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> There are plenty of pre-made decks for learning the basics of pretty much all the major languages.

I tried a few of them and the quality varies. The Arabic one I tried was very funny, it would show you something, like أ, and then ask: does it mean "Alif" the letter o does it mean: "How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood? A woodchuck would chuck how much a woodchuck would chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood".

Pretty useless.


> Possibly the people at CA will deny that it was effective if they are facing trouble in court, but I am sure they would tell you it was very effective if they were selling their services to you!

That is my point! Of course they tell prospect buyers that their method work, and so does the snake oil seller! Should I (as a buyer) trust them more than I trust snake oil sellers?


> They put their lives on the line every day

They also put other people's lives on the line every day.


> No matter how fashionable – or not – we consider ourselves, we all try to avoid wearing the same outfit every day.

It's not so frequent that an article loses me at the first sentence.


How come nobody has picked a name for this vulnerability?


Are there non-rare paintings? Aren't they all unique?


I thought the same thing. I suppose there are painting factories though, where people churn out all those $20 oil paintings I've seen for sale at furniture stores. They're basically just big brush swipes and big dabs of paint making abstract flowers. Those aren't rare.


There are lots of non unique paintings.

Artists often explore the same theme in steps and create several versions of the same picture. There are four paintings of "The scream" by Munch for example.

Some kind of art is created to be duplicated. Videoart and computer art, by design. Painters living much before computer age still managed to create thousands of "identical" copies of their pictures as a standard procedure. Auctions are full of lithographs, sometimes painted decades after the death of the artist.


I wait for the 13 atoms version.


But what about the 7 bridges road?


I Don't know. When something important actually happens, newspapers just say it plainly, without riddles and silly comments. When WWII started, british newspapers didn't title: something awful just happened, they titled BRITAIN AT WAR.

When anybody titles: Something important actually happened, guess what?, you can be sure that nothing important actually happened.


That's one type of article. Clearly there's a world of difference between "10 ways to improve your SEO" and "Britain at War". If we only write articles in the event of the latter, it will be a strange world.


That's interesting: why the middle class? What about classes below the middle?


because the poor aren't giving their descendants monetary inheritances. The middle class can give their descendants some form of monetary inheritances, but wont be able to afford to use the complicated schemes that the rich do. Hence, the middle class gets screwed.


The middle class can already bequeath to their children tax free. Only the extremely wealthy face restriction and it's very easy to avoid (via capital gains step ups, lifetime gifts etc). With a little planning, you can give $5.5 million tax free.


5.5m per parent.



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I didn't enable the scripts, I removed the display: none myself.


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