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'Merica, with all its diversity

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Merriam-webster appears to disagree with you. "America" is according to it one of three things:

  • either continent (North America or South America) of the western hemisphere
  • or the Americas, the lands of the western hemisphere including North, Central, and South America and the West Indies
  • United States of America

And that is already the American centric definition of the English word. So yes, "America" in English can mean both, the Americas but also either Southern America or Northern America separately, as a continent. Mind you what definition is listed first. So why shouldn't you say then that Peru is in America than?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/america

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New Territories

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A pity, I was ready to learn something new and see some numbers but instead just the usual turning stuff into a battle.

I am not sure if you think the inflated revenue for products and services of the dominating companies of the Californian economy have no impact at all or if you think it is too insignificant to shift GDP enough to matter for the ranking.

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Have you know?

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Fair points, even though I am not sure how a "control" is supposed to look like in this context. Got something better on the impact of LLM usage on the users brain, especially in regards to learning?

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New Territories

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Yeah, a lot of that is AI bubble hot air though. If you count that out it is probably still top 10 but a lot less over the top. Either way, still a better reason to make some random territorial claim than to some strait.

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Mark Zuckerberg buys 440-acre Strancally castle estate in Ireland

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That is an exaggeration. While I can't comment on housing the economy is built on being a tax haven but isn't just that. There is a lot of employment in IT and Biotech and there are a lot of facilities actually based in Ireland, not just some office jobs for handling the tax evasion (that too of course).

The problem to me doesn't seem that long term unemployed aren't left to starve and die but a wrong housing policy and not even a joke of urban planning. It is what is happening when exploding real estate value is considerey a boon rather than a huge issue.

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Flrulep

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I bought both late and enjoyed them both quite a bit. I would neither call best game ever but they were well worth the money at that point. Of course, it did not reach Witcher 3 in epic quality.

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I just went back to SNES for a break and I am thoroughly enjoying it. It is not just nostalgia, as I never played RPGs back when the console was a thing. I don't even know what resolution I get there.

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After Europe ditched Windows, China follows suit with its own home-grown Linux distros

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No Europe hasn't yet. But France is certainly as serious about it as China and it is halfway through creating feasible alternatives for the complete worklflow. Once that is fully implemtented it will get much easier for all the other member states and also "Brussels" itself to follow suit. Also , having this for state bureaucracy also makey private business application much easier.

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Flrulep

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It appears you are not the majority you think you are. You do not even consider that there are those, that bought only those games later, when they were fixed and tgey liked what they got.

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Me_irl

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Interesting. There are so many quirks when you start looking at things closer. Sadly most of it is way over my head when it comes to the inner workings of these consoles.