Thimothy

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by Thimothy 8y ago
In Italy still teach it in school, and it's not the first time I've heard of mayors (beside linguistics) that have some compulsory Latin thrown in. But that depends a lot on the university.
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by Thimothy 8y ago
Pst, Python is Dutch. Not retracting from your point though, it was built in English and found adoption in SV.
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by Thimothy 9y ago
Actually, both Monkey Island and Pirates of the Caribbean are inspired by the same attraction. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monkey_Island_(series)
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by Thimothy 9y ago
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/the-talk-3 I like this one better.
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by Thimothy 9y ago
>>"they'll freely dispense their motivations and dreams to you for study" This must be satire or sarcasm, but the parent got me at the beginning.
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by Thimothy 9y ago
I never got them. The last update in my windows is from Dec 2017. My antivirus is compliant, the registry key correctly set up and yet it refuses to update. I still haven't had the time to debug it, but I wonder how many people are out
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For Bonobos, it pays to have powerful allies(today.duke.edu)
32 points by Thimothy 9y ago|29 comments
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by Thimothy 9y ago
Or, crazy thought, you could reuse those bags. A tiny dent on all that plastic wrapping that goes into landfills but...
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The Rise and Fall of the “Freest Little City in Texas”(texasobserver.org)
1 points by Thimothy 9y ago|0 comments
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by Thimothy 9y ago
>It is San Francisco, London, and New York that are the outliers. You should have limited that list to the US, in Europe many other capitals and big cities have extensive public transportation networks that are used as primary means of t
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by Thimothy 9y ago
Why is expensive? I get that in the times of analog cable, connection centers between different countries networks were cumbersome, and a service that needed to be payed exclusively by those that used it, but these days of interconnected e
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by Thimothy 9y ago
I'd say an awful lot of things in many places, but parent is probably talking about the employees of Facebook in Pakistan.
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by Thimothy 9y ago
These days you can finish most modern AAA games in the time countries with decent costumer laws let you refund a product. Not to say that with GoG DRM-free policy, you could buy the game, download it, and ask for a refund in no-time. I find
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Files from new CDProject Cyberpunk 2077 game stolen(twitter.com)
1 points by Thimothy 9y ago|0 comments
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by Thimothy 9y ago
One of the things that makes me flinch: When people on the internet are shouting each other about a topic without realizing they are talking about completely different things. When everybody in this thread are advocating for socialism, are
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by Thimothy 9y ago
It's a graphic design program. If there is a project where tight integration between the graphic library and the rest of the codebase is expected (for performance reasons) and hard to avoid is here. In wireshark, for example, its meat
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by Thimothy 9y ago
Japanese people live in abject fear of terrorism outside Japan. There have been a few attacks in southeast Asia against venues that Japanese frequent and, owning that the country is extremely safe, it has been completely blown out of prop
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by Thimothy 9y ago
>>So aside from imposing regulation, another way to prevent a tragedy of the commons is to get rid of the commons: grant exclusive use of the former commons to a single party, who then has an incentive for good stewardship. >&gt
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by Thimothy 9y ago
Drug assisted is the last thing I'd say about either the book, or movie. I dunno about the movie, but I have heard sometimes that Herbert was quite fond of helping the creative process by those means. http://dailygrail.com
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by Thimothy 9y ago
One could argue that the Europe of the many states only lead to the horrors and suffering of the world wars, while a multiculturaly diverse but politicaly uniform Europe, built by, say, Napoleon, could have been a United States of Europe. N
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How to be like Steve Ballmer (2015)(medium.com)
1 points by Thimothy 9y ago|0 comments
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by Thimothy 10y ago
"Currently, there's nothing stopping other countries from using taxpayer money to fund drug development locally. Except, by and large, they don't - as mentioned in the article" Come on!! Hasn't anybody actually read
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by Thimothy 10y ago
They are a Norwegian company, so even if they ship from their European country and you live in any EU country, you still will have to pay customs. Bought it anyway, even with customs (and in my country are surprisingly straightforward), it&
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by Thimothy 10y ago
Was thinking about writing the very same thing, a pressure coocker has always been a common implement in every kitchen I've seen. I realize that there is much more to the marketing, final implementation and other details of these Insta
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The futility of gender-neutral parenting(latimes.com)
2 points by Thimothy 10y ago|0 comments
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by Thimothy 10y ago
They are usually called "Psychotechnical tests", and their use is standard in many industries. Though judging for some people I've seen passing them, I'd say that most of them are borderline useless, or not really used.
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by Thimothy 10y ago
"since you likely have the kind of education and experience that makes immigrating here a breeze" I don't think you ever tried immigrating to Canada. I don't mean this snarkily but the world would be a much better place
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by Thimothy 10y ago
"There is good evidence that large amounts of aluminum are harmful to humans." But that's applicable to every substance in the universe!!! From serpent venom and uranium to oxygen and water. Seriously, you can die if you drin
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by Thimothy 10y ago
Is "sharing" equivalent to "giving for free the hard work to the private industry"? Most of the time the system works as intended. The researchers do their research on public money, most of what they do becomes public kn
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by Thimothy 10y ago
I'm just going to leave this HN submission that got into the front page a little while ago here... It's not the same as a full fledged tracker, but for that YIFI movie that everybody has seen, it's nice. https://ne

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