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by dustintrex 5y ago
Chewing gum is largely an American phenomenon and seems to be past its peak even there. I'd be surprised if the number of gum chewers doesn't drop over the next 50 years. I'll readily grant that the motion of the jaws is unli
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by dustintrex 5y ago
I presume there were extensive discussions between the two parties about the wording before this statement was published.
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> In 2019 Egypt paved over its Victorian tramway between downtown Cairo and the suburb of Heliopolis. In fairness, that's also because Cairo Metro Line 3 was extended to Heliopolis in the same year. The Cairo Metro, while vastly ina
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by dustintrex 5y ago
There is also a train line between Seoul and Pyongyang, which unsurprisingly is virtually never used.
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Japanese companies structure apologies very differently from US ones, because the legal consequences are very different. In the US, an apology is considered an admission of responsibility and is often the starting point of legal action a
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photo.net is another photo sharing site that really missed the boat. It was basically the Unsplash of the 2000s, with tons of pros and wannabes showcasing their work, but the interface stagnated and I remember that there was violent opposi
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by dustintrex 5y ago
> is it good that a game is so boring that players are willing to pay real-world money to skip parts of it? If you're designing a free to play game and want to make money from it, this is not just good, it's a design goal --
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by dustintrex 5y ago
There are clear differences between these groups that reflect their circumstances though. Indian Americans tend to be well educated offspring of the Indian elite, and they're also the richest Asian-American subgroup. Hmong, Laotians a
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by dustintrex 5y ago
"Breaking the cycle by sending the kids away" has a long history of well-intentioned attempts nearly always leading to disastrous outcomes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations https:/&#x2
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by dustintrex 5y ago
As a non-American, the very idea of having to drive somewhere to physically deposit pieces of paper to transfer money around sounds absurd to the point of hilarity.
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100s of El Salvadorans Report Bitcoins Disappearing from Their Chivo Wallets(thecryptobasic.com)
137 points by dustintrex 5y ago|145 comments
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NFTs are the least sketchy part of whatever is happening here, and that's saying something.
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Naive Q: what makes Ariane 5 better than Falcon 9/Heavy here?
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Most Communist countries had these. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning_in_communist_co...
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The Onion's version: https://www.theonion.com/pudding-factory-disaster-brings-slo...
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Interesting. I naively expected it to take the shortest/great circle route from Europe straight across northern Russia to Japan, but no, it actually loops the other way around the pole via Iceland and Canada.
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by dustintrex 5y ago
A single cone of the Australian bunya tree can weigh up to 18 kg: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Araucaria_bidwillii
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(2019)
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by dustintrex 5y ago
That does not sound hugely different from China and Taiwan, which, despite the bluster, also de facto recognize each other in all sorts of ways like having quasi-diplomatic representatives, issuing travel documents to each other's citi
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by dustintrex 5y ago
For what it's worth, I don't believe West Germany ever formally recognized East Germany. The closest was allowing a state visit from Honecker in 1987.
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And the real shame is that nobody seems to care what the people in Taiwan themselves want. (Which, overwhelmingly, is to be independent and free to go their own way.)
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I'm reading Red Mars at the moment, written in the 1990s and set in the 2030s, and a cluttered lab is described as having piles of floppy disks lying around. So, yeah.
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It's a common mistake to think of public transport as something imposed on unchanging cities, but it actually drives considerable change as well. Whatever the flaws of Honolulu's LRT may be, it will drive increased density in t
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by dustintrex 5y ago
This is a running joke among Japanese language learners, but less of an actual problem than you'd think. The really feminine words (atashi, kashira, ending sentences with wa etc) are trivially avoided, so you end up with neutral&#x2
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by dustintrex 5y ago
By and large ancient sources seem to also have thought that the Spartans were nuts. There are virtually no sources where Spartans write about themselves though, since they were not exactly keen on intellectual pursuits.
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One final irony in Singapore is that all Chinese are now taught Mandarin as their "mother tongue" (the official term) in school. This is despite virtually all Singaporeans being of southern Chinese descent, meaning they actually s
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by dustintrex 5y ago
Once you're in open prison/work release etc you're usually both at the tail end of your sentence and enjoying much better conditions than you were earlier, both of which are major disincentives to risking resetting the clock.
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Inside The Fall of Kabul(nytimes.com)
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After AWS outage, Larry Ellison says Oracle’s cloud ‘never ever goes down’(cnbc.com)
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It is, of course, complete coincidence that it would be really easy to offer 10% APY if somebody is selling you dollars for 90 cents each.

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