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3hr ago
According to Wikipedia, the country was majority-black (as suggested by the name) historically, but became majority-Arab in 2011 when South Sudan seceded and took a lot of blacks with it.
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4hr ago
A quick manual scan through the most recent five pages of the all-comments "firehose" page (covering the past six hours of discussion) reveals 50 unique posters just in that small slice.
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12hr ago
The real villain here is the Uniform Commercial Code. It turns out that a consignment agreement isn't a consignment agreement.
Generally, if the consignee under such a consignment arrangement files for bankruptcy relief, the consigned goods are property of the consignee's bankruptcy estate. Accordingly, 11 U.S.C. §362(a)(3) prohibits the consignor from picking up the consigned goods after the filing of the bankruptcy.
The typical consignor is relegated to the status of a general unsecured creditor.
There are numerous requirements and exceptions to the foregoing rules. Many transactions that have often been referred to as "consignments" are not deemed to be consignments for the purposes of the foregoing rules. For example, transactions involving goods "consigned" to auctioneers, goods delivered "on consignment" to what generally everyone knows is a consignment shop, goods "consigned" to a merchant for resale, for any delivery where the aggregate value of the goods is less than $1,000, and goods that were consumer goods (i.e., goods used or bought primarily for use for personal, family or household purposes) in the hands of the "consignor" are definitely not consignments. These transactions are, or may be, "true consignments" (in the usual sense), but the drafters of UCC Article 9 consciously chose not to have Article 9 apply to them. Moreover, if the goods will not be delivered, at least in part, to a merchant for resale, there can be no consignment under Article 9. Similarly excluded are transactions that may be designated as "consignments" but that, in reality, are transactions that secure an obligation (other than the "consignee's" obligation to return the "consigned" goods). When in doubt about whether the Article 9 consignment rules apply, the "consignor" should take all steps necessary both to create and perfect a purchase-money security interest in the "consigned goods."
I would expect Lego sets to fall under the "consumer goods" exception, though.
Presumably this law was written by banks or other creditors.
Prior to the UCC, it was generally held that the consignee's creditors had no claim against the consignor if the consignee's assets were inadequate to satisfy their respective claims. This was so despite the fact that the consignor was not required to record the transaction or to give notice that he retained title to the goods. The basic reason for ruling in the consignor's favor was that title had not passed to the consignee and the creditor could not secure an interest in, or attach, any goods to which the debtor did not have title. This decisional law placed a creditor of the consignee in an unfavorable position, particularly if he had relied on the consignee's possession of consigned goods and failed to ask for proof of ownership. It was difficult for a creditor to discover a consignment because the consignor was not required to give notice in order to protect his interests. For example, if a consignee presented his goods as collateral for a loan, the creditor who relied on the consignee's possession would have no protection if the goods involved were consigned.
This problem did not exist under the 1952 Code, since section 1-201(37), at that time, included all consignments as security interests. Under the present [1962] Code, however, the question of intention is all-important and presents a difficult problem of legal and factual determination.
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21hr ago
the typical prostitute does not earn very much (and her job is crazy dangerous, has terrible hours
The numbers will be different in places where prostitution is legal, though. 200 dollars per hour is a lot, though that number obviously does not take into account downtime, the brothel's cut of the revenue (one document indicates that it's 50 percent), etc.
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22hr ago
LEGOs
Obligatory note that "LEGO" is not supposed to be pluralized
Proper Use of the LEGO Trademark on a Web Site
If the LEGO trademark is used at all, it should always be used as an adjective, not as a noun. For example, say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGO BRICKS". Never say "MODELS BUILT OF LEGOs". Also, the trademark should appear in the same typeface as the surrounding text and should not be isolated or set apart from the surrounding text. In other words, the trademarks should not be emphasized or highlighted. Finally, the LEGO trademark should always appear with a ® symbol each time it is used.
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23hr ago
The joke is that everybody who watches sports and television shows at best is experiencing effects large enough to be evaluated in a future study, or at worst is being actively experimented on by television and sports companies.
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1d ago
Wikipedia says:
In the design of experiments, hypotheses are applied to experimental units in a treatment group. In comparative experiments, members of a control group receive a standard treatment, a placebo, or no treatment at all. There may be more than one treatment group, more than one control group, or both.
Prostitution is entirely illegal under state law in 48 of the US's 50 states. (Nevada has devolved to its less populated counties (not including Las Vegas) the ability to permit brothels. Maine punishes only the buyer of sex, not the seller.)
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1d ago
It's a bit annoying that a person who has been in zero romances can't just skip all the pages past the first one.
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Anecdotes on this topic:
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I once received a consumer survey. It was a paper booklet with dozens of pages, including (probably literally) a dozen for the respondent to indicate how often he watched different television shows. After two or three pages of marking "did not watch" for every single show, I got tired of it and just scribbled a line through the checkboxes.
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I once received an electronic survey from my university. It had (probably literally) a dozen different pages for the respondent to indicate which sports teams he paid attention to. After half a dozen pages of marking "do not pay attention" for every single team, I got tired of it and just closed the survey.
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1d ago
An article
It says "a small group of high-end companions" right at the top (before the paywall). These numbers obviously are not representative. A cursory Internet search indicates that, in places where prostitution (including advertising) is legal, prices are 200 US dollars per hour, not 5000.
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1d ago
If it is, mods feel free to delete.
Stand-alone submissions start removed by default. If anybody other than the submitter can see it, it's already been approved by the moderators.
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1d ago
any preparation used as a preventive inoculation to confer immunity against a specific disease, usually employing an innocuous form of the disease agent, as killed or weakened bacteria or viruses, to stimulate antibody production.
any preventive preparation used to stimulate the body’s immune response against a specific disease, using either messenger RNA or killed or weakened bacteria or viruses to prepare the body to recognize a disease and produce antibodies.
It can be argued that the word "usually" in the older definition always hid more treatments than the one that the layman was taught about in high-school biology class. But it is not deniable that the dictionary definition (and the CDC definition) did change.
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1d ago
Presumably for IPOs, there's some sort of delay before they get plugged into the indices?
That's what the linked article says.
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2d ago
They already made a video announcing the pregnancy, so they couldn't just pretend that nothing happened.
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3d ago
Who's that guy that said (incorrectly) history ended in the 2000s?
That's a misinterpretation of what he said.
The End of History is about the philosophy of political and economic systems. "Humans have tried many systems, but we no longer need to keep searching: liberal democracy is the last system of government we’ll ever need." If Fukuyama had wanted to be less provocative, he could have named his book The End of Political Systems Other Than Liberal Democracy. But here we are.
Most of what was eliminated has less to do with "job creation" and more to do with specific circumstances that only apply to certain industrial processes.
I think this applies to the deleted portions of the IFC (composed mostly of parts 4 (Special Occupancies and Occupations) and 5 (Hazardous Materials)), but not to the deleted portions of the IBC (generally applicable provisions).
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4d ago
Probably more, considering some users might have downvoted, so it might be +10 vs. −5 or whatever—I wouldn't know.
If you hover your cursor over the score, you can see the upvote and downvote counts. (Allegedly, Reddit used to have this feature many years ago, but removed it.)
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4d ago
As I understand it, there is nothing illegal in the US about depictions of illegal incest, and the payment-processing companies are just puritanical for complicated reasons. (The same apparently is not true in the UKGBNI.)
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4d ago
Maybe I'm in a bubble, but I've never met anyone who doesn't have the default maps view on all the time. Is satellite view more common in the US?
On my computer, I use satellite view most of the time. Seeing urbanized areas, mountain ridges, and golf courses is fun, and I don't have a data cap. (On my phone/car, I use non-satellite view for better legibility.)
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