thepangolino

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by thepangolino 5y ago
What happens is that people get in the hospital for reason xyz and get tested positive as prt of admission protocols.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
What about the Ebola virus? Is that racist too? If not, why?
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Love that whole “décroissance” concept and all those pushing it… Let’s skip the extra steps and just become Amish while we’re at it. The solution to modern problems shouldn’t ever be “less”. It ought the be more!
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Could that also be a side effect of the reduced economic activity due to covid measures ?
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by thepangolino 5y ago
I really never got the point of AMP being anything else than a set of recommendations for lighter mobile pages. A sort of remnant of the time where you got redirected to another version of the website you were visiting if you were doing so
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by thepangolino 5y ago
YouTube age restricted videos are pretty much made impossible to view without revealing to YouTube your identity (they ask for a credit card transaction or a copy of your id) if you have a European account.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
How can a startup operating what is essentially a marketplace (Uber doesn't directly employ the driveres nor owns their cars) get a 20% cut on every transaction and still lose money?
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by thepangolino 5y ago
The EU standard recently changed from micro usb to usb type C. The only other charging cable in the EU market is Apple’s lightning. Forcing Apple to go to USB wouldn’t cause major damage.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Worked so well for windows mobile !
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Covid is hardly a benchmark for lethality. Since the official start of the COVID-19 pandemic, more people have died of diarrhoea. (comparing official numbers for both)
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by thepangolino 5y ago
A big chunk of the money printed was in 2020-2021 https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/money-supply-m0
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by thepangolino 5y ago
I’m pretty sure Trump also had a big grudge against China. Yet he got blamed for his trade policy against China.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
“GETTR has been the highest-profile pro-Trump platform launch” Are you kidding me? This is the first time I’ve heard of this platform. By reading the title, I first thought this was referring to Gab. (patriots.win, a much more pro-trump pla
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by thepangolino 5y ago
I would have given to way more than that to find out what trick did the 2-3 top anti-Trump account used to always show up on top of the comments of each of Trump's tweets.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
In most European countries court rulings are quite hard to get a hold off.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
I think the main issue is the current political discourse going for the “anti” approaches. Constantly calling for less consumption, less personal freedom, etc. All one hears is less less less in the name of illy and broadly defined causes s
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Honestly doing stuff by copy/pasting a comand line, is perhaps one of the most user friendly actions one could do. Especially compared to the where is charly game you have to play in Windows to do any troubleshooting.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Default behaviour should be that everything is expanded.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Don’t most airlines already offer to buy carbon credits to compensate the flight at a minimal price? Accounting for all other externalities shouldn’t make flight much more expensive.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Wait wait wait. So if I want to pay bribes, I can just say that I have been extorted that money and all will be legit?
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Isn’t there a feature from the app stores allowing for remote installation of apps?
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Don’t browsers already have a feature to block cookies?
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by thepangolino 5y ago
They've got a terrible, terrible product. Not sure they would have received anything from a Silicon Valley VC.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
How does this combat transfer pricing? What would stop companies to record losses by buying “consulting services” in from companies in third countries with lower tax rates?
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by thepangolino 5y ago
The danger is not the pass itself. It's that you'd be prompted to display it systematically for any and all activities.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Once the certificate becomes obsolete, it becomes useless and therefore needs to be reacquired. Same process with American SSNs, if they were depreciated very 6 months getting yours published wouldn’t be an issue.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
They pretty much have to keep this short. Anything more permanent and you open up the risk of "alternative" databases being build by nefarious third parties.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
I'm starting to wonder why Belarus didn't just shoot that plane down and blame Russian tourists or something. Would have probably caused less trouble.
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by thepangolino 5y ago
Wikimedia foundation spends over 55M to pay for 400 staff. That’s 137k a year in payroll costs per employee. Are they all top management and or US based engineers?!
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by thepangolino 5y ago
The O2 shortage blows my mind. Doesn't India have any industry it could have have redirected O2 production form?!

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