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by rippercushions 3y ago
I wonder if they stretch those definitions like many brands do by manufacturing in Guam, Puerto Rico, etc as "made in USA"? (Which are, of course, American territories, but play by very different labor laws, tax regimes, etc.)
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by rippercushions 3y ago
> He vowed that anyone who spent his money would be entitled to a 10 percent commission on the amount they spent. If someone booked out a restaurant and spent $1,000 on the tab, for example, they would earn $100. If they recruited someo
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Kagi doesn't have any ads, and serves an audience that is so opposed to ads that they'll pay for the privilege. Sure, in 10 or 20 years that may change, but for now I don't seem them changing that and taking away their sin
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by rippercushions 3y ago
AFAICT Chrome (and hence other Chromium browsers) don't do this, and if you auto complete straight to a result from your history that doesn't count as a search engine hit either. I'm a heavy search user with Kagi on both mobi
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by rippercushions 3y ago
As the top thread in this thread testifies, a lot of people including me moved from DDG to Kagi.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Not the previous poster, but I'm a paid subscriber of Kagi and was previously a heavy user of DDG. The key difference that the previous poster outlined and you're missing is that with Kagi, you're the customer, while with DDG
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by rippercushions 3y ago
The paper is tapping on a long-standing debate about the effects of being bilingual. For a long time, it was thought that being bilingual was actively harmful , and indeed it's been shown in studies that babies with parents who speak
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Some interesting thoughts on what additional languages an English speaker would find the most useful for travel worldwide: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/35348/as-a-native... But you need to make a lot
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Wait, how exactly is the US to blame for any of what's happening in Sudan? Would it really have been better if they had just wholesale ignored the Janjaweed massacres? As it stands, both sides just seem to trying to court anybody who
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Tesla overtakes Audi in global car sales, on track to beat BMW and Mercedes(thedriven.io)
1 points by rippercushions 3y ago|0 comments
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Wonka Candy was a Nestle brand of candy. US Robotics was a major modem manufacturer (but not robots). IOI is a large Malaysian palm oil producer.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Yes, it would seem preferable to reuse the same energy storage over and over again, as opposed to digging it out of the ground at huge expense, shipping it across the world, and then spreading it out into the environment as a cloud of toxic
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Here's the official press release, but it doesn't have much more info: https://www.catl.com/en/news/6015.html
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CATL has announced a new “condensed” battery with 500 Wh/kg(thedriven.io)
1099 points by rippercushions 3y ago|843 comments
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by rippercushions 3y ago
There's a long tradition in Roman literature of accusing people you don't like of various sexual improprieties: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catullus_16
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Numbers to Names: Discover Loved Ones and Relatives Lost in the Holocaust(numberstonames.org)
1 points by rippercushions 3y ago|0 comments
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by rippercushions 3y ago
They're building their own engine as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ACAE_CJ-1000A I agree that the C919/929 pose no threat as is, but the Chinese are clearly playing the long game here and their massive
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Boeing, Airbus, and Rolls-Royce are going to be in for a rude awakening if/when the Chinese aircraft industry ever gets their shit together, and/or if batteries ever become light/dense enough to support electric passenger fli
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Alaska Airlines to Eliminate Airport Kiosks in $2.5B Tech Upgrade(skift.com)
1 points by rippercushions 3y ago|2 comments
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Really? I found the EU's willingness to cut themselves off from Russian fuel supplies, despite the risk of their own citizens literally freezing as a result, to be uncharacteristically ballsy. (And yes, I know the EU still imports s
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by rippercushions 3y ago
It's the art of bowing to the East without mooning the West. Or was, rather, since Putin finally got the ass end.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
If you can secure a job in Japan (admittedly a big if), they're far more friendly than, say, the US.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
For comparison, Google pays Apple an estimated $15 billion a year to be the default engine on Safari. https://9to5mac.com/2021/08/25/analysts-google-to-pay-apple-...
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Update: it will be a minimum of 48 hours until they can try again. Maybe the rocket will get high on 4/20 after all. Elon is now saying there was a frozen valve, which seems fairly tractable.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
This seems less like fetishizing and more like someone applying the only hammer they have (programming languages) to the wrong nail (human languages).
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by rippercushions 3y ago
That's the pull request, the actual discussion is in this bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=117805... And apparently JPEG XL, which was only added in 2021, will be supported agai
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Doing away with this time-honored tradition is yet another reason to oppose electric cars /s I wonder if anybody's tried cooking in a lithium battery fire yet?
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Burrito Styles Everyone Should Know(seriouseats.com)
3 points by rippercushions 3y ago|0 comments
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by rippercushions 3y ago
Thanks to the zero trust model, access to that would require additional authentication.
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by rippercushions 3y ago
If you're ever in Singapore, the staff canteens are pretty epic: https://travel.stackexchange.com/questions/74945/is-there-a-...

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