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Comment #43674601
Nepal maybe
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Comment #43088418
You're right - I apologize. Sycophancy is indeed a better word to describe my behaviour. Would like me to rewrite the article and replace the usage of flattery with sycophancy?
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Comment #42957764
it's science for school and history for college
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Comment #41846834
The commenter asks if the game is well known in Britain / Ireland itself. I don't see the commenter expressing displeasure but rather only curiosity
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Comment #41828342
A similar but more recent career trajectory: Elliot Hill, the incoming Nike CEO started at Nike as a store sales intern and was already head of Nike EMEA retail by around age 34 (i…
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Comment #40657212
Do any of the alternatives you've listed expose GPIO pins ?
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Comment #40326156
I’ve seen both. Last night from London the most I could see with my naked eye was diffuse patches of faint pink and green - sometimes highlighted by marginally brighter white-pink …
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Comment #40319210
Cliff House at Land's End in San Francisco had legendary popovers - too bad they closed down
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Comment #36470397
wait when did you order it and when did it arrive oO. Your comment reads as if you ordered it one hour ago and it arrived within minutes lol
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Comment #36469247
Reminds me of the time I ordered a $5 nano drone from AliExpress, and after 2 months Indian customs sent me a very threatening ‘show cause’ notice demanding I pay $50 as a fine and…
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Comment #36128105
Maybe I clearly do :)
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Comment #36125494
NANGA
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Comment #35959112
Holidays homes exists because owners are speculating that tourists will pay a premium that compensates for the time that the rooms stay unoccupied and that overall it will be more …
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Comment #35712845
Plus every bugfix that eventually gets discovered now requires an update to be shipped to end users. Atleast with websites, devs can ship a fix on the server immediately. So the im…
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Comment #35415532
London meanwhile, continues to ban personally owned e-scooters - allowing only rental e-scooters!
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Comment #35184591
In London, Citymapper shows the cost of each trip which can be very useful as there are often many routes that might take a similar amount of time but cost different (eg. sometimes…
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Comment #34562712
Not sure how Tesla or even Twitter is exposed to India for Musk wanting to please the Indian government. As big as India is, it keeps being considered as the ‘next billion’ revenue…
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Comment #34407459
> little chili equivalent to the ones used in Thai food Birds-eye chillies, you mean?
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Comment #33943932
This made my Google the etymology of 'ham-fisted' and I was disappointed that it had nothing to do with ham operators with carpal tunnel syndrome.
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Comment #33933709
The reply by the Chromium engineer (from Google? - I'm not sure) to a long thread of people from several companies quantifying the benefits of JPEG XL and requesting that it be sup…
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Comment #33316194
> Does it get warm? > Brian S (Creator): Nope not at all. LED's do not emit much heat and the Titanium body of the eye offers great heat shielding from any heat emitted. [ https://…
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Comment #32475322
M1 = "the 1st gen MacBook Air with the M1 chip"
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Comment #32425913
From what I understood, the former Google employee being interviewed here is discussing the problem of not being allowed to discuss 'caste discrimination in India', eg. during Utta…
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Comment #32414164
This the first I've heard of this and I assumed there must be more to it. After some Googling I'm shocked that someone can be sentenced in the UK for a mildly offensive tweet (IMO)…
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Comment #32271036
Not correct, OP entered into an agreement with Stripe where Stripe would process payments received for the sale of cell phones (and not automobiles).