Aramgutang

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by Aramgutang 8y ago
I mean, don't you think they're trying to change the situation? And have been for decades? Armenia has great desire to change its standing in the global passport rankings. However, it is under mounting military threat from neighbo
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
In many contexts, that's what privilege is: the advantages bestowed to you at birth as a result of what others who are like you in some way (nationality, skin colour, gender) did in the past. The privileges of having Swedish nationalit
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
Sorry, I'm not sure I'm following. What do you mean by "quick travel time" in this context?
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
I concede that experiences you share with partners or close family are near-equivalents of having those experiences yourself, even when you're just the "passenger" on their journey.
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
Well, your experience would be limited to the one or two countries you're a citizen of :) It's definitely a thing across various ex-Soviet countries, and likely others as well.
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
Visa-free travel was what made me truly understand what "privilege" means. Having an Armenian passport and travelling extensively through my life made me very familiar with what the author describes: the months-long waits, the fee
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
The UK even allows visa-free 24-hour transit that allows leaving the airport for almost anyone. While studying in the US, I once booked a flight to visit my relatives in Prague, flying into Heathrow, then flying out from Gatwick 18 hours la
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
Complicating things, some countries will not issue a new passport before confiscating the expired one. I know multiple people who reported their expiring passport as stolen, just to be able to keep it (usually for purposes of having proof t
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
As another Australian, can confirm. This year's tax return was as easy as logging into MyGov, verifying my contact details, confirming that the wage payments report from my employer was accurate, entering a previously-calculated number
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
The car is not all that's at play here. Road surface quality is a huge factor. I've pushed a rental Merc past 180 km/h (110 mph) on a reasonably well-paved outback road, and it was downright unpleasant to drive at that speed
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
You were likely downvoted because: 1. As @woah said, your statement is incorrect, HN has more vocal crypto opponents than supporters. 2. You needlessly called people "idiots". 3. Your comment was rambling and mostly consisted of w
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
> a user who has passed some threshold of number of edits to a single article (say 100) would be automatic grounds to block the user from further edits to the article This would not be without precedent. I was an active Wikipedia editor
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by Aramgutang 8y ago
Right now, earning BAT by watching ads is not yet implemented. After you use up the free 10 BAT you get on first install, you have to buy more to keep paying the sites you visit (this is reasonably frictionless at the moment, and is likely
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
It would depend on who's doing the labelling. I think I agree with you in that society doesn't need to label them as handicapped. However, I was thinking more about people labelling themselves internally, which is what the linked
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
Why would "someone just living their life and doing all they already can to get by and not worrying about these things" be seeking a diagnosis/treatment in the first place? Things are generally only considered "disorders
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
A lot of mental disorders exhibit co-morbidity with depression. When a person grows up comparing themselves to their peers, every time they fail at something that others seem to do effortlessly, they tend to think less of themselves. Why ca
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
I pretty much do. People can be very accommodating when they understand it isn't personal.
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
Whatever time estimate I give you, I will usually be later than that. Telling you I might be hours late for a 5pm meeting will probably end in me arriving at 9pm. That's why I find it best to have a reasonable time to aim for, and the
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
That's not the issue. The issue is that for whatever reason, my brain is refusing to allow me to become aware of the time. The presentation format of the time doesn't matter. It's tough to fight this, because the person you&#
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
I'm one of those perpetually late people. There was a time when I was slightly overweight. I changed my diet, started lifting weights and running, and ended up running a marathon 18 months later. But I couldn't fix my lateness. Pr
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
Surely. Surely not something I've battled with great effort for a very long time. Surely not something I've sought and received treatment for. Surely it's just a choice I made. Maybe people walking around with a cast and crut
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
Yes. I'll quote what I wrote in a reply further below: > I've missed at least 8 flights in the past decade, have seen only the last 80-90% of many of the films I watched in the cinema, have had to stand in the back for the firs
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
No, whenever I'm running 30 minutes late, whatever I did in those 30 minutes was nowhere near as important as the other person's time. It was probably something that didn't deserve my time at all that day, or sometimes even a
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
Have you considered that we may be incapable, rather than inconsiderate? Especially if it's "all the time"? Do you think that those of us without adequate executive function are on time for things we deem truly important? If
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
I find it just as difficult to be on time for flights as I do for get-togethers with friends, or anything else, for that matter. I've missed at least 8 flights in the past decade, have seen only the last 80-90% of many of the films I w
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by Aramgutang 9y ago
Very much agree, with only one caveat: unpaved roads. Google Maps estimates are wildly off when parts of the drive are along unpaved roads in Australia. It assumes a ludicrously low speed of 30-40 km/h for such roads, when most cars ar
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by Aramgutang 11y ago
Google Maps Timeline has both an "export this day to KML" feature, and a "download a copy of all you data" feature via Google Takeout.
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by Aramgutang 13y ago
Wrong time(), you want datetime.time(). time.time() returns the seconds elapsed since the epoch.
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by Aramgutang 13y ago
If you're using Firefox, you can prevent this kind of behaviour by going into about:config, and setting the dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled flag to false.
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by Aramgutang 14y ago
If you issued a tax receipt, there very well might be.

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