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by amyjess 7y ago
Personally, I'd rather avoid both SV and CH and just live in Texas. $1/sq. ft. ($10.76/m²) is still the norm in Dallas, and it's not too hard to find cheaper. You would pay less money for a decent-size house in the subur
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by amyjess 7y ago
As a trans woman, Spain is also one of the only parts of Europe where hormones are easily accessible, so if I ended up having to live in Europe, no other country would be an option.
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by amyjess 7y ago
> Cons: no Sun That's a pro to me. I'm happiest when it's cool and cloudy, and everything to do with the sun is just brutally oppressive and makes it hard to get anything done.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Japan. 6 years of shōgakkō [lit. "small school"], followed by 3 years of chūgaku [short for chūgakkō , lit. "middle school"], and then 3 years of kōkō [short for kōtōgakkō , lit. "advanced school"]. Yea
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by amyjess 7y ago
FWIW, most people in politics are in state and local government. Congress is a drop in the bucket.
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Right of first sale overrides that, though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine Of course, the person selling the software would be in trouble if they put the physical media up for sale without deleting
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by amyjess 7y ago
> Take about crippling certain business in Venezuela. All this is going to do is encourage piracy (and potentially malware). Adobe doesn't really have a choice here. They're doing this to comply with sanctions, not because they
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by amyjess 7y ago
When I transitioned to female, one thing I was told early on was that I shouldn't put my tops in the dryer anymore, because the dryer will wreck them. So nowadays I hang-dry all my tops. And one interesting side-effect of my transition
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by amyjess 7y ago
> My general rule of thumb: Try to stick to natural fabrics (cotton, wool, linen) for most things. Synthetics can be good but most are really cheap. For me, buying cheap stuff that has to be replaced often is the price I'm willing t
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by amyjess 7y ago
I don't really like talking about real life too much, so I'm hesitant to mention the company by name (you can probably find it in my history though), but I work for an enterprise ISP, and we have cubicles. I'm very happy he
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by amyjess 7y ago
I want a traditional cube farm. I actually work in one right now. I love my company, and pretty much the only thing that could get me to quit would be if they dropped the cube farm and switched to an open office.
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by amyjess 7y ago
That had nothing to do with Snowden and everything to do with Firesheep. I remember people panicking when Firesheep came out, and that lead to the whole "we should all be using TLS" thing.
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by amyjess 7y ago
He could've told people to switch to Ansible, but he didn't. In fact, he's explicitly telling people not to switch and suggesting they fork Chef instead: https://twitter.com/laserllama/status/1175780
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by amyjess 7y ago
The purpose of rent control is to keep existing tenants from getting priced out of their homes with annual rent increases, not to make housing affordable for new tenants.
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by amyjess 7y ago
Other discussion on this subject: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21045550
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It's also well-known that he would hit on any woman who moves. When conference organizers finally told him to stop coming up to women and asking them out, he started printing out "pleasure cards" with his contact information
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by amyjess 7y ago
His sexually-inappropriate behavior towards women has been well-known for years. MIT has chosen to not do anything about it. The truth is that if HR thinks they can sweep something under the table to protect their superstars, they will .
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by amyjess 7y ago
> Stallman has been a problematic person for a long time. I'm no fan of his. If after a while the university had said, "Enough is enough, Richard, you need to shape up or get out." I would have understood that. According t
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by amyjess 7y ago
What he said, for posterity: > "The most plausible scenario is that she presented herself to him as entirely willing," Stallman wrote in his post last Wednesday. "Assuming she was being coerced by Epstein, he would have ha
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by amyjess 7y ago
And posts like this are exactly why women are uncomfortable and unwelcome in tech spaces. Violation of consent is rape, period.
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by amyjess 7y ago
The investigation was only closed because it was believed that he'd be holed up in that embassy for the rest of his life and there was no realistic possibility he would be brought to court. As soon as he wasn't holed up there anym
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by amyjess 7y ago
This is not minor. Tampering with a condom behind your partner's back is a violation of their fundamental right to consent. If it's not illegal in other countries, it means something is badly wrong with those other countries.
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by amyjess 7y ago
1) Assange isn't a journalist. 2) He's not being tortured. 3) It's entirely reasonable that a known and proven flight risk will be held without bail when facing criminal charges.
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by amyjess 7y ago
This is entirely reasonable given that when he was first charged with rape, he fled into an embassy and hid there for years. Flight risks get denied bail, and Assange is a proven flight risk.
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by amyjess 7y ago
It actually is. That's how slowmode works: if you send a message in a channel with slowmode, it sets a flag on your client telling it to not let you send anything for X seconds. No reason an alternative client can't just clear out
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by amyjess 7y ago
Honestly, I wouldn't even play a game where paying for power-ups was the norm. It's not something I'm interested in. Skins, on the other hand... so, to start with, I play FF14, which has a cash shop for things like special ou
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by amyjess 7y ago
20 years ago, kids were being bullied for not wearing Abercrombie & Fitch. I was in high school then. The people who didn't care about aesthetics were always the ones bullied.
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by amyjess 7y ago
You can also use your packs to draft Magic. Even if you don't get the cards you want, you still get to play a fun game. In fact, conventional wisdom in MTGO is to never open packs and always draft them.
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For anyone who's curious, this article has some more details on this: https://www.theverge.com/2013/1/16/3740422/the-life-and-deat...
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by amyjess 7y ago
As a KDE user, this looks really tempting. The only thing I'd be worried about is that using third-party clients is a violation of Discord's TOS, and I'd be terrified of getting banned for using it. Do you know if Discord has

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