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by pergadad 7y ago
Even more the other case: 9.1mio/45 people/3 months makes 2250 messages per day per subject So kind of impossible for a mere human? Or were they targeting 45 but actually collecting for vastly larger numbers (eg entire cell tower
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by pergadad 7y ago
The author makes.many excellent points but one very big mistake: the assumption of evil intentions on the part of China (and Nazi Germany for that matter). They are not so much concerned with pushing the US into a dependency, but rather mic
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by pergadad 7y ago
Decline doesn't have to be rapid.
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by pergadad 7y ago
Be happy that others are happy. That's the key to empathy and sharing the pleasure. You don't have to understand why they are happy, and you don't have to agree with the cause. But you can still find joy in the fact that oth
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by pergadad 7y ago
I find it hard to impossible to avoid palmoil in food. I eat vegetarian/vegan, which makes it even more difficult. To just mention the most frustrating/difficult to avoid one: to find margarine that doesn't use palmoil seems
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by pergadad 7y ago
Not only Nutella, the company Ferrero Overall uses this amount of hazelnuts, but it's also other products. Nutella is just the flagship product.
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by pergadad 7y ago
Plenty of small companies/private website owners might make a simple cost/benefit calculation - 15% less users but in return X reduced false accounts/traffic/...
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by pergadad 7y ago
I have the same experience, some pages don't work on FF but fine on Chrome. I like to apply Occam's Razor, but with so many users it seems to me as if that's either by design, or certainly there is little desire to fix the is
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by pergadad 7y ago
My main memory of Chennai (formerly called Madras) was the awfully dirty waterways in the city. I think it used to be a river but was when I visited in the 2000s basically a gigantic trashdump, smelly and rotting and probably spreading all
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by pergadad 7y ago
More clear to write " go to brazil.amazon" than "please Google 'Brazil Amazon official tourism board"
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by pergadad 7y ago
Well ecigs are too new to have long-term studies and there's basically no standards or rules on what they may contain. It's probably safer than tobacco, but we don't know for sure, and it very certainly is not healthier than
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by pergadad 7y ago
Part of the Snowden revelations was that the German intelligence agency was using one of the US-developed tools in return for feeding back keyword-based searches of that very same German traffic they were processing. Keywords like djihad, S
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by pergadad 7y ago
If you look you'll always find others doing wrong. You can look historically and find for most countries some rather big wrongs. But the question is what is happening right now. The Chinese government has rather successfully made two e
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by pergadad 7y ago
I think the other posters all provide clear evidence of the issues raised. I'm wondering if you had a look and changed it at least started to doubt your current views? If not, what would convince you? More importantly, you seem to be q
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by pergadad 7y ago
Not just 30 in this region, its 30 of this subspecies.
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by pergadad 7y ago
Then there'll be workarounds such as those intermediary companies that claim to unlock it but in reality just pay off the cryptolocker guys and keep a part of the fee for themselves. That said, this city could have used some negotiatio
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by pergadad 7y ago
Network/infrastructure guys don't seem to me to do helpdesk very often?
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by pergadad 7y ago
While an interesting concept this just seems to be a term made up by a blogger, with the Wikipedia article solely existing to link to a few sites by the blogger and others rehashing the concept. This is not a scientific term, nor does there
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by pergadad 7y ago
Yes and no. Yes your want to make an offer to those arriving, but you also don't want to destroy a city by letting prices go so high that only a certain caste of people is able to afford it - think SF. Not everyone can be rich enough t
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by pergadad 7y ago
Google is a pain as there's no way to talk to a human. I have lost access to an old Gmail account as my phone broke. Without authenticator I can't get in. I can't set up authenticator anew because I don't have the passwo
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by pergadad 7y ago
Seems like the battery for ruuvi is not replaceable?
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by pergadad 7y ago
Nonsense. This is research/innovation funding on a strategic issue. It's not the EU producing something, it's the EU putting incentives to encourage local innovation and development work. The same is done by US, China, ...
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by pergadad 7y ago
Well they too need clicks. Set the right inventive (people more likely click bait links than more sound/dry ones) and it will either go that way or lose out to another org that does. It's like sitcoms with laugh tracks. Everyone y
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by pergadad 7y ago
I find that argument a bit difficult. Yes this is how we evolved, but do we have any evidence that that's the only constellation? Eg is having the moon just a lucky coincidence or a necessity. We can argue why it was necessary for us t
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by pergadad 7y ago
Private trash burning is still a standard practice in many parts (all?) of India. This was fine when it was just plant & animal matter, but now this will include plastics. I'd not be surprised if this is a main contributor to this
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by pergadad 7y ago
There's some first mover advantage and some country/language limitations that can bring up costs, but the main reason is actually the easy availability of cash in the US. Successful European companies, especially startups, are bou
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by pergadad 7y ago
Optional indicator that was previously - and should have been - standard issue. With the MAX being sold with the explicit promise that there is little/no additional pilot training need. Clear negligence on both sides, with Boeing being
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by pergadad 7y ago
Actually often there is an abuse relation going on, certainly in developing countries where farmers don't know in the beginning that the "better" seeds they bought won't give them fertile seeds to reuse the next year - s
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by pergadad 7y ago
The REAL issue here will not be the fake videos themselves. They will cause many messes, but the real issue is an acceleration of what we see today: a loss of trust in information and in particular the established media. More societal rift,
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by pergadad 7y ago
The average commuter won't carry huge luggage around. But they might spend the time reading or working out they are sitting in a train/metro compartment. And they exercise when using the bicycle, meaning they will be healthier and

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