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> You can never just change the amount owed. Let me introduce you to a scary concept of mortgages in foreign currencies :) We had that in Poland over a decade ago: People would get loans in Swiss franks, and when exchange rate went from
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It changes with age. Men in their teens/twenties are followers, by your mid-thirties you start to question things.
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And is also completely unrealistic. Russia will never be "pro-western", no matter who rules it.
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You are supposed to call them "Afroamerican holes" now... /s
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"Social justice" is the opposite of justice, and therefore evil :)
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Manning online bookstore. In theory they support credit card payments, but I guess they are not capable of handling 3D Secure protocol, so my attempt to pay with a credit card always fail with them. Every time I need to buy something from t
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Poland offers something similar, but with a twist. On the plus side, the amount you can buy is unlimited. However, interest rate is fixed in the first year, at 7% (which is a far cry from 17.9% inflation). From the year two the interest rat
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Access to abortion creates the imbalance. Indian women are much more likely to terminate pregnancy when they are expecting a girl.
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Yes, it is, which in practical terms means that the company behind Tether should own real-world assets that cover all the outstanding USDT. The fact that people are willing to trade their USDT coins for less than 1 USD means that they do no
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Yes, that's objectively better. At least you have a choice to buy less frequently, or in smaller quantities. I was raised during the communism, where you did have a lot of cash, and the goods were cheap (because government was deciding
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This graph only looks good because of logarithmic scale use. This is how it looks like to normal people: https://www.coindesk.com/embedded-chart/QMQGWJngBbWTR
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Intelligence agencies love that quote, since it helps them mask their malevolent actions under disguise of incompetence :)
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So the average American woman looks like a ball chair, basically? Something is wrong with your data here :)
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Well, chip manufacturing is mostly automated, so labor costs are insignificant. Also, Intel is on path to regaining process lead, they can compete with TSMC and Samsung based on quality.
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> they cant even have the most basics of human need by the virtue of being on a visa? Well, if you ignore reality of your situation because you are high on love hormones that's on you. BTW. I'm not even from US, I live in centr
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The difference between in-person vote and mail vote is chain of custody. Basically, when voting by mail you can never prove that your vote has not been tampered with in transit. With in-person vote there usually are procedures in place to e
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>> e.g. how is scanning for vulnerabilities "spying on us"? To play Devil's advocate: once you discover a vulnerability you always have two options: report it and have it fixed, or exploit it for your own gain. You char
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If he wanted to manipulate market then just the rumor about the purchase would send stocks higher. In fact, after his announcement on April 14th, Twitter rose 7.5% on the next session (18th). No need to actually sign the deal to make few hu
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Well, it's not like decades-long delay for green card processing is something that surprises you - it is known long before you set foot in the US. Why would you plan your life around the assumption that somehow the issue won't app
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> This person can get married and raise a family while still waiting for that green card. That's your mistake right here - making long term plans while being on temporary visa. Just assume that you're here for a few years to ma
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Also, timing was very bad, since Brexit happened just before the pandemic.
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So everyone who disagrees with current EU policies is far right? For me the divide is more "far left" vs normal :)
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And still at least 10 years to early.
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> hey would will need to trick people into giving them money upfront (preorders?) or borrow from 3rd party to cover a product that will sell and bring cash. My take on that is that with Witcher games and even with Cyberpunk they made a l
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> Their stock price is near 5 year low, how can they afford it? Stock price has nothing to do with how much money CDPR has in their bank accounts. Stock trading is basically a public opinion poll on the future of the company, but not a p
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"No first strike" might refer to "big guns", ICBMs. It is well known that Russia also as a doctrine of "escalate to deescalate" where they reserve right to use small, tactical nukes if they start loosing conven
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Yes, for example Alexei Navalny. It is funny how West sees him as "opposition leader" (just because Putin tried to poison him), while the whole reason he opposes Putin is he thinks Putin is not radical and nationalist enough.
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Allegations of abuse or neglect are common tactics during custody battle in divorce. I guess that's why only 5% turn out to be true.
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Still counts as "research", just this time in actual war conditions.
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Aren't 50 nuclear explosions enough to basically cause the next global Ice Age? With the amount of dust thrown into the air, that will block sunlight?
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