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by vimy 6y ago
A decent Google alternative I found recently is https://www.qwant.com . So far it seems comparable to Google results, no complaints yet. Much better than DuckDuckGo or Bing in my experience. They use their own crawler.
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by vimy 6y ago
I don’t see how that’s a problem when Chrome has translation built- in and the other browsers have plugins.
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by vimy 6y ago
They supported it for 5 years. Seems very reasonable to me.
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by vimy 6y ago
> We even have a president who dog whistled a terror plot against the governor of Michigan. Trump is a white supremacist and white supremacism is inherently a non fact based ideological stance, yet it leads to stuff like the terror plot.
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by vimy 6y ago
How do you convince doctors to use your software? I see the benefit for patients but what’s in it for doctors? If they give crappy care they still get paid.
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by vimy 6y ago
I save everything in Evernote. 12 years worth of interesting articles, pdf’s, images, ... Better than bookmarks because several of the websites I saved aren’t online anymore. My tags are a mess though.
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by vimy 6y ago
> You tell me! How are we doing as an industrial society? Pretty great. Before the industrial revolution the number of people with a comfortable life was a tiny % of the world population. Now, half of the world is middle class or wealthi
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by vimy 6y ago
I was under the impression the 3090 is the Titan of this generation.
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by vimy 6y ago
Here’s the full lost of banned words at twitter and other woke companies / opensource projects. https://twitter.com/TwitterEng/status/1278733305190342656?s=... https://www.nytimes.com/2020&#x
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by vimy 6y ago
I think an Irish ltd is the next best thing.
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by vimy 6y ago
> As someone who had no involvement in it and was born nearly two centuries after the first steps, I think it'd probably be a little bizarre for me to be proud of it. It works both ways though. By the same logic, the West shouldn&#x
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by vimy 6y ago
Belgium is a good example of how languages aren't such a big deal. Most websites here are either Dutch & French or only one language if you only want to sell to your own language community. There is not much shared culture between
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by vimy 6y ago
>It's fairly common for British people to fixate on the fact that the UK was largely single-handedly responsible for abolishing slavery in the west (via the Navigation Acts in particular), while somewhat discounting the fact that th
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by vimy 6y ago
Seems unlikely. Translations aren’t that expensive. Different laws and regulations between EU members is a bigger problem. Take GDPR for example. One law, 27 agencies interpreting it in a different way.
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Are there Chinese browser engines?
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by vimy 6y ago
That might change with Apple Silicon and Apple’s new ML Compute framework.
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by vimy 6y ago
Looks great. I'm currently using Canary mail because the Apple mail data loss bug still isn't fixed after almost a year! Canary mail doesn't feel as polished as Apple mail so I'm happy to see a potential replacement. ht
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by vimy 6y ago
Regarding clouds, have you seen videos of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020?
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by vimy 6y ago
7 elected politicians and 2 leaders of the independence movement have been arrested and convicted for the ‘crime’ of holding a referendum. Up to 13 years in prison.
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by vimy 6y ago
‘Outage’ wasn’t a commonly known word?
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by vimy 6y ago
Why do you assume there would be no kids? How else will we populate our solar system.
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by vimy 6y ago
Probably because this kind of comment fits better on reddit than here.
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by vimy 6y ago
https://youtu.be/yIrFIOx4VP8 You clearly haven’t seen Geohot in action yet.
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In the New Cold War, Deindustrialization Means Disarmament(foreignpolicy.com)
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by vimy 6y ago
An older anime I liked is Zipang. A modern Japanese navy ship transported back in time to World War 2. They have to decide if they’re going to help their modern day allies, USA, or help defend imperial Japan.
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by vimy 6y ago
The population of Hungary is 98.3% ethnic Hungarians. Other Eastern European countries are similar.
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by vimy 6y ago
Eastern Europe is still homogeneous and they are being vilified for wanting to keep it that way.
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He does have a habit of revealing highly sensitive national security information. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IYX9nyr7rng
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The memo is 341 words.
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by vimy 6y ago
Instant online payments are also possible with debit cards in Europe. It’s probably more used than credit cards since not every European has one.

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