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by fvdessen 6y ago
> All UK AZ vaccines are being manufactured in the UK, the UK government funded these. This is false, they are also coming from the Netherlands & Germany https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/19042726.oxford-astraze
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Ok, I thought part of the Americans doses were manufactured in the EU, seems I was mistaken.
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>And why doesn’t the E.U. send police or military to stop shipments from leaving the E.U. if they are in violation of contractual obligations or law? Well, they are, and that is when you see the UK media accusing EU of 'vaccine nati
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The EU has paid AstraZeneca to build manufacturing capacity within EU borders, but a big part of that capacity is used to supply the UK. AstraZeneca has also quite smartly been extremely slow to file the necessary paperwork to make those pl
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I find it funny that when the state designs a new currency, it gives it the exact opposite characteristics as the ones designed by the civilians Edit: I wrongly called the government ones cryptocurrencies
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It is much harder to enforce the discipline of those practices across modules boundaries than around network boundaries. So in theory yes you could have a well modularized monolith. In practice it is seldom the case. The other advantage of
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Those are paintings made with photoshop. It's intentional. It's not any weirder than the people with big arms and tiny heads you would see on tech companies websites
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Because they're painting with photoshop ? If they made the same picture with watercolours, would it be a 'forgery' or a 'shop' as well ? There's never been any intent to make the viewer believe that what they&#
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by fvdessen 6y ago
It's not a forgery, it's a painting made for very different tastes than ours
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A country cannot hold a significant amount of cash/gold/value without spending the appropriate amount on military defence to deter other countries from seizing the value. The armed guards at Ft. Knox is a small amount of the total
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The security of the US financial systems is maintained in part by the US military which is not exactly free either
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petard still means small explosive / firecraker in modern french.
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I think it's obvious that private companies should not be able to 'run themselves as they please'. Also in my country landlords can't kick renters out if they disagree politically. I think that's a good thing. Maybe
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We want to see all the thumbnails at once, not just the selected one.
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Since this tweet comes from the chinese embassy of the USA, it seems to me that this is diplomatic matters and should be handled by the government. For example the USA government could apply diplomatic sanctions to the embassy if they do no
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by fvdessen 6y ago
And now if Big Tech has a dangerous idea they have all the power to advertise it and also to silence the counter-arguments.
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The decrease of independent minded as an organisation grows seems an almost universal phenomenon. It happens to startups yes, but also to forums, bands, fashions, the internet, games, religions, politics, etc. Basically anything new will ta
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It is also wrong, computers from the last decade are not 'perfectly fine' for 'browsing'. I just saw my girlfriend do her website with Wix on her old macbook air and the performance was so slow that I wondered how she co
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How is it not hypocritical to argue for equality and wealth redistribution and at the same time hoard wealth for yourself ?
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Westerners claim that the vote for selfless do good things, but usually the practical consequences of what they want benefits them personally. For example they will go to organic shop to 'save the planet' and 'be fair to thir
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But it is 28 watts to the M1's 10 watts
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> They’re not comparable because the western companies are not doing this due to the threat of retaliation from their own government. Iranians are banned from using some western apps by threat of the American government.
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AFAIK the biggest ongoing expense which such castles is the heating bills which are insane since castles are very big and badly insulated. The gardening expenses are also quite intense; depending on the size of the property you may have to
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I don't buy the culture argument after looking at the success of China. I think it's a matter of having a big enough internal market to be able to compete with the American monopolies.
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Guantanamo is a torture camp. For the forced labor, look at the private prison industry.
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There was still not that long ago an incredible amount of innovative companies and products in Europe. But at that time companies were still built for their home markets first and on that regard the USA is big and unified. Since software is
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Didn't they threaten to invade the Netherlands if they continue their investigation in US War Crimes ?
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One specific problem I always had in Linux but never had on other systems is installing a newer version of a software than the one that is present or supported by the official package manager. It's most of the time difficult, and somet
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Some people are really passionate about earning money. But indeed I feel that for this to work you need to be passionate about a topic, and also about monetizing it, which is not everyone
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The USA protects its market by letting monpolies grow and abuse their dominant positions unchecked. And when that is not sufficient we now know what happens; competitors are banned.

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