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by gmerc 3y ago
You can make trademarked colors with microsoft paint…
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by gmerc 3y ago
Ah the good old fake pattern of having to switch this on every single installation despite being able to switch it on account level technically. Some needs to sue Meta for this too, “presence” across all their apps behaves the same. And res
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by gmerc 3y ago
You should see the Ammosexual cults in Texas
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by gmerc 3y ago
This will come handy to every startup in the AI field where it’s common knowledge that the only way to make a press release is arxiv it. /s
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by gmerc 3y ago
Children separated from parents at the border may disagree with your notion of non family punishment. “My country is less bad than your country” is a fun game, but at some point it does require a very large amount of cognitive dissonance to
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by gmerc 3y ago
Ahh the good odl “my version” of democracy. We go through this with every single thread about Singapore. Fun variants to play: - Show me one instance of my country performing extrajudicial killings by drone that take out an entire unaligned
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by gmerc 3y ago
These systems work with several modes, UEN (Unique entity number, Phone number, National Id Number and QR)
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by gmerc 3y ago
Important note on Australia - FB only made a deal with the biggest companies, Murdochs, who was using the government to apply the pressure. Independent publishers, etc got dropped like a hot stone.
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by gmerc 3y ago
Bizarre comment. Nobody is arguing about best or not.
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by gmerc 3y ago
That’s … not correct. Modi’s demonetization was a huge forced driver of digital payment adoption. It’s what spurred most companies into kicking off their UPI efforts
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by gmerc 3y ago
It’s not just QR. Plenty of other modes of payment supported including Whatsapp and Google. The government aggressively manages the system to prevent any single company from getting too much weight and forces them to address scams or other
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by gmerc 3y ago
Jiophone helped a lot
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by gmerc 3y ago
You must gather your party before venturing forth from Ironman
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by gmerc 3y ago
None of these seem relevant to the question of why you feel the need to jump onto a thread about the colors found in Singapore with colonial mansplaining about authoritarianism.. backed up by writings from Cambridge, cherry on top by a writ
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by gmerc 3y ago
You forgot Radio Free Europe. Notably none of those were operated by countries to inform their own population, so I am not sure why you would mix these into the term public television.
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by gmerc 3y ago
Many countries have tax funded public television. In many countries one could argue that public television (BBC,CBC,ARD,ZDF,NPR,etc) carry generally high quality programming and often hard hitting investigative features compared to private
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by gmerc 3y ago
This indeed is the better approach, and unfortunately the answer is that the motives, just like in Australia, are muddled by media ownership
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by gmerc 3y ago
Not so different form Germanys GEMA regime, just for news.
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by gmerc 3y ago
Ah, your cherry picked definition of authoritarian police state. And custom definition of abuse as freedom from having your nose thumbed into cognitive dissonances. No, I need to do no such things as to address the vapid statements you make
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by gmerc 3y ago
What a bizarre comment again. Police State? What are you smoking? Do yourself a favor and check when the last person was choked to death, beaten to death by police over here, how many police shootings we have per capita, how many people hav
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by gmerc 3y ago
Reminder: Just before the Pandemic, the US got the #1 ranking on pandemic preparedness while most of Asia including Singapore got trashed. Rankings are for profit endeavors that sell people metrics they can use to justify their policies or
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by gmerc 3y ago
Thanks master for your colonial wisdom explaining the role of the president in the country I live in to me, very relevant. I am deeply moved by your superior knowledge and experience about my country. Also — ad hominem - there’s now way to
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by gmerc 3y ago
While true, we’ve been successfully keeping up this illusion for the whole economy for many decades.
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by gmerc 3y ago
Projects sure to end up like Bioshock for 20, Alex
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by gmerc 3y ago
I live here. Right now. For years. I lived in the US before, I lived in Europe including Eastern Germany? I lived through the collapse of the eastern block. How is this not exactly what I just called “colonial mansplaining”? A bunch of quot
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by gmerc 3y ago
The Economist has an almost famous beef with Singapore likely rooted in the competition with London. There’s a lot of spicy ambassador notes from Singapore in response to some of their contortions and cherry-picking over the years. Having l
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by gmerc 3y ago
Shocker, voting for the people who want all their life to privatize NHS would have that results. #leopardslovebrexit
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by gmerc 3y ago
So … just normal economics. If that school of “science” was more than retconning and trying to see ideologically aligned patterns in the irrational noise and result of complex interwoven incentive systems that would make the complexity of t
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by gmerc 3y ago
I can leave my iPhone on the table in a food center to “chope a spot” Not yet seen the drawbacks of the cameras - certainly prefer the situation to SF where leaving your bluetooth enabled notebook in a car trunk is “asking for it” I can le
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by gmerc 3y ago
Every year september / october FTC compliance push happens - and your product will get randomly flagged and disabled by AI. This year, there’s gonna be even fewer humans to correct the madness. Not having FB login is a mercy, not a mis

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