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by cr1895 10y ago
It was invented in the 1930s. Did electric stoves even exist then?
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The Curious World of Donald Trump’s Private Russian Connections(the-american-interest.com)
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>Ironically, the artificial limit of 140 characters has undeniably increased the quality of the discourse on the Twitter. Undeniably? Quite a bold, unsubstantiated claim, that one. One could just as validly claim that the 140 character l
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by cr1895 10y ago
Iceland's geysers certainly do.
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by cr1895 10y ago
This criticism seems a bit misplaced levied against Vice. Their whole deal is edginess, defying the norms you think they should embody. Ignore them if you like, but it seems weird to say they should be fundamnentally something else. https:
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by cr1895 10y ago
The Euro is the single currency for 19 of 28 European Union members, the Eurozone. Not all of the EU uses the euro.
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For reference: http://www.npr.org/2017/02/07/513957928/republican-lawmakers...
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bannon-explained-his... FTA: On a March 2016 episode, Bannon said that restoring sovereignty meant reducing immigration. In his radio shows, he criticized the federal H-1B visa p
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by cr1895 10y ago
I have friends who've moved to the NL via DAFT. You'd probably do well to hire an accountant who can deal with the tax authorities (who are the only branch of gov't that will not speak English to you), but the business doesn&
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>Per capita Germany performs about half as many MRIs, CT scans, c-sections, coronary bypasses, or knee replacements as the U.S. And, if you're over 65, you have very little value to the public system. Doctors will merely manage your
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Yes, assuming one remains employed and still has this great employer-paid health insurance while needing this hypothetical $70k/year drug while fighting leukemia. I really do wonder though, since there's zero guarantee in the US t
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by cr1895 10y ago
Sure, but my comment was more a reaction to sous-vide cookers all being "as dumb as colanders" and essentially interchangeable.
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>Sous Vide is a market closer to colanders than blenders. There's a couple of ways you can make a colander wrong but there isn't any appreciable way you can make a colander that drains water better than your competitors. For th
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I'll link you to a comment I made a few days ago about moving to the NL: https://news.ycombinator.com/reply?id=13522661
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>I think your media has drastically altered your perception of what America is and is not. You're doing well for yourself, but aren't you also presenting an altered perception of America? Very, very few people in America are as
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by cr1895 10y ago
Is it possible that due to some horribly unfortunate illness, one well-paid SV person loses their job? Let's say one has excellent insurance and a well-compensated job, but despite this fortune this person gets cancer and is out of wor
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You literally said, "if you ignore people shooting up malls" in the context of Germany being peaceful.
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by cr1895 10y ago
>regardless of where they fill a seat But this seat-filling is important. A person who is hired for a job shipped abroad is not living in the US, paying taxes in the US, buying groceries, spending money, etc etc. A non-American brought i
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>Can an american get a work visa and get permanent residency in EU countries with ease Nothing is easy, especially when it comes to moving countries. I can offer insight on the Netherlands specifically. Other EU countries might have simi
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>It's weird that so many of us work from home but insist on traveling to see a stage show. Isn't the interpersonal connection and networking from meeting together at a conference what's really important? The added value of
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by cr1895 10y ago
Sure Erdogan could have sued Böhmermann for defamation in the US, and it wouldn't have been successful just as that aspect of the case against Böhmermann in Germany was without merit. The law against insulting a foreign leader goes (we
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by cr1895 10y ago
Indeed, I didn't claim otherwise. The point is that the US government wouldn't have prosecuted him for insulting a foreign leader.
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>It's the US view of absolute free speech which is borderline idiotic. The US doesn't have absolute free speech. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_of_speech_in_the_Unite...
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>Böhmermann was sued, and the court said "lolwat, Böhmermann is covered by the right to free speech". Please note that I said prosecuted, not convicted, and I said prosecuted for insulting a foreign leader, not for speech. No s
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by cr1895 10y ago
A couple EU examples which would have been protected speech in the US: - German comedian writes an insulting, profane poem about Erdogan; is prosecuted (at Turkey's behest) for insulting a foreign leader [1] - Dutch state enforcing jai
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>Alcohol for example - there was never any taboo about drinking in Iceland. Over 60% of Icelandic voters voted for complete alcohol prohibition in 1915, and in 1933 much of the ban was lifted; however it wasn't until 1989 that all o
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by cr1895 10y ago
Stations and even heavily trafficked parts of the RLD are already covered with cameras, so they're clearly only so effective.
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Huh, not as far as I know. There certainly are a lot that are sold with tobacco. Maybe it depends on whether or not the coffeeshop has an isolated smoking room, which means they could have tobacco inside.
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What can they do? It's obviously in the city's interest to squash the pick-pocketing as much as possible, but it's not easy to police against. It's like bike theft. Bikes get stolen all the time but there's little t
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Sure you're not mixing up a former coffeeshop-turned-bar, or one selling 0.0% beer, or one which looks like one place but is actually distinct places (like Bulldog on Leidseplein)? It's a condition of the license, and they're

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