mamon

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by mamon 7y ago
Is it possible that this is somehow forbidden by EU law, that's why me, being EU citizen, never encountered it?
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by mamon 7y ago
>> that little "want a better browser" pop-up displayed on Google's search engine? I actually do not know what you're talking about. Been using Firefox for the last few years and haven't seen this pop-up once
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by mamon 7y ago
On a silk cushion, carried around by your servant?
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by mamon 7y ago
>> Some of the citizens overthrowing the government would be in the military, though, no? Very unlikely. Biggest part of military training is brainwashing you to always following orders. People that resist brainswashing are quickly di
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by mamon 7y ago
Which is easy to do in Europe, because you have a bakery on every corner, so it takes a 5 minutes walk to get fresh bread. In the US the nearest place selling bread might be 10 minutes car ride from home.
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by mamon 7y ago
Because people do not like to be treated like cattle? Parents want to have some control over how to raise their children, even if sometimes it leads to adverse effects.
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by mamon 7y ago
>> they will get undercut on pricing by race for the bottom competitors If Uber unilaterally increased minimum salary, then those competitors would have to do the same, otherwise they would lose all their drivers to Uber. So, if Uber
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by mamon 7y ago
Just think of such meeting as a paid break: check your phone for emails, catch up with Facebook friends, order some things from Amazon, or just let your mind wander. This way no meeting would be "a waste of time" :) Personally, I&
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by mamon 7y ago
From what I learned in history classes in high school, Stalin ignored news about possible German invasion, because Red Army had already been gathering troops at the border, planning to invade Germany. Hitler forestalled him by just a few we
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by mamon 7y ago
Call me paranoid, but I prefer not to have a gas line in my apartment, because it eliminates the risk of the whole place being blown up when a gas leak happens.
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by mamon 7y ago
Seriously, Russia? Norway is much closer, and has cheaper gas. Is there some animosity between your countries that I don't know about?
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by mamon 7y ago
We do not do electric heating because that would be riddiculously expensive. Most single-family homes still use coal, some newer ones use natural gas.
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by mamon 7y ago
We need a new version of Goodwin's law for economy-themed discussions: as discussion goes longer, someone will eventually say 'bitcon fixes this' :)
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by mamon 7y ago
No democracy for enemies of democracy! /s
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by mamon 7y ago
Funny thing, given all the emphasis on doing things via terminal in Linux community, is that I cannot find a decent Linux application to manage SSH conections. My work laptop is a Windows 10 machine, where I installed pro version of MobaXTe
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by mamon 7y ago
Seniors or not, the most important thing to me is this: cash is issued by the government, and can be used without incurring any additional cost. Credit cards require you to sign contract with a bank, which is a private company, that makes m
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by mamon 7y ago
Makes sense: lobsters are essentially insects, and eating insects, such as cockroaches is disgusting for most people. I still refuse to eat lobsters and shrimps for this exact reason: I'm not eating any insects, ever.
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by mamon 7y ago
So you install Minikube on each developer's machines? I thought that Minikube was created solely for running tutorials/excercises for people learning Kubernetes. If you are developing microservices I think you're much better
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by mamon 7y ago
Which is also why trying to question, say, Trump win based on popular vote is stupid: yes, he got 46% of votes vs 48% for Clinton, but if there was no Electoral College and every vote counted people would probably have voted differently. Ho
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by mamon 7y ago
It helps to think about exchange rate in reverse direction: Previously 1 yuan ~= 0.166 USD, now 1 yuan ~= 0.142 USD, so its value clearly fell.
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by mamon 7y ago
And Eurozone countries chose the first two, giving up independent monetary policy :)
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by mamon 7y ago
>> - the Uber founders (Travis K and Garrett C) were software programmers, not taxicab owners. And if a software programmer opens ice cream cart on a beach, would you call that "tech startup"? >> the product they work
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by mamon 7y ago
SUPPORTS ECC RAM, but does not require it. You can use plain old RAM chips with it.
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by mamon 7y ago
Tangentialy related: allegedly, North Korea is behind attacks on Bitcoin exchanges, trying to fund its nuclear weapons: https://www.newsbtc.com/2018/10/26/report-north-korean-elite...
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by mamon 7y ago
Some companies that offer remote work already have more advanced solution: take screenshot every 10 minutes, then feed it to AI to check whether the user is working or slacking :)
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by mamon 7y ago
>> How can someone be polite and not sincere? "Does this dress make me look fat?" "No, of course not, my dear"
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by mamon 7y ago
Before the war US had to buy that oil at market price and all profits belonged to local companies (or to Russian ones, which also operated there). Since war American companies (Exxon Mobil) were granted licenses to extract oil from Iraq oil
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by mamon 7y ago
>> Yes you can argue that the Iraq War was done for oil, it's just not a strong argument. If it wasn't for oil, then for what? Those chemical weapons that were never found? All wars that US starts (and 80 percent of all wars
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by mamon 7y ago
The most interesting theory I read recently is that biblical flood referes to an event that happened 5600 BC, when melting ice from the last little ice age caused water from Medditerrain Sea to flood through Bosfor, significantly increasing
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by mamon 7y ago
Aren't "PC enthusiasts" the whole customer base for those CPUs? Majority of people that need a computer buy laptops, and gamers buy consoles.

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