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2y ago
Traditionally US stockmarkets are not that easily manipulated. This type of blatent grift and insider trading was for banana republics, and that's why stock markets in those places aren't serious.
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2y ago
I made a fortune. Sold my play account about 3 weeks ago, put 50% back into the S&P yesterday morning. Just sold it again. It's great if you're up for some gambling.
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2y ago
Is it even possible to test a backup of a typical phone without first wiping the phone? It's not like my backup of my ~/Photos directory where I can copy to a USB and md5sum the files on a separate computer and check the match.
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2y ago
The OP was talking the "leader of the free world" You are talking about America That's two very different things
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> Dan would eventually find out about the free kernels, even entire free operating systems, that had existed around the turn of the century. But not only were they illegal, like debuggers—you could not install one if you had one, withou
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2y ago
There's some lines from various films from my teenage years that just live in my brain rent-free
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2y ago
There's a reason that facebook paid $20b for whatsapp even without using the message contents
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2y ago
The problem is that in the past you could rely on laws protecting privacy. You send a letter to someone, and it was illegal to open it. You couldn't eavesdrop on a phone call without breaking the law. You could thus have a judicial sys
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2y ago
> in pursuit of the money a few wealthy people will pay Perhaps they could have a coupon day?
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2y ago
We'll see how quickly the rhetoric turns concrete. Last time Europe tried to do something to reduce reliance on America in 2019, America threatened Europe with sanctions https://www.dw.com/en/us-warns-eu-over-13-bi
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2y ago
Same percentage of people landing in LAX and Miami as Orlando? And such a large number that it dwarfs temporary visitors?
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> otherwise they'll face fines and eventually they'll chose to either be compliant, or exit the market. Or declare war against the EU, which is the option they've gone for.
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Sure, you pop all that nonsense on the privacy policy page linked at the bottom of your page, down near that "terms of use" nonsense
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2y ago
There is no such requirement, unless you want to steal peoples data or track them, and why would you want to do that?
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2y ago
It does feel that if you have to travel to america, using pre-clearance in a non-hostile state like Canada would be sensible. They can deny you entry, but you're not going to be locked up in some sex dungeon for a week in Toronto
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2y ago
Many americans loved what Hitler was doing to Make Germany Great Again. Charles Lindbergh for example blamed the Jews for WW2 > National polls showed that when England and France declared war on Germany, in 1939, less than 10 percent of
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> So far, the travel warnings I've seen all specify specific groups targeted by the American government, such as LGBTQ+ people. The travel warnings for Germany in the 1930s were specific groups targeted by the Nazi government, such
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2y ago
Do asylum seekers and migrants typically immigrate in JFK, Miami, LAX, or Orlando? I thought the problem the US had was people crossing the land border from Mexico?
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2y ago
> Out of curiosity, what do you think it's like to travel to Europe as someone who is dark-skinned, has a beard, and does not have a European passport? With a Canadian or American passport (until recently)? No problem. With an Irani
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2y ago
What visa do you hold? I wouldn't be confident that organising a conference would fall under ESTA or B1, speaking at one should be, but ultimately it's upto the goon looking at your application at the desk. In any case ensure you
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2y ago
10 nights in an ICE jail is very lucrative to the company that runs that jail. Can be funded by the taxes the poorest in America pay.
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The bigger debate I see is if it's worse for the US or worse for the rest of the world. The consensus is it's awful for everyone, apart from a few environmentalists that are looking forward to the reduce carbon emissions from a gr
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> But someone earning $10m a year while their workers are on food stamps is unacceptable So you get the main company with salaries from $1m-10m, they subcontract their operations to a company with salaries of $100k-1m which manage the cl
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2y ago
Yes propaganda is a very real threat and being able to counter it is important. Of course every platform censors things, it just varies about what is acceptable and what isn't.
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2y ago
Obligitary Mitchell and Webb sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS9ptA3Ya9E
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Looks like he was a script-kiddie, at most he dismantled some game-cheating sites. Maybe he used back-orifice to open someone's cd drive for the lolz. (This assumes he wasn't just making it up) Sounds a very familiar background. H
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What's the laden velocity of a spherical import with no air resistance?
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The site was of course trash, but from what I remember he was asking if people gave themselves sunburn would it kill covid. His words to me felt they were those of a typical 5 year old, or an 80 year old with dementia, asking questions abou
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2y ago
No, a British citizen is a British Citizen wherever you live. There are tax implications based on where you live, but that's unrelated.
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2y ago
Kessler is mainly a problem for things in continuous orbit, not for things leaving earth and heading to GEO and beyond.
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