kingofpandora

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by kingofpandora 4y ago
I didn't know shipping rates were falling, let alone falling this much. So this is news for me.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
Making refunds hard is an essential part of their business.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
People make a big deal about "quatre-vingt", but no French speaker thinks about that word as anything except "80". No one is doing multiplication in real time.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
Now the hacker has to launder the money somehow. Fine, it's much less money, but still it doesn't feel like laundering rather than just straight up scamming.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
I'm probably missing something but how is this money laundering?
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
No one is doing navigation in grade school or using their geography textbook.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
There are some Christmas presents where I'd rather have received nothing than find a way of disposing of some junk.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
How not what is the problem.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
> This is the cognitive problem in a nutshell. If the power structures of the current government are the same as the old government, the problem lies with the current government. Why? Because the current government didn't hit a Sovi
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
Honestly, the first thing that came to mind was the pattern used on V-2 rockets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-2_rocket ...
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
Wow you are really doubling down on being right about a statement that was factual wrong ...
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
Is a Tesla sentient? It can drive car and my dog - and a lot of people for that matter - sure can't. No, of course it's not. But it's been trained to do something like a human can just like the chatbot.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
My reading is that you have it backwards. Women had much less presence in public life after it was demolished.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
> Yeah, he was heading actual Nazi parades. There are enough videos on YouTube with him at the rallies wearing a leather jacket with saluting neo-Nazis around. He also uses N-words and F-words freely. > One of Rodina’s TV ads were com
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
OK that's a lot of reading (HN equivalent of a Gish Gallop?), but only one seems to be about Germany and it doesn't mention experts advising on the closure of nuclear plants, so I'm just going to assume there is indeed no sou
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
I didn't say it was a good analogy (I have no idea), and you are free to pick holes in it. But the intent was clear.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
> Heathrow is in the UK, not in Ireland, so I'm not sure how Ireland's minimum wage, and Dublin Airport's work contracts for security, could possibly create shortages of staff at Heathrow? Of course the poster is not sayin
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
That article is about the Stasi infiltrating the German Green Party. > Indeed, far from being an indictment of Stasi infiltration of the Greens, Gieseke and Bahr's study is a portrait of a largely failed attempt by the Communist Ger
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
Source please.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
Why do you assume you know better than experts?
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
It's probably a test ...
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
Of course, there was no obligation. But he went about it in a way that certainly looked petty.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
I understand your point, but not why you are surprised. If a non-Arabic speaker hears this place referred to as "sahara", why wouldn't other languages adopt it as "Sahara"? My adjacent point is that this is very com
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
But Sahara doesn't mean desert in English... Languages are littered with these kind of things. Like every language.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
Poster said Lego has been promoting aggressiveness, not that it has caused aggressiveness. It's undeniable that Lego themes have drifted a lot more to violence (Lego City is half about Policing), plus all the Ninja and other stuff.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
You say 10 hail Marys and 5 our Fathers.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
Much of ancient Greek knowledge comes to us because the Arabs preserved it. Some of them were Christians of course (so the occasional monastery may have been involved) but mostly not.
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
I wish that's all it had ...
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
Now can you decide the buttons on my toaster, please?
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by kingofpandora 4y ago
> The null-ls.nvim neovim plugin let’s you use vale as a prose linter. Not exactly selling the value of vale when I see "let's" used like this.

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