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by curun1r 9y ago
I visited Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket and Koh Lanta, Koh Phi Phi, Koh Samui, Koh Phangan, Koh Tao. Bangkok was my least favorite. Traffic is terrible and it got kinda depressing to be offered sex as often as happens to a white man when he g
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My personal feeling is that "the right thing to do" is to evaluate applicants without any regard to their criminal history. There should be no box to check on applications and background checks should be prohibited from returning
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by curun1r 9y ago
Speaking personally and for many of the atheists that I know, none of us will begrudge someone finding something, religion or otherwise, that gives them comfort and strengthens them through the hardships of life. In fact I'm often jeal
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by curun1r 9y ago
Probably not what he was referring to, but for someone planning to work for a Western company and live in Thailand, you might consider the Thailand Elite [1] program. It's 500,000 Baht ($14k) which is good for 5 years and allows stays
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I want to believe that attitudes are changing and I do believe that more and more people are behind efforts to make it easier for people with a criminal history to find jobs. But I still think that most people are quite NIMBY about it. They
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For error handling, I'd encourage you to look at error-chain. It makes it pretty simple to propagate all your errors with try!/? so long as all your functions return a Result. And the quick_main macro can handle the panicking if y
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> What more should they do? How about storing issues and PRs in the actual git repository? They should index them for the UI, sure, but the source of truth should be a branch of the git repo just like it is with gh-pages. It should be po
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When I changed my running style, I was given all the tips here, and they're certainly right, but it's a lot to think about when you're running. It didn't click for me until I concentrated on just two things...running mor
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I was told by someone who learned Swahili that they don't say sunrise or sunset and, instead, say 6 o'clock (owing to the consistency of the equatorial sunsets/sunrises). If true, it's an interesting example of place can
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The problem with that argument is that newspapers basically aren't profitable anymore, so we have to choose between "news" outlets that skimp on all journalism costs and simply parrot stories from other sources, real news out
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There's taxes from the supply chain of Tylenol that don't get paid when it's $10 in illegal drugs that are actually sold. Much like Bitcoin, with a black market you can only tax at the egress points when the money needs to to
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Ignores citations supporting the point he's arguing against? Check. Fails to provide citations supporting his own argument? Check. Excerpts individual lines of a comment to argue against a point that wasn't being made. Check. Cong
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> but to be blunt: you are simply incorrect. OMG...are you intentionally trying to be obtuse? This isn't exactly controversial stuff I'm talking about. There was a lawsuit and Be is very much on the record about Microsoft'
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by curun1r 9y ago
You're missing half of the Windows tax. It wasn't just charging for licenses that didn't end up getting used. It was also about forcing OEMs to choose between offering Windows and any other OS. It killed BeOS and had a chilli
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Look up the "Windows Tax"...Microsoft earned billions forcing their software on people who most certainly did not want it. They used underhanded tactics like illegal bundling, abusive OEM contracts and intentionally obscured file
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As a counterpoint, I'm reading and commenting in this thread using a dedicated native app for reading HN. I find the whole experience to be better. Loading HN in a mobile browser is just painful by comparison.
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The problem with this theory is that it disregards opportunity cost. This is what I don't get about everyone that lionizes Gates and everything he has done with his billions. Those billions came from depriving others. What would those
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On the contrary, we're left with a social remedy to a problem specifically when we don't have laws that governing a specific behavior. Our morality is not limited to what we codify into law. You might even argue that the court of
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Perhaps, but unlike Salem, it's one with some actual witches.
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There's no such thing as guilty or innocent when it comes to sexual harassment. It's not a crime and only companies can be liable for anything related to it, not the actual people doing the harassment. So what we're seeing is
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> 20 consecutive headers in 10 minutes is astronomically rare occurrence in soccer For what it's worth, this is a completely reasonable number. In a game situation, sure, headers aren't that common. But during my youth soccer d
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I'm basically your age and my grandmother passed away from Alzheimers almost 10 years ago. It was another 5 before that when she last recognized anyone in our family. She neither played football nor had any history of concussion that a
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It was bewildering how bad Flash on the Mac was. Simple animations and videos would spin all of my cores up into the high 90s%. I installed a CPU throttling command line tool and would set the flash process to 30% of one core and the animat
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Terrorism happens outside the constructs of our society. If it were government death squads going around killing people, you'd have a point. And if it weren't our government doing the spying, there'd be no point in expecting
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by curun1r 9y ago
One good deal was topping up on Amazon credit. There was a $5 Prime Day bonus, plus the other $10 for topping up $100. 15% for free can cover for prices that aren't necessarily the cheapest, especially when prime shipping fees are cons
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I don't know that there's one universally right "line" that can be drawn. Everyone has their personal line. For me, my personal line is to never compromise who I am, no matter the cost. I'd love it if my country wer
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It's also really disingenuous to deny that criminals benefit from privacy tools. We can acknowledge that criminals benefit and are, perhaps, the largest "customer" of privacy tools without invalidating the argument that those
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With generics, it would be possible to write a library implementing 2-track, functional error handling, which would allow for a form of automatic error propagation. The if err != nil statements would be kept to a minimum. It's precisel
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How about a spiritual modification? During periods of prolonged meditation, I've been able to pay attention to my heartbeat. It wouldn't surprise me if more skilled meditators were in tune enough with their bodies to be able to mo
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There might be unintended consequences to rendering these agreements unenforceable. Over the course of my career, I've seen plenty of cases where employees have been part of a layoff and I've had it happen to me a couple of times

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