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by s_dev 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convention_Relating_to_the_Sta...
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by s_dev 5y ago
Thankyou
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You've just intentionally disrupted the service then.
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>How do you filter out pilots that cannot fly? Piloting specifically requires a qualification like being a doctor etc. These qualifications are recognized and remove the need for assessment of a skill during an interview. However there i
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So why do they pride themselves on a 99.9% uptime if downtime is common and normal?
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The Liam Neeson narrated documentary is the best one covering this story. It's on YouTube and well worth a watch on a slow Sunday.
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> But the risk in 50 years of people saying "we should have known better" seems really high. Is there any evidence this happens with alcohol and if there is what was societies response? I suspect it alcohol does similar damage
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No, but Americans did have to the face the consequences of the war including paying for it. Likewise ordinary Russians will pay for this war.
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This looks very cool. No mention of pricing yet -- anyone care to speculate? I can appreciate the request for a distributor at the end means they aren't commercially pumping them out yet but maybe a dev kit for example.
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Russians are complaining, that it is not "fair" to put economic and social sanctions on them. "After all, it is our government, not us, who started this war" they say. Thats okay Russians. We didn't put on the sanct
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The article doesn't refer to it as aid. It refers to it as military gear. Ultimately Russia is the initial aggressor here so they're the ones who initiated and are prolonging the war. Russia cannot win -- even if they take Ukraine
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From an article on Sky News: >It is not clear if his reference to "all victims" means just Ukrainians, or Russians as well. I don't want to be cynical but this could be donated to "victims" in Russia. The Aggress
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How come these issues aren't existent in McDonald's in Europe?
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It's kind of like quitting after you've been fired? No?
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In a more considered manner than the billions of tonnes of carbon and crap polluting our environment causing the greenhouse effect. A small bit of nuclear waste can be buried deep in a secure location.
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Completely agree however that was the line German government officials were trotting out to justify buying fuel from Russia when other EU countries were rolling their eyes.
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>So now tell me how this answers going climate neutral. Because Nuclear energy emits a tiny fraction of the Co2 that fossil fuels emit for the same energy.
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>Honestly, as a German myself I'm rather doubtful of that unfortunately. Some? Maybe. Many? Probably There has been a historic reversal in German foreign and security policy this week! Germans are already revising their opinions abo
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We've all raised our concerns about the opinions of Germans before on these threads. A brilliant scientific nation that seems to have become recently confused. Sort of like the British. Green Gas? Nuclear is bad because it produces was
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Given the the EU did remove all of Russian from SWIFT. A lot of these replies are looking very speculative and a bit silly -- simply imagining convoluted explanations where are none like "kicking Russia out of Swift will hurt Europe mo
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Nah -- Bill Browder seems to be a expert on this exact topic. He's saying to pull Russia from Swift. His experience suggests he is intimately familiar with the financial world and the consequences. He's the genesis of the Magnitsk
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>The actual reason is because SWIFT gives the US/EU visibility into all inter-bank transfers But like clearly it doesn't if Russia and China have their own systems. How would Swift reveal Russian/Chinese internal transacti
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Yes, the sanctions aimed at the oligarchs impoverish the oligarchs.
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Paywall Removed: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.economist.com%2Fth...
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I always though CNN Bellingcat had a weird name. It makes more sense now.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_expendability
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I'm not sure what distinction you think you're making. They bought a lump of the company at whatever valuation and that's termed an "investment". However my point is that I don't suspect they're strictly a
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Not that comfortable with Tencent starting to acquire up so many European digital companies. I'm not sure profit is their only motivation here. I feel like in a decade us Europeans will be sitting around wondering why we sold off promi
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Not sure why any of this news absolutely has to come from TV in an entertainment mashup in it's delivery. It doesn't. You can read a newspaper and get that exact info without the doomsaying that comes with TV.
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Google Duo, Google Messenger, Google Wave, Google Answers

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