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by Detrytus 2y ago
Language in general: yes, you're right, it's about communication, so it can be a little fuzzy. But for family names it's all about unambiguously identifying a person. "Habsburg" and "Hapsburg" might as wel
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Well, just from the Merriam-Webster entry linked above, plus Wikipedia: It's been spelled out as "Habsburg" since late 13th century. Just because around 1861 someone misspelled it as "Hapsburg" does not mean we shou
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Ryanair is basically a criminal operation, they should be wiped out from the face of Earth.
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Planes are typically used for longer trips though, not for getting an ice-cream from the stand around the corner. It is reasonable to expect some baggage allowance, the whole trip rarely makes sense without it. Charging for carry-on bags is
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by Detrytus 2y ago
To be fair, German form such words just by writing the whole sentence without any spaces or hyphens, like "Amanwithaduckonhishead"
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Profitability is my definition of "real business" vs. for example, a lot of SV unicorns: if the business cannot sustain itself financially from its core revenue stream, and needs cash injections from "investors" then it&
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by Detrytus 2y ago
I think that with current political direction of the "liberal" West, in connection with technical advancements, such as AI, the mankind is on path to become the Borg civilization from Star Trek: all private property abolished, an
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by Detrytus 2y ago
CUDA is propertiary, NVIDIA recently changed it's license terms to forbid implementing CUDA translation layers for non-NVIDIA devices: https://www.techpowerup.com/319984/nvidia-cracks-down-on-cud...
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by Detrytus 2y ago
And if people start demanding a better pay the only thing that would change would be: [...] 2. They demand a better pay 3. Everyone does this, so the cost of everything goes up and prices go up. [...] Unless that better pay is somehow tied
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by Detrytus 2y ago
> Where I am there’s been a huge increase in houses being bought for cash by equity hedge funds, like 25% of houses going on the market. Is this increase in absolute number of sales, or increase in the percentage? Because, if the house a
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Only if you assume that all numbers are printed in the same font size. Many stores would print their prices like this: https://as2.ftcdn.net/v2/jpg/04/43/75/73/1000_F_443757335_WE... So, the $0
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by Detrytus 2y ago
You're talking about this with benefit of hindsight. When I was selling at $869 I would not know how it will go. And, as a matter of fact, a week or two after I sold NVDA dipped to $700, although temporarily. So, it's just a matte
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Well, I'm betting on Gelsinger's plan to launch Intel 18A process, and regaining process lead - this should bring Intel's stock price from current $31 to at least $70. Also, it's a hedge against China invading Taiwan and
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Remember this McDonald's billboard saying "Hey Crypto Bros, we're hiring"? :) Many individual investors are people who only have like 100-200 USD per month to invest through Robinhood. Or they do have some 401k plan wher
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Not GP, but that's exactly what I'm doing. Sold NVIDIA recently at 869 USD (having bought it at 453 USD), and invested profits in Intel :) We'll see how that plays out in a year or two.
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Would you mind saying which country you live in? Because if you believe that all, or even majority of your taxes goes to public services then either you're extremely naive, or you've found a perfect place to live, and I want in :)
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by Detrytus 2y ago
I never did that myself so I wonder: what tools are typically used to pixelate text? And do those tools have to do the actual "pixelation"? Why can't you just have a tool in, say, Microsoft Word, that would allow you to selec
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by Detrytus 2y ago
That's a part of the problem though: governments made paying taxes so seamless that many people simply are not aware that they are paying them. I mean: they know that something like social security, or VAT exists, but they have not a s
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by Detrytus 2y ago
But Russia has no reason to do that. To end the war you need one of two things to happen: send enough weapons (and possibly soldiers) to Ukraine to force the Russians to retreat, which West is clearly not capable of doing, or you need the n
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Cheap relative to modern military equipment. Some bombs that US army uses cost north of $200,000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GBU-53/B_StormBreaker Some of them are relatively cheap though: https://en.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
I know nothing about railguns, but if they are supposed to launch the projectiles with magnetic force then why do they need to impose any wear on its barrel at all? Couldn't you build a railgun where the projectile never even touches t
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by Detrytus 2y ago
More importantly: they transported those huge stone blocks by rafting them down the river.
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Lecturing was invented in Middle Ages, before the printing press, when there might have been only a single copy of each book per university. So instead of asking students to read the book (which would be impossible) a lecturer would read it
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by Detrytus 2y ago
Except you have to tip, because tipping is baked into the laws in the US. Tipped workers have a minimum wage of 1/3 of the regular one. Not tipping even the minimum, say, 12% is basically a crime.
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by Detrytus 2y ago
I'm in the opposite camp, I want EU to adopt US system, and list fees and taxes separately :) Better yet, I want to have a system, when your gross salary is paid to your bank account, and then you have to wire the money to a tax office
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Because they will, out of the habit, mentally compare those prices to the prices they are used to see printed in the menu. Basically double-counting all the taxes and fees. They do not say it will create higher prices, it will create AN IMP
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Which is why communism turned out to be such a great success, globally. /s
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Is there even such a thing as "English hexameters"? From what I remember from high school hexameter is based on the feature of the Greek language having both "short" and "long" vowels, which is then used to cre
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by Detrytus 2y ago
On the other hand, reading a novel can take you a few days, but watching a movie based on the same novel takes 90 minutes.
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How does that compare to 1997 "Lolita" with Jeremy Irons?

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