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by Dobbs 6y ago
This is definitely how I read the situation when it was announced.
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by Dobbs 6y ago
Or I'm part of the group that all the hate is being spread about. I didn't down vote you. You are getting downvoted because you are being condescending. You can't just ignore the hatred being spewed at you. It infects how you
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by Dobbs 6y ago
I've heard the same arguments from hundreds of people. The same misquoted, manipulated statistics, the same concern trolling, the same dog whistles. There isn't any point in listening. Some people hate me for what I am. They want
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by Dobbs 6y ago
The really quick and dirty version: I can't tolerate (neo) Nazis because they want to harm queer people, Jews, disabled people etc. The people they want to harm can't do anything to stop being targeted by (neo) Nazis. Nazis can st
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by Dobbs 6y ago
> Another big problem is that private schools seem to have made more realistic predictions of their students' results than state schools This might be partially true, but there are also issues in the algorithm that helped cause this
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by Dobbs 6y ago
In all of your listed examples people set their own standards, list their own products, and set their own prices. I’m no way is it comparable.
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by Dobbs 6y ago
Your quote and your response seem to be rather disconnected. I guess my point is: in Europe sending money from one person to another is easy and easily done with no third parties. All I need to know is the other person's account info,
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by Dobbs 6y ago
We have this for IBAN payments within the NL, I can't speak for the rest of the EuroZone.
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by Dobbs 6y ago
In the UK if I want to send someone money to anyone in the UK I open the mobile app and input their sort and account number, type in the amount of money and hit send. Done. Similarly in the NL if I want to send someone money to anyone in th
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by Dobbs 6y ago
Luckily he has a twitter feed full of his beliefs boiled down into bite sized 140 character blurbs.
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by Dobbs 6y ago
> Privacy Shield is dead, long live privacy shield. Apologies for being pedantic, but "The king is dead, long live the king" is referring to two distinct uses of the word king. It is equivalent of "The old monarch is dead,
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by Dobbs 6y ago
You work to the most restrictive set of rules. EU users data is stored in places that comply with the rules in question, that could be the US, if the US complies with EU rules. If US user wants to interact with EU content, then they need to
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by Dobbs 6y ago
Except it does all the time. There are innumerable differences between the OSX, BSD, GNU, and other versions of common command line tools. There are plenty of cases where `jq` will or will not be available. Finally there are differences in
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by Dobbs 6y ago
Hmm, maybe that is how I'm triggering it? Asking what time it is in "Salt Lake"? Thanks, I'll play with that and see if it makes Siri behave better.
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by Dobbs 6y ago
I hit this all the time with "Salt Lake City", it gives me the time in India. Despite the fact that my phone should know that I have tens of contacts in Utah, but few if any in India.
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by Dobbs 6y ago
He was arrested and convicted for literally saying "gas the jews". That is inciting violence, and a very clear case of hate speech.
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by Dobbs 6y ago
Bicycle down to the local Gemeente office and talk to someone?
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by Dobbs 6y ago
You can always do things via mail, phone, or bicycling down to the local Gemeente office. I just don't know what the authorisation methods are for mail/phone because I use the DigiD methods. You can make the digital side of things
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by Dobbs 6y ago
The Dutch system to this is pretty nice. Your BSN gets attached to a digital id (DigiD). You might give your BSN out to a company (healthcare, doctor, etc) but that is used to create the link to your DigiD. From there if you want to login t
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by Dobbs 6y ago
The division of the "IKEA Corporate Family" that runs shopping malls is planning on opening malls in the US.
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by Dobbs 6y ago
People who can't/won't travel to the US. Is probably the main thing.
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by Dobbs 6y ago
At somepoint someone is going to need to buy/sell bitcoin for $/€/£, when that happens you need to have some interface to the non-digital world. That requires banking services. Places to store the money, the ability to receiv
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by Dobbs 6y ago
I really can't tell if your comment is some an anti-lockdown statement, or I'm completely missing what you are trying to get at.
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by Dobbs 7y ago
I was under the distinct understanding that on modern macbooks it was hardwired in. If the camera receives power, then the light is on. If the camera doesn't have power then the light is off. edit: seems I'm wrong from googling
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by Dobbs 7y ago
So hate to ask this, can you explain this for non-medical spectators? Specifically what TTCR and is "absorption of pneumonia" a good thing (e.g. the body has absorbed the pneumonia and therefore it has gone away) or a bad thing (e
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by Dobbs 7y ago
> Governments are so utterly broken and inefficient that they can’t do it. Mostly when your entire platform is that governments are broken so you do your utmost to make them broken to prove your point. All governments have issues, but th
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by Dobbs 7y ago
Pay employees more, increase benefits, better service for customers, put money away for a rainy day? There are lots of ways to spend money that are good for the long term rather than making the rich richer.
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by Dobbs 7y ago
One of the first line of the article states that he is a formal Naval Architect. That is to say he literally built ships. I would imagine he has some idea of the complexities involved, but still found it to be a useful anology.
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by Dobbs 7y ago
One of the hardest parts of learning a language is just that building enough vocabulary so you can start stumbling your way through speaking it. Duolingo, Drops and similar are never going to be "the one tool" that you need. But t
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by Dobbs 7y ago
> I'm sorry but this is just how it works No this is not how any of it works. This is extremly sexist, and has no evidence to support it.

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