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>The "pay off balance within the month grace period" works only if you are on top of it all the time. If you think about how many people using the "maxed out CC" as a loan because they cant get anything else, the fina
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They most definitively should. In that case we even know, that US companies are be forced to cooperate and are legally barred from reporting it. Any foreign government using commercial US software for sensitive information is at least reckl
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I dont think its about how much marriages or diamonds cost. Sure, diamonds are a scam, but the real problem lies with social pressure out of "tradition". Advertisement induced spending for stuff like engagement rings is a much sm
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The emphasis is on "proper", i.e. the pressure to do that at the socially required age in the expected fashion to proof your worth, which you find in different versions throughout large parts of the world. Be it most blatantly the
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Weddings are a good example of horrible vicious social pressure depending on where you live. Too much of this is similar to "The child of a proper family marries at a certain age and gets a proper wedding".
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No the part after the marriage where sophie starts crying in the car and Mark tells her to stop seeing the wedding is over and they are over that hump
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Diamonds are historically an extremely new phenomenon with the demand outside of industry created by De Beers massive advertisement campaign over almost a century. Diamond Jewelry exists because advertisement works. https://www.t
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Thats a matter of quantity though. Have enough of it and the content and normal users get drowned out and leave. In the end, good faithed users contribute in thier spare time. Once certain interests are involved, you are faced with bad fait
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When ever I read stories about adsense providers behaving like this, or even "banks" like paypal just closing accounts without any legal security whatsoever, or Websites themself selling user data and serving malware, I always thi
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Trust isnt the only point though. The threat of a decline is full time journalists means also some things will fall through the cracks because no one invests the time to look at it. A good example might be the Snowden documents. They were q
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That doesnt make individual users less of a security risk. This boils down how much harm an individual user can do, most of which the individual user doesnt have the full grasp off. It can be a simple as introducing something into a system
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I am sorry if it came across as a personal attack, I didnt want to imply that you are personally negligent or unqualified to make that call. For all I know it is your job to make those policies at your place off work. The problem is a User
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>Now apparently you can't even use common tools to get the job done. If I had a big meeting I wouldn't take a chance on the network to keep my presentation. Then you are an active threat to your networks security. You sound lik
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btw >Resume: http://www.maxkalashnikov.com/redume.pdf leads to >The requested URL /redume.pdf was not found on this server.
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> Rare, ultra-expensive catastrophes are much more difficult to price in and are, arguably, what have really been killing nuclear, politically, if not economically. I would argue after decades of usage and development state of the art nu
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>Only waste that no longer requires cooling can be moved underground. Thats the point though. It should be moved into long term storage after that and not stay in the pool that needs to be cooled. Transporting is not the issue you make i
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How did you get the link? I didnt even get a full screen button
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Do you have an example for that? I looked around a bit and only found China not buying from weapon manufacturers anymore who also supplied Taiwan. When it comes to pressure on topics like Tibet they seem to mostly pressure countries instead
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Is China trying to enforce any kind of similar ban? I got the impression that trying to enforce unilaterally imposed global sanctions is a US thing. The next best thing coming to mind are UN embargos
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If I recall correctly, participants of Egypts Arab spring mentioned the same tactic to spread the information about the location of upcoming demonstrations. A few people took cab after cab and kept mentioning that a protest will take place
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>Most of the times I end up on Stack Overflow, I arrive via Google. I usually have to check for around 5 answers before I find one that hasn't been locked as "not constructive" or for some other arbitrary reason. Thats kin
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If you dont want the comparison between the current system and none you have to be able to present an alternative. In the system we live in if you arent insured, you are betting that you wont become a burden on the rest on society. You are
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It becomes societies problem once you are about to die because you bet to not get an expensive disease and cant afford the care once it happens. You dont live in an isolated bubble. This boils down to a simply question. Is society ok with l
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9y ago
As dark as it is, there is a difference between malnourished and a famine. With "a lot to loose", in a lot of cases its those peoples lives. Alot of them are malnourished now, but they stay to loose the little that is available. M
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The thing is, in Venezuela a lot of people still have a lot to loose. Their economy tanked, the question at this point is how the available resources are going to be distributed. The existing corrupt structures are still a safer bet for lar
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> but, suddenly, all information regarding which protocol is missing - that would have been genuinely useful to know (unlike the prior wordiness). And might be a reason for ArenaNet to sue. From what I have read, reporting about shortcom
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For transmitting data on an energy harvesting budget there is stuff like LoRa, but Image is out of the question here because of the size. Much more likely is that such devices will be used for tracking, in situations where GPS is using to m
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9y ago
Her cooking tutorials consists of "How do you prepare Instant Mix XYZ"? You sure thats the channel you meant?
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I had the same problem. This is from 2016 and the issue was likely known a lot earlier, yet I never heard of it and most people I know with a bbq clean it that way. Which in itself references a huge problem. How do you combat conventional w
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And that place is called the US. This didnt even work when it was simply a question of having transnational companies on the level of facebook having to pay taxes.
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