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by _nedR 11y ago
What is sad here, is that in this case the "struggling artist" is Taylor Swift (more likely the record company she is associated with), and that was probably the only reason why Apple actually bothered to do anything about it. Bas
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I don't know whether i would call that a toilet. They're literally doing their business in the street.
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No. What she said was she wanted "normal". Have you noticed how the poor people on tv have money for nice clothes and apartments. Basically she didn't want to feel poor. She didn't want her kids to grow thinking they wer
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This article although older, offers better information and insight into his life:- http://www.forbes.com/sites/katiasavchuk/2015/03/02/the-face... There also seems to be a contradiction between the
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Entrepreneur of the year: a Bedouin turned businessman(bbc.com)
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I don't know. That's why we need to shine more light on this industry. Who knows? This might be a viable target for something cooperative scheme like microfinance (which has the advantage of low interest rates, high recovery rates
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The power of compound interest works both ways. For the rich, It can mean a spiral upwards, as they can exploit the difference in interest rates of different investments to make profit. For the poor, it often means a spiral downwards into
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So for corporate America, It's basically open season on the misinformed and undereducated poor? This sounds a lot like predatory lending - There is a good chance, the retailer is counting on these people to default so that they can s
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This sort of thing should be regulated. There is a line between healthy capitalism and crass exploitation of the poor by the rich. The poor and unaware need to be protected.
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I find it interesting that your main complaint is that the red cross lets bureaucracy and red tape get in the way of actually helping people on the ground, while the article seems to complain about the lack of accountability and transparen
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What really scares me are the ABS and traction control systems that are now becoming mainstream on motorcycles. These systems have accelerometers and gyros, which take in to account, information like lean angle of the bike when calculating
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>>that the three companies has benefited from subsidies. More to the point, America has benefited tremendously from subsidizing these companies. Elon Musk was a South African born Canadian (before he took American citizenship). He cou
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Note: I have edited my original comment after you replied (but before i saw it). My point is that Russia is forced to face actual consequences for its actions, whereas the Americans, and the rest have been given a free pass for doing basica
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You mean like what the US, UK and Australia did to Iraq. What punitive action did these countries face for their actions? Yes, really the whole thing makes perfect sense when viewed from an "Old Order" vs "New Order" per
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>Thousands of people have died building soccer stadiums and people are saying that is wrong. Over 1100 people have died in a span of a few weeks from the heat wave currently happening in India. This sort of thing happens. Obviously, the
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Funny, that everyone seems to miss the fact that the current indictments actually relate to corruption w.r.t. the previous tournaments and world cups hosted in USA, South America and South Africa. Nobody in /r/soccer seems to care
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Oh, stop your bleeding hearts. Speaking as an Indian who has lived in the Gulf (and has family who has worked in these construction sites you speak of), I find it immensely ironic that a bunch of former colonial white-majority countries (t
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by _nedR 11y ago
What jumped at me was the fact that list seems significantly inaccurate/unrepresentative. For example, Delhi which has a population of 11 million according to its wikipedia article is missing entirely from the list (It would be between
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by _nedR 11y ago
Are the brands you are referring to, by any chance Xiaomi and Huawei? Here in India at least, these Chinese brands along with Lenovo have pretty much become household names in respect to mobile phones. And they do make good, solid, innovati
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by _nedR 11y ago
To give a counter-opinion in favour of Samsung, I am using a Galaxy Tab S 8.4, and I find useful some of their custom ROM features like Power Saving mode (which restricts background data and runs in black-and-white mode), the split screen m
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by _nedR 12y ago
What are the applications of WebGL? If you are doing a game or a 3d application on browsers- WebGL would be the way to go obviously. But apart from that, where could it be used? Could websites and web applications benefit from using WebGL?
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I think the anti-piracy angle is what attracts the game industry. Sony probably envisions a future where GTA XXV is released exclusively as a streaming service. Such a DRM-system would be practically uncrackable (unless you hacked the serv
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>In the NY Metro area, it’s Con Edison That is a rather unfortunate (or rather appropriate) name for a company named after Edison.
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Could you link to a source for this. The relevant wikipedia article makes the same claim but is tagged [citation needed]. The LA times article linked by the parent says "(Costa Rica is presumably sheltered by the U.S., but only under t
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Wow. That is truly amazing. What is almost as shocking to me is that I have never heard of this before. I have heard that Costa rica was a model for its healthcare sytem but i never heard that it didn't have a military. This story shou
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What is worse is that all Internet banking and debit card transactions online(in India at least) depends on SMS for OTP as mandated by RBI guidelines. I have had OTP messages arrive 6 hours late while trying (and failing) to initiate bankin
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>>The age of the fossil fuel personal car is entering its last decade. I wouldn't be so confident. Right now, Tesla addresses a small portion of the expensive sports sedans segment in a few lucky parts of the world. Even then, Te
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by _nedR 12y ago
Same case currently in India, where petrol is heavily taxed and diesel is subsidized (Ostensibly as a farmers subsidy to run irrigation pumps but also because diesel prices are strongly tied to price of essential commodities). Price per lit
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The life-cycle of the parasite is also illustrated in a great oatmeal comic : http://theoatmeal.com/comics/captain_higgins
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This, exactly. Stallman is taking a stand here. We might think that he is a dangerous extremist for his actions and stances (Not using proprietary software, mobile phones, javascript-enabled websites). But what he is actually doing is sacri

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