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There's a simple metric you are missing: installed base. There are 4 billion active smartphones, Tim Cook said iPhones are ~900 million Let's make it a billion for simplicity. 1 - …

Is that true? Why do people call it "the land of the free" then?

Can you really get fired for disagreeing with something?

> Yes, which you’ll find if you do Safari adheres to quite well They don' t Apple refused to implement 16 web API in Safari > Which is why we have media queries and poly fills beca…

> I would consider it more believable if they seemed more 'congruent'. Why? Social norms were very different for regular people, imagine being the emperor, especially Nero, whose f…

Yes and No. Nero had a very "peculiar" sexual life, but was also, of course, very powerful, which made him an enemy of the Senate that was very conservative about the image of Roma…

Pure io e ha un po' rotto le palle che davanti agli americani che si sparano per cazzate noi continuiamo a fare la parte della scimmietta simpatica che strilla per le strade Sono m…

So the proposed solution is having rules to force people to apologize, forgiveness is just an accessory. The post specifically said forgivenes is important at a personal level, on …

As Italian, with a grandfather imprisoned by the fascists and the other sent by the fascist regime to die in Russia, I can tell you what fascism is and what is not and I can tell y…

I wouldn't be so sure about it. https://creativeloafing.com/content-219258-Activists-block-S... https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/29/opinion/when-jim-crow-dra... https://medium.com/@…

> the Soviet Union was arguably fascist No, it wasn't. Fascism is not simply "what you don't like" If USSR was arguably fascist, so are the USA then. Do you think bombing other cou…

I think that "it's not the original since 1550" it's an overstatement The copy was made at roughly the same time of the original, so it is a great reference for how it should look,…

The fact that you didn't doesn't prove you shouldn't I'm not from US. I don't know the technicalities, in Italy for example you should declare who's residing in your house, even if…

CVD downvoted for stating the obvious: US living standards are among the worst in the entire west and sometimes worse than second and third world countries. But Americans don't wan…

You said it They are gangsters

No, you can't. Your house has to be registered to someone and you have to declare who lives in it, if it's yours. Anonymity is not about being a private person.

While being a minority in US on the other hand... Ask the Native Americans about it.

> 25th percentile means 3/4 of the worlds nations have a lower life expectancy LOL what did you miss from despite having the highest spending per capita ? US has the lowest life ex…

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> Everyone has problems But very few countries have homicide rates worse than US and lower life expectancy, despite having the highest spending per capita in health care in the Wor…

It has a lot to do with what kind of criminal lobby is in charge As European I prefer Chinese communists to American warlords that can't stop selling guns to everyone If you think …

I'm from a western country and I know for a fact that homicide rate in US is 6 times worse than China (6/100,000 in US VS Maybe US has some problems on its own...

There's no replacement for the thrill of driving a manual gear, but in US it's almost impossible to find one. So I guess it depends.