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by ruggeri 15d ago
I think maybe no one has noted that as of 2026-03-25, Tokyo Metro now accepts open-loop contactless EMV tap to ride. I believe the result is similar to how in London you can use either Oyster or a CC (or OMNY or CC in New York City). But I
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by ruggeri 27d ago
I don’t know how much responsibility should flow upward to Coca Cola, but “suppressed union activity” is excessively euphemistic.
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by ruggeri 3mo ago
I don’t agree with the assessment, but in terms of a great power being very interested in the interests of a small country, consider Serbia and Russia before WWI.
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by ruggeri 9mo ago
You’ve been downvoted by others because this is lazy stereotyping.
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by ruggeri 1y ago
I think you can't directly acknowledge the guidelines because you know you are willfully violating them. The guidelines are the rules of the road for the community. The moral obligation to follow the guidelines is not conditional on wh
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by ruggeri 1y ago
You might be downvoted regardless, as you suggest, but the guidelines are still the social contract of HN. What you call "less than apologetically polite" I would call "not kind" and "snarky." Did you feel kind
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by ruggeri 1y ago
I believe you are being downvoted because your comment violates the guidelines ("Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously... Edit out swipes."); anyway, that's why I downvoted. Your later comment that enforcement mig
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by ruggeri 2y ago
Not contradicting your point, but adding tangential interesting information. Blu-Ray UHD discs can no longer be played on modern computers as Intel has removed the trusted execution environment needed to decrypt them. Blu-Ray UHD players do
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by ruggeri 2y ago
First, I believe you are right that the CCP believes that "giving Hong Kong the freedom to operate does not work." I believe you are right that the CCP believes that "the same applies to Taiwan." I believe you are right
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by ruggeri 2y ago
> So was everything with Taiwan hunky dory when they were a murderous military dictatorship for all those decades[1]? It's good to remember that Taiwan's adoption of multiparty democracy is very recent, and that a one-party dic
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by ruggeri 2y ago
May I ask what high school? We did not have a linear algebra course in my New York high school. I would have liked to have been able to take linear algebra then.
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by ruggeri 3y ago
Oh, another suggestion: show the country and let them name the capital!
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by ruggeri 3y ago
I liked it a lot, especially the UI. I disagree with any suggestion that makes the game easier. There are a lot of websites with name-that-country games. For people who are pretty good at locating and naming countries, they want to improv
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by ruggeri 3y ago
I bought San Francisco Dream (Yoko Takahashi) a while back. It had a lot of photos that reminded me of what it felt like when I had just moved here. Possibly not an answer to your question, but just in case someone else reading finds it int
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by ruggeri 3y ago
I didn’t read the comment as trying to denigrate wind turbines. It says 20yr operation with 7-8mo payback which sounds excellent. If anything, I think the understated way the grandparent comment presented the facts added to the impact of th
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by ruggeri 3y ago
Just joining in with others who report that I haven't had any problems with LED bulb failures. I've used exclusively LED bulbs for at least 5 years now (maybe about 15 bulbs across my home), and none has ever failed on me. They do
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by ruggeri 3y ago
You're moving the goalposts. He expresses his judgements about the reliability of CCS charging networks in the video. I suppose that you don't have to credit Technology Connections' assessment if you don't think it'
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by ruggeri 3y ago
At 19:37 https://youtu.be/ZJOfyMCEzjQ?si=cHgDdtSIutz-dWrZ&t=1177 "So now, why are automakers suddenly itching to make this switch? Well, there's a pretty simple answer: the CCS charging networks available here
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by ruggeri 3y ago
I didn't watch the video you linked, but I accept your summary of his experience then (1 year ago). The video I link is from 2 weeks ago. A good half of the video is describing many frictions he has encountered with non-Tesla charging
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by ruggeri 3y ago
My experience is in northern California. Probably no one can speak for the experience across the entire US. FWIW, this guy in Minnesota seems to have had a very similar experience to what I’ve seen: https://youtu.be/ZJOfyMCE
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by ruggeri 3y ago
He means the United States. In my limited experience, his comment rings as accurate here in the United States.
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by ruggeri 4y ago
I would suggest that it's not necessary to speculate too much about why they made a grammatical error. There are many possible reasons. For instance, I suggested that they may simply be less pedantic/careful about grammar. They
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by ruggeri 4y ago
Honest question: did Germany have any say in Tunisia's voting system? Wasn't Tunisia a French protectorate? Do you mean more recently than 1956? In any case, Tunisia is not the only country with PR. It's used a lot of places,
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by ruggeri 4y ago
I say this as someone who cares about language, and who has no dog in this Carmack dispute. I think you are overweighting a fairly simple grammatical error. The commenter expresses themself clearly and logically. It is possible that they do
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by ruggeri 4y ago
They did ask for a citation. They asked for an analysis of the data. They just also gave their impression. They didn't imply that it was a comprehensive study or scientific. And they're right to ask. They shouldn't believe so
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by ruggeri 4y ago
I second this! In a similar, but different, vein, I also recommend Alan Turing: The Enigma, by Andrew Hodges. Do not be turned off by the useless film adaptation. The book is intelligent and fascinating, and more aimed at someone with an un
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by ruggeri 4y ago
If you conduct business (even if only over the internet) in the EU, the EU considers you subject to their laws. Same as with the United States (and probably every other jurisdiction). Do you have to comply with EU law if you conduct busines
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by ruggeri 4y ago
Wasn't Germany building Nordstream 2 against US advice? It doesn't seem like European politicians always do what the US government wants. Does that suggest your model might be wrong or over-simplified?
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by ruggeri 4y ago
The straightforward reading of the gp is that keeping its own currency was “special” in the context of the EU, which requires new members to join the Eurozone eventually. It would be a “privilege” insofar as it is an exception to the EU’s g
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Coinbase launches voter registration tool(cointelegraph.com)
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