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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> First, a lot of English-speaking countries place lower importance on veggies. Which ones? In the US, we are told to eat our veggies because they are good for you. The problem in the US is that something forced women into the workplace
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> What supernatural being descended on earth and gave governments the supreme right to own the path from earth into space. 'Listen. Strange supernatural beings descending on earth is no basis for a system of government. Supreme exec
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
Because of microsoft office ( particularly excel ). It's just as simple as that. I remember years ago people thought that google's free office/spreadsheet offering was going to be the end of microsoft office/excel. I rem
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> It takes billions and billions of dollars Apple and Microsoft are trillion dollar companies ( both nearing $3 trillion market caps ). They can afford it. Heck they have the balance sheet to acquire both tsmc and samsung if either were
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
And we want all the names of the people who own you. It's always the hysterically pro-israel ( and anti-american ) politicians who behave this way. Funny how she says it will prevent russian, iranian and chinese bots, but no mention of
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> OK, I don't think so. Doesn't matter what you think. It's a fact. No revolution swept the old guard from power. The system didn't change. I explained this to you. > When the Berlin Wall fell, which direction did
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Miami is a 2.5 hour flight direct from almost every major airport on the east coast. It is beautiful year round. Yes. You just described a wonderful vacation destination. Not a financial capital. > Sorry, but I don't really wan
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> But in the 60s Detroit was the tech capital of America and California was for movie stars, beatniks, and farmers. By the 60s, northern california was already a tech hub. Stanford university was around for nearly a century by then and i
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
Mr Griffin should learn about 'geography is destiny' and take a look at a map. Manhattan is situated smack in the middle of the population center that is the ny metro area and more broadly the northeast. Not to mention the top uni
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
More like scoundrels paid to push an agenda. How do these types of garbage hit the front page so often one wonders.
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> how would we ever hear about it? Why wouldn't we? What are we going to do about it? Nothing. It's just like youtube platforms videos discussing how bad social media is for your mental health. Or oil companies funding 'gr
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> At the end of the Cold War, I enlisted in the Navy because it was a good opportunity; there was no ambiguity regarding the bad guys; the military leadership was good; the elected leadership was generally tolerable. Sounds like you rece
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
Most people don't 'choose' anything. They take what is given to them or the easiest option. Netscape found that out the hard way when microsoft leverage their OS to push IE on everyone. People can 'google' on bing,
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
Maybe. But if irrational people at big companies are just throwing $21 billion away, the shareholders will hold them responsible. Especially the major shareholders.
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
It amazes me that reddit has maintained such a terribe search service for so long. It has been consistently and impressively bad. The most basic filtered full-text search would be better. But then again, if google is going to do the job for
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> * Her name means "renown/glory of father", a really nice name for a daughter! The first part, kleos comes from kluein, "to hear", which in turn derives from the same IE root as the English word loud. Which is n
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> That it why we spell it as "colour" in English. No. That was due to french influence. Not to be more phonetic. > Americans removed the "u" from their dialect which makes a needlessly complicated language even mor
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Pushing these companies to return money to their shareholders instead of keeping it in huge war chests used for buying up any potential competitors would be a good first step. Companies already do that with dividend payouts or share bu
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> I assure you I see these colours the same as you do. I assure you that you do not. Don't want to get too philosophical or biological on you but we all see colors differently. Every single one of us. Even identical twins.
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
Had no idea nokia was still in business. I thought they were bought out years ago. US demand shrinks? Growth uncertain? Did nokia carve out a niche in the US market because I haven't seen a nokia phone or any nokia product in ages.
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> No evidence of overfishing? The alaskan snow crab market is in the hundreds of thousands to a few million. If 10 billion snow crabs were caught, the snow crab price would have cratered to a penny and we'd all be feasting on cheap
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> The west bootstrapped modern civilization Bootstrapped? You mean raped, pillaged, exterminated and polluted. > Other countries dont need to because cleaner technology is available now. 'Available'? You mean poor countries
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Wikipedia says that it rains 39.34 inches annually in Seattle. Is that a lot? The precipitation in seattle (mist) and the precipitation in nyc ( rain ) are two different animals. For example, pretty much everyone in nyc owns an umbrell
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
Or you can bake it. That way you can save the tasty juices. It's especially effective for hamburger patties. When you are done cooking, you can dump the juices on the bread and then put your hamburger patty on it. Absolutely delicious.
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> It seems like Microsoft believes they can settle for something much lower. They could hire the best lawyers, accountants, lobbyists, etc in the world. Unless someone at microsoft did something criminal, it's likely they could knoc
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> I pay for YouTube Premium in India. Surely indians could find better things to spend their money on. When India banned tiktok, I remember thinking wow, they've finally got their act together and are developing their own social med
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Attempts to change/form their views to be favourable towards dictatorships and antagonistic to democracies. Rather than china, I'm more concerned about foreigners like you interfering in america and american social media. Wha
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
What ban? FB, Google, etc simply chose not to follow chinese laws and left. What US laws is tiktok violating? None.
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> As a huge fan of Buffett, I must point to the fact that can materially change this comparison in the years to come: The beauty of financial 'journalism'. They choose arbitrary points of comparison to fit whatever they are try
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by goodbyesf 3y ago
> Nomads basically made huge swaths of Eurasian land uninhabitable to peasant communities because your settlement will be raided until it ceases to exist. Nonsense. Huge swaths of eurasian landmass is uninhabitable because of harsh clima

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