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by reisse 3y ago
Sorry, I mistakenly implied government participation from "nationwide nonprofit".
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by reisse 3y ago
That'd be literally putting out fire of exorbitant vet costs with taxpayers money gasoline.
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by reisse 3y ago
> I assume you must be an expert in the cost structure of operating a veterinary practice in that location, at that time, in order to determine a predatory and non predatory price. You don't have to be an expert when you can compare
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by reisse 3y ago
> not-interested in having a full Western-life experience (which necessitates having a car) American life experience, you mean? It's totally OK to live in Stockholm, as well as in many other cities in Europe, without a car. Besides,
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by reisse 3y ago
Always remember that passwords are protected by Fifth Amendment and similiar laws in other countries, but there is no law prohibiting officer to put your phone in front of your face to unlock it.
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by reisse 3y ago
There is no global semiconductor market. Saying it exists is the same thing as saying that global vehicle market exists and Boeing competes with Ford in making the best selling vehicle. There is, however, "consumer chips foundry market
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by reisse 3y ago
When the same stuff is sold on Amazon with 2x to 10x markup, it doesn't magically become safer, non-counterfeit or certified. Everyone is discussing economics because it's the only difference between ordering on Aliexpress/Ta
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by reisse 3y ago
Google problem is that appending reddit is the only reliable way to get something different from shitty copywrited SEO trash sites. I don't know when I last saw real independent websites and blogs in the search results, probably ten ye
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by reisse 3y ago
Nah, Microsoft forums go like this User: Hey guys I get error when trying to activate my Windows Pradeep Chadurniyaad [Verified Answer]: Please use this script /link to illegal KMS activator/. So they're actually useful.
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by reisse 3y ago
This hasn't been my experience. Chinese battery tech become much better in the recent years. I've replaced battery in my Pixel 3 with an 8$ knock-off from AliExpress with good reviews and it's performing just as original, bot
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by reisse 3y ago
Of course the Red Army did not support resistance fighters! Resistance was both anti-nazi and anti-communist. Despite also fighting against nazi, they were not their allies, Soviets had zero reasons to help them. And resistance fighters kne
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by reisse 3y ago
> apparently they waited outside a few weeks to give the Germans time to kill as many remaining civilians as possible so they could set up shop themselves That's... a misrepresentation of a complex historical event, to say the least
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by reisse 3y ago
> The residents not only paid down payments, but took on a mortgage obligation for an un-built building. So what? They had a choice between paying more money for already built house now or paying less money but accepting the risks of dev
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by reisse 3y ago
It should have a transponder and be identifiable (at least for ATC and TCAS) while flying in domestic airspace and not in a combat mission. What if it accidentally collided with a civil airliner?
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by reisse 3y ago
> Much of the world views India as a corrupt, low-trust society Not really sure if much of the world shares your opinion. > Despite all of the advantages India enjoyed it has a GDP per capita below Congo. Congo-Brazzavile, which has G
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by reisse 3y ago
Have you seen politicians accusing Indian government in allowing theft and organised crime? Because if not, there is no reputation loss. And I think politicians can close their eyes on the few scammers here and there for the access to India
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by reisse 3y ago
The problem is, these call centers are more outsiders problem than Indian problem. Indian authorities have zero interest in shutting them down. Call centers are not scamming Indians, there are no complaints from local people to police, and
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by reisse 3y ago
Guess it's because Yandex gets most of its ad revenue from searches in Russian. Search results for English queries are not so ad-cluttered. For searches in Russian language, Google is still better (shows less ads per page), but tends t
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by reisse 3y ago
> I wonder what caused the adoption of UzKart compared with plain old cash. One of the main reasons to introduce UzKart was to force the "gray" economy back under the eye of the tax authority. So adoption was forced by the gove
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by reisse 3y ago
We had stored value card payment system in Uzbekistan somewhere from 2003-2005 to 2010-2012. But no-one ever called it "stored value card", basically, I learnt the word today :) Everyone just called it "offline cards", i
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by reisse 3y ago
Honest question - what do they mean by stating that ~10 gigatonnes of CO2 are absorbed by humans each year? What is the way of absorption here?
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by reisse 3y ago
I don't know what to say here because exact scaling parameters are very subjective, but personally I find 250% scaling for 4k@16" okayish? I use 175% for 1440p@14", and 125% for 4k@27", which is slightly smaller than wha
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by reisse 3y ago
Linux on the laptops with Nvidia dGPU is miserable enough without X/Wayland discussions. I beleive people who are buying laptops to install Linux mostly use ones without dGPUs.
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by reisse 3y ago
Refresh rate - sure. But scaling?... > Most people probably don't even know scaling options exist, so using different ones on different monitors is going to be niche, yeah. If you don't know the thing exists, that doesn't
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by reisse 3y ago
> if I were running multiple monitors each with different scaling factors and refresh rates, but that sounds pretty niche So basically you're calling almost every modern laptop + external screen setup "pretty niche". I won
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by reisse 3y ago
Here you go, hope US government is reliable enough for you https://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html
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by reisse 3y ago
> I’m tired of it too, but I think it’s better than “not use any data points” or “trust the super subjective data points put out by a totalitarian regime so they aren’t comparable to other countries.” I understand this sentiment when it&
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by reisse 3y ago
If you don't believe Chinese statistics, you can check that US import from China is back to pre-COVID volumes and rising. Honestly, I'm tired of this "oh they're totalitarian, so we cannot believe their statistics when i
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by reisse 3y ago
> It seems like we had a pretty good system years ago in requiring people to leave a deposit for bottles when purchasing beer or pop to incentivize return + reuse. On the other hand, this system incentivised using plastic bottles instead
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by reisse 3y ago
There is no low wage workforce to invest into, because the job market is the whole EU. People (especially educated younger generation) won't work for low salary at home if they can earn more euros for the same work on the other side of

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