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by emanreus 9y ago
Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Iceland, and others all practice banning certain baby names. It's just that when China does it it's in the news. In Iceland, if the name is n
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by emanreus 9y ago
Also known as Stockholm syndrome :)
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by emanreus 9y ago
The Time Paradox by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd explores different time perspectives and how the affect our lives. 6 min TED talk that covers some of the ideas in the book https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_pr
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by emanreus 9y ago
In terms of geography, yes. In terms of population, culture, and history - no. Out of 144 million, 110 live in European Russia and they're predominantly Caucasian (roughly 115 million are ethnic Russian). If you were to draw the border
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by emanreus 9y ago
> two superpowers with nuclear overkill capability glaring at each other but not doing much. Those glares killed a lot of people in proxy wars around the globe.
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by emanreus 9y ago
> Though it could be attributed to the author as a smaller mistake, as Franz was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist. Not to nitpick but he was a Yugoslav nationalist. Though he was an ethnic Serb from Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the ti
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by emanreus 9y ago
I just got urlceptioned back to this page :)
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by emanreus 9y ago
Interestingly enough English was phonemic during the Middle English stage (11th - 15th century) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography
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by emanreus 9y ago
> It is similar in Polish ('country' vs 'edge'/'border'/'region' in Russian) and probably other Slavonic languages. South Slavs have multiple historical examples of Krajina(s) and they a
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by emanreus 9y ago
I don't think it really matters what you call it, and I accept that you may feel differently about it. But in my own personal experience there's absolutely nothing good about shyness. It's crippling and it will make you, well
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by emanreus 9y ago
Shyness is a mental disorder and a severe disadvantage.
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by emanreus 10y ago
If I'm not mistaken he created it while working at/for rambler.ru which is one of the biggest Russian websites (it was serving 500 million requests per day at that time).
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by emanreus 10y ago
> I don’t have my money back yet, but the man who stole my site from me doesn’t have it, either, and won’t be getting it, ever. How did she found out it was a man?
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by emanreus 10y ago
One downside of xkcd style passwords is that they are not accepted everywhere. Many websites have a list of characters you must and must not include in your password.
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by emanreus 10y ago
I see where you're coming from but that war looks unwinnable to me for either side. You have reached a stalemate so further killing kinda seems pointless in light of that. I've seen civil war first hand and how it can be all too e
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by emanreus 10y ago
On second thought, the cynic in me is saying you're just laying the groundwork for your next encounter with customs agents in case you have to hand over your online accounts :)
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by emanreus 10y ago
It's a bit sad that such behavior is normalized to the point that such a trivial thing is escalated to someone being locked up. Maybe it's some kind of strange taste for masochism that I don't understand. I'm not trying
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by emanreus 10y ago
I have to admit some border crossing incidents[1] are what I would imagine entering North Korea would be like, not the US. [1][10min audio] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDYMw1p8s9M
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by emanreus 10y ago
The scary part is that someone can be jailed indefinitely. I had no idea that was legally possible.[1] But it's CP so it's an easy sell. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_imprisonment
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by emanreus 10y ago
Black people constitute around 3% of UK population. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_British
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by emanreus 10y ago
For the curious, this is what it looks like when you try to access dailymail.co.uk from Thailand: http://i.imgur.com/Ah1fwPF.png Translation: This site contains inappropriate content and information. Suspended by the