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by mrpopo 9y ago
In the short term, maybe. But the OS update processes are incremental. If the user wants to upgrade their OS version for some reason (new feature, etc), they will get the performance hit bundled together.
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by mrpopo 9y ago
- I am not american. I used international transfers with french, british, japanese and korean banks, and there always was either a fee of 30~50$, or an awful sub-market exchange rate. - TransferWise is not universal and does not work for ma
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by mrpopo 9y ago
TBF the current state of Bitcoin is on par with what banks have always been offering for international transfers. So, it still has the use case of sending unrestricted amounts of money to a peer abroad. However, I agree on the general senti
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by mrpopo 9y ago
> But equally europe needs more appreciation of self-reliance and entrepreneurship to enable a richer startup culture and let the EU become an economic leader instead of follower. Does it? Is the purpose of a nation state to compete with
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by mrpopo 9y ago
Not to diminish the threat, but I think the impact of climate change on human civilization is often overrated. Countries most affected will include India, Bangladesh, Indonesia... none of them in the modern global powers. What I expect 50-1
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by mrpopo 9y ago
The article seems to say both these things: - net neutrality is a regulation on ISPs that is bad for business - ISPs will not take advantage of repealing net neutrality How exactly is repealing it going to help them if they won't chang
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by mrpopo 9y ago
> But it costs more for most of the things. Which is exactly why it is subsidized. The goal is not to save companies money, but to save natural resources. Now, I agree it is debatable whether recycling achieves those goals, but a free-ma
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by mrpopo 9y ago
The core message of that video seems to be some libertarian wet dream, that it costs more money to recycle X than to build X from scratch, and that instead of government subsidies, we should just throw it all away in a landfill, until natur
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by mrpopo 9y ago
The U.S. had a net positive influence on their historical allied countries and an overall negative influence on their geopolitical opponents. I will not dwelve into which one is the majority of the world, that is not the point.
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by mrpopo 9y ago
> That is how our system of government works, and there is nothing wrong with that. For most of the world population, wealthy people buying off politicians to serve their interests is seen as unethical, and it is flat illegal in many co
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by mrpopo 9y ago
You talk as if I am forgetting the positive contributions of U.S. interventions, but I clearly specified that sometimes the U.S. contributed to democracy, sometimes not. My point was the U.S. did not do this out of pure goodwill, but to pre
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by mrpopo 9y ago
First of all, please don't call the U.S. the "guarantor of international order". It sounds as if the U.S. were a benefactor to the world. It is not, it has been all political alliances and power-play. Sometimes the U.S. backe
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by mrpopo 9y ago
> You have probably heard about the hunt for dark matter, a mysterious substance thought to permeate the universe, the effects of which we can see through its gravitational pull. But our models of the universe also say there should be ab
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by mrpopo 9y ago
If people don't care about you enough to check your timeline if they think you are endangered, is there a point to letting them know you're safe? As OP, I lived through a major natural disaster, and I posted that I was safe on my
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by mrpopo 9y ago
That paragraph was when I closed the tab. Nothing to learn from them.
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by mrpopo 10y ago
My point was to prove the fact that China does have real plans to cut on emissions. Your answer is that their policies are economically viable and future-proof. I don't understand what is your point.
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by mrpopo 10y ago
True, thanks for the correction. The point that I wanted to make was that all the efforts underway around the world at their current magnitude are not gonna make a dent in the greenhouse gases generation curve.
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by mrpopo 10y ago
True, it's unfortunately a bug/feature of democracy to turn any and all scientific truth into a discussion.
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by mrpopo 10y ago
China is the world's biggest investor in solar technology and hopes to grow its solar power to 20GW by 2020. [1] China forced all taxi drivers in Beijing to use electric cars, a desperate and very controversial move. [2] China is highl
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by mrpopo 10y ago
> I am really not impressed by any sides efforts to combat global warming. The reality today is that no efforts are made whatsoever by any political movement on the planet to combat global warming, in the entire planet (except perhaps th
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by mrpopo 10y ago
From the very article you are sharing : Chaffetz "conceded he didn’t make his remarks “as smoothly” as he could." The argument is always the same, the idiotic part is when you need to convince an entire nation to sign up for your
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by mrpopo 10y ago
For context, he got a little boost recently from his "strawberry cake" illusion tweet : https://twitter.com/AkiyoshiKitaoka/status/83674359846907084...
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by mrpopo 10y ago
Sounds like you are only thinking of the cellular phone handset itself. A single cell network tower costs in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Not sure about the cost of landline installations.
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by mrpopo 10y ago
I think that only people living abroad for a long time will have a logical intent on renouncing US citizenship...
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by mrpopo 10y ago
I pulled up the image from the website; its metadata showed that it was downloaded from the wikimedia commons. I then ran a hex diff with https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Fr.
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by mrpopo 10y ago
The original text states ２０１７年度.
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by mrpopo 10y ago
That's definitely not obvious. I would agree that mutations due to smoking could be in majority harmful due to the chemical components and the high temperatures involved. Other than that, a mutation is a mutation, whether due to smoke,
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by mrpopo 10y ago
Seconding that, Firefox 49 on Windows7.
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by mrpopo 10y ago
> You are so ideologically committed to hijabery I am not, I strongly wish that Iran will become a more moderate country in the future. But such a boycott will only further seclude the country, whereas an international championship for w
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by mrpopo 10y ago
This is an awful position, and I absolutely urge people to read the linked article, that was wrongly/partially cited: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/30/boycott-of-wom... EDIT: it seems m

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