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by amyjess 7y ago
Ah, thank you. I was thinking of commenting something similar, but I didn't have numbers. The oddity of South Korea and Japan isn't that they aren't having kids; that's par for the course for a first-world nation. It&#x2
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by amyjess 7y ago
> while calling someone “unmarried” in English has no strong connotations, the word’s standard Korean equivalent, mihon (미혼), implies that its object may not have married yet but one day will. An alternative term has thus gained traction
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by amyjess 7y ago
Probably not the best phrase to get done in Japanese. There's no kanji; you'd write all of it in hiragana. ここでしないでください。 [koko de shinaide kudasai] Or maybe if you wanted to emphasize the "this": ここでこれをしないでください。 [koko de
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by amyjess 7y ago
My experience for a long time has been that Linux is only usable with earlyoom. Running without it is a guaranteed way to end up having to power-cycle my system, often multiple times per day.
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by amyjess 7y ago
> download That's already too much work for the vast majority of the population. If you can't just randomly stumble on it somewhere, it has no real discoverability.
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by amyjess 7y ago
> Life as a mod is about a million times easier, for both you and your users, when you minimize the amount of judgment calls on edge cases that have to be made. No, life is much easier when rule 0 is "don't piss off the people
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by amyjess 7y ago
> What irked me is that CloudFlare was the one who makes the decision to do censorship. It's their property, and they have an absolute right to decide how their property is to be used. The right to freedom of association is the most
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by amyjess 7y ago
As a transgender person, I can tell you that estradiol absolutely cannot induce insanity. At the absolute most , it can screw with your emotions in the same exact ways as PMS (and PMS is indeed caused by hormonal fluctuations). The idea th
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by amyjess 7y ago
The first thing that comes to mind is a gist.
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> That would bankrupt Boeing. That's the point. The idea is to inflict the death penalty on any company who plays games with human lives like this.
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My parents were like that when I was little. Then again, they split when I was 6...
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by amyjess 7y ago
> How is that startup related? Please explain Because this isn't a startup forum. Yes, YC's core business relates to startups, but not everything they do has to. As the guidelines say, HN is for "anything that gratifies on
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by amyjess 7y ago
> For example, even without government interference, you would expect “Taiwan” to have different first-sentence descriptions in the Chinese–Simplified, Chinese–Traditional, and English Wikipedias.) I agree with your sentiment, but that&#
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by amyjess 7y ago
My observation about /r/DoorDash is that nobody there is ever happy. I first checked it out in 2017, shortly after they implemented the current model. The entire subreddit was a massive open revolt of people complaining that they
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by amyjess 7y ago
Growing up, I had several of those in the suburbs in the suburbs too. And even then, my parents would take me into the city on weekends to visit the zoo and museums (I don't remember going to the aquarium, but we had one too). But then
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by amyjess 7y ago
> It could put the entire job offer in jeopardy if they read it as you being antisocial, entitled, incapable of being a teamplayer, arrogant, etc. The point of the stipulation is to filter out toxic companies, so if it puts the job offer
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by amyjess 7y ago
I really don't care about any of those perks. I want privacy and silence, and really all I'm interested in doing at work is putting in my eight hours and then going home. I'm just here to draw a paycheck. I actually like my j
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by amyjess 7y ago
Arial is a bizarre case: it's actually Monotype Grotesque stretched and pinched to match the proportions of Helvetica. So you can replace Helvetica with Arial in any document and it'll still print right, but at its core the letter
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by amyjess 7y ago
This happens _all the time_. Bitstream, one of the very first digital foundries, got their start by digitizing famous print typefaces without permission (not that they needed it). Funny thing is, legendary type designer Hermann Zapf actuall
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by amyjess 7y ago
Ditto. And I'm really sad because after nearly two decades of not flying, I flew again last year (two round trips!) on Southwest, and I loved it and was looking forward to flying Southwest again. And now because of the 737 MAX, I'
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by amyjess 7y ago
From what I understand, Boeing became toxic when they bought McDonnell-Douglas and absorbed their company culture of "Safety? Quality control? What are those?". The 737 MAX and the 787 Dreamliner were both designed after the acqui
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by amyjess 7y ago
If you love that, then you'll love this article: https://jalopnik.com/this-thing-has-an-actual-name-182641984... About the Heckblende. Yes, there's actualy a term for when cars have a light bar on the back coverin
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by amyjess 7y ago
> Otherwise, I might as well resign myself to fate and use Windows with WSL or VMs for everything else. If I'm going to be forced to use something I dislike, it might as well be something that properly supports all my hardware and I
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by amyjess 7y ago
My experience with academic code is that it's all ad-hoc software that's written to solve a single problem for a single paper. Once the final draft of the paper is peer-reviewed and published, there is no longer any reason to ever
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by amyjess 7y ago
Thanks for the information!
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In the last few months, I've been getting into dry wines (which I've avoided for most of my life but have been making up for list time on), so this really has me wondering what the effect of this on the wine industry is going to b
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by amyjess 7y ago
> It's HUMID in the Veneto - that's what does it. For what it's worth, one of my best friends, who grew up in the UK but has lived in Texas the majority of his life, once told me that Venice is Europe's Houston. This
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According to the post about this in SRD [0], this was because of repeated calls to violence (something that has been well-documented), and the final straw was repeated incitements to commit violence over the situation in Oregon. The followi
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by amyjess 7y ago
From the impression I got reading OP's article, Salesforce is intended mostly for companies that can hire a dedicated Salesforce admin (or two) who can really set everything up exactly to your company's specifications, which means
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by amyjess 7y ago
I believe the term for that is "ERP software": Enterprise Resource Planning. Basically, it does for all of your business assets what a CRM does for your customer relations.

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