A two-week old perspective looking more like a 2-year old perspective.
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It doesn't say any of that.
Not everything is a vast left-wing antifa conspiracy.
It's not that people don't know how to fry from fresh potato, it's just that the time it takes to do so is a lot. For restaurants especially, frozen is also just more cost-effective after accounting for labour.
For everyone else, Singapore is important because it sits right at the end of the historical trade route of the Straits of Malacca. There is a whole wikipedia entry about it.
I am sure, a Roman soldier, in the centuries that the Pilum was in use, must have used one in a thrust and either killed or injured an enemy soldier. But based on the historical evidence he has, the Pilum was intended to be and probably mostly used as a throwing weapon.
That would be like a future historian asking whether WWI soldiers used their single-bolt rifles as clubs rather than as projectile weapons.
I like it, but I wonder if I want to carry it when I go carry-on only in Europe. I guess most people will trade some privacy and inconvience for weight- and cost-savings.
Historians who study the origins of idea traces them back and make connections to thoughts and ideas of the past. Often, the inheritors of those ideas knows nothing of how they get them and think themselves clever for coming up with them all by themselves.
They are probably finding you via Linkedin. If you had submitted a resume to one of them at some point, they will contact you again for a job remotely similar to something that you do.
These guys said they loss $100 mil to shrinkage? Or, did I read that wrong?
Same as saying that you need to argue why a pay raise is good for your company. I mean, it mostly doesn't. All it does is that it makes the employees happier.
I worked in student loan collections a before (a long time ago). A lot of these loans are uncollectable.
"Forgiving" $39 billion in loans is very different than give people $39 billion... "Forgiveness" is just a really nice way of saying "writing off bad debts on book" for the government.
So my question is, if Reddit kicks off all the mods from a sub you frequent often, and ask you to be the new mod, would you do it? And, if it is a busy enough subreddit, would you spend the time those people have been spending, to moderation?
For me, that would be no.
Nobody in North America or Europe knows how to get the fair value of gold in the crappy 14k necklaces.
USD is useful because it is a meaning unit of exchange.