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by belval 5y ago
It's fun when you read an article about lego changing and realize that the author is old enough that the "new" legos he's talking about are actually the legos you played with when you were ~6-7 years old. Take it from an
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by belval 5y ago
The spirit of the rule isn't that you can't point out when the article addresses the exact questions that the parent is asking: > Please don't comment on whether someone read an article. "Did you even read the article
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by belval 5y ago
TIL, I didn't know that reddit allowed mods to opt-out of /r/all.
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by belval 5y ago
It's against the rule to say that you did not read the article, so I won't say it, but: > In the modern world optics are EVERYTHING and that cannot be understated. Imho the first thing they need to change (which they have with
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by belval 5y ago
> How exactly did it happen in /r/antiwork? Casuals found it. You know — the people who use the internet to laugh at funny memes rather than treating every post as a blow in a grand ideological struggle. That's the very fo
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by belval 5y ago
Oh yeah definitely, I was half-kidding. Quebec and the rest of Canada have a lot of very significant differences. We are probably more divided right now than we've been ever since the last referendum. An example I love to give is the h
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by belval 5y ago
Now now, we also have forests and lakes.
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by belval 5y ago
No kidding, why is that guy trying to split Quebec from Canada? :(
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by belval 5y ago
I mean dang could probably just tell us the actual geo breakdown of users...
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by belval 5y ago
That's entirely possible, just not how the story goes. When it comes to story in people presented as "marketing geniuses", it's always good to remember that they were probably equally good at selling themselves and their
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by belval 5y ago
Yeah, where is the frugality?
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by belval 5y ago
I like that we've come to a point where people are shitposting on LinkedIn as a counter-point to these insipid: > "TODAY I interviewed a SINGLE mom that had her BABY on her lap and apologized when it started crying. I gave her
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by belval 5y ago
My favorite story about the guy: https://medium.com/@CelikBugra/psychoanalytics-behind-the-ca... TLDR: Cake mix was impopular and the Betty Crocker company did not understand why. They went to Bernays who theorized tha
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by belval 5y ago
> BC Hydro’s solar payback plan is regressive: generation on grid-tied installations only allows you to pay your bill down to $0. You cannot earn money or credit for producing more than you use. It's not regressive, it's becaus
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by belval 5y ago
I know it's an outside view, but at this point the Star Citizen things feels more like a cult than an actual game. Some of my friends have sunk over a hundred dollars on ships they can't fly yet seem to be so deep in their sunk-co
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by belval 5y ago
As a serious answer: Because you don't employ people. From a taxation perspective it's much better to have companies running on quite low margins that allows them to keep existing. It's why some companies get subsidies so eve
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by belval 5y ago
> I don't know if it was just me or the theater I was in but I felt like some of the effects in Dune were second rate. Your comment starts with a statement that seem to imply that you doubt your own assessment. The list of awards is
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by belval 5y ago
I don't want to discount your experience, but this does seem like an unpopular opinion considering Dune won a lot of prizes for the special effects[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(2021_film)
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by belval 5y ago
Considering he is being investigated, any lawyer would have told him to lay low and just enjoy his money for the new 2-3 years. Nothing here is surprising.
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by belval 5y ago
> I don't have a professional network per se, just a bunch of friends I clicked with at various companies. You might not want to label it as such, but that is exactly what a professional network is. People can genuinely be your frie
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by belval 5y ago
Oh please like legacy automakers are resistant to implenting consumer hostile features to increase their revenues. https://techxplore.com/news/2021-05-ford-infotainment-screen...
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by belval 5y ago
> Fun playgrounds without neutered climbing structures. This is not a global thing though. While they replaced sand with woods chips or "smarter" materials that make it less painful to fall, the playground in my town are defini
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by belval 5y ago
I wonder if it's a pump and dump scheme? Buy BTC, introduce bill (even if it's not going anywhere), wait for it to make the news, sell your BTC.
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by belval 5y ago
Seeing the reply I'm getting, I think this is just the "English is my second language" showing on my side. I always assumed both expression were somewhat equivalent but clearly they aren't.
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by belval 5y ago
But that's probably because he was a child, not of Japanese descent, and one of the two agent actually believed the story. If he had been a 30 years old Japanese weirdo that likes to keep "codes" in his wallet I am pretty sur
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by belval 5y ago
You may know him but I did not, so I erred on the safe side and added the "if there is any truth to it" as it's a much safer default to assume that everything I read on the Internet is possibly made up.
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by belval 5y ago
This story (assuming it's true) should serve as an excellent example of why you need privacy even if you think that you don't. In peace time the NSA is only looking for "terrorist" and leaves everyone alone, but in case
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by belval 5y ago
> is there something that is not possible to achieve in OpenCL but possible in CUDA Developing fast... OpenCL is much harder to learn than CUDA. Take someone who did some programming classes, explain how CUDA works and they'll proba
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by belval 5y ago
Well yes and no. The thing is we have an aging population that we have to take care of and it's been growing for a while now. Consequently we don't have replacement for those unvaccinated workers, they are literally all we have. T
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by belval 5y ago
Unvaccinated nurses and doctors are banned from shopping in non-essential stores which include superstores (Walmart/Costco) with a grocery section. They are allowed to go to regular grocery stores.

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