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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8340 on: August 06, 2014, 04:00:42 pm »
I mean they're clearly up on DF terminology, odds are somewhat decent that they're on the forums. They may even be reading this very thread![/dun dun dun]
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8341 on: August 06, 2014, 05:14:04 pm »
Or... Now this is just me spitballing here, but maybe they were having a larf and expected you to play along, and not take them seriously? :V
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« Reply #8342 on: August 06, 2014, 05:41:46 pm »
Quote from: Descan on August 06, 2014, 05:14:04 pm
Or... Now this is just me spitballing here, but maybe they were having a larf and expected you to play along, and not take them seriously? :V

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8343 on: August 06, 2014, 05:42:50 pm »
My youtube account is Hypothetical Axolotl :v
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8344 on: August 06, 2014, 05:44:26 pm »
I don't even know what the name of my YT account is.

Mostly because I have a Chrome add-on that loads the Reddit comments instead of the YT comments.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8345 on: August 07, 2014, 02:17:27 am »
Iran and Russia sign 20 billion USD oil deal

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Vladimir Putin has agreed a $20bn (£11.8bn) trade deal with Iran that will see Russia sidestep Western sanctions on its energy sector.

Under the terms of a five-year accord, Russia will help Iran organise oil sales as well as “cooperate in the oil-gas industry, construction of power plants, grids, supply of machinery, consumer goods and agriculture products”, according to a statement by the Energy Ministry in Moscow.

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A deal could see Russia buying 500,000 barrels of Iranian oil a day, the Moscow-based Kommersant newspaper has previously reported. That would be about a fifth of Iran’s output in June and half its exports.

So basically, the internation sanction regime against Iran is pretty much gone.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8346 on: August 07, 2014, 10:42:54 am »
What, and plump helmet wine DIDN'T tip you off? :P
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8347 on: August 08, 2014, 11:59:44 am »
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/wall-street-tobacco-deals-left-states-billions-debt
So, if I get this right, the states sold part or all of the rights to the big tobacco deal income to private investors, and now are paying the investors more, out of their (the state's) remaining tobacco deal income, to make up for shortfalls in net tobacco deal income, (protecting the investors at taxpayer's expense)?
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8348 on: August 08, 2014, 12:01:36 pm »
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8349 on: August 08, 2014, 12:07:16 pm »
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8350 on: August 08, 2014, 12:17:56 pm »
Quote from: GrizzlyAdamz on August 08, 2014, 11:59:44 am
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/wall-street-tobacco-deals-left-states-billions-debt
So, if I get this right, the states sold part or all of the rights to the big tobacco deal income to private investors, and now are paying the investors more, out of their (the state's) remaining tobacco deal income, to make up for shortfalls in net tobacco deal income, (protecting the investors at taxpayer's expense)?

For all the effort to get people to stop using tobacco products, they sure prop up the industry quite a bit.

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Satire. Very pleasant satire.

I gotta admit, those are some sharp looking suits.
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8351 on: August 08, 2014, 02:52:13 pm »
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8352 on: August 08, 2014, 02:57:16 pm »
Quote from: GrizzlyAdamz on August 08, 2014, 11:59:44 am
http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/wall-street-tobacco-deals-left-states-billions-debt
So, if I get this right, the states sold part or all of the rights to the big tobacco deal income to private investors, and now are paying the investors more, out of their (the state's) remaining tobacco deal income, to make up for shortfalls in net tobacco deal income, (protecting the investors at taxpayer's expense)?
Sounds about right. I can't believe anybody thought this was sane.
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“What are you doing?”, asked Minsky. “I am training a randomly wired neural net to play Tic-Tac-Toe” Sussman replied. “Why is the net wired randomly?”, asked Minsky. “I do not want it to have any preconceptions of how to play”, Sussman said.
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“So that the room will be empty.”
At that moment, Sussman was enlightened.

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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8353 on: August 12, 2014, 07:24:34 am »
Quote from: Vector on August 08, 2014, 12:01:36 pm
Satire. Very pleasant satire.

It is strange as people on the other side of the pond consider Protestantism == Christianity; while, probably, for them it is strange like in my part of Europe it is Catholicism. :P

The article itself isn't really a good analogy, but it doesn't make it any less funny satire. But it misses the most important point - yoga pants (in contrast to sharp suits) are just hideous! ;)
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Re: Calm and Cool Progressive Discussion Thread
« Reply #8354 on: August 24, 2014, 08:02:16 pm »
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