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by s_dev 5y ago
In Ireland you can buy a SIM card without ID and pay cash. Similarly with mobile phones too -- I would very much doubt the US is the only country where this is possible. Data protection is generally taken much more seriously in Europe than
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by s_dev 5y ago
TIL: 'Engineering Consent' was coined in 1955 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Engineering_of_Consent I always assumed this was a Noam Chomsky thing.
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by s_dev 5y ago
I think he's saying 'Nepal'. Which has a triangular flag.
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by s_dev 5y ago
>I really don't understand why anyone would assume that Tesla owners are less likely to have those traits than non-Tesla owners. I think it was a comparison to Autopilot rather than Tesla owners. Robot drives can't be drunk, do
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by s_dev 5y ago
Probably a maintained whitelist.
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by s_dev 5y ago
>Being vegetarian is also a complete defence. Lady in the story could have been a Vegetarian yet still died from a Prion. As others have pointed out swimming in bodies of water is possible vector for prions.
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by s_dev 5y ago
>What about the work of health workers, delivery people, drivers, employees in supermarkets, cleaners, constructions workers, etc.? They have salaries. The artists really didn't have a salary beyond the dole.
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by s_dev 5y ago
This was received very well by the artistic community in Ireland so it's odd to see people remarking it's not much or will do little. Certainly better than tolerating the open secret that many of them weren't' "acti
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by s_dev 5y ago
>I don’t see how the two can be decoupled. A Bitcoin miner powered by a solar panel isn't contributing to global warming beyond the manufacture of the solar panel. The problem is how we generate energy. If someone wants to consume e
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by s_dev 5y ago
>Could you explain the significance of karma for those of us who don't use Reddit? The accumulated internet points you gain from upvotes. In other words atomic level validation.
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by s_dev 5y ago
>theres various ways of going around it This kind of thinking is what got him in to this position in first place. There's a reason convicted money launderers shouldn't be allowed to run companies.
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by s_dev 5y ago
Many convicted white collar criminals are barred from being a director of any company. Using a company for money laundering would be a good basic example.
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by s_dev 5y ago
>Is Austria on a different track when it comes to the epidemic? Austria and Switzerland have shockingly high vaccine skepticism rates when compared with other advanced European countries like Ireland or Denmark. I have no explanation for
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by s_dev 5y ago
This is something many people in the EU simply don't get -- I don't get it. Germans have a basically a positive stereotype of being a scientific nation and all around clever lads -- this has enormous soft power and gives leverage
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by s_dev 5y ago
>drink the kool aid time That's slang for swallowing propaganda and committing suicide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drinking_the_Kool-Aid
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by s_dev 5y ago
That argument should be made by a professor in their college lectures. Not as part of induction procedure to the company. It should be legal but it's actually hilarious that this happens in the US. It would be like a landlord mandating
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by s_dev 5y ago
>Decrusting… I as a frenchman am digusted by this idea The crust on artificial bread like wonder bread isn't crust so much as darker more bitter bread. As a Frenchman you can relax because you probably wouldn't even consider it
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by s_dev 5y ago
They were the only people not guaranteed an outcome -- investment is inherently risky. Medical procedures are not.
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by s_dev 5y ago
You could write www.joehardware.builders to make it clearer.
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by s_dev 5y ago
It was 16 Celcius in Ireland yesterday. I have my window wide open in the middle of winter to cool the apartment. I can appreciate climate != weather. However it is a very odd warming event.
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by s_dev 5y ago
Would be nice to a get a breakdown on the market share of search engines. Most of the returned results (gstatcounter) don't include DDG.
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by s_dev 5y ago
Paywall Removed: https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsoccermatics.medium.co...
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by s_dev 5y ago
Right but you can't play multiplayer.
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by s_dev 5y ago
I also found it difficult to shop for a monitor in the past couple of years I ended up going for this: https://www.gigabyte.com/Monitor/AORUS-FV43U#kf My constraints were proper 4k (no compromised height resolution) --
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by s_dev 5y ago
>I don't expect my account to be terminated after 1 year of activity but I also don't expect it to last forever and to be able to pass it to descendants. Why? It doesn't have to be passed on to descendants -- you could for
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by s_dev 5y ago
You would think that but there always a few contrarian AWS evangelists in the comments going on about the "difficulty" in operating a status page as though it were trying to conjure a N=NP proof. Like how come down detector can do
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by s_dev 5y ago
Switzerland is in some EU institutions like Schengen. Thus EU membership has lots of asterixes and grey areas unlike the US which is a federacy the EU is a confederacy (Look at Brexit). Switzerland is somewhat unique in that it's both
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by s_dev 5y ago
>So why does Europe have such hard time popping new software ventures like the US? The US has a very mature and developed tech VC scene. Where's Europes isn't as mature. Also clustering is a thing -- why didn't Silicon Val
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Because SAP isn't an "alternative" it's the dominant player of it's own field. What alternative does the US have to SAP might be another perspective worth examining?
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by s_dev 5y ago
> And what does European mean? In this context "European Union" and the company is registered primarily in the EU and where the vast lionshare of profits are declared. The companies mentioned do appear tastefully (or limited in

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