transportation" Really? I get that horses were still used for transportation to great extent but did they really use cavalry for this?
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  6244.  @kerfirou9840  No, the death penalty should be abolished.
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  6245. "They reduce the supply of houses for sale" But they increase the supply of houses for rent.
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  6246. ​ @neiltal5992 : "that does nothing to help the first time homeowner" But we should care about renters as well.
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  6247. 0:04 "If you live in an area that gets pretty cold during the winter time, odds are you have a gas-fired furnace heating your home." Nope. My home is heated by district heating with the majority of that heat coming from CHP plants. It seems such an obvious solution in cold climates (at least in urban areas) that I'm surprised it's not being utilized in all areas fitting that description.
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  6248.  @geekygirl2596 : "What is "district heat?"" It's a type of infrastructure where heat is produced centrally in some kind of plant and transferred to homes through pipes with near boiling water flowing in them. Here most of the district heat is produced in CHP plants, i.e. plants that generate both heat and electricity which is pretty efficient. Apparently, for some reason, district heating isn't very common in the USA? Though some comments here seemed to say that it's used at least in New York City.
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  6249. "Also, consider that in order to charge the battery in the first place, a lot of heat was required at an electric generating plant to make the electricity to charge the vehicle's battery. That process also included significant inefficiency in the heat to electricity making process." Waste heat from powerplants can be used for district heating.
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  6250. If the name is supposed to be pronounced the German way, the sound isn't quite the same. In German, the 'ch' digraph is pronounced as [x] after back vowels (like 'a') and as [ç] after front vowels (like 'ü').
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  6251. "How, when, and why did this change happen? And is it English, German, or both that changed?" I think English has changed more than German due to the influence of (Norman) French, but this is just a guess, not certain knowledge.
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  6252. I think you can get proper tech support for e.g. Ubuntu if you actually pay Canonical for it. Same might be true for some other distros.
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  6253. "The US imposed sanctions are the only reason Venezuela is struggling." It's not. The sanctions were implemented in 2015. By that time GDP had already dropped by a third from its peak a few years before. That's already pretty massive.
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  6254. I suspect that it's so bright it would hurt to watch IRL.
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  6255.  @artchoi5036  Russia seems to invade countries that are not NATO members but so far it hasn't invaded any NATO member.
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  6256. It's taking kinetic from the wind so no laws of thermodynamics are being violated.
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  6257.  @user-fx2oo3bi9c  "kinetic energy from wind 🌬️🍃 and travel faster than wind" Yes. That doesn't violate the laws of thermodynamics.
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  6258.  @user-fx2oo3bi9c  But 100% efficiency isn't required here. It's enough that dissipative losses are smaller than the amount of energy extracted from the wind.
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  6259.  @user-fx2oo3bi9c  This vehicle doesn't break any such limitations. It just takes energy from the wind, that's all.
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  6260.  @JB-yb4wn  But the movie is very loosely based on an earlier novel (Make Room! Make Room!) in which soylent is just made from soy and lentils (hence the name). The novel didn't feature cannibalism.
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  6261.  @JB-yb4wn  I saw this same think mentioned under several comments. I didn't keep track of who was saying what. Hence the multiple replies to you.
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  6262. 5:40 But note, the castle they're shooting from doesn't seem to have machicolations. With them (and possibly also hoardings/allures), it might be easier to shoot down at very low angles.
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  6263. 29:15 But Hitler was (at least nominally) Catholic, wasn't he?
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  6264. @giftokoh7153 He was baptized as a Catholic and I don't he ever formally renounced the faith. That's what I meant by him being nominally a Catholic. I'm not claiming he believed in Catholic teachings or even God at all.
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  6265. I think some might consider it being Eastern either a) because it's Slavic or b) because it used to be socialist (though not a part of the Eastern Bloc).
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  6266. Though as a bright spot, ultimately no one served any time nor paid any fines.
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  6267. But you haven't checked what Kissinger actually said.
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  6268. I say in Europe men should start dressing like Landsknechts, not forgetting the codpieces.
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  6269. I have a hard time believing that.
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  6270. "Does it mean a solar sail can travel faster than light?" No, that would mean going backwards in time in some inertial frame. Also, reaching the speed of light would require an infinite amount of energy.
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  6271. "Galicia" Are you talking about the one in Spain or the one in Ukraine and Poland?
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  6272.  @tasa4904  Because there are still a lot of emissions that are going to cause future warming. Year-to-year fluctuation isn't relevant.
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  6273. Some ships use Flettner rotor sails but these only cut the fuel consumption by a smallish percentage.
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  6274.  @rcmrcm3370  "my bet would be noise, as they would be using DC which had to be inverted" That cannot be the reason because "normal" wind turbines have their output converted to DC and then inverted back to AC.
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  6275. Businesses aren't citizens.
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  6276. @M J I dunno. Getting some exercise is good too. I live in the 5th floor in an old building that doesn't even have an elevator (or rather the other stairwells do have one but mine doesn't).
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  6277. "In my book, this is not "politely asking", this is "yelling in my face"." But that's different because that's just market logic. It's not like politicians have considered different price levels and decided on the current one.
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  6278. @ian x "If Ukraine had joined NATO, as seems likely" It doesn't seem likely at all. The unresolved territorial dispute would have meant that Ukraine wouldn't have been able to join NATO, not for a long time at least.
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  6279. Loss of power would have had less effect during the summer. Also, the power grid may have been chosen as a target due to domestic politics. They have to show the Russian population that the Ukrainian population will get punished for resisting. Such political show was less needed earlier in the war.
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  6280.  @anitaknight3915  I personally wouldn't be interested in a law career but if I were I'd think that the "working 5 years on a pharmaceutical company's merger with another pharmaceutical company" (from another video) sounds more enticing than all of the Suits shenanigans (though Suits is obviously better TV material).
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  6281.  @carlgustafemilmannerheim9360  "the threat of bioweaponlabs in the border regions who where supported by the usa" They are not weapon labs. "and that zelensky wanted nukes" It's pretty unlikely that they would get nukes.
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  6282.  @niarlatotepbasset  "they didn’t wanted for Ethiopia to continue its development" This doesn't sound like a credible claim. Do you have any evidence?
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  6283.  @igormac9431  "Guess who's against that deal and is actively working on canceling it?" Do you have any evidence that the US is against it?
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  6284.  @Redbaron9495  "it was re-affirmed by Genscher" I'm only able to find mentions Genscher saying that to other Western countries but not to the USSR.
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  6285.  @moviemakerjo6756  Can you mention a specific article? I tried searching the Grayzone but I only found mentions that according to them the US has greenlit the Saudi intervention in that was but I didn't find anything saying the war started because of the US or UK in the first place. "years ago you would be able to see a u.k soldier who was court martialed because of his protest against the colonial actions of the u.k in Yemen" Can you give the name of the soldier?
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  6286.  @moviemakerjo6756  ""green light" is attached to both polítical support and weapons" But even if you think that Saudis have the US support that doesn't mean the US somehow caused the outbreak of the war. Did the US somehow make the Houthis rebel? "I can direct you to more finite detail at the wall will fall, search Yemen." When I asked for evidence, I focused on Ethiopia, not Yemen, because that seemed like the stranger allegation. You can of course talk about Yemen too but I still have to note that so far no one seems to have presented any evidence that the war in Ethiopia was somehow due to the US or the UK.
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  6287.  @moviemakerjo6756  "it appears that despite your firm conviction that human beings fight and kill each other for fun you believe that anglo america, and it's colonialism, has never existed" You're jumping to ridiculous conclusions here. I only asked if there is any evidence that the war in Ethiopia was "conducted by the U.S./UK" like niarlatotepbasset claimed in his comment. It is generally expected that people making claims provide evidence for their claims.
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  6288.  @moviemakerjo6756  "I have provided evidence. I appreciate you asking for it although it's not my capacity to both read and understand evidence. [...] I've given four sources, maybe five" But this is still a little bit unspecific. I e.g. can't wade through the Grayzone videos on Yemen or Ethiopia as that would take an excessive amount of time.
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  6289.  @Give_Peace_a_Chance123  That's not specific enough.
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  6290.  @moviemakerjo6756  I already mentioned earlier what I found from them. It would be better to point to a single article or video that has evidence for the specific claims made earlier in this thread. Those sites have a lot of them and I don't have time to go through all of the Yemen/Ethiopia related ones.
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  6291. Why didn't you address the proposed layout of the city? A long thin line seems like the worst possible layout. The average distance between 2 random points in the city is maximized.
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  6292. I would guess no since he's a professor in the University of Pittsburgh.
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  6293. 8:55 "Keep working" Though you might want to consider taking some leave (paid or unpaid) depending on your job. Of course, if you can work from your home or you otherwise don't have to deal with people face-to-face much, the nature of the job doesn't allow it, or your financial situation doesn't allow it, then this doesn't apply.
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  6294.  @starlast992  "They need cranes to put the blocks up, but they also need them to put the blocks down. Diesel is wasted in both operations." I think you misunderstand. Electricity, not diesel, would be used to lift the blocks up. When lowering the blocks one recover some of that electricity to feed back to the grid. The amount of electricity stored is just not big enough (among other problems).
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  6295. "Wait, what if I just used a pond and a hill... at which point I realized I'd been an idiot and re-invented hydraulic power, but dumber." Pumped storage is actually used. It's not a dumb idea.
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  6296.  @bradymenting5120  In Australia they use so called "land trains", i.e. trucks with multiple trailers (though I think they are powered by diesel, not electricity).
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  6297. That's not how monetary policy should be decided.
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  6298.  @MertBSerin  "Turkey cannot solve any economic issues with monetary policy alone" There's one issue they can solve with monetary policy and only with monetary policy: inflation.
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  6299.  @ibrahimyilmaz4861  His monetary policy in no way promotes national economy. Interest rate cuts by the central bank basically imply more money printing and thus more inflation (despite Erdogan's baseless assertion to the contrary). Rate hikes are inevitable at some point to curb inflation and the longer they are delayed the more drastic they need to be. I'm not commenting on any other of his policies right now but his too loose monetary policy is just harmful and stupid; nothing more to it.
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  6300.  @MertBSerin  Getting foreign investment is beneficial but that doesn't change my conclusion. The correct monetary policy action would be to tighten regardless of whether Turkey can attract foreign investment or not. Letting inflation run rampant does not compensate for lack of investment nor does it confer any other benefit whether there's foreign investment or not.
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  6301.  @MertBSerin  Delaying interest rate hike will only make things worse. A rate hike is coming sooner or later and delaying it means it has to be greater.
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  6302.  @MertBSerin  Maybe but I suspect not doing it will end his career too. The next election is soon but not so soon that inflation couldn't still climb much higher if he refuses to tighten.
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  6303.  @MertBSerin  Not by nearly enough. The current central bank policy rate in Turkey is 14% while inflation is at least about 50%. That means that the real policy rate is -36% or lower, i.e. hugely negative. That won't be enough to reduce inflation.
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  6304.  @MertBSerin  I hope that Erdogan is ousted in the election next year and replace with someone better.
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  6305.  @ibrahimyilmaz4861  OK. I just find it really hard to understand why anyone would draw a connection between loose monetary policy in the current situation and national economy or self-reliance. Thus it's just too difficult for me to get inside his head and understand what he's thinking. Or well, he has at least some times given religious justifications for the rate cuts. Those are kind of easier to understand (though I certainly don't agree with them), but I'm not sure how big part religion plays in his monetary policy decisions.
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  6306.  @readyplayer2880  I don't quite agree. First, they don't use as much electricity. Second, they at least provide liquidity and keep market prices more accurate. That said, I think it would be better if passive investing like index funds and ETFs became more popular.
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  6307. I think "el dorado" doesn't quite mean "the gold" but rather "the golden (one)" and "the gold" would be "el oro". Correct me if I'm wrong.
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  6308. Do wire cutters work against cacti?
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  6309.  @o76923  "It's absurd to think they are still effective with so few justices." They don't split the caseload but rather rule on cases together so having more justices doesn't help with the possible higher caseload coming with a larger population.
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  6310.  @solsunman383  I don't think I've heard the Spanish government say that they would accept British sovereignty even conditioned on resolving those issues.
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  6311.  @thomasbecker9676  "It's not carte blanche to say whatever you want." But it is a very broad right to say a lot of things. There's no way to make what e.g. Tim Pool has done here illegal without running afoul of the 1st Amendment.
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  6312. "bitcoin is fundamentally different than [...] any altcoin" How is it fundamentally different than any altcoin?
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  6313.  @hicmad  Though the incarceration rate doesn't depend only on the prevalence of crime. It also depends on how likely criminals are to be caught, how serious the crime has to be to receive a prison sentence, and how long prison sentences tend to be on average. I think the incarceration rate is at least partly due to the US having longer prison sentences than other countries.
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  6314.  @trelligan42 : To my knowledge, it's more like that the sound represented by 'r' (in transliteration to Latin alphabet) is most commonly [ɾ] but can be also [l] depending on the speaker (and these two are allophones).
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  6315.  @joaquinescotoaleman4320  "How Cyprus was allow to the EU when 40% of its territory is under occupation? I mean Moldova can't make it until its resolved Tranistria issue" There's no rule that says that Moldova can't join before resolving the Transnistria issue.
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  6316. I'm not sure Turkey is an autocracy.
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  6317.  @Dommifax  He has concentrated a lot (probably too much) power in the office of the president. However, he hasn't resorted to e.g. election fraud so he does still have a democratic mandate (even if his popularity has been waning).
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  6318. 4:40 I don't think this argument is sufficient. I'm not making a claim about who blew up the pipes. However, if Russia wanted to do it it could do so easily by just sending explosives inside the pipes with maintenance robots. I'm not claiming that's necessarily what happened but merely that Russia too had at least the capability to blow the pipes up surreptitiously so we can't rule them out based on capabilities alone.
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  6319.  @EngineeringwithRosie  OK, I guess that makes sense. I was thinking of e.g. the turbines at 2:45. I thought the blades were actually shaped like that.
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  6320. "it seems so inconvenient to not have them!" You can compare it to English not using plurals for mass nouns (like "rice" for example).
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  6321.  @xerolad4086  "Other non-EU countries can impose tariffs on individual EU countries." Not really. Differing tariffs on different EU members would violate the WTO's "most favored nation principle". You can't discriminate between your trading partners like that. Well, there are some exceptions like explicit free trade deals, but you're not going to be making those with individual EU members. Well, what if you decide to be brazen and just violate the WTO rules? It's not like the WTO can do something about that, right? Well, I don't see the point because any goods could be shipped without tariffs to the EU country which faces the lowest tariffs from such a non-EU country and thus the lowest rate would often apply. Also, trying to do something like that against EU countries risks a trade war with the whole EU.
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  6322. A country's current account deficit (which isn't quite the same as trade deficit but is reasonably close and for this purpose the difference doesn't matter much) is equal to the difference of its investment and saving. Thus if you want to reduce the current account deficit (and in practice this is mostly true for trade deficit too), you have to either reduce investment or increase savings.
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  6323. Just grant all the migrants French citizenship. After that they'd have the right to migrate to Europe and not just to Metropolitan France but to any EU member.
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  6324. Better than the South Sea Company at least. :)
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  6325. "There should be a law against financial libel." There already is. It's covered by normal libel/slander/defamation laws. This company can sue Hindenburg if it wants. The court can then evaluate Hindenburg's evidence against any counter-arguments.
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  6326. Maybe he bought a 1 l pint?
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  6327. Does bombardment from carrier-based aircraft count as shore bombardment?
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  6328. That would be very costly for Russia as well.
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  6329. 8:55 Even if that was a factorial, it would only make the number worse since 1.09!≈1.04.
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  6330. "Is that not completely backwards?" Not at all. This is high voltage DC, not Edison's low voltage DC.
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  6331. 8:40 How is that simulation made? Presumably, it isn't classical MD if those free electrons are included? Is it DFT or something else like that?
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  6332. Oil prices did go up as well, you know.
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  6333. Here in Finland, there was a helicopter airline named Copterline that flew passenger flights between Helsinki and Tallinn in 2000-2005 with two Sikorsky S-76 helicopters. It was a much faster way to travel than by a ferry though also more expensive, I imagine. However, in 2005 one of the Sikorskys suffered a malfunction soon after taking off and fell into the sea killing both pilots and all the passengers and the company sold the remaining one next year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copterline
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  6334.  @personzorz  Maybe, I'm not sure. Did you mean to tag someone else?
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  6335.  @shariqzafar  "Also, in 2021 Zelensky could have negotiated to reach a common minimum ground to avoid conflict." And what would that be? You just said earlier that promises to not join NATO wouldn't be credible.
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  6336.  @TomSeliman99  Ukraine surely wanted to join NATO but it would have been unable to do so for the foreseeable future.
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  6337. Thank you for using IPA.
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  6338. I don't think it does. Rosie mentioned that as turbines get bigger the rotational speed gets lower meaning the velocity of the tips of the blades doesn't increase.
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  6339. Rent control is a ruinous policy.
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  6340. "How much do central banks print each year and give away to banks these days?" None, if you meant "give" literally.
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  6341.  @LichuStar64  "this tells me the money somehow remains with the banks" But to get that money they have to sell something of equal value or they borrow it meaning they have to pay it back. Also, at least in the Eurozone the ECB actually imposes negative interest on bank reserves meaning the banks actually have to pay the ECB if they just hoard reserves.
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  6342. "little-to-no repercussions" I wouldn't describe 5 years in prison like that.
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  6343.  @KaitouKaiju  That's not really relevant to what I commented on. I only said 5 years is not "little-to-no repercussions" (even if it might be too little), that's all.
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  6344.  @NestedQuantifier  "5 years is little to no repercussion" It doesn't seem like "little to no" to me though you might argue that he should have gotten more.
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  6345.  @dimas3829 : The death of a suspect reeks of incompetence. The number of people (black, white, and others) killed by police in the US relative to population is much, much higher than e.g. in Canada and many countries in Europe. Maybe you can explain away a single case but you can't so easily explain away the statistics. For some reason, American cops seem to have an exceedingly poor trigger discipline. There has to be institutional problems in the US police departments. I don't see a reason why American cops would have to be this incompetent compared to others.
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  6346.  GreyboSneed  Covid seems several times deadlier than seasonal flu.
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  6347.  GreyboSneed  "if they didnt change the requirements for determining the cause of death in relation to CV there would be little difference between CV and the flu" You're just asserting that without giving any reason to believe that.
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  6348. Jury is usually not the one deciding on qualified immunity.
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  6349.  @Epsilvonic  That's from the Continuation War, not Winter War.
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  6350. 3:35 "Why can't you economists answer questions?" Lol! He's answering your questions pretty clearly (and you also keep interrupting him).
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  6351.  @AdamPutnam-ur8td  Yeah, it was a joke.
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  6352.  @ZeleneBeretke1977  Who deserves that? The Serbs? Would you separate Republika Srpska from Bosnia or did you mean something else?
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  6353.  @ZeleneBeretke1977  What does "the next lesson" mean?
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  6354. "Why do we call him President Zelensky when he was never elected?" You're mistaken. He was elected in 2019 with about 73.22% of the vote (in the second round).
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  6355.  @sarahbrown5073  "Yes, he was elected the first time, but I wouldn't call it a democracy when there will be no more elections. Zelensky said they aren't going to do elections anymore." What do you mean "first time"? The presidential term is 5 years meaning the next presidential elections would be due next year (under normal conditions). I'm pretty sure Zelensky has not said there wouldn't be elections anymore. If you disagree, I'm sure you can give a (reputable) source. Ukraine might postpone elections while the war is still going on but I'm sure you understand why arranging elections while the country is still under a full-scale invasion might be difficult.
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  6356. One reason was that they had actually learned something from Finland.
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  6357. "quickly develop nuclear energy" I don't think that's something you can do quickly.
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  6358.  @jirislavicek9954  I'm from Finland myself so maybe my perspective is skewed by seeing how long it took for Olkiluoto 3 to be completed (and Flamanville 3 in France seems to be proceeding roughly at the same pace). Building nuclear power may make sense but I think some other low-emission electricity sources are needed too while the nuclear reactors are under construction.
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  6359.  @barsozturk8172  I think you can in the sense that the law doesn't prevent you or punish you. Of course, there are some limitations. E.g. direct calls for violence might be an exception. However, if you e.g. just publicly argue for their ideology, there probably isn't much that can legally be done about it. Social media sites would probably deplatform you but that isn't a legal requirement.
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  6360. 3:13 I think the bottom graph here is wrong. The power should be proportional to the square of the voltage (or current). Thus the "valleys" shouldn't be sharp like that but just as smooth as the "peaks". It kind of looks like you're graphing the square root of the power.
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  6361. I think usually contracts on doing illegal things aren't enforceable but IANAL.
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  6362.  Filip Trendafilov  Monsters?
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  6363. "A great experiment on induced demand (or rather its nonsense) can be seen in Switzerland. [...] During popular travel times this creates a queue of 15-20km or 3-5 hours of wait time. If removing lanes is a solution, this should not exist." No, that argument nonsense is based on a misunderstanding of the induced demand argument. It never predicted that removing lanes would reduce congestion. Rather, the point is that induced demand can limit how much the amount of lanes affects congestion. In commonly proposed extreme case the amount of lanes doesn't affect congestion at all. So even the most extreme proposed induced demand argument does not say that reducing lanes would reduce congestion but rather than neither adding nor reducing lanes will affect congestion. A less extreme version of the theory would say that adding lanes can reduce congestion but it does less of it than one would think if one assumes that the amount of traffic stays constant.
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  6364. It wasn't Ukraine. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  6365. "Who’s renouncing nuclear?" Germany, unfortunately.
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  6366. What about if someone starts misbehaving inside an embassy (or I guess I should say a chancery)? The police are normally not there to respond. I guess they can have some security staff but do those have the same authority to use force as the police do?
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  6367. That's a baseless conspiracy theory.
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  6368.  @JohnGeary-e9e  I'm not super familiar with Muslim teachings but my impression is that Ramadan can be foregone e.g. by soldiers during war (and other similar emergencies). These people might see themselves as waging a war.
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  6369.  @JohnGeary-e9e  "These Terrorists received payment for their actions" What's your evidence?
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  6370.  @madmouse4400  Are you replying to me or urbanarmory? It's not clear to me what "it" is referring to in your comment.
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  6371.  @madmouse4400  OK, thanks. Of course, my comment was just a hypothetical what-if. I'm not trying to predict how likely peace is.
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  6372. I don't think the chances are that low because temperature keeps increasing. Thus it's not that uncommon for each year to be the warmest so far (since the beginning of record keeping).
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  6373.  @bobjoe1593  Yeah, it's possible to gamble away small sums mainly for the fun. However, there's plenty of people going to casinos who aren't merely doing that.
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  6374. Total casualties also include wounded.
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  6375.  @Spanky00Cheeks  I have not have heard of laxer red lines being implemented.
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  6376.  @Spanky00Cheeks  "I mean perhaps these were laxer red lines." When I wrote "laxer" I meant "laxer than these". It's a comparative form and there's no other obvious comparison. So the answer to your "what if" question is "no".
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  6377.  @Spanky00Cheeks  "You can always ask “why not lower” to any threshold." You can, but my pondering was prompted by the seemingly dangerous consequences. Sufficiently laxer policy wouldn't have caused the current distress, at least not initially, so there would have been less reason to ask the same question then. (Of course, with laxer policy one might then ask the question whether it's just making an eventual correction more severe by postponing it.)
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  6378. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  6379. So the people who wrote the Declaration of Independence swore an oath to Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz rather than to King George III?
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  6380. If only Harald Hardrada had waited until after William to invade...
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  6381.  @williamthebonquerer9181  Yeah, Algeria isn't totally innocent either. All I wanted to say that the difference between Japan and Europe isn't as stark as OP (Fairy C Rat) said.
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  6382.  @mrwunna999  "even France wasn't in NATO until 80's" You're mistaken. France was one of the founding members of NATO in 1949.
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  6383. "they killed the Armenians who committed treason against their own country" This is nonsense. They didn't prosecute and execute just individuals who were found to have committed treasonous acts. They, in fact, drove out Armenians wholesale out of their homes without any regard what each individual might have done and sent them on a forced march without proper supplies which killed many of them. That's just mass murder and inexcusable.
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  6384.  @samhunter1205  It's not just the top few %. You can check e.g. FRED data with the title " Real Median Household Income in the United States". You can see that it's been rising over the past decades.
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  6385.  @samhunter1205  Check e.g. FRED data titled "Real Median Household Income in the United States".
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  6386. Damn fake accounts. I'm reporting this.
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  6387. 31:15 I think we becoming "much poorer" as societies is an exaggeration. We have been constantly getting richer due to advancing technology and that component is unlikely to disappear so it should still offset a large part of the burden of the elderly people who are non-productive and in need of care. Also, governments will likely react by increasing retirement ages. Thus we will likely experience stagnation or even decline but probably not so much as to become "much poorer".
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  6388.  @snapdragonzoroark  The distribution of wealth is another matter.
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  6389. The title says it only "features" Extra Credits.
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  6390. Thai probably has a worse orthography, though.
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  6391.  @AsterInDis  Mirrors can't function asymmetrically.
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  6392.  @AsterInDis  "I know we can't get turn-on-turn-off windows" Boeing 787 Dreamliner has electronically dimmable windows. "window films exist that make it so that heat is reflected off what kinda looks like a mirror but allows a sufficient amount of light in" Windows that reflect infrared but not visible light were talked about in this video. They're obviously possible and that's not what I was reacting to. The part I quoted wanted windows that reflect IR only on one side which is impossible because reflection on one side but not the other would violate very basic laws of physics. In short, one-way mirrors cannot exist. The "one-way mirrors" used in e.g. recognizing a perpetrator of a crime are just half-reflective mirrors and the "one-way" aspect is simply one side being lit much more brightly than the other.
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  6393.  @Owen_loves_Butters  It's definitely not possible. It would violate some very basic laws of physics. Bulletproof glass is a different thing because the process where either the bullet or the window breaks upon collision is not a reversible process.
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  6394.  @Owen_loves_Butters  I'm quite confident that it is impossible. Physics is (mostly) time-symmetric and a one-way mirror would break that. I think there isn't a reasonable argument that that could be overcome. Technically some particle physics phenomena exhibit T-symmetry breaking but those are not relevant to light being reflected off windows. Negative temperatures are possible in systems where the energy level is bounded from above such as a spin system.
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  6395. What's the name of that crime?
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  6396.  @Gerico9008  There's e.g. an Albanian politician named Tom Doshi who is or was an MP and a party leader and he was at some point found to be running his own criminal organization. Mind you, he didn't merely have connections to organized crime but actually headed his own organization.
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  6397.  @arron390  What do French nukes have to do with my comments?
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  6398. Copyright doesn't need to be registered to be valid (though registration can have certain advantages).
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  6399. It's easy. To be seen as reliable borrower you merely need to have the sovereign power to tax.
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  6400. When it comes to Russia itself paying reparations (instead of them being take from the frozen assets) I don't see how that could happen under any even remotely realistic scenario. Let's consider a few: 1) Russia wins. -> It won't pay. 2) A settlement is reached which preserves at least a large part of Ukraine (granting Ukraine a partial, or at least a moral victory). -> To reach this, Russia needs to have enough incentive to agree. This would probably include at least no reparations, return of the frozen assets, and a lifting of the more significant sanctions. 3) Ukraine achieves a complete military victory pushing out Russian forces from all of Ukraine. -> Russia can just retreat inside its borders and refuse a settlement that includes reparations. Even with such a complete victory, Ukraine almost certainly wouldn't march on Moscow to enforce reparations. Also, reparations probably can't be very significant if e.g. lifting of sanctions would be enough to make Russia agree to them. 4) Russia sinks into civil unrest and chaos. -> There won't be effective government in Russia that could impose the cost of sanctions on the populace. 5) Russia becomes bankrupt and destitute. -> It can't afford to pay, at least not without foreign aid and no one would probably aid Russia just so it could pay.
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  6401.  @varana  It seemed to me that that wasn't what he meant since he specifically used the wording "rather than the reality".
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  6402.  @mandalePP1999  That convention is only signed by countries in the Americas. I don't see the relevance for Bosnia, which is in Europe.
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  6403.  @mandalePP1999  I'm not entirely convinced by that. Firstly, it's not clear to me that all of the content of that convention were broadly accepted unwritten principles. Secondly, it seems to me that in practice Bosnia is treated as a state in international relations (despite the powers of the HR) so whatever unwritten principles there are in favor of it being a state seem to be stronger.
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  6404.  @mandalePP1999  "The fact that somebody can entertain international relations with other entities does not mean that it is a state." I didn't (merely) say that it can entertain international relations but rather that it is in practice treated as a state in said relations.
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  6405.  @mandalePP1999  "I can treat you as a state as well, but does it make you a state?" It matters little whether you treat anyone or anything as a state. If other states treat something as a state then that actually matters.
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  6406.  @mandalePP1999  "you didn't read my answers or didn't understand them." I think I did read and understand them and I did reply to them.
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  6407. That doesn't make sense. Firstly, the cable has a wire going in both directions so there's no net inductance. Secondly, even if there were it would increase heating.
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  6408. It seems that the full report has come out a few days ago. Time for an update on the subject?
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  6409. Wouldn't it be a bit inconvenient to split Istanbul into two different countries?
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  6410.  @rosszografov614  "We must remember that none of the 89 killed, ever fired a single shot." They likely would have been firing shots eventually. Russia has also fired cruise missiles into barracks. This is nothing new.
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  6411.  @rosszografov614  "Which barracks did Russia bomb?" As an example, Russia bombed the Yavoriv military base with Kalibr missiles on March 13th, i.e. less than 3 weeks after the invasion began. There might be also more of these kinds of attacks as I've not kept account of all the strikes so there might be others that I'm not aware of or don't remember "How many new soldiers did it kill? None." Russia claimed "up to 180" killed in that attack; Ukraine said 61 were killed. Were are you getting that "none" from? What's your source? Are you just making stuff up? "the point was that they hadn't killed anyone yet" Russia is hardly refraining from killing Ukrainian soldiers who haven't killed anyone yet.
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  6412.  @rosszografov614  "Western mercenaries are criminals, outsiders like you. It's a very different case to bombing legitimate support troops who hadn't fired a shot." It's not criminal to be a foreign volunteer. Also, regular soldiers if anything are a perfectly normal military target. That they hadn't yet taken part in combat operations doesn't make them a less legitimate target. There is no law of war that you have to wait until the enemy shoots you first. Shooting at them is not any more terror than any military action is terror. If that's terror then Russia's military campaign is also at least as much terror.
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  6413.  @rosszografov614  It doesn't take a genius to know that shooting enemy soldiers in a war with artillery is not "terror"; or else the whole Russian invasion of Ukraine is "terror" by the same logic.
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  6414. I would call that a village rather than a town.
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  6415.  @GregVidua  "Netherlands is the only country that does it universally well" There are almost 200 countries in the world. Haver you checked every one of them?
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  6416.  @GregVidua  "people who specialize in safe roads place Switzerland, Sweden and Netherlands" Well, then the Netherlands doesn't seem to be the only one. I would think that e.g. Singapore does it universally well as well.
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  6417.  @mileycyrus4800  From what I've heard in Singapore traffic flows smoothly (partly because owning a car is made very expensive).
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  6418.  @peepeevs  "in my eyes, the Netherlands is the best" It might be best. I was mostly skeptical of the wording "only one".
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  6419. "Everything is fair in love and war" Not really. Some acts are war crimes.
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  6420.  @OmkarEscanor1574  "war is itself a crime" In most cases (in this day and age) it is. However, some ways to conduct a war is even more of a crime. That isn't irrelevant. Today we e.g. rarely see chemical weapons being used.
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  6421. You should have said the power ratings in horsepowers instead of kW. :)
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  6422.  @marcbjorg4823  It can also be recycled.
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  6423.  @marcbjorg4823  I mean, the material of the tetra pak can be recycled so you don't have to burn it.
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  6424.  @fniunior  One stance one could take is that greenhouse emissions should be reduced but not all the way to net zero (or at least not quite so fast as the current plans dictate) since it's too hard.
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  6425. But they don't come from the same Latin word. They come from "dīversitās" and "dīvīsiō" respectively.
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  6426.  @007kingifrit  Which root is that? I wasn't able to trace the etymology further back in time.
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  6427.  @iz5808  "Helsinki is a pretty dense city" I'd say Helsinki is more spread out than it needs to be.
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  6428. "Someone on Twitter said it best: “If taxpayer money bails out a bank, the bank should become publicly owned. You can’t privatize the profits, but socialize the losses.”" I don't think that is saying it all that well. Even in this case SVB's owners lost all their equity but that's not enough to dissuade excessive risk taking. It can still make sense for the bank's owners' point of view to take big risks; if all goes well they get a lot of money; if it goes badly they lose their entire investment into that bank but not more than that as anything beyond that is paid by someone else.
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  6429.  @mikemike6182  The Fed needed to hike rates because of inflation. SVB didn't properly hedge against interest rate risk.
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  6430. Why are the tips of the turbine blades bent backwards in the more modern turbines?
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  6431. 6:55 "So the idea of I'm gonna shoot him in the head or the idea of I'm gonna shoot him in the leg so I put him down without killing him, all of this is basically movie or fantasy or video games because in reality you are taught to shoot center of mass." At least in my country (Finland) in 2017 a radicalized asylum seeker who went on a stabbing spree was stopped by the police with a non-fatal shot to the thigh. Of course, it should be noted that he was only armed with kitchen knives and things might have been different had he had a gun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Turku_attack
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  6432. What's with that Arabic script?
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  6433.  @wesleyy2502  Makes sense.
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  6434. You don't have to look at the comments if you don't want to. There should be no need to deactivate them for everyone.
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  6435. It's just a dialectal variation in pronunciation, much like the Brits and the Americans pronounce "bath" differently (with a back vowel in British English and a front vowel in American English).
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  6436. If the wind stops it will also come to a halt after a while.
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  6437. It was Putin who attacked.
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  6438. It's not Hearth Swarming?
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  6439. Moldova says they have done an audit and only owe about $8 million.
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  6440. It wasn't because of the expired transit agreement. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before it expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  6441. I don't think he has committed crimes the the US would pursue him for.
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  6442.  @tomAS-27  In this case, the UK is "their country".
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  6443.  @suzanh777  I'm not sure it's the abundance of land. Finland does have about half the population density of the US but density, of course, varies wildly in both countries. It's something that has traditionally been considered the right of every person and it has continued to be upheld e.g. by courts. It's not a right explicitly granted by law (though the law doesn't explicitly grant landowners the right to restrict those activities either as that would then trump any kind of everyman's right).
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  6444. "These sanctions only harden these people against western imperialism towards Russia." That is a potential long term effect. The goal of the sanctions is a more short term pressure on Russia. This war won't last for decades.
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  6445. Did he say they were mistreated? Can you give a timestamp?
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  6446.  @Smartlib_lol  I don't think he explicitly mentioned them being mistreated. At least my interpretation wasn't that he's saying that every middleman minority has been persecuted, just that it's more common than for other minorities.
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  6447. But can you the mother of vinegar? What would it taste like (other than sour)?
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  6448. Why did the triarii keep their spears (hasta) when the change to the gladius was made for other troops?
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  6449. Why that reaction?
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  6450.  @frozenstang3868  It's a temporary measure.
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  6451.  @ripvanrevs  Based on a short googling, the eviction moratorium in New York was only 60 days and is expiring February 26th (i.e. tomorrow).
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  6452. "Moldova is illegally occupied land of Romania" Moldova is recognized as an independent country by Romania.
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  6453. Make them expensive enough and some of them will.
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  6454.  @lavaot5207  I was also thinking about bouldering; well, indoors bouldering, not climbing actual boulders outdoors. Even in (indoors) bouldering the easiest routes are easily doable for almost everyone who isn't either very young, very old, or have some serious medical condition. I would say, even in bouldering, if you can climb ladders you can also climb the easiest (indoors) routes. On a personal note, (indoors) bouldering is actually the only kind of climbing I've done. Well, I've tried with rope (with auto-belay machines) twice but my fear of high places got in the way.
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  6455. The word "Haken" means "hook", not "broken".
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  6456.  @chandlerwhite8302 : "the greatest strategic naval disaster of all time" What about the Athenian expedition to Sicily during the Peloponnesian War? Or what about Kublai's disastroys attempts of invading Japan?
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  6457. ​ @chandlerwhite8302 : E.g. the failed expedition to Sicily did essentially decide the Peloponnesian war. The battle of Midway was a turning point of the Pacific War but even if it had gone differently Japan's long term prospects of winning the war were rather dim as illustrated in the following video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9ag2x3CS9M
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  6458. He already has a video on Somaliland.
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  6459. Maybe he ran something like "tar -cf vastaamo.tar *" in the wrong directory.
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  6460.  @ElGatoLoco698  Well, this decision was in a federal court (8th circuit). I'm not sure you can sue for the same thing again even if it's in a state court.
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  6461.  @AmauryJacquot  "the oil price cap hasn't worked at all" Urals crude quotes fell almost immediately after the cap came into force. It seems that it did work, at the very least temporarily.
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  6462. 11:25 Wait! There's a Linux kernel developer vtuber now? What a world we live in!
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  6463.  @RustIsWinning  Doesn't count as what? As a vtuber? It would be pretty strange to say that playing a role would disqualify one from being vtuber. For many, many vtubers playing a role is a significant part of being a vtuber.
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  6464.  @RustIsWinning  I'm not entirely sure if I understood correctly but I think that doesn't disqualify one from being a vtuber. Also, I just checked and she's included on Vtuber Wiki so that should settle the question conclusively. :)
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  6465.  @RustIsWinning  That's understandable, if you've known about them for long through another identity. For me, this was the first time I heard of them so I didn't have an image of them as a non-vtuber.
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  6466.  @RustIsWinning  One more thing I want to add (which I should've said in a previous comment), playing a role that plays a role isn't unprecedented because at least Hyakumantenbara Salome something like that (I think).
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  6467.  @ryanm2051  "Charles Rebbel u can’t go bankrupt for your student loans...It is impossible to lose your principle. Sounds fool proof to me, especially with an 8% interest rate rn" One might not be able to get one's student loan discharged through bankruptcy but that doesn't make them risk-free to creditors. Borrowers might still simply default on their payments. Creditors may attempt to collect on the loans but if the borrowers simply don't have enough assets or income that might not work.
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  6468.  @ad_astra468  Do you mean debtors or creditors "giving" their loans?
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  6469. "The USSR had already [...] installed puppet governments in the Baltic states." That part is actually not quite true. They had already entered into the deal that allowed Red Army bases in the Baltic states but the governments of the Baltic states would be overthrown by the Red Army only after the Winter War.
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  6470. "Flying at 10.000 feet assuming standard conditions is 20C Lower than sea level." I'm pretty sure keeping the batteries warm isn't more difficult than keeping the passengers warm.
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  6471. 8:25 I'm not sure there's necessarily that much reason to be happy. Even Z people might find it boring to listen to a bureaucratic and cringy lecture on something they already agree with (or think doesn't go far enough).
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  6472. If the hedge fund physically sells shares short (rather than e.g. buying call options on them) then they have to be long on something else since you get money when you sell shares. I guess theoretically they could be long on cash and nothing else but I'm not sure that's what they do.
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  6473. 4:10 But what about if the drone is an FPV drone that's about to crash into you carrying an explosive payload?
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  6474. Here's some interesting Roman battles. ;) Trebia (218 BC/BCE) Lake Trasimene (217 BC/BCE) Cannae (216 BC/BCE) Carrhae (53 BC/BCE) Teutoburg Forest (9 AD/CE) Adrianople (378 AD/CE)
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  6475. During the earlier parts of his rule Erdoğan improved the Turkish economy significantly. Now he's doing the opposite.
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  6476. Here's one way to think about it. From the cart's perspective both the ground and the air are moving backwards (once wind speed has been exceeded). However, because of the wind the air is moving backwards slower than the ground (from the cart's perspective). This is crucial and allows the forward force generated by the propeller to be greater than the backward force from the grip of the wheels.
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  6477. I'm not so sure. There have been much bigger wars in the decades since WW2.
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  6478.  @علي-ش7ث8ب  My point was that it's not clear to me that the world has gotten any less peaceful. Yes, there are conflicts but there have also been other conflicts before (after WW2). The current conflicts don't obviously seem any worse than e.g. the 2nd Congo War.
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  6479. Hey, at least they don't have Marxist-Leninists (EFF) in the government. That's definitely a plus.
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  6480. Stainless steel can be ferrous or non-ferrous depending on the type.
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  6481. 16:02 I want to mention one example to note that Greece and Turkey have not always been at odds. During the Greco-Italian war Turkey actually threatened Bulgaria with intervention if it attacked Greece. This allowed Greece to move more troops from it's border with Bulgaria to Albania to fight the Italians. This was despite the fact that Greece and Turkey had been at war two decades earlier. (Of course, Turkey backpedalled from this guarantee once Germany started getting involved but they did indeed help Greece for a while, albeit without a direct involvement.)
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  6482.  @alexisgateley230  Does that have to do something with my comment?
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  6483.  @alexisgateley230  My comment was about Greece (country) and Turkey (country) having good enough relations in 1940 that Turkey helped Greece despite them being enemies only 2 decades prior. Are the events you mentioned somehow connected to that help?
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  6484.  geranienbaum  That doesn't stop delivering them to Ukraine because Germany (and other countries) can send their existing inventory.
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  6485.  geranienbaum  Probably not all of them but sending some portion can happen.
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  6486. Does the current produced by the fuel cell have to go to the battery before going to turn the motor? Is it not possible to bypass the battery at least part of the time to improve the efficiency a bit?
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  6487. Does Cairo have a good public transport? What about this new capital?
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  6488.  @WhichDoctor1  "they'd have to get it through the pipeline that was just blown up" Both Finland and Estonia can still get American gas even without this pipeline.
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  6489. I'm sure China is perfectly willing to buy gas. It just doesn't want to commit to it for a long time nor pay for the pipeline.
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  6490.  @GENXJOPLIN  I'm fairly sure that EVs are still less harmful to the environment despite the effects of lithium mining. (That is, if you drive a lot. If you drive very little and ICE probably makes more sense from both environmental and cost reasons.)
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  6491. 3:35 "and Iran is also saying we're killing Pakistani militant groups" I was under the impression that Iran was claiming that it was specifically targeting Iranian Baloch militants in Pakistan.
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  6492. Shell-barry
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  6493. Imagine the universe like the surface of a balloon. When the balloon expands all the points on the surface get further away from each other but there's no special point on the surface that all the other points are expanding out from.
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  6494.  @hipdolly8382 : Expanding space nonetheless easier to explain with spherical model. The precise shape isn't that important for that purpose.
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  6495.  @Iphigenia1000  Housing is included in GDP calculations. If it's owner occupied rather than rented, then a rental equivalent is calculated.
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  6496. 11:00 "there's no incentive for you to continue paying off the loan" Wait! So in the US you can just stop paying without dire consequences?
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  6497. Google Translate says "chudo-oruzhiye" ("чудо-оружие").
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  6498. Also consider that driverless metros have existed since the early '80s.
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  6499.  @AveragePicker  The first fully driverless metro is from 1981. It's somewhere in Japan but I forget where.
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  6500.  @AveragePicker  "what’s your point?" I just gave a bit of extra info. That's it.
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  6501.  @AndrewVasirov : "in German they use the neuter form for the world "girl."" It's only because all the diminutive forms become neuter.
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  6502. I've seen it mentioned that specifically on Tsushima the kind of ritualized combat were even armies would engage in 1-on-1 duels was common. Not 100% sure though.
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  6503. "One is no clear answer to western technology like [...] Bayraktars." Is Turkey counted in the West?
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  6504. "End of Russia-Ukraine War on the Horizon?" Likely not soon. Putin is unlikely to agree to reasonable peace conditions.
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  6505. The brine causes local ecological damage because it's not immediately diluted. It doesn't raise the overall salinity of the oceans.
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  6506. "All these Nations have few natural resources, unlike Russia which has everything!" But Russia seems to be poorer than all those nations despite having more natural resources. Clearly there's something wrong with the Russian economy.
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  6507. Do take into account that India is poorer. The US GDP per capita is more than 30x higher than that of India. Using that as a scaling factor you could say that the bounty would be equal to about $7200 in the US which doesn't sound too bad.
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  6508. "Guiding power generation with taxation is like trying to use a remote controlled robot to pick up a spoon and feed you your soup while you're sitting right there at the table." It's not. It's the ideal way.
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  6509.  @IhabFahmy  It really is. Economists largely agree on it.
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  6510.  @IhabFahmy  Well, you can certainly ignore the economists' opinions about tax policy just like you can e.g. ignore the electrical engineers' opinions about the design and maintenance of the electric grid. I just don't think that's very smart. There are good theoretical and empirical arguments why taxing negative externalities (Pigouvian taxation) is efficient. If emissions become expensive then cuts will first happen where they are cheapest to make. Trying to do the same with mandates is much more complicated and fraught. Your analogy about a robot and a spoon doesn't hold up.
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  6511.  @IhabFahmy  "The big difference between the study of engineering and economics is that the former is based on provable, repeatable facts, while the latter is based on fanciful theories that have been disproved time and time again." That's not true at all. You're just ignoring results you don't like. In any case, the arguments I gave later in my comment apply.
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  6512. I think the autorotation just stores energy into the rotor so it's not quite the same thing.
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  6513. Probably because of the Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance Treaty with the Soviet Union.
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  6514. "well the problems started way earlier when Germany was continuously refusing to start Nord Stream 2" The earlier delays were about regulatory compliance.
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  6515. Synthetic fuels have a lower efficiency.
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  6516. That thumbnail...
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  6517. I wonder if it makes economic sense for those old abandoned boats to be recycled for scrap steel?
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  6518.  @Peizxcv  "Singapore" But Singapore has had almost as many cases per capita as Japan.
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  6519.  @johnosullivan2197  Where has he claimed that? It sounds like you're making stuff up.
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  6520.  @Behemoth29  Where has he claimed that? I don't recall him saying "Ukraine is winning" or anything like that.
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  6521. @tripplefives all = Norway?
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  6522. "This is not a 'presidential system' as you suggest at the end of your clip." He didn't suggest that. Yes, he used the word "presidential" but it's clear from the context that he didn't mean it in the sense of presidential vs. parliamentary system.
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  6523.  @nautilusshell4969  The word "presidential" in this case just meant "relating to the office of the president" so the "presidential system" just referred to how the president is chosen and how the office functions (mostly the former in the context of this video). It didn't mean that the wider government would function as a presidential (rather than parliamentary) system.
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  6524. Bryan Caplan has pretty good counterarguments to the Austria business cycle theory (and various other Austrian theories): https://econfaculty.gmu.edu/bcaplan/whyaust.htm
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  6525.  @sathvikpasumarthy  I think the point was that airlines need fewer workers per passenger-km.
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  6526. Montenegro seems much more likely than Albania considering the rather sorry state Albania is in.
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  6527.  @wutheringheights739  But many politicians there have mafia connections. Apparently one MP and party leader (Tom Doshi) was even running his own criminal organization rather than merely having connections to one.
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  6528.  @wutheringheights739  Albania has a very serious problem with organized crime. I recall that one party leader not merely had connections to organized crime but was actually running his own criminal organization.
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  6529. He did mention them.
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  6530.  @LazyCharms : That sounds pretty bad, but surely you can't fit an entire WASP hive in your front yard?
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  6531. Based on the thumbnail art I first assumed this was an Armchair Historian video.
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  6532. It would be difficult to ensure that all of the strange matter and antimatter react and annihilate. More likely when you bring them into contact a small portion would react causing an explosion and blowing the rest away.
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  6533. So that's how GNOME is pronounced?
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  6534.  @ChristianConrad  OK, I'm a bit surprised. The English word "gnome" is pronounced with a silent 'G', right? I had assumed the GNOME desktop would be the same.
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  6535. Is that $70 / month phone bill just for the phone service or also for the phone? If it's just for the service it sounds pretty expensive.
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  6536. "Why not having tax exceptions for company’s that produce renewable energy? Why always taxes?" Because that would subsidize energy use. It's better to tax emissions than subsidize low-emission energy.
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  6537. "what does it actually means?" That's easy. It means "nobili". :) (I don't actually know Italian so forgive me if that's not a good translation.)
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  6538.  @JamesKerLindsay  Another comment mentioned Montenegro. Isn't it also an example?
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  6539. Not at all. Why would you think it's meaningless?
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  6540.  @st.altair4936  Generally, the bonds need to be paid back with interest eventually. You can refinance them by issuing more bonds, but you can't increase this amount indefinitely because at some point the interest payments become larger than you're able to service because taxes can't be increase indefinitely. What do you do then. You could just default on the bonds, but this can lead to numerous lawsuits around the world and after that you probably couldn't finance spending with bonds because you wouldn't be trusted to pay them back. You could print more currency to pay them but this isn't really a better solution. You would be effectively inflating away the value of the bonds which isn't that different from defaulting on your bonds. You could avoid lawsuits that way since you have technically paid what you promised even though its value has been mostly eroded away. However, you would still find it difficult to borrow again since potential creditors wouldn't trust that wouldn't devalue your bonds through inflation again. On top of that, your domestic economy would be hit with a high rate of inflation which would cause all sorts of distortions and therefore reduce economic efficiency.
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  6541. Vyacheslav, not Ivan.
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  6542. 1:53 That's not true. Poland had its first democratic election in 1919.
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  6543. Nope, married.
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  6544.  @TheRatsintheWalls  "I have acquaintances I know to be criminals that I trust more than any cop." Is it because they victimize people you don't know instead of you or people you know?
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  6545. That's what "20 times smaller" means.
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  6546. If he never sues people might be more willing to just violate his copyright.
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  6547.  @phonotical  It's likely not fair use. Thunderf00t just went and used a part of his video and didn't comment on it. (He did comment on the subject matter of the video but that's different.)
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  6548. Shielding is probably too heavy for an airplane.
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  6549. They aren't doing it to further any ideology but to avoid losing that sweet advertisement money.
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  6550.  @theblackprince1346 : OK. I still wanted to comment that YouTube doesn't any censorious motives like the Nazis did, because one might read your comment claiming that they do. It's just monetary incentives which push them to do this.
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  6551.  @TheSwedishHistorian  Yes, they are Aryan as they originate from what is today northern India.
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  6552.  @dariomelzi3752  "it was a statement by baker in front of hundred of journalist." I don't think it was. You can give a source for your claim if you want me to believe it.
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  6553.  @alexanderjdivic4784  The Secretary of State is not the one deciding whether new members can be admitted to NATO.
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  6554.  @alexanderjdivic4784  "when did I say the Secretary of State chooses who enters nato???" He didn't. I meant that it wasn't for him to choose whether e.g. the Baltic Countries join or not. Therefore his opinion in one phonecall with Gorbachov hardly matters.
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  6555.  @bumpjammy  "you shouldn't go around making new systems in Fortran" I don't think using newer versions of Fortran is that bad. However, using Fortran 77, which I think doesn't even have dynamic memory allocation, does sound pretty braindead.
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  6556. No, decent began earlier. Sanctions were implemented in 2015. By that point, GDP had already dropped by a third from its peak a few years earlier. That's already pretty massive.
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  6557.  @aryanshojay5227  Index funds shouldn't distort the relative prices of the stocks included in the index because every company in the index gets the same level (measured as % of the value of the stock) of passive investment. I think they don't even distort them relative to other stocks because active investors can compensate, but that's less certain.
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  6558. Things often have more than one cause.
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  6559. Can you just casually kick in your apartment's door? One would think that a wooden door with a metal bolt wouldn't be so easy to just kick in and you'd basically need something heavy to use as a battering ram. Maybe the doors inside your apartment can be very flimsy but surely the door into your apartment should be a little sturdier so as not to make things too easy for would be burglars.
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  6560. Cars still take too much space in cities.
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  6561. I would have expected Terran battlecruisers.
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  6562. 1:07:40 Note that extrapolating from one month's deficit is going to understate that years deficit assuming the month isn't December. If you look at the cumulative deficit from the beginning of each year by month, you'll notice that the graph always dips down significantly in December. Apparently some budget items in Russia are always recorded in December or something.
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  6563. No, Ukraine recapture all of the Right Bank in last November.
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  6564.  @frederikjrgensen252  "Half of Greenlands money comes from Denmark" This might make it sound like half the GDP is a grant from Denmark; I think actually it's "just" half of the government budget.
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  6565. 15:00 I'm rather surprised surprised that in Sweden unemployment is so high the area surrounding the Stockholm county (though not in Stockholm county itself) as well as in the south in Skåne and Blekinge.
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  6566. I think it's that in traditional IRA contributions are tax-deductible but withdrawals are taxed whereas with a Roth IRA contributions aren't deductible but withdrawals aren't taxed either (not even the profit part).
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  6567. It comes from "molot" meaning "hammer" (and maybe a cognate of "mallet"?) and it's a nom de guerre, not his original name.
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  6568. South Africa has elections that seem to be non-fraudulent and a military coup also seems unlikely. Thus, it isn't as easy to influence as some other countries in Africa.
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  6569.  @steviechubbs5238  Far more severe basket cases have been couped in the past. I don't think SA's economic troubles protect it from coups. It's something else.
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  6570.  @lukaselem7892  Any decline starting in 2030 would probably take a very long time to reach zero. Like davidebic alluded to above, if we manage to decrease our oil consumption for environmental reasons, Saudi Arabia has an incentive to pump out its oil before that happens. Also, predictions of peak oil have so far seemed to always be too early. "So compensating Russia AND Iran output could be a bit of a stretch" Not in the short term (which is what matters for the current war). Saudi Arabia currently has untapped capacity, is undergoing some economic troubles, and needs cash for its projects like Neom. It's not certain to happen but Saudi Arabia has already said that it's abandoning the $100/barrel oil price target and thus accepting lower prices which I would guess is going to imply a modest increase in oil output for at least a couple of years.
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  6571. 12:50 Really? Then how was Alexey Milchakov (one of the founders of Rusich) able to self-identify as a follower of that ideology and not be totally shunned?
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  6572. As long as he gets the money...
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  6573. ​ @Joe-og6br  It's a fake religion that extracts as much money as possible from its members.
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  6574. 12:00 Can someone who knows about motorcycles tell why are some motorcycles like this so much louder than other motorcycles?
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  6575. There's deposit insurance.
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  6576. What about red currants? Have they been allowed all along?
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  6577. Not nearly as much.
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  6578.  @AmmoVanMagnus  "the Earth has not created a single NEW drop of water since it’s been formed" That's not true. Burning hydrocarbons like natural gas or oil produces water (and carbon dioxide).
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  6579.  @ihatemotionblur_3255  At a first glance, the comment section of this video seems better than those of his other videos.
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  6580. "Stop with the CO2 scare. As greenhouse gas, it is un-interesting when compared ordinary water vapor, both in volume and effect." The point is that the water vapor content of the atmosphere is determined by the temperature. It acts as a feedback, not as a forcing. CO₂, on the other hand, acts as a forcing.
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  6581. @tokul76 "Active duty army is not conscripts." Well, a part of it is as the conscripts who are currently doing their mandatory service are a part of the active duty army.
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  6582. "So if the Belarus army is mainly conscripts then they are actually mostly against Lukashenko?" Probably, though the army does also have some professional soldiers (special forces at least). However, Belarus also has internal security forces separate from the military and they are much more numerous than the professional soldiers.
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  6583.  @stevensteven3425  "She wsupports Elensky till the last Ukrainian. These are her own words." I don't believe those are her words without a source.
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  6584.  @dongsterman  Did you accidentally tag the wrong person? Your comment doesn't seem to be related to mine.
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  6585.  @saiv46  DMCA doesn't address trademark violations. It's about copyright, not trademarks.
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  6586.  @saiv46  No, they're not.
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  6587. "But some corrections/updates - Wagner was not setup by this guy, but by GRU." But Amit did say at 17:37 that Wagner was setup by GRU. Or do you mean that that is incorrect?
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  6588.  @cdgncgn  Kinzhal is a ballistic missile.
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  6589. It doesn't obviously suggest a weak case. Cases being settled out of court is the norm.
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  6590. Why would that kind of "fake news" issue affect direct messages? They're not news pieces. They're not even public posts.
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  6591.  @dexdrako  Who has invested in it?
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  6592.  @dexdrako  OK, but is it like outside money invested into a company that Musk controls? If not, it's quite different from Theranos in the sense that it raised money that was squandered by Holmes (who lied to investors by e.g. using competitors' devices in demonstrations). At least it seems to me that Musk isn't guilty of fraud unlike Holmes even though Hyperloop is a pretty long shot that will likely not succeed.
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  6593.  @zapazap  This was an appeals court (8th circuit).
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  6594. Hack the YouTube page and literally destroy the like button!
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  6595. This is high voltage DC, not low voltage.
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  6596.  @domtweed7323  "You don't actually need to increase interest rates, just prevent lending for property speculation." You do need higher rates. Property speculation is irrelevant for this. What matters is how fast the central bank prints money. A slower pace inevitably implies higher rates, at least temporarily (whether the central bank uses interest rate as a policy instrument or something else). There's no way around that. "If firms were borrowing cheaply to produce real goods/services that would quickly boost output, absorbing the new currency." You cannot boost output 100% per year. That's just wishful thinking. There's no way around rate hikes. Those are inevitably coming sooner or later. It just remains to be seen how much damage will be done before that.
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  6597.  @domtweed7323  "Thus, if you stopped lending for speculation on existing assets (your right, it won't just be property, also shares and such. And consumer credit), only lending for projects that boost real output would be left." That's not how it works. Speculating on existing assets does not consume real resources. If a speculator buys some assets then the seller receives money which can again be used for real projects or lending. When existing assets are traded then equal amounts of money go in and out of that trade. It doesn't have a net effect on what's available to real projects. Even if it did, it's not that relevant for inflation. That's mostly about how much money is printed.
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  6598.  @domtweed7323  "Thus the principle borrowed, the stock, doesn't create inflation, but it's associated flows do." It doesn't create inflation as no new money is created. Even if it did create money a real project would also create similar flows of interest and capital gains to the project initiator (if it is successful). "And I agree money is printed, but the relevant thing isn't the volume of money, it's the ratio of demand to real output." Demand in nominal terms is to a large degree determined by the amount of money. The amount of money is what mostly matters. Other things are not very relevant for inflation. "And if you blindly hike interest rates you hammer productive investments and speculators simultaneously." The point isn't to "hammer" anyone. Lower inflation requires less money printing. There's no alternative, even if it might mean a temporary recession. Accelerating inflation would/will do more damage. "The smart strategy is to ration credit away from speculators, and consumers, and allow real investment to boom. Yes you'll still have low double digit inflation, but you'll be able to harness the massive growth potential of a developing economy." Any such strategy will not contain the rampant inflation. There is no alternative to rate hikes. "Turkey could be doing explosive, China-style growth (incidentally China also kept interest rates very low, and ran inflation high), and its not worth missing out on that just for single digit inflation." Inflation is well into the double digits and soon into the triple digits. That's notably higher than China had. Also, China used a currency peg unlike Turkey. The inflation needs to be contained or it will soon cause more damage than rate hikes would. There's just no alternative to rate hikes.
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  6599. Even non-citizens can own land.
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  6600.  @UnfollowYourDreams  "If it's the actual median voter shifting to the right, it isn't the result of the median-voter-theorem but the result of cultural change." I'm not sure what you mean by "result of the median-voter-theorem" here, but my point was that this kind of scenario is compatible with the median voter theorem. Thus your claim "we do not see the median-voter-theorem play out in the US" might not be justfied.
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  6601.  @UnfollowYourDreams  "it doesn't explain how the entire overton window within a nation shifts to one side consistently over decades" Well, the theorem isn't even about explaining such things. It just means, among other things, that if the electorate shifts into one direction of another, you'd expect policy to shift with it. Then why the electorate might shift is another matter entirely and doesn't say anything about how true the theorem is.
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  6602. "Seems like this guy was upset at getting criticised" Doesn't seem like that at all.
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  6603.  @MM2isBest  At least the first email asking for $750 was before that so at the very least at first this seemed to be about copyright and money and nothing more.
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  6604.  @Jinkypigs  He's in the business of licensing his clips. Thunderf00t didn't criticize his clip but rather SpaceX and SpaceX fans appearing in Mahlmann's clip.
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  6605.  @phillyphakename1255  "Thunderf00t was criticizing Mahlmann's inclusion of SpaceX fanboys cheering the destruction of a rocket" They just happened to be cheering while he was filming. He didn't put them there as an artistic expression. "He was criticizing the fact that there are enthusiasts who film this stuff and put it on the internet as if it is radically innovative." This has nothing to do with criticizing Mahlmann's work. He's a professional photographer and videographer. He films various things, like rockets, and licenses the films for money. Thunderf00t is free to criticize SpaceX but he isn't free to do so using Mahlmann's work without paying. That's entirely different from criticizing Mahlmann's work itself and probably doesn't fall under fair use.
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  6606. I think the number was initially set to be somewhat realistic (though obviously Google still wouldn't pay it) but it also had a provision that it would double every week (or something like that) that Google didn't pay it.
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  6607. Why would they get the property?
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  6608. Perhaps you mean 'sapient' rather than 'sentient'?
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  6609. Have you any idea how hard Sam and others worked to make this video?
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  6610.  @thefoolonthehill8394  I wasn't being entirely serious but I think the effort required isn't insignificant.
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  6611. 2:57 As a minor nitpick, I think in Swedish that should be "Gripedörren" (though my Swedish is rather rusty).
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  6612. Hey, he's just asking questions! (JK)
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  6613. That claim doesn't make any sense. Ponzi schemes don't promise negative returns, they promise unrealistically high returns.
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  6614. Does this mean that they're now going to abolish the official rate?
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  6615. The automatic translation in the comments translates that as "kung fu".
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  6616. Lebanon has a Ponzi scheme?
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  6617.  @MB-st7be : It's his idiolect.
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  6618.  @wonlop469  "You spelled orafice wrong" It seems you also spelled "orifice" wrong.
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  6619. I don't think the Algerian example is very relevant. An event like that isn't at all likely in Europe nor would it be desirable.
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  6620. I didn't know that "riverine" was a word.
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  6621. @Wyatt Wolfe Brazier? As in the heater/barbeque thing?
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  6622.  @ScrewTSW  "Concordia suffered from the exact same design flaw" And what design flaw is that? Those cases seem pretty different to me.
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  6623.  @ScrewTSW  OK, got it. I thought Costa Concordia was a bit different because she capsized because her keel touched the bottom of the sea.
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  6624. Now I'm thinking should I watch Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo. Or maybe I should watch Breakin' first. At any rate, Red should cover Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo in her Modern Classics Summarized series.
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  6625.  @East112T  "Kashmir is part of India historically" All of Pakistan was historically a part of British India historically. I don't think history can point to where the border between India and Pakistan should go because it's in any case an internal division of what was British India.
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  6626. Including China and North Korea?
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  6627. Also, short term bonds don't have coupon payments. They have one balloon payment at the end which pays both the principal and the interest.
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  6628. +Luceafarul : "really depends on your definition" I'm not a linguist, but to my understanding the definition used in linguistics is that: 1) Two dialects count as different languages, if they are mutually unintelligible. (This is still vague and there's a lot more detail to the definitions, but that's the basic idea.) 2) The classification is based on spoken, not written, language. I'm not 100% sure though. Of course, laymen might use the words "language" and "dialect" differently and more inconsistently.
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  6629.  @citytianyu  You can find cases where people can care passionately. E.g. is Macedonian a dialect of Bulgarian or a separate language.
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  6630. If you can't imagine Trump using a computer then how do you suppose he manages to tweet so much?
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  6631.  @Merlin3189  In the case of coal gas it was a byproduct of producing coke (or if the gas was the main product you also got coke as byproduct). Also, the coal gas plants could probably close to where the gas was being consumed. Today, we don't need gas as much because the same things can be done with electricity. Oil fields where gas is flared might be in some remote locations where getting a gas pipeline can be expensive. If gas is cheap in that region and emissions don't have an associated cost it might make more commercial sense to just flare the gas. I'm not 100% of this but this is my best guess as to why in many places they have not bothered to utilize the gas.
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  6632. Do you mean where the money that the hedge funds lost went? It's to other investors (whether institutional or retail) who had a more successful position, i.e. those who had a long position before the squeeze or short only once it had begun. Or did you mean where the short sellers get the shares they borrow? Probably from e.g. brokers or ETFs.
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  6633.  @ScreechingPossum : I took "Poland's surrender" as a shorthand and not literally but if the timeline is wrong then that indeed is an error. Either he got the month wrong or possibly he's referring to when Warsaw fell but then indeed the wording is too misleading.
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  6634.  @ScreechingPossum : I think saying that Poland surrendered is not too far off when all Polish troops in Poland have surrendered and the fight there is over (for the moment). Yes, he's still wrong because he got the month wrong though. (And maybe my comment was unclear, but I would have considered the wording definitely wrong if he was referring to Warsaw. If he was referring to all the Polish troops in Poland (and had gotten the timing right) it wouldn't have been as bad IMHO.)
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  6635. Turkey's central bank's policy rate is currently only 8.5%, not 17%. Also, inflation is above 40% so in real terms the rate is something like -35%, i.e. negative by a large margin which is pretty insane.
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  6636.  @devalapar7878  It is somewhat high but compared to the level of inflation it's low.
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  6637. He means that the Baltic countries have been growing faster than e.g. Spain. The high inflation is a very recent phenomenon and doesn't nullify the growth in the years prior.
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  6638.  @Chris-pq3wp  They're not screwed (assuming Russia doesn't invade). They have been growing decently. Estonia is the richest former Soviet state and has already (slightly) surpassed e.g. Spain and Portugal in terms of GDP per capita.
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  6639. It is pretty efficient but the low share also tells of the fact that there's just a lot of other economic activity producing emissions aside from just transporting goods. There's electricity generation, heating, food production, and cement production to name a few.
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  6640.  @bigguy9825  I find that hard to believe. Do you have some kind of source? The Albanian language is an Indo-European language whereas ancient Egyptian was an Afro-Asiatic language.
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  6641. "What people really care about is not that more os less people would die of drug missuse" I'm pretty sure many people do care about that at least somewhat. Depends on the individual of course.
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  6642. That's hardly so simple. Firstly, if we don't cut down the trees they will eventually die, rot, and release the carbon back into the atmosphere. Forests don't absorb more CO₂ forever. They eventually saturate leading to no more net CO₂ absorption. This applies to new forests as well which you propose to plant. At best you'd get a one-off reduction in CO₂ in the air (unless you continuously cut down mature trees and store them so that they won't rot). And we need land for other uses as well so this kind of proposal is inherently limited in potential.
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  6643.  @Corlentor : "Ana the sequestrated carbon by the forest remains somewhat constant." But that means that the carbon sequestrated by the forest remains that and the forest will (after maturation) not sequester any more carbon in the net, not that it would sequester a constant amount per year. That's just not enough.
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  6644.  @Corlentor : I don't think we can capture enough carbon that way though of course it would be beneficial to increase forest biomass at least somewhat.
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  6645. Wouldn't it be easier to just use VRChat or something?
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  6646.  @SurprisinglyDeep  400k is big enough that there shouldn't be a highway inside the city.
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  6647.  @Hexanitrobenzene  I think so, though I haven't checked what kind of music Patrick has actually posted. The rap thing seems to be a running joke in the comment section.
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  6648. This isn't free energy. The energy is coming from the wind.
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  6649.  @onebig77thbrigademonkey.57  If by "over-unity" you mean "over 100% efficiency", then no. As long as losses are sufficiently low then theoretically any speed could be reached.
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  6650. I don't get the complaint at the beginning. Landlords might split properties into multiple units because there's demand for it (or at least they think there is). It allows more people to live in a given place. Also, landlords are not responsible for the housing crisis. More often it is zoning which doesn't allow more housing to be built or doesn't allow enough density. It's not landlords that prevent housing from being built.
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  6651.  @davidedeus12  "how grateful I'm for the generosity of the blessed landlord to allow me to survive after an exhausting day in a F#CKING WARDROBE for the low low price of my kidney!" First, I never claimed this was out of generosity but merely that landlords are responding to real demand here. Secondly, if you live in a place where an apartment the size of a wardrobe costs a (metaphorical) kidney then there is no easy way to make things better. Clearly then that area is in high demand because people are willing to pay so much for so little. If housing wasn't divided into wardrobe sized units then a lot of people would just be forced out of there altogether which is not good either. Whose to blame in such a place an what can be done. The only thing that would be a good solution would be to build more housing. If that isn't being done its (generally) not the fault of the landlords. Sometimes the city council might not allow some areas to be developed or limits how high buildings can be. There may be good reasons for that but it also has a real cost which can't magically get around by blaming landlords. Sometimes due to limitations of geography you simply cannot reasonably build more even without legal/political limitations. In such a case you just have to live with the fact that some resources (such as space in a high-demand place) are limited. "We have enough houses for almost everyone but they are rent too high to pay." That's rather hard to believe. If a landlord sets the rent so high that they don't get tenants then that hurts their wallet. Generally, you'd expect them to set rents low enough that they still get a tenant (but not lower). "The number of empty houses speculating in the market is ridiculously high." I have a hard time believing that that kind of speculation where you don't even try to get a tenant represents a significant part of the housing stock in most places. That kind of speculator also isn't even a landlord and thus falls outside the scope of this video. Note that when you read news articles saying things like "X number of apartments are empty in city Y" they're often misleading numbers. You'd have to actually check how that number is counted. Often they may e.g. count every apartment which is without a tenant some time during a year even if it's a very short period (e.g. for a couple of weeks between tenants due to renovation) and for the most of the year it's occupied; it counts as a whole unoccupied apartment even though it's unoccupied only for 5% of the year. Sometimes also apartments may be empty on paper but occupied in reality (as a form of tax fraud).
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  6652.  @davidedeus12  "You can think it doesn't make much sense to do something like this from the landlord's perspective but they do it anyway" You can find individual stories like that but I don't think they represent a significant percentage of the housing stock.
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  6653.  @DonchoGunchev  "People should not have incentive to "kill" each other." Did anyone actually act on such incentives. I don't think this is an actual problem.
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  6654. I have to say I was genuinely surprised. By his background he's an academic economist.
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  6655. What should he be arrested for?
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  6656.  @tomweber1733  Apparently, you don't have an answer?
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  6657. I demand more Lionel Hutz!
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  6658. How is it a Ponzi scheme? How can you invest in it? How much return do they promise?
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  6659. You know, the same thing happened with Russia, which is named after the Rus.
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  6660. Abbreviated training during war time is nothing new. It's a tradeoff but in a difficult situation it's often the best you can do.
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  6661. It's Baikonur. It has the Cosmodrome which Russia uses to launch its spacecrafts.
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  6662. To me, it seems that Syriza did more market-oriented reform than New Democracy.
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  6663. It's not overhead. It's because magnetic tape and such didn't have a filesystem at all so you could only write sequential data.
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  6664. Ireland no longer claims Northern Ireland.
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  6665. This has nothing to do with the EU. It's the individual member states who decide the structure of their public pension systems.
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  6666. Haven't the attacks on the refineries already seemingly stopped (at least for the time being)?
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  6667. So many twists and turns. I think you said something like "However, all this changed in..." several times. At least to me, this is reminiscent of your earlier Somaliland-Puntland video.
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  6668. Well, it was Russia that went to war in this case, not Ukraine.
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  6669.  @MattSezer  OK, thought you had meant that you'd prefer an unprotected bike lane to a protected one. Did you mean that you'd prefer there to be no separate bike lane at all but rather bikes and cars sharing the same lane? In any case, can't you just have the green light first for bikes and for cars after that?
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  6670.  @MaximeKG  Such competition doesn't really explain why cities would force low-density residential areas by zoning.
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  6671. 3:30 Maybe the suburban arterial should be a garbodor.
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  6672. Next: What's the most bare-bones credit card you can get?
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  6673.  @GrahamStephan  Nice! I didn't actually expect an answer.
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  6674. The Peruvians are having flashbacks...
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  6675. Are they same as AA trees?
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  6676. "its legal because it supposedly keeps markets liquid. Its actually betting and nothing more then that." These two things aren't contradictory.
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  6677.  @sleeper9638  "who's main civilisational developments came from being colonised" I don't think that's correct, at least not for Indonesia.
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  6678.  @RWBHere : Yeah. :D Seriously though, for some trips driving would actually be a viable alternative but worse for the environment. I've heard that after 9-11 a lot of flights in the US were substituted with driving. That also might have statistically lead to almost as many extra deaths as the 9-11 strike itself since flying is statistically safer. Of course, transcontinental flights won't be substituted with car trips.
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  6679.  @uglyduckling81 : Thanks for the info.
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  6680. North Dacota borders Kanada.
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  6681. It can make sense if the goal is e.g. to make crossing the Dnieper more difficult downstream (or if they wanted to destroy it because they think it would eventually fall into Ukrainian hands, though I think this is a less likely explanation).
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  6682. If you recognize the Republic of China, then the People's Republic of China will cut diplomatic relations.
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  6683. "To do DC power transmission, the system would have so high losses" HVDC has lower losses in the cable.
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  6684.  @erinwright9102  Not all of US power transmission is AC. From the Wikipedia list on HVDC projects I count 8 existing lines in the US and 1 between the US and Canada (and the list might not be exhaustive). HVDC lines need converter stations at both ends which brings an additional cost and power losses. However, on a sufficiently long line the lower losses in the cable and cheaper cable make HVDC the economically superior choice. But a lot of power is transmitted through shorter distances and there AC makes more sense. DC connections can also be used between grids that are not synchronized. I suspect this the reason for at least some of those US HVDC lines. However, this reason doesn't apply to the topic of this video because the grids of Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia are synchronized with that of continental Europe.
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  6685. Cars take too much space in cities.
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  6686.  @WorldwideHypercars  I don't see a reason why they couldn't (other than that Helsinki doesn't have that good of a biking infrastructure yet) but you can also do those things by just walking or taking a bus. I'm also guessing that these highways aren't mostly used for trips to schools or grocery stores.
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  6687. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  6688.  @Labistouket  Japan's tax to GDP ratio is 32%. Is the French one really lower than that? I highly doubt it.
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  6689. Is there a reason why you showed a pre-WWII map of Finland in the beginning?
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  6690. "how did oligarchs in Ukraine emerge" I think it's pretty much the same as in Russia.
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  6691.  @joshuagenes  "In the US people down stream have rights to the water that comes off your land." But apparently that doesn't apply to Mexicans downstream along the Colorado River.
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  6692.  @joshuagenes  "if they trap enough water in biomass and in soils and in reservoirs during the good times and regreen the desert they may be able to become self sufficient with water without Ethiopia's water" I don't think that's realistic in a desert.
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  6693. 10:30 Did you mean "percentage point" rather than "percent" here?
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  6694.  @PurooRoy  I've heard that out of the 5 Nordic countries, Iceland is the most car-loving and most averse to public transit.
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  6695. He's not a scientist but he does have an engineering degree.
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  6696. IIRC at least the Polish cavalry had anti-tank rifles.
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  6697. As an analogy, water is more stable than a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen. Of course, water doesn't cause that mixture to burn, but if burning somehow starts, the reaction keeps going on until most of the gas mixture has been converted to water.
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  6698. The state of Washington and Washington D.C. are two different things.
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  6699.  @mni892  I do know what you meant. What I meant was that, if an American is worried about having to possibly send American troops to Europe to risk life and limb in combat, it's these Eastern European countries that incur the biggest risk in that regard. I can certainly understand criticizing e.g. Germany for not contributing to collective security in Europe but in practice Germany is not going to get attacked either. It might be a freerider but it isn't really a liability in this regard. If Russia were to attack any current NATO member it would almost certainly be one of the Baltic Countries, Poland, and/or Finland.
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  6700.  @dairebulson7122  Usually the term "far-right" isn't used of everyone who's very right-wing but if they're specifically right-wing in the sense of being very nationalistic and xenophobic.
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  6701. "Rich people [...] don’t like it because they can’t [...] tax it" Wut? It's not like they have the power to levy taxes anyway.
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  6702. "Where’s the recognition to squadron 303 from the polish people." It's at 6:34.
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  6703.  @ClubofInfo-Circulation  "that's to NATO's disadvantage. Finnish terrain is terrible for invasion. NATO would make no progress that way" It's not a disadvantage to NATO because NATO's intention isn't to invade Russia.
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  6704. 5:35 Are those outflows and inflows gross or net outflows and inflows?
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  6705.  @unfathomablyunfathomable  "Russia retaliates against themselves? Tf?" No, the Balticconnector isn't a Russian pipeline.
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  6706.  @unfathomablyunfathomable  I find it unlikely that Russia would have blown up the Nord Stream pipelines. It had no reason to blow up its own pipelines because it could just withhold gas exports through them and that's what it had, in fact, done before they were blown.
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  6707. I strongly disagree with Sherman. We have successfully reformed war such that e.g. chemical weapons are rarely used. Also, the use them by e.g. Germany in WWI didn't end the war sooner so Sherman is wrong there as well.
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  6708.  @stevekillgore9272  Where?
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  6709.  @seanburke997  Give a reference then. Otherwise, I remain skeptical.
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  6710.  @hedgehog3180  I didn't manage to find a mention of unlit white phosphorus being used in Mariupol nor any mention that it would be considered a chemical weapon under the Chemical Weapon Convetion. To me, it still seems that at least some established norms of warfare, such as the one against the use of chemical weapons, have been successful including in Ukraine. Thus I still (at least partially) disagree with the quote in the original comment of this thread.
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  6711.  @Apagadorable  "Iceland runs it's aluminum processing with geothermal energy." No, it doesn't. It's mostly hydropower. Geothermal energy is used for heating homes but not mostly for electricity generation.
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  6712.  @randomdude189  They're not. Wind energy has either the lowest or second lowest amount of carbon dioxide emissions per kWh produced.
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  6713.  @sillerbarly4927  Rooftop solar should work well in cities.
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  6714. You could also add that on average stocks tend to have a positive yield in the long term.
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  6715. Damn these fake accounts. I'm reporting this.
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  6716. "Bakhmut is the most important city in Donbas." More important than, say, Donetsk, Luhansk, Mariupol, Kramatorsk, and Sloviansk? I don't think so.
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  6717.  @solconcordia4315  "It's a rail- transport hub." Many cities are rail hubs. That alone doesn't make it "the most important city in Donbas" as OP wrote.
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  6718.  @solconcordia4315  "What those rails connect to tells you Putin's conquering ambitions." Maybe, but that's rather different form saying that "Bakhmut is the most important city in Donbas" [emphasis added] as OP did. That is what I was objecting to and I don't see how that statement can be justified. Plenty of other cities are more important.
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  6719. "You tend to emphasize the "very large majority" part, even tho it was a very small minority of 1% who became erased." At 11:48 he says that the vast majority of Yugoslavians living in Slovenia did get citizenship so he is in no way saying it wasn't a small minority.
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  6720.  @owlman_ : Thanks. That was interesting.
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  6721. In English it's called "sodium".
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  6722. Just as a clarification, apparently Johnny Somali isn't Somali.
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  6723.  @danielpires8940  The official election results are obviously fabricated. The percentages are almost exactly land on a tenth of a percent (and even on a fifth of a percent). That's too big of a coincidence to happen by chance. Someone just made up the results.
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  6724.  @mcrayfourd  She could theoretically get up to 20 years for that one charge on the pending trial and further accusations against her (for e.g. destroying evidence) exist and could potentially result in more years.
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  6725. 3:05 "the only human within that circle" Not necessarily. There could be ships or planes in that circle.
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  6726. About cheaters and card-counters in casinos. I'm not a lawyer so I might be mistaken I think the salient difference is the following. If you're "actually cheating" (like marking the cards or something) the casino might not let you keep what you've already won and you might also be guilty of a felony (at least in Nevada according to Wikipedia). If you're just counting cards or otherwise just winning too consistently without cheating (or if there's not enough evidence of that) the casino will probably tell you to leave and not come back but also let you keep what you've already won. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheating_in_casinos
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  6727.  @rickrank321  "the airline claws back all the points the person previously accrued" But if a person has accrued points from using the services of partnered companies then the airline gets paid for those points. In that case the airline, or a bank that has seized the loyalty program to cover a loan, doesn't have an incentive to claw back the points.
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  6728.  @juliane__  "And inflation was higher than gdp growth. So no plus for the people." No, the GDP growth reported here is real growth, i.e. by how much nominal GDP growth exceeded inflation. So you're wrong here, unless you meant that inflation exceeded real GDP growth (or equivalently, inflation was more than half of nominal GDP growth) and I don't see why you would care about that.
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  6729.  @chickenfishhybrid44  "Easy to "make line go up" when you just increase population. Same thing is happening in Canada and the GDP per capita has been decreasing" No, as was mentioned in this video, GDP per capita also grew (in real terms), though by less than in the US.
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  6730.  @pledouth  Who should I listen to on 4chan? Is anonymous poster 9VDwh6j1 any good?
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  6731. "why are Serbia and Hungary left out?" Probably due being pro-Russia.
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  6732.  @Dolstek  He didn't claim to include all of Europe. The most populated parts of Russia are also in Europe but he didn't include any part of Russia, probably because he mentioned Russia as an enemy. If only whole continents could be included then you could also complain that he also left out Mexico which is a part of North America.
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  6733. Parties that want to deport people probably don't want to spend money to develop infrastructure in Africa.
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  6734.  RKA RKA  I very much doubt that.
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  6735.  @BN-em9qx  Yes, but the increased inflation isn't going to cause that big losses to most. The biggest direct losers are some foreign central banks which have for some reason chosen to hold excessively large forex reserves. Even that loss isn't that large when compared to the size of the economy of the country of the central bank. Most private parties don't need to hold huge dollar balances.
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  6736.  @wendlewhiting  Are you sure? It would seem that a moved runway would allow for larger planes but not a higher number of planes.
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  6737. It's in the logo!
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  6738. It's way lower than in Turkey. I'm kind of happy that at least inflation in the Eurozone isn't permanently below target like it used to be. The ECB will likely raise rates at some point since they aren't beholden to a stubborn dumbass like Ergogan.
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  6739. "Russia had the money however due to sanctions were not able to give the payment in US dollar." I think this isn't quite true. Russia's central bank has been locked out of the dollar and euro (and some other) forex reserves it held. However, Russia has still been receiving dollars and euros for its energy exports. Russia would still have had the capability to use those to pay its dollar and euro denominated debts but didn't want to pay if it could only use those funds.
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  6740. In fact, they put him in charge of the whole 2nd Light Cruiser Squadron!
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  6741.  @amirsadeghi9888  "the war front will be pushed from Germany to Finland!" The front isn't in Germany.
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  6742. She already got married in 2020.
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  6743.  @deadlyknights1119  The German army might have been better but I was specifically reacting to the "professional army vs conscript army" claim which seems simply false.
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  6744. Ukraine denies doing this.
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  6745. 2:10 "It is also the place where Muslims believe that prophet Muhammad ascended to Heaven." Do Muslims believe that? I'm not a Muslim but my understanding is that the Koran merely says that Muhammad ascended to Heaven in the "furthest place of worship" or something like that and doesn't clarify where exactly that was. The name al-Aqsa Mosque may mean "the furtherst mosque" but that's just a name. Also, it didn't exist during Muhammad's lifetime.
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  6746. "They are putting their whole livelihood at stake." If this conflict doesn't end soon their livelihoods will be ruined in any case because of the sanctions.
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  6747. I'm curious, what were the inaccuracies/errors?
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  6748.  @calebreutener870  "there are several materials that would shield the effects" What materials? I can only think of superconducting materials but that doesn't very easy. Are there others?
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  6749. I'm sure a lot of people find him funny and that also seems to be the aim.
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  6750. "The Republic of Cyprus should be given full control of the island." But this should be done in a way that guarantees that the rights of the Turkish minority are respected.
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  6751. Hyperinflation is unlikely. The current levels are still far from it and central banks have tightened their monetary policies.
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  6752.  @youknow6968  "all those who qualify to be part of that nation should have a say" My point was that you'd have to have some kind of criteria on who qualifies as being a part of the nation. If it really is "simple and straightforward" then you should be able to tell what criteria you would use.
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  6753.  @youknow6968  "Every such question has an answer after proper considered thought, which has not taken place." To me this issue seems extremely fraught but you can prove that fear unfounded if you can give an example of explicit criteria which are sufficiently unambiguous. "Start with people who have Scottish ancestry, perhaps limit to those with at least one Scottish parent." This doesn't tell much unless you have some kind of criteria for the parents too. Otherwise that kind of definition is fully circular. Do the parents have to have been born in Scotland? Is it enough that they have lived there a certain number of years?
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  6754.  @youknow6968  I expressed my skepticism on whether one could come up with reasonable criteria for "Scottish" for this purpose. It just seems too difficult. Just saying "I'm sure they could do if they wanted to" doesn't sound especially convincing to me.
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  6755.  @youknow6968  I'd say I can be convince with a sufficient argument (and I have been convinced by others in the past). It's just that in this case the difficulty of defining "Scottish" seems too high to me so far. I've not expressed any opinion of myself or other people in this conversation. My opinion here was only about the suggestion of letting Scots outside Scotland vote.
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  6756.  @youknow6968  You don't have to try to convince me if you don't want to, but it should also be perfectly fine for me to note that the difficulty with the definition of "Scottish" for this purpose seems too great and I've not seen a good argument for how it could be done.
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  6757.  @youknow6968  "On my part I wasn't trying to convince you, therefore I never presented an argument, so I fail to understand how you reached your conclusion." It doesn't have to be an argument for me to comment on it. You said that it seems wrong that Scottish people living outside Scotland didn't get to vote. I just commented on that saying that it seems to me that coming up with a definition of who counts as Scottish for this purpose seems too difficult (and therefore limiting the vote to people living in Scotland seems reasonable); that's all. You may agree or disagree and you may say that if you want to but you don't have. If you comment on the matter further I might reply. That's just normal conversation. "I stated it is about intent, once an honest intent is established, it isn't too difficult to reach a classification." I know you stated that but I just find it hard to believe. Even with an honest intent the problem seems too difficult. There isn't any kind of "Scottish citizenship" currently. People can easily live a part of their lives in Scotland and a part in England or somewhere else. The line would be very blurry and could easily get rather arbitrary and controversial. Also, there's risk that some people in Scotland wouldn't like that the fate of their country is decided partly by people who don't even live there.
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  6758.  @nonyabisness6306  But it does have at least one notable downside: the high capital cost of the plant.
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  6759.  @Andreas-gh6is  2 to 10 times more nuclear waste (or at least spent fuel) is still not that much.
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  6760. Cool!
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  6761. 14:14 "Nonetheless, do be careful in Canada." -Patrick Boyle, 2022
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  6762. "Evidently, Finland has learned nothing from the mistakes of Ukraine and Georgia." Ukraine and Georgia weren't NATO members. Russia hasn't invaded any NATO member, only non-members. It's safer to be a NATO member.
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  6763. What about one made of cast iron?
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  6764. Are these products 100% plastic or is something else used as a filler?
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  6765. Communist China invaded Vietnam in 1979.
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  6766. Probably not practical. (Rotor sails, on the other hand, can be practical but they require some energy to operate.)
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  6767. But not in the early phase this video is about?
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  6768. But "Marin" is a Swedish name so stress on the second syllable is correct there.
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  6769.  @greenvilleobserver9431 : You're saying people flying the Finnish flag should be considered anti-American? If that's the case, should people flying the US flag be considered anti-Finnish?
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  6770. "The USSR makes a non-aggression pact with Germany, and everybody says "it's an alliance!"." I'm not sure if calling them "allies" is descriptive but note that that pact involved dividing other countries into spheres of influence, possibly against these countries will.
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  6771. @Satoshi Nakamoto The reason I asked my question is that at 10:24 Patrick says: "Many of my international viewers are probably not aware that most mortgages in the UK are one way or another floating rate mortgages." However, that shouldn't come as a surprise to international viewers other than those from the US because in most other countries floating rate mortgages are also the norm AFAIK. In that context offering the UK as a counterexample doesn't make sense (assuming you aren't disagreeing with Patrick here) but I guess I should have explained my question a bit better initially.
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  6772.  @Jerdifier  OK, but then it's still going to take some very expensive land which probably adds to the cost. I guess you can probably have e.g. roads going under the elevated tracks so it doesn't consume as much valuable land as it's width would seem to indicate but it's still probably a significant factor.
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  6773. WTO did authorize retaliatory tariffs for both the EU and the US.
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  6774. 3:35 Are you saying the Saudi government jailed some man over some tweets for 15 years in order to send a "strong message" to the US? What a rotten government if that's true.
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  6775. "Ask the "Moderate Rebels" in Syria." Or that one guy who tried to desert from Assad's army.
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  6776.  @laithlion3482 : "they'll be put out of power" What exactly are you predicting?
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  6777. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  6778. My wife did have that experience in Frankfurt am Main though that was many years ago.
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  6779. It's certainly not obvious to an English speaker how Swedish should be pronounced since Swedish orthography is a mess (though English is even more of a mess). E.g. it might not be obvious that the 'g' at the end is not pronounced as a plosive. (I think "shell-barry" would be a decent phonetic respelling.)
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  6780.  @Elcopollo : Though ironically he doesn't quite seem to pronounce it the way it would (usually) be pronounced in Swedish. In Swedish the word "berg" (meaning "hill" or "mountain") is pronounced similarly to how you would pronounce "barry" in English. Here's a video where you can hear a native pronunciation. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vx2dDw3RRuI
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  6781.  @krzysztofgajewski4686  "if it wasnt for Greece and Ireland that sacrificed its growth, the Deutsche Bank would go tits up" That sounds unlikely. How would lack of growth in those countries help Deutsche Bank?
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  6782.  @georgesbv1  "still the planes fly a lot faster than trains run." But the air density is also below 30% of sea level.
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  6783. Reupload?
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  6784. You said that I might be surprised but most of this didn't sound that surprising. The most surprising things were that France and Turkey used to spend so little.
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  6785. "any Econ 101 student can tell you that a tariff is just a tax imposed on the citizens of the country enforcing the tariff" That's exactly what should happen. Those citizens should feel the tax on carbon-intensive products whether they're made domestically or in China.
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  6786.  @Marvin-dg8vj  The West didn't use enough money printing.
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  6787. I don't think it's usually liberals saying that.
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  6788. Turkey has at least a little bit of land in Europe (East Thrace) while e.g. Cyprus is geographically wholly outside of Europe. I don't think it matters though. I think any country should be able to join as long as enough of the country is sufficiently close to the main body of the EU and it fulfills the other requirements (about economy, democracy, human rights, etc.).
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  6789. It wasn't Ukraine. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  6790.  @fabiogiovanzana3255  "Moldova should, in these conditions, ask Russia to supply gas through TurkStream" My point was that Russia doesn't want to do that citing the dispute with Moldova over the gas payments. The transit agreement with Ukraine expiring is not the reason why Russia isn't supplying gas to Transnistria. Moldova is saying they would allow Russian gas to pass through Moldova into Transnistria (and have later supplied gas there). It's Russia who doesn't want to supply the gas.
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  6791. 6:20 Dividends that are paid abroad represent a capital inflow, not an outflow.
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  6792. I guess the point was to get the effect without having to remember to set the temperature back to normal later.
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  6793. "sweden is still an evil colonial power" How is it still a colonial power? It doesn't have any colonial possessions anymore (and those that it had in the past were rather small).
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  6794.  @nickstav08  That movie has some pretty glaring historical inaccuracies. Whether that makes the movie bad is a matter of perspective.
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  6795.  @deatherutts  "Putin is bringing peace" He's not. He has brought war to Ukraine.
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  6796. The size of NYC means that cars are even worse there than in Helsinki.
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  6797. 0:20 Germany doesn't have the most land. France, Spain, and Sweden have more land than Germany.
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  6798. "Average global temps in the 1920-1930's were higher than the highest of recent years" That's not true.
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  6799. ​ @bobthrasher8226  It wasn't true and there are other sources for global temperature averages besides NASA.
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  6800.  @debmcr1  I'm not trying to say it's better than EU membership.
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  6801. According to Wikipedia, one of the names for the New Guinea Highlands is "Central Cordillera".
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  6802.  @user-em6ff6lv5z  Piracy from the Barbary Coast far predates that year and had little to do with that particular battle.
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  6803.  @Omer1996E.C  "First, it was started by Europeans." I'm not sure what you're referring to here. "Second, the atrocities and economic devastation of Algeria, which was richer than France is extreme. Extremism can be simplified with French aggression" Algiers was so rich because they got so many slaves from piracy. The French brutality might be an argument against the conquest being justified and I mentioned that in my original comment. However, the conquest did put an end to a significant part of the piracy which seemed so difficult to end otherwise. (Of course, the main motivation for the French might have just been a land-grab than ending piracy. I just mentioned this as something which could be a justification for it.)
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  6804.  @Omer1996E.C  I was only saying that the conquest might have been justified at the time. France's later behavior is a different matter. I did also say in my original comment that France should have let Algeria become independent far earlier than it did.
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  6805.  @Exiledschizo  The piracy from Algiers and other Barbary States functioned as a state enterprise (though individual citizens could also invest in it). Many of the famous pirates were admirals of these states.
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  6806. Strictly speaking he only tarred it. He didn't compress it.
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  6807. There's a minimum of 6 € per day and for the total fine there's a minimum of 100 € for moped drivers and 200 € for drivers of other motor vehicles.
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  6808. At least the amount of low-density suburban area is purely a political decision, though I'm not sure what was the motivation behind it. If you let market forces run amok developers would, at least in high demand areas, pack a lot more housing to the same area because that would bring more $$$.
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  6809. "We swapped to green energy from nuclear." That doesn't seem to be the case based on looking at Germany's energy mix. If nuclear weren't phased out you could use the increase in renewables to replace coal instead of nuclear. "You praise nuclear but don't mention the mines that are needed to mine uranium" While they're not harmless they require far less of an area excavated per kWh produced. "and that we still don't have a solution for the nuclear waste." Temporary storage is fairly unproblematic. Climate change is a far more pressing issue.
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  6810.  @Siniji  At the very least the existing plants should not be closed.
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  6811. Not always. Concentrated solar power can achieve higher efficiency and PV used to be much more expensive.
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  6812. Is this strategy optimal? Is it known if it's optimal or not?
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  6813. Didn't Aristotle like democracy?
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  6814.  @JBlackjackp  I had a vague memory that this was one subject they disagreed on.
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  6815. Are the Crusades romanticized? I generally remember them being told in a negative light. (Just to clarify, I'm not talking about fiction featuring the Crusades.)
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  6816.  @SifuPuma : "there is a safe bet that's the Euro dropping in value" Isn't that a good thing?
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  6817.  Midwest Kandi : How much do those people have in their mattresses? The policy goal of the ECB is close to 2% inflation but they've been falling short of that. Reaching that goal is hardly going to ruin anyone with cash in their mattress. In any case, having your wealth in a mattress is a stupid idea and monetary policy shouldn't be accommodated around these people but rather the whole economy on average.
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  6818. Even if Russia were to completely run out of missiles they would still have some production so it wouldn't mean a permanent end to missile strikes.
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  6819.  @srp01983  "Your argument completely misses the ‘transformative’ bit about fair use. TF did not attempt to pass the work off as his own, and did not present it as ‘here’s an interesting clip of SpaceX 9’. He used it to illustrate the central point of his video - that Musk fans fail to see all the faults of Musk’s technology enterprises." But this seems to actually go against the argument for fair use. TF didn't criticize Mahlmann's video, which would have been transformative. He merely used it in his criticism of SpaceX and SpaceX fans.
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  6820. For some reason, Russia has, until fairly recently, mostly not opposed Ukraine joining the EU. I'm not sure why.
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  6821. "but why should we convert DC to AC" So that the voltage can be stepped up or down using transformers.
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  6822. Not that dramatic so Truss-lite at most.
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  6823. You know what the US needs? Some free imperial cities!
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  6824. The cooling effect is too short-lived.
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  6825. On the topic of the Onion predicting the future, they have a funny video on YouTube titled "The Onion's Future News From The Year 2137".
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  6826. Trade deficits aren't a cause for worry.
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  6827. The ECHR is not an EU institution.
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  6828. "just as Greece is known as 'Hellas'" It's Ellada (or something like that), not Hellas. Hellas is an ancient name, not the modern name.
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  6829. I wonder if it would be possible to inundate the whole area to extinguish the fire.
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  6830. That's quite possible.
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  6831. How so?
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  6832. In that particular case what was salient was that any crimes between Natives have to be judged in state, not federal, courts.
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  6833.  @Erwin1293-  In Germany, the original decision to phase out nuclear power was made under the administration of Gerhard Schröder, a Social Democrat.
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  6834. In case someone is curious about pronunciation: -Oulu was pronounced correctly. -Tampere was pronounced almost correctly, but both of the 'E' letters were pronounced wrong. He pronounced both of them as a schwa (or something close to a schwa). In Finnish, 'E' is a front vowel. There are no central vowels in Finnish.
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  6835. Not necessarily. It's one way to save and accumulate wealth but e.g. index funds might be better option for many.
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  6836.  @Ausf  But North's population is still also clearly smaller than that of the South. Also, the South is richer than the North by a huge margin. Even if the South were to experience an Argentine type or crisis or something like that even after that kind of "collapse" its economy would be in a far better shape than that of the North.
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  6837.  @ayde92829  Women entered the workforce a couple of decades prior to 30 years ago so the increase in household incomes in the past 30 can't mostly be explained by that. Also, when the women entered the workforce, the amount of hours worked by men decreased so our time being devalued doesn't seem to be true. Also, as noted in this video, household sizes have been going down which means that incomes per person have risen even more. "given the disproportionate change in other variables: does this render the same standard of living less affordable (higher education cost, housing costs, automobile costs:: and debt)" No, because the statistic I cited was for real incomes which means that it's already been adjusted for cost of living.
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  6838.  @ayde92829  "that this number has increased over the past 30 years: as dual income households (or more) have become more normalized" I don't think so because women entered the workforce already in the '60s. The last 30 years is probably (mostly) not due to that. "it might indicate that our time is being devalued significantly" Even if you consider women entering the workforce, the amount of hours worked by men decreased at the same time so that doesn't seem to indicate devaluation of our time (whether 30 or 60 years ago). "does this render the same standard of living less affordable (higher education cost, housing costs, automobile costs:: and debt)" No, because the statistic I cited was for real incomes meaning it's already adjusted for the cost of living.
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  6839.  @ayde92829  That logic doesn't hold. I responded to you earlier but the comment may have been deleted.
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  6840.  @erickillian313  All increases haven't gone to the top since median incomes have increased as well.
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  6841.  @erickillian313  You can check FRED data with the title "Real Median Household Income in the United States". You can see that it's been rising more than barely in the recent decades. The pandemic caused a temporary dip but the current levels are roughly back to the pre-pandemic peak level.
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  6842.  @erickillian313  Check FRED data for "Real Median Household Income in the United States".
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  6843.  @erickillian313  Real incomes (i.e. adjusted for cost of living) have risen quite a bit more than just "barely" in recent decades.
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  6844.  @winterh46334  "Nuclear isnt profitable" To my knowledge, France's plants have been profitable.
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  6845.  @winterh46334  "Thats why no one in the private sector has ever built one." That certainly is not true. Here in Finland 2 pre-existing reactors and a third one that was recently completed are owned and operated by a private company (TVO). (Of course, it didn't build the plants itself but contracted out the work. Nonetheless, they at least estimated it to be profitable. The first 2 reactors didn't have significant problems in construction though the third one is over a decade behind schedule.) "uranium isnt infinite and only gonna last about 80 years" That 80 years is for presently known deposits that are economical to mine at present uranium prices. If prices rise the supply expands a lot (but won't affect the price of nuclear energy much because most of the cost is capital cost). I'm not suggesting new plants should be subsidized but at least permissions should be granted (if plans are safe enough) and existing plants shouldn't be closed while they can still be used.
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  6846. I'm assuming it's just pointing to the country. It doesn't quite match the location of Ankara either. It seems to be pointing somewhat to the southeast of Ankara.
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  6847. Doesn't Wyoming have even less people than DC?
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  6848.  @TheWizel : To me it would seem fair that DC would also get 2 senators and 1 representative just like the (population-wise) similarly sized Wyoming.
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  6849.  @TheWizel : DC has almost 10% larger population than Wyoming and therefore deserves at least as much seats. If you think that's too much, it's still closer to a fair amount than the 0 (voting) seats they have today which is away from any fair amount by an infinite factor. If you think it's unfair that smaller states get more seats then you can be in favor of reforming that system, but either way, not giving the people of DC any (voting) representation in Congress cannot be justified.
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  6850.  @MN-pf2kv  That "am" sounds like German (short for "an dem"). These comments were in English, not German.
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  6851. 14:25 Do we know whose rocket or bomb it was? How high is the certainty? I think for this particular part a source would have been more important than for the other parts.
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  6852. "So many smoke" In many countries the percentage of smokers is declining and has been doing that for many decades.
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  6853.  @mefistowski5292  "Declining does not mean gone" Yeah. I only wanted to comment to say that in this regard one shouldn't pine for the "good old days" because it was worse in the past.
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  6854.  @jirislavicek9954  Yeah, but I mostly wanted to say that it was worse in the past.
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  6855. 0:55 You say "there is no sponsor" but then at the end of the video you give a sponsored link.
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  6856. Which is better, NSYNC or Rsync?
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  6857.  @michealoflaherty1265  "As an EU citizen I am shocked that Serbian accession is even being discussed, given their pro-Russian leanings." I don't think Serbia has done anything so bad as to warrant stopping membership talks.
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  6858.  @melissacorbett4180  But not accepting Serbia's membership soon and dropping the discussions are two very different things. Note that OP (Michael O Flaherty) didn't say that we shouldn't accept Serbia's membership now but rather that he's shocked that it's even being discussed.
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  6859.  @melissacorbett4180  Serbia originally applied in 2009 which was well before the Ukraine conflict. It's not surprising to me that the politicians would want to apply because of the economic benefits and it would be strange for the EU to outright refuse to even consider membership. The candidacy process is long and you don't often expect that the country in question necessarily fulfills the membership criteria right at the beginning. Also, I think it's a bit unfair to compare Serbia to Putin's Russia. Putin basically imprisons all credible opposition and rigs the elections.
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  6860.  @michealoflaherty1265  Those things are possible issues right now but not necessarily years from now. I'm not saying Serbia should currently be accepted (and a majority of Serb wouldn't currently want to join in any case) but I don't see why discussions should be dropped entirely because of these.
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  6861. Prosperous compared to the following period of low oil prices.
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  6862. Just charge in there with laser tag gear and see what happens.
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  6863. This isn't a good idea. This would incentivize to artificially move earnings from base salary to overtime pay.
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  6864.  @blackbruno50  Basically, if you're an employer and you have employees who typically work some amount of overtime, you could make an offer where you lower their base pay but increase the overtime bonus. If the overtime hours remain the same, you could effectively lower their tax percentage while not materially changing their work. The offer could be such that both the employer and the employee are left with more (and the taxman with less).
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  6865.  @joqqeman  I've seen an article on Vox arguing that the intervention in Libya was successful (in that more people would have been killed without intervention). However, that article is from 2016 so I'm not sure if subsequent events would change that estimate.
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  6866.  @dantothemoon9154  I think he just used the Vietnam War as a metaphor for a traumatic experience.
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  6867.  @proudtobeme1ashkente : I think this video was pretty interesting as it is. No point in waiting that long. The facts look pretty bad even if there's still uncertainty at this stage.
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  6868. So this is basically the same as newtype in Haskell?
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  6869. @Владислав Пронин "Joining the eu is bad idea ) can you imagine how many hobos from all over Europe will flock to your country?" Norway is already in the EEA and thus subject to the freedom of movement. Full EU membership wouldn't bring any changes in this regard.
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  6870.  @epj0211  Why?
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  6871.  @epj0211  It's a very minor sum of money for the effect it can have. Why cut it? (As a sidenote, it's a little unclear to me whether the Gaza, Mozambique is correct either or just theorizing but the original claim was certainly BS.)
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  6872.  @xXx_Regulus_xXx  Because there exist opportunities to do significant good with comparatively small amounts of money. Also, helping to contain the spread of HIV worldwide can also benefit the US. US foreign aid is something like 0.2% of GDP. It's tiny compared to domestic spending and not excessive at all.
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  6873.  @xXx_Regulus_xXx  This is an absolutely tiny part of your money.
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  6874.  @firstnamelastname9237  "This is a problem that is resolved purely by self restraint." Well, until the day such a resolution occurs, that kind of spending is effective. "And when you’re in debt, any amount of money over that debt should be considered a failure." That's ridiculous. It's like saying you couldn't give a quarter to a poor person or a child because you have a mortgage or a student loan or credit card debt. The US can easily afford to spend a little bit on things like that. "50 million is a lot of money to waste..." No, it's not a lot nor is it waste (or it probably wouldn't be waste but the whole thing may be completely made up).
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  6875.  @firstnamelastname9237  It's not a waste of money. People in some such places are much poorer than the poor in the US which makes them more cost-effective to help. "GIVE IT TO POOR PEOPLE IN THE US" The US government already spends much more on poor people domestically than it spends on foreign aid (as one would expect). If you want to advocate increasing that, by all means do that (I can't say what the appropriate level for that spending is), but focusing on the fairly small foreign aid spending is mostly a red herring. $50 million is like $0.15 per US resident. You're not gonna budge the rate of US poverty with that. "I'm not giving a condom to a homeless person, I'm going to give money or a meal. If you're going to take money at least use it on something that makes sense." It's not clear to me whether that condoms thing was entirely made up or whether it was merely the place (or amount) that was wrong. But, in any case, condoms can certainly make a lot of sense in a place where the prevalence of HIV is something like 10%. Of course, you'd probably not help a poor American person that way but that's a different matter.
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  6876.  @firstnamelastname9237  "If it’s something solved by such little self restraint, yes, it’s a waste." Until the day such a solution occurs, it's not a waste. "Not making sure people who no self control get to keep having no self control." I don't see any indication that this kind of spending would lower anyone's self control. "It should be focused on insuring the safety of us citizens." I disagree. Not every last penny needs to be spent that way. It makes sense to spend a little bit on foreign aid. And, like I said, the amount of spent on foreign aid is quite small. Any domestic problems have almost nothing to do with that. "sending it to other countries when ours is in debt is inherently a harm to both us and their future" First of all, how does it harm their future? That claim makes no sense. As for your future, the effect is minimally small and the good done abroad can be much greater.
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  6877.  @opadrip  You're misunderstanding. I haven't shifted my position here. Firstly, I've seen Gaza, Mozambique given as speculation but I haven't seen that as confirmed info. I just wanted to mention the caveat that I'm not sure if that condom spending is real at all. I'm not saying it's not happening, just that I'm not sure. Secondly, I've consistently said that spending on condoms in Gaza, Mozambique sounds like a reasonable way (and $50 million a reasonable amount) to spend whether that's happening or not. And yes, a spending item of that size doesn't sound like a big deal and even the whole USAID budget isn't that big for a country the size of the US.
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  6878.  @firstnamelastname9237  "it does have a solution. They just refuse to use it." But meanwhile this other solution can do a lot to help. Condoms are cheap, at least for rich countries. "it's NOT small, especially given it's not the only wasteful spending" I disagree about it being wasteful and, like I said earlier, US foreign aid is only something like 0.2% of GDP. That's not a lot on the scale of a national budget and has very little to do with the amount of national debt. "it's doing zero good basically" Really? What are you basing that claim on? Like I said earlier, it's unclear to me if this spending on condoms is real even in Gaza, Mozambique, but it stands to reason that a very cheap remedy like condoms could help in a region with 10% HIV prevalence. "If that was the entirety of foreign aid, maybe I wouldn't care." Well, maybe I wouldn't care so much if it was just one program like this being cut. But it seems there's a more wholesale cutting going not which is quite bad. They seemed intent on cutting also far, far more effective programs like PEPFAR. That cut was apparently at least partially cancelled but the program has probably still suffered. PEPFAR has likely saved millions of lives (not hyperbole).
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  6879.  @firstnamelastname9237  "Our budget is inflated because of nonsense like this in part, but also, that's actually still a lot. 0.2% of an entire countries GDP...on *that*. Yes that's a lot." No, the size of the budget is mostly not due to foreign aid. You can compare it to e.g. Social Security which has outlays equaling to a bit over 5% of GDP so something like 25x the foreign aid. "So it's not really a help." Of course it's help if it e.g. reduces the prevalence of HIV. "if it's so cheap, I ask again, why do we have to be the ones to pay for it" The US is far from the only one doing foreign aid. Most other high-income countries (most of which are less rich than the US) spend a higher percentage of GDP on foreign aid. Just to be clear, I'm not complaining that the US isn't spending enough; I don't know what the appropriate amount is. I'm just saying that all rich countries should spend some amount and the amount the US currently spends is comparatively small and easily affordable so there's little reason to not do it. If you mean why the extremely poor countries and people in e.g. Africa don't pay it themselves, well the phrase "extremely poor" should already provide a lot of the answer. Also, people in these places might lack the knowledge about infection prevention or there can be issues with availability.
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  6880.  @firstnamelastname9237  "This is an example of wasted money." I think that's an unjustified claim. I've not seen an effectiveness assessment (or even confirmation whether this $50 million spending was real) but if it reduces HIV cases enough, it's not waste. "instead of one or two signs warning about HIV?" I would venture to guess that programs like this also warn about HIV.
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  6881.  @firstnamelastname9237  "it's 50 millions dollars more than what it costs to fix, so yeah, it's wasted" Until your $0 fix actually occurs it likely saves lives so it's probably not wasted.
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  6882.  @cricker1998  In this kind of case limiting the global spread of HIV could potentially help all countries including the US. But more generally, I think it's good to also care about the welfare of foreigners a bit even if there isn't a benefit to oneself. Spending 0.2% on foreign aid is quite reasonable IMHO as it's small enough to not be much of a sacrifice.
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  6883.  @cricker1998  "Why was this spent without consent?" The US isn't anarcho-capitalist.
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  6884.  @cricker1998  Maybe I wasn't clear enough. What I meant was that all taxation and spending is like that. It's not like you need the consent of every tax-payer for every item in the budget. Similarly, e.g. military spending is done without consent. That's always the case unless you're imagining some kind of hypothetical 0% tax ancap system.
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  6885.  @mankosan6737  If you're worried about oversight or transparency, you could implement those without a wholesale dismantling of USAID. That's the same kind of kneejerk reaction like e.g. "defund the police".
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  6886. "Off blast" -Zlad
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  6887.  @fatihersayn7877  The Altaic hypothesis is rejected by most linguists and some kind of even larger proposed family like Ural-Altaic one would be even more speculative.
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  6888.  @morkovija  These fake accounts are everywhere recently.
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  6889.  @tka2000  It's not perpetual motion. The cart is getting kinetic energy from the wind. "The energy of the spinning wheels must overcome all the rotational power of the wind to make it turn where it turns." Yes, and this is possible precisely because the air is moving relative to the ground.
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  6890.  @tka2000  "But according the other proving video it moves forward the trade mill even with no wind." What video is that? Veritasium certainly made no such claims.
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  6891.  @tka2000  Well, I've not seen that video and the description is too vague for me to find it. Anyway, Veritasium and Rosie aren't claiming that it would move even without wind.
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  6892. It would actually be the first time, if it happens. So far the shortest government lasted 44 days in 1944.
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  6893. "Wait, what? They don't even bother to make their BS sound internally plausible." Lukashenko doesn't. It's not really his war. I've even seen some (well, actually just Kamil Galeev) claim that he's deliberately mixing in completely illucid stuff in his propaganda messages as deliberate sabotage. I don't know if that's true or not but at the very least for him it doesn't matter as much whether anyone actually believes him. Putin has more reason to make his propaganda believable.
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  6894. This isn't a problem. What are the Fed's liabilities? It's the money they print. It can be considered a liability in a certain sense but it's a bit special in the sense that the Fed doesn't have to "pay it back" in any way (since the gold standard is no longer in force) nor is the Fed obligated to pay interest on it (though it may choose to do so as a part of its monetary policy). Thus the Fed's leverage ratio is pretty irrelevant.
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  6895. I suspect 700 km/h would cause the tires to rupture from the centrifugal force.
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  6896. "battery capacity is not measured in MW, but MWh" Maybe the figure is for the maximum charge/discharge rate?
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  6897.  @АлександрСоловьев-п5р  I don't think that's a good translation as it doesn't refer to the act of blackmailing but rather certain kind of information that could be used for blackmailing.
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  6898.  @АлександрСоловьев-п5р  I don't think that's a good translation as it doesn't refer to the act of doing that.
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  6899. That's subjective.
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  6900. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  6901. Are they publicly traded before that?
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  6902. Have you used xylitol chewing gum? If so, did it cause noticeable problems for you? I would have thought that kind of thing would have been easy to notice.
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  6903. ISA?
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  6904. 21:30 Another possibility is that he's referring to the Kornilov affair.
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  6905.  @isaacshusters1620  It wasn't and wouldn't be a good thing.
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  6906. To death? US gas tax is very low.
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  6907. It doesn't sound so bad. Presumably most drivers drive at speeds that they feel don't endanger them. Using that and forcing most people to roughly the same speeds then improves the safety to other drivers as well. However, if drivers mostly take into account their own safety this approach doesn't work in places where there are e.g. pedestrians.
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  6908. VPNs are probably somewhat less specific to a type of consumer than some other products.
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  6909.  @6IKERYA  "the Bulgarian language is the first slavic language in the world" Isn't Proto-Slavic the first?
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  6910. It has lower efficiency than batteries. That doesn't necessarily mean it couldn't be viable but it's not obvious that it would be either. Though, if hydrogen cars become common, hydrogen production could be adjusted according to the supply of electricity.
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  6911.  @skierpage : Yeah, I agree, batteries are more efficient. The advantage hydrogen cars might have over EVs is longer range. On the other hand, the range is still lower than that of ICEs but the efficiency is higher than them. I don't know if they're going to be viable or not. The hydrogen used in hydrogen cars is to my knowledge produced with electrolysis. Steam reforming wouldn't make any sense for that purpose since it would be more efficient to just power the vehicles with natural gas directly.
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  6912.  @skierpage : On the other hand Honda Clarity has a range of 366 miles which was only recently surpassed by Tesla Model S which is heavier (according to Wikipedia). I'm still not claiming that fuel cell vehicles are necessarily going to be viable but it doesn't seem impossible.
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  6913. If I just invest in index funds & ETFs for the long term (at least 20 years), how much leverage can I use?
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  6914. Solar isn't that good of an option in this case because it's less effective during the winter when gas consumption is higher. Wind might be better but I don't think getting a huge increase in capacity for this year's winter would be feasible.
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  6915. "The origin of the first script sounds like an ancient myth" Well, 1986 is pretty ancient, isn't it?
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  6916. He does have a video titled "Germany's plans to win WWI".
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  6917. Wait! So the Chinese government has been subsidizing buying cars? Not just EVs but ICEs too? Why? That seems so backwards to me.
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  6918.  @dragsteraa  Was that the case in the past too?
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  6919.  @MK-yf1wu  "prior" I didn't mention priors and I don't think a paper using Bayesian analysis needs to use one, just giving a Bayes factor should be enough. "this particular situation" I said "generally".
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  6920. Who was the better military leader, Conrad von Hötzendorf or Luigi Cadorna?
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  6921.  @reubensandwich9249  Still the Dutch army saw a need for tanks at least until a few years ago.
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  6922. It was Atlanta, wasn't it?
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  6923.  @_robustus_  Atlanta was mentioned twice in the video so I'm assuming that's what he meant.
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  6924. "Tell USA to adopt Unified Payment Interface of India. It will put a brake on the rampant money printing addiction of the fed" Those things have nothing to do with each other.
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  6925. You could also note that the seal of the US senate has a fasces on it.
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  6926. "Windmills are using more carbon fiber" Wind turbine blades are made from glass fiber, not carbon fiber composite. Carbon fiber would be much more expensive. The amount of material used is not large relative to the amount of electricity produced.
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  6927.  @sharkb8754  So far you haven't been able to point out a single thing that's incorrect or even potentially incorrect so currently there doesn't seem to be a reason to take you seriously.
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  6928.  @JaneSoole  He has to make himself look crazy to convince Putin he's not a threat.
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  6929.  @talibantiagotaliyago7705  Kowloon Walled City
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  6930.  @BilgeHan-01  "It's free to dream but dreams are not real in real life." A two state solution is almost as much a dream. It will almost certainly not happen. What you're going to get is either some form of reunification or the status quo where Northern Cyprus isn't recognized with all the difficulties that brings.
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  6931.  @BilgeHan-01  "and than the rest of the world will follow" That's unlikely. Some other countries might recognize it but probably not many. It will remain mostly unrecognized for the foreseeable future.
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  6932.  @BilgeHan-01  Maybe not, but the difficulties with e.g. trade are probably going to remain and the North likely won't be able to join the UN.
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  6933. Note about the language. English is the official language of Nigeria and has millions of native speakers there, though I think languages like Hausa have more native speakers there. Therefore it's not that unlikely that English is this woman's first language.
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  6934. I think they shouldn't put prisoners of war in front of cameras (unless they want it).
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  6935.  @roguishpaladin : That syrup is still (mostly) sugar. It's fructose and glucose instead of sucrose but those are still sugars..
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  6936. Maybe he eats small dinners but big breakfasts, lunches, and suppers.
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  6937. On the other hand, the opposite strategies are a form of diversification. At the very least, the risk should be lower than only using the riskier strategy.
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  6938.  @abdelkarim8381  You were talking like it was the fault of the US that North Korea bans ideas.
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  6939.  @abdelkarim8381  "it's obvious that I'm talking about SOUTH Korea here" But the "banned ideas" mentioned in your original comment are banned in the North, not South. You said: "Typical of a US vassel state. Keep talking about freedom until it doesn't suit you." But how can you justify this claim with the mention of these banned ideas. Are you blaming South Korea (or the US) for North Korea banning some ideas? "always yammering about how free they are in contrast to their not-so-free brethren in the north" Well, they're are much freer, aren't they? Even if this "yammering" might annoy you it's in no way hypocritical. (At least that's the case in this day and age in which South Korea is democratic. Maybe you could have made a better argument about hypocrisy before South Korea became democratic in the '80s.)
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  6940. Hyperinflation is unlikely.
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  6941. 12:35 "in which Muslim country it is OK to be gay? (none)" What about Albania? Albania has no laws against homosexuality and since 2010 has a law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. Maybe the reason is that Albania is not all that religious but at least nominally more than 50% of Albania's population is Muslim.
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  6942. ​ @qingzhou9983  "either you insist your thinking AND preparing for a War with PRC in Taiwan" Well, I think the US and ROC government have been preparing for the possibility of war. Maybe the preparations haven't been as vigorous as you think would be necessary. However, the preparations aren't insignificant either.
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  6943. However, it seems that EU member are in practice able to delay adopting the Euro almost indefinitely if they want. Formally, it's only required that they adopt the Euro "eventually" without any stated deadline.
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  6944. They try to arrange so that the profits are made in the Cayman Islands. One possibility is that the company in the Cayman Islands holds all the patents and other IP the company has and the parts of the company that are in other countries pay royalties to the Cayman company thus decreasing their profits and increasing the profits occurring in the Cayman Islands.
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  6945.  @Weirdcontent_348  I'm guessing he means Adobe After Effects, a video editing software.
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  6946. He's already reacted to the first episode.
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  6947. "The Japanese government changes so frequently" That was the norm before Abe but they seem to have been more stable during and after his tenure.
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  6948. It's not SpaceX's IP. SpaceX didn't film that clip.
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  6949. The palm oil will be scraped off from the skin on the palms of your hands.
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  6950. 15:25 "their inhuman principle: weapons are the way to peace" Doesn't that seem to also be the principle Russia is adhering to?
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  6951.  @elchicovip01  I'd say if it's spherical it's a ball rather than a bullet. Not sure if muskets ever used bullets or only balls.
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  6952.  @ggoddkkiller1342  You can say that they should have some word other than "cede" but it's clearly just a slightly sloppy wording, not any kind of poor research. They clearly said that NK is internationally recognized as being a part of Azerbaijan.
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  6953.  @ggoddkkiller1342  "acting like Armenia occupied only NK in last 30 years" At least I didn't get the impression that they acted like that. This is a relatively short video so it's understandable that they don't mention all of the details of the conflict.
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  6954.  @ggoddkkiller1342  "they lost more than surrounding oblasts Azerbaijani forces entered NK" Fair enough, but I still think it's fine for them to just show the area of NK. The precise location (and the ebb and flow) of the frontlines of the conflict is secondary to the topic of this video.
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  6955.  @Mesozoic_mammal  By that logic, one shouldn't be allowed to spend any money one borrows. So sure, take a mortgage but don't buy a house with it. Just keep the money in your bank account doing nothing.
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  6956.  @alwaysdisputin9930  "Therefore Spanish people use C e.g. Barcelona." Barcelona is in Catalonia. In Catalan that "c" is pronounced as [s], not as [θ]. You could therefore say that the English pronunciation is more correct than the Spanish pronunciation (if we take native pronunciation as "correct").
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  6957. "Kherson is pronounced Herson [...] Oh and the same for Kharkiv (prn. Harkiv) silent K." No, the 'KH' digraph is pronounced as [x], not [h]. This similar to how in English "philosophy" isn't pronounced "hilosohy" and "think" isn't pronounced "hink". The letters 'P' and 'T' in those instances aren't silent but rather a part of the 'PH' and 'TH' digraphs. Same goes for the 'K' in the 'KH' digraph (when Cyrillic is transliterated into Latin alphabet).
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  6958.  @GrayFoxHound9  "No, K is silent one here. First sound is h, not k." No, that's not correct. The 'KH' digraph is pronounced as [x], not [h]. These are different sounds. It's like in English you don't say that the 'T' in "think" is silent and therefore it's pronounced as "hink". That 'TH' is a digraph and so is 'KH'.
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  6959.  @alwaysdisputin9930  "But Ukranians just say Harkiv?" No, the Ukrainian pronunciation is [ˈxarkʲiu̯], at least based on Wiktionary. "The letter X represents K + S. e.g. "sex" sounds the same as "seks" So I don't get why you're saying KH represents X You don't say KSarkiv?" I wrote [x]. It's the IPA symbol for the voiceless velar fricative, a completely different sound. I didn't write [ks].
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  6960.  @DemetriTurin  "I didn't hear President Makarios III mentioned." You're either mistaken, have hearing issues, or didn't watch the whole video because was mentioned roughly at 18:40.
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  6961.  @WagesOfDestruction  I've read somewhere that the mask was sometimes used during the 1600s plague, not the earlier 1300s one (the Black Death).
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  6962. It's not a very difficult name to pronounce.
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  6963. "Madjar is a name of mongolian tribe" But Hungarian is an Uralic, not a Mongolic language.
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  6964. Btw, it seems that North Korea much better demographics (though they're not really that good either). What's the reason for the difference?
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  6965.  @colin1765  I did a bit of googling and it seems that's Russian for "hello". It seems that Binkov started many of his older videos with that word.
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  6966. "But because aluminium is so light weight, that equivalent weight battery would be GIGANTIC in the space it takes up." That logic does not hold. Aluminiun is about 5 times denser than lithium. By this logic it would be the lithium-ion batteries that would be gigantic, not aluminium-air batteries. "The more realistic scenario would be a car with an aluminium battery of the same energy capacity as lith-ion, and probably taking up the same sized space [...] but simply lighter weight." No, aluminium carries a lot of energy so for a given amount of capacity it would be both smaller and lighter than a lithium-ion battery.
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  6967. The constitution says: "no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two-thirds of the Members present". The Senate can't change the constitution on its own.
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  6968. If the timezones stretched from UTC-12 to UTC+12, that would be a range of 25 hours (rather than 24), wouldn't it?
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  6969.  @mreyesonthelies4386  Most of the relevant arms industry is not located in Ukraine but in other countries like Poland.
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  6970.  @koyadream  "Nuclear power may meltdown for a variety of reasons" And dams may fail for a variety of reasons. Dam disasters have killed far more people than nuclear disasters.
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  6971.  @dallolapp356  It's possible to also attack a dam.
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  6972. @Serge Rambert: OK, thanks. I just wanted to nitpick a bit anyway. :)
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  6973. "Neoliberalism is the ideology which has allowed for all this to happen without much resistance. It argued for an almost cult-like devotion to deregulating the economy and neutering of the government's ability to deal with any social issue in any significant capacity, naively believing that this would maximize market efficiency and ultimately increase the economic prosperity of all citizens." When it comes to housing it's the government that's preventing housing from being built.
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  6974. That's slightly inaccurate. They officially abolished slavery in 1981. In 2007 enslaving people was made a criminal offence.
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  6975. It is the proper way to do it.
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  6976.  @PH61a  You're mistaken. It's the capital of Moldova.
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  6977. Are Arabs taught something about the 4th crusade specifically?
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  6978.  @mohammedalsillak6709  Thanks. I was curious about how they would describe the failure. I guess it's understandable that they don't talk about it since it didn't affect Arabs the same way other crusades did.
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  6979. "But if he expedites his vote of support for both Finland and Sweden, then I am sure that his Western friends will help him keep his economy afloat." That could help but Turkey's economy would still also continue to be hurt by his stupid (too loose) monetary policy so it would only be a temporary respite unless he changes course or is replaced.
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  6980. 2:52 "Isn't wine expensive?" I think this is a bit truer for me considering the alcohol tax is almost 4€ per liter and there's a 24% VAT on top of that.
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  6981.  @nikolagenov8881  If you hypothetically start with 3x leverage but don't take any more debt if your investment appreciates in value, you get 3x gains compared to your original equity. This means your leverage ratio goes down when your investment appreciates in value. If you instead take more debt keeping the 3x leverage ratio you get bigger gains. If you can adjust your debt in infinitesimal increments always keeping the 3x ratio you would, in theory, get gains to the power of 3. In the real world, you can't update your debt level infinitely often so volatility drag will cause your gains to be lower. Additionally, you're also going to incur interest on debt, transaction costs, and other costs which are also a drag.
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  6982.  @giantWario  "The EU is not a military alliance." But the EU treaty does still have a mutual defense clause. If a member is attacked other members are, at least in principle, obligated to assist, though the clause doesn't explicitly mention military action.
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  6983. Shell-barry
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  6984.  @christiangrantz6906 : The Swedish orthography is a bit of a mess (though English is even worse).
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  6985. ​ @christiangrantz6906 : Btw, it's not exactly the English 'sh' which is pronounced [ʃ] whereas the 'kj' is [ɕ] (though this may depend on dialect) but these are quite similar sounds and 'sh' is probably the closest sound in English.
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  6986.  @christiangrantz6906 : I'm not sure what the sound in Charlotte is, so I'm not sure. But the Wikipedia pages have sound files of these on them: [ɕ]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_alveolo-palatal_fricative [ʃ]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiceless_postalveolar_fricative Hope this helps.
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  6987.  @christiangrantz6906 : "Modern English is spelled like middle English was spoken(ish). I guess it's the same in other languages" Yeah, though I think English is worse than average in this regard. But there are languages with even worse orthographies. Just watch this NativLang video on Tibetan. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btn0-Vce5ug
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  6988. 9:15 Was Belarus more significant than Kazakhstan?
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  6989.  @TheCloudhopper  I don't think they would lose their oil wealth even if they became a full member (but they would have to e.g. join the Common Fisheries Policy).
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  6990.  @MrBasteDoNotWaste  "It makes it easier to adopt public transport because commutes are one dimensional instead of two dimensional" I don't see how it makes public transport easier. You can easily do public transport in a two-dimensional city. Many cities around the world do it. A linear layout maximizes average distances within the city so it seems like the worst possible layout. Everyone's commute will be as long as it can be (whether it's by car or public transport).
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  6991.  @MrBasteDoNotWaste  "If the city is barely large enough to support one long metro line across the city, it does make a difference." I don't think this argument holds water. A linear city might only need one line but for a given size for the city that line needs to be much longer so it's not clear to me that it's any cheaper than multiple shorter lines. Also, in a linear city travel times would be longer due to longer distances.
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  6992.  @MrBasteDoNotWaste  "Ultimately what matters is how many people live within, say, 10 minutes within a station" You can do that without making the city linear. Just build stations densely enough. "If a person can get from any place one city of the city to any place at other side of the city in 35 minutes using public transit, I consider that a success" For a 170 km line that would mean average speed in excess of 290 km/h. For going from one end to the other without any stops along the way this would be possible with high speed trains (Shinkansen and TGV use speeds of 320 km/h). However, not making any stops along the way is not realistic because it's not only the people at the ends that would need to travel. With stops such average speed is not realistic. With circle or square shaped city of the same size that time can be achieved with much cheaper systems. No high speed rail required.
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  6993.  @MrBasteDoNotWaste  "A line can be a series of round towns connected by a train." If one wants to develop a bunch of towns they can also be arranged in a 2D grid instead of a 1D line. That way the distances between the towns would be greatly reduced.
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  6994.  @MrBasteDoNotWaste  That could potentially be a lot more difficult than just choosing a different layout for a city or a cluster of towns. If they Saudis were planning some kind of arcology, I might be more optimistic about how much it's going to make economics sense, but that would depend a lot on the details.
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  6995.  @angellestat2730  What about changes in wind direction. Most wind turbines have 3 blades because if the turbine has to yaw while rotating having only 2 blades will rattle the turbine (whereas 3 or more will just just cause a steady bending force).
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  6996.  @angellestat2730  I think you misunderstood. The issue is that a rotating turbine is a gyroscope. Think of a normal wind turbine. If the wind changes direction, it has to yaw to face the wind (as a wind from the side wouldn't be useful). If the turbine is rotating and yawing at the same time, the gyroscopic effect will twist the turbine either up or down depending on the direction if it has 3 (or more) blades. If it has only 2 blades, the same thing happens except the strength of the gyroscopic effect varies. It's strongest when the blades are in vertical position and the weakest when they're in the horizontal position. This varying gyroscopic effect rattles the tower can causes it to wear out faster than otherwise.
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  6997. Surely this isn't the first such video?
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  6998. "it's worth it" I'm skeptical. Bitcoin transactions consume a lot more energy per transaction than e.g. credit card payments without any obvious advantage.
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  6999.  @finwalter395  "Bitcoin is not built for grocery shopping." What's it for then?
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  7000.  @finwalter395  I don't see why it would be better for that purpose than options that already existed.
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  7001.  @samsonsoturian6013  Driving it is likely cheaper. If you drive enough it can pay for itself eventually relative to getting an ICE car.
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  7002. That 700k is the population falling within the municipal borders. Such administrative borders are arbitrary and don't really matter for this purpose.
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  7003.  @johannesdalseg5893  PolyMatter counted the entire Olso metro area. You can argue about what exactly should be counted for this purpose but e.g. official municipal borders can be pretty meaningless. E.g. the City of London has less than 10k people.
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  7004. The digraph 'kh' denotes the sound [x] which English does not have. It's understandable that they might approximate it with a sound that English has.
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  7005.  @RipMachine1  No, but "has" begins with the sound [h]. Kherson begins with the sound [x]. These are different sounds.
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  7006.  @RipMachine1  It's not the same. The sounds [h] (unvoiced glottal fricative) and [x] (unvoiced velar fricative) are different. They are not the same. Maybe you could argue that [h] is a closer approximation of [x] than [k] but that's subjective. It may be that [k] sounds closer to [x] for an English speaker.
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  7007.  @Quadratic4mula  "It's not that hard." How do you know?
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  7008.  @jypsridic  The would-be-illegal-immigrants can't solve the problem of cartels.
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  7009.  @jypsridic  Not a credible assertion. What could a bunch of poor people do?
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  7010.  @hryvojta9846  But if you actually press enter the result page instead says it's 5,74147 feet which may mislead many people who're not careful.
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  7011.  @demostheneslastphilosopher639  The original comment was about regulators not wanting for people to do what they want. I just wanted to raise the point that sometimes that's warranted (and sometimes not) and there can't be an obvious blanket rule. You were the first person in this thread mentioning "banning crypto".
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  7012. It seems to me that the Japanese style here also has a little bit higher pitch on average than the American style. I wonder if that only applies to women.
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  7013. Being bullied and being a bully aren't exclusive. Also, a simple explanation for many celebrities being bullied as a child is just a lot children in general being bullied (whether they become famous later or not).
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  7014.  @CorporalCookie  They later found a broken anchor from the seabed. It looks like it almost certainly was an anchor (and more precisely, that particular anchor).
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  7015.  @fox280-mb6jy  They later found a broken anchor from the seabed. It now looks pretty certain that that was the cause.
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  7016. 9:58 "Will you guys be buying a Tesla before they start this transition. Comment that down below." I won't.
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  7017.  @_Abjuranax_ : Maybe I misunderstood you. But what did you mean when you said: "There were conflicting stories in this case, which is why they had a greater chance of losing the case to begin with."? Did you mean to say it would have been better for them to e.g. aim the shotgun higher or otherwise increase the chance death?
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  7018.  @_Abjuranax_ : Besides, I'm not sure what you mean by "conflicting stories in this case". The impression I got was that the facts of the case weren't in dispute but merely whether the burglar deserved compensation as a matter of law.
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  7019.  @lawyitkazuki5768 : Well, that kind of law certainly sounds problematic. Maybe Iowa law is better in that regard. In any case, I'd say it's still morally incumbent on homeowners to not kill burglars just to avoid a suit (i.e. when it's not necessary to protect someone's life or health).
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  7020.  @dandankokorohikareteku2620  And also fatter.
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  7021. Would the mass hacking of phones really lead to such an absurd sentence? Many criminals have created botnets from a large number of compromised computers. While that's a serious crime it would seem excessive to me to send people to jail for the rest of their lives for that (assuming their use of the botnet hasn't been so harmful as to justify it). In addition, there have been more benign uses of such mass hacking such as this case: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/514066/what-happened-when-one-man-pinged-the-whole-internet/ (Additionally, my google-fu tells me that the equivalent of FAA in Hong Kong is called the Civil Aviation Department.)
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  7022.  mike hawk : But how quickly can it heat up your living room or bed room?
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  7023.  @Thedamped : Which one of my comments are you referring to?
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  7024.  @Thedamped : If you're referring to what I think it was just nitpicking. If I remember correctly, there was a comment (though I don't see it anymore) of having over 100% efficiency due to the benefit you described. What I just nitpicked about is that you can't really describe that added benefit as a percentage of the energy consumed which is why the over 100% is technically not really correct.
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  7025. My guess is that Erdogan is going to lose the next election.
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  7026. There seems to be an optical illusion in the end texts. The "Follow us on Twitter..." -text looks like it's moving faster than the list of names that precede it. But, if you move frame by frame, the illusion disappears.
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  7027. It wasn't Ukraine. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  7028.  @traumvonhaiti  Additionally, Russia also has a need for Central Asian guest workers.
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  7029. North Dacota borders Kanada.
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  7030. They were giving the gas to Transnistria for free.
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  7031.  @jakob6960  "which pretends to produce zero pollution" I don't think it pretends that. Just less than ICE, at least if you drive a lot.
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  7032.  @jakob6960  That kind of tax system is probably just a political decision to favor EV adoption, not a claim about the actual emissions caused by EVs.
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  7033.  @jakob6960  You can certainly argue about what kind of tax structure would be the best. However, that's not the same as someone claiming that EVs have zero emissions. Tax structure you consider suboptimal isn't the same thing as "lying about emissions". When it comes to the tax structure, I'm not going to offer a definite judgment. However, here are some points to consider. Firstly, EVs do in many places pay at least some amount for their emissions through electricity taxes and depending on the location electricity providers may also have to buy emission permits (at least in the EU). Secondly, part of the motivation may be (for better or for worse) trying to overcome initial hurdles of a new technology. People might not want to buy EVs because there's nowhere to charge them and charging stations don't get installed because there are no EVs. After the initial hurdles of adoption are cleared the subsidies can be expected to be at least partially rolled back (as described in this video).
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  7034.  @jakob6960  A certain type of tax being zero for EVs isn't a claim about their emissions being zero (unless you can find that being explicitly state somewhere). It's just a decision about the tax structure. You can have an opinion about whether that's efficient or not. However, it's not "true" or "false". It's just a decision about what kind of taxes to levy.
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  7035.  @jakob6960  "so if you levy a carbon tax..." But what you were talking about was a vehicle tax. It being zero for EVs isn't a claim that EVs have no greenhouse emissions. It's just a decision to partially base it on emissions for some classes of vehicles but not for others (whether that's a good decision or not). Unless you can find a statement that it's based on emissions in the case of EVs as well, it's not a claim that they have zero emissions.
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  7036.  @Glaudge  I'd imagine rooftop solar makes more sense.
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  7037. Simon might not have time to read all comments.
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  7038.  @lmlmd2714  I meant air draft.
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  7039. "Tax all Senators, Representatives and Presidents 5% of their Assets (not income) every year that they spend more than revenue." So, sudden tax hikes and/or spending cuts whenever there's a recession (even public indebtedness were low)?
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  7040. 13:00 In the present case the goal for the sanctions could be to either make Russia more likely to make a peace deal with Ukraine or make such a deal to be more likely to be more favorable to Ukraine than otherwise. Another, more cynical, reason could be that if Ukraine falls then Russia can at least be made to be poorer and thus less of a threat as it then can't afford as much military spending.
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  7041. That's just like Gravitricity except worse. Buoyancy would reduce the amount of energy you can store, viscous drag would reduce the efficiency, and the deep sea location would complicate logistics for operation and maintenance.
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  7042.  @dongraham4760  "deepsea location problem you state which would complicate logistics for operation and maintenance. , of course , but far less problems as in the video for the buoyancy" I'd venture to guess that both are economically unviable.
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  7043. North Dacota borders Kanada.
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  7044. "They should just focus on starlink" Starlink is bad.
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  7045. 23:25 "13 seconds or 13 seconds" Lol!
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  7046.  @dairallan  "He's also promoting batteries for renewable electricity storage instead of hydrogen..." I'm not sure hydrogen is more viable. It's round-trip efficiency is much worse than that of the best batteries.
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  7047.  @dairallan  Zero externalities is not realistic currently and it happening in the future is far from certain (and there might be better off-peak uses available). Even if the externalities during off-peak hours were zero that doesn't necessarily mean that efficiency is irrelevant. A more efficient storage system in such a case would mean we require less generation capacity and thus the externalities from power plants taking space or being erected would be lessened. If the externality from manufacturing batteries (or some other storage system) were less than this it could still make sense. At this stage we can't for sure know how viable hydrogen will be in the future.
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  7048.  @shewantlimario1180  "not a dumb idea in my opinion because people will be able to get there faster and for people to not hav to be in traffic tall the time" It will only help a very small amount of people because the capacity is so incredibly low.
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  7049.  @juzzlookin  That's not really related to my comment.
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  7050.  @juzzlookin  Whatever you think of those agreements and their implementation that doesn't change the fact that Putin seems intent on dictating what Ukraine should do despite speaking against it in the speech he gave. Whether you think it's justified to intervene inside other countries (like Putin has done in Ukraine) or not is another issue. I only wanted to point out that Putin's words and actions seem to be in contradiction, that's all.
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  7051. Does Chevron have any assets in Ecuador that could be seized?
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  7052. It wasn't Ukraine. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  7053.  @chegayvara1136  The numbers I find are not quite those (though I just made a quick search and didn't try to verify sources). For the current Ukrainian military personnel I find the number 700k (rather than 800k) and presumably a portion of that is staff other than combat troops. The size I find for the Donbass militias as of 2021 is 44k. Before the current invasion started a mass mobilization was carried out in Donbass but I wasn't able to find numbers for that. When the invasion started Ukraine didn't initially have that much more men. The active military right then was as large as it became and the first mobilization wasn't instantaneous. I won't try to asses whether that estimated 100k casualties for the Russian side is close to truth or not. However, if that were true, it wouldn't quite result in Ukraine having 10x more troops on the field before the partial mobilization. It seems to me that the Ukrainian troops weren't quite as large as you estimated and the Russian forces (all forces included) not as small and the Russian side was also receiving reinforcements before the partial mobilization.
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  7054. This video would be more complete, if you had also talked about the case when the immune system succesfully fights of ebola.
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  7055. They're not gonna do that. It's just posturing.
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  7056. So you can step up the voltage for transmission using transformers.
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  7057. Hmm, I don't see it on the emblem.
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  7058. Why are you calling this a "provocation"? At least to me it seems more likely that the goal was the material effect of the lost ammunition, not to provoke some kind reaction from Russia.
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  7059. "recycling is usually NOT cheaper" Of course it's often cheaper. That's why e.g. steel is recycled on a large scale by capitalist companies.
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  7060. I just realized that he looks a lot like Peter the Great.
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  7061. France has load following nuclear plants.
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  7062. In Hungarian the digraph 'gy' is pronounced as [ɟ] which is a different sound.
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  7063. Are Chicanos in favor of chicanes?
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  7064.  @useritiswhatitis4655  Permanent residency? He's already an EU citizen, isn't he?
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  7065. Clearly Bernie isn't old enough to be the president.
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  7066. A carbon tax is better. It's better to tax each tonne of carbon the same because each tonne is equally harmful to the climate regardless of what kind of company emitted it.
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  7067. Check Somerset v Stewart on Wikipedia (or watch the part II now that it's out, I guess).
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  7068. What do mushroom farmers sound like?
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  7069. 2:18 That New Haven trip looks expensive.
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  7070. "I guess Polanf will need to find a way to bring in Female immigrants." I think that has basically happened for one source country, namely Ukraine. Of course, that's temporary.
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  7071. Note, Cenk Uygur is originally from Istanbul, Turkey.
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  7072. When I visited Prague I only came across one.
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  7073.  @pragueexpat5106  At the very least it seems that card payment is accepted there far more often than in Frankfurt am Main (where my wife once visited).
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  7074. 6:10 It is a valid argument. Not all of those exports can be easily diverted elsewhere because there's infrastructure in place to do that. That's especially true for gas. Moreover, Russia did reduce gas flows through NS1 and eventually stopped them completely.
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  7075. Never heard of lawn darts before.
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  7076.  @richardmcdonald7565  "DOES NOT BODE well for anything which derives from that creation" Any kind of "foreboding" is just a superstition. It's not like the intent of some military people many decades ago affect people who design commercial nuclear reactors today.
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  7077. Starbuck was already used as a fictional currency in Star Control.
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  7078. 9:19 Where did you copy that disclaimer?
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  7079. These negative yield bonds aren't usually bought by individuals (wealthy or not) but by institutions.
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  7080.  @gremate  "thats not my fault that there isnt infrastructure there for me" That's like someone complaining that they have to obey the speed limits even though the live farther away than other people. What you said doesn't change the fact that every car (yours and those of others) slow every other car down and a congestion charge would be a big benefit to the society.
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  7081.  @gremate  People can really only "evade" the fares by not taking space on the streets which is exactly the goal (or one of the goals) of the congestion charges. As to the speed limit, I used it as an analogy to explain why I don't think your claim of unfairness is a good argument against congestion charges. It's not specifically about speed limits in NYC. I think it works quite well as an analogy. As another analogy, people who drive more and thus consume more fuel still have to pay the same fuel tax per gallon (as they should). Also note that if you still continue driving after a congestion charge is implemented, it'll make traffic smoother which also benefits you, so you're getting value for your money.
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  7082.  @gremate  You take space on the street while you're driving on them. That's why too many cars on the streets cause congestion. As for taxis and Ubers, presumably they'd have to pay too.
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  7083. This might not have anything to do with the Chinese government. It might e.g. be that Russia has effectively leased a ship from a private Chinese company for the purpose of sabotage.
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  7084. That is the population falling within the municipal borders. Such administrative borders are arbitrary and don't really matter for this purpose.
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  7085. Is the share of heat pumps really that high in Finland?
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  7086.  @smoothacceleration437  "Looks like the panel doesn't understand central banking much..." It's only the guy who made the title, not the whole panel. I didn't see any problem with the video itself. Alternatively, the title may be a deliberate lie to attract viewership.
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  7087. I think for the purposes of this video, it matters more what territories Israel controls rather than what territory Israel claims as it's sovereign territory or what is recognized as such by other countries.
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  7088. The central bank's policy rate matters. The government might not have to pay it out of tax-payer money but it implicitly affects how much the central bank expands the money supply. In the current situation a policy rate of 8.5% is astoundingly low.
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  7089. One thing to note about the rhombic dodecahedron is that it's the Voronoi cell for the FCC lattice. That's one way to see that you can easily tile a 3D space with it. I'm guessing that the FCC lattice is also what you get if you project a 4D simple cubic lattice onto a 3D subspace that's orthogonal to the diagonal direction.
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  7090. If the Florentines couldn't admit they had opened Dante's (supposed) casket, how do we even know they did it? Did someone write it in a secret diary that was only revealed later? Did someone inspect the casket and noticed it had been tampered with?
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  7091. "the dictator may pass leadership down to his or her family members and it not be a monarchy. to be a legitimate monarch, one must profess this publicly." By this logic, the Roman Empire wasn't a monarchy (at least not in the earlier periods).
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  7092. Hey! How come you skipped Waldensians and Hussites?
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  7093.  @brettmoore3194  Heat pumps can be more than 100% efficient but these systems are not for generating or storing heat. They're storing for energy which can be used for work.
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  7094.  @yaguut  "heat pump has an efficiency well above 100%" Yes, but what I meant was that if you convert it back to work, the round-trip efficiency can't exceed 100%.
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  7095. How much did he charge for that advice?
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  7096. @ I'm fairly sure that if the UK would have actually wanted EEA membership (without trying to get special opt-outs) it could've been negotiated somehow. It could've meant either the UK joining EFTA or alternatively amending the EEA treaty such that the UK could join it without being full EFTA member but such that some organization would have the necessary surveillance and judicial competencies in the UK. The real problem IMHO is that almost no one in UK would want that kind of arrangement. They want either full brexit or full membership of the EU.
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  7097.  @superadventure6297  "Reaching out to TF directly was already a bad move" Why is it a bad move? Isn't it good to give TF the option of resolving this with e.g. money before resorting to other measures?
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  7098.  @superadventure6297  "He should file a complaint with Youtube, that is the rules." He could do that but it's better that at least gives Thunderf00t a chance to resolve the issue before going that far.
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  7099.  @politenonparticipant4859  "without going through the proper channels which could verify whether or not any compensation is actually owed" What "proper channels" are you talking about here? The other options he could have done is to move straight to either DMCA takedown or a lawsuit. It's quite preferable to first at least check if the issue can be resolved without going to such drastic measures right off the bat. Mahlmann did the right thing by privately contacting Thunderf00t first (even if his email could possibly have been worded in a friendlier manner).
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  7100.  @politenonparticipant4859  "then the person believed to be infringing on it has to either pay them the requested amount to retract the DMCA claim" If the (alleged) infringer is willing to pay then contacting them directly is often better because then there is no need for the video to be (temporarily) taken down and there's no risk of a copyright strike. If the (alleged) infringer isn't willing to pay then it makes no difference to contact them first. Either way, privately contacting first can be better and at least isn't any worse. A DMCA notice isn't improper (legally at least) but morally speaking it's good to give the other person a chance to resolve the issue before that.
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  7101.  @politenonparticipant4859  "better for the claimant yes" I wasn't even looking at it from the claimant's perspective. My point was that it's better for the (prospective) defendant if they're willing to pay. For a person willing to pay the outcomes are: 1) private contact first -> pay for licence 2) straight to DMCA notice -> pay for licence + video (temporarily) taken down + risk of copystrike It clear that for the defendant/infringer the option 1 is superior in this case. For a person not willing to pay, the outcome is likely a court case anyway so trying private contact first at least doesn't do any harm.
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  7102.  @politenonparticipant4859  "even if they would be willing to pay, they may not have to if they have good grounds for a fair use claim" But this argument makes no sense. If they're willing to pay, having received a DMCA takedown notice will not magically make some third party evaluate possible fair use. If they're willing to pay, the result presumably will be that they pay, either with or without the pain brought by a DMCA notice. (And if they're not willing to pay there's no difference.) "it's not only better for the accuser, because they can show if it goes to court that they followed proper legal procedure" There's nothing improper in asking someone using your work to pay for a license nor in saying that you will pursue legal remedies to enforce it. The courts might even like that you tried to settle the issue before burdening the court system.
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  7103.  @politenonparticipant4859  "the important bit is that it prevents their claim of copyright infringement official, so if they do make a string of false claims, there is a record of everyone they have scammed. If the dealing is done under the table, it would be difficult or impossible to prove how many people they cheated" Any emails sent, like the one the Thunderf00t received, leaves just as much trail as those can be published (and a DMCA notice doesn't become public automatically). "A DMCA notice would not be any less expensive to the person whose video was taken down, except perhaps in that it would delay the release of the video." It can easily be a lot more expensive. It could result in a copystrike and, if it's a third one, deletion of their channel. "As to your statement regarding the impropriety of threatening legal action on someone who has stolen your work, that is true. The matter at hand here is that the work isn't stolen if it is covered by fair use." That has nothing to do with whether it's better to first initiate private contact or go straight to a DMCA notice. In this case, Mahlmann had clearly considered fair use before sending his email. In such a case, both a private email and a DMCA notice are valid options but I would say the former is generally morally better because sometimes unnecessary damage can be avoided if the infringer is willing to settle. (If the copyright holder hasn't considered fair use, then he shouldn't be doing either of the options before proper due diligence.)
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  7104.  @EstreFier  Which "Marry Me" are you referring to? The webcomic? Something else?
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  7105. You mean this one? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp_K5
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  7106. 11:20 "some pirates of his captured Iceland" According to Wikipedia they just capture 400-800 slaves from four villages. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_Abductions
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  7107. This thing has already already been on the news in Finland (the Vastaamo case and trial, not his earlier antics). Making a YouTube video probably can't increase the attention he gets any more, at least not in Finland.
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  7108. What is VSR? The maximum speed is limited by friction and drag. There isn't a simple formula for that.
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  7109. "NATO broke its promise not to expand ONE INCH EAST" There was no such promise by NATO. It was just the opinion of some Western politicians but none of them had the authority to make such a promise on the behalf of NATO and there was no written agreement.
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  7110. "As much as solar and wind can work, they take so much energy to be made and don't last long enough to offset their own production process." They can easily offset their production many times over.
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  7111.  @wolfpackgames4674  "they simply don't" They do. The amount of material relative to the electricity produced isn't that large.
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  7112.  @wolfpackgames4674  "in large quantities and impossibly perfect weather odds" They don't need impossibly perfect weather odds. Wind farms are built where they make most economic sense.
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  7113.  @wolfpackgames4674  Even taking those factors into account the amount of material is rather small compared to the electricity generated. It is not true that they're not worth the effort.
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  7114.  @wolfpackgames4674  "wind turbines and solar fields would take up too much space" There are plenty of suitable locations. E.g. for offshore wind taking too much space is not that much of an issue. Rooftop solar often only takes up space that doesn't have much other uses. They alone will certainly not suffice everywhere but there's a lot of places where it makes a lot of economic sense to use them for at least a portion of electricity generation. "A wind turbine only offsets itself after 3 years." I'd like to know where that data is from so I can check it. In any case, wind turbines often last at least for 25 years or more so they can easily offset that amount of energy many times over.
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  7115.  @wolfpackgames4674  "Offshore they'd get damaged too often and cost too much to maintain long term." Offshore you have both stronger and more consistent winds. It is well worth it despite the higher rate of damage, at least in good locations. "Rooftop solar can be too expensive for most people and doesn't usually provide much more than enough power to allow you to power your house during an outage." At least in first world countries a big part of the population can easily afford rooftop solar where it makes economic sense. It doesn't make economic sense in every location but in sunny climates rooftop solar is well worth it. "To suffice, you quite litterally do need geothermal and nuclear, maybe hydroelectric but otherwise, green energy simply isn't worth it." Geothermal power generation (rather than mere heating) is quite niche compared to wind and solar. Currently both wind and solar have something like 30 times more capacity installed than geothermal. The viability of geothermal is quite location specific, more so than that of wind or solar. Hydroelectric power is quite good but untapped resources are not plentiful in most places.
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  7116.  @wolfpackgames4674  "offshore requires too much maintenance and would make it take longer to offset." Better wind conditions make it worth it. "good amount of people can afford solar if they save money but have more important things to invest in before it, also wouldn't be as effective after 10 or 20 years, or in places that get lots of rain or snow." For people who have already bought a house (and a car if they need one) rooftop solar often doesn't come at the expense of some other investment. Solar is less viable in snowy climates but e.g. in places like Australia it makes a lot of sense. "Geothermal isn't very used yet so no, it's not quite at it's best but when it is, it'll be way better than either" You can't know that in advance. Geothermal can improve but so can wind and solar. It's at the very least uncertain that geothermal could become better than wind and solar.
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  7117.  @wolfpackgames4674  "it already is" I don't believe that. So far its adoption has lagged far behind wind and solar. "A number of people rent and don't own their own property so they either can't get solar due to that" But a lot of people can. Rooftop solar can be also used in commercial properties. "or it's not viable due to weather, such as snow, constant rain or even dust storms in Australia" At least in Australia it's clearly viable. Dust storms are not constant. "Solar panels also lose their efficiency over time." But they maintain it for long enough to be a good investment in sunny climates.
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  7118.  @wolfpackgames4674  "it might be behind but it's certainly better" I find it hard to believe it would be so much behind if it were already better. "It's not too viable to have it up high like that due to it requiring a cleaning system in places that get snow or dust storms." I don't think that makes it unviable. In sunny climates it's worth it. "but not all due to some being [...] rental properties" In such a case the landlord can invest in rooftop solar and get compensation from the renter. "or needing too large of arrays" There isn't necessarily need for the property to be 100% solar powered (and that may be overinvestment). A smaller array can still make economic sense even though it doesn't make the property self-sufficient. "Solar is still expensive no matter what you do and can't make enough energy in turn." Solar is not expensive anymore. PV prices have come down a lot. The price is worth the electricity generated, at least in sunny climates.
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  7119.  @wolfpackgames4674  "it's not viable, it's not hard research" The share of solar in Australia is 35% so clearly it seems viable. "Your right about it not needing to be fully self sufficient but most companies would want to be since its 2022." If they want to be self sufficient then having no rooftop solar (in places where it's viable) doesn't make sense. There's no reason for the kind of all-or-nothing thinking that if rooftop solar isn't enough for 100% electricity consumption then none should be installed. It still makes sense to install some in sufficiently sunny places. "Overall solar and wind just won't work with how american laws are, or even in Australia" We already saw that in Australia solar has captured a large portion (35%) of the electricity market. Also, in California it's also already over 20%. Clearly it does work, at least in sunny climates like those of Australia and California.
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  7120.  @wolfpackgames4674  "what happens when it's too cloudy and the power isnt stored?" The amount of storage and/or peaker plants can affect how much of the electricity production can be solar or wind. At least in Australia the share can be large. "We've seen what happened in texas with cold spells where not only the electricity production failed in it's solar and wind" In Texas it was not just solar and wind. Nuclear, coal, and gas power all had plants go offline due to pumps, coal piles, and gas pipes freezing. The problems were mostly not due to wind or solar but rather of most kinds of plants not being properly winterized. "My point stoll stands the only way to have "green" energy is through geothermal..." So far geothermal seems less viable than wind and solar in most places. It could potentially change but that's hardly certain.
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  7121.  @wolfpackgames4674  "Overall, those 2 aren't viable" This is just incorrect. They are viable in many places. They have already been adopted on a large scale.
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  7122.  @wolfpackgames4674  Wind turbines are usually installed by corporations, not everyday people. The electricity generated more than makes up for the installation and maintenance cost. There are many fairly empty places where space is not an issue. Obviously, they're not usually put in the middle of a city or something.
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  7123.  @wolfpackgames4674  "they can take up land that can be used for better things such as farming" Many wind farms are in remote places that are not used for agriculture (or they can be offshore). Even among agricultural land the base of the tower doesn't take that much space. "they also don't make much energy" They do make a decent amount of energy. "can require tons of maintenance" Most forms of power generation require maintenance. The maintenance and installation costs are worth the electricity generated in good locations.
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  7124.  @wolfpackgames4674  "They have massive concrete bases hidden under dirt." But the underground part is not disruptive as long as it's not close to other structures. You can easily e.g. farm on it. "All the maintenance requires money and more materials that need to be forged and takes power. They simply take too many resources and can't make enough power to work in the long run." No, the amount of materials is small relative to the power generated.
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  7125.  @wolfpackgames4674  "260 tons of steel" Is this a lot? Let's do some calculations. Let's assume a turbine with a capacity of about 2.6 MW and a capacity factor of about 35% (both of which are typical). That makes the average output about 0.9 MW. A typical lifespan for a wind turbine is at least 25 years. The average house in UK consumes about 3,940 kWh of electricity per year. Let's compare that to the total amount of electricity generated by the wind turbine over its lifetime with the assumptions above. The result is that it's equal to about 50,000 annual consumption of an average UK house. If such house would get its electricity 100% from such wind turbines it would on average consume (with the assumption of 260 tons of steel) a bit over 5 kg of steel per year through electricity. An average house produces way more waste per year some of which is steel. If there's at least one car in that household it's already many times more steel consumed per year. 260 isn't really that much compared to the electricity generated. Also, most of that steel can be recycled when the turbine is decommissioned.
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  7126.  @wolfpackgames4674  "thing is, a house/household doesn't require it" The house requires electricity. Getting it through wind power requires some amount of steel but we have seen that the amount is small. Having e.g. a car consumes many times more steel. "The household/house is going to last longer." That's irrelevant for these calculations (of annual figures). "The turbine can be recycled but it takes energy even for that. So much energy goes into building, maintenance, etc. that it's never going to be worth it." No, quite the opposite. We already saw that the amount of materials used is small relative to the power produced. It is clearly worth it in locations with good wind conditions.
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  7127.  @wolfpackgames4674  "Turbines simply aren't good." Turbines are good in good locations. The amount of steel relative to electricity produced is low, as we saw.
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  7128.  @wolfpackgames4674  "5k homes isn't many compared to nuclear or thermal." That's just from one turbine. You can build many to match the output of a larger plant.
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  7129.  @wolfpackgames4674  The alternatives you mentioned take tons of resources too. In good locations wind power is clearly justifiable. We can easily see that from its commercial success. Geothermal has not achieved anywhere near the same level of success so far. Clearly in its present state it's the one which is mostly not justifiable except in some favorable locations. That could change in the future but it's hardly certain. (Here I'm talking about geothermal electricity generation. Geothermal heating is easier.)
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  7130.  @wolfpackgames4674  "geothermal at it's best and nuclear both make up for their resources needed" Wind at its best also makes up for the resources needed. "They require more but [...] power way more homes/buildings" They may power more than a single turbine but that's not a meaningful comparison. You can just build more turbines. Likewise that requires more resources but also powers more homes. That a single plant produces more power than a single wind turbine is an irrelevant argument.
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  7131.  @wolfpackgames4674  "it's not irrelevant" It is. It's just divided into smaller units. But the cost per unit is also smaller. "Any other source of electricity makes up its own usage and resources (material or not) faster than wind or solar." Any other? That's just false. "Wind at it's best makes up for it's own but doesn't power enough homes to be viable whether it's one or multiple." State of the art wind farms do power enough homes to be well worth it. It might be different if you only look at turbines from decades ago which are smaller and less efficient. Modern turbines are much better and easily justify their cost.
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  7132.  @cafhead  No, that's just false (currently). The cost of kWh from solar and wind have gone down a lot and in many places they're currently seeing much more commercial success than nuclear. That may of course change in the future, e.g. if SMRs become a success, but currently wind and solar are still beating nuclear in many places. This is money speaking, not semantics. I'm rather pessimistic about geothermal for electricity generation. Electricity generation requires quite high temperatures for a reasonable efficiency and in most places those high temperatures require drilling very deep which is too costly to make economic sense.
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  7133. Ha!
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  7134. Are those for passenger flights or only general aviation?
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  7135. I think Chubays was the chief architect.
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  7136.  @jimmierustler4887  That doesn't still answer my "why" question which was my main point.
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  7137.  @CovocNexus  I don't think you can reasonably call Fuentes a "fed".
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  7138.  @GigaNietzsche  That's rather vague. I still don't see why voting rights should be tied to military service (like OP said).
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  7139.  @JSM-bb80u  Don't say that to me. I'm not in favor such restrictions of voting rights.
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  7140.  @JSM-bb80u  I depends on the case. I think some countries can't adequately defend themselves without conscription so in those cases I (unhappily) support it for the time being. However, I wouldn't take anyone's vote away e.g. for dodging service.
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  7141.  @SoftwareEngineer3  "That wasn't really a diplomatic building" You're mistaken. It was a diplomatic building. It was a part of the Iranian embassy in Damascus. But, in any case, my question was about what Israel could gain from the strike. I don't see this affecting the rocket strikes on Israel.
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  7142.  @sinabarzyar5766  The previous commenter didn't say anything about protection. He said that it "wasn't really a diplomatic building" which is incorrect. In any case, that's not really all that relevant to my question.
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  7143. That needn't be a problem. Japan is even more earthquake-prone than California but I've not heard of any Shinkansen accidents related to earthquakes.
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  7144.    Don't worry about it. :)
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  7145. Luckily Golgafrincham sent all their phone sanitizers to us.
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  7146. At the very least they are too close to free. Drivers should pay more.
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  7147. The US corporate taxes are pretty average and they used to be the highest in the world before they were cut during Trump.
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  7148. "turbine water already runs in a loop and doesn't need much replenishing" But you need cooling water in addition to that.
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  7149.  @anonym3017  But air cooling will probably not be as efficient, especially in a hot desert.
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  7150.  @anonym3017  That's not the only reason. With water you can also achieve colder temperatures which improves the efficiency.
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  7151.  @anonym3017  "you specifically want to throw as little energy away as possible in the cooler for maximum powerplant efficiency" That's why cooling to lower temperatures is important. The lower temperatures you get (and the higher on the hot side), the higher the efficiency can be. That's how the Carnot limit works.
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  7152.  @anonym3017  "Since water only becomes steam above 100°C" No, that only applies in the pressure of roughly 1 bar. In a Rankine cycle the condenser operates at much lower pressure. You want a low pressure there because it's the pressure difference that drives the turbines. However, the pressure can't be so low that the water wouldn't condense. How low in pressure you can go in the condenser depends how cold you can cool it. Therefore cooling it to a colder temperature increases power plant efficiency.
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  7153. That "making ozone" thing was clearly a joke. (For comparison, note that the next sentence was about separating hydrogen and oxygen with puppies.)
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  7154. But in this case the payload travels the same circumference multiple times so the distance travelled during gradual acceleration can be very large without the device being large.
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  7155. OK, I saw your comment (partially) in my notifications even though it seems you removed it and I want to respond. You're right that this device needs to provide high centripetal acceleration considering the high launch velocity and relatively small radius. However, this is a bit different from launching a rocket from some kind of linear accelerating device. That kind of linear device would need to either provide very high acceleration, which is difficult, or be very long. For this device the angular acceleration can be much gentler without the device being large. As you mentioned the centripetal acceleration is much higher but it's essentially provided by the structural integrity of the rotating arm and not (directly) by a motor so it's much easier to achieve.
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  7156.  @mytech6779  "The the projectile is subjected to massive acceleration based only on the radius and release velocity." I see no reason why the projectile couldn't withstand that. Scott addressed that issue in the video. Furthermore, the projectile would likely be subjected to less vibration than in a conventional rocket. "The issue is that such a device cannot achieve anywhere near orbital release velocity, especially when air resistance is considered." Based on the figures given in this video "anywhere near" is an exaggeration. A rocket is still needed but it needs far less fuel relative to the payload so efficiency is much improved (potentially, if this thing works).
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  7157. 2:20 If Hötzendorf was still miffed about Königgrätz, shouldn't he rather have supported a war against Prussia?
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  7158. "A hypocrite" How so? How would this video make Mental Outlaw a hypocrite?
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  7159. Was it the right choice? Erdoğan's crazy monetary policy means Turkey will continue suffering from high inflation.
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  7160. France donated 30 planes, the UK donated 20 and sold 10.
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  7161.  @justskip4595  "fighting espionage" No, that's the domain of Supo, not KRP.
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  7162. What would you have asked Cohen (that wasn't asked)?
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  7163. Pier?
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  7164.  @Pain-nw7gv  Not because of rail so that part isn't really relevant to OP's comment about rail vs. air.
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  7165.  @SternLX  The wheels are powering the propeller.
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  7166.  @SternLX  "Prior to that the Prop, still chained to the wheels, is being turned by the wind which in turn powers the wheels." No, the prop is being turned by the wheels in that case too. If the prop were turned by the wind it would spin to the other direction.
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  7167.  @SternLX  "Blow on a fan and it starts turning in which ever way the pitch dictates. Remove the wind. Fan is still turning in the same direction but is now creating it's own wind on the back side of the fan as it spools down." But that would be creating wind to the same direction you blew. In this cart the direction is the opposite. The propeller (when it's turning) is always turning to such direction that it's pushing air backwards while the wind is coming from behind. "AT NO TIME BELOW WIND SPEED are the wheels driving the Prop." The wheels are driving the propeller both below and above the wind speed.
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  7168.  @samsonsoturian6013  With the recent rise of fuel prices some have found an EV a lot cheaper, at least for now.
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  7169.  @samsonsoturian6013  It's just an example. Even before the war an EV can be cheaper if you drive enough even without subsidies.
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  7170.  @samsonsoturian6013  You're just wrong there. According to Consumer Reports fuel costs are 60% lower for EVs than ICEs on average. If you drive a lot, that's more than the higher purchase price even without subsidies (and remember that not all EVs are as expensive as Teslas). Additionally, EVs also have lower maintenance costs.
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  7171. "Soviet Union offered Finland to return all previously captures territories" Do you have a source for this? I've not heard of it before.
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  7172.  @AlexanderSeven  But do you have a source for it? I wasn't able to find any mention of such an offer through a quick search.
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  7173.  @AlexanderSeven  But did he mention any offers "to return all previously captures territories"? That's the part I find really difficult to believe (without a source).
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  7174.  @AlexanderSeven  At least in that interview doesn't seem to have the word "all" (though I'm relying on Google translate here as I don't speak Russian). It doesn't seem there was an offer to return all territories and, in fact, here the offer is just to negotiate on the return of territory without promising any more (at that point). It's hardly certain that such negotiations would result in major concessions (though I'm not claiming it would have been impossible).
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  7175.  @Steadyaim101  Note, the 22% in the original comment is definitely wrong. The tax rate for an employer with a salary of €4k month is on average 31.6% (and marginal rate 49.5%). These can potentially be a couple of percentage points lower or higher depending on which municipality you live in. However, even this is not all because it only includes employer side taxes and tax-like payments and most of the pension and UI contributions are paid (nominally) by the employer. Then when it comes to VAT (or GST as the Canadians call it) it's higher in Finland. In Finland the general rate is 24% with some goods and services getting lowered rates of 14% (e.g. food) or 10% (e.g. medicine, books, magazine and newspaper subscriptions, most personal transport, & sports services). In Canada the highest GST rate (federal + provincial) is 15% which is a lot lower than 24%.
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  7176.  @moottori_paa  At €79k / year your tax percentage should be 39.1% according to Veronmaksajat (or a bit higher or lower depending on which municipality you live in) and that doesn't include any employer side contributions.
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  7177. Maybe he bought a 1 l pint?
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  7178.  @Ironborn4  Aren't beer bottles often 0.33 l? Then a 1 l pint would be triple price though that still wouldn't fully explain the price.
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  7179.  @Ironborn4  Or maybe he drank one of those freeze-distilled "beers" like Tactical Nuclear Penguin. Those are much more expensive even if you typically drink a lot less of them.
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  7180.  @detective___mcnulty : He did already do Better Call Saul *more*? I've only seen him do one episode.
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  7181. Do you have a source for this?
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  7182.  @bovinespongiformflu : Your article says that: "The pale form of the peppered moth clearly gave way to the dark, or melanic, form as industrialization and air pollution increased in England and the United States. Biologists agree that one form of the moth's color-determining gene became more common than the other. The process then reversed in the two countries, a compelling example of evolution in action, after clean air laws reduced pollution." So even if the mechanism isn't necessarily so clear as previously claimed, the evolutionary pressure from soot remains at least a plausible explanations. (Secondly, methodological shortcomings don't mean that a study is a "fraud" and that article didn't use that word.)
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  7183.  @giornaguirne  I think he was born in Boston, though.
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  7184. "Most people today would think it was conceived by AF" Who or what is AF?
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  7185. I think that's a one-off payment when you buy a brand new car or import a car into Denmark.
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  7186. Out of curiosity, is the right side of the video thumbnail AI generated?
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  7187. I think it's accurate to call Mike Hughes a daredevil since he's performed some other seemingly dangerous stunts (not related to flat Earth) before. Or at least he's done one such stunt, namely setting a new Guinness world record by jumping 31 m with a limo.
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  7188. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  7189. "What should be illegal is fractional reserve banking." Why?
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  7190. "Didn't Lukashenko fear that his population would try to bring him to fall if he took part in the war? What changed?" I don't think anything has changed. Empty threats (and use of Belarusian territory) are his contributions to the war. He probably still wants to avoid direct involvement.
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  7191.  @Tamachii12  "The owner commands bite, the orc has to obey...simple as that..." Lukashenko is craftier than that. He just promises to obey, someday, maybe, but never actually delivers. He has also been promising a union between Russia and Belarus for a long. He gets cheap oil and gas as a repayment. Despite this he's never going to deliver on his promise (unless he can become the leader of the united Russia-Belarus).
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  7192.  @Tamachii12  Why? What would Putin do if he doesn't comply?
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  7193. I've been told that one advantage of a very low orbit is that even if a controlled de-orbit fails for some reason the natural decay of the satellites' orbits is quick enough to bring them down in a reasonable time anyway.
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  7194. "Why are people worried about carbon dioxide?" Because it warms the Earth's climate which creates a number of problems.
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  7195.  @cbongiova : You haven't made any calculations to show that the effect of trace gases is minimal. Climate scientists have actually calculated the radiative effect and it's not minimal. And it wasn't hotter in the 30's. You can see that from here (click open the "Global Annual Mean Surface Air Temperature Change" part): https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/graphs_v3/
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  7196. 13:16 "It is illegal and unlawful to drive a car while smoking marijuana AND drinking alcohol." vs. "It is illegal and unlawful to drive a car while smoking marijuana OR drinking alcohol." But I think here we can see how ambiguous natural languages can be because both of those sentences could be interpreted in two ways. It could be that the former sentence means it's illegal/unlawful to drive while doing both of those things (but doing only one is fine) and the latter meaning that doing just one of those is enough to be illegal/unlawful. I guess this is how you interpreted them here. But it would also be possible to interpret them such that the former sentence says that it's illegal/unlawful to drive while smoking marijuana and that it's illegal/unlawful to drive while drinking alcohol, and the latter sentence saying that at least one of those things is illegal/unlawful but not saying which one. In practice there usually isn't confusion because we usually understand how the world works and how other people think and therefore can rule out the really unlikely interpretations.
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  7197. I think Denmark shouldn't be considered Scandinavian. They haven't held any part of the Scandinavian peninsula for 3 centuries. (I'm just trolling.)
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  7198. "It's just blowing every square foot up." If Russia tries to blow up every square foot of Ukraine it will soon find that all the tubes of its artillery pieces will be ruined before the task is complete.
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  7199. It's just a dialectal variation in pronunciation, much like the Brits and the Americans pronounce "bath" differently (with a back vowel in British English and a front vowel in American English).
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  7200.  vv bbibbi  Did you mean to reply to Green Cappy rather than me?
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  7201. The US didn't have sky-high inflation back then. Turkey won't be able to reduce inflation without rate hikes.
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  7202. But based on more recent information the Russian ship (Sevpormut) isn't a likely suspect anymore. A more likely suspect is a Hong Kong flagged vessel named New New Polar Bear.
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  7203. 9:15 Wait! There was a terrorist whose surname was literally "Evil"? Nominative determinism strikes again!
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  7204. "you can't use [...] a non stick pan on an induction cooker" Of course, you can use a non-stick pan on an induction cooker. I do it all the time.
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  7205.  @TheRatOnFire_  "After Trump left many sanctions were pulled from Iran and consequently they had more cash to fund Hamas, among others." No, that's completely incorrect. The JCPOA wasn't reinstated during Biden's term and none of the sanctions were lifted (and, in fact, some new sanctions were instated, though they were fairly minor). None of this seems to have restricted funding for Hamas as they were still able to attack Israel. As a consequence of the US withdrawing from the JCPOA, Iran now has much less incentive to not develop nuclear weapons and the current conflict with Israel makes it more likely. Also, now the threat of sanctions can't be used to discourage Iran from attacking Israel directly nor from helping Russia because they're already sanctioned.
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  7206.  @Boababa-fn3mr  I searched the Brookings Institution webpage for JCPOA. It has several articles on it including one from 2016 titled "The JCPOA should be maintained and reinforced with a broad regional strategy" and another one from 2022 "Reviving the JCPOA is the better alternative — but can it be made sustainable?". For context, the US withdrawal from the JCPOA happened in 2018. Based on these, it seems the Brookings Institution against, not in favor, of the US withdrawing from the JCPOA.
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  7207.  @EcclesiastesLiker-py5ts  As far as I know, Iran was complying with the deal according to IAEA inspectors.
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  7208.  @dis_joint_ed5167  A broken digital clock is right once a day if it's broken in a way that it just displays some valid time which doesn't change. A broken analog clock is right twice a day.
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  7209. Ah, I've seen those videos a few times on the YouTube front page though I've never clicked on them.
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  7210. But the title of the video didn't quite call him that but rather that he tried to be that in addition to being the king of Poland. Also, he failed. (Oops, spoilers.)
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  7211. "How is this different from infinite energy/perpetual motion or even more?" The cart is taking kinetic energy from the wind so it's not creating energy out of nothing.
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  7212. I think it's not quite correct to say that he did nothing wrong. He joined the Zoom call while his car was still moving. It might that at that point he was already at the parking lot and not on the street so maybe it's not that serious. Still, I don't think he should've done that.
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  7213. Seriously speaking, Kafka himself was also a lawyer so he might have encountered similar absurdity in the Austro-Hungarian court system.
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  7214.  @yodaiam1000  On their website they mention several different numbers but the highest I saw was 330 Wh/kg.
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  7215. Question. So according to that, Zeus locked up the Titans in Tartarus. But what Titans were locked up there (besides Cronus)? IIRC at least Helios appeared in the Odyssey not locked up in Tartarus. Some of Odysseus's crew ate some of his cattle and he asked Zeus to smite them with his lightning and he obliged. And in one earlier video on Selene and Endymion you mentioned that Selene asks Zeus to make Endymion hers forever so presumably Selene is not locked up either.
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  7216. Thanks. Did Helios stay neutral as well?
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  7217. Did they use that word anywhere? Are you sure you're not confusing "agnostic" (the view that the existence or non-existence of God is unknowable) and "agonist" (a chemical that binds to a receptor and activates it)?
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  7218.  @jonathanwilliams1065  I don't think Jabzy meant to imply that Jews made China weak. It didn't even occur to me that mentioning Jews would somehow be surprising or problematic. It was just background info on the connectedness of China to the outside world.
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  7219.  @Twisted_Code : I was just referring to bogardeth's original comment.
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  7220.  @DirtSpud : It was the philosopher I was thinking about when I chose this handle.
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  7221.  @JeeVeeHaych  As one example in the US states can have their own criminal law. I don't think Flanders or Wallonia can have their own criminal laws (correct me if I'm wrong).
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  7222. If the debt grows slower than the GDP it can be sustainable.
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  7223. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  7224. How would the spent batteries be recycled?
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  7225.  @niewpisze7493  I think the evaporation issue is that big in this particular case. The GERD is located in a cooler and less arid region than e.g. the Aswan dam and its reservoir has a notably smaller surface area than Lake Nasser (the Aswan dam's reservoir).
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  7226. Armies are more vulnerable to corruption than most other government functions due to various reasons, e.g. secrecy.
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  7227. East Prussia would include Königsberg/Kaliningrad.
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  7228. I'm not sure that's the case. Thunderf00t didn't criticize Mahlmann's video. He merely used the video to criticize SpaceX and SpaceX fans.
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  7229. I don't think Erdogan is beholden to Putin. While he has in many ways been friendly towards Russia during the current war, Turkey did still e.g. block the Bosphorus and Dardanelles to Russian warships. Also, when it comes to Finland's and Sweden's NATO accession he made demands about Kurds and US arms exports, i.e. stuff that's not related to Russia, and it seems at least to me that he would accept Finland's and Sweden's membership if enough of his demands were met (despite Russia not wanting Finland and Sweden to join NATO).
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  7230.  @sdrc92126  Yes. If e.g. the wet bulb temperature exceeds 35 °C you will eventually die in it if you don't have AC. However, with enough clothes you can survive even in the Antarctic.
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  7231. What?
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  7232.  @kiyoshitakeda452  "We will learn the facts behind Prigozhin's fate." Don't be so sure. If Putin is behind this, then it will be made sure that any investigation won't implicate him or the Kremlin.
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  7233. Shouldn't you say "volley" rather than "salvo" when it's infantry rather than ships firing?
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  7234. And it's not even "the Feds".
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  7235. Hah! Indy mispronounced the word "march". :)
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  7236. That's not the Peter Principle.
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  7237. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  7238. Why are so many of those crop circles arranged in a square lattice? One would think that a hexagonal lattice would be a more efficient use of space.
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  7239. "Each century is more bloodier than the last" The opposite has been true.
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  7240.  @nukeout  I don't think they stole all the planes that just happened to be in Russia. I think they did that only to planes that were on lease to Russian airlines. Foreign airlines can probably still fly to Russia without a risk of their planes being stolen. However, the Russian airspace is closed for Western airlines as a counter-sanction so they can't even try that currently.
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  7241.  @Nysvarth  The water straight from the mains can be too cold even when it's hot outside.
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  7242. $5 fare for such a short distance sounds like a ripoff.
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  7243.  @DavyRo  In the Gulf War the US was the one leading the intervention. The original comment didn't specify winning a war completely by oneself. If it was about that, I don't see the point of the comment. Is it just that the US doesn't seem to have fought wars without allies? That doesn't seem particularly noteworthy to me. Also, even if you were to only consider wars that the US fought without allies, the original comment is still wrong. There's e.g. the Philippine-American War.
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  7244.  @kubazaleskii577  That's the population inside the municipal borders. Such administrative borders are arbitrary and don't matter for this purpose.
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  7245. I think this might be smoother: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqSfiMc8egU
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  7246.  @calamusgladiofortior2814 : But in German death is feminine and luck is neuter.
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  7247. The Roman Empire still stood when Columbus was born.
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  7248. The Superior/Supreme court of New York wouldn't have jurisdiction over all of the human race anyway.
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  7249. 20:00 Are you sure that Russia's claims about the plane carrying PoWs is credible. Russia claims that the plane was carrying PoWs to Belgorod but based on a video of the event and geolocation it seems like the plane was heading northeast away from Belgorod, so the claim doesn't look credible. Also, the purported passenger roster that pictures have been shared of doesn't look credible either. Firstly, at the top of the paper it says that it lists people who were onboard, i.e. it's worded in past tense meaning it was likely made after the flight. Also, apparently some of the names on the list match to PoWs that had already been exchanged weeks earlier.
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  7250. I wonder why he doesn't just say that he's not going to give any comments.
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  7251. I think it's more important for the first few stories to be ornate.
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  7252. It wasn't possible for her to somehow void the stolen plate?
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  7253. "when the arm releases the payload, when it releases, the arm will just stop in place, transferring all his momentum/kinetic energy to the rocket" That doesn't work. Trebuchets have a sling; this thing doesn't.
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  7254.  @sirnikkel6746  My initial guess is that they'd have a counterweight that they'll throw down at the same time they throw the payload up. It's just a guess, though.
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  7255. "1980:ice age will kill us ( so we need to HEAT up the atmosphere)" Next to one to be taken seriously said that we should heat up the atmosphere.
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  7256. "So demolishing highways and build is just going to create ghost towns not increase the population." Hardly. This will contribute to Helsinki's population. There's demand for it if housing prices are any indication.
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  7257. On the other hand, the interpretation of the US constitution has changed a lot.
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  7258.  @cinhh  Plain Bagel has a better video on Masterworks than Scott Shafer.
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  7259. "animal abuse has 94% disapproval" And how high is the approval for it?
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  7260. "Brent Johnson believes [...] that we are going into a deflationary environment due to the Fed buying up US treasuries." That makes no sense. The Fed basically creates new base money when it buys treasuries. It would be very strange if expanding the money supply were somehow deflationary.
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  7261. Lah!
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  7262.  @ckqy7277  "Also to the newer cheats he helps while it’s mainly the experienced chef he gets mad at." But one might still argue that making entertainment of berating others is a bit problematic. And, even if it isn't, Ramsey cannot expect to be treated gently if that's not how he behaves.
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  7263. Well, that would actually break the laws of thermodynamics unlike this car.
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  7264.  @Jiggledance  I thought you were implying this cart was also a perpetual motion machine.
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  7265.  @Jiggledance  OK, then I misunderstood you.
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  7266. "One thing that's overlooked is the insane schooling culture." It wasn't overlooked in this video.
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  7267. There's no reason to make it mandatory as long as people willing to take the vaccine exceed the vaccine supply.
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  7268.  @gerri577  Is it OK to shoot people? Usually it's not but this is war.
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  7269.  @rogerphelps9939  They just have to get to the canal. It's on the Right Bank of the Dnieper which makes it a little bit more complicated but it might still be doable.
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  7270.  @goldenfloof5469  "Even if the russians manage to take away all the water and force the reactor cores to be exposed to air, then the convection with the air would still probably be enough to prevent a meltdown." Are you sure that's enough? Isn't even spent fuel stored in pools of water for several years?
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  7271. 1:44 That clothing looks very period-accurate.
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  7272. What is COGA? It's the Collaborative Study on the Genetics of Alcoholism, of course.
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  7273.  @reesecup4567  It's not free energy. The energy is coming from the wind (even when windspeed has been exceeded).
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  7274.  @onebig77thbrigademonkey.57  It's not free energy. The moving air is losing kinetic energy and the cart is gaining some. No energy is being created out of nowhere.
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  7275. Yuta should cover this. I'm curious about what the Japanese think of this affair.
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  7276. One advantage the US has in this regard is that American grid operators don't have to worry about TV pickup.
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  7277. I think he put it that way around because of the troop numbers sent to the conflict.
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  7278. The US doesn't have a motive to do it.
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  7279.  @elainelouve  "I think we would need to define what does permission mean in this case?" In this case the homeowner had just notified the board that he's going to install a heat pump (i.e. he didn't ask for permission). The board's reply was that they're not allowing the installation of heat-pumps to any apartments. The homeowner went ahead with the installation anyway. The board ordered it to be removed. However, the ruling by the appellate court (affirmed by the supreme court) was that in this case the homeowner had the right to install the heat-pump if he just notifies the board and the installation doesn't cause problems (e.g. noise or damage to load-bearing structures). "This has been in the law since 2010, as condo owners only own shares, not the walls." The supreme court's ruling was basically that this doesn't apply to the section of the wall between the rooms and the balcony. From the ruling: "Muutostyöoikeuden on vakiintuneesti katsottu koskevan huoneiston sisäpuolisia toimenpiteitä. Siltä osin kuin rakennuksen ulkoseinä sijaitsee osakkeenomistajan hallinnassa olevan huoneiston ja huoneistoon kuuluvan parvekkeen välissä, ulkoseinä jää osakehuoneistoon kuuluvan alueen sisäpuolelle. Huoneisto, sen vieressä sijaitseva parveke ja näiden välissä oleva osa rakennuksen ulkoseinää muodostavat luonnollisen ja kiinteän kokonaisuuden. Kokonaisuuden vähäisen osan, parvekkeen kohdalla olevan rakennuksen ulkoseinän, erottaminen muutostyöoikeuden suhteen osakehuoneistoon kuuluvasta kokonaisuudesta olisi keinotekoinen ja käytännön tarpeita vastaamaton ratkaisu."
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  7280. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDo6Jh67M0g
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  7281. Its recognition is limited but so is the recognition of Moroccan sovereignty over it.
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  7282.  @rajabouzeid8801  Maybe that would've involved too much turning. I've seen claims that many of the control surfaces of the plane became inoperable and they could mostly turn left or right by applying different levels of power in the two engines. If that's true, a maximally straight flight path may have been pretty important.
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  7283.  @57thorns  AFAIK, the demilitarization of Åland only dates from the aftermath of the Crimean war. Before that war, Åland did have Russian troops in e.g. the Bomarsund fort so it wasn't demilitarized. This particular fort was stormed by British and French troops during the Crimean war and demolished afterwards. After the war, the peace treaty (the Treaty of Paris) stipulated that Åland had to be demilitarized. No demilitarization existed before that.
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  7284. "Russia can reproduce equipment. Ukraine can't that's the deciding factor." It's not decisive if Ukraine receives equipment from the West.
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  7285.  @marlonbryanmunoznunez3179  I see no indication that equipment deliveries would stop any time soon.
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  7286. "When [...] your oil does not belong to OPEC. That's where you go wrong." You mean like Norway?
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  7287. 7:45 I'd say that more likely the reason is that as professionals giving something so close to financial advice is much more dangerous for them. They can far more easily end up in legal trouble and possibly get booted out from the industry they work in. A random person who isn't a financial professional can give their opinions much more freely and be shielded by the protections on free speech.
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  7288. "It is agreed that when the cart reaches wind speed, the wind provides zero energy from outside." It is not agreed. The propeller can still push the cart if it spins fast enough. "Now people, in the style of the old perpetuum mobile, believes that the cart can energize itself to go faster than the wind." It's not a perpetual motion machine. The conservation of energy is not violated because the cart can extract energy from the wind even when going faster than the wind (this is when viewed from the inertial frame tied to the ground).
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  7289. 5:35 "Japan's desire for rapid development and economic growth has played a significant role in its high national debt." I don't think that's true. Japan's national debt stayed at low levels during its rapid development. The debt level only started to increase with the '90s recession and the subsequent "lost decade" and stagnation.
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  7290.  @emylily8266  "for why we don't allow those types of wage cuts by privately owned corporations in the first place?" If it's a problem for that (as I asked) then should that policy be discontinued?
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  7291. 23:45 I think experts like you should take into the habit of making bets about future events. If you see others making predictions that you think are unlikely, you should tell them to put their money where their mouth is. A person challenged to a bet can then either refuse thus revealing that they're probably not as confident about their prediction as they claimed to be or they can take the bet and take on a gain or a loss depending on how rational their prediction was in the first place.
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  7292.  @cathere8646  "they loose all" What do you mean?
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  7293. I don't know what's the right answer as a matter of current law, but I think in cases like these those suffer the damage should receive compensation. A law to that end should be passed if necessary.
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  7294.  @thearpox7873  The decline in birth rates isn't due to low incomes either, that much is clear. And the point of smaller households is merely that looking at the increase of income per household understates how much richer Americans have become since the incomes per person have increased more than that, that's all.
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  7295.  @thearpox7873  "birth rates are not linked to low incomes. They're linked to economic downturns" Smaller households today are a long-term phenomenon and not due to any recent downturn. "Being richer is when you can buy more stuff. When more money arrives into your bank account but you cut back on expenses, (ex: household size) we call that something else." But that's not actually what has happened. You can check e.g. FRED data titled " Real Median Household Income in the United States". It has increased rather than decreased. And since this data is on real incomes it's already been adjusted for the cost of living.
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  7296.  @dschaef91  "The multiple R value from a regression..." Does that mean the same thing as "R squared"?
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  7297. 3:00 "And then soon they will give nukes." Hyperbole much?
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  7298. 15:38 "programmers are really, really bad at planning for contingencies" I strongly disagree with this claim. At least some programmers are good planning for contingencies (though some are not). The issue here isn't programmer oversight but rather that the blockchain isn't magic and there are limits to what it can do even at the hands of the best of programmers.
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  7299. I think the railgun would either need to have much higher acceleration which is difficult or the railgun would need to be exceedingly long making it rather expensive.
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  7300. No, small businesses are difficult to invest into. Companies traded on the stock exchange are much easier.
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  7301.  @muneebbasit2314  Investors to small companies are usually wealthy individuals. They can be much nimbler investors than big organizations and they can offer their contacts and expertise to the company when investing. These things are difficult for larger bureaucratic institutions. Also, a pension fund's employees are not investing their own money so there is more risk of both corruption and honest mistakes. This is less of an issue for listed stock because in that case the fund can rely on market prices for valuation whereas for non-listed stock there's a much bigger risk of corruption and incompetence.
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  7302. Aren't you being a bit confused here? Pedophilia means being attracted to children, not (necessarily) actually having sex with them, and to my knowledge, the majority of pedophiles do not attempt that. The stigma in society for merely having that kind of involuntary attraction is harmful because it prevents people who have such problematic attractions seeking professional help.
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  7303.  @lupen_rein  My understanding is that the present problems with Eskom are in large part due to neglecting proper maintenance earlier. Even if the (worst) problems may have manifested after Zuma's term that doesn't necessarily mean that they weren't caused by him or people appointed by him.
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  7304.  @BlacksmithTWD  I don't think it was. The last part of the Bible (the Book of Revelations) was written 4 centuries before the Middle Ages.
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  7305. 9:40 Is the income here gross or net income?
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  7306. He might have meant "behüten".
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  7307. "Kiev was simply a pinning move by the Russians to threaten it and force Ukraine to deploy troops to defend it instead of helping their forces in the east to break out." That doesn't make sense. First, if it was just a pinning move, why did Russia send paratroopers there? Secondly, attacking Kyiv also tied up a lot of Russian troops that could have otherwise been used in the east (and now seem to be in the process of being redeployed there). Thirdly, the Ukrainian troops in the east aren't even encircled, at least not yet, so it doesn't make sense to say the troops used to defend Kyiv couldn't help them break out because there wouldn't be even need for a breakout in the present situation.
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  7308.  @TeleologicalConsistency  "It was a decapitation gambit that failed." The following operations around Kyiv similarly seem a failed attempt to take or at least surround it. "The pinning move was deploying troops in a way that threatened Kiev to lure Ukraine to deploy large numbers of troops to defend it." But that operation also tied up a large part of the Russian troops that could have otherwise been used to attack in the east. It's not clear to me what kind of military benefit would this kind of "pinning move" confer to Russia. "Russia at that point is free to move while Ukraine's forces are immobilized" It doesn't seem like that. Redeploying the Russian troops takes time and Ukraine is now also free to redeploy troops from the north to e.g. east or south.
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  7309.  @TeleologicalConsistency  I see no reason why they couldn't redeploy from Kyiv. Russia no longer has artillery in that region since they've withdrawn. Russian use of air power hasn't been very extensive even outside of cities. "The only reason they aren't utterly destroyed already is because the populations of the cities act as human shields." That's not credible at all Mariupol didn't prevent Russia from using artillery.
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  7310.  @TeleologicalConsistency  If the missiles and airforce are enough to prevent redeployment to east or south, why would "pinning attacks" in the north be necessary at all. I'm not making predictions about who is going to win. I was only saying that the attacks on Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Sumy that have now been withdrawn don't seem to have done Russia more good militarily than sending those troops to the east or the south to begin with.
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  7311.  @TeleologicalConsistency  "The pinning move is intended to draw Ukraine into defending Kiev. Once they deployed there they are now stuck there." Your argument for why they can't redeploy was Russian air force and missiles. If they're enough to prevent redeployment they should have been enough to prevent troops from being moved to east or south even without a "pinning attack" on Kyiv.
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  7312.  @TeleologicalConsistency  "if they didn't threaten Kiev then Ukraine wouldn't have deployed the large numbers of troops there and they wouldn't now be stuck there." Your argument was that the air force and the missiles are enough to prevent them from redeploying. If that's true they should in any case be stuck wherever they would be an unable to be deployed to e.g. Donbas. There shouldn't have been a need for them be to be deployed around Kyiv as by your logic they'd be just as stuck in any other place (and at least a portion would in any case be protecting Kyiv).
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  7313.  @TeleologicalConsistency  "why have they not redeployed from Kiev" I've seen it mentioned in the news that Ukraine is doing at least a partial redeployment though I've not seen numbers.
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  7314. That's a baseless claim and makes no sense anyway.
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  7315.  @florin604 : No, yours is.
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  7316.  @florin604 : You haven't given any reason to believe it.
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  7317.  @florin604 : Well, mostly my first comment was meant to point out that you didn't give reason to believe you. But I don't think a tax motivation makes sense anyway. Anyone who is in favor of lower taxes can just push for higher income tax and not a carbon tax. Also the case for a carbon tax is not a case for higher taxation in general but merely shifting the focus of taxation partly to carbon. A carbon tax can simply be used to fund say an income tax cut in a revenue neutral fashion. Of course it's possible to push for both a carbon tax and higher taxation in general (so e.g. without the aforementioned cut) but then the tax increase part is not really connected to AGW.
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  7318.  @florin604 : There are many CO₂ sources that are not generally taxed including e.g. cement production and international flights. (And any existing tax on CO₂ sources doesn't in any case detract from my argument why "AGW is a tax scam" doesn't make sense.)
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  7319. Though he probably chose the best looking parts to film.
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  7320. Not for long.
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  7321.  @justsefa1843  "it is not like he didnt listen to professionals. He did" The examples you list are not in the domain of monetary policy. It's wrt monetary policy that he didn't listen to experts and sacked central bank governors who didn't agree with him. Ask almost any monetary economist and they'll say that Turkey's central bank shouldn't have cut rates in the past years like it did. Also, the president shouldn't even be micro-managing the monetary policy in the first place. Central bank independence is important. "there is no correlation between interest rates and inflation." First of all, this is false. There is a positive correlation between interest rates and inflation because high inflation causes interest rates to rise as well. Secondly, and more importantly, looking at correlation won't tell you much about what effects monetary policy has. A rate cut is implicitly a decision to print more money that otherwise and a rate hike is a decision to print less. Printing more money means a higher rate of inflation (in the long run) than if you printed less money. There's no way around this. "The root issue of the turkish economy was/is the dollarization of the economy, not interest rates." The dollarization is likely due to the high inflation.
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  7322.  @bighands69  "Not in the US" Well, that's a big disappointment if you're correct.
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  7323. Is Flamanville 3 going to be even more delayed than Olkiluoto 3?
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  7324. If that happens then there will be no change to NATO in Europe and sanctions will likely stay in place for at least several years.
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  7325. "I thought with patent law, it isn't about who filled for the patent first, it is who came up with the idea first." I think the US had that system at the time of that episode but now uses first to file system (as does most of the world).
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  7326. 5:45 So only a fraction of a vase? Or did you accidentally say one zero too many?
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  7327.  @killgriffinnow  "he shilled for electric cars" Did you mean electric cars or self-driving cars?
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  7328.  @awebuser5914  I don't think it was pointless. Firstly, at least some of the points in the video did deserve criticism. Secondly, that most consumers can't currently access Waymo services is beside the point because clearly they were not primarily aiming to attract more customers for their current services but rather get approval to run or at least test their services in more places. Thus the Veritasium video (which was basically an ad) was aimed at voters and politicians.
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  7329.  @awebuser5914  I disagree. Firstly, Veritasium has over 11 million subscribers making him a (relatively) major YouTube personality (and even if he was (relatively) minor that doesn't make the theory that his video was an ad aimed at consumers where Waymo services are available more likely). Secondly, this one video is almost certainly just a one piece in a larger ongoing ad campaign. Thirdly, Waymo probably uses corporate lobbying too but that doesn't reach voters who they probably want to influence too.
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  7330. One reason I'm skeptical of rent control is that it's not clear to me how is it compatible with efficiently rationing access to housing. If there's a high-demand area where more people would want to live than there's actually room for then something will inevitably limit access to housing in that location. Without rent control, price becomes the limiting factor. It's efficient at least in the sense that then people living in that area will presumably be the ones who (at least implicitly) think they will benefit the most from living there in dollar/euro/pound/whatever terms. This may seem unfair because it's not only a function of how much different people like that area but also of how much they have money. But is there a better way to limit access? If rent control forces the price of housing below such point them some other factor(s) must (also) limit the access to housing. It might be time spent queueing for an apartment, luck, connections, or the ability to seem like a good prospective tenant to a landlord (or simply actually paying above allowed rent by some illegal means). None of these seem a better rationing method than price. I've heard stories of people queueing for a home to rent in Stockholm for more than a decade.
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  7331. Did you see Leonard French's video?
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  7332. 0:20 As a minor nitpick, even the "normal" monetary policy with interest rate instrument still uses the balance sheet. The way it works in the case of the Fed is that they choose a target for the federal funds rate which is the average rate that with which banks give overnight loans to each other. The Fed then has a bond trader who buys (or sometimes sells) short term government bonds thus creating (or sometimes destroying) new base money and expanding (or sometimes shrinking) the Fed's balance sheet (because these bonds end up on the Fed's balance).
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  7333. This is a surprisingly common mistake.
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  7334. That's not what this video was talking about. Steel production causes greenhouse emissions.
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  7335.  @tsp312  That doesn't make sense. One would think the point of wanting to avoid taxes is to be left with more money. If you have to donate away $2 to reduce your tax bill by $1 then as a pure tax dodge that's an unmitigated failure because you have still lost $1 in the net. Of course, these are made up amounts but the point still stands that usually the tax benefits should be smaller than the donation.
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  7336.  @tsp312  Actually I have to apologize. I thought your comment was in a completely different thread (under a different video) where someone said that Bill Gates' philanthropy is a pure tax dodge. You can ignore my previous comment.
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  7337. Fluctuating tax income shouldn't be such a problems because a big state should be able to easily smooth out spending by using debt. Of course, if you insist on balanced budgets, then things get a bit tricky.
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  7338. In principle, it would be, but it would suffer from other environmental problems. For ethanol, you need a lot of farmland which otherwise could be its natural state. It would be a pity if we e.g. lose more rainforests to this if there's a better alternative.
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  7339. Btw, does anyone know what word is being translated as "demon" here and what precisely means in Chinese?
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  7340.  @chinkeeyong1996  Thanks!
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  7341. I'm all for an idol group without a no-dating rule which I view as pernicious.
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  7342. 6:20 Doesn't that also mean that France is making a lot of money from its energy exports? It would seem unwise to not capitalize on the high prices by restricting exports.
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  7343. I won't try to evaluate if and how much France should pay. However, surely such payment should only be made when there is a democratic government in control of Haiti. Any payment when Haiti is controlled by gangs or by a dictator wouldn't benefit the populace.
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  7344. And similarly for the Estonian island of Hiiumaa and the Danish island of Bornholm.
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  7345. "at some point Russia had to attack (could also be said about Germany when you study some historians)" I don't think you can reasonably say that "Germany had to attack".
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  7346. Where is it? I don't see any blanked out word.
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  7347.  @samuelmorales2344  That's kind of beside the point.
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  7348. 3:37 Clearly modernist architecture is a part of the problem.
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  7349.  @b-art6098  "How does this benefit the economy if the money is being drained from the country?" If they perform work that someone is willing to pay for, then the result of that work is the benefit. The benefit might be small if the immigrant is working in a low productivity job but it's still positive. But the main thing I want to say is that the "money being drained" doesn't really make any sense as an argument. Firstly, taking the US as an example, there isn't going to be a problem that there's too few dollars floating around in the economy. Green pieces of paper aren't expensive to produce and if the dollars are just bits in a computer it's even cheaper. Secondly, if those dollars are sent to a foreign country that doesn't use dollars, they're just going to be exchanged for the local currency and those dollars are likely going to end up back in the us.
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  7350.  @nobodyknows3180  The digraph 'kh' denotes the sound [x] which English does not have. It reasonable that they approximate it with a sound that English does have like K.
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  7351.  @martinan22 : Charles XII could have ended the Great Northern War much earlier and on reasonably favorable terms to Sweden. In the earlier stages of the war he had done quite well and Peter the Great offered him peace with the return of all lost territory except for St. Petersburg. However, he decided to press on and we all know how well that went.
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  7352.  @martinan22 : Give peace a chance I say. :) Anyway, I think we can say that at least in hindsight Carolus' decision to continue the war did him (and Sweden) no good and was probably a mistake.
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  7353. Can those Kamiokande chambers used for something else once they're not used as neutrino observatories anymore?
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  7354.  @hausaffe100  At some point you have probably made all the discoveries you can make with them or you have newer more advanced equipment that makes the older ones obsolete. You can take colliders as an example. E.g. the Large Electron-Positron Collider in CERN is no longer in use.
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  7355. You'd need to store it somehow to prevent it being released back into the air.
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  7356. That depends on what kind of terms Russia would offer. If they essentially amount to a total capitulation then there's less reason to accept them.
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  7357. "Accent is always on the first syllable" But "Marin" is a Swedish name so stress on the second syllable is correct.
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  7358. Such blockades will not happen, at least not for merely not accepting deported people.
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  7359. "Kherson is pronounced Herson because if a K is followed by a consonant the K is silent like Kharkiv is pronounced Harkiv." It's not quite like that. Rather the digraph 'kh' denotes the sound [x] which English does not have. It's understandable that they might approximate it with some other sound that English actually has.
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  7360. Lukashenko still dangles the promise of a union state in front of Putin in order to get benefits like cheap gas and oil but he'll never get around to actually delivering on that promise.
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  7361.  @bozo5632  "NATO started moving towards Finland long before 2014." In Finland about twice as many people used to oppose joining NATO than were in favor of it. However, there was a dramatic swing in favor of joining in public opinion after the start of the 2022 invasion. It's pretty clear that Finland wouldn't have joined NATO any time soon if it hadn't been for the 2022 invasion.
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  7362. "while changing the pronunciation of the W from a V sound to what is more typically heard in America." Isn't W pronounced in German like V is in English?
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  7363.  @pryingeyes1551 : Ah, I re-read and I guess I initially misunderstood what you were saying.
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  7364.  @TheJaredtheJaredlong  Of course economists (or most of them) care about human suffering. They're human beings just like the rest of us.
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  7365. You're thinking about just the population that falls inside the borders of the municipality of Oslo. That kind of administrative borders are arbitrary and don't matter for this purpose.
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  7366. The voltages that the solar panels produce are too low for transmission. You need AC to step up the voltage with transformers.
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  7367. And Rwandans need to start eating durians.
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  7368.  @SwissSareth  They mentioned marijuana. They weren't hiding anything. You may quibble about what would be the best wording but I think it's worth mentioning that marijuana was the only one to go up.
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  7369.  @LHFX  What semi are you referring to? I find that number for R 500 in some sources but some give about 40l/100km instead. "I'm from Europe" I'm as well.
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  7370. The Dominican Republic was highlighted earlier. He then highlighted Burkina Faso because it was the next country in the list. However, the timing between the audio and highlighting was bad.
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  7371. "Nobody can question his patriotism and love for his people and land." Having love doesn't mean you can't make mistakes. At least in hindsight, it would probably have been better for Northern Cyprus to just continue with de facto independence without formally declaring it. That would have made international relations easier. I think it's fair to call the declaration of independence a mistake regardless of who you blame for it.
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  7372. To my understanding photosynthesis is a rather inefficient process.
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  7373.  @JabzyJoe  Just add "and Japan".
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  7374.  @gurinderpalbrar7060  "Setting stage for its third and last defeat heading to Stone Age" And how would that happen? Germany doesn't border Russia nor Belarus (nor Ukraine) so it wouldn't be easy for Russia to get there. Also, Putin has stated that he wouldn't use nukes unless Russia's existence was threatened which can hardly be done with the tanks that are being sent.
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  7375. The hardliners might have one disincentive to a coup that you didn't mention. An attempted coup may cause chaos which could weaken Russia's military effort in Ukraine, at least temporarily. If the coup is either a resounding success or a resounding failure then that might not happen but if it's something in-between and the result is unclear for an extended amount of time then problems can ensue. This can also apply to the moderates to lesser degree. Even they probably don't wish for an outright failure even though they might favor concessions and a retreat from (a part of) Ukraine.
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  7376. 18:15 No country? What about Japan. Japan Railways was privatized in 1987 and it seems to work well.
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  7377. "2014 Milan coup orchestrated by the west ousted president Yanukovych, all the succeeding presidents are western friendly presidents" You should say "both" rather than "all" since there has been only two. But in any case, the reason for that is simple. Putin successfully cleaved away the most pro-Russia parts of Ukraine. That almost inevitably changes the electoral arithmetic in favor of pro-Western candidates. Putin can't eat his cake and have it too.
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  7378. In anime you can find many examples of this with the roles reversed.
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  7379. The word "stark" means "strong" in Swedish.
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  7380. 5:15 Mirrored image.
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  7381. Congestion pricing is helpful. At the very least it raises revenue and it will probably reduce traffic.
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  7382. Does immigration affect Taiwan's demographics to a significant extent?
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  7383. I've always wondered, what it means for things to be in that jar/box vs. being outside of it. Supposedly humanity didn't have all those afflictions while they were still inside it and only got them after they got out. However in the case of hope, humanity still has it since it remained inside and didn't get out. Isn't that a bit inconsistent.
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  7384. Hawkeye Gough
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  7385. The public opinion in Finland swung hugely in favor of joining NATO soon after the 2022 invasion of Ukraine started. That wasn't forced on them by the politicians or anything.
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  7386. Are fixed-rate mortgages the norm in the States? Here it's mostly ARMs.
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  7387.  @red36825924 : I'm sure there's all sorts of reasons why the events played out like they did. I just meant that the Greek performance was still admirable and that I thought it was pretty well known.
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  7388.  @red36825924 : "By the way i would like to thank every Greek that thinks that the war against Italy could had been avoided by a Greek surrender" On the other hand, I think Greeks putting up a fight did help the Allies. Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union was delayed and giving the Germans less time before the onset of the muddy season (rasputitsa) and winter which was a big help to the Soviets in the battle of Moscow. It probably wasn't decisive and the Axis would have lost anyway but at least a number of Soviet lives were spared.
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  7389.  @aokiaoki4238 : "Neo-Latin is only one of their parents or better only one of their great great grand fathers" What others are there? "Claiming Italians are Romans..." Note that I wasn't making any claims about that one way or the other. I was commenting on the (genetic) classification of Romance languages. "English absorve many Greek words, does this make British to be Greeks?" English is classified as a Germanic language by linguists. Italian is classified as a Romance language. I don't see a reason to dispute either of these classifications. These languages may have loanwords and other influences from other language families but the common parent for Germanic and Romance language groups are proto-Germanic and (vulgar) Latin respectively according to linguists.
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  7390.  @aokiaoki4238 : "All 34 Italian dialects are new Italian languages, created by the new inhabitants of Italy centuries after took over the Romans" These new dialects/languages didn't pop out of nowhere. They are the product of Vulgar Latin developing in different directions in different areas. I'll put below a link to the Wikipedia page on Romance languages. "They latined by writing, Christianity and political reasons." Are you suggesting that they came from languages of some other language group (like Germanic languages) and were just Latinized? If that's what you're saying, it certainly contradicts the academic consensus. If you're saying something else, then I might have misunderstood you. "You re nothing different than..." I'm not an Italian if that's what you thought. Not that it matters anyway. "rest Romance people and all languages that came out of the previously new mixed Bulgar latin dialects" All Romance languages are descended from Vulgar Latin. I'm not entirely sure whether you're saying that or something else. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romance_languages
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  7391.  @aokiaoki4238 : The term Vulgar Latin is used already for the more colloquial spoken Latin during the classical period of the Roman Empire. Classical Latin, the formal written language, was adapted from an earlier version of spoken Latin. All Romance languages descend from that.
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  7392. What about Luxembourg?
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  7393.  @JackMcGuire-em7nt  I push code, not papers. Do you really think that profit seeking companies hire completely useless employees? Do you know of any large company or other organization that's able to function without paper pushers?
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  7394.  @JackMcGuire-em7nt  "Sorry but you making code is far less important than a police officer." The discussion wasn't about my productivity relative to that of a cop but rather of a "paper pusher" relative to a cop. Many paper pusher are very important. They can have a huge effect on how smoothly a bureaucratic organization functions. A paper pusher in an important position can easily make a bigger impact than many rank-and-file police officers (but this obviously depends on the case). Also, the original comment was about comparing a cop who works for 20 years vs. a paper pusher who works for 40 years. In that kind of a case the paper pusher only needs to have more than half of the productivity of the cop to have a bigger impact over their career. Many people are tempted to say that all or most paper pushers are (close to) useless but they have never tried to run a large organization without any paper pushers. Has anyone ever managed to do that? I doubt it.
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  7395.  @nonyadamnbusiness9887  Are you sure it was fixed rather than indexed? In any case, he could probably work in addition to his pension.
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  7396.  @travelinghermit  I don't think most of the heat from radiators is conducted to the air, not radiated, because they're not hot enough for significant radiation. They're even shaped to maximize conduction.
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  7397.  @hairyairey  "air is a poor conductor of heat that's why" But a radiator also has to conduct the heat to the air. (Also, in the ducts the heat in the air moves by convection, not conduction.)
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  7398.  @Jemalacane0  Where does that extra energy go?
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  7399. Bitcoin mining isn't profound leverage.
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  7400.  @sketchleaf7698  I'm not convinced. Firstly, countries with free healthcare still have waiting lists for organs so it doesn't seem to have a huge effect. Secondly, I could just as well speculate that better availability of healthcare could just as well increase the demand for transplants if people with issues survive to be placed on the waiting list instead of just dying before that and it could also reduce the supply of donated organs if more potential donors survive strokes, etc. This is, of course, speculation but it's not any less speculative than the notion you presented.
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  7401. What are HOAs in a technical legal sense? I mean, I have a rough idea of what they do. I'm just curious about what's their legal status/structure.
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  7402.  @jeffmaxwell7391  Inflation in the Eurozone and the US is lower than that.
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  7403.  @jeffmaxwell7391  "Our inflation rates DO NOT include Necessities of life because they are deemed too volatile" That's only true for "core inflation" figures. Usually the given inflation figures are headline inflation (i.e. food & energy aren't excluded) unless it's specified that the figures are core inflation. Also, headline inflation in the US is currently lower than core inflation. "How many TVs do you buy in a year??" Different goods and services are weighted according to how much consumers spend on them. If food & energy inflation in Russia is low (I haven't checked) then that means that something else that Russians actually spend money on is rising in price even faster since their inflation rate is higher.
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  7404.  @jeffmaxwell7391  I google Canadian inflation rates. Apparently, core inflation is 3.2% and headline inflation is 3.8%. So in Canada headline (i.e. inclusive of food & energy) inflation is higher than core inflation. However, it's still lower than the inflation in Russia.
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  7405.  @jeffmaxwell7391  The inflation statistics are an average for the country. The prices you personally experience are a only a tiny part of it since Canada's population is over 30 million. The figures I mentioned are the rate of inflation for the month of October. I'm assuming the rises you mentioned have mostly happened before that. Also, the inflation statistics are collated by bureaucrats, not politicians like Freeland.
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  7406.  @jeffmaxwell7391  No, you misunderstand. It's still an annual rate but just measured for a single month (October). It means the Russian inflation in October was at a rate that would mean 6.7% rise in prices in a year if prices were to rise at that average rate over an entire year. It should correspond to about 0.54% rise in prices over that single month. Also, 6% per month would mean about 101% per year, not 72%.
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  7407.  @jeffmaxwell7391  I mean, originally in this thread I only noted that inflation in the US and the EU is lower than in Russia, not more than that. Russia's inflation isn't (at least yet) sky-high or anything but it is somewhat higher than in the US and the EU. That's all what I said.
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  7408. I've heard that some of the groups have also fought each other. That can be an obstacle for disarmament. Even if a group trusts the government to not attack it, it might fear that a rival group which refuses to disarm could attack it and thus also refuses to disarm.
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  7409.  @mariov1347  "a thief will always be a Nazi, a colonialist will always be a colonialist" That also applies to Russia. Russia has before this seized a large number of leased planes and many assets of foreign companies located in Russia so it's at least as much of a thief as Germany is if not more. Russia also has been a conquering colonial power in the past just like several other European countries. The difference is that the other colonial powers have lost or given up most of their colonial possessions but Russia still retains a large part of its past conquests in e.g. Central Asia. Russia is the last remaining colonial empire.
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  7410.  @yk_903  Many of these lands are past conquests, not cases of peaceful integration. There isn't that much difference to e.g. France conquering Algeria and Russia conquering, say, Uzbekistan (or rather Kokand back in the day). Uzbekistan is now independent but many other past Russian conquests, e.g. Tatarstan/Kazan, are not.
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  7411. Do you also ride down (or up!) the stairs?
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  7412.  @garfieldsmith332  "Rolls Royce is foreign owned." Well, who would buy a car from a jet engine manufacturer anyway?
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  7413.  @dufftheduff7335  Falklands isn't covered by the NATO treaty.
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  7414.  @Coockiez-007  "because she makes youtube money" YouTube could still punish her by keeping all of the ad revenue her videos generate. That would also make them more money in the short term.
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  7415.  @FNFsprites  She could (temporarily) make YouTube more money if YouTube kept all of her ad revenue.
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  7416. How about rainbow trout? Are you allowed to handle it suspiciously?
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  7417.  @TheArctofireHD  "That law, banning federal recognition of gay marriage, passed with an overwhelming majority, more than enough for a constitutional amendment" I'm still skeptical of that kind amendment could have passed. A constitutional amendment would also require 3/4 of the states to accept it which is a tough bar to pass. Also, Bush tried such an amendment a few years later and it couldn't even pass the Congress. (Just for clarity, I'm myself in favor of allowing same-sex marriage but my comment isn't about that but only about the chances of this kind of amendment passing.)
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  7418.  @TheArctofireHD  "it was so overwhelmingly supported, 342-67 in the House and 85-14 in the Senate" That is a big percentage but remember that it pools the whole country together. Some states are much more progressive/liberal than others. I think it's still quite likely that in 13 or more states a majority of the legislature would vote against. Btw, as a clarification, would the hypothetical amendment you'd have wanted banned states from recognizing same sex marriage or only secured them the right to not recognize it? Obviously, the former would be harder to pass.
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  7419.  @JJDoole  My comment was a question. There was even a question mark. Just saying "he didn't say that" doesn't answer the question. He said that the fishmonger would go out of business without various foreign populations which might mean Brits don't eat a lot of fish. That's why I asked.
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  7420.  @luxborealis  Can't say that I have. I personally prefer salmon or rainbow trout.
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  7421. Switzerland?
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  7422. Many of the more successful historical leaders were also pompous jerks who just didn't get their comeuppance. Alexander the Great comes to mind. He might have been an effective military leader but his moral character left a lot to be desired for.
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  7423.  @FrostyDog1  Indeed.
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  7424.  @ratandmonkey2982  "financial cost due to his loss of reputation" Has there been any such cost? I seriously doubt it. Everyone makes mistakes.
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  7425. He could defend his word choice by saying that he'd not bill either of the customers for 2 grand even if he could.
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  7426. That dam is for electricity generation.
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  7427. "The problem is that nuclear powerplants get more expensive over time." That's not a reason to close the plants in Germany on the chosen schedule. They could have been used for years to come.
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  7428. Stuhlmann?
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  7429. Is there any work done on separating the storm drains from sanitary sewers?
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  7430.  @xeakpress  Now, that makes me wonder whether Raid: Shadow Legends is profitable or if the sponsorships take all the money.
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  7431.  @xeakpress  If I google "is raycon inc profitable" I get results saying that it is. Didn't dig too deep into it, though.
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  7432.  @mikeiso8963  I would ask whether Raid: Shadow Legends is profitable or whether all the revenue goes into sponsorships.
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  7433.  @emailbenbenson  I'm quite sure no one will end up in jail over GME stock.
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  7434. But what if you use a combination of a low-tone and a high-tone klaxon?
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  7435. It would damage the desert ecosystem.
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  7436.  @chang.stanley  Wind can blow the salt all over the place. The desert ecosystem would not be fine.
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  7437.  @chang.stanley  You're wrong. It can spread far and it certainly won't aid the ecosystem. You don't want extra salinity in a desert climate where water is scarce to begin with.
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  7438.  @chang.stanley  No, it wouldn't. Remember that the salt would just keep piling up.
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  7439.  @chang.stanley  The mostly dried out Aral Sea has left behind salt dust that's blown around by wind and it's ruining crops. Maybe if you could some how dump the salt into a deep mine or something it would be fine but that's more expensive than just dumping the bring back into the sea on the spot. Pumping the brine elsewhere is not cheap and there might not be net environmental benefit depending on what you do with it.
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  7440.  @chang.stanley  The point was that salt dust will still result. Note that there are multiple desalination plants so it wouldn't be a single lump and the salt would be continuously building up. "Noones farming crops in the desert." This very video described how crops are farmed in the Arabian desert! In any case, my point wasn't about the crops in Saudi Arabia but the state of natural vegetation in the desert. It could easily suffer from salt dust. "The salt deposit might even be able to be mined in the future when it's built up, as it's fairly valuable sea salt." Salt prices are something like a couple of hundred dollars per metric ton. The amount of money you'd get wouldn't cover the cost of the extra handling of the brine (vs. just dumping it into the sea).
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  7441.  @chang.stanley  "the natural vegetation outside of the direct vicinity of the salt lump would be completely unaffected" I don't buy that. Salt dust could be spread to a wide area by the wind.
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  7442. I don't think he said 4X.
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  7443. Why is the title blaming landlords when the Reddit comment you mention makes clear that it's the conditions of their loans that tie their hands?
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  7444. That event didn't end up that well for the perpetrators.
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  7445. 0:30 "this is about controlling you" That makes no sense. I mean, this may be bad policy due to being too ineffective and/or too harmful. I'm not arguing for this measure but it seems unlikely that the "true motive" for it is "controlling people's lives" or whatever. 3:20 "and then you can see why I kind of say I think it's more about control" But at no point can I see that (even if this bit of policy might still be a mistake).
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  7446. Only buyers? That sounds rather unlikely, except maybe for a very illiquid stock. Usually there's a lot of both buyers and sellers.
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  7447. They're mostly poor countries for whom such investments would be expensive, especially since it probably wouldn't provide short term returns in the form of increased cotton yields. Consider that e.g. Uzbekistan annually sends schoolchildren to pick cotton. If forced child labor is an easier way for them to keep their cotton competitive instead of investing in farm machinery like harvesters then investing in the canals is probably an even tougher proposition.
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  7448. Because it's the one being highlighted.
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  7449. Check out Shadiversity's videos on that game as well.
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  7450.  @CedarHunt  There's no obvious motive for Russia to destroy the Nord Stream pipelines.
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  7451. "Especially at the thought of a waiter actually pulling that in Japan." But it wasn't the waiter who said that.
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  7452.  @1nwb-4dnws  If you follow the conversation closely, you can notice that it's not the waiter who says "shut up" at the end. The customer ordering is to left of the mic, the customer repeatedly saying "datte" (and who says "shut up" at the end) is to the right of the mic, and the waiter is behind the mic (except in the very beginning when they call him). It may be bit hard to follow who is who. Maybe dogen should've differentiated them better somehow.
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  7453. This is the problem with natural languages. The intended interpretation is clearly that cruel punishments are prohibited AND unusual punishments are prohibited. (Conversely, it would theoretically be possible to interpret "or" in that kind of position meaning that at least one of those things is prohibited but the text isn't saying which one. But in practice that kind of meaning is almost never intended.)
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  7454. "I don't think that russia would have launched rocket attacks on Poland - it seems more of a black flag operation." It was obviously a stray missile whether it was Russian or Ukrainian.
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  7455.  @bookashkin  "it wasn't stray" What leads you to believe that? Do you have any evidence?
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  7456.  @bookashkin  "Ever notice how Poland and Russia are in opposite directions from Lwow?" That doesn't mean much. It could have been following a Russian cruise missile flying over or it could have just generally gone haywire. "Did you not notice all the hay Zelensky tried to make of it?" I don't see why he mightn't try that in any case. "What makes you believe it was stray?" Mostly that doing something like that deliberately seems a huge risk with a low probability of return.
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  7457.  @bookashkin  "There were no Russian missiles within 35 km of the international border." S-300 has a range of 120 km so one going awry could hit Poland from much further than that.
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  7458.  @bookashkin  "No Russian missiles were in the area. Their effects would have been noticed :)" That's not true. It was November 15th. At least based on news reports Lviv was hit (among others) and 80% of the city was without power. "Even Zelensky didn't claim the rockets were stray" Why would that matter? If he's lying (or being lied to by the military) then he might call stray Ukrainian missiles Russian. This isn't an indication that they were not stray unless one believes Zelensky which you clearly don't.
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  7459.  @bookashkin  "it was November" Ah, that was a blunder. I edited my comment to correct it. "My personal opinion is that Kiev's strike on Poland was premeditated in order to bring about Zelensky's wet dream: a direct military conflict between NATO and Russia." But this seems quite unlikely for the reason I gave earlier. The risk is high and the probability of gain small. "Lied to by the military? Who in the military was fired over this?" I didn't claim that happened. It was just a small offhand remark about one possibility. I even put it in parentheses to indicate that it's not the main point.
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  7460.  @bookashkin  "Risk zero, as proven by a total lack of adverse consequences to Kiev." I'd say this is only because there seems to be zero evidence of it being deliberate. "Probability of gain high" In the previous sentence you argued that there being no adverse consequences to Kyiv means that the risk was zero. By the same logic, shouldn't you conclude that because there were no positive consequences either that the probability of any gain was also zero? In any case, NATO has all sorts of radars monitoring Ukrainian airspace. There is a good chance that they'd know whether any missile was launched from Ukraine or elsewhere and Kyiv should know that. "A possibility that the military would go unpunished after lying to the President? Really? Sounds more like the President lying about the military." I wasn't claiming that it was the case. It was only a small offhand remark about one possibility. It wasn't important. I even put it in parentheses to indicate that.
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  7461.  @viljamtheninja  Depressed Nousagi also had an unusual Raid add.
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  7462. Heat pumps unless you have district heating.
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  7463. Orbán isn't a diehard fan or a lackey of Putin. His primary goals are to stay in power and suck in as much benefit as he can. Thus he won't make Hungary leave the EU. Why would he? He would be just foregoing the economic benefits. Better to just stay in while still badmouthing the EU.
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  7464. ​ @jamesng7320  "Russia's goal is to demilitarize and denazify the country. It is not to [...] change their government. [...] All they want to do is [...] ensure that extremists aren't part of the government anymore." So you're saying they don't want to change the government but they want to change the government? Isn't that a clear contradiction?
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  7465.  @jamesng7320  "Think about it, if Russia really wanted to get rid of him do you think they can't?" Based on what has happened so far, no they couldn't have gotten rid of him, at least not yet. If the war goes on they might be able to if that's the goal. Who do you think are these "extremists" in the government that you mentioned? Why would removing them be worth a full scale invasion?
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  7466.  @jamesng7320  "The extremists are the Azov battalion stationed in Mariupol." In your original comment you talked about extremists in the government and they are not government figures. "These people [...] tell Zelensky what he should be doing since they are the military after all." That doesn't sound plausible. The Azov Battalion makes up something like 1% of the Ukrainian military. "So the only choice is for Russia to invade and remove them so that Zelensky can operate his government free of extremist influence." That doesn't sound plausible. Russia definitely did also have the choice of maintaining the status quo. You've so far not even been able to name a single extremist individual that would need to be removed. The idea that Zelensky's policy is so dependent on some unnamed individuals stationed in Mariupol is not credible.
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  7467.  @jamesng7320  "All you need is leverage over the government [...] the Azov Battalion makes up a small percentage of the military but they hold senior positions and influence in the government" Can you name any individuals having this kind of leverage or senior position? So far you've not been able to name anyone who you think Russia would want to remove (or why it would be worth it to start a full-scale invasion over these individuals). "If they did nothing then there would be lots of people dying in Donbass" That's hardly certain and the present war is going to kill far more. As a far smaller action Russia could have just moved troops into the already separatist held parts of Donbass without pushing any further. Why was there a need to invade the whole country? "and NATO and the US would be parking their missiles just outside Russia" That's not really credible. Ukraine would have been unlikely to have been able to join the NATO as long as the territorial dispute remained. If by missiles you mean nukes, that wouldn't likely make much difference since ICBMs are a thing. NATO already has members bordering Russia (and because of this invasion there might soon be one more).
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  7468.  @jamesng7320  "Why does it matter so much what their name is? Suffice that they are the ones who are de-facto in government due to their influence." Their names matter because then it's possible to try to check if these individuals actually have any significant influence over the government. The fact that you haven't been able to name any suggests that such individuals don't exist. "According to the UN, 14000 people have been killed in the Donbass in the past 8 years including civilian and military on both sides. The present war has only killed around 3,000 people according to the same UN. If the current war succeeds in bringing sustainable peace then there will be no more dying." That 14,000 figure is from the Ukrainian government, not the UN. The UN gives a slightly lower figure of 13,100-13,300. Most of these deaths happened early in that 8 year period. Later the rate of deaths was lower so the present invasion is going to increase deaths, not reduce them. Also, even the lowest figure of deaths for the present invasion is about 4,400 and the true figure is likely much higher as this figure uses the casualties reported by the Ukrainian and Russian governments both of which are likely to understate their own casualties. "Russia did think about just invading the Donbass, but then Ukraine would have likely mobilized and assaulted Russian positions. This made the operation to demilitarize Ukraine necessary." That makes zero sense. Ukraine likely would not have dared to do so and even if it did just defending is much easier than attacking so it would have been an easier military task for Russia (and sanctions would likely have been lighter too). "It is simply a threat Moscow cannot live with and they have every right to respond to it." There's no such right for a pre-emptive invasion (or else you could say that invading Russia pre-emptively would have been OK too). Ukraine was unlikely to join NATO, at least any time soon and even if it did there's no reason to assume any such missiles would be placed there. "Did you see what the US did when Cuba stationed Soviet missiles in 1962?" Back then missiles in Cuba (and Turkey) were a much bigger deal because ICBMs were few, inaccurate, and unreliable. Today ICBMs render Cuba-like situations largely irrelevant. Also, it's not clear that the US's response was justified (even though it wasn't even a full-scale invasion).
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  7469.  @jamesng7320  "Even if you had the name of someone like that how could you tell if they had influence or they don't have influence? This kind of thing is very hush, hush and no government wants to admit that it is being held hostage by its own military." I could at least try to check what info is available. If it's really so "hush, hush" then how are you able to know it? You're basically just making stuff up. "Russia says that have intelligence on Ukraine that suggests they would have mobilized if they had only gone into Donbass." Where does Russia say that? Do you have a source? In any case, it seems unlikely that Ukraine would invade Donbas in such a scenario. "I choose to take Russia's word." But that's not rational. Would you consider it rational if some person similarly just took the Ukrainian government's word without any evidence when it comes to this conflict? Just believing the Russian government without skepticism would be at least as irrational. "And they say that defending against this mobilization would be more difficult than conducting the special military operation." Where does Russia say that? Do you have a source? In any case, such claims would not be credible since defending is usually much easier than attacking. "According to your logic, Israel has no right to do such a thing" It might be. I don't know enough to make a definitive judgment. A full-scale invasion is a much more clear-cut case. "All I'm saying is that more powerful countries always act like this if they see a threat to themselves emerging in a neighbouring weaker country." All I was saying was that many such actions are not justifiable, the present invasion certainly so. Thus e.g. sanctions are in order. "Having missiles 5 minutes away from Moscow would make it impossible for Russia to have any chance of defending against them. That is a huge threat." Russia has nuclear ICBMs. Any missiles in Ukraine wouldn't take that deterrent away. In any case, Ukraine wouldn't have been able to join NATO for the foreseeable future. Pre-empting such remote possibilities with an invasion is not justifiable.
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  7470.  @jamesng7320  "Ok, here are two names for you - Victoria Nuland [...] Barack Obama" If these are the so called extremists with influence over the Ukrainian government then I don't seen how it makes sense invade Ukraine over them, especially if the goal is not to remove Zelensky. This invasion wont' remove Nuland from her position and Obama isn't in a position of power anymore in any case. Also, I don't think either of them is a member of Azov. "Yes there's skepticism when I take Russia's word for it, but no one will prove that their intelligence is real given the nature of how intelligence is gathered." Well, to me what you have claimed seem just unsupported assertions and nothing more. I don't see why it would be rational for most people to change their minds about this conflict just because you make these claims. Also, remember that Russia (as well as Ukraine) has an incentive to just make whatever claims happen to be convenient for them even if they happen to be lies. "Justifiable or not, that is the reality of how geopolitics works. We might as well learn to live with it because every country does it." Maybe, but we also want to keep invasions to a minimum because they're destructive. One way to do that is to make invasions painful for the invader. That's one good reason for sanctions. "And, if you are smart leader of a country which is weak such as Ukraine, you would make decisions based on this geopolitical reality to avoid war with Russia in the first place." Maybe, but we cannot go back in time and have Ukraine make different choices so what remains is a decision what to do in the current situation. If and when peace is reached we wouldn't want the terms to be too harsh on Ukraine. Sanctions put pressure on Russia so they should be more willing to agree to less harsh terms. "As for sanctions, no one sanctioned the US and Israel when the conduct their special military operations. So in your world where everything is fair they should have sanctions too." Maybe they should have, I can't say. "If nukes are the be all and end all of deterence then why do nuclear powers keep their regular armies then?" For example to deal with non-existential threats (so something less than leveling Moscow in 5 min), to fight outside one's own borders, to fight potential separatists, etc. Nukes might not be a be all end all but they certainly make attacks onto a nuclear power's soil quite unlikely. Even if you don't believe that, it still remains that Ukraine would have been unlikely to join NATO for the foreseeable future.
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  7471.  @jamesng7320  "They are the ones who arrange for the extremists to be put in positions of power in the Ukranian army." I expressed skepticism over the existence of extremists in the Ukrainian government or one's with influence over it that Russia would try to remove (without necessarily removing Zelensky). Just mentioning Nuland or Obama does not really allay my skepticism. I'm still skeptical on whether these extremists with influence over the government exist. "Russia is simply trying to undo that by destroying the Ukranian army." That makes no sense. Destroying the entire army entails huge amounts of deaths (on both sides). Also, if someone in the army has influence over the government it's likely to be generals or other high officers. Usually they would not be there dying on the frontlines so such a plan likely wouldn't work anyway (if the plan is to still not try to remove Zelensky). "I guess we will both keep on believing as we did before." Maybe, but I would like to note that I don't take Ukrainian claims at face value either. The way I see it is that Russia is the invader and invasions require a very high bar to be justified. Just taking an anti-invasion stance by default is the right choice barring very compelling evidence for the opposite. "Why must you resort to sanctions or military action if there's a better way to resolve the crisis?" I'm in favor of sanctions in the present situation where the invasion has happened and as long as it's going on. I'm not saying that before invasion one shouldn't try to avoid it (depending on what it would take). I'm not sure what would have been the best course of action before the invasion but now sanctions are in order until the invasion is over. "So if you say that invaders should always get sanctions then how will you enforce this on the US?" I don't know how to enforce it but it's better to discourage invasions at least some of the time. (As a sidenote, I'm not saying that invasions couldn't sometimes be justified. Few would claim that it was wrong for Allies to invade Germany in WWII. However, the justification has to be very strong.) "If nukes are so good then Russia should have just threatened Ukraine with nukes." No one wants a nuclear war so there's a lot of compunction over using nukes or even threatening their use. Countries might plausibly threaten using nukes over attacks that threaten their existence (such as leveling Moscow in 5 min). They don't threaten using them willy-nilly. That's why I mentioned fighting outside one's borders as one motivation for having a conventional military besides nukes. Russia's nukes still make invasions into Russia a very remote possibility. "you can't have missiles 5 minutes from your capital" As I've said many times, this was unlikely to happen for the foreseeable future anyway (and your logic would also mean that Belarus wouldn't have the right to be a CSTO member).
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  7472.  @jamesng7320  "there would have to be a material benefit to me if I were to prove things for you" That's understandable but the fact remains that for me and many others there is no rational reason to give the Russian claims much weight. "The West's intelligence for invading Iraq in 2003 was phony." At least my skepticism is not that much based on counter claims by Western intelligence agencies so this doesn't really matter all that much. Distrusting Western intelligence agencies doesn't make it rational to trust the Russian ones. Also, one could argue that one intelligence agency failing or deliberately lying means others could do it too or alternatively Western intelligence did correctly predict that this war would begin (or at least the US one did, not so much the French) which again should boost their credibility (if it matters). "I also believe that Russia must destroy the whole Ukrainian army because it is just too infested by Nazis" If you mean rank-and-file soldiers, that's ridiculous. The Ukrainian army is a conscript army largely made of ordinary people. There's no reason to believe it's significantly more "Nazi infested" than the general (male) population of Ukraine. It also has more than 200,000 people. Are you saying that massacring that many people is justified. On the other, if you just means generals etc. they're not likely to die on the frontlines. "it would have mobilized to attack Donbass if it were left operational" If the Russian army were in Donbas (but didn't push further) I don't think that would have happened. It's hard to imagine Ukraine attacking in that situation. Even if it did, that would be much more difficult for the Ukrainians since attacking is pretty much always more difficult than defending. This is basic logic and you don't have to consider anyone's intelligence info to come to this conclusion. "This pre-emptive self-defence justification is very strong justification in my view." I say the opposite, it's very weak. We need to have norms that discourage attacks. Otherwise, you could similarly say that a pre-emptive attack on Russia would have been even more justified (in hindsight). "Western sanctions are going to unravel when the West starts paying in Rubles for their gas" No, that's hardly going to make any difference. Firstly, the plan seems to be that European buyers of gas wouldn't have to get their hands on Rubles but rather they would remit Euros (or some other currency) to Gazprom Bank which would convert them to Rubles and give to the Russian exporter. Since the exporters were already required to convert 80% of their foreign currency to Rubles the difference is small. None of the sanctions unravel because of this. "Either that or Europe will shut down and go into recession." Even if gas keeps flowing other sanctions will still stay in place. If the gas trade is halted by one side or the other Europe would indeed go into recession but Russia too would likely go bankrupt fairly soon. Something like half of Russia's federal budget comes from the export of oil and gas. "So your sanctions aren't going to work anymore." Well, I disagree but in any case they should be kept in place at least as long as they still do work. There's still hope that peace might be achieved before that and meanwhile it's good to keep some pressure on Russia.
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  7473.  @jamesng7320  "The best that can be achieved is to exchange views and at least suggest to you that there might be more to it" Fair enough. It's just that many of these claims sound rather improbably so they don't shift my position much. "China in particular has echoed Russia's narratives quite consistently." China has stated that Russia has legitimate security concerns but it hasn't said that these would justify invasion. It also hasn't repeated any Russian claims about extremists in the Ukrainian government AFAIK. "What I mean by destroy is to destroy military facilities and disband the human component of the army either through surrender or them just leaving and going home, similar to how Iraq's army disbanded when the US invaded in 2003." That involves going in an toppling the government, not leaving Zelensky in power. "Russia is considered strong and not subject to this preemptive attack" Do you mean then that attacking Russia pre-emptively would have been morally justified (even if in practice it wouldn't happen)? "who is going to sanction US and NATO when they preemptively attack? How are you going to enforce your "norms to discourage attacks"?" I don't know but it's better if these norms are enforced at least part of the time. "Russia says that the money they get from the gas trade in Euros and dollars is immediately frozen upon receipt." You are mistaken. Russia does not say that and that is not the case. E.g. Russia's central bank's forex reserves were frozen. However, energy transactions are so far not subject to sanctions and receipts from those are not frozen. If they were frozen Russia's situation would already be much more dire than it is now (and Europe would have already stopped receiving gas). "Russia says that oil and gas export revenues to Europe account for 15-20% of it's budget." Total energy exports to Europe have been about $100 billion per year and the total budget about $300 billion so the share is more like 1/3rd. "If the gas trade is halted because Europe fails to pay in rubles according to this scheme then Russia would have lost nothing. Their funds from the trade are frozen and useless." No, these funds have not been frozen. Paying in Rubles doesn't have much effect (and the plan isn't for the gas buyers to remit the money in Rubles anyway). If the trade is halted both Russia and Europe will suffer massively.
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  7474.  @jamesng7320  "China has largely blamed NATO's expansion as being the root cause of this conflict." I don't think they have used the word "blame" in such a way even though they have said that Russia has legitimate security concerns. China has also stated that the sovereignty of every country, including Ukraine, should be respect. "by increasing trade with Russia since this war started it is implicitly saying that they think it is ok" I'd rather say that any trade with Russia is just an indication that they don't want to take an economic hit if it can be avoided, not a real statement on the issue. "When the US entered Baghdad I remember that Saddam Hussein was still in power but his army refused to fight and dissolved. I think that this had largely been achieved in Ukraine" I don't see any indication of that. "I do think that if NATO preemptively attacked because it is using the same pre-emptive self defense argument that Russia is using. It is defending Ukraine by pre-emptively attacking the would-be attacker" I don't understand what these sentences are saying. Would a hypothetical pre-emptive attack on Russia have been morally justified? In any case, my position is that a pre-emptive strike is not justified, not on Russia nor on Ukraine. "Both sides are justified in their use of force and to conflict is the only way to resolve who is "right"." I disagree. Norms should be such that they discourage destructive violence. "Your claim about the funds from the current gas trade NOT being frozen I have not heard of." There's e.g. article titled "SWIFT sanctions against Russia exempt energy payments" by ICIS (and I would give you a direct link if YouTube didn't tend to delete comments with links but you should be able to find it by googling). I've also not seen any mentions of gas money being frozen, only other assets. Have you seen any mention of gas money being frozen. Additionally it's just basic logic. If the gas money was being frozen why wouldn't have Russia already halted gas deliveries? Why would have the US banned the import of Russian oil, gas, & coal if it couldn't access the money from those anyway.
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  7475.  @jamesng7320  "Increasing trade with someone who has been severely sanctioned by the west sends a strong statement. Actions speak louder than words. India too has increased its oil imports." To me the statement just seems that they look after their own interest. "most of Ukraine's military infrastructure has been destroyed" The Ukrainian military hasn't disbanded nor stopped fighting like the Iraqi military did. "Sorry what I meant to say was that in a hypothetical non-nuclear world, NATO would be morally justified in pre-emptively attacking Russia to defend Ukraine." OK, my position is the opposite. "In academic circles, your arguments would be classed as "positive". This is the way the world SHOULD work. [...] My arguments are based on the reality on the ground and are called "normative"." You got the terminology the wrong way around here. Claims about how things are are "positive" claims whereas claims about how they should be are "normative" claims. "I agree with you - in a utopian world, everyone would renounce violence and we would all co-exist harmoniously. It is a very nice concept, but it is just a fantasy and you even concede that some of your concepts are unenforceable." Even reducing violence has a lot of value. International norms and responses can discourage and reduce invasions. Just because they might not reduce them to zero doesn't mean it's not worthwhile. Similarly we don't say that there's no point in funding a police for even though they can't reduce crime to zero. Strong response to this invasion makes future invasions less likely. "In my view, everyone has the right to challenge the status quo before the ultimate authority - force." If you say they have the right to do it it's a claim about how things should be, not how they are, just like my claims you mentioned. "Military force is the ultimate authority whether you like it or not and we must learn to work with it. [...] You can say that this is really unfair and I'd agree with you but this is the reality of the world." A good way to live with that reality is to discourage that kind of behaviour with sanctions (and air-strikes if Russia didn't have nukes). "not freezing Russia's oil and gas money in dollars and Euros doesn't make sense. The EU would essentially be financing Russia's war if they didn't sanction the payments." The EU essentially is financing Russia's war. While various sanctions have been applied they have not touched energy, at least so far, because that would impose hardship on some EU members, chiefly Germany and Italy. The US has banned the import of Russian oil, gas, & coal. Recently also Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania have announced that they would block gas imports from Russia. There would be no reason to do any of that if Russia couldn't access its gas payments. "Russian news also says the money is being frozen - see sputnik and RT." I actually don't believe they have said that. I tried to check but couldn't access their websites. If they have made such a claim then the person saying or writing that probably didn't know their stuff. However, I think it's more likely that you just misunderstood or misremember. More likely they have talked about some other assets being frozen or the possibility of the gas payment money being frozen at some point in the future (hence the demand for payment in Rubles). "it says that payments for energy are sanctions exempt. I interpret that to mean that the EU will still pay for the gas imports by putting Euros into a bank account. However, what is not mentioned is that the bank account where the money is held is frozen and no funds can be transferred out of it." That would directly contradict the statement of energy transactions being exempt.
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  7476.  @jamesng7320  "Zelensky is making concessions in talks with Russia so that indicates to me that the Nazis have lost their hold over his government due to them being destroyed in Mariupol and all" There's no reason to expect that Zelensky's stance would so much depend on whether some person with influence over him would die in Mariupol. It's not like that kind of influential person would be on the frontlines (and if they were that alone would make it difficult for them to influence the president). This is not a credible extrapolation. "If Ukraine was winning the war then why is Zelensky making concessions?" I haven't made any claims about which side is winning or losing. "The problem with having international norms and responses to discourage invasion is that they can't be applied to a perpetrator who is very powerful and armed with nukes - say the US or Russia right now. If you can't apply your norms to the powerful and only apply them to the weak then it makes your whole system extremely unfair to those who are weak and people will see it as glaring hypocrisy when you don't apply your norms to the strong. Once again I point to your concession that you can't apply sanctions to the US when it invades. If you can't do that then you might as well say that you don't do it at all so that everyone gets treated fairly." Quite the opposite. Let's not have the best be the enemy of good. It's better that norms are enforced at least sometimes. We don't say that because we can't catch every criminal we shouldn't have any law or police at all catching some criminals would be unfair to them. "Everyone and every nation does have the right to go before the ultimate authority - military force whenever they want to and for whatever reason they want to. This is not a statement of how the world should be it is a statement of how things are." No, saying that is a claim about how things should be (and one that I disagree with), i.e. normative. Saying that nations do or don't have the ability to do so or saying how likely they are to do so would be a claim about how things are, i.e. positive. Also, claims about enforcing international norms part of the time being unfair is a normative claim too. "That censorship should give you an idea that your government is trying to bias your views and perceptions of the world so that you agree with them." I don't necessarily agree with censoring them but I don't see that as a reason to shift my position much. Similarly Russia has banned various Western media there. Should one take a stance against Russia in this conflict because of that? "There is no contradiction - the payments are occurring because they are exempt from sanctions but the bank accounts which the payments are going to are frozen." To me that would be a contradiction. That would be a sanction on energy payments. Gazprombank, which handles at least some of those transactions, has specifically been excluded from sanctions, at least partially, so that energy payments could be facilitated. I've also not heard any mention anywhere (except YouTube comments) that money from energy transactions would have been frozen so far (though it could plausibly happen at some point). "And did you know that Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania get the majority of their oil and gas imports from Germany?" I don't know how much their ban has an effect. I just pointed it out because there would be no reason for them to do so (nor for the US to ban Russian oil/coal/gas) if the money from those transactions were frozen and unavailable for Russia.
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  7477.  @jamesng7320  "Azov (nazi) battalion was incorporated into Ukraine's army after 2014" Technically it was incorporated into the National Guard, not Army. "But an army always has influence even over its own government because it is strong." The Azov battalion is something like 1% of Ukraine's military. There's no reason to believe it has influence over the government. "If you selectively enforce norms against certain countries when they violate international rules then that is blatantly injustice." It's better than letting the worse injustice like Russia's present invasion go unpunished. To end this so called "injustice" of sanctions Russia just needs to end the injustice it is committing and retreat from Ukraine (or alternatively agree to a peace with Ukraine). Sanctions are a much gentler measure than an invasion anyway and if you prefer a world without international norms (rather than norms without perfectly even enforcement) then sanctions aren't anymore against international norms than invasions are. "The criminal analogy is not valid because not being able to catch a criminal and not knowing who to prosecute is different than knowing who the criminal is and not wanting to prosecute them because they are more powerful than you are." I doesn't have to be that it's not known who to prosecute. Sometimes the criminal is known but powerful enough to evade capture. Even if that's the case I wouldn't want the police to stop catching regular thieves and murderers. "I don't understand your argument about nations being unable to go to war at any time and for any reason." I never said they're unable to go to war. I responded to a section where you said they have a right to go to war which is different from ability.
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  7478.  @jamesng7320  "Those 1% are in senior positions in the Ukraine army which makes them a real threat due to their influence." No, they aren't, or certainly not most of them at least. Who exactly is in a senior position? "To end the "injustice" of sanctions, Russia needs to turn off the gas and then Europe will realize that they can't put sanctions on Russia without going into recession." Maybe they'll do that but it's not going to be easy for Russia either because they're gonna lose a lot of revenue. "What about Israel?" Maybe they should be sanctioned. They have at least face Arab sanctions in the past (though most of these have lapsed now) and e.g. in 2014 Spain froze military exports there (due to the events in Gaza). I don't know what is the best approach wrt. Israel. "NATO alleged that there was genocide being committed in that country and bombed it - without UNSC approval." OK, so you're talking about the Kosovo War (and not the Bosnian War some time earlier). "After that, the area where the genocide was alleged to have been committed was given independence. Russia also alleges that genocide is being committed in Donbass and has carried out a military operation similar to NATO. After that, they are going to give independence to Donbass." That campaign (Operation Allied Force / Noble Anvil) was certainly very controversial. I'm not arguing it was the best course of action but Russia's present actions are a lot worse for a couple of reasons. -Russia had prior to the present invasion basically already achieved a Kosovo-like situation by gaining control of Crimea and de facto independence (from Ukraine) for a part of Donbas. -Kosovo Albanians were experiencing mass expulsion. Nothing like that was going on in Ukraine. -There was no land invasion of Serbia. -Kosovo wasn't really given independence but rather they declared it unilaterally in 2008 and recognition remains split. -Operation Allied Force / Noble Anvil resulted in around 500 civilian deaths. Russia's present invasion is much worse in that regard. -Many Russian speakers in Ukraine don't want their region to be split from Ukraine by Russia. There was certainly a majority wanting that in Crimea and maybe also in at least parts of the east but not in many of the regions Russia is pushing on into now. I think these make it so that Russia's invasion is at least more clearly condemnable. I'm not saying NATO should have done what it did in the Kosovo War. At least targeting infrastructure in addition to military targets might have been the wrong thing to do. "If a criminal is powerful enough to evade capture, the authorities still need to show to the public that everything is being done to apprehend them." Even if they didn't try to apprehend that criminal I wouldn't want the police to stop arresting ordinary thieves and murderers (even if they might think it's unfair).
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  7479.  @jamesng7320  "I found another video from a French journalist in 2016..." Thanks, I'll watch the whole video at some point but right now I don't have the time. "Russia wouldn't lose any money because all the money they are getting from the gas right now is frozen" I don't believe that. I haven't seen any mention of money from energy transactions being frozen (aside from a couple of YouTube comments). "if it weren't for the US veto on the security council, there would be UN sanctions on Israel right now" Sanctions don't require permission from the Security Council. "The defacto independence for Donbass was not good enough. Despite Minsk 2, as the video shows there were still crimes committed against Donbass and this resulted in 14,000 deaths according to the UN." Quoting that 14,000 after saying "there were still crimes committed" is highly misleading. Firstly, the UN figure is slightly lower at 13,100-13,300 (though this is a minor point). Secondly, this figure includes both military casualties on both sides and civilian casualties killed by both so you can't blame all of it on Ukraine. Thirdly, and probably most importantly, the clear majority of those deaths happened in the earliest phases so "there were still crimes committed" and that figure aren't really connected. It doesn't justify a full invasion. "there has been very little land invasion of Ukraine too" That's just false. Even invading just the east and the south is a major invasion. For much of the conflict so far there was also invading force in the north as well. "you must take into account that Serbia is a much smaller country than Ukraine" Fair enough, though it still doesn't look that good in comparison. Human Rights Watch gives an estimate at around 500 civilian casualties for Operation Allied Force / Noble Anvil. Ukraine in 2020 had about 5.85 times the population of Serbia in 1999. Scaling up the civilian casualties by that is around 3,000. The recorded civilian casualties for the present invasion recorded by the UN as of April 7th is a bit over 1,600 and the true figure is likely higher. The 3,000 might have been already exceeded even though the current invasion has so far gone on for less than half of the time so it's almost certain to be deadlier, at least eventually, relative to population. Also, this invasion entails many military deaths too. "Donbass held a referendum on breaking away from Ukraine in 2014 just like Crimea and both populations voted for it." They were already de facto independent. I don't see how that would justify an invasion into the regions under Ukrainian control. "To apply justice selectively and only to those who you can enforce it upon is a big injustice in itself." I still consider it the lesser evil relative to no norms at all. "everyone has a right to defend themselves by any means necessary - just like Russia is doing" By that logic, everyone has the right to place sanctions too.
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  7480. Objection! 5:07 "Congresspeople were beating the market by an astounding 12%." But the abstract you show doesn't quite say that. It says that a portfolio mimicking what Senators bought beat the market by 85 basis points per month (i.e. about 10.7% per year) and a portfolio mimicking what they sold lagged the market by 12 basis points per month (i.e. 1.4% per year). Maybe you looked at the difference in the performances of these portfolios but that isn't quite the same as beating the market by the same margin as the average market performance is between these. (Or maybe you looked at the 12 basis point figure but, either way, what you said isn't quite correct.)
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  7481. What happens if a returning US citizen doggedly refuses to unlock their phone or laptop?
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  7482. Or maybe switch to Celsius' original scale. It was upside-down with water boiling 0 degrees and freezing at 100. Global warming would become global cooling!
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  7483. Fire one person? $400 per day is $146,000 per year. That's already a pretty high salary. Almost any ship's captain will make less than that (though some might come close).
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  7484. Have the rich Arab petro-states become less dynamic, potent, or cohesive after becoming rich?
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  7485. ?
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  7486. 1:50 Ackshually, it's not 32 armies because Iceland doesn't have an army.
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  7487. 7:45 "Jews don't go around killing Germans in Berlin, not today and not 60 years ago." To nitpick a bit, at least after WWII there was a Jewish organization called Nakam (נקם) which tried (unsuccessfully) to kill large numbers of Germans through poisoning as revenge. However, its size was only about 50 people so most Jews didn't try to do something like that. (Also, it was technically more than 60 years ago and the attempts happened in and near Nuremberg rather than in Berlin.)
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  7488. 8:00 I'm not sure that's correct. The entropy of the Sun should be decreasing since heat is flowing away from it. Of course, that still increases the total entropy in the Universe because entropy elsewhere increases more than it decreases in the Sun. Still, Sun isn't really the low entropy reservoir. It has high entropy because it's so hot. The reason why the energy in the sun is usable is because the space (and matter like planets and asteroids) surrounding it is much colder and thus has a lower entropy. It's the coldness of space that's our low entropy reservoir, not the Sun. However, you can still say that the Sun is a reservoir of usable energy.
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  7489. "The gray matter between the ears is still female." To my knowledge, certain features of brain anatomy can be observed to correlate with being transgender, so it might be that their brain was more "male-like" than that of the average cis-woman. Secondly, hormone replacement therapy is likely going to have some cognitive effects as well, like the "impatience" example in the article shows.
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  7490.  @Bud_Studly  I'm not making a judgment on what counts as "defective". Nonetheless, "the gray matter between the ears" was probably at least different from the average female.
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  7491. This is high voltage DC, not low voltage.
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  7492.  @seanscon  I mean the DC voltage isn't lower. For a given voltage DC has lower losses than AC. HVDC line voltages often range from 100 kV to 800 kV.
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  7493. 10:00 I don't think Crimea's water supply all that much points to Ukraine having destroyed the dam. If that was the goal it would have made more sense for Ukraine destroy the dam much earlier, e.g. right after they recaptured Kherson.
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  7494.  @kerrynball2734  You're mistaken. It was cancelled only after the war started. It cannot be one of the reasons for this war unless time travel exists.
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  7495. Does anyone know if the hydropower management is better in Norway?
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  7496. On the other hand, planes might be, to some extent, charge when electricity is cheapest.
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  7497. "Every pension system is PAYG with extra steps." That isn't true. E.g. the Dutch system is 100% funded, the opposite of a pay-as-you-go.
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  7498. "The American natives (indians) is the only civilization that got it right." They were hardly any kind of single civilization but rather a very broad and diverse group of different nations/societies.
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  7499. This particular hack wasn't that difficult because the system had "root" as the password for the root user.
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  7500. "My best bet goes to Spanish." Really? But it has grammatical gender, my bane in learning foreign languages.
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  7501.  @karenness5588 : I agree that Spanish seems easier to pronounce and seems to have fairly regular orthography. (I haven't studied Spanish but my wife is half Colombian.) However, many other languages have these features as well. I don't actually know how big of a barrier the grammatical gender would be. My comment was more out of the frustration I remember from studying German and Swedish.
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  7502.  @starry_lis : Oh, OK.
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  7503.  @tekcomputers  "PRoblem is, TF was making commentary on peoples reactiosn in the video he used." But it's not the people's reactions that are the creative content in the video. If TF was making commentary on e.g. camera angles then it would more likely be fair use.
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  7504. I would argue that the case Ukraine is different from that of Georgia. Russia is a nuclear power so the West is afraid to engage it directly (unless maybe if it gets even more brazen than it has been to date). Ukraine is special in that it seems to be strong enough to possibly resist the Russian onslaught with the West only helping it through sanctions, arms shipments, and other aid. That was not possible in the case of Georgia.
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  7505.  @PK-se2jh  It's not fraud if his allegations are true.
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  7506. It's the old flag from 1974-2010 which resembled the Taiwanese flag.
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  7507. The official election results are obviously fabricated. The percentages are almost exactly land on a tenth of a percent (and even on a fifth of a percent). That's too big of a coincidence to happen by chance. Someone just made up the results.
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  7508. There's no reason to not at least receive Captain Holland. And he could definitely accept one of the set-out terms of the ultimatum. The situation wasn't symmetric in this regard.
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  7509.  @Volcanares : "Admiral Gensoul accepted to meet Captain Holland" Really? The impression I got was that he only sent Lieutenant Dufay to meet Holland. Dufay, of course, didn't have the authority to even reject any proposals. I see no reason to refuse to meet with Holland. If Gensoul would have had any alternative suggestions that would have required the authority of Admiral Sommerville to accept he could have just let Holland relay them. "Saying that the responsability of the british firing on the french is due to the french admiral is stupid. The responsability is to the british first, in that case Churchill who gave the order." I would give a twofold response. 1) I think the criticism of Gensoul is entirely valid even if you think the British were in the wrong for attacking. Had he acted better, there would have been at least a possibility of a better outcome. Any morally wrong action by the Brittish doesn't detract from this. Soldiers often have to deal with opponents making morally unjustified attacks and can still be evaluated on how well they perform considering. Gensoul simply performed poorly in this instance. 2) In a certain sense, the responsibility, of course, lies on whoever made the decision to initiate hostilities. That doesn't, however, automatically mean that initiating the hostilities was necessarily morally wrong. One can make at least a plausible case that the Brittish had a sufficient reason for what they did, though it's a pretty tough question.
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  7510.  @Volcanares : "Yes, Admiral Gensoul met Captain Holland." If so, how long did it take? I don't recall such meeting mentioned in this video or on the Wikipedia page on the battle. At least initially he did send Lieutenant Dufay instead of meeting personally or sending a more senior officer. "What would you do in his position?" At the very least I would receive Holland as soon as he arrived. I would also send the Vichy government a message describing the whole situation including the whole ultimatum (and not just two of the given options). Ideally, I'd hope that one of the options given by the British could be accepted (such as sailing to the US). "it's their responsibility anyway" Yes, it is in the sense that you're using the word. I think in this video it was used to mean "blame" in the sense that some people involved ought to have done something different. Maybe the wording wasn't the best but I think it's a far more interesting question whether e.g. Gensoul or Somerville or someone else should have done something different rather than what's the meaning of the word "responsibility". "it was a mistake" At least in hindsight it was a mistake, but I'm not entirely sure whether it was a mistake also ex ante. "If the french fleet was really a threat, and you don't want it to join the axis power, that attack was the worst thing to do." That's certainly a risk. I guess the British government estimated that it was a smaller risk than leaving the fleet at Mers-el-Kebir intact. It's hard for me to make a judgment about that. "the french deserve respect for that" I agree.
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  7511. "It would be a bit hypocritical to bomb Serbia if it invades Kosovo, but not to bomb Azerbaijan for invading Nagorno-Karabakh." I don't necessarily agree. Even if you consider both Kosovo and NK being mistreated (or possibly so) by Serbia and Azerbaijan respectively, that doesn't necessarily imply an ethical duty to actually intervene. A possible intevention can be seen as voluntarily doing more than required so intervening once doesn't necessarily mean that you to continue doing so from that point onward. As an analogy, suppose a student in school once decides to protect another student from bullying, is he a hypocrit if he then doesn't do the same for every bullying victim he sees? Western countries (and others) don't have infinite strength to always intervene everywhere. (Note, I'm not intending to make claims about how similar these two cases are, whether Serbia or Azerbaijan is in the wrong or not, nor whether intervention was or would've been the right choice. My comment is narrowly about whether this selective intervention is hypocritical.)
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  7512. Wagner losses, at least when it comes to recent recruits from prisons, might be a fiscal positive for Russia since they should do away with the cost of incarceration.
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  7513. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  7514. That wasn't the problem. The problem was that steel production causes greenhouse emissions. Recycling causes less emissions.
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  7515. I don't know if they have been buying electricity from Russia but their grids were still synchronized with those of Russia and Belarus. After this, they're synchronized with Continental Europe.
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  7516.  @prunabluepepper  "You also say, that minorities and foreigners are more likely to be arrested for trafficking, which is logical, since most drug dealers in Portugal come from Morocco." The point was that when a person is caught possessing an amount of drugs above the criminal limit the police exercise their discretion to arrest or not arrest in a way such that e.g. a Moroccan is more likely to get arrested than a non-foreign looking Portuguese person.
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  7517. I disagree.
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  7518. 7:10 Stock buybacks are just a way of transferring profits to owners. Theoretically they're equivalent to dividends.
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  7519. 1:12 That Spanish flag looks huge.
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  7520.  @anufriyev  "But you can't use the energy of the wind if the wind doesn't exist anymore." But the wind (relative to the ground) still exists so it can be used.
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  7521.  @anufriyev  "The car and wind moves relative to the ground with the same speed and in the same direction. For the car, the wind does not exist anymore." If you want to consider the inertial frame tied to the cart in such a case then you should note that the ground is moving relative to the cart and the cart can extract energy from the ground's movement. I personally find it more intuitive to consider energy in the inertial frame tied to the ground. In that frame the cart is extracting energy from the kinetic energy of the wind.
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  7522.  @Xbalanque84  "when assuming material forms" This video seemed to say that the angels are not incorporeal in the Bible.
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  7523.  @randlebrowne2048  " I'm not sure where Metatron is getting that from." Well, in this video he says that in the Bible they're always described as corporeal.
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  7524.  @penumbra0182  It's actually a Stalin quote.
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  7525.  @petersmythe6462  It's not a misattribution. Stalin did say (roughly) that.
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  7526.  @MrZweene  It would be a real currency in the sense that at least some organizations could hold it. You'd have some kind of organization deciding how much of it to issue. You could at least calculate an interest rate for it as a weighted average of the interest rates for the composite currencies like is currently done for Special Drawing Rights. It could conceivably replace the use of USD in some of the transactions between the BRICS countries and some portion of their forex reserves if it ever gets adopted but I agree that the effect on the global use of USD is probably going to be very small.
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  7527.  @MrZweene  Bank balances are usually not a big risk. Most companies don't have problem using banks for transactions. (And banks themselves hold base money directly.) This (likely) wouldn't be any kind of Euro 2.0 because the national currencies would remain and wouldn't be pegged to each other.
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  7528.  @MrZweene  I those bank runs, like the case of SVB, the companies just transferred their funds to another bank. "What is even the sense of this? Why should anyone use a strange BRICS coin if you can go straight to the yuan?" For political reasons. I expect it would mainly be used by big state-owned companies and other state entities, not most ordinary businesses.
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  7529.  @innosam123  If they were to be pegged that would take away independent monetary policy from all of them which would be highly problematic.
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  7530.  @petersinclair3997  If the hypothetical BRICS currency was partly based on the Chinese currency they'd probably just have to choose whether to use CNH or CNY for that purpose. Using different values in different markets would be just asking for trouble.
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  7531.  @cantacann  Renminbi would probably have the largest weight but due to political reasons the basket probably can't be as much weighted towards Renminbi as the GDPs of the countries would indicate.
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  7532. "As fictional exampoe, you could take 100 millionen people paying each other 100$ to swipe each others bottom" In the real world people would only pay such sums if they saw such service as valuable enough to justify the price. This hypothetical example isn't a good argument against using GDP as a measure of economic output. "If everyone owns the house or appartment they live in? Devastating for the GDP" You're mistaken. For owner-occupied units a rental equivalent is calculated. "By the way: reusing and sellin existing things = terrible for the GDP, because for example a 2 second hand car is not seen as value in GPD. So wasting a hell lot of resources to play old stuff with new stuff instead of keep the old stuff working = terrible for GDP." No, that argument makes no sense. If a country, say, switches to more frequently buying new cars instead of using old cars of longer that doesn't magically gift the country with new production capacity. It will just have to sacrifice some other production and switch to more car production (leaving out the option of international trade for simplicity) so GDP is not increased unless there was for some reason some kind of unutilized capacity which only then starts to be used. Obviously, second hand cars should not be double-counted in GDP just because they change hands (though the services of a second-hand car salesman can be counted).
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  7533. While it might be technically a promotion, I think his role in running the war and the war economy will shrink.
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  7534.  @e_x_c_u_b_i_t_o_r_ejiysb7169  Medvedev isn't supposed to have actual influence. His priority is just to ensure Putin that he isn't a threat.
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  7535.  @todorviktorov6714  Serbian?
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  7536.  @todorviktorov6714  "ive the impression croats have never ending love to their former yu- rulers" That sounds a bit strange since they fought a war against the Serbs. Not that there would necessarily have to be a lot of hate anymore, as that was almost 3 decades ago, but "never ending love" sounds unlikely.
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  7537. @mariaadelecagna3540 It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  7538.  @ciceroalexandar6184  Not on the top of my head.
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  7539.  @cinderellaandstepsisters  But what about the difference to Prague I described?
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  7540.  @cinderellaandstepsisters  Oh wait. I guess your comment about "eastern block" was referring to the part of my comment that's in parentheses? I didn't realize that until now. I thought you were talking about the architecture.
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  7541. "If that weapon drives towards you, you are legally permitted in Castle Doctrine states to use deadly force to stop the threat" Hey, don't be a monster and kill people just because you might able to do it legally, even if they might be jerks. The people might even just be doing what they're told to do by their employers so aren't the main jerks in the case. Killing them would be utterly reprehensible.
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  7542.  @DynamicFortitude  But Poland is in the EU so emitters there have to buy permits in accordance with the EU emissions trading scheme. It's, at least in theory, equivalent to a carbon tax.
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  7543.  @madguitarist8014  Though I've heard the languages are to some degree mutually intelligible.
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  7544. Well, Manafort is about to become a muscle-bound convict, isn't he?
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  7545. 8:04 "There is no such thing as a more efficient space heater." Theoretically, a heater that works by pumping heat into the room from outside could have an efficiency of over 100%. (Of course, any system like this would have to actually be installed and not just bought and plugged in, it's efficiency might not be described as a percentage of over 100%, and its efficiency wouldn't be a fixed value as it would depend on the temperature difference between air outside and inside the room.)
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  7546. Wut?
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  7547. You need to somehow store the plants so that they don't rot and release the CO₂ back into the air.
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  7548. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  7549. Also, natural gas is still a CO₂ emitting fossil fuel as well (though better than other fossil fuels).
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  7550. No, that would be "Freemen of the Land".
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  7551. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it's not anymore.
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  7552. Part of that gas was used for direct heating of homes (as well as cooking with gas stoves). That's definitely something we should get rid of.
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  7553. 55:40 But if the Russians want that, what are they willing to give in return? Considering that Russia has now invaded Ukraine those kinds of goals are hard to achieve because most countries don't trust Russia. Probably they would have to at least agree to give up most of their conquests in Ukraine but I'm not sure that would be enough.
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  7554. Estonia was annexed into the Soviet Union. It wasn't merely occupied. The Soviets deposed the Estonian government and installed a new government which then requested, and was granted, entry into the Soviet Union.
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  7555.  @draganserdar9999  At least a small portion of Turkey (East Thrace) is in Europe whereas Cyprus is located entirely outside of Europe.
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  7556. What other VPNs can you compare it to?
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  7557. He gave reasons for why it's still not a good idea. One was that electricity producers and grid operators are organizations who have teams on call to fix issues so it's not easy to cause a long blackout by hacking and a short blackout isn't very damaging.
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  7558.  @wordofswords5386  I'm not sure if phones are that big of a part of their communication anymore. But in any case, I think I have usually been able to use my phone during a blackout. Cell phones work on a battery so they don't become instantly inoperable and cell phone towers usually have some backup power. You probably can't very easily cause a long blackout with just hacking because it's not easy to cause physical damage that way so no lengthy repairs are required. Also, in case of drone it would only delay the charging of those drones that happened to be charging at that time. Thaddeus Grugq is a security researcher (based on short googling) which seems to lend at least some credence to what he says (though he's still obviously not inerrant).
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  7559. "Amazing case of self-genocide !!" It's not self genocide if it's caused by another country invading.
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  7560.  Danger Bear : Just stating that isn't an argument in favor of it. Also, do you mean that none of the bombings were accidents or that only some of them weren't?
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  7561.  @TessaBain  "I don't know why people keep saying they can't release the logs when they absolutely can." Maybe they can but maybe the minor in question might not want her conversations with him becoming public.
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  7562. That 80% is due to a redefinition.
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  7563. 11:30 Wait a minute! Was it switching his computer off that triggered the crash? It's not made very clear here what's the significance of it.
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  7564. It's difficult to achieve a unification deal the Greek Cypriots would accept.
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  7565.  @Rey_B  Even if a bond has a coupon payment it's still probably not a good investment in a low interest rate environment. Due to low interest rates the coupon payment should be small (compared to the price of the bond) so you don't get much yield. Then, if interest rates rise back up it will collapse the value of the bond, at least temporarily. (Of course, if you hold until maturity then interest rate swings shouldn't matter in theory.)
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  7566. 10:30 One YouTube commenter has told me that this etymology, which e.g. Wikipedia tells, isn't correct, though I've forgotten what the actual etymology was according to him. (More specifically, the "ravine" part is still correct but the "quiet" part isn't, according to that commenter.)
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  7567. 36:10 Were they really galleys rather than galleons?
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  7568. (EDIT: Changed the question due to checking what happened.) Btw. Would the judge actually be able to dismiss the case after he's already given a sentence just to get the accused to save him?
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  7569. "Well lets not pretend east and west division of europe has anything to do with actual geography( Finland)" You could justify that geographically by also considering Northern and Southern Europe separate from Eastern and Western Europe. That way you can also count Greece as Southern rather than Eastern. You could also count Central Europe separately though that would make things quite messy.
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  7570.  @SongOfDeer  Well, he isn't unskilled at hacking. He has done more demanding stuff earlier.
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  7571.  @Xiy114  The CEO only received a suspended sentence so he isn't actually going to prison.
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  7572. In case you hadn't already seen this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVvUNj6vxoc
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  7573. That was from the Continuation War, not the Winter War.
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  7574. The efficiency is too low.
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  7575.  @HKspurs10  "with improvements in technology, it will get better" I don't think it'll get good enough anytime soon. Roundtrip efficiency is something like 30%.
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  7576. I think I might mention that I saw an example mentioned elsewhere. Specifically, it was the Communist China's invasion of Vietnam. Apparently, the invasion wasn't that successful and China pulled out fairly quickly. It seems to them pulling out either wasn't embarrassing or the embarrassment was small enough that persisting to avoid it wasn't worth it. However, I'm not very familiar with this conflict so this description could be wrong.
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  7577. They have agreements. They can even mint their own euro coins.
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  7578. Considering the title, it's a bit surprising that you didn't mention neotenous caterpillars that never turn into winged adults.
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  7579. I think so far they have been fair so there's a chance loses. Of course, it's not impossible that he might try dirty tricks this time.
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  7580. Same for Belgium vs. Germany.
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  7581. Haha!
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  7582. "The US lost against Vietnam and never ended up paying reparations." The US has paid a lot of aid to Vietnam, though. I think if Russia paid e.g. "development aid" to Ukraine, that would satisfy most calls for reparations even if they weren't formally called reparations.
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  7583. I'd rather he teach us about US tax law.
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  7584. "So explaining why it does work here quite the challenge." Because here the wind is an external energy source so it's not a perpetual motion machine.
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  7585.  @jonathanedelson6733  OK, I misunderstood you.
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  7586.  @loksterization  "There's still a lot they can do to escalate." Like what? (I mean, other than nukes or chemical weapons.)
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  7587.  @loksterization  "they can do saturation bombing of cities like Bakhmut [...] Important governmental buildings in Kiev are still untouched. Russia can demolish them. In fact most of Kiev city centre is still untouched by Russia." I don't think those things would be militarily useful. They would just be a waste of ammo.
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  7588.  @loksterization  How is destroying apartment blocks militarily useful? The Ukrainian army hardly relies on them.
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  7589. The USA officially recognizes China, not Taiwan (since 1979).
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  7590. 1:02:00 Well, Putin is certainly trying to change Ukraine.
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  7591.  @rahulsls  What are you talking about? I've never claimed that Iraq had WMDs.
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  7592.  @rahulsls  "Why does Ukraine need a NATO membership?" The reason why Ukraine would want to join NATO is the risk that Russia might invade (and this risk was indeed realized). Though Ukraine wasn't going to be able to join for the foreseeable future so that prospect was pretty much irrelevant. In any case, I don't see what this has to do with the "unipolar vs. multipolar world" aspect which I was commenting on.
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  7593.  @rahulsls  "Right now who is supporting Ukraine???" The US, the UK, the EU, Canada, etc.
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  7594.  @luisgustavo6117  "Suicide will only be an option after the person in question has withstood a considerable amount of suffering, only by the fact that by then their childhood will have passed." It's still only a fraction of their lifespan. Also, I think children tend to be happier than adults though I don't have data on it right now. "On top of that, healthy individuald almost never commit suicide." Which seems to indicates that they still prefer continuing to live.
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  7595.  @luisgustavo6117  "Fact stands that they will receive some amount of suffering which is considered unacceptable by antinatalism." The smaller the amount the weaker the antinatalist argument becomes. "There is no shortage of examples on the internet of people who go to bed praying to die in their sleep, Christians who beg god to end their lives." But I think these are a small percentage of people. I'd say not committing suicide is far more often an indication of desire to continue living. Also, I've been told (though, again, I don't have data on hand) that a decent portion of people who attempt suicide and fail are later happy that they did not succeed. When it comes to (some) Christians and other people who view suicide as a sin, I'd say that it's better to change the morals to allow euthanasia than to go full antinatalist.
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  7596. Because heating costs next to nothing.
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  7597. Elop did help Nokia in one way. The price that Microsoft paid for Nokia's phone division was quite excessive and the cash from that deal did help Nokia survive its difficulties.
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  7598.  @nodzeratul  Grozny was bombarded for several months. Kharkiv and Mariupol haven't been bombarded for as long. Maybe the bombardment is less intense than in the case of Grozny but clearly Russia isn't avoiding civilian casualties super hard, at least not in these places.
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  7599.  @nodzeratul  You can easily find drone footage of many damaged and destroyed buildings in Mariupol. It's not realistic to expect that the Russian forces could somehow pinpoint only the Ukrainian forces.
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  7600. Oregano transplants.
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  7601.  @AnonyMous-jf4lc  "If this concept really worked, you could put this car in a completely still environment, push it to get it moving, and it would self sustain." No, that would be true free energy. This cart is taking energy from the wind.
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  7602.  @AnonyMous-jf4lc  The wind is still (kind of) driving the cart. The propeller accelerates the cart whereas the wheels driving the propeller decelerate it. Because of the wind the acceleration from the propeller is greater than the deceleration from the wheels. Yes, from the cart's perspective the wind is coming from the front (after windspeed has been exceeded) but it's relative speed is slower than that of the ground.
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  7603.  @AnonyMous-jf4lc  "In order for that to occur, the propeller must be providing more thrust than the drag of the car, and that drag includes driving the propeller." Which is perfectly possible.
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  7604.  @AnonyMous-jf4lc  "If I can provide more thrust than the drag it takes to create it, I have just invented free energy." No, it's not free energy. Energy is being extracted from the wind.
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  7605.  @ADifferentBias  Thanks for answering. I personally would like a bit more diversity in topics but I, of course, understand that you're going to focus on the topics you are most interested in. I wonder if the content is going to change if the Conservatives lose the next election.
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  7606. Maybe the flail or plow type mine clearing vehicles can still be useful in cases where the enemy has retreated but the minefields they have laid are still there.
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  7607. It wasn't Zelensky. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  7608. Hmm, I haven't seen any saltiness.
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  7609. Surely Dugin isn't serious, at least not about all his ideas?
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  7610. Solar is a bad option for the winter. You need something else.
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  7611. "yeah, you were a bit off with the finnish armed forces numbers. We have about 20k active forces, 238 000 wartime forces and about 900 000 reservists" His figures are correct. Finland has about 240k reservists that could actually be called into duty at a reasonable timeframe in the case of a conflict. That 900k is a paper figure. While that many people may have military training that many cannot realistically be called into combat. 240k is the size of the reserve that could actually be called into combat.
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  7612.  @anamikagupta8447  The average population density doesn't say much. A majority of people live in cities (in Finland and most other countries). The happiness in Finland isn't caused by swathes of mostly empty land in Lapland.
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  7613. 9:28 Prime source? Didn't it rather become the prime destination for these relocations?
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  7614.  @g1y3  "did 150k + includes civilians aswell?" Civilian casualties are in any case much lower than military casualties so the number wouldn't differ hugely either way (maybe a bit over 10% if the figures on civilian casualties given in this video are to be believed).
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  7615. Barbary States were rich due to piracy.
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  7616. Consider the possibility of FPV drones that want to crash into you and explode instead of merely observing you.
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  7617. 1:50 "the US doesn't like that" It's a bit misleading to word it like that since it's only Trump who's complaining. It's far from certain whether he's going to be the next president.
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  7618.  @altrag  It might look bigger but that's not really relevant to why I don't agree with your earlier statement "Those are in large part the same thing" in response to what I said about what to target in Iran vs. how strongly to target it. Let me be more explicit what I meant, as perhaps my earlier comment was too vague. What I mean by what to target would e.g. be whether to blow up oil tanks or SAM launchers. By how strongly to target them meant whether to blow up e.g. 1 or 100 oil tanks / SAM launchers. I would guess the latter would have a bigger impact on how strongly Iran would respond, at least if the difference is as big as 1 vs. 100.
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  7619.  @gae_wead_dad_6914  Did you mean to tag someone else? Your comment doesn't seem to have anything to do with mine.
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  7620.  @gae_wead_dad_6914  Are you accidentally replying to the wrong thread? I don't see any mentions of Admiral Kuznetsov in this thread.
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  7621. No, then it would slow down and stop.
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  7622. It wasn't Ukraine. The deliveries to Moldova ceased before the transit agreement through Ukraine expired. It's because of a dispute over gas payments. Russia claims that Moldova owes them over $700 million for gas whereas Moldova claims (citing some kind of audit) that they only owe $8 million. It's because of that dispute why Moldova (including Transnistria) isn't getting Russian gas. Gas could still be transported to Moldova through TurkStream but Russia doesn't want to do that.
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  7623. I think using translator's notes is often considered a bit of a failure. I personally tend to like them due to my curiosity but I can understand why other's might not.
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  7624.  @TwilightWolf032  Yeah, I like them as well (even though I'm not aspiring to learn the language). However, often translators have to go for the "lowest common denominator" for understandable reasons. Ideally I would like there to be options for different kinds of subtitles but I guess that's too much to ask.
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  7625.  dražen CRO  Which groups are you thinking about?
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  7626.  @pvanb2  The US doesn't have open borders.
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  7627.  @pvanb2  People crossing the southern border illegally often have to spend a lot of money and take some serious risks (like dying in the desert). The border is far from open.
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  7628.  @pvanb2  "If it was that costly and dangerous, millions would not clamour to make such a "dangerous" journey." Of course they would because many can make a lot more money in the US. That's a powerful motivator. Of course, most Mexicans don't attempt something like that but enough do such that the absolute numbers are still large.
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  7629.  @pvanb2  In any case, saying that Russia would wreak vengeance on the US by giving illegal immigrants weapons in the US sounds a bit far-fetched. It wouldn't be easy to do on a large scale and the effect wouldn't be that large.
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  7630. I knew where St. Helena was but not because of Napoléon but rather because of an old (and really bad) board game.
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  7631.  @Nerwesta  I think Nimitz class carriers can exceed 30 knots. If an approaching missile is detected, I suspect the ships that appear to be targeted would try to evade it.
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  7632. "And then the company passes said tax straight onto the consumer" Then more carbon intensive products become more expensive the consumers will consume less of them. That's exactly what should happen.
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  7633. 14% VAT on that iced coffee.
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  7634.  Kilo Byte  That $11 is for voluntary private insurance. When I said $0 I meant many don't pay for a private health insurance at all.
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  7635.  @jonathantaylor6926  They pay high interest rate which compensate for the risk. You know, some people also invest in e.g. startups even though a far higher percentage of them fail.
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  7636. Cars still take too much space in cities.
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  7637. Maybe he ran something like "tar -cf vastaamo.tar *" in the wrong directory.
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  7638. 9:58 "Ask me how I know." How do you know? 17:06 "Ask me how I know." How do you know?
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  7639. The hypothesized effect comes from Pauli's exclusion principle. If you have three types of quarks instead of two, more of them can be in the lower energy states. The hypothesis is that in a large enough clump that effect might become larger than the higher mass/energy of the strange quarks making strange matter have a lower energy state.
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  7640. That would be a different kind of liquidation.
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  7641. Moreover, the person getting injured or killed could be you!
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  7642. Some metadata, like the creation time of a file, might be very important depending on the case.
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  7643. That the plane was carrying PoWs is just a Russian claim. There's no reason to give much weight to it.
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  7644.  @RyanBrown-nx8dw  I'm not saying you should believe Ukrainian claims. I'm only saying that there's little reason to put much weight on Russian claims either.
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  7645.  @RyanBrown-nx8dw  No reason for that.
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  7646. "I can‘t help but wonder whether or not Russia might be inclined to make efforts in its captured territories similar to those you have described in this video." The spending part is plausible (if Russia is able keep the territories it has conquered from Ukraine and if it doesn't become broke due to the war and the sanctions) as Russia did also spend a lot to develop Crimea. However, giving a broad autonomy and letting the region be ruled by a local warlord seems less likely since the population is of the same or closely related ethnic group unlike in Chechnya.
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  7647.  @mirror452  "the fundamental issue here is that the cows are privately owned" It's misleading to say that. Privately owned cows are not incompatible with a solution.
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  7648.  @doujinflip  Temporary storage is fairly unproblematic and in the long term it can be buried underground.
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  7649. Is it really 30% of electricity or 30% of energy?
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  7650.  @Tsukiko.97 : Maybe he could make a video on the economics or logistics of Area 51.
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  7651. It's not quite nationwide. East and west are separate.
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  7652. It's Artsakh.
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  7653. Btw, is it a problem if you happen to be taking the maximum amount of power from one side of the split-phase and none from the other? Do they have to be "balanced"?
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  7654.  @LineShot-d2h  It's really unlikely they'd want Mongolia to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Mongolia is far from the current members and it's (population-wise) a small country sandwiched between two much larger ones. It could help in the defense of any current member and it would be impossible to send aid to in case it was attacked. There's no reason why NATO would want to add that kind of member.
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  7655.  @LineShot-d2h  You have things completely backward here. It's Ukraine that wanted to join but it couldn't in practise get it.
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  7656.  @LineShot-d2h  I don't think Zelensky promised to keep Ukraine out of NATO and the Ukrainian constitution included a clause about seeking NATO membership even before Zelensky's term so in that respect his hands were tied in any case. Also, NATO wouldn't have accepted Ukraine's membership at least for as long as its territorial dispute with Russia remained, so it's certainly not the case that Ukraine was somehow egged on to join NATO.
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  7657.  @LineShot-d2h  Zelensky campaigned on a more conciliatory platform than Poroshenko but he didn't promise no NATO and NATO didn't object to his platform. Ukraine's desire to join NATO isn't somehow caused from outside. It's not the case that NATO somehow made Ukraine on a path to join. Ukraine itself would like to join but in practise it can't get in.
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  7658. Salt is cheap. It's not worth the effort.
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  7659. It's still 120V because that's the voltage of a live wire relative to neutral. That's how the voltage is measured.
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  7660.  @surgeon9039  No, the ship in question seems to be a Hongkong flagged ship named New New Polar Bear.
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  7661. "Possibly, Putin could announce another round of "partial" mobilisation, which in reality would be a slow general mobilisation according to logistical limits." He doesn't need to announce anything like that. He can just continue mobilizing more people under the current decree and just not disclose how many have been drafted.
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  7662. The EU has a Single Market as well as Customs Union. You can't really give access to one EU member state without giving an access all others as well. Just signing such agreement with one country is probably not possible. Even if it were possible, all the other members could just use that one member as a proxy to gain access to India just the same.
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  7663. Wouldn't Nevada be closer?
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  7664.  @charlesbeaudry3263  "The fact that Russia was running surplusses means that the private sector was not lending to the government." They would have lent had Russia been borrowing.
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  7665.  @jesuszamora6949  Maybe not completely sure but since Russia didn't have much trouble finding lenders for the amount it did borrow it probably could have borrowed at least somewhat more. Also, the low levels of debt and oil income probably made it seem like a safe borrower. On the other hand, the oil income also meant that it didn't need to borrow that much.
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  7666.  @charlesbeaudry3263  "They could not borrow in roubles because nobody would lend them the money." No, that's just incorrect. They could have borrowed at least somewhat more but they chose to spend less than what would have required borrowing.
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  7667.  @legend9805  That would still leave the Kherson and Zaporizhzhia oblasts under Russian occupation.
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  7668. About 5.6% of newly registered cars are electric.
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  7669.  @Nedula007  To my knowledge, it's mostly contract soldiers. Note, I'm only talking about Russian forces here. The forces of the separatist "peoples' republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk are conscripts.
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  7670.  @MrTubby69  At least some conscripts were sent initially (even though it's illegal).
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  7671.  @AT-9777  No, it was clear from the start that most were contract soldiers (except the LPR/DPR forces). Of course, now after the partial mobilization order they are sending conscripts too in large numbers (other than the former LPR/DPR forces).
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  7672.  @AT-9777  "Before the start of war conscripts were literally moved to the border to "training"." Those were (mostly) contract soldiers, not conscripts.
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  7673. I hope Qatar saves the money in a sovereign wealth fund like Norway did.
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  7674. When I google that the result I get is that it only evaporates from 20% to 30% of the water. Also, even if the lake wasn't there it wouldn't reduce that evaporation to zero.
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  7675. How much does legibility matter in the present day? Even if the routes are complicated you can just let a route planner take care of it for you.
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  7676.  @Facu_Roldan  But South Ossetia a.k.a. Tskhinvali already wasn't under Georgian control so there likely won't be active fighting over it.
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  7677.  @tomewyrmdraconus837 : "From a modern perspective, the language used when we were hunter-gatherers would almost certainly not qualify as a language." I find that very hard to believe (at least without a source). There are still some basically paleolithic or neolithic cultures and they still have what are most definitely languages. The languages might lack some concepts (like numbers) that would not be that important for hunter-gatherers, but are still quite sufficient for conversing about everyday life, telling stories, telling jokes etc.
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  7678. What inaccuracies were there?
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  7679.  @bruhmomentnumber1558  "Short interest isn't 30% since GME is getting shorted through ETF's like XRT, bringing the actual short % up higher." What does that mean? Do you mean that some people are shorting XRT shares and that's in effect a short on the companies included in the index (including GME)? Or something else? I would say it's reasonable to not include that kinds of shorts. "we are are the little fish in this, institutions are also playing this long, and they are doing most of the work behind the scenes" Do you have evidence of that? I think it's unfair to state this as an "inaccuracy" if it's just a suspicion.
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  7680.  @Rippedyanu1  "Institutions currently hold 138% of the float for gamestop according to bloomberg terminals as of yesterday with retail holding a similar amount of float." Do you have a source for that?
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  7681.  @Rippedyanu1  OK, but can I check that from somewhere? Do you have a source?
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  7682.  @Rippedyanu1  "I just gave you bloomberg terminal pictures" But I don't see any such pictures (or links to such pictures).
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  7683. It's not a low risk to Russia. Something like half of Russia's federal budget come from the export of hydrocarbons. The loss of revenue is a significant risk for Putin.
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  7684. Ukraine has over 60% bigger population, though.
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  7685. They really are teenagers.
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  7686. Scotland and England aren't the only neighbors that have fought a lot of wars: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dano-Swedish_war
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  7687. Lol!
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  7688. "It was not even a goal." Why'd they send paratroopers there then?
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  7689. "reality is peace talks could come when Western proxy war in Ukraine stopped" The West can't so easily stop Russia from attacking.
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  7690. Unlikely.
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  7691. @Blitz Gaming654 "I don't think 4200 to 4600 an hour is low for a test" I think it is low. Also note that the highest hourly ridership outside tests has been below 1,400 / h. I've seen this system compared to the absolutely tiny M1 metro line in Budapest which has a ridership of about 80,000 per day on workdays. That's something like 3,300 / h if we divide the ridership evenly on all 24 h in a day. However, the peak ridership is likely above that maximum capacity achieved in that Las Vegas Loop test. This is in spite of how small M1 is. Putting rubber wheeled cars in that tunnel is just stupid. They could have just put rails and small trams into the tunnel and that would have significantly increased the capacity and cut down operating costs. I don't see why the Boring Company would use cars instead other than the fact that Musk also has a car company but no company that manufactures trams.
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  7692. Short sellers wouldn't buy the shares, they would borrow them.
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  7693. "those 800+ cables will actually increase the temperature of the surrounding body of water" That increase is not significant.
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  7694.  @Unknown-gi1uj  The amount of water vaper in the air is basically determined by the air temperature. Cables in the water aren't going to affect that. (Not that anyone is going to build 800 cables anyway.)
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  7695.  @Unknown-gi1uj  "Cables in the water will act like an element in your hot water cylinder or spa pool." But the amount of heating compared to the mass of the sea is insignificant.
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  7696. I think there's an interesting comparison to be made with my country, Finland. Here homes usually have central heating, lot's of insulation, and double-glazed windows. However, most homes don't have ACs. It rarely gets so hot that just opening the windows isn't enough but, when it is that hot, there's no escape. I remember one Japanese youtuber (named Takagi Gen) who moved to Finland mention that in the summer he had to sleep on the balcony it was too hot inside for him to be able to sleep. So in a hot climate like Japan there's no escape from the cold and in a cold climate like Finland there's no escape from the heat.
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  7697. "Since weight isn't really a concern in buildings, lithium-ion alternatives do seem like a major market waiting for the right conditions." But one option is used EV batteries which are still lithium-ion.
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  7698. Well, you should've told him to release this at some other time!
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  7699.  @Ifyoucanreadthisgooglebroke  You could argue that in the context of StarCraft the term "Zerg rush" would be incorrect. In StarCraft a "zergling rush" is one strategy that's used but the name of the unit is indeed "zergling" and just using "Zerg" (which is the name of a whole faction) would be woefully inspecific. Secondly, the "rush" part isn't even used as it's used in StarCraft (or RTSs in general). A "zergling rush" would be making a very early attack with a small (not large) number of zerglings. More generally, "rushing" something in RTS is building/using something as early as possible or at least much earlier than a "standard" strategy would call for.
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  7700. Isn't Bukele the one who made Bitcoin legal tender and caused the government to lose a lot of money on it? Still, reducing the crime rate is probably a bigger plus than the fiscal loss is a minus.
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  7701.  @Ryleeman54number2  At least wherever there are pedestrians the speed limits should be a lot lower.
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  7702.  @Ryleeman54number2  Might be that 30 km/h is slow enough so in most areas under 25 km/h might not be necessary.
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  7703.  @Ryleeman54number2  It's appropriate, or even too fast, for downtown areas where there's a lot of foot traffic.
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  7704.  @obliviouz  "There's no "government" that would allow countries to do the same." Of course there is. It's the government of the country in question.
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  7705.  @obliviouz  Governments (more specifically, the legislative branches) are the ones who make the laws. Is there any other law that would make government default illegal?
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  7706.  @obliviouz  "there's no "binding" international law that's above country governments. That's why there's no government that can cancel sovereign debt" No "binding law" hardly means that they can't cancel debt. Debts have both been cancelled with practical success and in such a way that it's been judged as legal if challenged in court. Whatever remains seems to be just a personal opinion that governments "shouldn't" default on their promises but this is just an opinion that other people can disagree with. "unless all the parties actually agree" I the Argentine case all parties (eventually) agreed so it would technically fulfill this requirement. (Most bondholders agreed to exchange the bonds and an agreement with this fund was eventually achieved as well.)
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  7707. I think objecting to UBI because based on this study it seems to reduce hours worked is a bit weird. You'd expect any kind of welfare payment to do that. UBI might reduce hours worked less that other forms of welfare. If that's right it might be an argument to having at least a portion of the welfare system taking the form of a UBI. However, this particular study doesn't seem to provide much info on that particular question one way or the other.
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  7708.  @scottmckeown1729  At least Wikipedia claims that in Japanese plosives are lightly aspirated, i.e. to some amount but less than in English. I'm not a linguist, though, so I can't really attest to the veracity of that.
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  7709.  @NeverTalkToCops1  "Maybe no one is offering puts or calls on this stock, so...no shorting available." That shouldn't prevent physical shorting. You don't have to use options.
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  7710.  @awdrifter3394  "it's the same reason why nuclear industry has to push for inefficient SMR" I don't believe that. They can potentially be more cost-effective due to factory production and the safety could also be easier to achieve. Of course, it remains to be seen how well these goals will be achieved but at least there are engineering motivations for smaller units. In fact, in my country (Finland) regulation has tended to produce the exact opposite effect. Getting a permit for a reactor is very difficult. If and when a power company gets it there is a temptation to try to utilize that permit to the fullest and build as big of a reactor as possible. That may be part of the reason why Olkiluoto 3 was so much behind schedule. They built it too big.
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  7711.  @Sandwich13455  "he was wrong about trump and Brexit" What specific statements by Thunderf00t are you referring to here?
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  7712.  @Sandwich13455  "he said that they were not going to happen" Where did he say that? I'm a bit skeptical. "he said musk was a snake oil salesman" Well, Musk doesn't literally sell oil made from snakes (or claimed to be made from snakes) it's not meant to be taken that literally. What Thunderf00t meant is that Musk makes many claims that are not true or cannot be fulfilled. E.g. when Tesla was buying SolarCity Musk claimed in a presentation that houses around him are solar houses which wasn't true. Of course, it's to some degree a matter of interpretation how much dishonesty or delusion is required to qualify as a "snake oil salesman".
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  7713.  @happyfase  It still matters to some degree because I feel bad about the investors who are going to incur losses in this project that's doomed from the start.
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  7714.  @SolidFake : Now that'd be a sight to behold.
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  7715. 14:30 Surely, that wouldn't make the economy twice as productive. The output might double but that'd be just due to the hours worked doubling because women would be working too. That doesn't mean that productivity, i.e. output per hour of work, would double.
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  7716. Central banks are in the business of creating money. They don't need deposits and therefore don't need to worry about bank runs. It's unlikely that a central bank would need a bailout.
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  7717. But isn't it only [θ] and not [ð]?
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  7718.  @kentix417 : OK, thanks.
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  7719.  @tiempo9855  The paragraph you quoted doesn't say lending isn't constrained by reserves and the amount of reserves clearly sets a hard upper limit on lending when there's a reserve requirement.
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  7720. If it's Boeing (737 MAX), it's going...away.
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  7721.  @jshepard152 : At least temporarily from service. :) But it was just joke anyway. Don't ruin it with "facts".
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  7722. Has anyone yet been verifiably able to pick Abloy Protec?
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  7723. I'd say "strictly prohibited" would be a good translation if you want to add an intensifier (even if the most literal meaning might not be exactly the same).
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  7724. Coming back to the "The US electrical system is not 120 V" video, I wonder if would make sense for Europe to similarly start using split-phase instead of 3-phase at homes but with a higher voltage. As mentioned in the video the US uses 120V/240V split-phase power. Europe uses 230V/400V 3-phase power so the higher voltage one can get is only about 1.7 times higher than the voltage of a single phase instead of 2 times higher. With split-phase power, the voltage could be 200V/400V so that appliances requiring higher voltage could still get that 400V but the voltage of a single phase relative to neutral would be lower making it safer. Alternatively, if a higher voltage is seen as useful the voltage could be 230V/460V so that power-hungry appliances could get a higher voltage without increasing the voltage of a single phase. Or possibly the voltage could be chosen to be intermediate between these two.
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  7725. "Finland has 1566 artillery pieces. Not 666 as you said." I think that 1566 includes heavy mortars whereas Binkov might have been only counting actual cannons.
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  7726. "Only about half of russia's 640 billion in Foreign reserves is frozen that is Russia still has well over 300 billion Dollars/Pounds/Euros that it can use." The non-frozen assets are things like Chinese Yuan reserves and gold reserves. It's not so easy to use those to pay off Dollar/Pound/Euro denominated debt.
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  7727. And Belarus, and Iceland, and the Faroe Islands.
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  7728.  @justinphoenix21  It was just a Futurama reference.
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  7729. Hawaii is different from Iceland. Iceland is between two tectonic plates and Hawaii isn't.
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  7730. ​ @MedjayofFaiyum  I think exonyms like "India" are fine. They're quite common in the world. My country is known as "Finland" or something like that in most of the world (including your language, I suspect) whereas the native name is "Suomi". Also, the native name of Germany is "Deutchland", the native name of Geogia is "Sakartveli", the native name of Hungary is "Magyarzág", the native name of Greece is "Hellas", the native name of Japan is "Nippon" or "Nihon", the native name of Armenia is "Hayastan", etc.
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  7731.  @davidtormsen8004  I think OP, Investment Joy, would likely include that in the "government regulation" that he talked about.
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  7732.  @davidtormsen8004  Assessing how much externalities, such as shading other buildings, are worth will also inevitably involve red tape.
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  7733.  @davidtormsen8004  Governments today have a fiscal incentive to not hamper development (even when it harms existing residents) but that doesn't result in no restrictions, for better or for worse. I am in favor of pricing externalities but efficient administration is still going to be a hard problem. Believing otherwise is wishful thinking.
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  7734.  @davidtormsen8004  "The question isn't whether it would be difficult" The question about red tape is specifically that. I don't think it would cut red tape (though it would still have other advantages).
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  7735.  @davidtormsen8004  "you haven't given an effective answer" I have given an answer (which I think is effective) namely that economic incentives exist with current system too so there doesn't seem to be reason expect a big change in the red tape aspect. "you seem to be using red tape to mean "any regulation at all, or anything that even smells like regulation to me"" No, I don't mean that but rather I mean regulation and other bureaucratic processes that involve a lot of work or time. I think the moniker "red tape" applies if, say, a developer has to file a very large amount of documentation or if it takes very long time to get a decision even if they ultimately get an approval for what they want to do. I don't expect the process for deciding a price for what they want to do would be that much easier in this regard. There can easily be a lot of wrangling over what is an appropriate price.
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  7736.  @wardabatool717  Sorry, I don't understand that reference. Apparently, that's a book series or something?
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  7737.  @rgarito  They need a very accurate release in any case.
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  7738. Marin losing the election wasn't related to Ukraine or anything. Taking a less pro-Ukraine stance wouldn't have helped her.
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  7739.  @SmokWawelski4D  To my knowledge, Superphénix wasn't a research reactor but a prototype commercial reactor. Granted, subsequent non-prototype reactors could possibly be more reliable but more conventional reactors have remained commercially more viable. Also, one of the reasons alternative reactor types like fast breeders were investigated was a fear over uranium supplies running out. However, new deposits have been found and arms reduction has resulted in militaries contributing less to uranium demand and also many decommissioned weapons have been turned into nuclear fuel for commercial use. All this has made uranium cheap and likely to remain like that in the near future which has weakened the commercial case for fast breeders (and to some degree thorium reactors). Conventional reactors are both easier and mature making it difficult for more exotic reactor types to compete.
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  7740. Is there a reason why it's specifically Kenya that's sending the police force?
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  7741. Even if you only stream on Twitch, you can still upload the VODs on YouTube even if you aren't live there.
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  7742. That'd be wrong.
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  7743.  @jwil4286  I don't think it would have been necessary to expel Germans from Königsberg/Kaliningrad after WWII. Stalin just did it because he wanted a strategic port and didn't care about morality. It is just not right to do ethnic cleansing just because you think Russia might be expansionist in the future otherwise.
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  7744.  @jwil4286  "before you say “regime change”, know that Russia has the largest nuclear stockpile in the world" Doesn't the same nuclear stockpile also preclude such ethnic cleansing?
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  7745.  @jwil4286  If you invade Russia itself with the aim of ethnically cleansing a portion of it from Russians is aggressive enough that Russia might fear destruction in such a case. (You might not consider Crimea to legitimately be a part of Russia. However, for this particular argument Russia's own perspective on it is what matters.)
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  7746.  @morticiaaddams4659  I don't think world was more silent (or at least much more silent) back then either. No one intervened then; no one intervened now.
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  7747.  @05danmea : They'd have to be more stable (i.e. have a lower energy state) or otherwise the catalysis of the normal proteins to prions wouldn't occur without energy input.
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  7748. He clearly does not want it, quite the opposite. He's just predicting it. IMHO he's being a bit too pessimistic.
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  7749. The finger analogy does work quite perfectly. You can put even number and all whole numbers into 1 to 1 correspondence, so these sets are the same size. You can't however put your right hand fingers and all your fingers into 1 to 1 correspondence so these sets are of different size.
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  7750. You have to consider two things. Firstly, if you find the suspect through such an attack, that may open to possibility of obtaining other evidence through e.g. spying on the suspect. Secondly, no single piece of evidence needs to prove the crime beyond reasonable doubt. It's enough that the body of evidence as a whole does that and each piece of evidence can contribute to that even if they're not individually strong enough.
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  7751.  @akhsdenlew1861  Yeah, I mostly mentioned it for the sake of completeness.
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  7752. I think Shell-Barry would be closer.
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  7753.  @chico9805  I'm not sure what you're referring to with indignation, but my point was that the EU is likely a net economic benefit to it's members. A large internal market is very useful.
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  7754. "a country that has weapons like "satan" does not lose a war" But that's not the actual name of the ICBM. It's just the reporting name used by the Five Eyes Alliance and NATO. Also, Russia is obviously not going to use ICBMs against Ukraine so I don't see why this particular weapon would matter.
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  7755. "The spike in the summer was mainly due to increased tests" How do you know? Why didn't increased testing cause similar spikes in other countries in the summer?
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  7756.  @larstenfaelt1859  But isn't a similar thing true for Sweden's neighbors as well? Early on there wasn't enough testing capacity for everyone with symptoms but later that was expanded greatly. Nonetheless, those countries did not experience similar summer spikes.
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  7757. This is pretty hilarious.
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  7758.  @crpth1  What do you mean? The Russian imports to the US were banned months ago already. As long as the US has both domestic and Canadian supply it's unlikely to face a shortage.
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  7759.  @SS-_.1  "Nobody has stopped Egypt from building its own dams to collect and store the water that it receives." Dams wouldn't help Egypt. A dam's reservoir just creates more surface area for the water to evaporate such that more of it is lost.
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  7760. 1) This is my best understanding. In quantum mechanics, there's something called Pauli's exclusion principle. It says that in a quantum system two identical fermions (i.e. half-spin particles like quarks) cannot be in the same energy state. When you have a clump of matter with three types of quarks (up, down, and strange) you could have more of them in the lowest energy states because you have more unidentical particles than you only had two types of quarks. The strange quarks themselves have a higher mass and thus higher energy than up and down quarks making them less stable, but the hypothesis is that if you have enough strange matter in a clump the effect from Pauli's exclusion principle wins out this effect making the strange matter have a lower energy state than normal matter.
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  7761. Inside cities, yes, but not between them.
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  7762. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  7763. He did talk about rail.
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  7764. I would rather have a correct answer than a short answer.
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  7765. Bergen is rainy.
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  7766. Though is space it's called a "Whipple shield".
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  7767. "the piples are quite deep" How deep are they in the locations of the punctures? I'd assume that e.g. the waters near Bornholm are shallower than the Baltic Sea on average.
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  7768. "The pension system is unsustainable in every European country." It's not in the Netherlands.
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  7769. I think it's "Constellis" since 2014. Blackwater is also different in that it wasn't sent to regular frontline combat like Wagner. They were only supposed to do things like act as bodyguards. These could involve combat but usually only when attacked.
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  7770. If you build housing where the highways used to be then the new inhabitants are already inside the city instead of needing to drive into it from outside.
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  7771. 5:20 Readings are off the scale, this time in real life rather than scifi.
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  7772.  @UmaROMC  Your comment doesn't seem to be at all related to what I said. For example, nowhere in my comment did I use the term "free market".
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  7773. 1:28:50 Is there any evidence for the reason given by Dworkin? It kind of sounds like just speculation to me. It probably isn't easy for her to "get inside the head" of someone whose views are so far from hers so I'm not sure we should trust her judgment in this very much unless there's some evidence beyond her opinion.
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  7774.  @khaerinaenno  "each time we have women actually acting against non-conforming gender roles, they do it as mothers or possible mothers" Firstly, it could just as well be that they just feel that it's a good persuasion tactic. Secondly, I'm a bit skeptical if that really happens "each time". I would venture to guess that e.g. some Catholic or Orthodox nuns have spoken against those roles without being even possible mothers (in their own mind).
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  7775.  @DmitryShultz  "I heard CO2 is not the main thing to fight anymore" Where have you heard that? Probably not from climate scientists. "Probably because it is hard to argue for this being correlated and being the driver of the climate change number X. Especially when all the X-1 changes happened before humans even existed." It's not hard. We know what wavelengths carbon dioxide absorbs and we can model the effect it has on average global temperatures. That climate has also changed in the past due to reasons other than human activity is not much of an argument. Let's take an analogy. Suppose you have a lake and its water level varies based on e.g. rainfall etc. Then suppose you dam the river flowing out from the lake raising the water level. Could you then argue that you building the dam has nothing to do with the rise of the water level because it has changed in the past due to other reasons? No, that's nonsense. We know how such a dam can raise the water level and we also know (roughly) the effect of carbon dioxide on the climate.
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  7776. 20:35 "No one uses reverse Polish notation in a real language." What about Forth? Doesn't it use reverse Polish notation?
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  7777. I think this video should've mentioned that India doesn't allow dual citizenship.
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  7778. There's a mistake in the title of this video.
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  7779. 8:00 To nitpick a bit, if someone falls asleep, that's not a reason to feel bad about yourself. It doesn't mean you're being boring. People tend to fall asleep if they're tired and that can easily happen even if they're interested. On the other hand, if they're bored (but not tired) they may start doing other stuff and not pay attention but not start sleeping.
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  7780. I'd bet not.
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  7781. Only if it's $2 million cash.
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  7782.  @scottscott5827  I meant, inflation reduces the value of a currency. If your wealth is $2 million, inflation of 2% doesn't mean that 2% of the value of that wealth is lost each year unless that wealth is actually in the form of cash.
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  7783.  @scottscott5827  You don't lose 2% of your net worth yearly to inflation unless it's all in the form of cash. I agree that a 2% wealth tax would be very high (and I'm against wealth taxes in general).
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  7784. I remember the short-lived Centro-Caspian Dictatorship being described as weird but it's not clear to me why.
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  7785. "Staying neutral is the best strategy yesterday , today and also tomorrow." Staying neutral didn't stop Finland being invaded in 1939.
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  7786.  @charlesyang6702  "What I think is so unbelievable here is Finns get mobilized to become anti-Russia within short period of time after Ukraine conflict broken up." It shouldn't be so unbelievable considering Russia's brazen behavior. If you think neutrality is good then shouldn't you also demand that Russia should be neutral rather than belligerent?
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  7787.  @charlesyang6702  I only said that Russia chose to not be neutral, at least in the case of Ukraine. You are the one who said "Staying neutral is the best strategy yesterday , today and also tomorrow."
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  7788.  @charlesyang6702  Your original comment didn't contain such a restriction. And why would this be different for Russia? Does it have some kind of special right to be non-neutral? In any case, the reason why NATO membership seems more attractive for e.g. Finland now is that Russia has attacked a couple of non-members but not a single NATO member.
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  7789. Lukashenko is too sly. He doesn't want Belarus to be dominated by someone else than him. He pretends to be friendly with Putin/Russia and makes these plans for union between Belarus and Russia but never gets to advancing those plans in a concrete manner (unless he can somehow make himself the next president of Russia/Belarus).
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  7790. A couple of thoughts: 1) I'm under the impression that one of the pros of WWII era tank destroyers was getting a lot of them quickly to service. If you need a vehicle with a gun that's big enough to deal with the heavier tanks that the opponent has, one thing you can do is just use an existing tank chassis and you can put a bigger gun on it by forgoing the turret. It's going to lose the flexibility of a turret but you can churn out more of them quickly because a vehicle without a turret is cheaper to make and by reusing an existing chassis there's no delay that producing a totally new vehicle would have. Now in peacetime armies can take their sweet time in building up their strength so there's less of need to use a shortcut like this which is totally different from WWII when you needed your tank destroyers yesterday. 2) Having a lot of frontal armor is less relevant when you're facing anti-tank missiles which can strike from above rather than from the front.
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  7791. The effect of the tide is minimal.
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  7792. This was rather convoluted.
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  7793.  @C-Culper4874  "At no time was any component of ammo for a 109 or 110 called a shell." But to the degree you are using the word "shell" for anything, using it for the explosive projectile is the most common usage. Insisting that it can't be used in the case where the projectile and propellant charges are separate is wrong.
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  7794. That's a bad idea. Ukraine doesn't need more enemies to fight.
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  7795.  @Xylos144  "Yeah, his representation here was pretty disingenuous." While his explanation was flawed the result is still mostly the same. The cost of nuclear is mostly capital cost and it's cheap to run. Therefore you usually want to keep it running as much as possible and rather reduce the output of some more expensive to run energy source such as some fossil sources. Thus the result is still mostly as his graph showed, i.e. nuclear output is constant. France is a special case because the share of nuclear is so large that it needs some of its nuclear plants to do a part of the load following.
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  7796.  @ozzyphil74  "Sweden was the aggressor. They manufactured a pretext to attack Russia including using a false flag attack." What false flag attack are you talking about? E.g. Russian troops besieging Narva in 1700 was clearly not a false flag attack. "Secondly, while Russia and Britain were nominally allies against France in the Napoleonic wars, this was more of a loose situation." But still Britain being the enemy of Napoléon, who invaded Russia, speaks of it not being some kind of uniform anti-Russia sentiment in (West) Europe. Moreover, Napoléon and Russian had been friendly before. The reason Napoléon invaded was that Russia had left the anti-Britain blockade and resumed trade. Thus the war was at least just as much about Napoléon's anti-Britain sentiment.
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  7797.  @philipuwumarogie9796  I was talking about 4 of the 5 invasions mentioned in this video. There were 3 wars between Sweden and Russia in the 18th century but I'm pretty sure this video was talking about the first one of them, i.e. the Great Northern War which began in 1700.
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  7798.  @philipuwumarogie9796  "That's why..." Maybe, though that is different from the point I was addressing in my original comment.
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  7799. The oil was discovered in the 60s, I believe.
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  7800. But if you keep your cash in dollars or euros then whenever you convert them back to liras any gains in lira terms are presumably also taxable.
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  7801. But they spoke a Germanic language.
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  7802.  @immeen4868  But Wikipedia says that the sovereignty was shared between the Bishop of Urgell and the Count of Foix.
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  7803. It's not crazy. It's better than the alternatives.
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  7804.  @minestar2247  I just wanted to point out that this common refrain isn't really quite true.
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  7805. Shell-barry would be a decent approximation.
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  7806. Note that "SHEL-burg" is not the Swedish pronunciation. The native pronunciation [ɕɛlbærj] is given right after. And I think they aren't as unsilly as you think. Swedish orthography is a bit of a mess (though English is worse).
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  7807.  @EebstertheGreat : Yeah, Polish is probably more difficult in this regard. But isn't the orthography at least more consistent than that of English or Swedish (once you learn it)?
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  7808.  @EebstertheGreat : My impression of Polish is that it uses way too many digraphs. :)
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  7809. That's still very few countries. Also, e.g. Eritrea has received UN condemnation for taxing non-resident citizens.
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  7810. Do you live in Buford? If not, maybe you could move there. According to Wikipedia its population dropped to 0 in 2018 so there'd be room for at least one person.
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  7811. Europe has its own problems.
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  7812.  @jangelnar5624  But to be fair, Finland basically had no functional armor at the start of the war. Also, at least artillery ammunition basically ran out.
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  7813. Out of curiosity, what are the most unsound or frivolous arguments that you have come across in court?
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  7814. 1:10 Finland is not unique in this respect. Average happiness levels and the prevalence of suicide are, rather surprisingly, positively correlated.
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  7815. There's no reason to expect that the US would collapse.
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  7816.  @johnnoble7522  There's no reason to assume that the survival of the US is threatened.
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  7817.  @Usp4U  What reason would there be to expect it to collapse.
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  7818. It is stepped down to 120V because that's the voltage of a live wire relative to neutral. That's how the voltage is measured.
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  7819.  @bowez9  But the voltage number (if only one number is given) refers to the phase-to-neutral voltage. That's why it's called 120V.
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  7820. "And free markets can't help." There is a market solution. Just make everyone pay more for the water. If some users (maybe farmers?) are getting subsidized prices, raise those first. Then the least useful uses will become uneconomical and will disappear.
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  7821. That "fertile octogenarian" is within the realm of possibility. Here's a list of very old fathers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_fathers
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  7822. What? Was any of their reasoning for why they called Russia and Turkey natural allies wrong?
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  7823.  @MrErdem95  "You can't reason something that is wrong." You haven't given any reason why TLDR News is wrong. "Two going at each other won't do any good two both sides." That's (partly) what "natural allies" means. It doesn't mean they are necessarily actually allied but only that the circumstances around them would push them towards alliance and do not push them towards rivalry.
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  7824. 0:20 Isn't this map misleading? You seem to be implying that the Republic of Cyprus is also claiming the British territory on the island which I don't think is the case.
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  7825.  @Bash70  "GME share price fell to as low as $2. There's no logical way that could've happened without naked shorting going on." How so? Seems clear to me that enough normal short selling can easily cause that. Why would there have to be naked short selling?
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  7826.  @Jay-om8gr  "And the US economy was being attacked by dozens of nations." The hit on the economy would make Americans poorer on average but the effects wouldn't be quick or big enough to affect the course of the war.
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  7827. I assumed that part meant that the Norwegian welfare state is more cost-efficient. The saving of the oil revenue is a separate factor.
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  7828.  @kapediten1968 : But the process was organic, not planned, so I don't think "artificial" is terribly descriptive. Also, English doesn't seem more limited than other languages to me.
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  7829.  @elinoamrichter162  I don't think those problems can in any way mean that congestion pricing wouldn't still be a net benefit.
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  7830.  @elinoamrichter162  Currently, the streets in Manhattan are inefficiently used. Too many cars and trucks just make the throughput lower than it could be; traffic is slower than it needs to be; it takes longer than needed for trucks and cars to reach their destination. With congestion charges it wouldn't be free for trucks to use the streets but it's also not free for all that capital (trucks) to sit idle needlessly in slow traffic. Both are costs that those businesses and consumers pay. The difference is that the former is just transferring value (money) to someone else but the latter just straight-up destroys value without it being gained by anyone else. Congestion charges lead to more efficient use of resources. To the degree that trucks are more essential street users than cars, presumably there is willingness to pay more for the service they provide than for transporting people in cars. Or maybe not, markets can decide which is more important by measuring the willingness to pay.
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  7831. It's not necessarily that easy for YouTube to combat this.
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  7832. "Roma Kaputt Mundi" Well, at least the Colosseum is clearly kaputt.
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  7833. 1:50 "the monthly rent would be about $5,000 per year" Well, that's a bit confusing wording.
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  7834.  @robertsmith4681  He could just pardon his staff, even prospectively.
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  7835. "Only Bitcoin" That's not wise. You need to diversify.
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  7836.  @grahamstrouse1165  I would think that the Russian tanks are on average more modernized.
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  7837. "Some steel mills are ran on hydroelectric dams." That's not enough. Refining iron ore into steel usually used carbon as a reducing agent. That means it binds with the oxygen in the ore to release the iron. That inevitably causes carbon dioxide emissions completely separate from the electricity generation.
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  7838.  @joshdifulvio5049  "yes but preventing water from leaving one area. Causes less water in another." Hydroelectric dams have to let the water flow through to generate electricity.
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  7839.  @_Circus_Clapped_  Dams can cause environmental damage (e.g. by preventing certain fish from travelling upstream). However, it still tends to be on the more environmental end of the different energy sources, at least compared to fossils. "water is a finite resource" But a hydroelectric dam doesn't consume that resource. Electricity generation requires that the water passes through the dam. "Hoover Dam is an example of how hydro isn't sustainable" In the case of the Colorado River the main problem is the use of water for irrigation. That actually consumes the water unlike just generating electricity with it.
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  7840. 1:59 What's that blue vehicle?
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  7841. You have no evidence for that assertion.
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  7842.  @wngmartin  Accepting lower expected returns in exchange for lower risk or volatility may be worth it. But I think Buffet's bet is illustrative, especially considering that some fool was actually willing to take the opposite position in this bet.
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  7843.  @andrepoghosyan8269  "The funds were just trying to provide absolute returns" How do you know? Some hedge funds seek absolute return but not all. Did you check what kind of hedge funds were included?
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  7844.  @andrepoghosyan8269  But the counter-argument you quoted mentioned absolute return. These hedge funds (collectively, at least) failed to provide that. They also failed to beat the market in most years. In fact, on average they lagged the market quite a bit. I don't see what service they're providing that would justify their high fees.
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  7845.  @andrepoghosyan8269  "The hedge funds had absolute returns for every year expect 2008" By similar logic, the index fund Buffett chose also had "absolute returns" so I fail to see how they could be better. 2008 was the year (during the span of the bet) when they could demonstrate that they can deliver absolute return when an index fund can't yet they failed their only chance. Secondly, it's not quite true that they had absolute returns for every year except 2008. In 2011 the hedge funds also had slightly negative returns while the index fund Buffet picked had a slightly positive return. "At the end of the bet, the funds had an average return of 2.2% annually net of fees. This is the service they are providing, and it isn’t bad IMO." 2.2% net of fees is not much above inflation. It sounds pretty bad, especially considering how much hedge fund managers are paid for such meager results. In retrospect, even a somewhat silly strategy like just putting half of your money into the index fund Buffett picked and leaving the other half to sit in a bank account would have both suffered a smaller loss than the hedge funds in 2008 and offered better cumulative returns than the hedge funds over the whole period.
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  7846. They wouldn't find many buyers with such prices.
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  7847.  @SaintDragon666  It should be easier to source uranium from elsewhere. It might be more expensive but probably not by 2x. Also, even if uranium became completely unavailable nuclear plants typically store a year's worth of fuel so there wouldn't be an imminent crisis.
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  7848. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  7849. These methods aren't from the Vedas.
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  7850.  @changeyourself2777  My comment wasn't about disparaging Hindus or anything. All I'm saying is that these particular calculation methods don't come from the Vedas (and are nowhere that old).
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  7851. "'Middle men' extract wealth by dividing the producer from the buyer then under pay the producer whilst over charging the buyer." This is a useful function, as explained in the video. "That is just one reason the 'middle men' are disliked." That reason is based on lack of knowledge and understanding of economics.
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  7852. 3:20 Don't forget the Soviet Hungarian Republic or Libya under Gaddafi.
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  7853. I think that $500,000 savings is supposed to be after the cost of the battery is paid off.
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  7854. Btw, did these Barbary states (or other Muslim states with slavery) have any abolitionists arguing against slavery?
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  7855. It's 120V relative to neutral for a live wire. That's how the voltage is measured.
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  7856. What did he actually say?
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  7857. He needs to sell his stockings.
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  7858. @DanielBx Yes, but they did not officially admit that before 1989.
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  7859. @DanielBx Well, I did specifically write "officially" since my impression is that it was somewhat widely known/suspected before, though I'm not sure how widely and how much before. The first unambiguous admission was in 1989. According to Wikipedia before that there was at least some effort to keep the secret by e.g. forbidding "rivals" from being seen together.
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  7860.  @custu2814  I've since seen ElectroBOOM's video on this. What would happen is that the bulb would turn on at a partial power and then after 1 s then power would either increase or decrease depending on whether the ends of the wires are cut or not. However, one should note that if instead of having long wires close to each other one has large circular loops of the same length the situation would be different. The the capacitive connection is much weaker and the initial effect of flipping the switch is much, much weaker even though the battery and the switch are still close to the bulb. Thus I think this video was maybe a little bit misleading though I understand that one can't always fit all the relevant points in a single video.
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  7861.  @bornboss9199  "if you cut the wire then to have just disrupted the electromagnetic field buy cutting off the electrons" The point was that the effect of that cutting cannot be felt 0.5 light seconds away until after 0.5 s has passed.
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  7862.  @tysoncodes  The dollar peg was abandoned in 2005. Yes, the PBOC does still to some degree manage the Yuan exchange rate but it's against a basket of currencies rather than a single currency.
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  7863.  @rosameltrozo5889  He's live basically all his life in Scotland. Is that not Scottish enough? What's the issue? Does he fail some kind of genetic purity test or something? Also, I don't see an issue if a person with Scottish parents (or even a Scottish born person) were to become the PM or president of some former British colony. It's not any kind of neo-colonialism provided that that person is chosen by the people of that country and not appointed from outside.
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  7864.  @mojewjewjew4420  "the leader of the scottish party for independence of Scotland should be someone from there" But he is from there. He was born in Glasgow.
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  7865.  @mojewjewjew4420  "As I said above he is more pakistani than scottish." I'm pretty sure most Pakistanis would not agree with that assessment. It's pretty ridiculous if living all one's life in Scotland isn't enough. Of course, you can always vote for someone else if you like some other politician more but saying that choosing him is a "sick joke" excessive.
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  7866.  @rosameltrozo5889  I live in a world in which where people are born and live has a huge impact on them. Do you seriously think that Pakistanis would consider Yousaf to be more Pakistani than Scottish?
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  7867.  @rosameltrozo5889  Ethnicity doesn't have to be completely erased but living all your life in a country likely has a bigger impact on him that where his parents are from. I'm pretty sure he would feel more out of place in Pakistan and I think Pakistanis would be more hesitant to accept a person like him as their PM than Scottish people are.
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  7868.  @mojewjewjew4420  "Just being born or living for a period of time doesnt erass the whole process and values that are instilled into you at a young age,those stay with you your whole life if not counciously then unconciously,the values and education you get from family forms your view of the world and everything in it and its hard to question let alone shake off." The values of the people around you affect you at least as much (usually). "Why exactly wouldn't the pakistanis accept him?" He's not lived in the country at all. A lot of things about everyday life would be alien to him. "as if the scotts themselves are incapable of getting it for themselves and need foreigners do choose their fate" No, there is no implication like that. He's just one politician among many. That he was chosen as the party leader (almost certainly) wasn't due to anything like that. Probably he was just popular inside the party and his lineage is just incidental. He has lived all his life in Scotland and has been in the party for over a decade. He isn't some kind of outsider.
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  7869. 18:55 Here you say that the decline isn't inevitable but the title of the video says the exact opposite.
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  7870.  @illahham  There's very obvious evidence for fraud. According to the official results, Maduro got 51.20000% of the vote and the main opposition candidate got 44.20000%. Why are the results so close to a tenth of a percent (and even to a fifth of a percent)? The odds of that happening by chance are extremely low. It's clear that the official result is fabricated.
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  7871. "hungary is 10x more democratic than sweden" How so?
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  7872.  americanchristiannationalist12  "Orban [...] and his regime, is indeed democratic." I didn't claim he wasn't democratic. What I questioned was Hungary being 10x more democratic than Sweden.
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  7873. What about the water heater? Could that be handled with a heat pump too?
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  7874.  @complainer406  What I was thinking about when asking the question was system size energy consumption. Would the 20,000 BTU system he mentions be enough to heat both indoors air and water? If the system would need to be bigger would the electrical connection be able to handle it in his case?
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  7875. What about apartment buildings or condos? Do they have communal bins? One would think that that's enough to do away with garbage day. You just throw your trash into the bin and the garbage collectors pick it up at some day which you don't have to worry about.
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  7876. It may often be possible to just attend lectures in a university without actually enrolling. You won't any credit or a degree that way, though.
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  7877.  @J.o.s.h.u.a.  It's not aspiration. It's a voiceless velar fricative [x].
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  7878.  @J.o.s.h.u.a.  Is "aspiration" common knowledge?
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  7879.  @J.o.s.h.u.a.  "It's the sound the letter H makes in English" Isn't that a voiceless glottal fricative?
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  7880.  @J.o.s.h.u.a.  Really? Well, that's confusing because that doesn't match the terminology used in phonetics.
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  7881. I dislike the term "Western" medicine. If a new kind of an antibiotic is discovered in a lab in China, is that then "Western"? What about artemisin used to cure malaria, is it "Western"? I think people would lump those together with what you call "Western" here though strictly speaking the term doesn't apply. I think it's better to say "conventional" medicine or "evidence-based" medicine.
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  7882.  @JabzyJoe  "As you can see from the Stuff that I find interesting videos." Well, I can't see any such thing from them. I think they worked just fine (though I don't have a problem with this style either).
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  7883. I think some locks are advertized with phrases like "takes X minutes to pick". Often many lock picking hobbyist can defeat the locks faster than that but in all fairness the average burglar is probably not as good at picking locks as a high-level lock picking hobbyist. I wonder how that kind of claims would be handled in courts. The lock manufacturer could argue that the "X minutes" should be understood as the minimum time it takes for an average burglar or lock picker to pick it, not how fast the world champion lock picker can do it. I think marketers, even when not expressly dishonest, tend to be optimistic about the performance of the products they sell (even completely honestly so). I think the best disc detainer locks are probably "unpickable" in the sense that no lock picker has (yet) managed to defeat them, at least not such that they have a good proof of that they did it properly without some kind of cheating. However, I'm not sure that advertizing even such locks as "unpickable" would be a good idea.
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  7884. The English word is "sodium", not "natrium".
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  7885. Why least based?
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  7886.  @gerot201  I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you mean, why wouldn't other countries cease electricity exports to Ukraine as well? Certainly at least Poland wants to continue supporting Ukraine and hurting Russia if possible. Poland has itself closed to he gas pipelines going through its territory. Thus it would be pretty illogical for Poland to not want Ukraine to do the same.
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  7887.  @callysto_ii  Ha! Did not expect that.
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  7888.  @rekelz282  😲
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  7889.  @alexandredesbiens-brassard9109  Quebecois sounds (more) gay? Interesting. :)
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  7890.  @cartrips9263  The 2nd Chechen War lasted almost 9 years. Are you saying that you expect the current war in Ukraine to last that long?
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  7891. It could theoretically be if you get your electricity from a sufficiently low emission source like nuclear or solar.
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  7892.  @cosmiccoffee8497  Rare earths aren't used in solar panels, at least not much.
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  7893. "What commodities are used to build solar panels?" I think the biggest ones are probably silicon and electricity.
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  7894.  @cosmiccoffee8497  Your quote talks about renewables in general, not solar panels specifically. Rare earths are used in e.g. wind power but not (much) in solar panels.
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  7895.  @cosmiccoffee8497  They aren't but they aren't made of rare earths either.
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  7896.  @cosmiccoffee8497  I did look it up. The result was that they're (mostly) not used in solar panels.
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  7897.  @cosmiccoffee8497  You can consider those aspects but they're not what I was commenting on here. You said: "A lot of rare earth materials are used in the production of solar panels". That's the part I responded to (by noting it's not true).
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  7898. Maybe he ran something like "tar -cf vastaamo.tar *" in the wrong directory.
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  7899.  @mannyechaluce3814  "Jews are "God's Rejects"" I don't understand what you're saying here. Is this a quote from someone or something?
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  7900.  @TheWebstaff  What does that stand for?
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  7901.  @DrJazz613  What? I'm pretty sure you couldn't avoid the conflict simply by using a different word.
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  7902. ​ @karlbmiles  "Arabs in Israel have the same rights as Jews" Yes, Israeli Arabs are not stateless since they have Israeli citizenship, but they're not the ones I was talking about.
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  7903.  @karlbmiles  "So for their own hard-headed bellicose choices they prefer to be stateless." Statelessness applies also to those of them who don't have bellicose attitudes, small children, future children not yet born, etc. That's far from ideal. I'm not suggesting that a full-fledged Palestinian state is something that could be set up tomorrow (especially considering the current situation wrt Gaza). However, I still think it should be the long term goal (if one doesn't favor one state solution instead).
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  7904.  @karlbmiles  "There ARE ALREADY two states, set up by the exiting British." But the Palestinians are still stateless because they don't have the citizenship of Jordan (nor of any other country). Hypothetically, making West Bank a part of Jordan and giving the Palestinians there would mostly solve the statelessness problem (though Gaza would still remain). However, it seems unlikely that Jordan would want to take the Palestinians.
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  7905.  @alvanrigby6361  Sanctions won't end if Russia wins.
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  7906. It's not a jam. Just a lower speed. There's a difference.
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  7907. "if ukrainian troops reconquer a significant portion of their territory, then Kiev will be nuked as a last desperate move to not lose the war" That is unlikely. Firstly, Russia itself has stated that they would not use nuclear weapons (unless the existence of Russia itself was threatened). Secondly, using nukes offensively would risk significant retaliation (e.g. destroying the Black Sea Fleet) by Western powers because the risk from letting offensive use of nuclear weapons go unpunished is just too great.
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  7908.  @WOOKY27  But since Japan is an archipelago and has no land borders with other countries it doesn't need a large land army with lots of personnel. Navy and air force are more heavy on equipment spending than personnel.
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  7909.  @mikefule  I don't think 1 handed battleaxes are that good for woodcutting either. At least in the examples I've seen, the axehead is usually very small in the case of battleaxes. I don't see how they would work for felling trees or splitting logs/firewood. Maybe some finer carpentry work is more believable.
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  7910.  @mrvwbug4423  "Given the choice most Americans are going to opt for more living space for the money they spend so they tend towards suburbs and exurbs." But I don't think these individual buying choices explain the prevalence of suburbs. Even if families are willing to pay more for a home in a low-density suburb they're probably not willing (or able) to pay so much more that developers wouldn't make more money by packing more families into a denser development, at least in high-demand areas. Why do they build low-density suburbs then? Because in many areas zoning only allows for R1 housing, which a political decision rather than the result of market forces.
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  7911. Those huge transport ships have very low emissions per amount of goods transported. They're a very efficient way to transport stuff because they can be made large and thus they can benefit from economies of scale.
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  7912. "why said to be asymmetrical" I don't think it was said to be asymmetrical. I think it only looks asymmetrical in some of these animations because of perspective.
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  7913. OBJECTION! My understanding was that the curse actually forced him to answer questions (honestly), so he didn't have to option to not talk to the cop.
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  7914. "Europe's energy "situation" would have been less dire if the US didn't go around blowing up pipelines" It likely wouldn't be. All deliveries through NS 1 had already been halted before it was blown.
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  7915.  @sallyslife7566  I don't think the distinction matters very much. If Russia hypothetically agreed to end the war against Ukraine and also to pay it e.g. "development aid" (totally not reparations!) that would probably satisfy any calls for reparations even if they not formally called that.
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  7916.  @Elldallan  My comment was merely about how the (possible) blackmail works. I agree that Germany should not phase out nuclear power but that's somewhat outside the scope of my previous comment.
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  7917. Not necessarily. They can also burn the hydrogen in turbines.
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  7918. Weren't "circumvallation" and "contravallation" swapped in this video?
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  7919. Btw, are Ö and Ü pronounced as front rounded vowels in Turkish?
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  7920.  @NapalmXD  Even if the ETF were to actually use loans the result would still be the same if it also rebalances daily.
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  7921.  @NapalmXD  Well, what kind of rebalancing schedule are you thinking about?
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  7922.  @charlesmadre5568  Greenland already has at least one US base (in Thule). It's not much of a sacrifice anyway.
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  7923. Does "Dominican" refer to Dominica or the Dominican Republic?
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  7924.  @cxarhomell5867 : Thanks for the answer. Btw, what would then the adjective or demonym be in the case of Dominica?
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  7925. First, you'll have to illegally immigrate to Mexico.
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  7926. One thing to note is that not every super-rich is going to be interested in this kind of space flight. Firstly, not everyone is that interested in space. Secondly, this kind of space trip can be seen as a bit lame. It's short. You technically get into space, you can feel microgravity and seen the planet from a window. That's it. For some, even that can be cool but I'm sure many others there's not that much point. The only cool thing is "space" and the experience itself beyond that isn't any kind of hedonistic dream.
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  7927. Carbon pricing makes a lot of sense. However, my understanding has been that the Green New Deal is supposed to also include a lot of employment programs which make less sense.
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  7928.  @genericanimename6733 : I've gotten the idea that the job creation is an end in itself in the plan which doesn't make sense.
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  7929. You misheard. The sentence you quoted actually doesn't have the part "to refine". It says that light & sweet oil itself is more expensive, not its refining process.
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  7930. In the UK you have ISA, don't you?
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  7931. "However when it comes to a "sudden collapse" I don't see how this could happen." One possibility that comes to mind is a major civil unrest happening in Russia. The probability might be rather small, I admit, but it doesn't feel like impossible. The economic damage on Russia continues to mount. People might protest if life gets too hard (e.g. if pensions are slashed) or some regions might develop secessionist movements. If both of these happen on a large enough scale there might be a period of anarchy which would make sustaining a war effort outside the borders of Russia untenable. But, like I said, I'm not assigning a large probability to this.
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  7932. "One good example is investing social security funds into public markets, like Norway" For that you have to actually have capital to invest. If you already have a 100% (or at least a high percentage) funded pension system, great. However, if it's close to 0% funded (or at least with a low percentage) then you can't quickly turn it into a 100% funded system without significant pain.
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  7933. "They should just mint another 1 trillion dollar coin." What do you mean "another"? There hasn't been a $1 trillion coin.
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  7934. Btw, have you ever considered doing a collab with James Ker-Lindsay?
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  7935.  @5metoo  He's another YouTuber (and I believe a political science professor) who also makes videos on international politics.
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  7936.  @5metoo  "Seems like a garden variety internationalist." If you complaint that you disagree with him politically? I don't see how that should be much of a problem since most of his content is describing situations rather than offering opinions (though he does sometimes give opinions too, especially in Q&A videos).
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  7937.  @5metoo  "If I identify a major missing view..." Well, did you identify such missing views?
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  7938.  @5metoo  I still don't see how his opinions like internationalist leanings would really affect his videos (in a detrimental way). To me, it doesn't really seem relevant. I was wondering if you would actually be able to point out how it would matter (rather than merely stating that it does).
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  7939.  @5metoo  "I think it is fair to say he took a position of assuming the truth of an internationalist view that there is a universal right of return that is a fundamental human right" I have trouble believing that assertion. It doesn't sound something like he would claim. Also, I wasn't able to find a claim like that from him despite searching for it. At least for now, I believe you're completely wrong here.
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  7940.  @5metoo  "Oh I'll bet you looked real hard." How hard should I look? You can't expect me to sift through everyone of his videos. Usually it's expected that someone who makes a claim (such as the claim that Ker-Lindsay assumes a universally accepted right of return) would also provide evidence for it. It's not reasonable to just state such claims without evidence and expect the other person to look for evidence in favor or against it. "You keep changing your story [...] in this case it isn't what is said that is the problem. It's what isn't said" I don't think I've changed my story. It's you who in your previous comment claimed that he assumes a universally accepted right of return. You don't seem to have pointed to an actual problem with his content. This seemed to be the closest so naturally I asked if you can support your claim in any way. If you say the problem is what isn't said, do you mean he often omits something important? At least to me, his videos seem comprehensive enough but feel free to point out important omissions by him if there are any. "and the assumptions –usually unstated– that are implied in so doing" Can you actually point out some problems in his videos caused by such unstated assumptions? If you can't, it would seem that he manages to keep his assumptions from affecting his content in a deleterious way.
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  7941.  @5metoo  "I thought you'd at least look at the last 3" Well, your earlier comment didn't give a clear indication that the right of return stuff was specifically in one of those. Your previous mention of them was "But I've give the nod to Spaniel for fair presentations based only on JKL's last 3 videos" and it wasn't clear to me what you were trying to say with that since you were talking about giving a nod to Spaniel rather than the right of return. The phrase "right of return" led me to think that you were referring to Israel/Palestine so I checked videos related to that and didn't find anything. But OK, apparently you were referring to the Chagos Islands video. I don't see an obvious flaw in that video and I don't see how it would justify making the claim that he assumes a universally accepted right of return. In his video he mentions a 2019 UN General Assembly resolution calling for the UK to, among other things, let the Chagossians return to the Chagos Islands. It's entirely correct that this kind of resolution (about Chagos Islands specifically, not of the right to return more broadly) was passed. It's not a claim that any such right is universally accepted in other cases (and I would guess this resolution didn't pass unanimously, though I haven't checked). He also mentions some court cases the UK lost but doesn't mention a right to return being included in the judgments in them. Can you point out an actual problem with this video (or some other one)? It doesn't seem that could infer based on this video that he assumes a universally accepted right of return. Even if he assumes something like that, it doesn't appear to have seeped into the video so it shouldn't be a problem for his content.
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  7942.  @5metoo  "But the 2019 UN General Assembly resolution at bottom was about those that were expelled would be able to "exercising their right to return". This is the most fundamental assumption, without which the 2019 resolution would make no sense." That resolution was about the Chagossians' right to return to the Chagos Islands. That doesn't necessarily imply a more broad right to return which would apply in other cases. I don't know what was the reasoning or motivation for the delegations that voted in favor or this resolution but it's far from clear to me that it would have to be a universal right to return. They might have e.g. thought that the expulsions were wrong in this particular case because Britain had no right to split the colony or some other reason specific to this particular case. And even if they (or some of them) believe in a universal right of return, that doesn't mean that Ker-Lindsay does and him not discussing the motivations behind each country's vote doesn't seem to be evidence that he has such a belief. "Lindsay didn't state this or discuss it at all" There's a bazillion things he didn't discuss, like the reasons for the outcomes of the court cases, why the UK or the US might want a base in this particular locations, etc. He probably could've made a 10x longer video, but his style requires that a lot of things have to be cut due to time. I don't see why this one thing would be more important than the other things left out. I guess if you would be interested in that particular thing, a video that included a discussion of it would've been better for you. That's fine as such, but it's mostly a feature of your particular interests.
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  7943.  @5metoo  "Dude, the resolution says the people that were expelled from Diego Garcia have a right to return." Well, not quite. But first I want to say that my point was that this isn't necessarily about some kind of universal right of return but it might be something that only applies to this particular case. At least in your earlier comments about universally accepted right of return and it's not clear to me that this resolution was based on such notion (or that Ker-Lindsay believes in such notion). Also, the resolution doesn't strictly even say that those people have the right to return. Rather, it says that the Chagos Archipelago is an integral part of Mauritius. It also urges the UK to cooperate with Mauritius wrt. the resettlement of the islands but doesn't mention this kind right of return. Additionally, here you speak about Diego Garcia specifically, but the resolution doesn't single that island out but only talks about the whole archipelago. The current deal also seems to rule out resettlement of Diego Garcia for the time being, though I guess that's to come eventually. "But it is well known, and always was acknowledged in the philosophy of law that though consistency is good whenever reasonably possible, it isn't the highest good since it isn't always possible while conforming to the purpose of the law." Is there some kind of countervailing consideration in this case?
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  7944.  @5metoo  "You refuse to say what you think would ground this judgment if not that." The most prominent alternative that comes to my mind would be the opinion that Chagos rightfully belongs to Mauritius and for that reason Britain had no right to remove the Chagossian population. Of course, it's difficult for me to know what the people who voted in the General Assembly were thinking at the time. "I just watched Kerr-Lindsay's video "RUSSIA | Why Ukraine Really Changes Everything"..." In that video he gives more opinions than usual. I personally think it's fine, though I understand why others might prefer having less of that. However, most of his videos less opinion than that one (except e.g. Brexit ones). Whether you like his opinions (internationalist or otherwise), I don't they seep into his content most of the time, at least not in a way that would make his content worse.
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  7945.  @5metoo  "What makes something rightful right?" Well, I can't read the minds of those that voted for the 2019 resolution talked about earlier, but I can say that it can be (in their minds) something other than a universal right to return. This resolution was based on an earlier ICJ ruling that stated, among other things, that the decolonization of Mauritius wasn't done properly and that Britain had no right to split Chagos from Mauritius and therefore it has to be returned to Mauritius. That in practice is probably going to result in the Chagossians being able to return eventually, but that conclusion doesn't require positing any kind of universal right of return. In theory, Mauritius could itself prevent civilians from returning to Chagos once it takes over the territory, but it seems that's not going to happen. "Instead of recognizing as does Spaniel, the obvious truth about why it is that some aspects of international law are so commonly breached, Kerr-Lindsay merely stares into the screen with those dead eyes and intones that such breaches are a problem for their inconsistency alone, as if geopolitics is little more than a list of sacred rules or a dogma." I don't think there's any good reason to believe that about him. I'm sure he understands why international law might get either followed or breached even though his content mostly isn't about what kind of incentives decision makers face. Also, a reasonable person can believe that international laws and norms being followed can have a lot of utility instead of them being terminal values by themselves. Surely, most his viewers can be assumed to realize that, whether they agree or not, without him having to explain why he thinks it's bad if international laws get broken. "He notes in the Russia video that it is "violating every one of the principles that underpin this system" that has "existed for 70 years". Every one? If one state can violate every principle of a system that is 70 years old at a stroke with such impunity, what does that say about the realism of this 70 year old system?" The rule that a state cannot acquire territory from another state through war has mostly held very well after WWII until very recently. That has been very good for mankind since it has reduced the incentive for war significantly. That's one of the reasons (though not the only one) why the Ukraine war is so worrying. And that "every one" is probably just a turn of the phrase and not intended 100% literally.
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  7946.  @5metoo  At least that particular resolution didn't use a universal right of return as justification (and I suspect the ICJ judgment it was based on didn't either but I haven't read the judgment).
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  7947.  @brunovilela3619  If a forested area is going to get submerged wouldn't it make sense to log all the wood there and use it?
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  7948. 1974-2010
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  7949. 1:50 That's not true. Poland's first democratic elections were in 1919.
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  7950. "To end the war cut off the money" That is what they're doing to Russia with the oil price cap and other sanctions.
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  7951. Sea levels have risen at least 16 cm since 1900.
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  7952.  @skp8748  A Hong Kong flagged ship named New New Polar Bear seems to be the most likely suspect.
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  7953. 17:00 Objection! The supreme court has sometimes conducted trials. One example is a lawsuit between Michigan and Wisconsin about the state border.
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  7954. Actually, it seems to be pointing somewhat to the southeast of Ankara. I'm assuming it's just pointing to the country rather than any specific location inside it.
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  7955. Cyprus is geographically entirely outside of Europe but it was still included.
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  7956.  @andriusgimbutas3723  Wut?
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  7957.  @mariosathens1  Islands are still usually counted as part of regions like Europe or Asia if they're close enough to the continent. E.g. most people would say that Japan is in Asia even though it doesn't include any continental mainland. Similarly Cyprus is quite close to the coast of Anatolia so I would say it's geographically in Asia.
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  7958. Such a tax-dodge ship already exists, MS The World (wow, what clumsy sounding name). Of course, it is just a regular-sized cruise ship, not a behemoth like this.
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  7959. Privatization can at least possibly work. Japan Railways was privatized in 1987 and seems to work well.
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  7960. She was already a citizen, wasn't she?
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  7961.  @intselec2184  Did you only read the beginning part of my comment where I was quoting another commenter (James) saying: "France had 3 times to population of England during the 100year war..."? In the very next line, I respond that it was basically a French civil war (early on at least). Or did you mean to reply to James rather than me?
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  7962.  @redordead4491  "Can Russian intimation force Finland into not joining Nato?" Intimidation would only make Finland feel that it's not safe outside NATO.
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  7963. That 96% figure is likely not to be trusted. Before the referendum a German pollster found that somewhat over 70% of Crimeans planned to vote for union with Russia. So even an honest referendum would likely have passed but not with 96%.
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  7964. "She's living the "American dream" in Finland on $48k a year WTF." I'd assume that how comfortably you can live on $48k a year in the US would vary wildly based on the location.
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  7965. If I were him I would diversify. No matter how much like the stock, concentrating so much of your assets into a single stock seems like an unnecessary risk.
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  7966. It might be dangerous for a lawyer to talk about jury nullification.
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  7967. But presumably the same isn't true for PWC? Evergrande had clearly overvalued some of its assets. That would seem to imply that they either used a dodgy accounting system for valuing their inventory or didn't use their system correctly. Shouldn't the auditors have caught that?
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  7968. SCP = South Caucasus Pipeline
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  7969.  @ChairmanMeow1  They have already got the turbine back. This is not because of that. Russia now says that the shutdown is due to an oil leak at the turbine but Siemens says that such oil leaks are common and shouldn't prevent operation.
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  7970. ​ @a.v.gavrilov  Elon also said that such a plane would 70% by weight a battery. That kind of thing that's mostly a flying battery is unlikely to be economically viable.
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  7971.  @a.v.gavrilov  Their carrying capacity would be a fraction of that of more traditional planes. They wouldn't fly that much faster and the recharging times would be much longer than refuelling times.
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  7972.  @a.v.gavrilov  "when supersonic speed became "they wouldn't fly that much faster"?" Concorde had about 2.5x the cruising speed of a regular airliner. Having the plane be 70% battery by weight surely reduces the carrying capacity of the plane more than by a factor of 2.5. "And take a look on weights: dry, fuel, max take off for any big modern passenger aircraft. It is not too bid difference of this weights ratio with that Elon said about an electric plane." It's quite different. It seems that e.g. Boeing 737-800 weighs 41,000 kg empty and can carry 18,000 kg fuel. That makes an otherwise empty plane about 30% fuel with a full tank which is quite far from 70%. Also, for shorter trips the fuel tanks need not be filled completely and they will also partially be emptied during the flight whereas a battery will always be at the max weight regardless of the level of charge. (I'm not sure if Musk said whether that 70% was for an empty or a fully loaded plane but to be generous I'm assuming he meant an empty plane.)
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  7973.  @McLenwe  "it would rather be a defeat" It could potentially be a lesser defeat than what the alternative would be. (Of course, this depends on how the war goes.)
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  7974.  @bookmew1081  Maybe the former Karelo-Finnish SSR could become its own independent state? (Note, this is not a serious suggestion.)
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  7975. Southern Sweden? Are you talking about Skåne, Blekinge, and Halland? Those do in fact rightfully belong to Denmark. :)
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  7976. AFAIK, in the Falklands War both sides observed the laws of war.
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  7977. @@ivak91026 "The war between Bantustan and Bhutan of 1951..." I think you're confused here or making stuff up. The word "Bantustan" is a nickname for the "Bantu homelands" set up by apartheid-era South Africa to deny Blacks citizenship. They were very far away from Bhutan.
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  7978. Maybe CEOs will now try to isolate themselves from the surrounding society. They'll travel only in cars and won't walk outside except in places like gated communities, golf courses, etc.
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  7979. No.
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  7980. "They can easily do this." I very much doubt it.
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  7981. I would've expected that you could tell how Russian people on the internet are reacting to the Kursk incursion or the comments on it from the Russian government.
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  7982. Almost certainly not. The higher price of LNG reflects additional costs like liquefaction and transport by ship (rather than in pipe). They are not gains to the seller.
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  7983.  @Chewable396  That was the result of an attempted split.
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  7984.  @eaglesfan226  "Are you telling me we should become like the Nazis?" Wut?
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  7985. As a Finn, I find -7 °C more pleasant than e.g. +1 °C.
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  7986. "Do its flaws excuse illegal immigration? Absolutely not." How come? If there's no practical legal way and the alternative is to stay in destitution, I don't think I could honestly say I wouldn't do try illegal immigration.
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  7987. "10,300 kWh per annum though that is a 4 adult household" That's 2575 kWh per adult per year, which is less than the figure given for Australia.
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  7988. "Russia should get all parts of Ukraine which have a Russian-majority population" Even if that population doesn't want to join Russia?
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  7989.  @TheDemigans  "Crimea did not join Russia, because it's population had no desire to. They were happy enough with being part of Ukraine with their own autonomy thank you very much." I think you're not correct there. To my knowledge, there was separatist sentiment in Crimea even prior to 2014. Also, before the 2014 referendum independent polling showed that a clear majority of Crimeans did want to join Russia. Mind you, the referendum itself was likely fraudulent but even in the case of a free and fair referendum the result would likely have been the same (though not with quite the same numbers). However, in other regions of Ukraine with lots of Russian speakers it's far more questionable whether a majority wanted to join Russia. Definitely after seeing how the "people's republics" of Donetsk and Luhansk turned out many were not keen on receiving Russian "help".
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  7990.  @attilamarics3374  If you mean the roughly 1/3rd of Donetsk and Luhansk that was separatist controlled before the current invasion, I don't think I've seen any convincing evidence of that.
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  7991.  @attilamarics3374  "I mean their military was the ukrainian military that chose to secede." I don't think most of them were active duty soldiers in the Ukrainian military, though maybe many of them had gone through military service at some point. In any case, they were a small part of the population and some portion probably joined just to get paid. "Not to mention millions left to Russia" Many times more have left to other countries and those that went to Russia may chosen it just because going somewhere else would have required going through the front line.
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  7992.  @attilamarics3374  When I google where Ukrainian refugees have gone I get the following numbers (top 10 countries only for simplicity): Poland: 1,639,725 Russia: 1,275,315 Germany: 1,086,355 Czech Republic: 547,670 United Kingdom: 210,800 Spain: 186,045 Bulgaria: 168,570 Italy: 163,570 Moldova: 116,615 Romania: 106,786 With these numbers in the top 10 countries other than Russia have about 3.3x more Ukrainian refugees than Russia. If I included more countries the factor would become even bigger.
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  7993.  @rds990  "not like us where we build them cheaply" Wasn't it expensively rather than cheaply?
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  7994. Posse Comitatus means you can't use the military for domestic projects? Does that apply to the Army Corps of Engineers as well?
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  7995. The true paleo diet should be a paleozoic era diet.
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  7996. How strong is the Guyanese military?
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  7997. I think you're exaggerating a little. There is going to be a hit to industry but a lot of them have switched to alternatives like propane or oil for which prices haven't risen as much. Also, people using gas for heating are likely going to switch to something else like heat pumps meaning the need for gas next winter is going to be lower. It's going to be a bit tough but hardly fatal.
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  7998. The Panama canal zone used to be a part of the US but it isn't anymore.
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  7999. I suspect it's because civilian targets had lower military value than e.g. factories and such an attack would needlessly provoke retaliatory attacks on the German population which Hitler saw some value in avoiding. I'm not entirely sure though.
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  8000.  @seeker2118  There's no need for time to end. He made predictions about "what can happen in 2023". Now, 2023 isn't over yet but I think it's pretty unlikely that his predictions, like the UK rejoining the EU, Fourth Reich being created, etc. happening during this year. Of course, he probably doesn't actually believe any of that. Same can probably said for many of his other rants.
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  8001.  @seeker2118  "the fourth Reich is somewhat obvious" At what point during 2023 was a Fourth Reich created (as Medvedev predicted)? Nothing like that has happened and likely won't happen in the remaining months of this year. He also predicted a war between this Fourth Reich and France. Clearly, that's not happening either. It also doesn't look likely that Northern Ireland would joing Ireland as he predicted, at least not during this year. It should be clear that he frequently spouts complete nonsense that no one in their right mind should take seriously.
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  8002.  @seeker2118  "In reality we all have limited information." Medvedev's predictions aren't some reasonable predictions made under uncertainty and limited information. They are completely illucid as are many other things he says.
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  8003.  @PhuaTeckHoe  "To know how a Fourth Reich was created, look no further than the Canadian parliament when they honoured a nutzee SS veteran." Having one unsavory guest hardly means that Canada is some kind of Fourth Reich and it also isn't in war with France (and likely won't) be. "Do you know what a prediction is? Something that is going to happen in the future. Not now." He specifically spoke about "what can happen in 2023". There's no reason for a sane person to expect his predictions to come true this year. He frequently spouts complete nonsense which clearly isn't even meant to be believable.
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  8004.  @PhuaTeckHoe  No, but these one are also completely ridiculous (like many other things he says).
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  8005. I actually have heard or civets before because I've hear of civet coffee.
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  8006. "You can't pick and choose which independence to support." If that's the case then should Russia's recognition of LPR & DPR last year compel them to also recognize Kosovo as independent? Or do Greenwald's demands of consistency only apply to the EU & NATO and not Russia?
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  8007.  @ericaugust1501  Fair enough. However, I have to say that while you can compare the examples of Kosovo and Crimea, it's not clear to me that the same would apply to Donetsk and Luhansk. I haven't at least seen the same kind of polling data that we have on Crimean from Donetsk or Luhansk so it's not clear whether a majority of those regions wanted separation from Ukraine.
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  8008.  @ericaugust1501  "observing history, it tends to usually only be small groups willing to fight but who also generally represent a bigger majority" You can also find fighters from a large enough minority (e.g. 30%), especially if they get paid to fight.
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  8009.  @tullgutten : "it's sold as a ultra fast dryer, not an efficient dryer 😜" I would guess that sublimation isn't very fast either.
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  8010. The cost of the program might be comparatively small, but the greenhouse emissions of those flights should also be factored into the cost.
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  8011.  @seigeengine : What a strange reaction.
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  8012. It's just a dialectal variation in pronunciation, much like the Brits and the Americans pronounce "bath" differently (with a back vowel in British English and a front vowel in American English).
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  8013.  @steviewonder417  The claims weren't about demographics but more like about Chinese banks collapsing or something like that.
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  8014.  @GunFunZS  I don't have a good suggestion or anything. Jury nullification and legislating from the bench seem to me to be similar in the way that they're ways of wielding de facto power in a way that one isn't technically supposed to. At least according to law, jurors and supreme court justices aren'te supposed to behave like that but the law also doesn't functionally prevent them. I asked this because I've sometimes seen people who like one and not the other and thus pondering the similarity might good even if I can't offer any practical proposals to change things. I myself don't have a strong opinion though I'm a bit uncomfortable with nullification because in the past it's been used to e.g. acquit whites who've murdered blacks.
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  8015.  @bergmanoswell879  "The thing about juries that most people miss is that they operate under citizen rules, not government rules, in the US system." I would like to have a reference for this.
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  8016.  @chris0000924  No one was talking about hash rate here (before you).
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  8017. I think WWII had many instances of action involving modern battleships (being bombed by aircraft).
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  8018. If you need to seldom make longer than normal trips instead of either owning two cars with different ranges or one car with a long range, you could just own a car with a short range and rent a car with a longer range whenever that's needed. If the longer trips are rare enough that can be cheaper than either of the other options, though it might involve some additional hassle.
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  8019. It's likely a secondary explosion.
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  8020. Brine.
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  8021.  @JuhoLankila  "If i remember this right, it would only account for 25-30% of the energy we would have bought from Russia" I'm not sure what you are including in that number. It will almost entirely cover the (halted) direct electricity imports from Russia. Gas was only about 5% of Finland's energy production so that doesn't change the equation significantly. Maybe you're also including coal imports from Russia but those are easier to source from other places (though that will still increase the cost).
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  8022.  @morzh1978  "its Alstom or Siemens made turbine just broke during initial tests, and repairs or replacements would take many months with no clear solution in sight. Welcome to rolling blackouts!" Olkiluoto 3 is back in test usage so clearly it wasn't a big problem. The 100% capacity test usage should begin at the end of this month.
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  8023.  @SES-Shepard  "Isn't the reactor still some way off from actually becoming active?" No, it's been in test usage at partial power for some time now. The full power test usage is scheduled to start at the end of this month (i.e. in a few days). Maybe you're thinking of when the normal commercial operation should begin which is scheduled to happen in December. However, it's already producing electricity to the grid for some time.
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  8024.  @SES-Shepard  It's probably visible in the sense that without it your bill would likely be even higher. We need to remember that it still only offsets the loss of direct electricity imports from Russia. There is still the fact that gas imports from Russia have ceased, coal is likely now more expensive than before, and the countries that Finland can export electricity to have a higher need for it now. Btw, do you have a fixed price contract or a market rate contract?
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  8025.  @SES-Shepard  I also have a fixed contract. I was under the impression that my building doesn't have a smart meter or at least I think it didn't have. I have to check again at some point. I got a 2 year contract which will expire in April meaning I got pretty lucky. I suspect that fixed contracts are going to be more expensive then so a market rate might make more sense.
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  8026.  @morzh1978  There have been several issues. I don't remember all of them. But as of writing this comment it's running at 1590 MW which is already quite close to the full power. There isn't currently a problem which would prevent that usage and take months to fix. There isn't a reason to expect blackouts barring further problems that haven't yet appeared.
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  8027.  @markobucevic8991  Russia is definitely not doing fine. In the 2021 Corruption Perception Index it ranked 136th of the countries listed making it the worst in Europe. For comparison, Ukraine was 122nd making it the second worst in Europe. Russia is famous for its corruption. If you want to prove it's doing fine in this regard you'd need to have some good evidence for that, not just mere assertions (or personal experiences).
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  8028.  @markobucevic8991  Well, do you have any other source for the level of corruption in Russia (besides mere assertions by you or some other individual people).
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  8029. 1:40 Lol, "PooCube".
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  8030. Russia has acknowledged the sinking of at least one ship (Sergey Kotov, IIRC). (EDIT: Corrected the ship name.)
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  8031.  @rangihansen1651  Sorry, Sergey Kotov. I'll edit my comment.
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  8032. You're just completely wrong. Ukraine applied for NATO membership in 2022, not 2008.
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  8033.  @JohnGeary-e9e  I don't see what does that have to do with my comment. OP said that Ukraine applied for NATO membership in 2008 (and he counts that as the start of the current war). However, that's just incorrect. Ukraine applied for NATO membership in 2022, not 2008.
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  8034. In the part he talked about it the video there was shown a news article by France 24 which reports that the Norwegian chief of staff gave that estimate.
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  8035.  @matertua2272 : So the video was actually taken down and not e.g. just demonetized?
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