masayoshis_son

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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
It's difficult to imagine Huawei allowing themselves to be forced out of the lucrative international market for mobile devices, especially as they are bound to remain a strong player within China, where Google is irrelevant. Instead, t
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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
Good point. I somehow assumed EC citizens would be exempt from such laws but that doesn't necessarily seem to be the case even now [1], and must have been very different before the 1992 Maastricht treaty indeed. 1. https://e
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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
It puzzles me why he never became a citizen. He moved to the UK in 1966, that's 54 years now, and it was even before they joined the EEC sometime in the 1970s.
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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
Death rates will be lower than in Hubei if not a lot of people become infected at the same time elsewhere but is this really a safe assumption to make, given what we already know about the disease's high infectivity? Since deaths are t
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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
The Big Mac Index is catchy but not particularly informative. I've found this crowdsourced comparison to provide much more insight: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/
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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
Iosevka is actually a number of different fonts in one, depending on the variant chosen: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/be5invis/Iosevka/master/im...
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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
The conclusions are of little informational value as the same is going to apply to practically any pathogen-borne disease (unless a vast group of the elderly had the chance to acquire prior immunity, as is the case with some strains of flu
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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
That's what I've been thinking as well. Creating "shell companies" (aka "Special Purpose Entities/Vehicles") is not illegal per se. Perhaps he violated the terms and conditions of his contract with ARIN an
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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
The writing is quite confusing in trying to explain things but the gist of it appears to be that the person in question (1) applied for IP addresses through numerous companies created just for this purpose in order to bypass ARIN's res
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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
>> You could just watch French TV [...] > It’s still much tougher to come by that one might think. You could try Arte: https://www.arte.tv/ It's a joint French-German project based on public TV programming fro
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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
I only search YouTube with Google video search as YouTube's built-in search always seems to be delivering much less relevant results for me. Google Search seems to ignore the user's preferred language choice from the HTTP Accept-L
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by masayoshis_son 7y ago
It's not a paywall, just poor design: if you're outside the US, you might get redirected to a local version of that website, where the page doesn't exist. The workaround is apparently to add ?IR=C to the URL.