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It's difficult to imagine Huawei allowing themselves to be forced out of the lucrative international market for mobile devices, especially as they are bound to remain a strong play…

Good point. I somehow assumed EC citizens would be exempt from such laws but that doesn't necessarily seem to be the case even now [1], and must have been very different before the…

It puzzles me why he never became a citizen. He moved to the UK in 1966, that's 54 years now, and it was even before they joined the EEC sometime in the 1970s.

What would have been a shell script in the 1980s, a Perl script in the 1990s, a Python script in the 2000s, is now a JS bundled with an outdated Chromium build aka an Electron app.…

Death rates will be lower than in Hubei if not a lot of people become infected at the same time elsewhere but is this really a safe assumption to make, given what we already know a…

The Big Mac Index is catchy but not particularly informative. I've found this crowdsourced comparison to provide much more insight: https://www.numbeo.com/cost-of-living/

Iosevka is actually a number of different fonts in one, depending on the variant chosen: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/be5invis/Iosevka/master/im...

The conclusions are of little informational value as the same is going to apply to practically any pathogen-borne disease (unless a vast group of the elderly had the chance to acqu…

That's what I've been thinking as well. Creating "shell companies" (aka "Special Purpose Entities/Vehicles") is not illegal per se. Perhaps he violated the terms and conditions of …

The writing is quite confusing in trying to explain things but the gist of it appears to be that the person in question (1) applied for IP addresses through numerous companies crea…

>> You could just watch French TV [...] > It’s still much tougher to come by that one might think. You could try Arte: https://www.arte.tv/ It's a joint French-German project based…

I only search YouTube with Google video search as YouTube's built-in search always seems to be delivering much less relevant results for me. Google Search seems to ignore the user'…

It's not a paywall, just poor design: if you're outside the US, you might get redirected to a local version of that website, where the page doesn't exist. The workaround is apparen…