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by namdnay 4y ago
Saying lotteries are regressive or “a tax on stupidity” is hardly new or weird, the quote was originally attributed to Voltaire
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by namdnay 4y ago
Just like passenger name records - 6 characters for legacy reasons, so they’re constantly recycled
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by namdnay 4y ago
Maybe it’s different in each country? I’ve used Amazon in the UK and several European countries, and you can get tons of major brands sold by Amazon (Apple, Dell, Samsung, Gardena, Bosch etc)
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by namdnay 4y ago
It that were the case, Amazon would be setting the prices, not the contractors
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by namdnay 4y ago
That article was a bit of a bait-and-switch: instead of explaining why the Chinese resellers all use similar patterns, the author just spent 30 twitter posts complaining about being undercut by cheap Chinese crap
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by namdnay 4y ago
I don’t think it’s drop-shipping, you see these brands even for stuff delivered in 2-3 days
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by namdnay 4y ago
I think that’s the point of the poster above? That the ready availability of guns around Chicago is a factor in the gun violence within the city
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by namdnay 4y ago
The libertarian in me thinks that it’s unfair for a child to be crippled for life because of the imbecilic views of their parents. That’s where the “to each their own” philosophy breaks down for me - it assumes that children “belong” to the
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by namdnay 4y ago
You know the French prime minister is an engineer right? As well as the minister for industry and another couple. And the top of the French civil service is jam packed with engineers “The dictatorship of the technocratic elites” is a commo
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by namdnay 4y ago
I would have gone for criminal or mafia state rather than terrorist, but I guess you could argue that openly poisoning political dissidents is designed to elicit terror
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by namdnay 4y ago
> In France, you retire with a small flat at 70 while working at a FAANG? hardly. sure, you'll be paid 150kE instead of 300k$, but it's still more than enough to be in the top 5% of the country
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by namdnay 4y ago
If that were the case, people in France would be obsessed with wanting to work :) The improvements you list are all good things, but they’ve got zilch to do with wanting to work
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by namdnay 4y ago
> If something should be a legal right, enshrine it specifically in law I mean couldn't you turn that around? Normally things are legal by default, not illegal. Wouldn't the onus be on the law to explicitly make abortion illega
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by namdnay 4y ago
I guess this is limited to the US? Ball pits are going strong here in Europe, they're a staple of every indoor playpark. There's a special machine for cleaning them, it looks a bit like the robot from teletubbies
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by namdnay 4y ago
I think that’s more due to the relative attractiveness of the cities. London, NYC, Paris etc have become extremely expensive because they’re world cities, attracting huge amounts of people and jobs. That’s not really the case for Vienna, or
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by namdnay 4y ago
So he was doing shady stuff, they caught him, and he lost the shady cash? Isn’t that kind of the point? Is it that hard to prove where 80k of cash came from? Either you were paid in cash for a job, and you’ll have paperwork for that. Or you
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by namdnay 4y ago
The thing is, specific performance would probably be really bad for Twitter too. Who wants to be bought by someone who didn’t want to? The best resolution would probably be for Twitter and Musk to settle for something more than the 1B break
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by namdnay 4y ago
Or vs how many people die every day due to German coal plants :(
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by namdnay 4y ago
Maybe they weren’t as common back in 2019?
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by namdnay 4y ago
Is that the Sun or the heat?
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by namdnay 4y ago
I guess the european equivalent would be LIDL
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by namdnay 4y ago
I was surprised by the "most well-known song" accolade, I always considered Wuthering Heights to be far more famous
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by namdnay 4y ago
The sticking point is that he put an offer in when the company was worth twice what it is today, so now he’ll try anything to wriggle out of his commitment
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by namdnay 4y ago
There are two categories of healthcare right? Palliative and preventative. Which one would an echo be in this case? If he had violent symptoms it would clearly be palliative, but in this case it can only be preventative
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by namdnay 4y ago
I still remember having to ask if the pub had a "family room" if we wanted to have a ploughman's after a hike
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by namdnay 4y ago
SAFe?
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by namdnay 4y ago
I think the main mistake as concerns EVS (and many other environmental questions) is the belief that tomorrow will have exactly the same comforts as yesterday. If having to wait 45mn every 400km is the biggest price you’re paying for the ca
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by namdnay 4y ago
> What is the Supreme Court's mandate? To stop climate change? Stopping climate change should be everyone’s mandate. When your house is on fire and a neighbor has a hose pipe, so you get into an argument with them because they’re no
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by namdnay 4y ago
the trope is called "Seinfeld is unfunny" : https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunn...
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by namdnay 4y ago
yeah, obviously nutrition is far from being the only factor for their longevity and health in old age, but if you take the japanese diet, rice is a pretty major component in their calorie input...

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