TakuYam

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by TakuYam 4y ago
I’m not sure if they still do but you used to be able to hold two passports simultaneously. One that was ‘clean’ for countries that didn’t recognise Israel and another for Israel.
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by TakuYam 5y ago
>What I'm seeing now is not serious or good or science. Or entertaining.
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by TakuYam 5y ago
That’s an incredibly serious claim to make, do you have evidence to support your claims?
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by TakuYam 5y ago
Nobody in history has mugged someone to raise funds for a six pack and a pack of smokes
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by TakuYam 5y ago
Is that due to capacity at ports being restricted by lack of downstream capacity (ie trailer availability)?
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by TakuYam 5y ago
> The establishment is the enemy, not each other. The problem with the premise that the establishment is a lot like The Matrix. Some people are so hopelessly enamoured with the establishment that they will do whatever it takes to defend
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by TakuYam 5y ago
Only after CNY, the super-spread event that turned this global. What is especially galling is that for all his hardline rhetoric and complete lack of respect or fear for the rest of the world Xi is terrified of the reprisals at home if he b
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by TakuYam 5y ago
No, the way they treat the lowest rungs on the ladder is atrocious. Then there’s what they’re doing to commerce, they’re Walmart 2.0. Slowly and methodically choking the life out of every other retailer. Finally there is Bezos, who whilst n
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by TakuYam 5y ago
True but how often is the battery the issue in an enterprise environment? In my experience devices are seldom in circulation long enough that they require a battery swap. Port damage and clumsy or messy employees are far more likely to cau
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by TakuYam 5y ago
Alas Zoom does provide politicians with the gravy train and photo ops that they require to ‘do’ anything.
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by TakuYam 5y ago
A pi hole absolutely blocks all ads on Samsung smart TVs
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by TakuYam 5y ago
I believe the U.K. government is the guarantor on all student loans in the country. If so, it could be argued it’s legitimate for them to only offer loans based on courses that offer the taxpayer a return on their investment.
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by TakuYam 5y ago
How much RAM do you use? My wife’s 8gb and my 16gb Macs have never seen Firefox get especially RAM hungry
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by TakuYam 5y ago
Could you put you resume up somewhere, anonymized with an email address you could be contacted on? If you’re happy with 90-95% WFH we’d be happy to take a look and see if you’re a fit for us based solely on experience.
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by TakuYam 5y ago
A submarine is not a nuclear powered weapon, or even a weapon unless they’re going to be using them to ram adversaries
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by TakuYam 5y ago
You enjoy Apple pretending to be environmentally friendly all the while demonstrating they are no such thing? Why?
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by TakuYam 5y ago
>There's no reason the state should say one person's personal choice to follow a religion Religious people don’t see practicing their faith as a choice though, they see it as an obligation. Watching college ball is as tedious
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by TakuYam 5y ago
Bad driving begets bad driving. Some jackass cuts you up dangerously, your adrenaline is pumping and you then follow too close behind a third driver repeat ad nauseam
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by TakuYam 5y ago
Building more prisons? I know it’s not in line with current thinking but there is evidently enough criminality out there to justify custodial sentences and current prison capacity should not have to be a consideration when sentencing.
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by TakuYam 5y ago
Could this trigger an expanded exodus from California? We’re fortunate enough that we don’t have to contemplate sending our kids to public school but if we weren’t this might be a push factor in those kind of decisions.
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by TakuYam 5y ago
It also gets the actual foundry a pretty sharp knife to cut through the pesky red tape/law when they do start looking for prospective sites.
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by TakuYam 5y ago
I find this schtick to be incredibly shortsighted at best and stupid at worst. If the Dems do this now, it gives the GOP cover to do the exact same thing in 4-8 years and the whole process will be repeated ad nauseam.
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by TakuYam 5y ago
Genghis Khan, Alexander of Macedonia
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by TakuYam 5y ago
At what point does attraction cross the line and become fetishization?
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by TakuYam 5y ago
Wasn’t the offer PM Johnson made to HKer’s without any wealth/asset caveats?
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by TakuYam 6y ago
Bad journalism, whether by general incompetence or malice usually gets promoted.
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by TakuYam 6y ago
It’s basically modelled on a GT/WEC racing wheel with much fewer buttons for distraction. Without knowing actual characteristics about the updated car handling and setup any comments on safety are idle speculation
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by TakuYam 6y ago
I’m mildly irked by this but only because there will be more than a few people who will believe this to in response to the dreadful letter from Third Point.
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by TakuYam 6y ago
Scandinavian countries also aggressively push back against socialist/socialism labels that US talking heads and politicians try to pin to them.
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by TakuYam 6y ago
It sucks and Apple is really over protective with this stuff so just change the name. If you’re feeling brave/stupid, try calling it something like Khat. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khat

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