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by kome 3y ago
This is a very good article. Overall, I believe that the American lifestyle, media, and politics are so pervasive and have such a global reach that many American managers (as well as academics) find themselves unable to work internationally
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Christian democracy is to blame for Europe's democratic backsliding(theloop.ecpr.eu)
3 points by kome 3y ago|0 comments
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by kome 3y ago
I was thinking the same!
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by kome 3y ago
Other commenters suggest otherwise, perhaps it depends on the platform?
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by kome 3y ago
I never used Chrome, so i don't know if it has a picture-in-picture player. But if it doesn't, you are really living in the past. It's so incredibly convenient. p.s.: I googled, there is an extension that does the same for Ch
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by kome 3y ago
discord suck so bad and I also have no idea why all the kids love it, i guess it's network effect. I really spent time on it. It's terrible software. Pure bloat.
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by kome 3y ago
dude... is that satire?
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by kome 3y ago
hmm, what?
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by kome 3y ago
"Fitzgerald said that Espionage was the “quintessential” political offence, acknowledged as such in every text book and precedent. The court did have jurisdiction over this point because ignoring the provisions of the treaty rendered t
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by kome 3y ago
i've been using Telegram on and off since 2015 or so, and i've never shared my contacts. never! re-installing Telegram has never changed that setting. The real problem with cellphones is that a lot of privacy-threatening issues ar
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'Beginning of the End' as Assange Case Returns to Court(nytimes.com)
6 points by kome 3y ago|3 comments
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by kome 3y ago
but still https://www.ikea.nl and https://www.apple.nl
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by kome 3y ago
yes, lol, he was missing the absolute elephant in the room. if your business operate in france or germany you better have and use the .fr or .de domain, or at least the .eu one. big brands do it (such amazon, google, apple) so do you.
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by kome 3y ago
spot on. plus using a lot of js because they don't know html and css (or just very superficially). :-)
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by kome 3y ago
i'm not a psychologist, but that's something i noticed as well before interacting with people. some clever sarcasm can spice up a conversation, but sarcasm in heavy doses is clearly a signal of distress, or mismanagement of anger
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Assange: UN expert urges London not to extradite WikiLeaks founder to US(brusselstimes.com)
6 points by kome 3y ago|1 comments
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by kome 3y ago
bad trend and practice. also, ugly.
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by kome 3y ago
Mozilla has definitely a management problem. But the product is good. very good even.
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by kome 3y ago
> I would love to use this as my daily driver, but a lot of popular sites don't even work with Firefox. you mean minor aesthetics differences or functionality? I just use firefox, I don't even have chrome, and everything wor
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by kome 3y ago
ban because it wasn't clear how they use personal data according to gdpr... it was a rather technical ban
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by kome 3y ago
https://www.flatpress.org/ just php. nothing else is needed. flatfile database. you can personalize it easily. it exists since 2006 and it still maintained. boring, it just works.
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by kome 3y ago
but when they have to change them (i.e. moving to a new country), or they got stolen, it's pure pain. it's not a good system.
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by kome 3y ago
why email is not the standard? i'm forced to have a cellphone if i want to use the bank, basically
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by kome 3y ago
when i read > Please don’t try to print it. my first reaction has been: you are not my mom. >:-)
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by kome 3y ago
> Driving as a profession does not require skill. how can say this with a straight face?
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by kome 3y ago
Eh, it doesn't work like this unfortunately; pay is never a mirror of the dangerousness, the utility, or the dirtiness of the job. I would say that usually it's the contrary: the more essential a job is, the less it is paid.
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PowerPoint Karaoke(amanvir.com)
3 points by kome 3y ago|0 comments
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by kome 3y ago
...yeah, but also capital controls make sense. you don't want foreign currency to inflate your economy, as you don't want too much of your currency going abroad. it's not like capital controls are made for fun. Ofc they are n
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by kome 3y ago
That's entirely possible. eBay is a very mature product, and it has been like this for years. Among the e-commerce platforms, it's still one that empowers the little people and serves a goal. I hope they won't "disrupt&q
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Eras of global inequality, 1820–2020 with the focus on the past 30 years(sciencedirect.com)
2 points by kome 3y ago|0 comments

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