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by berdario 4y ago
> countries who [...] received no blowback from the US [...], such as Venezuela, Iran[...], and Russia Lol... There's been sanctions (and coups, for the first two) against those. Sure, the parent was strictly talking about "bom
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by berdario 4y ago
You completely misunderstood the parent comment. They explicitly called out: > lack of disproportionately large population of unproductive elderly dependents.
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by berdario 4y ago
Non-resident accounts exist (though they are generally more expensive), and several countries don't even require any proof of residence (i.e. you can open a bank account while on a tourist visa)
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by berdario 4y ago
That doesn't mean that it's closed to non-residents.
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by berdario 4y ago
I've seen this kind of issue with people who have a custom firewall setup. You probably need to configure your firewall to allow playing.
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by berdario 4y ago
That's interesting, I didn't realize that IMEs would silently offer you choices in different sets/styles than the one preferred by the locale, and that OS fonts could actually hide the difference. If you're saying that a
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by berdario 4y ago
Part of the problem is that it's difficult to trust any of these documents. It seems that in this latest dump there are some that are blatantly forged. Even if the others are genuine, this calls into question the veracity of the others
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by berdario 4y ago
> There were valid reasons to not be friendly to USSR. Does this justify USSR entering friendship pact with Germany, thus enabling it to start the war? This is not about "friendship pact", this is about non-aggression pact. Was
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by berdario 4y ago
> The Bolshevik’s set this in stone towards the end of the civil war... I'm not sure about the events that you're referring to. The Treaty of Riga was in 1921, the Anglo-Soviet Trade Agreement was signed in 1921 as well, the US
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by berdario 5y ago
That's nice for some people, but is cf141q5325 even a US citizen? I'm not, so from that point of view US companies cannot offer many guarantees to me
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by berdario 5y ago
I bought two Android One devices... I'm afraid that the program is now dead: https://www.android.com/one/ Their "Explore our latest phones" section shows 2 years old devices :/
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by berdario 5y ago
Yeonmi Park claimed that it takes months to go from one place to another, and that they'd have to push trains (!!) https://youtu.be/KK6psAnynUA (edit: another old article that points out inconsistencies in Yeonmi Park
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by berdario 5y ago
> giving it's users bank accounts numbers based in a different country to where they actually live This is actually not meaningfully different: the 2 countries in question are both EU countries, and as long as you're an EU resi
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by berdario 5y ago
> you can't quarantine and hospitalize people for omicron when it is not dangerous ??? More than 6000 (6 thousands!) People die every day from Covid. And this doesn't even take into account long covid, and the wider impact on s
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by berdario 5y ago
> maintained your principle You probably meant "principal": Define principal Noun 2. a sum of money lent or invested, on which interest is paid. "the winners are paid from the interest without even touching the principal&q
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by berdario 5y ago
That's interesting, I never heard of reverse vesting. I thought you'd be liable for capital gains tax (since you're making a "gift to the company/cofounder", you'd have to use the real market value of the
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by berdario 5y ago
Prices in Italy are currently at the equivalent of 8.3$/gallon, so I think that even your 10$/gallon threshold is too optimistic (keep also in mind that if the prices of everything rise together, and so does labor compensation, it
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by berdario 5y ago
> If the population was educated enough to know they were being stolen from... This is basically the same argument used by cryptobros and libertarians to criticize inflation. I think there are pretty obvious tradeoffs with letting your c
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by berdario 5y ago
About MLK, I presume you're referring to this quote: "We must never substitute a doctrine of Black supremacy for white supremacy" That's fair, but we're talking about ensuring that the interview process is not discr
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by berdario 5y ago
That's your opinion, most people probably disagree. A common way to define racism is: negative prejudice + power (The same can be done for sexism, though obviously on different characteristics) From that point of view, making sure that
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by berdario 5y ago
That's fair in the context of businesses, but since we're also talking about a war context: I've seen people point out that when discussing the conflict, it makes more sense to use PPP adjusted GDP. The rationale is that for
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by berdario 5y ago
Life expectancy has been decreasing, and you'd keep those 3M invested (bond if not stocks) to fend off inflation. 3M is absolutely a mind-boggling amount. Ok, housing in San Francisco will eat most of that, but the vast majority of peo
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by berdario 5y ago
Money is an answer to exploitation about as much as A slaver feeding their slaves is an answer to slavery. Just because you get something in exchange, doesn't mean that there's no power imbalance, the exploitation doesn't exi
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by berdario 5y ago
Except that the points aren't really addressed. The article argues in favor of "code reviews, design reviews, and general documentation" but it totally avoids discussing the merits and disadvantages of them. It's not onl
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by berdario 5y ago
> It seems like you believe American law should be changed... Probably yes, especially since the rest of the world still often takes inspiration from what the US does. But frankly, I don't live in the country in which I was born, an
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by berdario 5y ago
These are some fair points, but I have some objections: > mainstream consensus now absolutely includes the possibility... I don't think this is the case... Your belief is obviously different to Ralph Baric's which is yet differ
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by berdario 5y ago
> As long as governments begin to accept Bitcoin Governments of small countries, maybe... but Bitcoin is already banned in China. There are talks about a ban in Russia (Putin seems to be satisfied with taxing mining more harshly, though)
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by berdario 5y ago
We know how the pandemic originated, let's stop spreading FUD and propaganda https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-762/
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by berdario 5y ago
> I'd rather tolerate false information from the contrarians than risk a false mainstream view that can never get corrected. That doesn't mean contrarians are automatically (or even usually) right, though I don't. I think
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by berdario 5y ago
Those claims seem unsubstantiated https://twitter.com/dangoodin001/status/1486976676965715968 ok, it's importing iFlytek. But without demonstrating what it's doing and when, even if it's listening (

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