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7y ago
I'm not pedantic about word use, but if somebody uses random words they can't expect other person to understand. When nurse asks what is the problem and they respond "i don't know, how the hell should i know?!" Shou
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7y ago
It has all to do with choice of words, but of a son. He never told nurse that she can't breathe. She told here "she's having difficulty breathing" and then "No, you can't (talk with her). She seems like she
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7y ago
I like how it went from "Fedor is an unimposing teenager, struggling at university. Below-average grades and lack of purpose make him drop out to travel the world. He plays a little poker on the side, but his results are underwhelming.
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8y ago
> Stoicism was "originally" a philosophy of (mostly) the rich and powerful of Rome Stoicism was originally a philosophy of a poor shipwreck survivor from Cyprus. It was made popular in Greece and then imported into Roman cultur
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While both are similar, goal of Buddhism is to stop suffering and goal of Stoicism is happiness achieved by living according to nature. Buddhism says "wanting anything is suffering", Stoicism says "wanting irrelevant things i
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8y ago
Do they do that to lower cost of having a yacht or does charter business have some special tax exemption?
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8y ago
You assume that state and citizens are equal. One has right to set law, gather taxes, mandate force, conscript into army and spy. The other has right to remain silent (unless asked a question).
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8y ago
Intellectual rights at its finest: I made this photo, I own it! - photographer I'm on this photo, I own it! - band She wears my product, I own it! - props maker Photo was made with camera I made - camera maker That patch of violet is a
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8y ago
> Google never paid us anything > So this guy will get paid Who pays for that?
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8y ago
More like "Who's crime is it anyway?"
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8y ago
> Because running a bank isn't easy (...) For example, you have to maintain a fraction of your total deposits in a cash account. What is hard keeping a fraction of not-your-money in a cash account?
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8y ago
He earned $60 per hour and billed (himself) 820 hours. Title should be changed to "How I earned $42,500 making a bad VR game". And he should tax it.
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8y ago
> I can loose all my Bitcoin pretty easy if I lack security Those are interesting times. We trust government more than we trust ourselves.
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8y ago
Watching Netflix and Hulu outside USA?
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8y ago
New title "Law hacker lives in a van (1904)"
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8y ago
> I'm a Googler, so I get as irritated as you do when people say that. We're not arrogant, by and large. We're, like, 99% Arrogance-Free. And the post starts with "Amazon does everything wrong, and Google does everyt
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8y ago
Year-day would be the day when all computers stop. Truly an exceptional day!
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8y ago
As in "I was against child labour, but then I've inherited textile factory in China and paying adult wages is not efficient".
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8y ago
> I might not have checked out a book in the last five years, but I use my local library probably once a month How do you use a library while not using books it hold?
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8y ago
From article "Note that some people (such as Frank) get confused because FFTW is commonly distributed in the form of precompiled C code. That is not the source code. Most of the C code is generated by OCaml source code"
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8y ago
What does "debt-based" have to do with extracting money?
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8y ago
You don't bypass it. Paying $5k means you also lose your phone: > If people refused to comply, they could be fined up to $5000 and their device would be seized and forensically searched.
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8y ago
If you enable it, there's that "switch to your second space" permanent alert you can't hide or dismiss.
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8y ago
> Most people don’t get it, or understand why it’s so big. I'll bite. What is it and why it's got so big?
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8y ago
Those are valid reasons to not to buy a game. You sound offended by customers voicing their opinions what they want.
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8y ago
Name one thing that doesn't link profit and energy consumption.
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8y ago
> The Allies really outsmarted the Axis in every way. History written by the victors. On our side bright minds and heroic hearts and on their side cowards and dunderheads. /s
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8y ago
Unless it's better suspension[0]? 0 - https://www.reddit.com/r/formula1/comments/7u2bmk/the_suspen...
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8y ago
"Have you been a victim of an insurance fraud? You have believed insurer's promises and they betrayed your trust? We can insure you against that. You can trust us, we promise!"
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8y ago
> tax haven (...) causes a countless amount of death globally. Care to elaborate?
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