fennecfoxy

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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
The reason I bought my A7II is so that I can: * Get more light in with massive full frame lenses (and hence less noise) * Ability to use lens hoods, xenon flashes, easier to use tripods * Have more lens options available (even though the pr
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
>Maybe I should be insulted that the author thinks being identified as someone wanting the lowest price is insulting. They give completely valid reasons and they're not necessarily angry specifically about a lower price being offere
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Pocket totally has ads. The HelloFresh ones are incessant. It's just that they're ads in "article" form.
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
>This seems to me allegory for the difficulty Vietnam vets had in readjusting to civilian life. Perhaps it's also to give some perspective of what it can be like for gay people sometimes by providing an opposite world.
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
As long as you mean 5 years of uninterrupted work visa (YM doesn't count) where losing your visa forces to to leave w/ 1 month's notice, then sure, they have "open borders".
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Nope. You cannot really sponsor yourself working for you own company, that would be such an obvious loophole. I've been living here 3.5 years, 2 on a YM visa, 1.5 on a work visa. Unfortunately, my 2 years on YM don't even count to
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
I get the impression that he's at least somewhat asexual.
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Is this an ad for a book?
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Read Woz's bio. And even he puts it lightly since you can tell he considered Jobs a friendo. Jobs was unhinged.
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Interesting the comments here, rather than addressing the issue of "is it okay for Apple to force implementation of their own services in addition to others" the discussion is more "well, nobody's _forcing_ you to do thi
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Privilege.
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
This (and similar comments below) are a very American view of the situation. To be honest, as a kiwi I was the same when the first moved to the UK "why are they building NEW buildings out of brick???" It's because there'
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Lol, you write as if you've never heard of Tencent, who makes incredibly addictive time-wasting games for the Chinese market (and others) very much akin to your "negative value add activities", so much so that they're no
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Sanctions against Huawei were for malware + ties to the CCP, not because the west "couldn't compete".
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
They're not smashing it, they're taking control of it. Let capitalism and a faux free market/private companies do all the work & IP theft and then when they're successful take them over and apply party politics to th
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
I hated when Slack brought them in, but slowly realised they're really useful when used appropriately & the responsibility is less on Slack itself & more on people using the feature appropriately; threads in 1:1 PMs are just ut
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Makes me wonder if that particular individual would complain about a Pride Month email being "sinful". As a gay man I would refuse to work with someone like this.
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Religion doesn't have an amazing history when it comes to gay people, along with plenty of other things.
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Yup, I used to have 1Gbps in Auckland with fiber right up into the house, moved to central London and I could get...a 10Mbps plan...that only delivered 4. Fortunately out in the suburbs now I can get up to 330. There are a lot more people i
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by fennecfoxy 5y ago
Also another kiwi: grew up in a coastal city in the North Island and moved to Auckland for uni, dropped out and started working in the industry (best decision) before eventually moving to London. Been here 3.5 years now (although I still do