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3,140karma·1,202submissions·December 12, 2023
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Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49208461
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What rubbish - only fools will believe that Russia has an interest in starting a nuclear WW3. Historically, Russia has never militarily attacked any NATO country. (And most of the NATO countries are a…
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If it is local, they probably can. But VoIP being international is the problem. See Why in the year of our lord 2022 am I still getting robocalls??? - https://www.vox.com/recode/…
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Many scammers use internet telephony to call someone and some even spoof the caller id. In India, the mobile companies request subscribers to report any international call which shows local spoofed ca…
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When there is smoke, there is often a fire. Columbia's Foreign Minister Rosa Yolanda Villavicencio has also accused Israel and US of political interference and electoral manipulations - https:&#…
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That's one part of it. The current Government of Spain also believes it's a ploy to cause their electoral defeat in the future and help the Spanish right- come to power, and that this has be…
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You are right, I was mistaken. Apparently permanent residency is a must now. The only way to bypass the employment based green card quota is to marry an American citizen.
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Browsers have to kowtow too ...
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> most Indians who immigrated to the US after 2010 will never become citizens in their lifetime because of the green card backlog. While a green card makes it easier to get a US citizenship, it i…
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Yeah, learnt the hard way to have backups in multiple medias and that you have to refresh / re-copy your backups every 4-5 years. Wish we had consumer tape drives so that it could be once every 1…
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Depends on the political perspective. Has the US bet all on AI tech to retain its power? Yes. AI tech currently is very energy intensive. So energy infrastructure too needs money to expand. The "…
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I am guessing, but many of us still use CDs / DVDs (/BluRays?) to make backups. It's cheap. Lasts long.
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Now all it needs to do is fix its freshwater problems ...
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> To further analyse the extent of AI’s handicap, I questioned both ChatGPT and Gemini about the “first Indian Prime Minister to visit Palestine”; it answered — Narendra Modi on February 10, 2018, …
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You are absolutely right that the delivery services sell the convenience of saving time. The economics of it also suggests that only the rich can truly afford it regularly. That's where the price…
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And that is why the US allies in the region are losing trust in American leadership ... when the American political leadership condones a genocide of Arabs, tries to legitimise the occupation of land …
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The future of Apple clearly is "subscriptions".
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They should take their time ...
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US tipping culture is insane: 1. If "tips" in the US are "compulsory" because customers should make up for the poor wage the delivery people get paid, why is there still a compul…