jayalpha

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by jayalpha 7y ago
"The banking industry promised that from mid-2019 name checks would be carried out when customers sent money to other people" Wow. So far behind. "Barclays said it asked the person who received the cash for permission to retu
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by jayalpha 7y ago
This is in my opinion the best book about modern history. You can easily catch up with stuff you missed: https://www.amazon.de/Rise-Fall-Great-Powers/dp/0679720197 This book was written in 1989 and was already ske
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by jayalpha 7y ago
You can buy this in most of this countries legally. I love coca tea and coca wine.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Astrill. Not the cheapest but I am very happy with it. Also to circumvent GFC
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by jayalpha 7y ago
I don't see the insult. I should have recommended the poster this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385.On_Bullshit
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by jayalpha 7y ago
ICs and computers may have been a huge part of the downfall, especially if you consider how important they are in warfare. "1. its economic model was dysfunctional and a failure" The USSR had a good economy for some time. During S
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"I'm not an economist but I've never heard of competition described as "negative-sum."" It is obvious that, if competition is strong for a cake with a given size, that costs, e.g. for advertisement, may actuall
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by jayalpha 7y ago
It is well known. VEF, Eletrotehnika, Tondi Elektroonika and others. Also big biotech hub in Soviet times. AFAIK. Even the first soviet atomic bomb was partly build there ("Sillamäe"). I spare you the details for the Czech republi
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Check out this little doggy: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-giant-severed-wolf-head-from-...
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by jayalpha 7y ago
To sack it may have been one of the stupidest decisions ever by a CEO (Apotheker). After the blow out sale they had something they were lacking before: huge customer base. But the idea to make money with software and apps instead of hardwar
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Just a SEO blog post that posts something obvious. They mention ThatOnePrivacySite.net but criticize him: "Here's the difference. They include virtually every provider — the good and the bad — and present them at equal value to so
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by jayalpha 7y ago
The question is: What are you trying to achieve? Access the internet via an anonymous SIM card (tethering), then use TOR to access your VPN (paid in Bitcoins, money order or whatever). This gives you a decent level of anonymity, if need be.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"Does not claim to provide anonymity or censorship avoidance" Well, a VPN provides privacy, not anonymity. But setting up a VPN is trivial. In fact, I could do it with a one liner on the Shell. "censorship avoidance" Thi
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by jayalpha 7y ago
"If a whole other continent joins, it will be the biggest?" Yes. The biggest free trade zone. Read the news from time to time. The EU-Mercosul FTA is supposed to be signed but may not due to Austria and partly also to France. It m
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by jayalpha 7y ago
You will win this bet since zero cars are produced there.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Best place to store the Boeing 737 MAX airplanes.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
I don't understand your post at all. "so that no one would stifle the company's path towards autonomous EV's." Who is "stifling"? And many companies work on autonomous cars. "This will produce pressur
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by jayalpha 7y ago
You may want to read "the industrial society and its future". As a philosopher, underrated.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Yes. Sure. If they don't come with a loan or a city taxing your asshole away with property taxes.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
Big farm. No kidding.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
so? What could possibly go wrong? :-)
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by jayalpha 7y ago
16GB. Interesting. Is this the magic threshold? My Dell XPS has 8GB. Definitely not enough!
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by jayalpha 7y ago
So why did South Korea rise but Ghana did not? Ghana was richer in 1957 than South Korea.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
>> But would the Congolese have had electron microscopes but for Belgian colonialism? > Probably yes. Probably not, if you understand how "non integrating gap countries" work.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
It meant a quick and dirty fix.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
AFAIK Drugs are not available anymore on Alibaba. You should not buy such important drugs from a dubious source. Drugs from an official Chinese Pharmacy are probably very safe. If someone sells sugar instead of antibiotics be assured that h
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by jayalpha 7y ago
It is gypsy code and works for me. Use macchanger instead of adopt the script for your purposes.
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by jayalpha 7y ago
macchanger Also extends time limites wifi. Or use my gypsy code import random import os mac='' os.system('/etc/init.d/networking stop') os.system('ifconfig wlan1 down') os.system('ifconfig e
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by jayalpha 7y ago
What is a "real economic loss"? A real economic loss is a realized loss. As long as Uber and WeWork are not closed down, their future performance is hard to predict. Uber especially is not a bad company. I love them. And if you ha
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by jayalpha 7y ago
It comes with several disadvantages. Like no air circulation (except air condition, what is probably a must in such a house), mold problems etc. ...

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