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23d ago
You cannot ignore war - Ukraine found that out the hard way. Just because you want to be peaceful doesn't mean everybody else does and you cannot stop them from attacking by being peaceful.
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23d ago
50 years ago when I was a kid... Japan and Taiwan were known for making cheap junk. They shook the reputation. Now I feel old - get off my lawn.
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23d ago
I tried that. Turns out that the expensive clothing I found wasn't high quality. I don't know how tell quality from the online description.
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23d ago
They did, but they were not writing about clothing production for the most part. This we lack insight into what they did except what we can make educated guesses on.
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23d ago
I have a couple problems with that idea that I've never been able to figure out even though the idea is good. First, how do we ensure it doesn't become a slave program: that is you get hired for X, and they are paying you that, bu
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24d ago
Huh? You have options? Tiny radio stations of 30 years ago all had their own ad department with a salesman who's job was to find advertisers. Most website shave enough reach to fund the own ads. Also, if you along are not big enough
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24d ago
Problem is all those people likely have had various contacts with other cultures and it is unknown what impact that had.
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24d ago
Today by modern historians. Real the ancient historians and you will see these are often overlooked.
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24d ago
Modern historians, yeah, but ancient historians, they tended to ignore both. Ancient kings were aware that starvation was a problem and had some interest in agriculture, but the textiles seems to have not appeared much in history.
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24d ago
That a technology to develop the spinning wheel should have been around a lot sooner, but it seems to have not appeared until relatively late in the history. Now yes, we are talking probably a thousand years before, but the idea is simple e
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24d ago
Long before it gets that far, soccer needs to end in the country. For most people, soccer is a fun, pass time, and they are not abusive, and things work well. Overall there are enough cases of abuse that they have to go one step down the sl
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24d ago
https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/325_PublicPlaygroundSafetyH... 'Children tend to swing on their stomach. This behavior should be discouraged.' Not banned, discouraged. I recommend reading the whole thing, it
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24d ago
Until someone gets hurt and the court find they are liable for millions because signs and cameras did not work and because they thought it would they apply punitive damages to make sure the message is sent.
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24d ago
My company makes dangerous equipment like lawn mowers. Because of this, I have to go through training on how to design equipment to be safe. And the rule is very clear. If there is any possibility of an issue, you need to redesign it so th
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25d ago
Sure, but in home automation there was a whole lot of those didn't realize situations that you won't get right. In the one end I often go for the question, 'is it really worth the bother of trying to set this all up'? In
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25d ago
It is starting to happen in the US as well.
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25d ago
Because all too often the electronics are what fail and replacement parts are not available so the whole thing is scrap even though the compressor is still good.
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25d ago
Until the kid uses the bathroom in the middle of the night and goes back to bed. Though the GP seems to not mind stale coffee so perhaps he won't care. Exceptions like the above make automations hard.
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25d ago
It's certainly valid and it has been done in other situations, but the details are different. I don't know that of any case where it's been tried against Google. It's certainly reasonable to think it could work against G
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25d ago
It changes the amount of oil used which is the more important consultation
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25d ago
AI is fine in itself. The only question are the numbers correct. I'm not sure how to validate them. The facts count the most important. The second is the article readable without being too wordy or any other such problems.
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25d ago
They used and installed a fair amount of renewable energy since then. Plus, the similar efficiency gains in the EU and the article have also happened in the US. While there hasn't been government encouragement directly, there have been
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26d ago
Problem is the guy here spent $100 on ads that went to bots, and thus can get his $100 back after spending a million on lawyers.
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26d ago
I always wanted to try a three one the tree, just cause they were so different. Alas all the cars I've ever owned were 5 or 6 speeds. Today I drive an EV with no gears. Maybe someday a collector will trust me with his car - but I would
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26d ago
They were still children at the time. Maybe a handful were adults, but even then just barely.
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26d ago
They are strategically using their stockpiles. There are a lot of factors in their strategy and some of them conflict. This has an effect on the world market. How much of their strategy is to change elections vs other concerns I don't
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26d ago
I agree all sides are bad. Too many people ate trying to do one side bad, so the other side must be good. We can ask least bad. Sometimes there are no good options.
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26d ago
His supporters are a minority. There are others who voted for him as they felt it was the least bad option, but they are not supporters (and many of them regret their vote, though they probably would have stayed home, or voted third party)
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26d ago
Iran is known to have killed at least 10,000 of their own people just this year. The US has done bad too, but the scale isn't nearly as large.
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26d ago
While it is hard to say, all signs point to China not wanting to take over. That isn't to say they could, but China seems content to rule their corner of the world and let the US rule the ocean. (their corner includes Taiwan which the
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