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by fmajid 4mo ago
No, no software is the best software. BTW, the title should say "(2019)".
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by fmajid 4mo ago
It's funny. Just last week I was trying to figure out what this ODIN thing is, and naturally searched Wikipedia, and found nothing. I then did a web search, and found nothing particularly illuminating, and gave up trying to figure out
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by fmajid 4mo ago
They have an equally baroque list of people who can vouch for you in passport applications: https://www.gov.uk/countersigning-passport-applications/acce... Reminiscent of Borges' list: https://thewhippe
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by fmajid 4mo ago
They were very cheap, and some like Landau and Lifschitz's textbooks on physics, world-class (and extremely challenging, volume 1 on mechanics assumed mastery of the calculus of variations).
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by fmajid 4mo ago
And yet Tesla is working on some form of CarPlay integration because they realize they are losing sales due to this.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Have a limited company or be in a baroque list of occupations: https://www.costco.co.uk/membership-goldstar-questions
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Swiss law does require an overwhelming majority of the value of a product be made in Switzerland to use Swiss flag branding, or even Swiss landmarks or other signifiers of Swiss-ness. That's why Toblerone had to remove the drawing of t
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Yes, cheaper ones can be very thin, to save on material and produce twice as many buttons. The trick to identify genuine shell buttons is to to touch one against your upper lip. A shell button will feel cool to the touch, a plastic one won&
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Premium shirts still have shell buttons. Zebra mussels are too small to make buttons, however.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
> the idea of homogeneous nation states is more like rooted in the enlightenment. More precisely the Peace of Westphalia, which was a deal between the crowned heads of Europe to stop rocking the boat, and the absolute opposite of what t
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by fmajid 4mo ago
I've taken to using the Swedish locale for that very reason (French-American living in the UK).
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by fmajid 4mo ago
His post inspired me to change form <html lang=en> to <html lang=en-US>, to make it clear I do not write in the British's quaint dialect of American.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
My iKBC MF87v2 from 2018. I like it so much I bought a spare, even though it cost $170 at the time. Double-shot light-through PBT keycaps so the labels won't wear off or the keys develop that yucky slick finish, a solid block of alumin
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by fmajid 4mo ago
The only thing I've read of him is Elder Race, which was meh. I'll try Children of Time.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Thee golfing industry is one of the big proponents of keeping DST and lovbbies hard for it.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
I checked and apparently they have different etymologies, the verb "to cow" is from old Norse "kúga", to oppress), whereas "coward" comes from Old French "couard".
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Well, "Senate" literally means "assembly of elders" (same latin root as "senior", or "senile").
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by fmajid 4mo ago
The current analyst estimate is a 15% decline in sales.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
You mean the 2TB SSDs for $2 that flourish on AliExpress? I actually like AliExpress and trust them more than Amazon, but their failure to police these obvious scams is a blot on their record.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
He's being facetious referring to Amazon Prime. Though AWS and Amazon Ads together account for the entire enterprise value of Amazon, i.e. Wall Street considers Amazon e-commerce to be worthless other than as a loss-leader source of in
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Sadly the UK is a favorite venue for oligarchs looking to silence critics, with feral law firms like Carter Ruck specializing in this tawdry business. In the UK, the losing party usually pays the legal costs of the winning one, and libel li
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by fmajid 4mo ago
I am not responsible for your incomplete grasp of the English language.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Apple is trying to get a waiver to use CXMT RAM, incidentally. The Chinese government has ordered them to prioritize deliveries to Chinese manufacturers, however.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
That was before Trump blew up half the US' munitions inventory in Iran. If Xi is serious about taking back Taiwan, and I don't see why we should doubt his sincerity, the temptation to invade must be irresistible. The only thing th
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by fmajid 4mo ago
I believe Nokia is responsible for the monstrosity that is Micro-USB, and unbelievably one of the arguments was that it would be more robust than Mini-USB.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Or bought the publisher.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
I am assuming you are referring to Nick Clegg. The British are very easy to cow and bankrupt thanks to egregious libel laws that put the burden of proof on the defendant. They also have super injunctions allowing wrongdoers like Trafigura t
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Someone who enjoys collecting backpacks, briefcases, messenger bags etc. I recall meeting him by chance near South Park and comparing notes on our bags of the day.
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by fmajid 4mo ago
Om and I went a long way back. I tried to convince him RSS was the way journalism could escape capture by Big Tech. In retrospect, showing him the ad-blocking features of my feed reader might not have been the most persuasive... He was a tr
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by fmajid 4mo ago
No web form can ever be worse than doing stuff over the phone like we’re still in the 19th Century. I had a Korean colleague who remarked how backward the US is, you have to do everything over the phone, and you lose signal in elevators.

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