PearlRiver

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by PearlRiver 10mo ago
Wouldn't this get them banned in China, Europe and any future places that the Trump nation wants to piss off?
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by PearlRiver 10mo ago
In fairness this does not work in practice. If a child is rushed to the hospital with a life threatening injury no US doctor is going to send them away. America is not really evil it just likes to LARP it. Someone will pay the bills.
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by PearlRiver 10mo ago
Amusingly there is another conversation on HN were Americans pat themselves on the back https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46287251 In my country healthcare for under 18 is free. Just putting it out there.
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by PearlRiver 11mo ago
There was a Belgian passenger plan that got lost on its way to Teheran and had to land in Grozny. Before GPS planes had literal human navigators with maps and sextants! I would be more inclined to believe in the Bermuda triangle myth if it
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by PearlRiver 11mo ago
The US becoming a national security risk can't help.
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by PearlRiver 11mo ago
The slowest website ever (the dl speeds reminded me of the early 2000s) but so worth it! I enjoy reading history books that you will not find in a public library.
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by PearlRiver 11mo ago
I went to see Avatar on a Imax screen. It was already about a month after the release so it was pretty quiet. But those kinds of movies are rare- and it is expensive. You have to drive and park for half an hour, pay 30 euro for two tickets
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by PearlRiver 11mo ago
This was inevitable. Technology was bound to catch up. Hollywood actually panicked in the 1960s. But those screens were tiny. Nobody wants to see the Godfather on a cheap 1974 Panasonic. But TV today is at least 55 inch and in crisp 4k reso