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by bloodorange 6y ago
Among the classics I read, this was the only one I did _not_ like. It's an interesting read if one enjoys the setting of a whaling ship of that period. The story itself, I didn't find engaging at all.
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by bloodorange 6y ago
The idea behind the fines is to get compliance and not to destroy the company.
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by bloodorange 6y ago
I suppose you might have already thought of it (or done it) but may I suggest getting a telescope and trying to find interesting celestial objects. With the amount of information available to us nowadays, you should be able to find many int
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by bloodorange 6y ago
Please forgive me if I misunderstand but you are unwilling to let go of the kind of system/society you are in: "it's not a tradeoff I'm happy to do." However, that very society/system has made a tradeoff that t
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by bloodorange 6y ago
Nintendo made so many brilliant games in the Mario franchise. Likewise with Zelda (and Metroid and there will be more if you look closely). Their consoles are typically robustly made. The controller-drift issue with Switch being a notable r
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by bloodorange 6y ago
They held the record for number of handheld consoles sold at various times and at one point of time, the GBA was the most sold gaming console ever. Usually the hardware also holds up well and has good resale value too. Their games are timel
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by bloodorange 6y ago
It's not exaggeration. It's disrespectful and taking their effort for granted.
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by bloodorange 6y ago
I spent a few years completely avoiding caffeine and the last few years consuming a lot of caffeine (via coffee). For me, in terms of alertness or productivity, there is a difference only in the "transition" period when the body i
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by bloodorange 6y ago
Perhaps people will not like my response but for me, this is where I tend to lose hope and I visit mostly only for the odd interesting tech article or comment. This is the most materialistic online forum I've been to where I'd not
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by bloodorange 6y ago
After your clarification, I can see that we are in agreement.
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by bloodorange 6y ago
In most countries, you do have to pay for government services. Renouncing citizenship is not a trivial thing and of course most countries would have some fee associated with it. One could claim "I have never been there since I was an i
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by bloodorange 6y ago
While I don't like that warmongering nation any more than you do, in this case, it is not a secret that people's citizenship can be affected by where they are born, their parents' citizenship etc. So, if anything, their paren
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by bloodorange 6y ago
Spectacular! What a beautiful city! Truly a man made treasure.
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by bloodorange 6y ago
Not many can pick up and carry a St. Bernard. However, I agree that one must be able to control one's dog. There is no flexibility there. If you are attentive and diligent you can train the dog without resorting to having to overpower
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by bloodorange 6y ago
It's the time of the year to read 'Hogfather'.
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by bloodorange 6y ago
The only way to get them to make a reasonable response to these things is to make a redacted screenshot and shame them publicly on social media. Otherwise, your email is just an annoyance for someone who (perhaps proudly?) thinks "thes
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by bloodorange 6y ago
You are taking your dog for a walk off leash and feel that others who are walking their dogs ought to do something to ensure you dog does not run off? Otherwise they don't understand the issue? I assumed "off leash" because i
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by bloodorange 6y ago
https://ec.europa.eu/info/about-european-commission/contact_... If you genuinely care and believe you can make a strong case, I suggest talking to them.
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by bloodorange 6y ago
"It was basically useless" Could you elaborate and perhaps point towards what makes you think this way? I ask because I have worked in a rather large corporation which had to implement massive changes to ensure they were being mor
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by bloodorange 6y ago
While you say "for seemingly no reason", somewhere there is a team happy that an A/B experiment has shown the change to move some metrics (which they care about and perhaps aids the team-member(s') goal(s) of being promo
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by bloodorange 6y ago
They do have to check whether you are able to confidently, safely and within the bounds of traffic-rules, operate the vehicle close to the speed limits. This need not be taken to mean that one has to always ride close to the limit. Of cours
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by bloodorange 6y ago
Good luck! I hope your dreams come true. - Do not fall in love with any ideas. Once you have a couple of people play-test something, if it doesn't appear to be fun, be ready to discard it. A lot of things sound good in theory but gener
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by bloodorange 6y ago
Driving on public roads is a privilege. Voting is a right.
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by bloodorange 6y ago
I love rust. Yet, I do not understand the hate for C++. I've done a lot of work using C++ and a lot of being able to use the language effectively comes from knowing why things are a certain way. Given its constraints, I think it is a b
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by bloodorange 6y ago
While there may be some negative news coverage of China's actions, most of them are within or at their borders. I have yet to see recent news of them bombing other countries, kidnapping people from around the world and destabilising re
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by bloodorange 6y ago
"I would rather risk death than" Whose?
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by bloodorange 6y ago
Indeed, my post was in agreement with you.
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by bloodorange 6y ago
Wear a board on your front and back, with a message about worker protections, universal healthcare and walk around town spreading that message and hope it has an effect.
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by bloodorange 6y ago
> I am done with this conversation. Excellent, goodbye! For making things clear, however I'm not done and will leave quotes from your original post here: "Theft of resources to a point of detriment is always violence." &qu
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by bloodorange 6y ago
"If it is just a hobby" What, from the post you are replying to, leads you to this? If it was not an intentional misrepresentation, I am curious about the line of thought leading to this.

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