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2,603karma·1,111submissions·February 17, 2023
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This is about how the courts operate with regards to international business disputes, US has proven record about being impartial in these matters.
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Is there any other country with both the court system and wealth required to back up being the global reserve currency? I don't think there is and I don't see a viable contender showing up i…
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I wish lenovo would make a modern 700c, nice and thin, no trackpad, 11" screen and three mouse buttons. Would be the ideal portable for me.
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$150 guitars (from the reputable brands) tend to use about the same quality of hardware as the $400 guitars, they just use plywood and synthetic fingerboards and uncool woods which are generally uncoo…
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Developing repair skills beyond those offered by most guitar shops is not a high bar considering most shops don't offer repair and just have a "tech" whose training stops at intonation …
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I did not say "professional artists," I said "artists" which includes the dabblers with the dreams of becoming professional artists but does not include pen collectors with a cabin…
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I sort of agree but I would say either get a cartridge pen or a refillable pen and leave it at that. Pick an ink and use it until it is gone. Don't get a second pen unless you actually have a nee…
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A good number of the inks are because of artists, hence the wide variety of colors including colors which are not particularly useful for writing. The water based inks used in fountain pens are the pr…
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That price range will suit most players and many of these contemporary lower end guitars even have decent pickups with a sort of jack of all trades compromise, massive improvement over the low end pic…
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Sure, but what will work for you will depend on what you consider "compelling electronic music," it is a big and diverse field and each have different tools which suit them. Without having s…
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>You need an instrument that you really want to pick up and play, that stays in tune, etc. It doesn't need to be $1500, but at $150 they better have an uncle who's a guitar tech. If you r…
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Activating the National Guard in this case just means cyber security support, they are not deploying troops or anything like the headline suggests.
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It would probably just switch perspective with each chapter. If the AI has any real grasp of literary devices something metafictional like City of Glass could be interesting but an earlier/less c…
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https://youtu.be/PzSlmWQuHFw https://youtu.be/T2WuzKeDx8U …
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What would this offer me over more established scripting languages? Main thing I want to know when I see a new offering. On a quick look I find the almost but not quite C syntax more difficult to read…
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No clue but karma on HN is kind of meaningless and the only people who pay attention to it are the ones who have yet to realize that most do not care how much karma they or anyone else has.
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Quadrennial myopia.
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Size of the web does not matter, it is more about not obsessing about cataloging the entire web and focusing on the content offered through the portal. I think the biggest issue to overcome with doing…
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From what I can tell the mental gymnastics are leaning how to think in terms of Forth instead of how to think in terms of the stack, which is the stack effect and not the stack itself. You only think …
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The standard/common way has the advantage of it being the easiest to maintain and control tension on the starter knot as you tie it, which is probably why it became the standard.
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It feels like HN is slowly turning into a forum for critiquing headlines.
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I have only researched this from the standpoint of going there by private boat which is different and has some extra work including getting approval from the USCG but what I picked up about general tr…
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So it is not illegal? you just need to go through the proper bureaucracy as you do with every countries. Last I looked into it a few years back it was easy to get the paper work, one person I found wh…
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No, not even civilians need to do that. Ultimately the only time you have to is when there is documentation of your being in the a foreign country and if there is no documentation you probably don…
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>depends on having a runtime installed That is what I want. I am just a hobbyist and not much good so having most of that stuff decided for me is a feature. I was going to go with a smalltalk but C…