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That's kind of what happens to denim when you air dry it. They are fine. Wear them a bit and you won't notice. If it bothers you next time tumble dry them on low.

What is the case for funding this via a public television station instead of via schools? We already have infrastructure and a wider reach for education in schools? Wouldn't the money have been better served creating a Japanese language program in Georgia high schools?

Wouldn't that be kind of tough since one of juries main function is evaluation of witnesses. Without seeing the witnesses face or hearing their voice, how could one do that?

Massachusetts native, we regularly are brown bread from a can as a kid. Not a touristy thing.

Income tax is not the only tax.

First off there is payroll tax.

Then there are sales taxes.

And don't forget property tax.

I am probably forgetting something.

> The Cartesian product of nonempty sets is nonempty.

I think you want: the Cartesian product of an infinite number of (potentially infinite) non-empty sets is non-empty.

What's really going on here is that this provision was part of the tax acts from the first Trump administration. Due to procedural rules in Congress, they had to make those cuts appear revenue neutral over a 10 year time period. This tax increase is part of that. Very likely nobody involved really had a reason or cared that SEs get categorized this way, it just let them pass the changes they really wanted at the time.

With this game, there is no try. There is do or do not.

I think you have missed the subtle difference between "valuable" (which you introduced) and "valued" (which is the subject of the article)

I, for one, do not want to encourage Visa/Mastercard to use their market position to enforce policies. What they have already done is damage enough.

> Add in the random percentage increase in price when you try to buy something in a store from hidden taxes.

It's not random.

Those of us with a state tax are familiar with the rules and the rates. Those with a modicum of arithmetic ability have a pretty good idea what the total is coming to.

Not saying "this is better" just that it is not as bad as you apparently think.

> There isn't any reason in the abstract to think that Chinese propaganda is any worse than US propaganda.

China is (at best) a frenemy of the US. Allowing a rival to push propaganda onto your children is foolhardy.

It has nothing to do with whether Chinese propaganda is worse than US propaganda.

> I'm aware of merchant transaction fees, but they're insufficient as an explanation. Just run the numbers.

I don't have to run the numbers, because I read the article where they did the actual research with real numbers, not your back of the envelope estimating, and they came to the opposite conclusion:

| This leads to our second hypothesis: High interest rates are necessary to recoup the high cost of rewards. However, our analysis shows this is not the case. Rewards expenses are more than fully covered by banks’ interchange income—fees collected from merchants based on purchase volume. On average, interchange income amounts to 1.82 percent of purchase volume, while rewards expenses are 1.57 percent.

> 4% cash back

Which card is this?

> That money has to be coming from somewhere

If you read the whole article, you would learn that it is actually coming from you, via the merchant. Which means you are likely paying higher prices. Now you pay the higher prices either way for the most part, so you may as well enjoy the kickback^W rewards.

Say the supposedly Google version and your translation out loud.

So it is just a better way of accessing information collected from another device?

I don't understand how the watches help with glucose levels. The specs mention step, sleep and heart rate tracking.

What am I missing?

(Vested interest as a diabetic myself.)

My problem with extensions is it's another development team to trust and monitor. I need to know if the extension has been sold, taken over by a new lead, etc.

> Would you allow an 8 year old to wander New York City unattended?

Many people do, in fact, do this:

https://reason.com/2021/06/11/free-range-kids-second-edition...

Is COME FROM significantly different from an event-driven architecture?

What the GP is asking for does not affect the color blind. They are not suggesting there should be multiple folder icons of different colors. They just want color included in the existing icons. My understanding of color blindness means that that would be better for people with color blindness as well.

> As for China: over 70% of household wealth there is tied to real estate. Compare that to the US, where it's less than half of that and even if you assume pension funds pour all their money into real estate, it's still less.

That feels wrong. For most households, their biggest investment by far is their house. Few households which do not own a house have any kind of investment.

So if only 35% of all household wealth is in real estate, I would wager you have some outliers skewing the numbers (i.e. billionaires).

(This is not a criticism, just trying to reconcile the numbers)

> Looking to the left or right of your desk is how you should be finding your printer.

The desk at my AirBnB doesn't seem to have one.

> They're not gold bars. They're not expensive.

If someone has an alternate solution to owning a printer that works for them, whats it to you? Owning a printer so you can print half of the boarding passes you need every time you fly seems excessive to me

I have used asciidoc when I needed to generate PDFs for documentation.

You don't need any paid tools if you don't want them, I used a text editor and the terminal and source control.

I don't understand the hostility toward someone offering a product. It's fine that you don't need it, that doesn't mean someone else won't.

I'm not sure Natalie has. She knows she needs to give the appearance in order to keep her position. IMHO she was coaching Seth as to what the right response was.

Thanks for responding and clarifying. My apologies for misreading your intent.

That's fine that it is not for you.

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It's right in the name, it helps you handle and process your emotions.

> In all of these situations, you can figure out ways to get through them alone

That is not the point.

The point is that an emotional support network will help you in these situations and suggesting that someone build one is not "infantilizing" them but giving them valuable tools.

I could care less if you find one personally valuable or not (I don't have trouble imagining that there are people for which they are not), but I object to your generalizations and implication that men who pursue them are somehow lesser.