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"@Tommy8788 Fixing the areas I discussed would still be a huge popular win"  
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"@AMoser_E Huh I thought it was considerably earlier. My guess is some combination of Portugal being a bit more moderate (versus Franco's past with the Nazis) and the traditional relationship between Portugal and the UK"  
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"Plenty of Chinese cities do have names that aren't clearly meaningful or have a pre-Han origin. And America does have the occasional Long Beach or Fort Worth or Portland. But most of our cities have non-English name origins or are derived from surnames"  
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"@3RenChengHu Agreed The much more stable ethnic history plus the conservative features of chatacter-based writing contribute to this"  
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"@lovabler0gue @mikewarot Total FDIC deposits are about two orders of magnitude smaller than the NPV of owed Social Security benefits so that's not especially helpful"  
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"@caesararum @sgodofsk In general I would like to remove hazards from people's lives. It's of course the fault of a gambler if he loses all his money. But it's still a tragedy and we can help by restricting gambling. Same principle here"  
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"Spain Greece Turkey and Portugal have all been dictatorships during their time in NATO but were still strategically aligned with the West. There is no longer a Soviet threat that makes these European alliances so imperative. We shouldn't defend countries that undermine our values just for the heck of it"  
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"The official position of the US government is that Pashtuns west of this line are white and ineligible for minority contract set asides but Pashtuns from east of this line are Asian and eligible"  
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"It's hard to blame people for being confused by social security when the program was specifically set up this way to confuse them. Why Because the fundamental logic is so clearly unsound: the average person is promised more money out in real terms than they pay in"  
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"Forget the X% defense spending target - NATO should require its members to actually be free countries"  
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"@jarvis_best X. Cut capital gains tax X. Eliminate stepped-up basis X. Tax personal above some exempt amount (refundable credit on repayment) X. Capital gains exemption on personal residence when purchasing a new residence (similar to Sec. 1031) Fiddle with rates to make it revenue neutral"  
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"It seems the only actual evidence of Epstein working for intelligence is this single paragraph: a second-hand anonymous recollection of Acosta supposedly doing CYA for himself in private published in The Daily Beast in an opinion piece. That's it"  
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"@GarrettPetersen The existence of Taipei implies an opposite Tainan. Maybe even an eastern Taitung or a central Taichung. Someday someone will discover the fabled Taihsi and win the Nobel prize in Sinology"  
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"A fun facet of Chinese is that many city names are semantically legible as normal text instead of just as names. Shanghai = On the Sea Beijing = North Capital Shenzhen = Deep Ditch Fuzhou = Happy City Americans are used to names just being names. What the heck is a "York""  
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"@cameronmattis Yup. But totally illegal to a modern speaker and they wouldn't even try to understand it. It's a place name they're just like that. The Chinese character system leads meaning to be more clearly preserved across time even as pronunciation changes"  
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"@MostlyMonkey @Rho_die Easier to trust AirBnB reviews though than the reviews on a self-hosted site"  
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"@JSMilbank Hi Sebastian the point of my post was more that Chinese orthography and history mean these meanings stay more evident over time such that the average person can understand them. Which isn't true of a city like New York even though it originally has a similar name derivation"  
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