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> for those students who come to Yale, we expect them to be versed in issues of social justice. We encourage them to be vocal when they see an opportunity for change in our institution and in the world. Would you want anything less in an
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I mean, petrol is almost all carbon (an element), but you don't get to capture it from the exhaust and reuse the damned thing. Let me reword that for you... how practical/sustainable is it to recycle lithium car batteries? Will th
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> typical electric-car battery requires 130 pounds Are these batteries recyclable in perpetuity or does lithium degrade?
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There's a Seinfeld episode about the latter.
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Yes, it's an anglicism (english loanword). For example, a mail ship would be called meli sitima (mail steamer). The postal service is also called meli . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Mail_Ship
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You can't force me to host your content if I don't like your content. I don't care what rights you think you have. It's my server and I decide what goes on it.
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A few years ago I tweeted them to say that they had a word definition wrong. They changed it!
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Meli is the Fijian word for mail. Source: self, Fijian.
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Yes, they all want it back.
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> emerging markets Is that all we are to you?
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> That likelihood is relatively low (though not as low as JS CDNs). Modern browsers explicitly forbid sharing cache entries across websites; so the likelihood is zero now. Even a decade ago when this was common practice, it was absolutel
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It's a nation of over a billion people. The "they" you speak of doesn't speak for everyone.
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I believe the argument was that it was gifted under duress.
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Relevant: https://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/koh...
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> I used Fireworks for years for web design stuff I still use it as my primary web/ui design tool and in fact am stuck on MacOS Mojave because I'd have to say goodbye to it forever if I upgraded.
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Putting an infant alone in a room of their own seems to be an exclusively western practice and is completely foreign to me. 3500 American babies due suddenly and unexpectedly from SIDS every year. I wonder if there is any research into wher
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Reminds me of this thread by the Ukrainian govt: https://twitter.com/NAZK_gov/status/1501960273313345536
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> 3rd world tier corruption and fraud. USA corporations trying their hand at vertical integration. Normally they stick to 1st world tier corruption (directly buying off politicians) which is a scale far greater than anything the third wo
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> Isn’t this one of the reasons why Elon Musk was interested in acquiring Twitter in the first place? No, that's one of his "stated" reasons. His actual reason is unknown.
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I wonder what's up with that dark spot in Western Australia.
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This being the internet, the answer is going to be something useless like Gamestop.
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People who spread hatred and intentionally cause real-world harm to others shouldn't be supported and enabled by private companies I deal with. If they continue to do so, they'll lose me as a customer.
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Unfortunately not.
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What the indigenous population identify as is irrelevant; in the present day we call that continent Australia.
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Ahh, yes, because Australia began with the whitefella.
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What a great privilege it is to be able to move from country to country whenever one feels like it. I am jealous.
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This is disgusting because someone more deserving died when he took the liver that was going to them. Which other every-day mechanisms results in the death of one of two parties?
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> Jobs couldn't pay for an organ. Nor could he pay to cut the queue. But what someone with Jobs' resources could do, according to liver transplant surgeons and ethicists, is to use money and mobility to improve the odds either
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Slander? It's factual that he used his money to get to the front of the line for an organ donation. It's possible someone in Tennessee died because a foreigner took the liver he deserved. > Jobs couldn't pay for an organ.
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Towing the converter outside the environment is something I can get behind.

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