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by riffraff 7d ago
I think their point is there's no "peer to peer" trading so it's not an exchange. You're always contracting futures with them, so it's more like a vegetables seller than a trading facility.
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by riffraff 7d ago
We do it in Italy too, afair (I'm a bit in doubt if we also do "tch tch tch")
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by riffraff 10d ago
I went through the "myth in human history" class/book from The Great Courses some years ago (great course!), iirc it mentioned a few common themes of creation myths: cosmic egg, emergence from depths, divine parents, ex nihil
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by riffraff 10d ago
Forgive the ignorant question, what made CORBA terribile? I only used it during university and it seemed overengineered but it mostly worked, and I vaguely recall IDL to be nice. I'm guessing interop was actually atrocious?
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by riffraff 10d ago
Jared Diamond speaks of this in one of his book (I think "Collapse", but I may be wrong), and highlights how we romanticize the pre-modern world, but we have the clear example of people in PNG who are absolutely super happy to aba
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by riffraff 12d ago
Reminds me of that story of the CEO of ARM China was fired but refused to return the chop which meant he was still in power.
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by riffraff 14d ago
I do not have this, but at this point I couldn't say if it's you folks or me who are "odd".
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by riffraff 14d ago
I know the issue as meniere's disease. There's Apparently a whole family of these. It's trivial but absolutely terrifying.
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by riffraff 14d ago
I share this (in hindsight, hasn't happened in a while). I always assumed it was the saliva glands going into overdrive. I didn't think/realize it was limited to salty things, to me it was connected to things I really like.
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by riffraff 14d ago
There's a nice booklet called "experimenting with babies" which covers a lot of these in, well, babies and small children. The book is not as good as the title, but it may contain some oddities you're not aware of.
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by riffraff 14d ago
I don't get it, can't the people who were under attack sue? I can see why huffing face won't, but why doesn't ruby central?
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by riffraff 15d ago
I believe Israel also didn't announce they have nukes, it's just mostly assumed they do.
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by riffraff 15d ago
My understanding is that the Saudi are basically fighting the war in Yemen but denying it's them. The de jure government has effectively lost this war ATM.
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by riffraff 15d ago
I 100% agree Iran wants nukes, but I don't think it's a given they want to "destroy the region". It is more likely they want to get the same level of safety countries with nukes get, e.g. North Korea's leadership is
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by riffraff 15d ago
ah, that makes sense, thanks
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by riffraff 15d ago
robots sure, but I remember no robot wars. I'd be happy to be corrected! It's been many years and I may have missed some books anywauy.
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by riffraff 15d ago
Also Related: Saudi Arabia’s crude output falls to lowest level since 1990 https://finance.yahoo.com/energy/articles/saudi-arabia-crude...
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by riffraff 15d ago
> More to the point, the ciabatta depends for its production on modern breadmaking techniques, chief among them high-hydration doughs. And in order to pull off high hydration doughs you need “strong” modern flours with very high gluten a
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by riffraff 15d ago
Not OP but I used to sit in a bath for a long time reading, gradually adding the hottest water to keep it at a nice temp. It's been a while tho, but I'm sure there's someone like me out there :)
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by riffraff 16d ago
I think the ones who got diminished did it for both idealistic and PR reasons. I mean, if you're France or the UK, you want to keep good relationships with Africa, and probably do feel some minor guilt about colonialism. This is a vote
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by riffraff 16d ago
North America is very affected, Mercator makes it look as big or bigger than Africa when it's actually quite smaller.
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by riffraff 16d ago
I remember when Warcraft 3 came out and a news outlet mentioned something on the lines of "gamers' trust in Blizzard borders on religious faith" and it sounded true. It's unbelievable how far from that trust and love the
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by riffraff 16d ago
Does it matter? He owns it and doesn't plan to flip it, and they have enough income to go on for a long time.
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by riffraff 17d ago
I expected the movie to be crap, but a friend went and enjoyed it a lot and I trust their judgement. He also shared with me the idea that Wile E. Coyote was basically what inspired him to get into engineering as a kid, and I think he's
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by riffraff 17d ago
Don't your country telcos have esims? Even mainstream operators in my country have those these days, so you can sign up online without getting to a shop.
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by riffraff 17d ago
If we're citing sci-fi (but there's no robot war in Asimov's foundation iirc, the apple screenwriters made it up) surely you want to cite the Butlerian Jihad from Dune!
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by riffraff 17d ago
Abstractly, yes but concretely, how? Many terrorist organizations would like to have a nuclear bomb, but don't.
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by riffraff 17d ago
> Past changes to economic relationships haven't replaced labor either, yet they have led to conflict and starvation. Conflict sure, but mass starvation? What exactly are you thinking of? We lived with 20-30% unemployment in various
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by riffraff 17d ago
"collect underpants... Profit" comes from south park https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomes_(South_Park)
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by riffraff 18d ago
The article doesn't touch on why this is an actual saint rather than a minor local cult like Saint Guinefort[0], the saint dog[1]. The reason, AFAIK, is that the early church didn't have a process for canonization, it was just all

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