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7y ago
> But I don't think there are better countries concerning civil rights. No European state comes close. Not Sweden, not Norway, Switzerland maybe for some people... I've read that often, but don't really think it's t
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7y ago
> Why? It's not rocket science, and it's not like this is a complex decision that you couldn't adequately make after 15 of Internet searching. If you've got a tonsillitis (one of the most common reasons for getting
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7y ago
He didn't invent the dish in itself, he invented the pad Thai as a national dish .
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7y ago
> An asset isn't necessarily an investment. E.g. cars, merchandise, foodstuff etc. Aren't those examples consumables, not assets? I always assumed assets are by definition things you invest in, not things you consume, but may
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7y ago
It seems they would be more right than wrong, though, as business owners indeed also own the majority of US real estate, with about $30 trillion business-owned vs. $19 trillion privately owned: * Residential real estate market size was $33
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8y ago
> Arguably, if it wasn't for the weed-smoking twitter troll, those established car companies would still not be investing in EVs. I think Tesla made EVs cooler or made them look like an actual option, but it isn't true that o
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8y ago
As apparently no one who opposes Huawei seems to be bothered with e.g. Ciscos security track record, it has to be either corruption or ideology.
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8y ago
I doubt many in the US (and Europe) even have full 4G speeds, e.g. 1 gigabit/s downstream.
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8y ago
The smear campaign part of negamax's comment.
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8y ago
What exactly is Teslas technology advantage? Pure electric cars are fundamentally simpler cars than both ICE and of course hybrid models. And most other brands had hybrid models for a long time. I seriously doubt any established car manufac
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8y ago
>* The Swiss have benefitted from maintaing a sound fiscal house and associated currency, over time. The US, much of Western Europe and Japan have been busy debasing themselves with enormous financial mistakes over the last several decad
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8y ago
Couldn't the same (IMO flawed) reasoning applied to the topic at hand? "Computers are made complicated on purpose - after all think of all the lucrative programming jobs"
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8y ago
> Django is supposed to be the “Rails” of Python, allowing programmers who want a Rails-like experience to continue using Python instead of switching languages completely. A small nitpick: While Django may indeed fill that role, it
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8y ago
I assume Dan really means a nested directory structure, like so: django_project/top_level_app/second_level_app/ in top_level_app you then could do from second_level_app.models import model1 or from a different top level app:
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8y ago
Fair enough :) If MacOS is mandatory, the X1 won't be an option. I just gave it as an example that you absolutely can have both portability and a good keyboard at the same time.
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8y ago
> Mankind came to what it is 99.9% of time without artificial devaluation. Because productivity was practically constant for this 99.9% of human history. Therefore the monetary base could be practically constant, too. With the industri
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8y ago
Or you could get something like the X1 carbon, which weighs much less (so is more portable) and has a keyboard you can actually type on for hours.
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8y ago
> There are _plenty_ of people right here in the US who can't afford drugs because we insist that they should be 10x the price in the US than everywhere else. The very article explains this isn't true, as drug price doesn
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8y ago
Because HTML mails are almost always spam anyway.
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8y ago
Per your own quote it isn't socialism: The private insurers are getting the profit, not "the community as a whole".
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8y ago
Actually many schizophrenia patients are in fact working and living relatively normal lives. The costs I linked are the actual current costs for Germany and include reimployment measures (have a look at the second link). But you're rig
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8y ago
The psychatrist doesn't seem to know much about schizophrenia. If you compare worldwide prevalence [1], you'll see that the difference between countries of lowest prevalence and countries of highest prevalence only differ by about
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8y ago
> https://homicides.news.baltimoresun.com/ Oh wow, Baltimore (600k inhabitants) has about the same homicide rate per year as the whole of Germany (83M inhabitants)...
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8y ago
> The amount of details, little "sprinkles" that average Mac and MacOS users take for granted is greatly underrated. Especially those sprinkles that get stuck under the keys ;)
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8y ago
Huawei is in an employee-owned company, no state involved.
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8y ago
Not GP, but I, too find it suspicious that e.g. Cisco, I direct competitor to Huawei, gets caught with yet another new backdoor almost monthly[1], and apparently the US administration has no qualms with buying Cisco hardware or with Cisco c
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8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moving_the_goalposts#Logical_f...
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8y ago
In a few countries, yes, but sadly not for the majority of the world population.
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8y ago
Fertilization > fertilizer. What I meant were practices like e.g. planting mustard and plowing it under between seasons.
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8y ago
I think you missed that plant-based fertilization exists. How do you think the nitrogen, sulfur and phosphor got into the animals in the first place? Manure is used because it is readily available due to current livestock production, not be
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