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4,416karma·3,765submissions·August 18, 2015
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Although I've been using YouTube since it first appeared, I did not expect to use YouTube 95% of the time on my Shield TV. It has quite effectively replaced regular TV as both primary source of e…
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The one benefit I did not expect from an ereader was the freedom to flip between any and all of my books at any time. My usual routine is to fall asleep while reading my Paperwhite at night. It is sma…
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Several of the best SCP Foundation entries are about relics that are from civilizations before recorded history. * http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-1115 * http://www.scp-wiki.ne…
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>the US is worst hit entirely How is it that people still claim this with a straight face? The US has the most number of deaths on an absolute basis, but by per capita Belgium, the UK, France, Spai…
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The Naturalization Act of 1790 ( http://rs6.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llsl&fileName=001/l... ) limited gaining US citizenship to "free white"s, but said noth…
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>In black and white photos and crackly films shot through with static, a classic image of the United States at the turn of the last century emerges: a near constant rush of immigrants, most destine…
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>It really always baffled me why Americans were using text messaging for so long Because our mobile plans gave us gigantic buckets (thousands of SMS messages per month, then unlimited) before most …
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The US and the West faced for 45 years a totalitarian system that had conquered a dozen neighboring countries and had a powerful military. How far was "too far" in combating that? As mention…
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> If you bought an iPhone SE 64gb at launch, it cost you $499. $120 per support year so far. I was paid to buy my SE ( https://www.reddit.com/r/NoContract/comments/6…
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I bought my iPhone 5S used in December 2013, and sold it in mid-2017, in part because I expected that iOS 11 that year would drop support. Nope; both it and iOS 12 supported the 5S, meaning that it co…
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Thus the resulting panic at https://www.reddit.com/r/uwaterloo/comments/hdzc8x/trump_ord... …
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My understanding is that the bulk of the US's arable land (i.e., the Midwest) won't be much affected by climate change. It might move sideways, but it won't turn into desert. Conversely…
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I'm surprised that Hobart and/or Tasmania in general isn't more populated. Is its climate too cool?
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Such has a long tradition in France, and lasted well into the 20th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_French_journalism#M... …
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Reminiscent of CNN threatening the creator of a GIF that Trump retweeted with doxing if he didn't behave: https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/7/5/15922224/cn…
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Berlin Brandenburg Airport[1] makes Boston's Big Dig and San Francisco's Central Subway look good in terms of infrastructure efficiency. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki…
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But the per-capita ratios in favor of people from a given country moving to the US, versus Americans moving to said country, are massive regardless of country and regardless of whether that country sp…
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>I, on the other hand, think that high taxes end up benefitting everyone through greater services for those down on their luck which seems to translate to less desperation, less resentment, less cl…
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You didn't read the article, which explicitly disclaims against conspiracy theories of the US ordering the Arrow's cancelation.
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> Interesting to contrast with Sweden, a country of 10m people, having a domestic fighter program to this day. That's mostly driven off Sweden's postwar neutrality. Were Sweden a NATO mem…
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Why do you assume that the hordes of Canadians who migate to the US for work are stupid? There are about three times as many Canadians living in the US than Americans living in Canada. The US has abou…
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>I was an early adopter of PPC and OSX, I’m not gonna sit there trying to get work done via the old-cpu emulation again. The lowest spec of the very first PowerPC Macs (the 6100) was faster than an…
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> Apple has never pulled off a transition like this before. None of your examples involved going from a popular architecture with broad software support to a less-popular architecture. That's …
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I suspect pavlov would be shook to learn of the Military District of Washington. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Army_Military_Di... …
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Is that any more uncharitable than cstross's comparison with East Germany?
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/r/The_Donald did not pretend to be anything it is not. /r/BernieSanders operates in the same way. The problem is when /r/politics, /r/news, /r/worldn…
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>In the Police Guide of the Fatherland he will find set forth a list of the things the doing of which will bring to him interest and excitement. FDR as a youth was arrested four times in one day wh…
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I still have 32-bit applications. More to the point, I don't know of any compelling reasons to upgrade from Mojave. The new battery-conditioning feature may be the first such.
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Same, except on Mojave. Keeping fingers crossed that 10.16 will continue supporting 2012.
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I did too, but reading recent news reports, it still exists.[1] I presume that the spread grows when the country is in times of crisis (inb4 "When is Argentina ever not in crisis?"), such as…