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DaedalusII

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    Comment #49176924

    There was a time when life was much simpler. We would all walk a few miles down to the 'station then have breakfast and read the 'paper while the steam smoke hung thick in the air …

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    Comment #49084374

    basal take, completely incorrect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_charitabl... the US is the most charitable country on earth as a percentage of GDP. There is so …

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    Comment #49080978

    maybe like this, gary oldman 1990s would have been good. there needs to be a feeling of some edge or at least mystery, depth

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    Comment #49080854

    "A complicated man" is a stupid translation in the first place Polytropos means: a man of many twists and turns, describing simultaneously a person who has traveled widely and been…

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    Comment #49064303

    that what i mean. where do all those votes go? someone controls them. and those interests are bought and paid for

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    Comment #49059448

    starlink cellular connection for android in future

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    Comment #49059437

    you should have a look at proxy firms. you would be surprised

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    Comment #48957091

    much more interesting than the actual article

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    Comment #48934162

    thats been replaced with spac deals also: can't pump the ipo and get exit liquidity for vc through a dutch auction

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    Comment #48877856

    this exact behaviour is why insurance is getting more expensive

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    Comment #48872819

    lets see how corgi holds up in a few years

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    Comment #48829942

    https://www.hornwright.com/civil-rights-law/when-police-plan... https://abcnews.com/US/florida-deputy-arrested-allegedly-pla... https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/07/20/5…

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    Comment #48825779

    if trump ordered someone to be shot for accepting bribes we would find this idea a lot less appealing anyone who spent a lot of time in that part of the world will tell you this st…

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    Comment #48764228

    [flagged]

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    Comment #48755225

    its difficult to see from the lens of software and information technology, and open source academia, but physical science is often discovered via experimentation and cant just be b…

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    Comment #48748268

    until mid 00s broadband internet was not widely available outside US/Europe/Japan. At one point I think over 10% of the internet was just Russia. Even today Russia and Japan make u…

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    Comment #48746868

    I guess you could call it a Qwen size bed

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    Comment #48721484

    because $100bn annual revenue, high FCF, high margin. Its a monster.

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    Comment #48685515

    it takes advantage of an esoteric piece of insurance regulation. They’re doing very aggressive underwriting without any of the traditional insurance regulatory protections applying…

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    Comment #48685167

    its so much better though. android junk UI and TV OS are so bad I will happily pay the Apple TV price just to get the remote and not get a headache when I get home from work and wa…

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    Comment #48661531

    now try closing your company for less than several thousand. lol. you should consider UK company, enormously better. or sweden. continental EU is mostly backwards.

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    Comment #48584975

    its faster to use an LLM + MCP (chatgpt or claude integration cloud integration) to search your email than to use the search field in the web browser now its also possibly cheaper …

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    Comment #48540307

    public defender lawyers who fought for workers rights and against items like company towns, abolitionists, etc. many good lawyers finance people who invented life insurance, health…

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    Comment #48511606

    tolkien largely copied the nibelungsenlied and accidentally inherited western chauvinism and many other ideas from that lore, including especially a great amount of racism