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871.
by odiroot 6y ago
No, a suburb of the capital of my country, with more or less 3M population.
872.
by odiroot 6y ago
Well, there's no schools in the suburbs (at least no middle/high) so it's not like I had a choice.
873.
by odiroot 6y ago
How about Broadcom (assuming they'd be big enough)?
874.
by odiroot 6y ago
I have good noise-cancelling headphones. They do very little for human voice and children shrieks. My in-ear stage Shures with passive isolation work much better but spending whole day in headphones is neither pleasant nor healthy.
875.
by odiroot 6y ago
> 4. For a huge swath of Americans at least, work is an escape from the drudgery of the home. This is big. If I had a fancy apartment in a good quality building, I wouldn't mind. But the place I currently reside in, is really frustr
876.
by odiroot 6y ago
I was, sadly, uprooted as a teenager from a dense city to a suburb. I cannot imagine worse situation for kids to grow up. Everything you wanted to do, it took driving by your parents to get you there. Or relying on spotty public transit. I
877.
by odiroot 6y ago
Wait, but can't Biden pardon Assange now?
878.
by odiroot 6y ago
Yes, we don't take calling anyone "Nazi" lightly. Well, at least level-headed people don't. It's disrespectful to the people who were imprisoned, tortured and exterminated by the real Nazis.
879.
by odiroot 6y ago
I think you could apply the same in Poland. Maybe not "mental illness" but being a bit "off", maybe drunk or drugged. We also associate smiling too much with snake oil salespeople.
880.
by odiroot 6y ago
I always thought Macbook touchpad is too damn big and awkward to use. But here, it seems, people are in love with it.
881.
by odiroot 6y ago
But is it securities fraud?
882.
by odiroot 6y ago
Also assassinating a person in the middle of Berlin -- coincidentally a walking distance from my apartment.
883.
by odiroot 6y ago
Not an American, living in EU. It somehow reminds me of Weimar Germany, with two very fringe (sometimes militant) opposing groups radicalising the rest of the society -- or the rest just ignoring the whole mess and going about their lives.
884.
by odiroot 6y ago
> Meanwhile in Europe, there is no reason to have a credit card instead of debit. Much easier to get your money back, e.g. in common 2020 situation of cancelled flights.
885.
by odiroot 6y ago
It's the Oracle school of public relations via litigation.
886.
by odiroot 6y ago
They do move money but, because it's so easy and relatively cheap to open them, they can split the flows into tens of hundreds of them. So you have fractions of a million moving at once, not a big lump sum.
887.
by odiroot 6y ago
No, usually the shell companies have zero or minimal number of employees.
888.
by odiroot 6y ago
Isn't this the same as Octopus in HK or FlashPay in Singapore?
889.
by odiroot 6y ago
> * 2021 will be the year of punk and rock n' roll Count me in! That would definitely make this year happy for me.
890.
by odiroot 6y ago
That's actually one of it biggest advantages over the competition. I wish more languages cared about readability.
891.
by odiroot 6y ago
> I wonder whether civilizations with seemingly more continuous histories like China feel more connection to the rest of their history. Well, they're still able to read their ancient texts and probably understand them well. Now, eve
892.
by odiroot 6y ago
One of my doctors in Berlin, Germany uses Telegram (web) in their practice to communicate between the front desk and the private office rooms. I always wondered how legal it is.
893.
by odiroot 6y ago
> small fee A generous 7%. I would like a small cut of this small fee.
894.
by odiroot 6y ago
Robber barons would be proud. What's old is new again.
895.
by odiroot 6y ago
Monoculture is not necessary. Case(s) in point: Malaysia and Singapore. Collectivist definitely help.
896.
by odiroot 6y ago
It's indeed. They nearly solved the problem of tragedy of the commons.
897.
by odiroot 6y ago
You missed North Korea.
898.
by odiroot 6y ago
Heh. And this is actually an improvement. The previous/legacy MWS API was actually way worse. Though the documentation may have been a bit more coherent.
899.
by odiroot 6y ago
I usually wear Uniqlo heattech sweater and when it gets very cold, Uniqlo heattech undershirts. I don't like puffy winter jackets so I wear a long wool coat instead.
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by odiroot 6y ago
Winters in Berlin are particularly annoying because they're very humid. The cold seems to be penetrating deep into your bones.

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