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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
You don't need to separate any of those things when doing laundry. You're just making more work for yourself. Modern laundry washing machines also have a "finish at" timer. I set mine to finish at 8am so after breakfast
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
You don't get fined on your income taxes. That hasn't been the case since 2018, which was half a decade ago. What punishment do you think is appropriate for someone who engages in willful tax fraud or evasion?
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
> of course trees are not a substitute for air conditioning Well the whole thread was something arguing they are. First post: "I love trees and want more of them in our cities, my only point is that they are not usually a substitute
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
The meaning of the line is pretty clear? It is a rhetorical flourish not to be meant taken literally. The author obviously just means "now they are widespread". "Back in the day HMOs were basically non-existent but promised c
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Dew point over 70 doesn't sound that high? I live in Vietnam. It is 8am right now and the dew point is 80. It only 80 at the moment but is supposed to get up to 90 later in the day. I assume the dew point will also go up to around 90.
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
The vast majority of that money will go to hire more staff to pursue multi-millionaire tax dodgers, not to modernise the tech, so the previous comment was pretty misleading. The tech modernisation is supposed to cost about $2.5 billion over
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Go became "international" 200 years before the earliest forerunner of chess had even been invented. That's when it spread from China to Korea. And it reached Japan around the same time chess's earliest forerunner was bei
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Is it really true that most Anglophone countries are the same? Is that how they do it in India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Kenya, the Philippines, Jamaica, Singapore, Trinidad and Tobago, Botswana, Ghana, South Africa, and Fiji? There are a lot mor
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Not to mention you always have to second guess the designer. Does "last name" mean "family name" even though it is my first name? And what counts as "middle name"? Is it "Thi"? But my "first name
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Heck, I just saw on Reddit some guy just discovered his girlfriend's "real name" is "Lawr'ryn" due to dumb parents. She preferred to go by Lauren. And her brother Pur'see went by Percy. Why, as a system de
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Don't do this. In Vietnam names like Nguyen Thi Anh Mai are common. The family name is "Nguyen" is the family name. "Anh Mai" is the "first name". But they should be called "Mai". And reversing t
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Python was already the #2 scripting language (after perl; not counting Visual Basic) back in ~1994 when I learned it. Tcl was already dying out by then and Ruby hadn't been released. So you basically had Perl or Python. You're rig
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
I think it is hard to reconcile this with the reality that every big billionaire dollar app does the complete opposite. Excel, Word, Jira, Salesforce, Facebook, Oracle ERP, etc.
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
What does one do with a DEGREE in Chinese? As opposed to not getting a degree in Chinese but spending 4 years learning it while getting a degree in, I dunno, materials science or something.
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
> It's the right trade off for most people as the only USA 2G nationwide network is T-Mobile's. They are going to turn it off in April 2 2024 (1). A US-only analysis of this seems not especially useful, since Android is used wo
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
If the goal was to have to people drink less.... And then they drank less... How is that an abject failure? I'm not really clear what you're trying to argue here. Could you be more explicit?
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Prohibition wasn't an abject failure. The most pessimistic reading is that its results were mixed, with many scholars believing it was a success. (There was a reason it took 14 years to repeal and not because people thought it was an a
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
The EA Downloader was released 3 years after Steam.
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
ACH has had same day payments since 2016. If your bank takes until "next morning" then that's your bank's problem, not ACH's. https://www.nacha.org/resource-landing/same-day-ach-resource... Tha
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
No it isn't true anymore. They have changed policy, albeit relatively recently.
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
"Nobody wants to install a new app" in a thread about how 10 million people just installed a new app feels like peak Hacker News obliviousness. People have no problem installing new apps if they actually offer something. Just like
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
> What M&A are you familiar with that they can typically happen in a 6 day timeframe? Virtually every single bank failure that happens results in an M&A that is negotiated over a weekend. Most recently Credit Suisse collapsed in
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
I wouldn't call them "niche" interest groups. Facebook Groups are very popular in the country I live. (Reddit is too American-centric to have ever really caught on.) I'm in groups on legal stuff (19,000 members), boardga
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Surely there are thousands and thousands of units? Or do you think the software should only support English? A Vietnamese recipe will often use "gr" for grams (even though SI says that's not correct but what are you going to
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Yet another histrionic American who thinks they are uniquely bad based on having gone to a few places in Europe..... Bars/clubs in Asia -- where I live -- are much, much worse on this than anything in America. So, no, it isn't eve
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Off the top of my head I can't think of any that are GOOD. But a decent number of them appear to switch off most/all validation once you select a non-US address, which I think is a perfectly acceptable thing to do. (That's i
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Yeah I use those tricks too. As you say they work 90% of the time. Sometimes I have to write "P 25 Q Tan Binh" or even "P25QTanBinh" if the second address line has stupid restrictions. I also use 700000 for HCMC even tho
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
Yeah I know that "technically" we have post codes, though I've never met anyone who knows that or knows what their post code is. And I've never received any mail that uses it (not even from the government).
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
I have this problem all the time. I live in Vietnam and my address looks something like 561/34/13 Điện Biên Phủ, Phương 25, Quận Tân Bình, TP. Hồ Chí Minh The ways this usually fails with websites: They tell me a slash isn&#x27
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by freddie_mercury 3y ago
No, Reddit relies on people needing to mindlessly scroll, barely reading even the headlines, all to fill up minutes in an empty existence. "Caring" doesn't feature highly. The 35 million members of /r/aww aren'

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