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by briandh 8y ago
Maybe I haven't visited the right ones, but none of the 7-Eleven (or FamilyMart, Lawson, OKmart, or CU) stores I visited in South Korea, Taiwan, or Japan had selections that close to those of the Dollar General stores I've patroni
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by briandh 8y ago
Dollar General has a much larger selection than an Asian 7-Eleven. It has "real groceries" (albeit a small selection) and many non-food goods like detergent, toys, shampoo, even cell phones and a small variety of clothing. It&#x27
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by briandh 10y ago
The average is weighted by GDP (another reason it is important to examine the rankings).
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by briandh 10y ago
The quoted statement is highly deceptive. It is backed up with "Our average effective tax rate is 27.1% compared with 27.7% for the other 30 OECD countries, according to CRS", but 27.7% is the rate including the US, which is not
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by briandh 10y ago
> Or Movie Theaters owning Hollywood Studios?? Wanda Group, majority owner of AMC Theatres, also owns Legendary Entertainment. And AMC Theatres and Regal Entertainment Group co-own Open Road Films. Stepping back in time, infamous low-bud
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by briandh 10y ago
Cruz and other Republicans have been raising concerns over this matter for over two years now [1]. It has nothing whatsoever to do with Sanders. [1] http://www.thedomains.com/2014/04/02/35-senators-demand-answ
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by briandh 10y ago
They only had a simple majority in the Senate.
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by briandh 11y ago
Not quite, looking at the slides. It finishes up with two slides of "tough lessons" basically explaining why it failed as a phone OS, and then "what's next?" containing connected device plans. So it's pretty we
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by briandh 11y ago
The title is not accurate. Regardless of whether "people" (excluding me, it seems) think of Firefox OS as a phone OS, Mozilla has been using the name in TV usage for two years [1]. [1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog
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by briandh 11y ago
> It's not an unreasonable position for a municipality to chose lose money on a stadium. They typically lose money on symphony orchestras, ballets and performing arts centers. That one is considered low culture and the other conside
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by briandh 11y ago
> if you have a secure enough content security policy (and the browser in question supports it properly) it will be impossible for an attacker to execute their inserted Javascript I don't follow your reasoning. Why wouldn't an
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by briandh 11y ago
The Tangled Web: A Guide to Securing Modern Web Applications is a good complement.
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by briandh 11y ago
One response to this piece (not by me, to be clear): http://marketurbanism.com/2015/12/26/a-response-to-interflui...
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by briandh 11y ago
For instance, do you refer to a particular group of uninhabited islands as "Senkaku Islands, Japan", "Diaoyu Islands, People's Republic of China", or "Diaoyutai Islands, Republic of China"? Some people are
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by briandh 11y ago
A quick look at their source suggests that they are using something called BLOX CMS, and their nameservers are run by TownNews, which is apparently the company behind BLOX. BLOX is advertised as "Cloud-based" with "No hardwar
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by briandh 11y ago
Part 1) This is according merely to an FBI affidavit [1] applying for a search warrant, much less a charge or conviction. Roberts has claimed he was misrepresented, albeit understandably coyly [2]. "Yes" is an uncritical answer. [
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by briandh 11y ago
> Again, libel is a crime in the US. There is no criminal defamation in the U.S. at a federal level, and only a minority of states have such an offense: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_defamation_law#C...
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by briandh 11y ago
From the article: "The top 1 percent on average already pay roughly a third of their incomes to the federal government, according to a Treasury Department analysis that takes into account the entire menu of taxes — including income tax
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by briandh 11y ago
Given the context, mtgx is most likely referring to Facebook-owned WhatsApp's (somewhat opaque) support for end-to-end encryption.
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by briandh 11y ago
> The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (a government agency) explicitly exists to bail out private sector pensions with tax dollars. Are you sure? From what I'm reading it draws the money it uses for payouts from premiums and th
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by briandh 11y ago
If my understanding of the term is correct, NPMaxwell's comparison to a helicopter drop is a poor one. However, not only is it an established term of art, but he/she provided a reference for background. The glibness of your respon
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by briandh 11y ago
Maybe the DNS ANY or reverse DNS datasets on scans.io? (the former, I presume, ultimately covering more domain names but containing more extraneous information)
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by briandh 11y ago
He didn't sound like a "nut", just ornery. I would be too.
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by briandh 11y ago
I read the article too. sooheon, who suggested that he/she lives in Korea, made no such stipulation. Of note, distribution (and maybe possession -- I am not sure) of porn is illegal in Korea in general -- not just for those under 18.
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by briandh 11y ago
"the downright Fascist porn restrictions (no I'm not bitter)" doesn't say anything about teenagers specifically.
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by briandh 11y ago
With respect to that "canonical example": http://popehat.com/2012/09/19/three-generations-of-a-hackney...
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by briandh 11y ago
Actually, the everyday meaning of censorship quite clearly includes the private suppression of speech. Them having the right to engage in it is independent of that.
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by briandh 11y ago
Not only did AOL and Time Warner split, but Time Warner Cable is a separate company from Time Warner.
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by briandh 11y ago
(Not the person you were asking) It depends on your heritage (I am of northwestern European and American descent, so my records are very good) but Ancestry makes it very easy, to their credit. A few minutes after you've added a new fam
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by briandh 11y ago
I did a site search on Google and it has been pasted on their forums a few times now. The following thread quotes what appears to be the first mention: http://liberland.org/en/forum/?threadID=2120825992553118a8c4..

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