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by 2143 3y ago
After a period of decline, it'll eventually fall off a cliff and weird economic after effects happen. Try reading https://longnow.org/ideas/the-heresy-of-decline/
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by 2143 3y ago
> One time I asked a web dev friend of mine what he thought of Kubernetes and he didn't even know what it was. This was just a couple years ago. I was shocked at little he knew and how much he got paid. Not be a good heuristic. Mayb
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by 2143 3y ago
The Idea Factory by Pepper White.
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by 2143 3y ago
I know absolutely no Japanese letters. And FWIW, I also know absolutely no Chinese/Mandarin (btw are they the same?), Korean etc. I speak two languages — English and another language you probably haven't heard of that does not use
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by 2143 3y ago
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37234914
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Chandrayaan-3 Lands on the Moon(twitter.com)
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by 2143 3y ago
> I know a few people who are travelling to Europe and they're getting single entry fixed dates visas every time I thought you were talking about visas to the US. How is people "travelling to Europe" relevant? > Have yo
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by 2143 3y ago
> If you moved to some country in Europe is is _harder_ for you to travel to US, and vice versa. No it's not. Anecdata: plenty of Indian citizens in Europe go troublefree to the US. I personally know a few people. > Second, as yo
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by 2143 3y ago
And I'd like to point out that even if I'm physically in, say Canada, I might still need a visa to go to Germany. Unless there's a clause somewhere that says people who have a visa for Canada can enter Germany visa-free — som
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by 2143 3y ago
What's different about those three countries?
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by 2143 3y ago
I had a 5-year F1 visa for what would normally be a 2-year graduate course. I was under the impression that 5 years was the norm, considering a lot of undergrad courses (in engineering especially) take about that long to complete. Grad scho
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by 2143 3y ago
As you mentioned American and Canadian visa has a longer duration, so visa renewal is something you need to worry about only once in 10 years or so. For Europe, I think (not sure) if you travel there frequently, you are eligible for a longe
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Number of American adults think chocolate milk comes from brown cows (2017)(washingtonpost.com)
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by 2143 3y ago
> Not getting very much out of Anna Karenina, supposedly one of the aesthetic and emotional heights of human expression and experience, doesn’t feel great. Incidentally, I have very recently stalled a second time on Anna Karenina , gene
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by 2143 3y ago
I honestly believe you asked this question out of your ignorance. Despite the apparent difficulty maybe the people of China like their language nevertheless. Languages vary widely in their expressivity. Also, I think language (and the scrip
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by 2143 3y ago
Not sure exactly what you're looking for, but look up Tom Murphy and Dan Burke (of Capital Cities/ABC). They had a peculiar frugal no-nonsense no-BS style of doing business. Actually, I read the book "The Ride of a Lifetime&q
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by 2143 3y ago
> There was only one school in the entire country If you don't mind, what country was this?
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by 2143 3y ago
Ah! Okay! I've observed while reading Sherlock Holmes that we the reader isn't provided with all the information Holmes has. (I still like it though). TIL "fair play" was the term for it.
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Huh. Okay. Btw, of all the languages that I mentioned above, Sanskrit is the only one that I know atleast a little of. And that was because I took a Sanskrit 101 class in college many years ago.
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> There seems to be something about the English language where people think gendered language relates to gender. This. Sometimes when people talk about using gender-neutral terms, I wonder how it would work in other languages. As you sai
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The basic premise is that separating content and presentation lets you focus on just the content (or presentation). This idea is frequently used by computer programmers.
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by 2143 3y ago
Aww, I originally meant to write "proportional" instead of "proportioned". My bad.
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by 2143 3y ago
Did you mean you say directly/inversely "proportioned" rather than "correlated"? (English is not my first language).
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Symmetry Minute(en.wikipedia.org)
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by 2143 3y ago
> There should be an effort to offer 50 years of security updates for Debian 12. That reminds me, SQLite is engineered to keep working until atleast 2050 (and beyond). https://www.sqlite.org/lts.html
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by 2143 3y ago
Okay! That's reassuring :)
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by 2143 3y ago
What if I go abroad for a few days and need a temporary SIM from there, but my phone only supports eSIM? With eSIM there's a tighter coupling between the phone and carrier. Not sure if I like that. > Apple’s move to make eSIM the on
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The Heresy of Decline(longnow.org)
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> They also had a system where you would put your checkbook into the teller machine and it would print your credits and debits into the book for you. That's intresting to know. Where I'm at, we had (still have?) a "passboo
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This, ladies and gentlemen, illustrates the point I was trying to make.

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