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·12 miesięcy temu·discuss
You can easily book at big chains in the US as a foreigner despite having no credit score whatsoever so I don’t think that’s it. I guess it’s probably just that a having credit card and an id card ensure that they won’t have trouble charging you if they need to. The possibility alone is probably enough to deter most people who could be tempted to commit petty things like stealing towels.
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·12 miesięcy temu·discuss
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·12 miesięcy temu·discuss
Google has always been a pain when it comes to internationalisation.

The number of hoops you have to jump through to get results from the actual Google page when you are outside of the US is mind boggling. I don’t even know if it’s still possible.
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·12 miesięcy temu·discuss
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·12 miesięcy temu·discuss
> in contrast to the US, there is absolutely nothing that limits the illegitimate power grab of the EU.

I am happy to inform you that the EU actually works according to treaties which basically cover every point of a constitution and has a full set of courts of law ensuring the parliament and the European executive respect said treaties and allowing European citizens to defend their interests in case of overreach.

> European aristocrats just decided

I am happy to inform you that the European Union has a democratically elected parliament voting its laws and that the head of commission is appointed by democratically elected heads of states and commissioners are confirmed by said parliament.

If you still need help with any other basic fact about the European Union don’t hesitate to ask.
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·12 miesięcy temu·discuss
> once the big companies started releasing new movies directly on streaming services, we realized how much better seeing a new movie in the comfort of our own home can be

As someone who is blessed to live in a city where multiple cinemas screen old movies and therefore go to the cinema very often, I must say I can’t disagree more. The experience of watching a movie in a cinema is to me incomparable to watching on a tv.

It’s not only the bigger screen and better sound system. The act of sitting yourself in the cinema with other people to actively engage with a movie transforms the experience.

Sadly, I have to say I agree with the article however in that 95% of the movies produced in the USA during the past two decades could as well not exist. Thankfully, the rest of the world still exist.
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The letter is the problem. The US companies are sick and completely refused to take the necessary steps to reduce their costs out of sheer hubris.

That’s Stellantis issue. American car manufacturers are irredeemable. It was a far better companies before the merger. Tavares was right. He was cutting costs which shouldn’t exist - Chrysler is an extremely ineffective company compared to PSA - and is investment strategy in electric was great. I was so happy when Tavares started talking about losing the dead weight and selling Chrysler. It’s a shame the board didn’t go with him and that he was sabotaged by the frankly incompetent management in the North American branch. The company now has an utterly stupid strategy.

Anyway, the issue in China is the GAC had control of the JV, a terrible idea of Fiat Chrysler which the company will now have to deal with. I’m still sour PSA had to merge these idiots.
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·w zeszłym roku·discuss
> The only thing I see is that manufacturers prefer an ip stack because it's "easier" to develop for.

It is easier to develop on an ip stack.

You have great tooling and great libraries out of the box because pretty much everything uses ip nowadays.

Plus, at least part of the controllers people use for their smart home will use ip anyway. A non ip network will need a bridge.

> How is that possible when thread use an ipv6 stack over 802.15.4 while zigbee use a simpler stack also over 802.15.4?

Easy, zigbee doesn't use a simpler stack. Using the same physical layer protocol doesn't tell you anything about the rest of the stack.

It's actually pretty simple. 6LoWPAN which is what Thread uses is more efficient than the Zigbee network protocol. Packets are smaller and the routing is better. It's not particularly surprising to be honest because Thread was designed by people who knew Zigbee really well and were aiming for an improvement.
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·w zeszłym roku·discuss
> its not just the text book definition of "borrow money at a low interest rate and invest at a higher interest rate"

That’s absolutely not the textbook definition of arbitrage.

Arbitrage is buy something somewhere at a price and resell it in a different market at a higher price. It’s just price arbitration hence the name.

There are no other kind of arbitrage implied when people talk about arbitrage. That’s what the word means.
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·2 lata temu·discuss
> Britain wanted to leave EU, not quit trade.

This sentence doesn’t make sense. The trade agreements are part of being in the EU. Wanting to leave the EU is literally wanting to stop being part of the single market. Obviously they have worse trade. They decided to leave the trading union.

This is not punishment. This is literally what Britain asked for.