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by psergeant 8y ago
But also: consumers with Powerwalls and other home storage options.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Mine provide a stereo service and control my aircon and lights, housewide
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by psergeant 8y ago
Personally I’d aim for the $1,000 iPhone, but I’d definitely consider the Apple Watch too.
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by psergeant 8y ago
“in establishing the rule of law, the first five centuries are always the hardest.”
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by psergeant 8y ago
The Brits used to be > passionate, melancholy, romantic, and tearful https://m.huffingtonpost.co.uk/thomas-dixon/british-stiff-up...
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by psergeant 8y ago
I suspect if you looked for statistics on corruption perception, and in local faith in locally produced products, you’d see a situation where the Japanese trust their compatriots and the Chinese severely mistrust theirs.
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by psergeant 8y ago
> Then the only way to reconcile it is to have the government pay. Sure, and ideally through an additional corporate tax based on overall wage cost for a business. Seems like a daft expense not to mutualise against at a national level, r
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by psergeant 8y ago
They don’t. They use a visa waiver program. The author was unable to make use of the visa waiver program having been flagged. As a result, now the author does need a visa.
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by psergeant 8y ago
> Elevating English while denigrating all other languages has been a pillar of English and American nationalism for well over a hundred years I wonder if there’s a country without a manufactured language where that’s not true.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Here’s to the crazy ones
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by psergeant 8y ago
Many words starting with n and with gs in them are just color descriptions. Shortened versions of Japanese and Pakistani are offensive in some countries but not others. The Thai word for Indian is “visitor” as in “not from here, will go hom
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by psergeant 8y ago
Does “Desi” work in this case? Is it offensive for a white guy to say?
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by psergeant 8y ago
> Sadly, there are a number of incumbent commercial interests This sentence basically sums up all that’s wrong with America in 2018.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Does NRI apply to people without Indian citizenship?
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by psergeant 8y ago
I bet the spending power of non-India Indians in the rest of the world is huge.
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by psergeant 8y ago
The impressive bit here is how network effects and brand recognition can save you from God-awful tech
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by psergeant 8y ago
I came here to write the same thing, so have an upvote. Tinder’s iOS app is such a gigantic travesty of engineering that I’m honestly surprised to hear they have an actual engineering team.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Mutton means goat for the vast majority of people involved in the preparation of South Asian cuisine. That native English speakers use the terms differently when talking about cutlets and ribs has zero bearing on how you should expect your
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by psergeant 8y ago
> But for goat I believe the marketing term for this in much of the world is _mutton_
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by psergeant 8y ago
If the technicians want credit, they should put it into the contract. If their input into it is a bought-and-sold commodity, which it seems to be, then they’re being paid in lieu of credit. Ghost writers will get paid different amounts depe
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by psergeant 8y ago
This is basically the plot (in my opinion, anyway) of Exit Through the Gift Shop
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by psergeant 8y ago
OMFG BREAD IS PALEO NOW! My life just got better
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by psergeant 8y ago
If you believe university rankings (a big if) then the UK’s universities are — on average — dramatically better than those in the rest of Europe.
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by psergeant 8y ago
> But more to the point, blockchains are useful now For about 1/20 of the applications they are suggested for, best I can tell.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Same thing that happened to British handgun owners, presumably, or people who really enjoy dynamite fishing.
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by psergeant 8y ago
They all include the proviso that it’s discrimination based on a belief of relative superiority, do they not?
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by psergeant 8y ago
Turns out if you fallaciously conflate terms, you can call anyone anything you like.
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by psergeant 8y ago
> You find racial discrimination acceptable Clearly. > Is it a good goal etc It’s not a goal, it’s a tool to combat systemic racism. > Do you find virtue Here’s what I think: I think there’s no inherent genetic gender or race compo
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by psergeant 8y ago
Sure, nobody enjoys seeing their relative privilege diminish.
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by psergeant 8y ago
Yes, it’s literally racial discrimination. That’s what it says on the tin. “At the very least” implies this is a form of racism, which it’s not.

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