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by eganist 6y ago
You're going to run into walls of denial with people refuting what they're hearing because the lifestyle change is hard or, worse, because they're coping with addiction and don't see a way out.
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by eganist 6y ago
> That's a deliberately bad headline. The vast majority of these will launch, build an iOS binary, save and quit within an hour. The other 5% will be people testing an app. Headline is spot-on. Minimum rent is a day per Apple'
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by eganist 6y ago
> Isn't Africa doing surprisingly well? Yeah, so this is a notable bit of nuance. Black people in Africa likely tend to get a bit more sun exposure compared to Black people in northern territories e.g. Europe, US, etc., so it woul
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by eganist 6y ago
Marketing. Sometimes it matters. Also, it doesn't always have to be some malicious thing. Could just be that there's a visionary executive with altruistic intents who convinced a higher-up that it's the right move. But in the
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by eganist 6y ago
It's not conflation; she very definitely gets offended if I don't take it, and I won't go into much more detail here. Your experience with it is just as valid as mine is, and that's as far as I'll take this thread b
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by eganist 6y ago
> I grew silently very spiteful and distanced myself from them. I didn't think someone else would reinforce my points throughout the thread. Thanks for your experience; sorry you had to go through this, and it's great to see so
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by eganist 6y ago
> Go find some Baha'is where the 'backbiting is the most great sin' puts a tamper on the behavior? I'm quite fond of Baha'i culture, honestly. Even though I don't put stock in the religion itself, they seem
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by eganist 6y ago
> Taarof has always been a short back and forth to be gotten over with. This is how it appears when you haven't had a chance to study it in depth, but the dark magic of taarof is that it impacts every part of life. No fault of yours
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by eganist 6y ago
> There was a round of introductions and I said that I had just spent a month in Tajikistan, and the ambassador looked at me and said that it sounded like I had started speaking like those people and I should stop it. In a friendly, &quo
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by eganist 6y ago
I could not agree with this more. Speaking as a Persian and one who's been immersed in Persian culture as well as American culture specifically in the mid-Atlantic and New York, I've come to recognize just how cursed a cultural
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by eganist 6y ago
> I know the invitations were sincere because I was being accompanied by Iranian acquaintances most of the time, doing the translating. 100% taarof - there was another Persian with you, and the custom therefore could absolutely not be di
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by eganist 6y ago
> Iranians will probably think you're dim, or at least sound like it. But we won't tell it to your face. We'll be quite nice to you up front (taarof) and then will backbite like nobody's business. If you want to learn
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by eganist 6y ago
Persian here. It's one of the most annoying and arguably toxic aspects of our culture. I understand it; I understand the perceived need for it, but I submit that it paradoxically does the exact opposite of what it intends to accomplish
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by eganist 6y ago
> This isn't the only study, and this isn't new information they've found. Do you have the others? They're not readily googlable- I've tried.
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by eganist 6y ago
non-AMP in the meantime for those who want to avoid AMP without fiddling around on mobile to edit the link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/27/business/uaw-dennis-willi...
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by eganist 6y ago
Loads fine for me. Firefox 84.0b5, ublock origin 1.31.0, privacy badger 2020.10.7. No custom blocking rules. If you're on the Firefox beta channel, ask me anything and I'll work with you to troubleshoot.
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by eganist 6y ago
Good catch, though the fix I don't think is quite right. "Proofread carefully to see if you [have left/are leaving] words out" probably should've been what I wrote. I invite a much more competent writer to fact-chec
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by eganist 6y ago
> a smaller car with a strong roof will likely beat a SUV with a weak roof structure. The latter circumstance feels extremely unlikely considering SUVs are generally engineered to support the higher likelihood of more weight ending up on
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by eganist 6y ago
> That's a bit false feeling you are buying - 2.4 tonne SUV vs 2.1-tonne big wagon if we compare within the same brand and similar sizes (BMW X7 vs 5 series). That's insignificant difference in head-on crash. Crumple zones are
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by eganist 6y ago
> A car driver is absolutely responsible for their choice of vehicle, their choice to drive any particular journey, their choice to exceed the speed limit, text, phone, chat, and everything else. Just their choices not to drive defensi
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by eganist 6y ago
The original: https://www.nytimes.com/1979/11/04/archives/on-language-the-... > • Verbs has to agree with their subjects. But I saw what happened. Googling Safire's rules, the "helpful"
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by eganist 6y ago
> The other person might not strictly be in a car, they might be a cyclist or a person simply walking around, so I don't think your counter argument applies. > I would also argue that centering your car buying decisions around yo
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by eganist 6y ago
> William Safire's Rules for Writers: > Remember to [preserve the full] infinitive. > [Always use] the [active] voice. > [Always] put statements in the [positive] form. > Verbs have to agree with their subjects. (nobody9
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by eganist 6y ago
> - More car to kill people with in the event of an accident > Always keep in mind that accidents may involve a person on the other side. This is self-negated with moves by the broader population towards SUVs. The end result is that S
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by eganist 6y ago
I'm a huge fan of sports cars and cars that just plainly handle better on flat roads, but having a sports car that I truly enjoy driving versus my other car (a decent, recent SUV), the advantages with SUVs pretty quickly become apparen
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by eganist 6y ago
> E2EE is a lie, Facebook hold the private encryption keys server-side so they're able to decrypt messages at any time. This is a pretty bold claim. Do you have a citation for this?
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by eganist 6y ago
> Ya no thanks. Top down regulation will just make startups less likely to enter new disruptive tech. The solution is choice, stop using Apple products and all their shadyness stops being an issue. And since people have demonstrated tha
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by eganist 6y ago
> because MS can't let anything go. To be clear, this isn't really up to them. It's what market forces have dictated. Tons of old corp apps exist all over the place that necessitate this level of backwards compatibility.
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by eganist 6y ago
And yet the minimalism improves even further.
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by eganist 6y ago
This is true, though for what it's worth, one of the advantages emergency vehicles have is the sheer variety of tools they can use to get attention - and compel others to create a path forward.

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