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by exidy 8mo ago
Surely you know HSBC is a British bank? It was founded in 1865 when Hong Kong was under the control of the British and is headquartered in London.
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by exidy 8mo ago
Changi does actually have self-service kiosks and postboxes in the transit areas for just this very purpose.
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by exidy 8mo ago
You should have backed up and posted it to yourself or a friend. Being the best airport in the world, there are self-service kiosks (Speedpost@Changi) in the transit areas of Terminals 1, 2 and 3, and in the public area of T4 (as the only t
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by exidy 8mo ago
English is unusual in that we have both Germanic "weld" and Latinate "solder" and they've acquired different meanings. Spanish (and other Romance languages) use the term "solder" (soldado) for both.
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by exidy 8mo ago
The Khmer Rouge executed between half a million and a million Cambodians between 1975 to 1979[0]. These were the intentional killings, estimates range to as many as 2 million Cambodians or 25% of the population died as a result of Khmer Rou
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by exidy 9mo ago
I recommend you visit Istanbul for a few days and let me know if your opinion on vapes vs cigarettes changes. :)
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by exidy 9mo ago
Disclaimer: I'm a non-smoker As mentioned upthread, Australia has been running a similar strategy of trying to tax smoking out of existence and all that's happened is they've rediscovered the Laffer curve as well as pushing o
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by exidy 9mo ago
The original intention behind the turbo button was to give a way to set the clock speed something closer to a 4.77 MHz Intel 8088 for the benefit of games that relied on CPU cycle timing. Therefore turbo was the default and slow mode the ex
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by exidy 9mo ago
I'm sorry, but you're wrong again. Person I responded to was replying to a comment around webcam drivers on a M2 mac mini. They wrote: "the Asahi team have been doing incredible work .." -> the team working on porting
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by exidy 9mo ago
Sorry but no. The comment I replied to was specifically referring to running Asahi Linux. This is not "Apple hardware in general" but specifically "Apple Silicon Macs".[0] Your comments about iPads/iPhones may well
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by exidy 9mo ago
Apple are not hostile, they are indifferent. If they were hostile, it would have been shot down both technically and legally long ago.
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by exidy 9mo ago
It’s a broad subject. You have the existence of the Philippines itself, which is the only majority Christian nation in Asia, and given it passed from Spain to the USA, this influences everything from US force projection in the Pacific to th
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by exidy 9mo ago
It was very surprising to see zero mention of the Manila galleon[0] trade route in the linked article, even if technically the question was about gold rather than silver. The simple answer to the question of what happened to the money was t
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by exidy 10mo ago
> but locks you in Not picking on you personally but having had this conversation many times over many years with many clients I find it confounding. Oftentimes TF itself was heavily promoted as a way of "avoiding lock in". Wel
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by exidy 10mo ago
The person really getting written out of history in this thread is Raymond Gosling, the PhD student, who actually took the famous "Photo 51"[0] that, along with other evidence, confirmed Watson and Crick's pre-existing hypot
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by exidy 10mo ago
Ford Kent engine[0] was first produced in 1959 and is still being produced and used in motorsport, so technically it qualifies for a pension now. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Kent_engine
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by exidy 10mo ago
Inherited from the 80s? Microsoft effectively inherited drive letters via an 8086 semi-clone of CP/M called QDOS[0], it was the basis for PC-DOS and later MS-DOS. CP/M dates back to 1974. But Gary Kildall didn't come up with
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by exidy 10mo ago
Although the pitot tubes on AF447 were due to be replaced with a type more resistant to icing, nonetheless there's no such thing as a 100% reliable pitot tube and there were procedures to follow in the event of unreliable airspeed indi
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by exidy 10mo ago
I agree with everything you say, however I would note that Singapore has a substantial resident (ordinary definition of the word) population on various types of work permits who, rightly or wrongly, don't feel so free to speak out as y
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by exidy 10mo ago
Maybe 50 years ago, and with Manila standing in for Jakarta.
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by exidy 10mo ago
It's a case of better late than never. KL has a reasonable mix of subway, monorail, elevated and suburban rail. Bangkok's above-ground BTS has been very popular and they have been building subways as well. Hanoi has a master plan
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by exidy 10mo ago
Thailand is cracking down on visa runs and people staying quasi-permanently on short-stay visas: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/nri/visit/thailand-step...
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by exidy 11mo ago
It's a niggle in any other context, but for this thread it's worth highlighting that LaserDisc is not a digital video format, but rather analogue, and composite analogue at that. So it would be more accurate to say it was scanned
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by exidy 11mo ago
There was an override system, MCAS drove the stabiliser trim motors and so flipping the stabiliser trim motor cutout switches would disable MCAS. This relied on the pilots diagnosing an MCAS runaway as a stabiliser trim runaway and enacting
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by exidy 11mo ago
It depends on the inverter. Older "grid-following" inverters would isolate themselves from the grid to avoid putting any current on the line when presumably in an outage it should be de-energised, as well as relying on the grid fo
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by exidy 11mo ago
It's a risk mitigation measure. The three or six month requirement usually comes from how long you could stay, not how long you do stay. You are also assuming a point-to-point trip. While a citizen of a country usually cannot be denied
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by exidy 11mo ago
That article is more than three decades old now. Time to give it a rest.
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by exidy 11mo ago
> tomorrow it's freezing accounts of political opponents Except that this already happened[0], and not in "authoritarian" Singapore but in "liberal" Canada. [0] https://www.bbc.com/news/world
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by exidy 11mo ago
It's a cool app, and makes me wish that Australian tax residency rules were actually computable.
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by exidy 1y ago
> I'm fine with labelling this person "anti trans" You should probably at least give Jesse the right of reply here: https://unherd.com/2023/11/the-rage-behind-transgender-map/

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