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by personlurking 6y ago
>Bitcoin is over ten years old. Plus the Lindy effect. If it's lasted 10 yrs, it's likely to last another 10.
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by personlurking 6y ago
>She starts with describing two essential spirits, one being conservative and steady, the other one being progressive and unpredictable. It becomes clear these spirits both inhabit everyone in some way or another and society reflects tha
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by personlurking 6y ago
Also interesting, regarding what YT Music is doing, including with live music: "Inside YouTube’s plan to win the music-streaming wars" https://www.protocol.com/youtube-music
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by personlurking 6y ago
There's going to be a lot of competition around CBDC/FedCoin wallet apps in 2021. With this update, Google Pay might be positioning themselves. https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-fed-brainard-idUSKBN1...
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by personlurking 6y ago
I've heard the term 'flexitarian', which I understand to be mostly vegetarian but sometimes eats meat.
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by personlurking 6y ago
In Brazil, Estante Virtual ("Virtual Bookshelf"), which unites secondhand bookstores, has been running since 2005. Albeit, it was bought out by a bigger concern last year. https://www.estantevirtual.com.br
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by personlurking 6y ago
There's a Youtube channel (Historical Italian Cooking) that deals in ancient Italian cooking and, while it seems really interesting, I unfortunately can't clearly understand the host due to his accent and intonation. I speak Itali
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by personlurking 6y ago
And as always, on these types of calls, one should never take a "no" from someone who doesn't have the authority to say "yes". Of course, this has to be balanced with how much the question/problem at hand matte
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by personlurking 6y ago
I stand corrected. There was a time when I watched several shows like Morse (ie, Lewis, Frost, Foyle, Gently, Lynley, Marple, Midsomer) and I suppose it became a bit of a blur. It was a lot of long episodes, but not a lot of episodes (per s
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by personlurking 6y ago
>In the UK a series is usually only 6 episodes and few shows last more than two or three series Inspector Morse (et al) come to mind as one that lasts longer. So many great British detective shows that go on for decades, with around 20 m
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by personlurking 6y ago
As an aside, here's a breakdown of who speaks Catalan vs Spanish, in Catalonia, as of 2018: https://www.idescat.cat/novetats/?id=3446&lang=en The quick version, in a single image, with the lightest area being
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by personlurking 6y ago
>In the end the only thing which worked was to book an identical itinerary, same day of the week and times, just one week early My own booking problem and later "hack" is as follows: I think one mistake I made was to book my co
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by personlurking 6y ago
I've been going through this these past two weeks in Europe. I just need to do two short flights, one of them between two major cities. So far, it has cost me hundreds of dollars - ie, I've lost that much - and two dozen hours of
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by personlurking 6y ago
as well as this law: Betteridge's law of headlines is an adage that states: "Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_
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by personlurking 6y ago
Training and socialization are top priorities. It seems obvious but, as I've met unruly dogs, it must not be that obvious to all. Short of those two things, look for videos, forums and communities in general that are specifically for y
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by personlurking 6y ago
Or kids dressed in cookie costumes follow her when she leaves
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by personlurking 6y ago
Lots of geographical locations in my time zone (AST), including Puerto Rico and USVI, don't observe DST [1]. It's nice to not have to care about it for a change, as opposed to when I was living stateside. 1 - https://en
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by personlurking 6y ago
I use Ublock on Safari as my only extension and it always worked great but, as of about a month ago, most of the time now I have to hit Disable Extensions, then reload the page, in order to watch a video. If I don't, I just get a black
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by personlurking 6y ago
I recently checked Airdna stats for my (capital) city and it said Airbnb occupancy was down 80% since March, with an uptick since mid-May, leading it to be down 60% currently (meaning it improved by 20% from its -80% level).
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by personlurking 6y ago
How’s MBpay? I loved using Multibanco when living in Portugal but I never got around to using MBpay, which I think is the equivalent to what’s being discussed for the US, essentially.
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by personlurking 6y ago
Scribd has an English translation of Rosa's Grande Sertão: Veredas, titled The Devil to Pay in the Backlands. I'm fluent in Portuguese (though not a native speaker) but couldn't get through the beginning of the original.
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by personlurking 6y ago
Even though back in March, Apple said there were no Authorized Repair people in PR, I had found one through my own search. It's called Metro Technologies in Hato Rey, not too far from Plaza Las Americas. I can't vouch for them sin
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by personlurking 6y ago
Wow. I've had this same problem for months. I spent over an hour on the phone with Support just trying to describe the problem, until they came to the conclusion that there was absolutely no way to send me new ones or to have me send t
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A Million Dollars vs. a Billion Dollars, Visualized: A Road Trip [video](youtube.com)
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by personlurking 6y ago
>according their prospectus Sampa is the second most active city Sampa is a nickname for the city of São Paulo, in case anyone was slightly confused.
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by personlurking 6y ago
My mistake! Thanks for catching the error
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by personlurking 6y ago
Spain's "baile de cifras" (numbers dance) made me lift an eyebrow over this past week. Lots of recalculations and zero deaths.
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by personlurking 6y ago
According to Worldometers data [1], Brazil is currently trending, on a global level, 1st in new cases, 1st in new deaths, 2nd in overall deaths and, within a few days from now, 2nd in total deaths. Real estimates are said to be up to 6x off
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by personlurking 6y ago
In my last apt, once in a while I'd start hearing a far-off hum, and it would always make my wifi go out. I eventually tracked it down to a huge backup generator for a commercial plaza a few blocks away, but telling my ISP that a dista
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by personlurking 6y ago
Not sure if this counts: The Puerto Rican tody - a small, colorful bird - has the scientific name of todus mexicanus, even though it's endemic to Puerto Rico (where it's known simply as San Pedrito). Meanwhile, the todus portorice

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