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by fiblye 7y ago
I think at least with regards to HN, it's that the average user is, just being honest, wealthy and from a very privileged background without too much lifetime difficulty. There's a disproportionate number of people here who can an
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by fiblye 7y ago
Hanzi are something you can learn on your own time outside of class. It’s really not a good idea to skip them at all. As someone who’s also learning Chinese, hanzi make remembering what I learned easier, since you can see how lots of vocab
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by fiblye 7y ago
That's true for some of them. There's also a very large number of people in prison who are legitimately good people, but made a mistake at some point or got pushed into a situation where they didn't have many good options. Th
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by fiblye 7y ago
I had something similar. I was given an extensive exam to take before the interview, and it consisted of weird things like 200 arithmetic problems in 15 minutes, picking the best synonym for 100 words in 5 minutes, etc. Things not humanly p
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by fiblye 7y ago
It isn't. Spoken English uses the expressions "first name" and "last name", but in official documentation, everyone pretty much asks for your family name/surname and given name. Those aren't determined by
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by fiblye 7y ago
Crossing a border and simply existing are very different. One is a very conscious action, and generally people are doing it on their own volition and know there are restrictions to exit and entry. People simply living in their hometown don’
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by fiblye 7y ago
Plenty of people also deny problems that do exist. I’ve encountered people pissing on buses. Shitting isn’t something I’d doubt happens, especially in places like Seattle and San Francisco.
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by fiblye 7y ago
The person I replied to mentioned it as something existing. And shit in a restroom is an unpleasant thing to see, but it’s a facility set aside for the explicit purpose of shitting. The explicit purpose of a bus includes transport without s
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by fiblye 7y ago
Wanting to avoid literal shit on a bus isn’t irrational. If it’s a common enough issue that it’s acknowledged as more than a one-off thing, it’s rational to want to avoid that. And it’s not only wanting to avoid shit on a bus, but wanting t
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by fiblye 7y ago
If you’re spending millions on art, you’re a museum, you’re being swindled, or you’re trying to find a clever way to shift your cash around. And I doubt hospitals are debuting rediscovered Van Gogh works. Buying affordable works from local
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by fiblye 7y ago
It’s a refrigerated good. No human is safely driving from California to Pennsylvania in 3 days. If you need something fresh, this is basically telling supermarkets and distributors that robots can get it to you faster.
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by fiblye 7y ago
Exact same situation. I can't imagine how people can find headrests in airplane comfortable unless they're leaning back at a 180 degree angle and just using it as a pillow, or they have a completely flat head. For people with roun
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by fiblye 7y ago
Public housing in the US is not a place most people want to be and no reasonable person leaves their phone on a table and goes anywhere.
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by fiblye 7y ago
> No one is going to go to jail because you purchased a small amount of drugs. What world are you living in? Drug possession is one of the most common reasons for being arrested. https://www.bjs.gov/content/dcf/
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by fiblye 7y ago
There’s a very real risk of getting a knock at your door and going to prison. That’s more than enough to scare some people.
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by fiblye 7y ago
Maybe try interviewing a few people who you think "aren't worth interviewing." It could be that your standards are unreasonably high and you're dismissing plenty of capable people. And lets be honest, looking at most job
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by fiblye 7y ago
Assuming that comment isn't misrepresenting the issue (I know nothing about Canada and can't say), I think the main focus isn't the unions, but that only organizations that contribute to fattening politicians wallets can buil
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by fiblye 7y ago
Huge vehicles are incredibly unpopular in Japan. The country is full of incredibly narrow lane-less roads that have traffic going both ways.
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by fiblye 7y ago
It looks like some old cyberpunk idea of what the future would look like. For that, I love the design. But it’s absolutely hideous without taking it in the context of resembling sci-fi. The wheels just look goofy. Now if it concealed the ti
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by fiblye 7y ago
Loads of companies make political and social statements all the time. Whether it come to gay rights, protesting censorship, etc. None have said anything about the issues in Xinjiang.
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by fiblye 7y ago
I don’t think any major business in the world cares about this. They only care about things that affect their own revenue streams, and the average consumer isn’t boycotting companies for not doing anything about it. Seriously. Show me one m
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by fiblye 7y ago
The grammar here isn't standard. Usually you'd mark the subject doing the liking with は and the object being liked with が. Both generally function as topic markers in other circumstances, so context is important. You can even occa
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by fiblye 7y ago
That whole system rides on your last statement. Plus that Singaporeans are generally raised to respect others and the space around them. Trying something like that in my own hometown, people would blast music from their phones because “hey
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by fiblye 7y ago
Yeah, it’s generally just regarded as mean. On the contrary, I’ve found it’s something that most other Asian countries get really well, so the difficulty seems to mostly be limited to Japan.
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by fiblye 7y ago
It’s a topic about espionage and exerting power and cash to silence critics, two subject that Israel is globally known to excel at. That has nothing to do with Judaism. Most people don’t claim it does.
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And this is what will cause the downfall of our current civilization. With the risk of the total collapse of the bottom links of the food chain and everything that follows, calls to prevent complete disaster will be met with replies of, &qu
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by fiblye 7y ago
You mean in the sunlight? Because...keeping the clocks moved means that extra hour of sunlight in the evening without blinding light at 4 AM.
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by fiblye 7y ago
That’s quite a few assumptions to make. Notably that a prison with such high profile prisoners is fine with cameras that break regularly, but don’t permanently break—just small periods of time, and nobody ever considered to get such a stran
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by fiblye 7y ago
Without dense housing, trains are just unfeasible. It'd take an absolutely massive network to spiderweb out into the vast suburbs of most cities and the costs would be beyond belief.
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by fiblye 7y ago
Honestly, that's impressively high. Imagine how much worse it'd be if everyone spent their days walking around in the sun. There'd be more than enough skin cancer to offset the lost road deaths.

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