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by dustintrex 5y ago
I have no particular affiliation to any German political party, but I also find the Baerbock case a bit ridiculous. The book is essentially her election manifesto, you pretty much expect it to consist of various party publications glued to
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by dustintrex 5y ago
But is that a reference to the Bible? "To earn (my/your) daily bread" is a set phrase in English and many other European languages (French pain quotidien etc) as well.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Since China is a low-trust society, networking is far more important than in high-trust societies like most of the West (or Japan, for that matter). This is not unique to China, of course, but it does mean business, politics and even seem
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Yes, the first chart is a ratio, but Figures 1 and 2 immediately following it are not.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
All dollar-denominated graphs in the article use linear scales, which is misleading, because price inflation is compounded (exponential). Compare the difference in how steady inflation looks between linear (left) and logarithmic (right) he
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The equation has changed. Basically everybody is going to get COVID sooner or later, the vaccine just makes it much less likely that you'll get seriously ill from it.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Downvoters FYI: the Taliban government includes four ex-Gitmo detainees. https://news.yahoo.com/taliban-five-guantanamo-bay-afghan-13...
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by dustintrex 5y ago
We're a year and half in at this point, and I've been masking throughout because I thought it would make a difference, plus I live in a country where it's compulsory anyway. However, I've yet to see a peer-reviewed, stat
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by dustintrex 5y ago
FWIW, the mask mandate ban appears to have precisely zero effect on the COVID situation in Florida, which has been steadily improving ever since schools opened. Here's a blog facetiously suggesting that not wearing masks in school ca
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The bikini, as in the swimsuit, was named after the devastating effect of these explosions. It's one of the sad ironies of history that it's now virtually impossible to read a line like "We left Bikini and have wandered throu
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Sorry, can you provide some more context? What did Epic do to/in Korea specifically to make you feel that way?
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by dustintrex 5y ago
The swim is absolutely an accomplishment, but this is laying it on a bit thick: > He seems to feel pride about having achieved autonomy—from society, his parents, higher-level institutions, and the pressures to conform. And what does t
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Really? Of all the countries in the world, Korea is probably the most fanatical about gaming, and the payoff for getting Fortnite into the Apple Store would be considerable.
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China's official doctrine is also that Taiwan is a part of China, and the status of Taiwan is purely an internal affair.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
El Salvador doesn't have its own currency, it already uses the USD as legal tender, plus their crypto system is backed by USDT. This has been suggested as one of the many reasons Bukele is so keen on Bitcoin/Chivo: he can't p
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Sparta was, if anything, more cruel and callous than portrayed, it's just that it was mostly the underclasses that were at the receiving end. You are right in that they weren't particularly good at fighting though.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Some of the 5% of Spartan women who were full citizens, perhaps. However, Sparta was an extremely unequal society, with some 85% either slaves or helots (also slaves, but owned by the state, not individuals).
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Why on earth did they opt for bald tyres? Treaded tires have been known and used since 1905.
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Domes are over-rated: common misconceptions in space journalism(caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)
6 points by dustintrex 5y ago|0 comments
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The intersection of COVID and air travel is particularly bad. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2021/08/14/most-covid-19-t...
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Let's all be grateful this dude didn't try to pull his underwear bomb stunt on an airplane. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/30/saudi.arabia.a...
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by dustintrex 5y ago
That's a mighty big if though, since to a first approximation nothing except maybe ransoms is priced in Bitcoin. Most shops notionally accepting it actually set prices in USD and simply convert as needed.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Unfortunate wording in the title. The price of Bitcoin "crashed" as in plummeted, and the Chivo wallet system they're trying to use in El Salvador "crashed" as in went offline. The Bitcoin network, of course, ch
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Relevant Onion: https://www.theonion.com/pudding-factory-disaster-brings-slo...
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Agreed, and this line pretty much sums it up: > Customers won’t be “investing” in the program, but rather lending the USDC they hold on Coinbase’s platform in connection with their existing relationship. "Give me money for a fixed
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Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot(theguardian.com)
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I'm not sure what the name comes from, but it's not going to land very well in Japan. 漏らす mora(su) = To wet, esp bed wetting ( o-morashi ), also as a sexual fetish https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omorashi ション
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Oh yes we will, because business chases after the absolute lowest cost, and for manufacturing anything more complex than a T-shirt, the place to be remains China.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Soccer is a global sport, and cricket long ago became a part of South Asian identity. By contrast, sumo is played only in Japan (there is no Mongolian sumo league etc), to Japanese audiences, with Japanese sponsors. Also, pet peeve (dire