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Reminiscent of Argentina's Blue Dollar, the real exchange rate between the peso and the US dollar and usually very different from the official rate.

First, we do not use bad poetry added to the base of the Statue of Liberty 20 years after the fact as a fundraiser as a substitute for actual immigration law that elected representatives have voted on…

Not even in Portuguese. "Americano" specifically means "someone from the United States". Spanish is the only major European language in which its local equivalent of "Americ…

As alexandros said, there is nothing special about the Tesla factory operating as opposed to any other company's. The only difference is that Alameda County opposed the factory reopening. Not the…

I am well aware of the benefits of free trade and comparative advantage. Such benefits do not, however, take into account the requirement of at least some degree of self-sufficiency in terms of nation…

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The only extension that I've seen implement this closer to right is CLUT https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/clut-cycle-last-us... (specifically, the "Quic…

Why did things get so bad in Ecuador? Is the border still tightly guarded?

>When I was in my early forties, 15-20 year old girls were still coming on to me. I will be 50 next year I've read that when Scott McNealy met his future wife (they married when he was 40) she…

>You are wrong. The Outer Space Treaty bans nuclear weapons in space I can't count the number of times I saw the usual armchair experts confidently state online that Trump's proposed Spac…

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>but rather just tries to assert that it didn't make things worse and we should therefore do it Rheumatologist with 30 years of experience who, while skeptical of hydroxychloroquine's ben…

I've heard that MTV caused new fashions to become popular outside big cities first, because rural areas were more likely to have cable TV in the 1980s.

If Apple had released computers with the touch bar above the existing physical function keys, everyone would love it and other companies would provide a similar feature, the same way that they have al…

The University of California system did not charge tuition for in-state students until 1970. https://www.dailycal.org/2014/12/22/history-uc-tuition-since... …

>Trump was especially irresponsible in touting hydroxychloroquine because he said it had very promising results, people have access to it now, there are no adverse effects, and he was going to let …

I've heard it speculated that the thing to do may be to not put people on ventilators, but give them blood transfusions. Where I heard this: https://science.slashdot.org/comments.…

Codes are all used, but thank you for providing them (and developing the app)!

There is no reason for the US government to pay to take oil out of the ground to put it into the ground elsewhere. Fracking has made the US an oil exporter. As others mentioned, fracking has made the …

>I dont think he would have been called sexist for that. CNN on January 30: "Coronavirus task force another example of Trump administration's lack of diversity" https://ww…

>The USA have alerted NATO allies and Israel in mid-November (!) about coronavirus: Yes, the US alerted allied nations of a new disease that ought to be watched. Similar warnings went out for SARS,…

Ah yes, yet another person who looked at the Snopes piece's headline and nothing else. One would think reading only that, or the Twitter thread (!) the piece is based on, that to save money (or b…

I've heard it speculated that the thing to do may be to not put people on ventilators, but give them blood transfusions. Where I heard this: https://science.slashdot.org/comments.…

I've heard it speculated that the thing to do may be to not put people on ventilators, but give them blood transfusions. Where I heard this: https://science.slashdot.org/comments.…

briandear is right and toomuchtodo is wrong. (He's even wrong in the way he was wrong.) One would think reading only the Snopes article, or the Twitter thread (!) the piece is based on, that to s…

>- Become champion supporters of an NHS they were - until recently - trying to sell bit off of Private Eye on "24 Hours to Save the NHS https://twitter.com/KulganofCrydee…