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1. 811.▲
   by ginko 4y ago

   You can't join NATO if you have an ongoing territorial dispute. Ukraine would have been unable to join while Crimea and parts of Donbass/Luhansk were occupied.
2. 812.▲
   by ginko 4y ago

   Chinese land grants are limited in time. For instance residential leases last 70 years.[1] This means that the first leases granted after the communist revolution in 1949 are going to run out in 6 years. [1] https://en.wikipedia.
3. 813.▲
   by ginko 4y ago

   What’s a UHNWI?
4. 814.▲
   by ginko 4y ago

   >Microsoft, which had not yet learned to love Linux, funded SCO and loudly bought licenses from the company. I'm disappointed LWN would blindly rehash the "MS loves Linux" propaganda like this. Microsoft still doesn't
5. 815.▲
   by ginko 4y ago

   I hate that word.
6. 816.▲
   by ginko 4y ago

   The proposed 2035 fossil fuel car ban isn't an existing law. It's in the negotiation stage and Germany is negotiating. This is completely different from Hungary not following laws existing when they joined the EU.
7. 817.▲
   by ginko 4y ago

   I don't see the irony here. Those two cases are barely related other than that both involve Germany.
8. 818.▲
   by ginko 4y ago

   > China and the US depend too much on eachother to fight a large scale war. They also said that in 1914.
9. 819.▲
   by ginko 4y ago

   I used to be quite proud of the 128MB RAM my first PC came with around 2000.
10. 820.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    Do we? Maybe in terms of megabytes of data but text takes a lot less space than audio.
11. 821.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    And they're almost all far-right.
12. 822.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    >the matriculant is now a full-fledged student, free to come and go at will. Absolutely no restrictions are placed upon him, he may attend all lectures or no lectures. He wears no academic dress, he lives in no dormitory. That's jus
13. 823.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    Taking my phone number out of gule sider fixed the Microsoft scam calls for me.
14. 824.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    I find it kind of strange that $5 for a dozen eggs is considered expensive. I'm from Austria and more used to 2.90€ for half a dozen freerange eggs. How is it possible to pay less than $2 for a dozen eggs without treating the chicken l
15. 825.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    error: invalid digit "9" in octal constant
16. 826.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    I mean sure, but that seems like a minor thing compared to the codebase passing around void*'s left and right. OP could have tackled that first while sticking with C. I've had a brief look over the goaccess source code. It's
17. 827.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    I despise yeast extract. It leaves a noticeable aftertaste in my mouth that won't go away for hours. I'd much prefer if brands just stuck with MSG but for some reason every single type of chips other than plain salt is adding yeas
18. 828.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    I've heard one theory that the merger with McDonnell Douglas swept the bean-counters from there into executive positions ruining the engineering focus at Boeing.
19. 829.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    Guess DB isn't content with just delaying their own trains these days..
20. 830.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    >..and Limoncello (lemon-infused liqueur from neighbouring Italy). Eh, as you mention limoncello is a liqueur while all the others you mentioned are brandies. Italy has it's own variety of brandies though. Grappa probably being the
21. 831.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    >if the family includes one of each (elementary, middle and high school kids) you still have to make breakfast for them, get everyone ready and head out. Surely high school aged kids can make their own breakfast.
22. 832.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    That's not a laptop.
23. 833.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    If anything I wish framework had a laptop in the 11-12" range.
24. 834.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    >Beer in the EU is often ~4% alcohol. Where would that be? German beer is usually 5-5.5%, same for Austria. In Norway it's 4.5-4.7%
25. 835.▲
    Magnetohydrodynamic Drive(en.wikipedia.org)

    3 points by ginko 4y ago|0 comments
26. 836.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    I've always wondered: Is your nick a reference to Moto Hagio[1], the shojo manga artist? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moto_Hagio
27. 837.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    You know Nokia and Ericsson are still huge players in telecom technology right?
28. 838.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    If you're in Vienna you could also check out the Michaelergruft.
29. 839.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    Thunderbolt isn't an open standard.
30. 840.▲
    by ginko 4y ago

    Did they? As far as I can tell USB-C was mainly invented by Intel and TI.