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  • You do know what average means in this context, right? You divide the sum of the empires’ years by the number of empires.

  • I know it was just an example to make a point, but my first assumption was that there would be a web server or something in front of the application, and so I’d rate limit the API path at that level, before the calls even reached the application.

  • They speak another language, have their own cultural heritage.

    The Wikipedia page for Taiwan alone would prove this to be utterly false[^1]. How can you speak with such authority when you know you’re talking out your ass?

    The rest of you what you wrote isn’t much better. It’s just the standard anti-China & anti-communist Western propaganda talking points.

    What do you think this is, Reddit?

    [^1]: Excepting the tiny minority of indigenous Formosans, whom the fascist KMT overran them when it retreated from the mainland..

  • Not really: The poorer you are, the less a person you are, which is why Enron Muck is the greatest person in the world.

  • 🤷 I have absolutely no doubt that Iran has had mines prepared for blockading the strait for decades, and I don’t think bluffing is Iran’s usual M.O., so I think this is likely regardless of what anonymous US sources say.

  • So if anything should happen, know that each incident was by a lone wolf and not a member of any fascist paramilitary organization.

  • Perhaps. Ultimately they’re heads of the same USAGM hydra.

  • For anyone unfamiliar with this malarkey: Reconciliation (United States Congress)

    Budget reconciliation is a special parliamentary procedure of the United States Congress set up to expedite the passage of certain federal budget legislation in the Senate. The procedure overrides the Senate's filibuster rules, which may otherwise require a 60-vote supermajority for passage. Bills described as reconciliation bills can pass the Senate by a simple majority of 51 votes or 50 votes plus the vice president's as the tie-breaker. The reconciliation procedure also applies to the House of Representatives, but it has minor significance there, as the rules of the House of Representatives do not have a de facto supermajority requirement.

    The Senate filibuster rules aren’t formal law. They’re rules the Senate imposed on itself over the last hundred years, and it can remove them just as easily. Both parties want these supermajority rules because they don’t want to pass bills that aren’t bipartisan.

    So Democrats would have to get 60 seats who never vote against their own party. But it doesn’t ever work that way because there are always some rotating villians in those seats. If necessary, they’ll use other dirty tricks, for instance the Parliamentarian, who blocked a minimum wage increase in 2021. Congress is Kayfabe.

  • If I cared enough to do the work, I might use a basket of currencies, like special drawing rights.

    As of August 2023, the XDR basket consists of the following five currencies: U.S. Dollar 43.38%, Euro 29.31%, Chinese Yuan 12.28%, Japanese Yen 7.59%, British pound sterling 7.44%

    It would take a little extra math to exclude the USD allocation from the basket.

  • I knew where this was going: 1 April 2013

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