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I trust the investigative journalist Tomasz Piątek, educated at Milan University, with awards and boks more than a rando in a HN comment.
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It's a great film. It's getting tiresome for me towards the end, but for most part it's a movie that pulls me in based on visuals alone and that's rare.
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Generally the farther east you go in the countries of the former Soviet block, the less trust there is. Poland has low trust, but it's a lot lower in Russia and if you smile to strangers you may get sullen glances or insults. When I ha
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Mosquitos eat mostly flower nectar. Males never bite. Females still eat nectar but need blood to produce eggs. Mosquito larvae are very good for filtering water.
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>There is no reciprocity with China on the game market. There is no single word for reciprocity in Chinese. You can make do with phrases like "mutual benefit".
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Ask HN: Where did the CPU-bound games go?
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In capitalist countries, you blame the victims - the poor - for lazyness, lack of initiative, being stupid. The problem is neatly swept away. You're not supposed to feel pity, but contempt for the poor. If you're poor, you're
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In Poland it's not literally called blasphemy, but "offense against religious feelings". So it's framed as if someone was hurt. There are no equivalent laws for other kinds of feelings, like atheistic feelings, romantic
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In Poland, we still have a blasphemy law. A newspaper along the lines of Charlie Hebdo had its owner dragged over courts for over 8 YEARS. The offense was illustrating an article about emptying churches with a surprised Jesus in a road sign
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CLI stands for Command Line Interface. An interactive program that works in terminal is not like that by definition. Another example is 'apt-get' vs aptitude. The earlier is inherently scriptable. The latter needs you to start t
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HR is taking money from the employer. It's not taking money from employees. In theory they should help both sides, in practice you don't need to look hard to spot a conflict of interest.
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Fine, but it seems to be going deeper than that. Pretty often your peers are not your coworkers. They're your compworkers (or againstworkers). You'd think they would want to compete with your company's competitors and make th
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Has anyone played the indie andventure game Yuppie Psycho? A delicious take on corpo horror. Their depiction of HR department is pretty accurate. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aUESdHCOIA It's short, a bit overpriced
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> The origins of tulpamancy, as I understand them, were kind of with the “forever alone” crowd - people who had a hard time getting along in society for whatever reason I recently watched a talk about people on autism spectrum (Asperger&
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
Counterpoint: game publishers are more than happy to sit on an IP without releasing a game for years. For example Dune (the board game). Dungeon Keeper. Hexen 3 (Hecatomb). Rune 2. Prey 2. Duke Nukem Forever... actually happened.
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Also check out the book (not the movie) "Non-stop" by Brian Aldiss. The first 2/3 of the book is meh - uninteresting characters, motivations, a bit above average setting. Then it really takes off and you see the writer hasn&#
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I think so. Wikipedia: As a normal human digestive tract does not contain any anti-oligosaccharide enzymes, consumed oligosaccharides are typically digested by bacteria in the large intestine. This digestion process produces gases such
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Oh, but maybe we don't need either? It seems that data science is used primarily for advertising. Local internet communities are dead. Message boards are dying. Everything is either a reddit / discord / Steam forums / Bo
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by b0rsuk 6y ago
According to the late David Graeber, this has been going for a while now. He defines one category of "bullshit jobs" as flunkies. Typically people who are hired to make someone else look good. For example a CEO must have a secreta
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Given the cooling requirements, I suppose it would create completely impassable rift between datacenter computing and other kinds. Imagine how programming and operating systems might look in a world where processing power is 80x cheaper. Co
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Norman Davies, the British-Polish historian specializing in East Europe and fascinated by Poland in particular, agrees. https://www.msn.com/pl-pl/wiadomosci/polska/norman-davies-%E... He also said Polish prie
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The process is why I don't bother. I was baptized when I was little and I don't consider that a proper contract. If they want to use bad input data, I'll let them deceive themselves. Going to the church and pleading is not on
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Fine.
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Incidentally, Poles are one of the purest or most inbred nations in Europe, and you have no one else but Adolf Hitler to thank for it. You see echoes of that in Witcher 3, I know it caused some controversy overseas because of how uniformly
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I have a somewhat pessimistic view that the profession of journalist should be split into two, similar to lawyers: 1. Government journalists (the equivalent of prosecutors). Not getting any explicit special protection, but that's not t
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The game is missing systems and features that were promised. Can you count missing consequences or police AI as bugs? How about driving physics? No NPC schedules? Gun down a gang night club and the same faction doesn't care in another
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It's worth noting that Poland has no strong tradition of class action lawsuits, and consoles like Playstation 5 are not yet available. I mean, I can see one selling for the equivalent of $1208.
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Your memory might be failing you: CYBERPUNK 2077: Lies, Excuses, & Sycophantic Fanboys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mKYZVtjgoY CYBERPUNK 2077 - Early Reviews & CDPR TOTALLY Misrepresented the GAME https:/&
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Living in Poland it was quite a surprise seeing a Polish company become a major success story in video games. Polish games failing time over time used to be a meme in Poland. That's why Witcher books' author wanted a flat fee inst
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I'll tell you a secret. Poles are exceptionally adept at duplicity and censoring their history. Chopin, Konopnicka were likely gay? LALALALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU! Józef Bem converted to Islam and still acted like a Polish patriot? L

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