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by 80386 7y ago
The BBC describes Zhukov as a "libertarian activist": https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50684676
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by 80386 7y ago
Be careful with Montessori. I went to a "traditional Montessori" school for a few months when I was very young. Long story short, their educational method insisted that we needed instruction in how to play with toys before we we
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by 80386 7y ago
IME, workplaces are all HP or Dell. Nobody in America uses Huawei anything - I was a little surprised when I went to Europe and saw signs for Huawei phone accessories. Americans who have even a vague understanding of technology typically as
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by 80386 7y ago
Linux is... a little alienating, isn't it? How many people can hold the whole thing in their head? Not many - and I don't think it's seamless enough to work as another layer of magic, either. People accept OS X because it&#x2
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by 80386 7y ago
Also, in many dialects of Dutch, including the standard, the long e in the first syllable of Scheveningen is pronounced closer to the English long a than the German long e , and the final -n is silent. So a typical Dutch pronunciat
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by 80386 7y ago
> As a Hebrew speaker, I wish the "shibboleth" idiom (which is a good one) was translated, rather than transliterated. laoned idioms are inherently exotic, and this one is worth demystifying Until a few decades ago, it was assu
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by 80386 7y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Vowel_Shift is why.
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by 80386 7y ago
> Extreme example - ghoti: Pronounced fish. The gh from tough, the o from women, the ti from nation. Works in American English. :p http://zompist.com/spell.html Initial 'gh' can never be pronounced 'f&#x27
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by 80386 7y ago
Pear juice doesn't taste like much but sugar water, so it's often used as a sweetener in things that already contain fruit.
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by 80386 7y ago
Most of the paleo junk food I've seen has been variations on a theme of dark chocolate and coconuts. I don't have any nutrition labels to hand (paleo junk food is expensive ), but I wouldn't write it off as unhealthy without
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by 80386 7y ago
> Most of it with labels that work very hard to imply that sugar only has calories if it's made from something other than sugar cane. I like the ingredient listings that say "cane juice".
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by 80386 7y ago
It's more than "anti-tech sentiment" - in many cases, it's darkly hinting that democidal totalitarianism would be a good idea. (Or at least that the extreme left deserves a fortieth or fiftieth chance to implement all it
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by 80386 7y ago
Does that mean Americans deserve to be subject to the cartels and MS-13?
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by 80386 7y ago
I used to hang out in predominantly Californian tech circles, and the atmosphere there was... not at all respectful of places that aren't California. It would have been a good career move for me to suck up to them. Some of them were se
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by 80386 7y ago
> It's great that Google is attempting to fix the issue of bullshit nutrition sites ranking highly When I search Google for "astaxanthin", I get a HuffPost article as the fifth result on the first page.
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by 80386 7y ago
> 4chan didn't create it, 4chan was created for speech that wasn't allowed on somethingawful 4chan was created by somethingawful users as an imitation of Japanese imageboards. It was used for speech that wasn't allowed on
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by 80386 7y ago
From the ads I got on Tumblr, it felt like one of the things they were trying to do was build the leftist millennial equivalent of Glenn Beck's email lists or whatever. I'm not sure how well that would mesh with a porn ban. (I&#x2
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by 80386 7y ago
Didn't Tumblr lose about a third of its traffic after the porn ban? And I don't think the site's culture veering off into Puritanism as it is now will be good for it in the long run. If there were a better site, I'd leav
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by 80386 7y ago
It's an easy way to host a blog, but so was Livejournal. The connotations are similar too.
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by 80386 7y ago
Some gun vloggers were talking about moving to a porn site after Youtube banned them, but I don't know if anything came of it. There's also a Pornhub meme community. Brightly colored videos of dancing Shrek heads and so on - on Po
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by 80386 7y ago
UI programming and not requiring users to install anything are pretty big. You also get automatic syncing across devices, which is nice for things like RSS feed readers. Don't underestimate the importance of the abstraction layer eithe
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by 80386 8y ago
Web apps have several advantages over the desktop, but one of them is that the web browser provides an abstraction layer over the GUI crap you'd otherwise have to write and the cross-platform support you'd otherwise have to worry
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by 80386 8y ago
Do people care about that? This isn't a trick question. I've had two jobs for the last three years; one was sporadic, part-time, and technical, and the other was full-time horrid mostly-unskilled drudgery. I'm not sure whethe
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by 80386 8y ago
I've been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder. I don't have a tech job yet (I have a hard time applying to jobs, for... obvious reasons), but I keep a public log of accomplishments for my weekend projects, announce them wh
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by 80386 8y ago
On the East Coast, there are maybe two months out of the year when the weather doesn't strongly disincentivize going outside. And those months aren't in contiguous blocks - there's usually a week in January where it's ni
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by 80386 8y ago
I'm in Massachusetts and when I got a grunt job at an Amazon FC a few years ago I had to sign a noncompete. I don't know if it's enforceable and doubt it'd be enforced, but technically I think I'm not supposed to ta
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by 80386 8y ago
You can make software anywhere, but can you hire twenty people to make software anywhere?
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by 80386 8y ago
National population density in the US is misleading. Population density drops off sharply between the Rockies and somewhere around Iowa. East Coast states that we think of as mostly rural, like Virginia and Pennsylvania, have population den
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by 80386 8y ago
>People don’t understand how much of an anachronism small town America is. The brain drain is real, young people who are capable can’t wait to move as soon as possible to experience more of the world. Yeah, I'm one of those people,
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by 80386 8y ago
High energy and low anxiety seem more trainable than IQ, although even then they aren't infinitely trainable. Thomas Edison, by the common accounts, slept four or five hours a night plus a few short naps; most people couldn't do t

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