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by kmlx 5y ago
looks great! however when I lived in the Netherlands (Den Haag and Amsterdam) there were a number of issues I encountered that were not so apparent: - trams are pedestrian killers and bike accident machines. and they move through city cente
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by kmlx 5y ago
here you go: > The origin of the term "Middle East" is considered to be in the British India Office during the 1850s. It was popularized by Alfred Thayer Mahan, an American naval strategist who was referring to the region betwe
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by kmlx 5y ago
the absolute best fares i got were always paying in full before the actual trip. i still do this today with covid.
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by kmlx 5y ago
you are cherry-picking history in order to further your narrative about exploitation. in reality, humanity has been at war for millennia. the chinese have been at war with all their neighbours for centuries. slavery has been the status-quo
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by kmlx 5y ago
> West's psychological struggles to come to terms with its own historically unprecedented imperial past, than it does about China itself. oh come on. we criticise China because it’s whole political system, that was set up very recen
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by kmlx 5y ago
> Clearview sought to suggest the company is not subject to the GDPR — although the regulation is extraterritorial in scope, meaning it is applicable and (at least in theory) enforceable outside the EU’s borders in instances when EU peop
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by kmlx 5y ago
june 2020 had the lowest ever prices. no one was complaining. in reality these high prices are due to a combination of factors: - countries reopened after covid at the same time across the planet leading to pressure from asia to europe - no
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by kmlx 5y ago
> Imagine how it must be to be surrounded by 1.3M homes and multi-thousand dollar apartments when you're broke, not well paid, and can barely afford any of it? Homelessness and crime are both things that people are much more likely
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by kmlx 5y ago
> How are they a threat to society? i thought you would offer a different take on these things. not answer with a question. > We started getting reports from neighbors or the on-site management that are our guests are dealing drugs o
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by kmlx 5y ago
> Because they're not a threat to society how are they not a threat to society?
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by kmlx 5y ago
yes, the ft does that. i guess it’s against their t&c to just copy their articles and they want to make that clear. they do have share button that allows a number of clicks without needing a subscription.
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by kmlx 5y ago
depends on the dyson product. i've got the dyson supersonic hairdrier. rock solid, feels super expensive (and it is). best hairdrier i've had, and i went thru them all.
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by kmlx 5y ago
not original poster, but bitcoin is not new.
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by kmlx 5y ago
> If you sell a domain on ethereum what’s the incentive to sell a domain on ethereum? > TLS will altered to integrate with blockchain protocols. you mean the Transport Layer Security, the cryptographic key exchange protocol? what’s th
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by kmlx 5y ago
> The rich stay rich, the poor stay poor. this has been false since at least the industrial revolution. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/life-expectancy?tab=chart https://ourworldindata.org/grapher
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by kmlx 5y ago
> and never will don’t humans continue evolving?
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by kmlx 5y ago
> San Franciscans … accept that trashy streets, tent encampments and petty crime are the price to pay to live in an urban wonderland. i don’t understand this. can anyone shed some light on this? is this just hyperbole?
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by kmlx 5y ago
> In all those cases consumers in Italy would profit, either from fair market or from more tax money. > 2. Move out of Italian market this would be a net negative all around. especially for consumers.
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by kmlx 5y ago
amex does this in the uk
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by kmlx 5y ago
i think the fact that people associate Lenovo “thinkpads” with quality products says a lot about how much “mojo” the ibm “thinkpad” brand had. and in hindsight that ibm > lenovo deal was a bad deal for ibm.
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by kmlx 5y ago
weird. i don’t know anyone who has had a good experience, or who prefers american made products. cars, food, fashion etc. they represent bad taste and poor quality. i thought this was known globally. like how germans are technical. one of t
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by kmlx 5y ago
i am very careful. i prefer any other nations products. japan, china, almost any country in europe, lots in south america. but the US has constantly disappointed. and not only recently, but throughout the decades.
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by kmlx 5y ago
> Why is this not a major talking point? because we live in a globalised world. your phone would cost 10x what it costs now if you moved production to the US. that would mean lots of people without phones, so a much smaller economy. no o
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by kmlx 5y ago
it was 30 years ago when i discovered that it doesn’t really matter what my name is. the system i’m interacting with expects my name to be “john” or something like that. so i let it be. 30 years later and i completely dropped all non-latin
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by kmlx 5y ago
yes! what can we do to make this happen? anyone from @google that can guide us in banning pinterest from google image search results?
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by kmlx 5y ago
> users now associate Facebook with all of the negative things Facebook has become. who are these users you are writing of?
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by kmlx 5y ago
i think this is called clickbait journalism.
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by kmlx 5y ago
i have a bit of experience in this. yes, there is VR porn. and yes, companies continue producing it. unfortunately the number of views on actual VR devices is very low due to low VR adoption. as such VR investment in porn is in a ping-pong
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by kmlx 5y ago
this is for me is a net plus. children of politicians (even how many) should not be a thing, and i’m actually very impressed that when faced with so many questions regarding his children, over so many years, this politician chose the high r
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by kmlx 5y ago
uk already has large offshore and onshore wind farms that provided 25% of last year’s consumption: https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/environmentalaccounts/article... unfortunately this has dropped in 2021 due to low

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