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"The banking industry promised that from mid-2019 name checks would be carried out when customers sent money to other people" Wow. So far behind. "Barclays said it asked the person…

This is in my opinion the best book about modern history. You can easily catch up with stuff you missed: https://www.amazon.de/Rise-Fall-Great-Powers/dp/0679720197 This book was wr…

You can buy this in most of this countries legally. I love coca tea and coca wine.

Astrill. Not the cheapest but I am very happy with it. Also to circumvent GFC

I don't see the insult. I should have recommended the poster this book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/385.On_Bullshit

ICs and computers may have been a huge part of the downfall, especially if you consider how important they are in warfare. "1. its economic model was dysfunctional and a failure" T…

"I'm not an economist but I've never heard of competition described as "negative-sum."" It is obvious that, if competition is strong for a cake with a given size, that costs, e.g. …

It is well known. VEF, Eletrotehnika, Tondi Elektroonika and others. Also big biotech hub in Soviet times. AFAIK. Even the first soviet atomic bomb was partly build there ("Sillamä…

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Check out this little doggy: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-giant-severed-wolf-head-from-...

To sack it may have been one of the stupidest decisions ever by a CEO (Apotheker). After the blow out sale they had something they were lacking before: huge customer base. But the …

Just a SEO blog post that posts something obvious. They mention ThatOnePrivacySite.net but criticize him: "Here's the difference. They include virtually every provider — the good a…

The question is: What are you trying to achieve? Access the internet via an anonymous SIM card (tethering), then use TOR to access your VPN (paid in Bitcoins, money order or whatev…

"Does not claim to provide anonymity or censorship avoidance" Well, a VPN provides privacy, not anonymity. But setting up a VPN is trivial. In fact, I could do it with a one liner …

"If a whole other continent joins, it will be the biggest?" Yes. The biggest free trade zone. Read the news from time to time. The EU-Mercosul FTA is supposed to be signed but may …

You will win this bet since zero cars are produced there.

Best place to store the Boeing 737 MAX airplanes.

I don't understand your post at all. "so that no one would stifle the company's path towards autonomous EV's." Who is "stifling"? And many companies work on autonomous cars. "This …

You may want to read "the industrial society and its future". As a philosopher, underrated.

Yes. Sure. If they don't come with a loan or a city taxing your asshole away with property taxes.

Big farm. No kidding.

so? What could possibly go wrong? :-)

16GB. Interesting. Is this the magic threshold? My Dell XPS has 8GB. Definitely not enough!

Well, first investment since the Yemenites shot clown prince Salman a second asshole.