It says that "blabrecs" is a better sounding version of the original word "brablecs", which IS accepted

The catalonian government, which is an autonomous community of Spain, held a referendum to secede. The Spanish shut down polling stations, but they declared independence anyways, so the central government implemented direct rule and arrested the separatist politicians responsible for it.

So what you're saying is, when I post that Catalonia should be free and go on holiday in Spain, no spooks would follow me around, and no pressure would be put on German companies to fire me, and this isn't even remotely comparable.

7 elected politicians and 2 leaders of the independence movement have been arrested and convicted for the ‘crime’ of holding a referendum. Up to 13 years in prison.

Yes, I know, that's still shifting goal posts from

> "being put in jail because you say publicly that tibet should be free"

and if merely pointing that fact out is getting me downvoted, that's the problem of the people who are doing that.

They spent public money on the referendum, didn't they? If the subordinate government could do whatever they wanted, they wouldn't need a referendum, would they.

Is this sarcasm? Epic has been huge since the early 2000s.

No, nothing like they are today. Fortnite made them literally billions -- more than all of their previous titles combined.

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Maybe the baking soda emulates some of the mechanical action of manual washing.

This is fake, nothing has changed. Google has never formally labeled Palestine on the map. A quick search for "Google maps Palestine" reveals that articles like this pop up once every year.

At the same time, moving video coming from a camera is a lot different than a stream of what is essentially a 95% a still image.

I was referring primarily to the screen sharing features of the aforementioned services. In general, they're barely adequate for slideshow presentations, but the transitions are still going to be rough. And even when everybody in the virtual conference has a solid internet connection, the user experience is still a lot worse than when a PDF of the slides is emailed out before the meeting starts.

I find it simply amazing that all these "collaboration" tools aspire to little more than emulating the use-cases of broadcast television or a large lecture hall, and there a so few tools that try to enhance the experience in ways that are only possible when every participant has their own screen and computer.

Their badness is unrelated to the abilities of e.g. x264 compressing a screencast, because it really is quite good at that (near-losless quality at about one Megabit/s).

You're thinking of a different country.

Duh. Of course. Should get coffee before reading HN. ;)

They need to stop strong-arming the rest of us into accepting their made-up-reality. They can live in fantasy land if they want, but they don't get to make me live in their fantasy.

Congratulations, you've just violated the brand-new HK National Security Law, which according to article 38 applies to everyone on Earth.

The ability to purely make transactions is trivial - you can just use a debit card. The value of credit cards comes from other factors like fraud protection, SCI compliance, actual credit, etc.

Debit cards also charge some fees, but typically lower.

The fraud protection of credit cards mostly comes out of the pockets of the merchant, I think? So the merchant could give people a discount for using means of payment without a chargeback, like cash.

You are right about the actual credit. Though eg in Germany people usually use their overdraft in a same way that American seem to be using their credit cards for short term credit.

(For either convenience is the main selling point. The fees and interest rates for overdraft and credit card debt are usually quite high, I think?)