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by crusty 6y ago
One aspect of this that lends itself to the type of "easy" reconciliation that makes us think avoiding war shouldn't be so hard, is that neither party here actually had a sustained interest in the other. Serbia didn't ha
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by crusty 6y ago
"The usage of ships for passengers is now restricted to cruise shipping, ferries, and small-scale passenger crafts on archipelago countries (Indonesia, the Philippines,"... And some not so small. I've taken multi-day ferry tr
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by crusty 6y ago
That doesn't sound like a cash replacement to me, it sounds like an investment vehicle. The reason cash is cash is that there's no inherent benefit to sitting on it. No one is going to be able to trade 10 $5 bills they put in the
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by crusty 6y ago
Wikipedia's average donation is tiny. That's why they keep asking. The way you've written this it suggests that if instead of giving wikipedia a $2 donation, we have them $2 no-interest loans, weed be helping them prepare for
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by crusty 6y ago
This is like the awful paternalistic version of my thought. Ha. My guess is that there's a implied agreement, "keep to your promises about how Signal will be run and developed and eventually the loan will be forgiven altogether; t
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by crusty 6y ago
Yeah, you use the one that fits your narrative, and it works wonders until you try to pass it off to people who haven't latched onto that narrative, and then you come to a crossroads, do you summarily discount their perspective and go
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by crusty 6y ago
It's relative. If you step off a plane in winter you might think the 64°F night-time temp is downright balmy. But if you've lived there for long enough it's "freezing" and requires a nice warm sweater. But yeah, mos
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by crusty 6y ago
"...look at the heterogeneity in behavior across the epidemiologists - indoor dining, hanging out without social distancing and going to gyms! This lack of consensus indicates that epidemiologists do not think alike and hence that fiel
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by crusty 6y ago
We may still vote but we aren't the only democracy under strain and the pressures bring put on it are even more exaggerated in other places, like those where Facebook is the internet ala mid-90's AOL, accessed on phones for free o
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by crusty 6y ago
"...advertisers pay for free classifieds" - profit or brain melt?
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by crusty 6y ago
Nope, it didn't need any more explanation or accounting for nuance. It was a comment on the the author's apparent lack of awareness. Obviously lots of proactively owned art and antiquities of cultural significance are loaned out,
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by crusty 6y ago
I also came to note the ridiculousness as well, castigating thieves for stealing and literally burying something of great value to the world and then, in the very next breath, casually allude to their accepted fate, being sold off to the me
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by crusty 6y ago
Isn't it though? All kneel before consumerism, the one true God.
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by crusty 6y ago
I am super curious, if this software is open source and the most damning aspect of this case is likely to come down to non-software specific factors like the inclusion of copywrited material (from big name artists) in the unit tests and REA
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by crusty 6y ago
I think the modern (3rd generation?) Reactors have been designed to use much more of the fuel, leaving considerably less as waste, and actually potentially using preciously used spent fuel as fuel, which of course would be cleanup. The prob
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by crusty 6y ago
I'm pretty sure fortnite's inclusion in the play store is relatively recent. For a while it was available only as a sideloaded so on Android devices. (No pass for the racueteering play store/app store implied)
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by crusty 6y ago
Assumptions not required. Spaces open to the public does not equal Public spaces. Public spaces are necessarily spaces open to the public but spaces open to the public are not necessarily public spaces. Also, think of a man as underwear for
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by crusty 6y ago
This is apples and oranges. You listed hard good sales - imports (even if actually manufactured in China in the case of Apple). IIRC, Foreign companies need to have majority-owner Chinese partner entities to "own" business operati
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by crusty 6y ago
This feels like someone scuttling the ship. - VPN based in Hong Kong. - VPN claims to not keep logs but does (ie. willing to descieve customers and secretly compromise their security). - New national security law effecting Hong Kong speech
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by crusty 6y ago
What do you mean - it says right there, they used a "technical device" - duh.
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by crusty 6y ago
I'm working at home so I can't get COVID at the office. This sounds like it can help get it delivered to me at home. Sweet! This seems more like the AirBnB for home offices of the post COVID world - where companies decide it'
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by crusty 6y ago
Yes, you can go to any random store that has a Dell laptop you want or whatever and be reasonably confident that it hasn't been tempted with between the factory and your purchase, if that's the specific that you are concerned abou
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by crusty 6y ago
This the same guy sueing the state of California (with threats of leaving for a more pliable state regime) to get his minions back to the grind in opposition of health recommendations for physical isolation? He cares so much he wants them t
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by crusty 6y ago
Right now, if you're looking for advanced discussions related to SARS-CoV02, is suggest this week in virology, https://microbe.tv/twiv (I didn't double check http vs https or www vs not). Right now they are gettin
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FYI Covid-19:SARS-CoV02:Aids:HIV
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by crusty 7y ago
Immediately thought... So I'm chugging along with work and ready for a little endorphin hit from a social interaction and Bam, a penis. Skip, Bam, an A-hole screaming the N-word at the top of his lungs. Why again did I... People suck,
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by crusty 7y ago
And as to that not our culture comment, I mean it's the American of course who got told to isolate himself on suspicion of infection but decided to go to a group political event across state lines regardless, only to infect at least on
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by crusty 7y ago
TL:DR: The most effective use of disposable masks for blocking germ transmission is by the people with the germs who might pass them to this without but at risk. Surgical masks are meant to protect surgery patients from the medical staff a
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by crusty 7y ago
This online community is filled with perochial assholes. Studying the origins of human assholes might one day help us deal with the asshole in us, or at least the asshole in the other. For instance, does confronting asshole behavior diminis
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by crusty 7y ago
I don't want this to be taken as a blanket claim that there is no merit to considerations of privacy in this realm, but there is a critical distinction between flight tracking and license plate vehicle tracking. Am infinitesimally smal

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