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by Iv 5y ago
Living in Japan also, the rumor I heard was that these additional workers actually work as a shadow force for political parties during elections. To circumvent strict donation laws, the idea is that these people will be "lended" a
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I was not criticizing the prevalence of parking, it is obvious you need a lot because most amenities will have one. What I found weird was that places of worship is the second absolutely necessary amenity according to the American mindset.
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Parkings make sense, I was merely pointing out that something as optional as places of worship are as prevalent as parkings. You don't "need" to attend places of worship 80% of your life. A place of worship is usually a plac
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I can't find a single picture of the exterior or the interior of the space station. Not a single, actual, picture.
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Well, the world is out of nazi scientists to steal knowledge from...
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Oh right now there is no shortage of needs, thanks to AI applications mostly, but I could see homomorphic encryption as the next moat that datacenters propose.
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I may have another reason to add. I am toying with GIS tools these days and it kind of shocked me that when I queried for "most common amenities" in a medium sized US city, I got: 1: parkings 2: places of worship Well above any ed
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Cynical remark: all processes requiring a million times more cycles is the dream of many chip-making companies.
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Why not? You reach far more people through the stores. Just check the PC gamedev scene. There is basically zero constraints on getting an app installed and users are used to it, yet devs jump through hoops to be published on Steam because i
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It is about the reputation of the store and why you need competition between the stores. Give me a store scrutinized by the Firefox team, I'll go there in a heartbeat.
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I don't think both are incompatible. The EU competition chief talks about preserving competition, digital rights are also defended by EU and may reach that point as well.
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Some old reddit discussions are plagued with deleted comments (deleting all your comments is an option when deletinc an account) Threads of [deleted content] answering to [deleted content] are hard to follow.
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Reddit has been allowing easy account deletion and content deletion for years (since the beginning I believe?) and while I enjoy that freedom, it also makes some old conversations almost impossible to read where [deleted] answers to [delete
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I remember this panic. I, and many others, actually learned at that time that anchors damaging undersea cables are actually a common occurrence.
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Google declared 440m revenues in France in 2018. So that's 50% of its official yearly income. Of course, this was a fiction, that was attacked in court, Google settled this one for 1 billion in 2019. The principle of the fines in Franc
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Why imagine? The 2007 attacks on Estonia [1] and the cyberattacks before the actual attacks on South Ossetia [2] are generally believed to be a Russian test of its capabilities. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_cy
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My understanding is that you start by doing an actual BTC transaction of, say X USD, for which you pay the fee, and then you can "spend" up to X-fee USD in the lightning network. People who receive payment from you can opt for get
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- Lower half-life wastes - Much more common fuels - Lower risks of catastrophic explosions
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That was all fun to read until, at the middle of it, I realize that I remembered reading it a few years ago. Oh no.
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> So what's the point of this website? > Poking fun at how ridiculous infosec clickbait vulnerability reporting has become lately. Just because it has a flashy website or it makes the news doesn't mean you need to care. >
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Well, read the link again: the sanctions include a list of names, whose assets are frozen, who can't travel in EU and companies that have the same fate. Economic sanctions are the most effective non-military actions states can take aga
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> they have already proved time and time again they are a dog which is all bark and no bite. People keep saying that as if that was a kind of universally acknowledged wisdom. Here is a map of the 39 countries targeted by European sanctio
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If you want to open source something, use a copy left license. GPL or AGPL. Licenses like BSD or MIT are basically putting something in the public domain, to be absorbed into propietary packages
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Took us years to adjust with my wife. I complain far less, I make sure to tell "I am not angry at you" even when I find it obvious. She starts complaining like a French as well <3
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Yes, it is not about politeness, it is about conflict. In France, being frank is a quality, in Japan it is a mark of immaturity. Grown-ups are supposed to communicate their opinions implicitly. I stopped finding it "interesting and dif
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No it was about other persons. I remember one specific instance where a friend explained to me what a neighbor asked of us for a property we manage together and I complain that these demands are really annoying especially after we had spent
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As a French living in Japan one of the things I quickly learned is that if I complain about something while showing even a hint of anger or annoyingness, my interlocutor will take it personally, even if he/she is not involved about the
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Laugh, but talking with Japanese, something that often happens is: A: "Shouldn't I launch the nukes?" B: "No." Can be understood as "yes, do it" because they are used to an opposite logic when answering ne
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Ya ain sayin mat'! We English non-native speaker typically do not know colloquial English well. Another thing that was not taught to me is how important intonations, which are unwritten, are and how much natives rely on it.
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Who is "we"? The IPCC was created in 1988, at the alarmed demand of the Weather and Environment offices of the UN. In 1997 the Kyoto protocol was signed by 184 countries, recognizing the urgency and the need for CO2 reduction. Onl

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