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by decimalenough 1mo ago
The Model Y has shifted over a million units every year since 2023 and sits at the top of many "world's best selling car" rankings. Obviously it's not a cheap car, but it's still mass market, not luxury.
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by decimalenough 1mo ago
This is flat out incorrect. It's actually quite difficult to get a cash FX rate that's even close to as good as the standard credit card FX rate, which is also set by Visa/MC and not the banks. Where the banks do get their po
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by decimalenough 1mo ago
Most credit cards charge fat fees for foreign transactions (3% is common) and make some extra money on the exchange rate as well.
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by decimalenough 1mo ago
"Very happy" is a bit of a stretch, since a significant proportion of Taiwan would prefer to jettison the current pretence of being "One China" and become fully independent. But I agree that pretty much everybody will ha
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by decimalenough 1mo ago
If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, "Let us go and worship other gods" (gods that neither you nor your fathers have known, gods of the peop
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by decimalenough 1mo ago
This is hardly unique to Islam, many of the more hard-line Christian sects (Jehovahs, Christian Brethren, etc) as well as Haredi Jews also shun apostates. The main difference is that in countries with shariah, apostasy is not just a sin, it
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Well, it's hard to invalidate.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted, since your statement is true: https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/RS22497 Although obviously not all US laws apply and enforcement is a whole other kettle of fish.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Or you could just install the Pyanodon mods and micromanage thousands of things like crystallised sodium aluminate. https://www.reddit.com/r/factorio/comments/12w2w3i/the_full_...
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Today's your lucky day: it already exists! https://store.steampowered.com/app/784150/Workers__Resources...
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Not quite, IMHO a katsu dish still has to have meat in there somewhere. For your examples: 肉巻きカツ is a meat roll katsu wrapped around an egg. 串かつケーキ is not a kushi(katsu cake), it's a (kushikatsu) cake. While it doesn't contain an
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Such as?
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
There are more granular controls, but the details are OS/phone specific and the selected threat level is ultimately at the discretion of the government bureaucrat pressing the SPAM button.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
> But it is easy to see why some people feel this might open the gateway to messages which, at best, are irrelevant If you're in South Korea, you can expect to get around half a dozen emergency notifications every day . Typical c
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China's LandSpace beats SpaceX with steel-booster recovery after orbital launch(scmp.com)
7 points by decimalenough 2mo ago|2 comments
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Because it would then be pronounced IKE-Oh. Also, the A is short for Agunnaryd, the founder's hometown. (IK is his initials, Ingvar Kamprad, and E is for Elmtaryd, his family farm.)
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_branding (especially the Foreign Orthography section)
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Thanks to French, who came up with the current writing system.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Funnily enough, there are quite a few IKEA products with Finnish names. (Most are place names from northern Sweden, where there's a significant Finnish minority.)
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Why would you go for a masala dosa with filter kaapi with your colleagues when you could order a hamburger from room service? Why would you hail an auto when you could just charter a helicopter instead?
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
> In what situation were you as a foreign traveler where you needed to pay UPI? All the time? Credit cards are only accepted by fancy places and cash is increasingly a hassle, especially in a tech-forward place like BLR. The final straw
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Visa debit, maybe, but they're way higher for Visa credit.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Not being able to pay for things is a pretty fundamental problem even for a business traveler to Bangalore. Last time I bit the bullet and set up Mony, which at least got me access to UPI, but it's limited mostly by government policy:
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Translating poems on Seoul Metro's platform screen doors(substack-bahn.net)
3 points by decimalenough 2mo ago|0 comments
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Nothing Tokyo specific about that, biking in the rain is dangerous and generally sucky. I have good all weather gear, but I still end up with wet shoes/socks and muddy spray up my back and legs (yes, I have a mudguard, but it's no
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
There's some fan fiction that treats the characters as names of ghosts and comes up with back stories and visualizations for them (the article links to a compilation, but it's 403ing for me). Nothing mainstream though.
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Looks similar to my trusty Kensington Expert, only with more buttons: https://www.kensington.com/p/products/electronic-control-sol... Even the wrist rest, which I've never seen on another trackball, seems to
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
A ferry in the open ocean is one of the safer places to be during a tsunami. Remember, it's not a surf-style wave, but a gradual increase in water level.
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Trump orders aircraft carrier redesign to use steam catapults to launch jets(theguardian.com)
10 points by decimalenough 2mo ago|1 comments
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by decimalenough 2mo ago
Japan has sen (銭) as well, the coins were just inflated into oblivion years ago. Still used for eg stock prices though.

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