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by waffleiron 2y ago
And also according to the article: "twice, for example, the annual operating expenditure of CNN."
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by waffleiron 2y ago
> exterminated scientist, priests, doctors and officers So did the Nazis, in higher quantities too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligenzaktion See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genera
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by waffleiron 2y ago
There are whole countries where that is a high barrier, where that could be a many hours or days of work. It might not be a high barrier to you, but there are many millions to whom it is.
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by waffleiron 2y ago
Thats a CIA playbook you are referring to: https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/...
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by waffleiron 2y ago
The munition Shahid/Shahed in this case translates to Witness, شاهد See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahada#Terminology_and_signif... and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahid_(name) From t
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by waffleiron 2y ago
The most common version of naming would be loitering munition. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loitering_munition
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by waffleiron 2y ago
So countries should have attacked the US when it committed it's illegal wars in the middle east, to stop emboldening the aggressor? I don't think that would have created a better world. It's easy to say things like this about
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by waffleiron 2y ago
Helldivers 2 also includes a rootkit, this time as anti-cheat. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NProtect_GameGuard
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by waffleiron 2y ago
Honest question; has that ever worked? Cause I could see it just as easily weaponised by a sanctioned state to cause one to dislike "the west" more. Would you be more likely to overthrow your government when other governments star
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by waffleiron 2y ago
If I paid for the song (even somewhere else, even on a subscription like spotify/apple music), I should be able to dance/move to it. I don't think one should have to re-buy every song in a videogame. Especially when the work
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by waffleiron 3y ago
> That a company is required to provide a service even at a loss. They don't > A company should have every right to deny service. They do. >They're just legislating into law the Meta (and others) have to provide a service
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by waffleiron 3y ago
As someone with a biomedical background, the “science” explanation isn’t giving me much faith either. They should have just given a DOI to a relevant scientific paper instead.
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by waffleiron 3y ago
Slightly cheaper but also very similar to the EV-10 would be a second hand Sony a6000/a6300.
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by waffleiron 3y ago
I would even say that room treatment is a lot more valuable to a starting podcast. Sure don’t have the cheapest, shittiest mic but especially starting our room treatment grants a lot more value. Of course, you could record in your closet ;)
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by waffleiron 3y ago
Home-ownership rates are really high in most (ex-)communist countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_home_owne...
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by waffleiron 3y ago
It has always been an option, however it's easy to miss it's happening when it happens to a really small subset of genes you are importing into an excel sheet. Most of the time people just don't pay attention, and excel does
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by waffleiron 3y ago
Their definition of democracy is quite arbitrary, I would argue that any country where women and minorities cannot vote isn’t a democracy, it is according to them.
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by waffleiron 3y ago
I think the intent is clear. If apple is allowed to charge, they could charge 1000 USD per install and the whole law would be moot.
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by waffleiron 3y ago
Boeing, a defense contractor, relies on killing people for financial gain.
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by waffleiron 3y ago
False flags are possible though, wouldn’t be the first time a war is started based on lies
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by waffleiron 3y ago
30k a month is only (roughly rounded) 1 mill per 3 years. So that be 6 years income without spending, and it’s likely their income wasn’t always at this level.
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by waffleiron 3y ago
Within the EU we tend to call this the Brussels effect. Where high standards affect the standards of trading partners even when it’s not required in those countries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brussels_effect
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by waffleiron 3y ago
Recital 26 of the GDPR has a quite good definition >To determine whether a natural person is identifiable, account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out, either by the controller or by anothe
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by waffleiron 3y ago
I know it’s unfashionable to say on a venture capitalist forum, but millions die under capitalism too.
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by waffleiron 3y ago
That comment seemed to me to be dripping with sarcasm :)
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by waffleiron 3y ago
Same with the orchids my grandma keeps. Weed isn’t more difficult than (quite a few) other plants people have been growing at home.
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by waffleiron 3y ago
> I couldn’t find any record of use of niksen in the Dutch language before the late 2010s. This feel wrong to me, the concept is definitely older. It just went by nietsen instead of niksen, which is (or was) more grammatically correct&#x
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by waffleiron 3y ago
> doesn’t mean prison == slavery. Prison in these cases is slavery, but that doesn't mean slavery == chattel slavery.
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by waffleiron 3y ago
The treaty ran for 50 years, and was extended within that time. There was thus obvious value to it.
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by waffleiron 3y ago
This is why the ABMT was in my opinion one of the most important recent arms control treaties. Making sure you cannot defend yourself against a second strike with high likelihood will prevent a first strike. https://en.wikipedia.

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