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akkat
9y ago
This ad only makes it seem ridiculous because of the high prices of the hamburgers. However there are places such as Amazon that charge extra for faster delivery. Net neutrality may be right, but the ad misses the point.
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9y ago
And if your founder fails (like most startups) and ends up wasting several years earning no income then you get to have had a modest job for however long the founder was able to last
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9y ago
Any plans on making the inverse?
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9y ago
There are a few stories similar to that but take place in Soviet Russia. Natan Sharansky became really good at chess during his 9 years in prison and Eliyahu Rips developed a previously unsolved mathematical proof during his 2 years.
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akkat
9y ago
I don't know the answer but in Israel election day is a holiday. The common stigma is that you vote in the morning and then have a barbeque in the afternoon. I don't know whether it would work the same way in the US, but that'
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9y ago
I have friend who in Jerusalem Israel during the second intifada. Terrorists were blowing themselves up on busses killing or maiming nearly everyone on the bus. Yet the locals continued to take busses because they needed to get to school or
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9y ago
I checked and you are correct.
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9y ago
In Hebrew it is completely different מסעדה or mis'adah
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9y ago
I'm pretty right wing and have opinions about minimum wage that a lot of other hn users would disagree with, but this article is garbage. Basically one store owner said that he can't afford to offer the new promotion because of th
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9y ago
> Just curious, if it comes to Trump v Oprah 2020, how many of you currently in America would consider starting or joining a venture outside the US? Based on the amount of people who promised to move to Canada if Trump won, my guess is n
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9y ago
It is possible that it is simply an attack peace but I don't think so. Opera is now a person of greater interest. That means that more people are likely to read an article about her. Therefore news sites want to write things about her.
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9y ago
I can't compare it to how it was before but when I lived in my old country I bought something on Google play and now that I am in my new country I cannot download anything that is restricted to that country. There is no way that I can
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9y ago
I bought something from Google play when I was living in country x and now that I live in country y I cannot install anything that is limited to country y. In order to get Google to "forget" that I lived in country x I would have
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For the same reason it is "okay" for a cat to rape another cat but it is not okay for humans to do that.
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9y ago
That is exactly the issue, focus doesn't block enough. I am not at home so I cannot give you a visual comparison but when googling "Kindle" with ublock origin the first link I see is to the Amazon website, while on focus I se
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9y ago
I have been using Firefox focus for a while and I have 2 main problems with it. The adblocker is worse than ublock origin (eg. try to google Kindle) and there is no simple way to use tabs. I still use it to open links, but a lot of the time
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9y ago
Come to Jerusalem if you want to see the effects of that. There are lots of stray cats that leave bigger messes than rats and fight bigger animals (pets) than rats. If you want to think of releasing dogs to to catch the cat, then look at Mo
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9y ago
Do you know where she got it? I could only find them for sale for over 100 euros
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9y ago
That's actually a really good idea. Of course it is probably (unfortunately) politically impossible.
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9y ago
Good luck on learning a new language. Be careful that when writing in Spanish you also have someone check that your Spanish is correct. Otherwise, you may be practising something wrong.
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9y ago
How about forcing them to leave some money as collateral or forcing climbers to get insurance like with scuba divers?
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Allowing players from all over the world to attend one event is very different than allowing anyone to get permanent residency.
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> This never happened when Obama or the DNC Except of course when CNN gave the debate questions to Hillary in advance. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/11/07/do...
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9y ago
This works by taking advantage of a format string exploit. It is by definition undefined behavior. It just so happens that this behavior is constant an gives the ability to change the flow of the program. At least in the popular glibc. Howe
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9y ago
What's the reason for that. I know administrative staff like that that are getting paid, but what would the current one decide to hire more staff? Unless there was some benefit the staff would prefer to keep the money for themselves ra
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9y ago
The article (at least bob_theslob646 unpaywalled version) says that you can buy one kind online for $5 for 100 tablets. However it is not FDA approved so it is riskier.
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9y ago
I'm not complaining. I just think that it's interesting to see the demographics of the winners. On another note, I can understand why single moms would have more expenses. But why would a woman who is not a mom have more expenses?
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9y ago
But that's what I don't understand. Either God 'A' who is believed by Religion 'X' exists or doesn't exist. If 'A' exists, then even if 'X' didn't believe in 'A', 'A
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> We used recipients’ race, gender, and education levels to estimate incomes using Bureau of Labor Statistics data from 2015. I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that all pictures of the $1000 winners have women.
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> and without faith, I am nothing. Care to elaborate? I think virtually all religions believe that God existed before humans and therefore existed when no one had faith in God.
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