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It's funny to me that they're always playing stud like they've never even heard of no limit hold em.

There was at least one "AI" company that was caught passing off the cheap overseas labor as AI.

This is an astute observation.

In fact, macroeconomic theory would say that appreciation in real estate should be tied to the rate of interest, which in turn should be tied the rise of the price level: inflation.

There are discrepancies, of course. Lately real estate has been growing faster than inflation. And importantly, during the Second Thirty Years War, 1914-1945, those European apartments suffered great depreciation and outright physical destruction.

The biggest thing that happened, though, is that inflation essentially did not exist until the second half of the nineteenth century. As far as we can tell, inflation was created by the industrial revolution. Before then, with wide error bars, you can tie prices from the 1760s to prices from the Roman Empire, in the same base metals.

For more evidence, read the works of Jane Austen and Victor Hugo. They are full of specific prices for things that make no sense to modern readers. But the authors expected that future readers would be able relate to the specific prices. Modern fiction authors avoid mentioning specific prices when they want their work to feel timeless.

Source, generally: Thomas Piketty. Capital in the Twenty First Century.

The top secret information is held in Sensitive Compartmentalized Information Facilities (SCIFs), within the pentagon and elsewhere. The security standards for the SCIFs are comprehensive. It is nigh impossible to accidentally end up in one.

The Pentagon itself is ginormous. It controls an upcoming defense budget of 1,500 billion dollars, far more than what can reasonably be kept secret or top secret. 24,000 people work there. And it has its own dedicated metro station. So most of it is not, in fact, classified.

Always upvote Woody Guthrie.

Well see, they do actually have a list that says what everything costs. It's called the Charge Master List. They just don't want you to see that list, because they think it puts you at a negotiating disadvantage. It's the magic invisible hand of the free market, at work to make pricing information available to all in the most efficient manner. (/s)

I saw it up, and I dropped a comment. And it was gone about 30 seconds later.

This headline sounds like the start of a decent Bond film.

They didn't just "lose" the aircraft. In some cases they valiantly intercepted Iranian missiles with their jets in order to prevent those missiles from hitting and destroying valuable ramp tarmac.

When I was a kid, MS and LA were #50 and #49 in all of these kinds of lists. It amazes me to see all these other states racing to tank their scores down to the bottom.

My computer is so tired from compiling so many kernels all at once.