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by flexie 13y ago
The vast majority of European high school graduates would be able to answer all of those questions you posted. I am neither Polish, nor American, but I have lived in Northern, Southern and Eastern Europe and in the US and the average Americ
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by flexie 13y ago
Yet, here you are; following a website with a decent intellectual level and without much effort you are participating in discussions in a language that is foreign to you :-) I have a feeling that although you most likely didn't go to a
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by flexie 13y ago
"Ok, Paris will never compete with San Francisco" Not so sure about that. Never is a very long word. I bet Paris can compete with San Francisco on tech before San Francisco can compete on charm.
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They say that professor Higgs is shy and not at all comfortable with the attention and almost as hard to find as his particle.
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No, but used to be. There we have the same obesity problems, though still on a smaller scale.
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by flexie 13y ago
Obesity and lack of activity. It's easy to see for us outsiders that are used to other sizes. Where I am in Europe, a typical woman has a body not that far from the fashion world's ideals which Americans often call skinny bitches,
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by flexie 13y ago
There is something deeply concerning about a criminal justice system in which prosecutors are elected politicians but in this particular case I highly doubt that the $40,000 or 1.58 percent matters much for this Schneiderman's decision
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by flexie 13y ago
Always interesting to speculate about what would happen. A default in the traditional sense probably won't happen this October but one day in our lifetime they are going to have to come up with a way to finance the 126 trillion unfunde
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by flexie 13y ago
I am a European Amazon customer and I have had enough. Amazon is a heavily subsidized corporation. It operates from a tax shelter (Luxembourg). It underpays it's American staff (who are then receiving US welfare as supplement in order
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Snowden shortlisted for Sakharov Prize(europarl.europa.eu)
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I believe there are 2 Americans in space right now. Speaking of space - in a restricted sense - there are around 2.3 million Americans in prison.
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by flexie 13y ago
Of course this will be useful for engineering. Maybe not in it's current state but in future, better versions. He and his team are trying out some really cool ideas. While most of us work on apps that involve displaying text and pictur
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by flexie 13y ago
It's free. If you could get gasoline for 200 miles for free, would you mind waiting for 30 minutes? I guess it's $25-30 worth of gasoline, corresponding to $50-60 per hour of waiting. I could wait. With the battery swap that Tesla
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by flexie 13y ago
Really? In most of Europe Aldi is associated with poor quality. Great place to buy canned food, toilet paper or cleaning products but not the place you'd want to buy meat, milk or veggies. I am not sure it's fair anymore. Part of
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by flexie 13y ago
I don't think there is a need to "respectfully disagree" to a disrespectful comment. Just like there are terrible dev teams there are terrible HR departments, and this sounds like one of them. But as you mention, if developer
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Notice how there is often a latino or Asian neighborhood between the white and african american neighborhoods. I'd like to see figures on racial division in the labor market. When I lived in NYC I couldn't help noticing how I woul
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by flexie 13y ago
They have to walk through metal detectors to buy books? I thought it was only for dangerous places like schools and offices. I can't think of anywhere in Europe we have those except for American embassies, a few courthouses, some gover
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Airline security measures is not only a threat to civil liberties, it's also a threat to the airline industry. On short distances (<500 km) I chose cars and trains. Getting to or from airports has always been an issue, but this prob
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Different jurisdictions, different rules and names. In general, jurisdictions that allow repossession without going to court, requires the creditor to follow strict procedures with reminders etc, and usually it's also a requirement tha
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Not without going through court and that's the whole point.
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Let's extrapolate: What if you were thrown out of your apartment if you failed to pay rent, the hospital would make the pacemaker stop working if you didn't pay your bills. Your lawyer would tell your secrets and tell the court yo
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by flexie 13y ago
Yes, really. No one has died and I have never heard of anyone of those being in danger. Michael Kozak, whom you quote, works for the State Department.
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This is a disgrace. They send a young man to prison for 35 years for uncovering possible war crimes and a bunch of diplomatic fiddle-faddle. He is not eligible for parole until he has served 1/3 of the time.
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Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 years in prison(twitter.com)
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Bradley Manning to be sentenced for WikiLeaks disclosures- live update(theguardian.com)
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It's powerful commercial interests colluding to defend the constitution of the US and protect the human rights of US as well as non-US citizens.
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No, it's the opposite of racist. I am saying that it is such an acomplishment to be voted president of the US as an African American and that it will inspire other African Americans irrespective of how he actually performs. On a side n
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Thank you for the link. I am not African American (neither African nor American) but when I lived in America it always struck me how racially divided the country still is, even in New York, and how poor many African Americans are.
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I think he will be mentioned on the same page as Warren Harding. And also again in the chapter about notable African Americans. Let's not forget that getting elected president as the first African American is an achievement in itself,
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It's a summary I took from president Obama himself when - asked by a reporter what he would do to catch Snowden - he replied: "No, I’m not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker". 1 minute, 26 seconds in: ht

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