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by 2143 2y ago
I see so many comments about taking notes while reading. I didn't even know that was a thing. I'm not even sure if I would want to do it, because it would interrupt the reading. My own personal belief (which I came up with just no
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Peloton(en.wikipedia.org)
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> But does anyone think they can be dethroned? İs it possible? Yes and yes. Lookup RuPay of India. While you're at it, also lookup UPI, also from India. Some details I just read on its Wikipedia page[0]: > NPCI conceived RuPay as
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by 2143 2y ago
I kinda chuckled that you left out most of Asia. Most global companies (at least the US-based ones) have deployed in India, where I'm at right now. I suppose a billion people online is too big of a market to ignore (or not; I really do
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by 2143 2y ago
When I was studying in the US, my roommate was studying to become a "physician assistant" — a concept I think is brilliant. I don't think there's anything similar in my own country. But I was wondering if more physician
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by 2143 2y ago
What's happening to biology today?
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by 2143 3y ago
Not the same. The key is weather it captivates the reader/viewer/audience. If the 90 min film gets hopelessly boring, I wouldn't hesitate to stop watching. Heck I've abandoned 10 minute YouTube videos because it got bori
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by 2143 3y ago
In that page there's a picture of a signboard with distances to other places around the world. Interesting that Pitcairn-South Pole distance is twice that of Pitcairn-New York distance. Unintuitive to me. On a tangent, I like the idea
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by 2143 3y ago
Please tell us more!
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by 2143 3y ago
[Off topic] I'm unable to tell if this was written by a human or was generated by LLM (or a mix of both). So many words. If this was infact written by a human, I didn't mean any offense.
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Gresham College(gresham.ac.uk)
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Yep. Buy what's available. I wasn't commenting from a US perspective. Whenever a car company sets up shop in a new market (country) it's initially going to be difficult. Particular when it's a large country like USA, alt
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by 2143 3y ago
> still lack good reputation in terms of durability, repairability or reliability Are Western cars particularly better in these areas? I have a Mercedes E class (W212) bought new several years ago which I've always serviced at Merce
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by 2143 3y ago
Is there anything fundamentally wrong with Chinese cars as opposed to Western cars? I mean, non-western brands such as Honda, Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, Mazda, Tata, Mahindra, Proton etc exist, so what's the big deal with Chinese cars? And
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by 2143 3y ago
Reposting this because this bit stood out: > One of the biggest headaches will be for the Foreign Office, dealing with all the dignitaries who descend from all corners of the earth. > European royal families will be put up at the pala
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'London Bridge is down': the secret plan for the days after the Queen's death(theguardian.com)
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> Then again, it also boggles my mind how car makers in the US continue to use flashing red lights as the turn signal instead of yellow lights. This is probably a US government regulation thing. Because those same cars sold elsewhere in
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- There was this book I read long ago whose name and author I forgot about. I knew googling wouldn't be useful. And it definitely wasn't useful. I wasn't that hopeful about chatgpt either but after I gave it a brief summary i
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by 2143 3y ago
The ics trick — thanks! Although I'm of the opinion that in most places where they put up a schedule they ought to provide an ics file or a link or something like that.
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> To contrast, the owner of molex at one point heard my dad needed a surgery. He came down on the shop floor, called him over and sent my dad (and our family) to the Mayo Clinic for 2 weeks to have the surgery done (all expenses paid). I
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by 2143 3y ago
TIL Option+Fn+Delete can forward-delete a word! Thanks!
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> Don't mention the war! Oh okay! (Unaware of Tucker Carlson).
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by 2143 3y ago
It's sort of like, when a British person lives in America they're an "expatriate", but if an Indian lives in America they're an "immigrant". Just the way the world spins. (Off-topic non-relevant story foll
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Shotgun House(en.wikipedia.org)
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by 2143 3y ago
Not sure if this is the sort of thing that you're looking for, but the book I used during my critical thinking class might be useful: Critical Thinking: An Introduction to the Basic Skills, written by William Hughes, Jonathan Lavery, a
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by 2143 3y ago
It may also depend on whether you also have an iPhone/ipad. I don't. Hence I never bothered to sign into Apple. Works for what I do (coding, web browsing). Try not to fight the thing. And congrats on the new Mac! Which one is it?
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by 2143 3y ago
> The Nordic readers amongst you are probably looking at your screens as though I’m explaining that ice is cold and the sun is hot. But to this rest of you, and my past self, this is unheard of. We've one-upped them all, because ove
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Blast from the past –| Stories from a former Car Salesman(team-bhp.com)
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> he offered me money to come to his place and sort it out myself This reminds me of a personal experience I had. Many years ago I was a graduate student at a US university (I'm not from the US). There's this study room that I
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by 2143 3y ago
This seems technically impressive, and I wish you good luck. I personally prefer apps that do one thing well. I don't like "super" apps that does everything. I like separate tools, and not a Swiss army knife. This is kind of

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