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And hosted on US infrastructure, satisfying the "or" clause in their post

It's success, just not what you consider success.

The cope just keeps coming!

Is someone keeping a list of the excuses and varying instructions on how to hold it right? It would be fascinating historic documentation

What a wild, fascinating and, as a Brit, a rather satisfying read. So much luck, intelligence, perseverance and engineering. I believe still today we have some of the world's fines…

pass score of 52%*

> People seem to think a German passport is handed out easily now. It isn't. You have to prove you paid into the social system for at least five years. You have to pass the citizen…

Agree but the parents want the hardware for the kids' safety, and it has to be a smartphone specifically so the parents can GPS track them and to do facetime calls to prove they're…

You were brave, but nothing can stop the inevitable downvotes lol

Their point is that $100 in 2008 adjusted for inflation is around $155 today

Distantly related: similar to the local councils here in the UK that don't go after the obvious and prolific drug-front barbers and takeaways, because they pay business rates (loca…

So...how do they make the decisions? I was actually asking

> FIFA is really damaging their pristine reputation with this one. Ahahahahahahahahaha

I do wonder how the EC decides what to work on. Were EU citizens polled, and repairability of devices and appliances ranked as one of the top issues in their lives, for example? Wh…

I'm not filled with joy about my chav ("redneck") neighbours weighing in on nuclear vs solar and climate change and national and international energy markets and power distribution…

Yeah I feel like that's just a scenario that was depicted in movies/tv shows

My local library is ruined by people being anti social on purpose not using headphones and playing loud music, and the staff not doing anything because they get accused of being ra…

In the UK: supermarkets selling cheap alcohol. Decline in drinking. Labour costs, energy costs, rent costs. House prices. Pubcos taking over. Just battered from every possible dire…

Will the tradespeople (contractor) crowd turn up in this thread and cheer on the oil companies for making good money, damn any effect on the rest of the economy? ;)

Hundreds of millions or even billions of us work together well every single day... It's really tiring trying to engage in curious discussion on HN. Seems people just want to make a…

That's a nice story and barely a reply to my comment, not engaging at all.