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by geowwy 7y ago
Agreed! Forgot that one
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by geowwy 7y ago
If you're going overseas, learn a little bit of the local language. 1. Hello 2. Goodbye 3. Please 4. Thank you 5. Me 6. You 7. Him/her 8. This 9. That 10. Here 11. There 12. Do you have this? 13. Where
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by geowwy 7y ago
I had the opposite experience. My 60% keyboard ruined my hands with RSI. I strongly recommend Xah Lee's advice to anyone suffering from RSI: http://xahlee.info/kbd/ergonomic_keyboards_index.html In my opinion the
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by geowwy 7y ago
WRT technology, I expect a technological plateau within our lifetime. In geo-politics, USA will not be the sole superpower anymore: * China will continue to regain its historical prominence/prestige * EU will seek more and more indepen
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by geowwy 7y ago
> and make sure that if you do click a thumbnail the next > image and its comments do load really fast to get you > hooked to those dopamine shots Isn't this what <link rel="prefetch"> and <link
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by geowwy 7y ago
If you're looking for a Static Site Generator: consider building your own. You can build your own static site generator in an afternoon. It's super simple to do and you avoid all the complexity of these off-the-shelf static site f
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by geowwy 7y ago
If your family is powerful enough admissions exams don't matter.
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by geowwy 7y ago
Yes. He asked his kid to hide in the attic, but instead the kid hid in the basement. When he couldn't find his kid in the attic he assumed the kid was actually in the balloon, so he freaked out and started calling the media and authori
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by geowwy 7y ago
> Not much to see, but it’s a good way to kill some time. Reminds me of the big things around Australia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia's_big_things
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by geowwy 7y ago
Due process and a trial has not done Americans any good because the laws are unjust.
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by geowwy 7y ago
I don't agree. The Saudis have been extremely effective at pushing Wahhabism across the world. In many places traditional (usually more tolerant) forms of Islam have basically disappeared.
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by geowwy 7y ago
Maybe I'm a cynic but I don't believe that's the real issue. We're friendly with plenty of countries that do far worse. I think it's about economics and strategic interests.
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by geowwy 7y ago
It's scary how effective the US and China are at propaganda warfare. It seems like only yesterday everyone was on friendly terms, now we hate each other. As someone with family all across Asia and the West I really hope the US and Chin
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by geowwy 7y ago
The biggest contributors stopped contributing around 2016. It seems like they achieved what they wanted and put it in maintenance mode. https://github.com/atom/atom/graphs/contributors
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by geowwy 7y ago
Yeah, I'm not saying it wasn't useful at the time, just that it's not useful now. As opposed to learning SQL or shell scripting which will probably be useful my entire career.
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by geowwy 7y ago
He is right though – new tech nearly always disappears. Example: Learning CoffeeScript was a total waste of time. Learning JQuery helped me for a few years, but now JQuery is basically useless to me. Based on past experience, I strongly sus
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by geowwy 7y ago
I agree there's not the blatant censoring of info, but the government does put a lot of resources into controlling public opinion. Troll farms are a big thing, as well as exploiting connections in big tech and the media. There are also
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by geowwy 7y ago
> except not at the behest of the gov Not so sure about that. Silicon Valley has some crazy ties to American intelligence agencies.
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by geowwy 7y ago
> After all, most Christians ignore a huge swathe of very > clear, very explicit rules in the Bible. Like eating pork, > which you can't get much clearer than how it's stated in > the Bible. The law again
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by geowwy 7y ago
Not sure why you're being downvoted. It's definitely plausible that Traditionalist Catholics will become the majority of practicing Catholics, as well as a small but growing minority in Europe.
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by geowwy 7y ago
The situation is very different. What @skissane says makes sense.
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by geowwy 7y ago
I think they help with glare.
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by geowwy 7y ago
It was definitely intended to be a pinup girl leaning over and doing the stereotypical kiss. It's not a matter of interpretation.
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by geowwy 7y ago
> That logo makes it a non-starter in any organization I've seen in the last decade. Could be what they're going for. There's a subset of the free software movement who are actively opposed to politically correct c
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by geowwy 7y ago
Stereotypical pinup girl leaning forward to kiss you, I assume.
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by geowwy 7y ago
> China does not respond to the normal stimulus / protest that democratic, human-rights based nations do. I wonder how you see them as any different to the US? The US wasn't scrambling to meet the demands of the Occupy
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by geowwy 7y ago
> I think things like prison, corporal punishment, exile, etc., are good deterrents but they're horrible at reintegration Not sure I understand. Corporal punishment doesn't have a problem with re-integration because no
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by geowwy 7y ago
A lot of the times we would just do nothing. Marijuana possession doesn't need punishment for example. Otherwise there are a tonne of options from before prison became the norm. Community service, restitution, fines, public shaming, ex
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by geowwy 7y ago
Well done California. Hopefully this is a step towards abolishing the prison system.
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by geowwy 7y ago
Yeah. It surprises me anyone thinks the French Revolution was a good thing.

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