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maeil
4y ago
Like you're saying, there's tools for that. Google autocompletes "은행 설치" (bank installation) to "은행 설치 프로그램 삭제" (bank installed programs removal) and the very first link immediately is the homepage of the tool
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4y ago
> The real number of users is likely considerably higher, the software being installed on pretty much any computer in South Korea. This is a bit of an exaggeration. Plenty of young people hate this stuff enough that they do all of their
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maeil
4y ago
Is this purely a Lisbon thing, or has it exploded over the last 6 months? I visited Porto last spring and there weren't any crowds nor many foreigners, it was pretty quiet.
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4y ago
> This is the elephant in the room that most consumer goods companies don’t want to talk about If it was just companies not wanting to talk about this, things would be fine. Problem is that neither policymakers, nor common citizens want
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4y ago
>engineered pandemics escaping labs (not COVID; I mean an actual engineered pandemic sometime in the future) This kind of adlib really works against getting people to care. Given the immediate (and intentional) destruction of all evidenc
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maeil
4y ago
Youre probably already aware but unless you live in a very unique locality with an extremely expensive recycling system, very little of the plastic you put in the system actually gets recycled. Current consumption and wealth levels are not
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4y ago
Here in Korea quick building of mass housing is incredibly common yet there's not a single food desert or ghetto to be found. "Quick" and "cheap" are relative terms but here apartment blocks of 1k+ residencies are b
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4y ago
This does not match my personal experience; having lived in countries on both sides of the equation, with those in the more non-native country (South Korea) having a much less tolerant for non-American/British accents (e.g. Chinese, In
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4y ago
Just had a look, looks like you need to first get a physical Wise card in order to get a virtual one (not the case for Revolut), and it's only available in a rather limited number of countries. https://wise.com/help
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4y ago
I'd love to move away from Revolut but neither of those options seem to offer a virtual credit card which is my main use case. Online purchases in US, EUR, GBP etc without having to worry about exchange fees or supported payment method
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4y ago
South Korea might be the country to watch. In Korea too, for many decades people have been sold on the dream that homes will always be a fantastic, high-return investment. But the lowest birthrate in the world means the population already s
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4y ago
Agreed on the calls for letting the player hide album art and start in the middle of the track. Also had a bug where a Spanish song was classified as Latin.
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4y ago
> Not only is our understanding of physical health far less "advanced" than advertised, but the system is far too complex for any one doctor to comprehend. Medicine is far from the only field in which this is the case. This las
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4y ago
> I've been lucky in that two of my doctors treated my rare conditions as mysteries, puzzles to be solved. Not much like House MD, which requires an explicit explanation. But more like "Hmmm. That didn't work. Let's t
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4y ago
I'm sure someone will chime in with direct experience wrt Oracle, but most cases where it looks like many companies are overpaying by >5 times for a certain service or product compared to the value it delivers are similar. Such deci
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4y ago
I do think it's a significant price to pay. While a lot of teens are indeed like this, plenty aren't, and I'd (admittedly without evidence) guess that there's actually a negative correlation between wanting to be part of
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4y ago
Maybe I'm naive but I don't see how that's impossible. Does there not exist an integer number below 7 billion which represents the number of people required to manually validate each of the claims? Or is this number so high t
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4y ago
Both. The former directly through taxes on the cars themselves and the latter indirectly through fuel taxes, which while imperfect works well as a proxy.
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maeil
4y ago
> The end goal of any business and corporation is to make money, and the objective of every manager is to provide value for their stakeholder. This is being stated as if it's some kind of universal law of physics, when it's as
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4y ago
It doesn't simply "have a long history of political failure"; it has a history of political failure in certain areas of the United States. In much of the rest of the developed world, e.g. nearly all of Western-Europe, it has
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4y ago
Such a scoring mechanism sounds useful at first but on websites like Reddit it would likely cause puns, cultural references and such to be even more dominant than they already are, as those are most likely to be similarly appreciated by &qu
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4y ago
Remeda ( https://remedajs.com/ ) has this, I've been using it for a long time. What's the advantage of your library over such competitors?
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4y ago
Thousands of years of history disagrees with this kind of reductionism.
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4y ago
> No one is changing anything about their lives and that should be more than obvious to anyone paying attention. Some people are changing things about their lives. It might be 1% of the population, but that 1% should be put on a pedest
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I'm often saddened to see how even on this kind of community where the level of discussion is relatively high given the openness of the platform, this kind of cross-country comparison is almost completely forgotten when it debunks so m
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4y ago
I live in the 3rd biggest food delivery market in absolute terms, with the per capita size being bigger than the top 2. Here UberEats is not a thing and one local player has the majority market share. > the most expensive option is forci
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4y ago
Derailing a little here but I have to say I'm not a fan of implying this kind of 1:1 link between having an interest or participating in effective altruism and the AI ethics scene. The Venn diagram is not a circle, and the overlapping
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5y ago
I was about to get a subscription when I spotted this > Choose a deadline as short as 3 days or as long as a month! Why the 3 days? Is it to lessen the burden on the support staff who do the daily check ups? If I'm eager to subscrib
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5y ago
Disappointing that there's not a word written about which group found their diet easier to stick to. The same calorie intake leading to the same results is a completely unsurprising outcome. What's much more relevant is what makes
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5y ago
It has become very bad; searching for something like an error message, the first result is SO and results 2-9 will be SO scrapers. Unlike say, Pinterest, I don't see anything Google could gain from "condoning" these scraper s
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