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by Fins 7y ago
That's pretty much the case with just about every "sex trafficking" bust, isn't it? Lots of talk about rescuing children and what not, but in the end women, who are supposedly being helped, are hauled off to the slammer,
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by Fins 7y ago
In case of MUMPS (or M, these days) it seems to live on as Cache and GT.M, among other things, and is used not only in healthcare but in finance as well.
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by Fins 7y ago
Germany or Italy did pretty well, though. And Russia never considered itself just some one other country. Comparisons have always been with "Europe". Not to say that say Mussorgsky (as mentioned somewhere above) isn't a top-n
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by Fins 7y ago
They are good composers, no doubt, but probably not quite in the same league in, if anything, importance (not going to argue personal preferences in music) as, say, Beethoven earlier or Stravinsky later.
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by Fins 7y ago
This might be also because while our writers (I am not really sure about poets (Pushkin just does not seem to travel as well as Dostoyevsky, or Shakespear) from the 19th century on actually are "world class" so to speak, Russian p
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by Fins 7y ago
I, for one, downvoted it because at some point it becomes really tiresome to see the same stale apologia of "baaah, you all just don't understand Marx properly" (and neither, apparently, did any and all leaders of any and all
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by Fins 7y ago
Evidence of what? Of Saint Elon calling people pedophiles because they laughed at his harebrained ideas? Of Teslaclaiming to have the world's safest vehicles when between Musk's marketing and serious product deficiencies they quit
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by Fins 7y ago
Compared to your average SV outfit like Tesla? It most likely is.
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by Fins 7y ago
When did Musk ever settle, if there is an opportunity to open his mouth and make things worse? I just can see explanations coming from fanboys that Walmart sells engine oil and is therefore part of the ICE mafia out to get Tesla. And they s
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by Fins 7y ago
Only if the compromises in a Tesla do not outweigh the presence of fart jokes (well, and no oil changes). But then, I just honestly do not see how anyone in good conscience could give even a red cent to Elon.
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by Fins 7y ago
So did I! I was half-expecting that HN would have greater appreciation of CS' writings than the general population...
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by Fins 7y ago
I'm not sure, to be really useful in general case it would have to understand a good number of languages (what if you rent a car on vacation abroad and find that you can't control anything unless you learn the local language?), wo
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by Fins 7y ago
That's certainly a valid approach, but most people (me included) actually want to adjust the climate control while driving, for various reasons. Really, once I was quite happy with a car that had roll-down windows and no a/c, but
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by Fins 7y ago
...and this is how we end up with people driving through fire trucks. I haven't sat in the 3, but I did drive Model S and also played with the e-Tron's controls while waiting for an oil change (which ids pretty much the only advan
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by Fins 7y ago
If anything, a myth that persistent must have something behind it. (I've zero interest in FAANGs so I would not know if they do or do not really ask it). There's no question that a competent, well-rounded programmer should know ab
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by Fins 7y ago
Do you really need to be able to "invert a binary tree" to move a button in gmail to an even less convenient location? It's not even that you need to know all those things to work at many positions in FANGs. It's about m
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by Fins 7y ago
I've been working remotely from Austin (well, Northern suburbs for a bit under a year now, and after San Jose absolutely love it. If you have to commute it might be tough (number of people here is growing faster than number of roads),
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by Fins 7y ago
While this particular mural might have very few redeeming qualities per se, it's the justifications used to remove it that are dangerous (also quite stupid, but given people they are coming from that is to be expected). It's just
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by Fins 7y ago
How so? There's no "ia" there.
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by Fins 7y ago
This. Tesla's carts do not work for me from practicality POV, but even if they released the most bestest car in the world, I will never, ever give Elon a red cent.
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by Fins 7y ago
Well, yeah. Except it was the guy who got called a pedophile for his trouble who was rescuing children, while Musk prancing around like an incompetent buffoon.
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by Fins 7y ago
Are you seriously suggesting that something that does require you to pay attention to a screen entire time you're using it (and touchscreen in a moving vehicle is not the easiest thing to operate even when you're not the one drivi
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by Fins 7y ago
Sounds like just the thing one should be doing in a moving vehicle! /s
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by Fins 7y ago
And difference between "did" and "should or should not do" is even more massive, although completely beyond Elon's (admittedly rather limited) powers of understanding.
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by Fins 7y ago
Good, we need more folks like these in every other city these obnoxious things had been unleashed upon.
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by Fins 7y ago
Fair enough. As long as you don't try to gloss over that the left capable of violence just fine by itself, and that self-appointed "antifascists" need to be stopped, too. And bring up all the left terrorists of past decades,
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by Fins 7y ago
You're more likely to find items made in low-cost countries those lines, though. I had Sport jeans fall apart much sooner than I expected (which for gauze-thin linen isn't that much to begin with), while E.Zegna stuff has been goi
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by Fins 7y ago
Or, possibly, one could object to threat inflation and using words to mean whatever you want them to mean, rather than the commonly accepted definitions. There's enough bad in what Trump says (not as much in what he manages to do, and
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by Fins 7y ago
Probably the same place real liberals are... not getting elected because two-party system and primaries make it so the more outrageous people make it to the elections.
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by Fins 7y ago
At least Zegna is quite a bit cheaper than Loro Piana, so it might be a better value, at their main lines. Diffusion ones like Z Zegna might be iffier. But pretty much everything is getting to the "not what it used to be" stage.

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