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by fvdessen 5y ago
Clearly not nearly to the same level since not only Ronaldo's videos are not demonetized, he's in the actual ads !
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Well we found it all the more surprising because our hispanic looking friend didn't even speak Spanish. But that's what happened. Maybe they mistook him for an illegal migrant ? In a similar vein, We also noticed that when our whi
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When I was in the USA a few years ago with an hispanic looking friend, he was often offered a steep discount at the various shops and restaurants. Often enough that we would ask him to do all the shopping. This happened to us in multiple ci
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by fvdessen 5y ago
The eID card was doomed from the start by terrible usability. No device can read those cards natively, you needed a dongle. It also didn't work with native web technologies, you needed browser extensions. And if you lose your card, you
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Because if the only culture you have is the marketable one it will be McDonalds, Disney and Marvel
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Afaik there’s no exact translation for “tall” in french. There’s “grand” (big) and “haut” (high) that would be used to translate tall in different contexts
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> Apocalypse Now, Full Metal Jacket, All the President’s Men, or The Post Those movies are also propaganda, but in a more subtle and effective way; The message of these movies being that while america sometimes makes mistakes, in the end
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A ‘caricature’ or ‘glorification’ ?
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The managers indeed push back the deadlines or hire more people
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I personally don't think wearing masks are a minor inconvenience, and never got used to it. I like to see people's faces.
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by fvdessen 5y ago
It folds into a small storage tube, is lightweight, has good autonomy, makes little noise, and safely autogyrates to the ground on failure. If you could somehow add a camera and stabilise it, it could make an excellent search drone for sear
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by fvdessen 5y ago
Could you be more specific ?
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> So everyone is free to use the software, just not for all the purposes that any particular person might choose. Can a weapon manufacturing company use ml5.js ?
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by fvdessen 5y ago
> Everyone is free to use the software. [...] The rest of your reply disagrees with your first sentence. It seems that only the people who share ml5.js values are allowed to use the software. There's no problem with that, but they s
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> Notice how Apple always has their laptops displaying some stunning photo? Or how it shoots the phones to emphasize the shiny, reflective metal? It's so simple yet other companies utterly fail at it. I'm looking at the Pixel p
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Frankly most of us would not be able to create esbuild even with all the time in the world.
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Seems like if you are neither in China or the US you are now some kind of third world citizen and must choose which of the above can monitor your communications
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It’s still ridiculous
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> The most egregious example imo was the one banning engraving "8964" (literally just a 4-digit number) I have not found the full list for EU/USA but I suspect that 1488 might be censored in those regions. Looking at the o
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Looks like theft to me, can't one file a police report ?
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I think the point of fizzbuzz & inverting binary trees type of questions is to filter out people having issues solving them blind
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I remember some paper looking at this question, and if you took into account the train infrastructure, planes were not too far off. But train has other advantages such as reduced noise pollution, being able to bring you right to your destin
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by fvdessen 5y ago
No. 75 years later this topic is still taboo
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by fvdessen 5y ago
Google has a monopoly on searching for information, which makes it as different to me as a nuclear bomb is to a butterknife. They need to play by different rules
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by fvdessen 5y ago
Is it really ok for youtube, a product with monopoly position on online video, to bundle a product that competes with other companies ? Seems similar to what Microsoft did with bundling IE with Windows
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I think this makes a lot more sense for trucks, where the size, range, weight, cost & charging time of batteries are more impactful
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> asked about their personal investments, 40% of the investors said they were active in cryptocurrencies. Seems there's quite a big disconnect with what investors do with their own vs institutional money
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by fvdessen 5y ago
Maybe not a training in ‘dismembering’ but America has a long experience in using torture and teaching it to allied military/paramilitary groups
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The 'local' things also depend on imported physical goods.
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It goes far beyond that. If you are in Italy and want to expand to Germany you need to hire german speaking people and that means opening a Sales Office in Germany, and dealing with different labour regulations etc.

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