AntoniusBlock

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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
When there's no other way, I'd agree with you. I personally can't watch low quality videos because it strains my already very poor eyesight (even with prescription glasses on). HD videos have a kind of soothing affect on my e
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
Will do! Also, nice name. Alekhine's games have given me great pleasure over the years.
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
Starting FORTH by Leo Brodie - Written in a casual, funny, beginner friendly way, and even though I'm not a beginner I still enjoyed it immensely. Now if only Forth were more popular! Edit: realised OP said `thing' not `things&#x2
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
>Don't be snarky. >Eschew flamebait. Avoid generic tangents. >Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle.
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
Looks like it breaks multiple guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
What's wrong with British museums?
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
But then you'd be stuck with 480p quality media.
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
Bigger budget doesn'talways mean better films. Most of my favourite films were made for less than $10 million, but that's just my taste I suppose. Edit: changed 1 million to 10 million after I actually googled their budgets.
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
I used the wrong word. I should've used `fact', which is what you used for your own clause.
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
A few years ago, I helped a friend move an entire book collection that he'd bought from the seller's house to his house, and while waiting I flicked open one of the books, when I noticed a little insect crawling around. That'
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
Depends on whether we improve battery technology, then we could store the excess for less windy days. Also I did a quick search and there are places on Earth that are consistently very windy, so we could maybe even set up massive wind farms
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
Bam Margera looks like he could star on Bum Fights as a bum. They could call it Bam Fights.
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
>My point: countries with economic interdependence are less likely to go to war, And my point is: Russia broke this `rule' indirectly (meaning going to war with a country that they know would be protected by countries that they are
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
>Russia did not think it was attacking Europe. Do you really think Putin and his generals thought that everyone would stand by and watch as they invaded Ukraine and do nothing? That's absurd. >It is not a remotely analogous situa
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
I might've agreed with you had Russia not invaded Ukraine. Your assumption is the same assumption we all made, but they invaded Ukraine anyway.
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
The comments in this thread are kneejerk responses to the quote in the OP, which is silly because if you people had just clicked the link you'd realise that the report is mainly focused on China. We are _all_ too reliant on China and a
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
All he originally had to do was to ignore the account. Him offering to buy it, or even him showing that the account perturbed him, exposed his insecurities and only added more eyeballs to the issue.
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
I can get around Sky Broadband's block on Libgen by just using Libgen's IP, for example.
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
RIP. I used to listen to E2-E4 while playing chess. His music was very entrancing.
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
If you only want to learn to read German, check out a book called "German For Reading" by Karl Sandberg. I'm using it now and it's pretty good.
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
Online chess and OTB chess are not the same. This is a mistake many people ITT are making. If they can prove that he cheated OTB (especially if they can prove he cheated during that now infamous game against Magnus Carlsen at the Sinquefiel
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by AntoniusBlock 4y ago
If people are going out of their way to approach you (especially women), then it's probably down to you being attractive or at the very least above average.