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Mikeb85
4y ago
Lufthansa deserves it. Worst airline I've ever flown (and that's saying something being from Canada).
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Zero commission is laughable because they give you a shit exchange rate. That's literally the scam.
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Definitely not lol. Cash changing places are always colossal rip-offs that give you an exchange rate that's off by like 30%...
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4y ago
You don't have anything. You never had a deal or even an offer, you had vague indications of interest. Also seems like you don't have much of a product either. And finally, for those who whine about AirBnB cleaning fees, it redu
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4y ago
Yes but there's also people who think capitalism = things they don't like and don't bother to think about what the alternative truly looks like.
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> You can still have money and markets without capitalism Money yes markets ish. A pillar of capitalism is the private ownership of capital, without private ownership many markets no longer exist (talking the economic definition of 
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4y ago
> Working together to build safer, more open and fun federated tools and communities for the post-capitalist world WTF is this sentence? And post-capitalist?
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> This information is important because it points to a global problem and not a local policy problem. It only seems like a global problem because most governments had similar local policies. There are some countries with very low (as in
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4y ago
YoY is the most common measure because many prices and things that happen in the economy are seasonal. Also lots of economic data and prices are only compiled quarterly or yearly so again, YoY makes the most sense. MoM can show trends but
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4y ago
Well, might as well get a BMW and Rolex now...
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4y ago
The parent is saying that the choice of phone is a poor indicator of success (likely because Androids can cost just as much as the most expensive iPhone and vice versa, old iPhones can cost as little as the shittiest Android).
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4y ago
> Someone drank a lot of propaganda... proving my point again... Did Russia not invade Ukraine? Is there some hidden history that the US managed to hide where Ukraine invaded Russia first and everything we're seeing from every firs
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> Game engines already have the lead in that area and they proved that it's possible and can be made very efficient Game engines basically implement their own "runtime". They all have stuff like memory management, scripti
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4y ago
Canonical has half the revenue of Suse. Which is less than half Fed Hat... So yes they're third by a long shot and definitely least funded of the "commercial" distros.
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> All I'm asking you to think critically about propaganda - on both sides. I don't care about US vs. Russian propaganda. I don't care about what the US has done in the past. I care about the fact that a dictator sent his
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4y ago
Good looking device. If you can install a full Linux on it I might get one. And if not, maybe this'll come along soon: https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/steam-on-chromeos/
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4y ago
You pay $100/yr for the email service. The blogging part is free.
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Check the sales figures. The Pixel line is a very minor player, especially worldwide. The biggest vendors are Samsung, Xiami, Oppo, Vivo and Huawei. All have their own browsers. The Pixel line has 2% market share in NA and less worldwid
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4y ago
Where is there Chrome by default? Because Samsung is the #1 Android vendor and the default browser on Samsung devices is Samsung's own browser...
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No but like 9-10pm for dinner which is significantly later than North Americans typically eat and definitely far beyond a 10 hour window for all meals.
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I wouldn't trust it. Tons of Europeans eat early and very late and are perfectly healthy.
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> It appears the market doesn't give a shit about company fundamentals right now. Fundamentals have never mattered all that much. Stock prices are based on demand for the stock itself, which is largely dependent on economic conditi
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I mean, I kind of agree but Amazon does it well IMO where they show one ad at the beginning and allow you to skip it. Realistically they probably don't charge enough to be able to get rid of all ads and I doubt consumers want to pay t
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> These are all border regions for Russia and NATO was messing with them. Ukraine isn't a pawn for world powers. They're an independent democracy with the right to choose their own destiny. They were friendly with Russia for d
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It's definitely the first time since WWII that a democracy of 45 million people has been invaded... In fact, Ukraine in February was larger and more populous than any of the democracies that Hitler invaded. > actual REALITY is the
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The only way WWIII happens is if we appease Russia. They didn't stop after Georgia. They didn't stop after Crimea and Donbass. They won't willingly stop now. Either Russia loses now or loses later. No matter what, the Russ
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Lol Lufthansa is the absolute worst when it comes to lost luggage... Last time we flew with them they not only lost our luggage, but the luggage of every single person on the same connection (about 50 people). It seems as though they are
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4y ago
Android Chrome right now, the navbar elements are squished and the top of the body is hidden by the navbar.
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I've had 2 Android OLED phones now (one Huawei one Samsung) and neither has suffered any degradation in the display... Seems like it's a solvable problem.
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The fact that a lot of WordPress websites exist in the wild doesn't make it the most popular web dev language...
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