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by doktrin 10y ago
> I just hope people are not in a hurry to displace what makes it cool They probably are, but only because everyone has a different perspective on what things like "culture" and "cool" mean. I personally think tearing
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by doktrin 10y ago
> If someone in Boston wants nice weather, the places that have nice weather are easy to get to. What places are you thinking of? I used to live in NE, and can't really think of anywhere within driving distance that features noticea
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by doktrin 10y ago
> Pittsburgh can't be a startup hub due to its extremely poor weather alone. (and that's harder to disrupt!) That strikes me as an odd line of reasoning. It seems fair to say that Pittsburgh can't surpass the Bay Area for
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by doktrin 10y ago
> 3 seasons in and DareDevil hasn't been with a woman with the exception of a kiss. Wasn't there a fairly explicit sex scene in the most recent season (which incidentally is 2, not 3)?
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by doktrin 11y ago
I think 'animal nature' was a jab at our tendency to make judgments clouded by bias Emphasis on 'I think', because the comment wasn't worded very clearly.
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by doktrin 11y ago
I don't see a cause for outrage here. They never promised to abide by the results of the vote, and drawing parallels to the political system feels like a complete non sequitur.
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by doktrin 11y ago
Well, glad I didn't join them when they were recruiting in my area. Shame they will most likely get away with these shenanigans, again.
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by doktrin 11y ago
You're off by a few years. Norway in the first half of the 20th century was certainly one of the poorest in Europe. This held true through the (global) great depression, which was coupled with and compounded by their own home-grown eco
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by doktrin 11y ago
> I can't even tell you who the lead dev on Destiny or Dark Souls 3 or whatever are. I don't intend this as a slight, but you must not follow %Souls games very closely at all. The community practically worships Miyazaki. You ca
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by doktrin 11y ago
You're confused about the term "high rise projects", which refers to lower income public housing - not luxury condos.
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by doktrin 11y ago
I don't think that's the issue here. This is in many ways primarily a discussion site, and stories behind paywalls by definition limit the discussion to the users able to access it.
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by doktrin 11y ago
> OP's audience is Silicon Valley startups trying to enter foreign markets for the first time, and for them the idea might be rather unfamiliar. Why do you assume that to be the case? Just because US companies don't need to rel
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by doktrin 11y ago
> this is not necessarily a bad thing Can you elaborate on how it's a good, or neutral, thing? Startups may be imperfect creatures, but I perceive them to have a net-positive influence on the economy (and, to be clear, I don't
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by doktrin 11y ago
> A dispute between Obama and Putin over a peninsula where your company has maybe 1.5 users suddenly results in you being locked out of a market with millions of potential users. Doesn't this cut both ways? If US based companies are
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by doktrin 11y ago
Africa has never been short of potential, but that doesn't mean it will live up to it in our lifetime.
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by doktrin 11y ago
> Have you actually tried sitting in front of Emacs or vim for more than 30 minutes, to the clock? Not the parent, but I've spent a significant amount of time with pure vim. I use vim bindings in everything from my web browser (vimi
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by doktrin 11y ago
I think you misread. Revisit my original post : > "everyone" would mean student activists who are busy decrying the tearing down of several high rise projects The student activists, in this case, are in fact very much against t
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by doktrin 11y ago
> "what everyone hates about urban change and gentrification – first come the creatives and their coffee shops, then the young professionals, then the luxury high-rises and corporate chains that push out original residents" &gt
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by doktrin 11y ago
Most recently, when?
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by doktrin 11y ago
> typical Microsoft strategy > utilized a lot 25 years ago. I don't know about you guys, but I'm not gonna hold onto that grudge forever without good reason. The world's changed a lot since gif's of Calvin pissing
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by doktrin 11y ago
I feel the same way. I don't delude myself into thinking that my individual actions have any measurable impact, but I enjoy exercising the very limited power that lies in giving money to institutions I support, and withdrawing it from
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by doktrin 11y ago
> A dirty room or a car is an inconvenience. I too have no desire to buy food from strangers, but I also feel like the potential risks of room-sharing or ride-sharing aren't limited to cleanliness. In both cases you're implic
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by doktrin 11y ago
> Who doesn't like the sound of buying a home cooked meal from a neighbor? I won't claim this is a rational fear, but I'm personally far more apprehensive about buying food from my neighbor than I am about staying in sai
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by doktrin 11y ago
> Skeptics have said that achieving this milestone would not happen within this decade, our lifetimes or even ever. Did any credible skeptics actually claim this would never happen? If so, I'd love to hear their reasoning.
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by doktrin 11y ago
It may be unrealistic, but it seems coherent enough to me. What's so crazy about border control?
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by doktrin 11y ago
> I'm not sure which "other side" you're targeting with your argument, but as a gun rights advocate its' completely consistent to be a privacy rights advocate-- and basically a human rights advocate. I can't
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by doktrin 11y ago
> You're (willfully?) ignoring the implication of a private feed Egads! You saw through my duplicitous scheme! Alternatively, I was simply pointing out that this is - in fact - a feature. To your point, I'm not sure how you cou
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by doktrin 11y ago
> You can't choose your followers Can't you? I thought protected feeds were a thing (wherein subscribers would need the account holder's permission to follow / view their tweets)?
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by doktrin 11y ago
I once received feedback after being rejected for a position. In this particular case I knew full well why I hadn't been given me the job, but nonetheless their willingness to open up about their decision making process made a big and
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by doktrin 11y ago
> If I was just now learning to program, an abrasive comment on SO would not turn me off to programming, but it would make me dislike certain types of people more, and in the future I would steer clear of that particular website. This ac

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