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in the future no sign-up will be required for misguided adventurism in the middle east and beyond!

Yep. Tricky for those that have childcare costs that they now cannot meet. Some in similar positions are forced out of work.

>True but generally speaking American companies usually have much better customer service and better refund policies than European ones. The issues usually stem when a company corn…

I'm trying to be charitable but I really don't understand your line of reasoning. To me it seems like their hand is being forced by the UK Government. They don't want to introduce …

paying up front when offered an interest free loan, especially in a high interest rate environment is not really rational though. i have excellent credit but klarna doesn't offer i…

i believe cppfront is more of a way to try out and demonstrate ideas in the hopes that they are adopted by the cpp standard

i think to expect a multi-billion dollar organisation to make consequential decisions like this based on anything other than cold calculation is naive at best and enormously stupid…

indeed, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window

i'd recommend a rowing machine. targets a lot of muscles, allows high/low intensity cardio, and is low impact to help reduce the probability of injury

suggest you read the article. The sea change in chicken production demonstrated it was possible to quickly scale down antibiotics in farming, but it didn’t do much to reduce overal…

consider that the goal of facebook is not to build a 'good product for the world'. facebook exists to 1) keep your attention 2) extract as much data as it can 3) make inferences wh…

one piece of advice for anyone about to read war and peace: the number of chracters are vast and you'll find that the names used to refer to each can often change with no warning. …

> As a market, it's not worth the risk until it's worth the legal advice. i think that is a calculation only op can make. the european union covers over 400 million people. making …

i'd like the answer to this too. let me know if you ever figure it out

Hong Kong is done.

I like the graphs on this page - I wonder how they were developed

I will repost a comment I made about Apple and China in another post like 1.5 years ago: "Apple are beholden to China. Sure, China is a huge market for them but I think the bigger …

I was hoping they'd include 16GB memory as the base

It's down! Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20201001142018/https://wildbit.c... Edit: seems to be back up but slow

Yeah, bye. Over the past few weeks, I've seen police officers indiscriminately spray pepper spray at peaceful protestors. I've seen them spray pepper spray at journalists. I've see…

On a practical level, I agree, working from home is better in many ways. However, you can't forget to think about this on a human level. We are social animals after all. You may no…

It also goes on to say: "An unprecedented collapse in passenger demand is prompting airlines to use their fleets to transport more cargo, including medicines" shouldn't this, if an…

Indeed. It seems that Facebook's network effect is at play here. As a platform, it is playing a massive role in communication and information sharing in an epidemic. Perhaps when t…