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by antonymy 4y ago
Yes, naivete is the the other issue besides culture. People without work experience, especially tech work experience, won't push back as hard or negotiate as effectively with their management, which translates to lower salary and a wil
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I underestimated how much of warfare was about grain shipments until I read Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic Wars. Now it's all I think about whenever I see pre-modern armies depicted in media, is where they get their bread and
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by antonymy 4y ago
I think it's also about the "culture fit" that these high prestige tech companies look for. Young people fresh out of school will not have been "tainted" by the workplace culture of other companies. Moreover, young
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by antonymy 4y ago
Game of Thrones is based on a book series and for the first couple seasons was very faithful to that book series in terms of characters and plot. You can't really give credit to Hollywood writers for something created by a novelist. In
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by antonymy 4y ago
Considering the precipitous decline in Oscar viewership over the last decade, it's safe to say Hollywood's death grip on American film and television is all but broken these days. The jump in the most recent Oscars viewership has
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by antonymy 4y ago
>Moreno recognizes that large segments of the population might never enjoy the slower-paced, localized life he envisions. “Of course we need to adapt this concept for different realities,” he says. “Not all people have the possibility of
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by antonymy 4y ago
The minute I started reading I was waiting for the phrase "made in China" to appear. It's in the 7th paragraph: " M Salam noted that the mistake occurred when containers were made for Sea Lloyd in China."
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by antonymy 4y ago
This is the method that works for me. If I go heavy on water between alcoholic drinks I can avoid having a hangover entirely, or at least reduce it to a very mild headache that Ibuprofen can deal with. The only downside is you will have to
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by antonymy 4y ago
>devs don’t want it to read like an ad (hate advertising) This is pretty much why I only use browsers with ublock origin installed, and avoid browsing on devices I can't filter out 99.9% of image/video ads. I don't see ads
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by antonymy 4y ago
And people called me paranoid for years for never making a Facebook account and staying off social media sites. It's hard enough to avoid being propagandized without being plugged into a firehose of information curated by CIA (sorry, &
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by antonymy 4y ago
Still my preferred media player as a windows user, been using it for over a decade at this point. There was a time an MPC-HC setup required a lot of plugins (or bulky codec packs) but now all you need is MadVR, and a subtitle renderer (I li
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by antonymy 4y ago
Riding the bleeding edge has its risks in more ways than one. For now, law enforcement are taking full advantage to nail some easy targets with it. Wonder how long before this particular loophole is closed. Probably not until they start arr
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by antonymy 4y ago
The Civil War saw a US Army General, Robert E. Lee, defect to a cause he did not truly believe in, because he refused to fight against his home state. You might also want to consider how many veterans there are in the USA, that is, people w
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by antonymy 4y ago
It's an attitude I've encountered with some Californians. I wouldn't call it a common one, since most Californians seem to be aware of their dependence on their neighbors for energy and water. But as for "kicking out&quo
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by antonymy 4y ago
While the USA was once a true federation of sovereign states that really hasn't been the case since at least the Civil War, over 150 years ago. States depend heavily on the federal government for assistance, standardization, and regula
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by antonymy 4y ago
The article itself espouses similar doubts from one of its subjects: >Barbara Walter, a political scientist at the University of California, San Diego, who was also not involved in the study, agrees. But she suspects the survey responses
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by antonymy 4y ago
I see this as a kind of Stockholm syndrome. Your time is being held hostage by your commute, so you cope with ways to use that time. I was the same way. At first, I was stuck commuting for 75+ minutes to and from work on public transit. Mos
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by antonymy 4y ago
Apple is not even close to a monopoly, especially in Europe, where they have less than a third of the mobile market. That said, the rest of the market is divided up between several different Android phone companies, so Apple is in fact the
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by antonymy 4y ago
I think he doesn't like the fact that a corporation is controlling people for its own profit first and their customers' welfare a distant second. Apple is not a charity or a government, it's a business. The EU is a government
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by antonymy 4y ago
EU's a very large, very wealthy market, but not the biggest for Apple. https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/mobile/europe Android owns more than 60% of the EU market. Even so, writing off the EU would b
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by antonymy 4y ago
Same, actually. I've seen enough iPhones in the hands of friends and family to be envious of some of the features, but I've never wanted to be part of Apple's walled garden. A more open iPhone that I would be free to choose m
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by antonymy 4y ago
It's not uninhabitable, it's simply uninhabited. It's perfectly safe to visit Chernobyl, or even live there, and has been for years. It's been open for tourism since 2011. Dilapidated buildings pose a bigger risk to Cher
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by antonymy 4y ago
This reads like satire.
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I paid for my Minecraft account a long time ago, over a decade, and I've generally felt like it was money well spent. I've got a lot of hours of enjoyment out of Minecraft and I was glad to support the developer. The fact this pur
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by antonymy 4y ago
I share your sentiment. People make GUIs for MPV but I'd rather just use a media player designed for GUI users out of the box. Got nothing against ffmpeg, wonderful tool, just some things I think need a proper GUI.
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by antonymy 4y ago
You can skip the first two sections of this rant entirely if you don't care about his life story or his opinions on the creative process, by the way. The product review starts over 900 words into it, in the third section. I have no rea
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by antonymy 4y ago
Article seems to be engaging in a bit of sophistry. Yes you can claim historical revisionism has been "widely applied" when you redefine it in the broadest possible way that mostly ignores the context in which it is being used in
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by antonymy 4y ago
It's explainable by looking at polls for how Americans feel about major institutions. Gallup did one for various public and private institutions: https://news.gallup.com/poll/394283/confidence-institutions-...
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A VPN is a service that people who are not privacy conscious (which is most people) tend to only use if they have a particular need for it, such as circumventing a region block for some service they want to use. This isn't a very commo
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by antonymy 4y ago
Thank you. I see so many people here who seem intent on linking their online identity to their real life identity, a trend popularized by social media and which is in direct contravention to the common sense advice we used to give people: d

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