Veen

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by Veen 4y ago
He'll ignore decisions he doesn't agree with, so it's only a pretend democracy.
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by Veen 4y ago
Whinger.
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by Veen 4y ago
I didn't particularly enjoy the The Rest is Politics—can't stick Alasdair Campbell. But "The Rest is History" from the same production company is excellent.
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by Veen 4y ago
Yeah, it's also misogynist, but it's not the bad sort of racially coded misogyist slur, so it's low-status to complain about it or even acknowledge it. Hence the comments pretending not to know what you mean or implying your
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by Veen 4y ago
MySQL is a bit of a faff for the average person who wants to self-host WordPress. SQLite can be made more user friendly. Plus, MySQL is more expensive to host.
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by Veen 4y ago
You could say the same of Medium, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and everywhere else people post content that’s wrong/politically unpalatable.
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by Veen 4y ago
Yeah, slow over the last hour or so. I thought it was a problem on my end, but it seems not.
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by Veen 4y ago
That's how competition works. It's not what "we've come down to". It's what we've always been and ever will be. If the Chinese overtake the West, they'll be just as protective of Chinese IP as we are
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by Veen 4y ago
Seems untrue: > In 1985, China acceded to the Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property, followed by the Patent Cooperation Treaty in 1994. When China joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001, it became a member
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by Veen 4y ago
It's not a trope; it's a cliché. There's nothing wrong with poking holes in overinflated hype, but do they have to be so boring and repetitive about it.
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by Veen 4y ago
Either that or we're in a period of rampant global inflation.
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by Veen 4y ago
Better for whom? A proper audit would probably be very bad for Binance, Zhao, and his chums, which is why they won't allow one.
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by Veen 4y ago
I imagine it’s a ferry that doesn’t need to be sent away for repair or a causeway or similar. But the solution to that problem isn’t important to the writer’s point. It’s in the article to exemplify the issues caused by not considering spac
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by Veen 4y ago
He was pro-communist until he went to live in the USSR in the early 30s and saw what it was like. Thereafter, he was anti-communist.
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by Veen 4y ago
A currency exchange recently got a substantial fine for allowing users to circumvent sanctions. https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/crypto-exchange-bit...
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by Veen 4y ago
> "Copyright" is a concept from countries of "common law" (essentially the US). Is that what they teach in US schools? The common law originated in England and is used there and in many places that were influenced by
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by Veen 4y ago
> Real professionals do not make spelling and grammar errors I've worked with lots of professionals, including founders and c-suite people, who appear barely literate in emails and online chat. They're often very good talkers a
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by Veen 4y ago
It's relevant as a red flag alongside other information that should raise one's level of suspicion.
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by Veen 4y ago
Who is the "we" you envisage will be invading? They're unlikely to get far. Luxembourg is in NATO. Jersey is defended by the UK. France and Spain protect Andora.
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by Veen 4y ago
That's exactly what a parvenu would say. Not the done thing, old chap. Too chippy. You won't be invited to the best parties with that attitude.
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by Veen 4y ago
As a copywriter who works with lots of tech companies, I’ll say this is a very useful guide to doing it right, although I’d add SEO is worth paying attention to at the beginning. Make some effort to find out relevant terms people are search
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by Veen 4y ago
But is it the best possible way to spend £15M to achieve altruistic aims? Plus, they own the house and land but they also have to maintain it. That's not inexpensive: most of these country houses are no longer in the hands of the origi
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by Veen 4y ago
I've lived in a couple of houses built in the mid 1700s with parts even older than that. They were cob cottages, one with a thatched roof, so very thick walls instead of insulation. Plumbing and electrics were just added over the years
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by Veen 4y ago
I imagine many people have a specific phenomenon in mind which they will avoid mentioning because it's considered impolite and impolitic.
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by Veen 4y ago
Exceptionally so for a WordPress site.
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by Veen 4y ago
Nabokov said: > Curiously enough, one cannot read a book: one can only reread it. A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader. https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/01/21/naboko
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by Veen 4y ago
Why? And by "why" I mean "for what reason". And by "reason" I mean "a cause for an action or event". And by "cause" I mean "a thing that gives rise to a phenomenon". So I suppose w
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by Veen 4y ago
Yes, but that's not all humans do. If it were, we'd never have created anything new.
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by Veen 4y ago
No, it's just a random commentor trying to police the community. A sort of cosplay dang without the charm or authority.
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by Veen 4y ago
> People are not great at detecting hypocrisy from people they don't already know intimately. I immediately suspect hypocrisy when someone I don't know sends me a super-friendly, over-familiar, and flattering email asking for s

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