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by thisislife2 2mo ago
> To further analyse the extent of AI’s handicap, I questioned both ChatGPT and Gemini about the “first Indian Prime Minister to visit Palestine”; it answered — Narendra Modi on February 10, 2018, when he visited Ramallah in the West Ban
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Newspaper archives still trump answers generated by AI(thehindu.com)
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The EU is making the Right to Repair the new standard in Europe(ec.social-network.europa.eu)
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You are absolutely right that the delivery services sell the convenience of saving time. The economics of it also suggests that only the rich can truly afford it regularly. That's where the price gauging comes in. In India, it is often
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And that is why the US allies in the region are losing trust in American leadership ... when the American political leadership condones a genocide of Arabs, tries to legitimise the occupation of land by them in their neighbouring foreign te
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The future of Apple clearly is "subscriptions".
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They should take their time ...
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US tipping culture is insane: 1. If "tips" in the US are "compulsory" because customers should make up for the poor wage the delivery people get paid, why is there still a compulsion for tipping now as the wages have b
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
I wasn't making a general statement on the American poor (poverty and debt can turn into a vicious cycle, sometimes one has no choice but to borrow and there are complex political factors at play too that is driving American poverty),
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When it comes to smartphones, there are only two practical options - ios and Android - and amongst both, only Android based smartphones are available really cheap (there are Android smartphones that retail for $100 too) - that is the only
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Americans say large tech companies have too much power(axios.com)
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Another "non-profit" organisation, like Mozilla, that is swimming in 100's of millions of dollars, but doesn't put it to use effectively.
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I have come to the realisation that it just makes more sense to buy repairable / upgradeable electronics / computers and cars, used. You save a lot of money that way, and the second-sales market has also become more organised so y
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Or, they can still pay the $400 and try to resell it for higher. And then buy a cheaper Android when they finally realise being in debt for making a fashion statement is stupid.
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If everyone was as rational as you, Americans wouldn't be living in debt that most cannot afford. Most Indians have a healthy fear of debt, and that is why the iPhone doesn't have a larger share of the mobile phone market here as
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
Is this true of the UK too?
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God, imagine being trapped in a plane for 24 hours! And I just checked the current flight time between Melbourne, Australia and London, UK, and, even with 1 stop, it's still around 24 hours - https://www.google.com/trav
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Reddit communities with "sensitive" Trump or Israel-Palestine posts throttled(old.reddit.com)
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What stand people take, or what people do, depends on how educated they are on the specific issue. Creating awareness is the first step. > overwhelming majority of users are going to install the app or use chrome If they are already usin
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I am somewhat confused - does this mean we can all now legally scrape Google search results?
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By "understand", I was not alluding to their political leanings. What I was implying is that some rational comments can still lead to inflamed / emotional discussions (which is against our community guidelines) or lead to unn
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Could the Saudi-US cooperation result in a nuclear Aramco?(arabnews.com)
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Direct source - https://turntrout.com/why-i-left-google-deepmind This may be controversial (and I will understand if the mods want to remove this comment) but this made me really wonder if westerners like him are actually a
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
See Flag State vs. Port State - https://www.mitags.org/flag-vs-port-state/
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> but for these news outlets to spread government propaganda would constitute corruption. You would think so, but that isn't the reality because journalistic "corruption" is judged on political ideology. Your whole notio
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I should have been clear it is from 2019 - just providing more history here. The US was already aware what Iran could militarily do in the Strait many years ago.
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Yes, this is a no brainer. Whenever someone accesses NetFlix on a Firefox with no EME, just display a page which has a short description explaining why Firefox doesn't support EME ( "EME is not included to protect your privacy as
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by thisislife2 2mo ago
See also: Tanker attacks in the Gulf — evidence or warmongering? - https://www.dw.com/en/tanker-attacks-in-the-gulf-evidence-or...
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Tanker hits mine in the Strait of Hormuz as Iran intercepts six vessels(nypost.com)
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Girl's death in China reveals human cost of unregulated science(thehindu.com)
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