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Diabetes is a genetic condition No one is not having diabetes because is biking...
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> One quarter of the Dutch population If only the world was flat and below the sea level as Holland...
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In my 44 years on this planet, having traveled a lot in many biking friendly cities and living in one, the opposite is true. Cars respect pedestrian much more than bikers do As a walker I hate walking in Belgium or Berlin, where you have to
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I don't speak danish, but according to that graph your claim is not supported BTW how many people use a bike is a useless metric, how far they travel and for how much time is more important. Copenhagen is not a good example, it's
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Not really One thing is the desire to be there (the famous 15 minutes of popularity) another is the will to create Most of the content is just playlists of content created elsewhere and aggregated by someone trying to make money out of it
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When you control the means of communication and are a foreign super power, it is colonialism.
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They are even more limited then regular apps though...
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Not really. When I was a teenager we hosted at our home kids running from Rwanda , my mom was working in an hospital that cured them, doing the best possible for kids (kids!) with arms or legs amputated or a big part of their skull chopped
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I don't think I'm wise honestly, but I know I'm not a rapist and am not overly sensitive There are 7.7 billions people in the world, even if every American chose to not talk to me, there will still be 7.4 billion people to ta
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Because men and women still marry and still chose each other as partners? And the more men and women wait for that moment to chose the right person, the more the probability of making the right choice increases. As long as I support women r
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The hotel "because I don't want to do laundry" is the worst choice immaginabile If you can afford hotel prices to actually live inside a nice one (more than 12 sq meters), you can afford 5 people doing your laundry and other
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> Hotel-chic is very clean, very minimal, very sparse. Just enough to have the necessary conveniences that appeal to everyone, with absolutely nothing personalised for any individual. It is also terrible if you stay there for more than a
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Except you are paying 150 $ for a dinner and they are serving you a very over priced average meal and you can't even add anything to it to make it better. Do you want some oil on it(ram)? It's 80 euros because you have to ask the
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What's wrong about search by name/group/description?
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But g++ is probably better than you at producing fast code for whatever architecture you run it on.
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Large as in 1 out of 1.000 The point is that to be mainstream it's enough to be used by one major app store How many apps care about FPGA or what compilers do, given that they don't even know what the underlying OS does or when an
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As far as possible. Of course companies have to offer products to minorities, have you ever seen parking spots for handicapped people in the mall? Of course a restaurant has to ask you if you have some intolerance before serving you food th
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The world has changed, USA are no longer the center of it, FB is not a giant if you compare it to WeChat Now try to apply US anti trust laws to it.
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> My Ubuntu machine — which I built to edit photos and game — currently runs on a Threadripper 2950X with two VEGA 64 GPUs. It should be a beast, and it is, but the entire computer freezes from time to time and requires a hard reboot to
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Now try to connect your old Plextor SCSI cd burner to make 1x exact high fidelity copies of your CDs on a Mac in 2019 and then on Linux.
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Oddly enough my experience in years of computing on different platforms, including some exotic one, is the exact opposite. For me MacOS is the worst when it comes to external monitors. It kinds works good enough, but never great. Especially
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Yeah like browsers have had no security issues in the past 20 years...
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I worked for large banks and fintech startups It's true banks don't work like tech companies, it is also true that tech companies don't work like bank and the 100% of them failed to replace banks, because banks are more trust
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Why should I send 2 or 3 euros to someone over a chat? In Europe I can authorize a seller to directly take money from my account, if it's money for someone I trust (family, close friends) I can give them my prepaid credit card number a
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No serious enterprise uses gsuite , it's a small businesses tool. iPhones and smartphones in general have greatly increased the risk of data theft or being spied. Insurance companies are more than happy that others have switched to sma
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I used Mac and Windows before, they are no way better, they all come with their own shortcomings At least XFCE just works
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4k laptop monitor and 4k external monitor, XFCE4 2x works perfectly I also use 2 different resolutions without problems KDE plasma gives you fractional scaling I've heard Wayland supports different scalings on different monitors, but I
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It was written by an engineer who didn't know who Stallaman is and works for the US military.
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Th FSF is not a company. It's like saying that the Pope is too religious...
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