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>The last point point about being a continent is that I can ship across the USA for far less than I can ship from one side of the EU to the other. I sell on eBay and Amazon. We Americans have no id…

>That's an understandable reaction if you just look at the raw USD value, but that's very far from the full picture. They are not pitiful when you start adding the costs for housing, heal…

>I remember the day after Brexit passed my high school friend who was then working on her PhD in international theory asking how the government could revert such a decision. It seemed like the most…

>If they decide to rejoin at some point, perhaps the EU could demand elimination of the pound. The Guardian speculated in 2013 ( http://www.theguardian.com/business/economics-…

>Just compare the economic growth per capita of Norway (not in EU) with Sweden (in EU). It's at best an exaggeration that leaving the EU is going to have a significant deleterious impact on th…

Reddit/Twitter/etc. are always, Always , ALWAYS wrong about everything.[1] ... and thank God for that. As one whose political and cultural beliefs are mostly opposite that of Twitter/…

>The most recent reality check I've had is this year when I finally started using Twitter. I loaded up on folks in my industry only to be blindsided with a barrage of insanity. Honestly think …

>Ridiculous budget constraints? >Washington DC public schools get more money per student than anywhere else in US. NYC public schools are #1; DC isn't in the top ten ( https://www…

>You barely even have to send anyone " over there " just take what they produce and roll with that. Free goodies. The term is "useful idiots". https://en.wikipedia.or…

That you don't like someone's politics does not make what they say inherently false. If Rees-Mogg, Dorries, and Hancock are wrong, then demonstrate it.

>I’m no specialist on the US system, so could be wrong, but I heard from a friend who paid $4K cash for a broken ankle (arguably out of a total bill of $25K+, and not sure what type of healthcare t…

>A big difference is that high incomes are much more widely distributed across industries in the US than London. [...] >An under-rated feature of US cities is the diversity of occupations that c…

An apology should never include the word "if".

>Has anyone considered investing in emerging markets overseas? "Does investing in emerging markets still make sense? | Apart from China and India, there is little sign that developing economie…

>Unless you really need every ounce of performance Or a screen larger than 13"! Not that the M1 MacBook Pro is available in larger than 13" either, but I'm holding out until the 16&q…

>Somehow ... if I squint a bit.. the minitel model is an appstore. Yes, in the sense that the French phone company handled all billing. So each month's phone bill showed all Minitel charges. T…

>Theories are treated like facts. Also, words like “we know” are used, and then a decade later that knowledge turns out to be wrong. Heck, just this year we saw WHO, CDC, and other experts gravely …

K&R rightly gets lots of attention, but the C64 Programmer's Reference Guide, David Lien's BASIC manual for the TRS-80 Model I, and the 1981 IBM PC Technical Manual are in the pantheon o…

They're the ones who are the first to say that "science is on my side" or "I believe in science"

>I was once a subscriber to the NYT and am within their ideological range to enjoy most of their reporting. I feel as if since 2016 they've lost a lot of credibility. Their reporting feels lik…

What you're describing is called a Dutch auction. Microsoft and Sony should have offered their new consoles using this method. Start at a very high price like $10,000, decrease the price until pe…

I'd be shocked if Mississippi is not the most misspelled US state name.

>The branding here I think is a big issue. The name "Rocky Linux" sounds too homebrew and unprofessional. CentOS sounds Enterprise-ish. I find it hard to believe any corporate client woul…

>TROS's strange attempts to overwrite TLJ There's reason to think that Disney may retroactively erase the entire sequel trilogy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AMRRGCkW-…

I bought a similar but smaller tray: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00YOJRFKQ/ …

>Your attitude is insultingly out of touch to, for instance, the victims and families of the UK child sex scandal. It's not a happy fact, but it is a fact, that 97% of those arrested were Paki…

>I'd be interested to learn more about what Best Buy did to rework their processes, but I doubt it will become public because operational improvements like this can be a real advantage over co…

What, do content makers make videos purely for themselves? That's the whole point of monetization. As rayiner said, the government can't get around the First Amendment's guarantee of fr…

No American on the Trump side was indicted of anything actually related to "Russiagate", but for unrelated procedural crimes discovered during the investigation. (You know the saying that ev…

>Sweden is now backing out of that plan. If you read Hacker News for any length of time, each week there will be multiple "Sweden proves its strategy worked" articles competing with multi…