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Comment · 1 day ago
I thought it was common knowledge that people with darker skin living further from the Equator have a higher chance of getting vitamin D deficiency and should take supplements. Just like people with lighter skin living closer to the Equator have a higher chance of getting skin cancer and should apply additional sun protection. We have all these adaptations for a reason
Comment · 2 days ago
The location of the servers matters only if you're trying to prevent physical access, for anything else it's completely irrelevant
Comment · 3 days ago
> No, this is pure speculation

What is? Shared cultural ancestry between the people speaking early Sanskrit and many of their European counterparts is common knowledge at least since the 19th century, it's very well researched and not really contested at this point.

Comment · 3 days ago
Those myths and legends are old enough to contain traces of shared Indo-European beliefs, so the real old stuff should be found, in some form, in other cultures, like Greek or Norse mythology. But I don't think it is true in this case
Comment · 3 days ago
You forgot the "2 = 5" one
Comment · 5 days ago
Dinosaurs are a bad analogy, they died out through no fault of their own, it was sheer bad luck. There was absolutely nothing they could do
Comment · 6 days ago
Maybe Libya should bomb the shit out of France this time?
Comment · 8 days ago
> and the app seems amateurish

What app? In the Netherlands, where wero originated as iDeal, I've always used it via my bank's app. Isn't it how it's supposed to work?

Comment · 10 days ago
15 years ago I would've been happy reading about all these cool new things coming to C++, nowadays I'm happy I don't use it anymore and don't need to relearn everything again. Am I getting old?
Comment · 13 days ago
Dude, he was a literal German Nazi, the weapons he made were killing US and allied soldiers and civilians during the WWII
Comment · 13 days ago
Wait till you hear about Wernher von Braun
Comment · 13 days ago
That could consume as much, if not more, resources as returning real data

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