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by dotancohen 1mo ago
I did mention that the coin fanboys think so. Do you invest in any coins?
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
Thank you
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
The rhetorical trick was not mine. There are numerous people in this comment thread that used the word guarantee as a synonym or implied outcome of the word right. What do you think a right is, if not a guarantee?
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
That's why I said "one of the considerations for establishing a community". > Worrying about pottable water should be a solved problem in a first world country. I see that you've never lived somewhere with wate
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
Very likely from Pomodoro. In Arabic P is pronounced B or F.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
Are the Vietnamese and Chinese languages related? Or perhaps one of the two cultures was introduced to that fruit by the other, and thus preserved the name?
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
Interesting, thank you.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
Thank you! In Hebrew we literally call the potato תפוח אדמה which is "ground apple". Now I know where the idea comes from.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
The recorded English-language etymology for "ketchup" suggests that the word comes from one of the Chinese dialect's word for tomato. Do you have any idea which Chinese word sounds like ketchup?
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
> On that note, in Arabic, Farsi, and Hindustani the word for Tomato is essentially shared (tumatar/tamatimu) with the English word "tomato". In the Levant we use the word بندورا "bindora" in Arabic for t
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
The old map's Africa looks just like Africa on my globe. I understand that the new Africa is bigger, but it no longer looks like the real shape of Africa on planet Earth. When I look at a map - political or geographic - my primary obse
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
That is a natural consequence of banks and governments losing power. That power balance shifts towards the citizens... some of whom are criminals. The coin fanboys will argue that the bankers and government were criminals as well.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
What national government _does_ guarantee safe drinking water to its citizens? You are attacking the legitimacy of the US government by holding it to a standard that no nation on Earth is held to. The US has regulations and they are enforce
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
> Stop editing your ridiculous comment. Do I not have a right to add that second sentence to my comment? Are you offended by me exercising that right? Your demand is ridiculous, doubly so in a conversation about rights.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
I've been to a few islands that must import bottled drinking water. The citizens themselves do, not the government. I actually got stuck on one such island once, for one night with my then-twelve-year-old. First thing we did after secu
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
If a place is especially dry or inaccessible, then the lack of water should be one of the considerations for establishing a community there. This idea that no matter the expense or engineering constraints, the government must drag out the p
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
Are you suggesting that wealthy people litter less? Are you suggesting that wealthy people can not be vandals? Or are you suggesting that common people are littering vandals?
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
How are the two correlated?
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
This article would do better if it simply enumerated the problems with the LGPL and addressed how this new license which I've never heard of addresses those problems. This hinting and alluding might make great SEO, but that's fit
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
Not everything you want - or need - is a right. And establishing a new right is not the only way to get what you want or need.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
Not only the military aspect. His staff literally were absorbed into the Russian sand US space programs. Von Braun himself famously designed the Saturn V.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
It is (was) a commonly used defense. It might not hold much weight legally, so its applicability depends upon whether one is interested in the letter of the law or interested in the wellbeing of the recording artists.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
I bought solder locally and it was fine. I don't do much work, so it's lasted until now. But the solder did cost twice as much.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
Also, make sure your solder is high quality. I've ordered solder from AliExpress - both leaded and unleaded - and they were terrible.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
That saves on the monetary budget. How do you see it affecting your time budget?
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
After seeing a few comments about scrolling on that page, curiosity got the better of me and I dared open TFA. I found no problem scrolling. Either Firefox on Android doesn't support whatever trickery they are doing, or they reverted i
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
Probably so it does not become a target to meet.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
When someone defames at SEO-optimized large-company.it.com, then Large Company gets interested. Or, more succinctly, when money gets involved.
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
> AFAIK those fall entirely under the jurisdiction of the respective UN recognized government How does that work for e.g. Taiwan, where the UN recognises the mainland government's claim to sovereignty in practice?
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by dotancohen 1mo ago
That dead man took the risk of not earning much in his lifetime, to continue feeding his family even after his passing. You might as well ask why does someone acquire life insurance.

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