Supernaut

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by Supernaut 3y ago
I am acquainted with a number of people who in childhood came south with their parents. These families were not making a political statement; they simply did not wish to be murdered.
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by Supernaut 3y ago
This is news to me too. Now that my kids are older, last year I decided to clear some space in what had been their playroom by finding a new home for the small mountain of Lego that we had accumulated. I rang around local schools and charit
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by Supernaut 3y ago
To this native speaker, the intended meaning was immediately obvious, but I agree, it is awkwardly phrased. Something like "inadequate staffing levels" would be much better.
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by Supernaut 3y ago
You should have left out the first sentence! Someone once sent me a link to a tooth-grindingly annoying performance by an English "comedian", where he expressed irritation and disbelief at what he saw as a preposterous disconnect
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by Supernaut 3y ago
[Sorry, this was supposed to be a response to the link to "They're Made out of Meat"...] This is great! I had somehow never encountered it before. It reminds me in tone of "D.R. and Quinch Have Fun On Earth", an ana
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by Supernaut 3y ago
What's your point? That mental health initiatives are only worth discussing if they originate in working class communities? Also, I grew up in the vicinity of Greystones and painting it as a kind of Irish Beverly Hills is daft. Everyon
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by Supernaut 3y ago
Hard disagree on that. The image of aligning your toes with a starting line is what makes sense. By contrast, while you may use a line to pull something behind you, it's never the line itself that you're towing.
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by Supernaut 3y ago
I also always think of a very important point that I saw concisely expressed in an interview with Daniel Miller, about fifteen years ago. (If you don't recognise the name, Miller founded Mute Records and signed Depeche Mode, and is an
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by Supernaut 4y ago
Okay, fair enough. But presumably the WhatsApp groups are set up on an ad hoc basis by groups of staff - they're not being directed to use it by the HSE?
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by Supernaut 4y ago
> the Health Service in Ireland literally runs on WhatsApp What do you mean? I live in Ireland and no health professional has ever contacted me via WhatsApp.
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by Supernaut 4y ago
With respect, that comparison fails, because a $1,500 guitar will be noticeably more playable and have a substantially better sound than a $500 guitar. (Source: have played guitar for 35 years.) The point people are making here is that ever
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by Supernaut 4y ago
Thank you! Interesting reading and not a good look for the DPC in question. That said, your use of the term "corrupt" implies that she has personally profited from the draft decision, and to be fair, I don't see any suggestio
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by Supernaut 4y ago
Citation, please?
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by Supernaut 4y ago
Someone has already implemented that same idea! https://defectiverecords.com/portfolio/mc-202-hack/
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by Supernaut 4y ago
Should the title not read, "BBC marks centenary of its first radio broadcast"? Other entities had been broadcasting for many years before the BBC's services began.
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by Supernaut 4y ago
I think the advantage of the "pretty" words is that they can , in fact, convey additional meaning. It seems to me that people in general used to be have a far richer vocabular at their disposal. This allowed for fantastic nuance
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by Supernaut 4y ago
> I feel awful when rejections are void. For what it's worth, it can be worse, from an emotional point of view, when you do get feedback. I recently spent two full days working on a take-home assignment. I carefully addressed all of
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by Supernaut 5y ago
Why are you certain that I don't have all the information necessary to have made an informed decision on this?
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by Supernaut 5y ago
Except that the "current situation in Europe" actually is being motivated primarily by irrationality. (That's what extreme nationalism amounts to.) And I don't know what kind of ideological contortions you'd need to
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by Supernaut 5y ago
Agreed, and I hope that the three options presented by this author do not in fact constitute ineluctable destiny, because frankly, none of them appeal to me. I don't want to hustle for business and I'm not sufficiently obsessed wi
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by Supernaut 5y ago
"Sean" (properly, Seán) is actually an Irish Gaelic name. Irish, like English, features very many non-phonetic spellings. If the guy deliberately made you feel embarrassed for mispronouncing his name, he was just being a dick.
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by Supernaut 5y ago
I will certainly agree that it is for the better if people who see no intrinsic value in children do not become parents.
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by Supernaut 5y ago
> many people don't believe there is any intrinsic value in having a child Okay, wow. So they're indifferent to the notion of homo sapiens becoming extinct?
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by Supernaut 5y ago
Perhaps they continue to vote for 'FFG' on the grounds that unlike SF, they're not apologists for mass murder and terrorism?
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by Supernaut 5y ago
That's not what happened. The European Commissioner for Competition decreed that Apple had received illegal tax benefits from Ireland and ordered Apple to pay a fine of €13 billion. This was appealed to the European General Court, whic
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by Supernaut 5y ago
I take it you're referring to people objecting to applications for planning permission? You don't have to own your own home to do that. You don't even have to live in the area affected by the proposed structure. And it's
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by Supernaut 5y ago
> 909+303+303, devices that support only a 1 bar loop Ha, no, you can input a great deal more than a single bar into them. They were designed to let users store a variety of patterns, which can then be assembled into a traditional intro-
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by Supernaut 6y ago
Whatever.
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by Supernaut 6y ago
History demonstrates otherwise. Apple has had facilities in Ireland since 1979. Most of the Apple IIs that were sold in Europe were built in Cork.
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by Supernaut 6y ago
I applied for a job with an American software multi-national a few months back. I received an automated email claiming that they were "excited" by my interest in the role. Six weeks passed without any contact whatsoever from them,

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