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by kweks 7y ago
Jackie Chan has a very pro-China stance. In his autobiography, he mentions that he is proud to be Chinese, and makes several associations to Chinese culture, seemingly over Hong Kong. I found it to be a curious position, seeing as he is ado
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Surely the uncertainty is scary for both sides! Frightening if you contributed less financially but risk to lose your house, etc. Frightening if you contributed more financially and risk to lose your house, etc.
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Thank you.. you're correct, but there are some nuances. The defacto status is a qualitative status. My statement of 6 months is incorrect: it is two years of cohabitation, unless there is a child, or other circumstances. In regards to
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In many Common Law countries, you are automatically considered to be in a de facto relationship after a period of cohabitation (6 months in Australia, for example) Obviously designed to protect the rights of people in this situation long te
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Because aside from insidious advertisements, it's the only compensation mechanism that provides revenue to publishers without demanding a behavioral change from users. Obviously, there need to be intelligent structures in place - and t
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by kweks 7y ago
I think there is middle ground: * Browser imposed intelligent CPU limits * User Preference: Don't want mining? You'll see ads instead. The reality of humanity is that people operate via incentive. The internet is no different -
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I'm browser crypto mining. There's a direct link between the time a user is engaged, and the amount of money a publisher earns. The relationship is direct between reader and publisher; making quality content becomes important agai
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I still firmly believe that in-browser crypto mining could solve internet advertising problems fairly for both parties. 1. As a user, you set your preference: no mining - ads will show instead. No ads, there will be some mining. 2. The long
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by kweks 7y ago
I think I (poorly) coded anti-hotlinking when I wrote my site. Here are all the images in an imgur gallery: https://imgur.com/a/aNdXGwu
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There are some incredible (in the literal sense of the word) geographic features in this part of the country. I took my motorbike through this region a few years ago (riding Turkey / Iraq / Iran). Copy paste mountains. Scarlet sa
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70 years ago
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Check out the last sentence. In the context of Persian culture, Islam was forcefully introduced in the 650's. Iranian culture dates to 4500BC. From my experience (been through Iran 5 times..) - Islam seems to play a very minor / n
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by kweks 7y ago
Hezbollah was created to expel the Israeli invasion in south Lebanon. [1] One thing is for sure: Middle East politics and history has no single (or correct) perspective. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israeli%E2%80%
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Most of the comments below you are correct in the scope of the last 10 years, but in the context of the last 50 are absurd. For those curious about how and where the whole "Iran thing" started: A freely elected Iranian president d
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But the nave doesn't have a sacristy, and the sacristy doesn't have a nave. Sacristy seems to give the location of where in the nave, which considering that the cathedral is cardinally aligned, is a rather poor choice. "Attic
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by kweks 7y ago
It's a very, very vague error, and totally understandable that the new guard sent his colleague to the wrong place. We'd expect a phrase to provide more granularity: (or YYYY-MM-DD), and as such, you'd read it exactly as: fir
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by kweks 7y ago
Most major monuments in France have resident firemen, for this reason.
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Absolutely. The fire panels were banks of LEDs stuck on a wall in the guardian's house. As you say, presumably over the years the system was added to, and they hit a point where changing the entire system would have cost "too muc
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Small aside, there are / were no security cameras anywhere in the cathedral.
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I have a friend that has just left France to drive to Mongolia in a Renault 4L (Lovingly pronounce "Catrelle" in French) - loosely a "sister car" to the 2CV. We spent a few weeks driving around the French and Spanish Pyr
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by kweks 7y ago
We had huge success with metro advertisements (in the actual trains, on one line), and no success with radio, despite having massive coverage. Mileage definitely varies with your product.
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Yup, bags of live frogs are not what you'd typically expect in a Walmart !
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Don't kid yourself. Post cartel scandal, opening an HSBC account transcended difficult to impossible in certain jurisdictions.
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Depends on the bank. I had HSBC in France repeatedly deny that they could not and would not perform a charge back forna specific online transaction without a police report. I ended calling VISA, who conference called my bank branch, explain
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by kweks 7y ago
Sure ! https://parklink.asia/ https://rebadge.eu/ We've got a custom PCB which controls the touchscreen and prehipherals (LF and HF RFID readers), placed in a custom, tough ABS case (locksmiths are ful
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We have over 2000 deployed over Europe in locksmiths, providing a form of key service to the public. Challenges include not DDoSIng our APIs, getting a correct configuration to not nuke SD cards, and ensure that a bad firmware push doesn&#x
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Sounds like you could appreciate https://www.3claveles.com/3claveles_tienda/es/1003-tijeras 3 Claveles - Spanish scissor company. Very simple, very elegant, very sharp. We use them industrially for horrible things
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Hi Eeke. A few years back, we lost a merchant account with stripe due to an unfortunate combination: no chargeback insurance enabled, high average transaction value (~600EU) and low monthly volume (we were starting up). Got one charge back
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Refunding a charge back is / can be a bad idea - you can refund, still lose the charge back, and pay for the chargeback. For a $100USD transaction you risk losing 230USD as opposed to 130USD if you refund. It's even written on th
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Sure. It's a fun passage of you're going in via the south. Typically I'd prefer the north and the private entrances.. less tourists, less mud, less graffiti.

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