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Markoff

2,756karma·3,266submissions·December 31, 2016
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I'm not Russian, don't even speak Russian, just liked John Markoff in 90s.
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yeah, live streaming wedding ceremony and feast would be much more eco friendly and cheaper for OP, not sure why he insisted on physical presence, heck they could even send some Tesco gift voucher so …
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would not be then better to have smaller wedding with amount of guests one can afford without asking them to pay for food or drinks? it's very odd idea for me to invite me somewhere and then expe…
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wow, something i hear first time, it would be scandal in my country or country of my wife to ask guests to pay for anything, though in China is pretty much mandatory to give red envelope containing mo…
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don't forget the ecology argument, that's always saver if someone doesn't wanna admit they are just cheap
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i get you did this as exercise but from efficiency point it seem like waste of time just to invite around 60 people (have i got it right if 40 accepted means acceptance around 70%), I would understand…
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what's social about WhatsApp? last time i checked it was IM client for chatting and calling
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ublock origin?
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> US airlines have been through hell over the last 16 years. Bankruptcies, union battles, fierce competition, and not to mention, the real threat that someone could blow up or intentionally crash t…
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why would you stand in queue for 20 minutes? I never understood it, I am usually one of the last people boarding the plane, heck I will be sitting there in small space for many hours usually so where …
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I am not familiar with this, what was the problem with photos and stepping aside, why she didn't want to do it?
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he might be flying on popular route, contradicting statistics, so you both might be right
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strange we don't have these issues in Europe in really competitive market, so I don't think customer is to blame here... once again why is there so little competition in US airlines market? …
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Aren't they doing it already? I was under impression from news you must already provide them at border with password or unlock your device for inspection when asked.
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It's hard to not be bitter, if you live in China for years as adult person and not some student enjoying parties and iresponsible youth years. The amount of ridiculous stuff you have to deal with…
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European cities are much more compact than American. Americans want to live in suburbs in their own houses and drive cars, Europeans have no problem to live in apartments in city and use public transp…
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it's ahead only if you think those markets are comparable, people outside China don't desire this functinality since they have many other good options, people in China has horrible options s…
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no ratings, no basic information, now let's compare it to this https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=arrival unless there will be another engine which will provide me w…
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are you sure you are not ABC (judging by nickname) who lived in China less than me and it's just here supporting their totalitarian government based on fantasies you read about China online witho…
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what about customers? so customers have pretty much huge options, you can choose either WeChat, WeChat or Wechat, what will be your choice? kudoz to WeChat for success in such competitive market! …
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WeChat is censoring the messages, not government, they just give them order and WeChat gladly accept terms in exzchange for China monopoly and protection from international competitors, same go for Fa…
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i think this would be similar in bigger European cities too, it's just too far to ride bike especially if you live in suburbs
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IOW: Less than 3 Americans out of 100 are not afraid of physical activity * * not taking into consideration people living too far from work to walk or bike, which would skew numbers a lot, since major…
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so according this test children under 1-1.5 don't have conscience about self awareness thus should not have same rights as other human beings, was this really confirmed at babies? isn't this…
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it can, it's called websites and you open them in browser, not sure why would I want wrapper app like Wechat to harvest all my data you can do pretty much all user car scenarios of what by openin…
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often, they are very fast deleted from your Moments (Wall), heck is you use sensitive keyword they won't be even delivered to the other party in PRIVATE message, so much for this amazing messenge…
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he was talking about censorship made by Wechat for CCP order
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it's not hard, let government block all your international competitors and you will see astonishing growth in brainwashed spoon-fed population only people amazed by wechat are those who never liv…
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TLDR Milestones - leave totalitarian government block all your competitors, be complacent and provide all your data to government, censor what people post on their public wall and in private messages …
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most of the engines don't pass my simple test - enter name of movie and i expect to see aggregated basic info and ratings of movie at least from 2-3 websites without opening them it's a bit …
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we have fixed prices for taxi, so i know how much i will pay and ride cost much less than Uber with surge pricing which is reason nobody really cares about Uber, you can conveniently order taxi throug…
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