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by eyko 6y ago
Rest assured, nobody is thinking of the Spanish-Portuguese casta system when they talk about Indian caste. We might use the same word but I don't think anyone is familiar enough with the Spanish usage in the Americas for it to bring ab
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by eyko 6y ago
> Doesn’t this just emphasise that the UK is not a nation state? I should've said sovereign state. Let's not get caught up in semantics.
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by eyko 6y ago
Sorry, it was simply because my "country" is actually a nation state composed of various countries and that's what I've been used to saying. No other reason I'm afraid. In fact, the correct term which I should have
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by eyko 6y ago
I'm from continental europe but live in the UK now. I've never counted but Macs have always been very present (rough guess would be 50/50 split back home), but here in the UK, or London specifically, I can probably count devs
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by eyko 6y ago
Don't forget places like Chad and Niger. Antartica is, as the parent post said, a reductio ad absurdum, but I often pay attention to how global warming (or even just bad years and seasons) affects agriculture and animal husbandry in pl
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by eyko 6y ago
Nation states do not have a right to privacy. Robbing a bank is not equivalent to acquiring state secrets (especially those involving illegal activity). Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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by eyko 6y ago
Vegetable protein was and still is less abundant than vegetable sugars, if I'm not mistaken? Agriculture eventually made that less of an issue but this was not the case until not that long ago (tens of thousands rather than hundreds of
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by eyko 6y ago
"I think most of us as individuals could lead happy and fulfilling lives and contributing to the advancement of humanity without any of that." Your assumption is that we led happy and fulfilling lives before what we now call socie
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by eyko 6y ago
As Thomas Hobbes beautifully described what in his understanding would be the natural condition of mankind: "In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain, and consequently no culture of the e
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by eyko 6y ago
But both of those are Google products. Yet here we are in a thread blaming an entire generation of web creators and users.
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by eyko 6y ago
In spanish (at least in es-ES), billion is a million million, which is really annoying when you see clear translation errors. Often, a reporter will read a billion here or there in an english source, and leave it as is, bringing an order of
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by eyko 6y ago
I've never seen an adult drink pure milk, other than in some movies. I guess it's an american thing? Any Europeans here who drink pints of milk care to comment?
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by eyko 6y ago
I've always mentally pronounced chmod as changemod (and changepass, changeroot, changegroup), I guess it was sort of intuitive. Going back to the comment about dyslexia and naming, the unix core utils are probably a good example of &qu
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by eyko 6y ago
I'm a non-native english speaker and, in my case, it doesn't bother me at all, but as I was reading it made me realise that when I see names like those, I just read them in my native language. I've always read imgur like &quo
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by eyko 6y ago
It's not for us to judge what sort of information constitutes knowledge.
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by eyko 7y ago
I'm not sure how the USA is going to fund universal health (one that's actually unversal and free like we have here in Europe) care without first having a discussion on taxes. I can't say I'm qualified to have an opinion
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by eyko 7y ago
> In all other outbreaks (even the US one) there has been widespread testing Can you back up that claim? From what I've read, the opposite seemed to be the case, especially in the USA.
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by eyko 7y ago
One could argue humans are the invasive species.
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by eyko 7y ago
My family on both my mother and father's sides were farmers, including my parents for most of my early childhood. On the farm, women would work mainly during harvest season and a few other moments, but I remember quite vividly a conver
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by eyko 7y ago
We do 4 hours a week, and I still feel it's too little.
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by eyko 7y ago
I'm not so skeptical, since Vodka is not generally added for the flavour or aromas (which get clouded by almost any other ingredient anyway) but more likely to add texture, to tone down the flavour profile of another spirit without hav
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by eyko 7y ago
It's not like Black cabs in London are guaranteed to be safe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Worboys
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by eyko 7y ago
I think what your UX teams are doing is (or comes across as) the opposite: 1. Come up with a design they think will work 2. Do user testing looking for confirmation that it works. 3. Change things (based on user feedback) in their desig
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by eyko 7y ago
It is my understanding that the USA has been repeatedly admonished for their relationship with torture (prison system, off shore detainment centers, waterboarding, guantanamo, abu ghraib, the recent issues at the border with refugees, etc).
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by eyko 7y ago
I'm a bit confused. It seems that we're all looking for the answer that can hold "true". That's fine, however, does 5 answer _this question_? From my understanding, the question itself is impredicative[1]. "Whi
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by eyko 7y ago
The rate at which the sea levels rose was much slower and much of that water was frozen in the arctic. The past couple of centuries are exceptionally different.
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by eyko 7y ago
Can't a patient ask a doctor to prescribe a generic, when it exists? It seems like that would be an easy fix: a law that requires doctors to give you the alternative name for a generic, and make the sponsored version an optional upgrad
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by eyko 7y ago
I started remote-working in 2016 and, for the first year, I pretty much did what you're saying. After moving around, I settled back in London (I'm not originally from the UK) for its professional environment. Working remotely make
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by eyko 7y ago
WhatsApp is probably the number one messaging app on Android, so why would you not use it with the "one person you know with Android"?
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by eyko 7y ago
Interestingly, I recently learnt that the judicial branch as implemented in most democracies (presently), holds no real power. In my country, for instance, it is appointed by the government -- in the USA, if I'm not mistaken, it's

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