thisislife2

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Indian police to query Google over 500k fake Gmail IDs linked to bomb hoax(reuters.com)
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Chinese FM to visit Seoul as Lee floats multiparty talks on ending Korean War(koreaherald.com)
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by thisislife2 26d ago
Should be interesting. We need alternatives and competition in this segment. Is this the same as - https://www.bilibili.tv/en ?
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Deaths of 'Iranian leaders' hindering deal with US – Trump(tass.com)
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by thisislife2 27d ago
We can never be sure now can we? I mean, there are great artists who aren't famous and struggle and remain unknown, and then there are artists (talented or otherwise) who either know (or have backers that know) how to play the game to
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by thisislife2 28d ago
It's hard to tell - are you a Ukrainian? I ask because that would help narrow the discussion and help me better understand your point of views.
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by thisislife2 28d ago
Certain platforms, like Reddit and Facebook, are certainly more commonly targeted so you may very well be right about your experience there.
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by thisislife2 28d ago
> The average person is not willing to pay twice as much for a repairable phone. It doesn't need to cost twice as much - https://www.hmd.com/en_int/hmd-pulse?sku=286947218 . It however does require legislatio
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by thisislife2 28d ago
I am an Indian - I am only "pro-Russian" or "pro-American" depending on the politics.
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by thisislife2 28d ago
> India used to have an excise, sales tax (replaced by VAT in the early 2000s) and octroi system. And all of them were introduced with care to reduce the transition pain points of the MSMEs. None of it was as deliberately convoluted an
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by thisislife2 28d ago
- Why our tech fails us: Learning from century-old light bulb that never goes out - https://interestingengineering.com/culture/planned-obsolesce... > ... but there is also a market for $150 Best Buy laptops for br
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by thisislife2 28d ago
> The countries that have provided military and economic aid and training are members of NATO ... So when you say "NATO funded, NATO trained army", you're vastly overstating the NATO-ness of the UA. No, sounds about righ
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by thisislife2 29d ago
And why were the Soviets forced to make a pact with Nazi Germany? It was because the western powers rejected good-faith Soviet efforts to make a defence pact against the Nazis in the first place. Why did the Winter Wars start? The Russians
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by thisislife2 29d ago
Google has been sued for displaying ads on trademarked keywords though.
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by thisislife2 29d ago
- Who benefits from the free bus for women scheme? - https://www.cag.org.in/blogs/who-benefits-free-bus-women-sch... - Free Bus Service Schemes for Women in India: A Gendered Approach to Public Transport and Economi
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by thisislife2 29d ago
Most of these reserve grains are already being diverted for Ethanol production once they "expire". It is sold to these Ethanol producers at low rates (subsidised). The Ethanol producers however sell these grains and make a tidy pr
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by thisislife2 29d ago
And Iran was once any ally of America too ... there's no reason it cannot be again.
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by thisislife2 29d ago
I sympathise with both parties. As customers, things like these really do test our patience. I wanted to support Jolla / Sailfish and purchased their phone but dealing with the bugs in the OS, for years, even as I was using it as my ma
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by thisislife2 29d ago
You make a good point. And they do have the industrial knowledge / experience to create higher quality parts than Framework. But note that the value difference between Framework's offering and the others you cited is that repair
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by thisislife2 29d ago
Your confusion is understandable as Americans use a different political spectrum scale (i.e. Americans have their own political labelling system) - outside America, anyone would scoff, and even laugh, at the claim that the Democratic Party
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by thisislife2 29d ago
Thanks for the heads up. It's useful information. From the article: > The Quincy Institute routinely vilifies supporters of Israel in Washington. Its principal goal is to reorient American policy in the Middle East, marginalising Am
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by thisislife2 29d ago
- Companies Are Using Reddit to Manipulate ChatGPT and Google AI Search - https://www.404media.co/companies-are-using-reddit-to-manipu... - AI Search Has a Misinformation Problem — and DuckDuckGo Just Proved It - https
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by thisislife2 29d ago
I agree with what you said about Israel's prowess and experience in this field. But Russia and China are not really that behind in propaganda, even if they may not have AIPAC equivalent in the west. Remember that Soviet Russians were i
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by thisislife2 29d ago
That explains a lot! Yesterday, I came across this article - Outrage In Oman Over Trump's Threat To Bomb The Sultanate... - https://www.memri.org/reports/outrage-oman-over-trumps-threa... and posted it on HN. Bu
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by thisislife2 29d ago
Reminds me of a meme - "We were never supposed to have this much access to stupid people's thoughts, beliefs and opinions."
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by thisislife2 29d ago
> The sheer volume of comments make it super obvious... Does it though? Remember that the Global South outnumbers the west in terms of population. And the west isn't really as politically popular as westerners like to believe: -
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by thisislife2 1mo ago
> Is Russia more secure today than it was in 2014? Yes, in some ways, it actually is. Russia has been fighting a NATO funded, NATO trained army for 4+ years now ... it has strengthened its domestic production, forged new economic and m
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by thisislife2 1mo ago
Did Trump's Tariffs create confusion and mayhem, increase price (drain wealth) and ultimately lead to the siphoning of billions of tax payer money (again, another drain) to rich corporates? Yes, it has. Make of that what you will ...
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by thisislife2 1mo ago
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree as, clearly, we are on different sides of the political spectrum and look at these things differently: - Demonetisation, GST and lockdown: How the Modi government has wrecked India’s small busin
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by thisislife2 1mo ago
> I do not see this. In fact, he is TOO socialist. GST implementation, Demonetisation, unnecessary COVID restrictions etc. resulted in anarchy that was all designed to drain wealth (make labour cheaper) and / or transfer wealth fr

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