ghusto

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by ghusto 3y ago
Meh, different life experiences then. I've never had any trouble with it. Then again I could be autistic and haven't noticed / cared. In a business setting, the room should bend to facts, not group-think.
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by ghusto 3y ago
Or they just don't need it to have fun. I'm myself all the time exactly _because_ I don't drink.
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by ghusto 3y ago
> The Dutch and Israelis are famously direct. They don’t mind confrontation, so usually speak their mind and take no offence. By contrast, East Asians are more likely to value collective harmony. This means that they avoid direct confron
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by ghusto 3y ago
At the risk of another downvote-avalanche in this uncritical echo chamber of anti-brexitism, I'll say that I still think it was a self-fulfilling prophecy. I was against the whole thing in the beginning, but there's no reason that
575.
by ghusto 3y ago
I wish we had a culture of just basic common sense. If you are ill, do not come into the office. You are not showing dedication, you are showing how inconsiderate and dickish you are.
576.
by ghusto 3y ago
Was going to say this. I went from what he describes as the solution, to what he describes as the antithesis, for the exact reasons he went in the opposite direction. Funny eh?
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by ghusto 3y ago
I thought _emacs_ had the standard shortcuts and vim was weird. After all, I can ctrl-a (beginning of line), ctrl-e (end of line), modifier-b (back one word), etc. all in my terminal, as well as most non-Windows desktops (including MacOS).
578.
by ghusto 3y ago
Heh, yeah okay fair enough. So to re-itterate definition I'm challenging: "Winning means beating other people at something you find easier than them". I have two issues with it: The first keeps in the spirit of "winning&
579.
by ghusto 3y ago
Oh what a surprise, symptoms of having come up against the though-police; downvotes without arguments.
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by ghusto 3y ago
I agree that the UK has had a paper economy for a long time now, but to a lesser extent, so do other EU countries. Not that I don't think this is a mistake, only that it should show that this is not the issue. The issue is pessimism, s
581.
by ghusto 3y ago
This sounds like obvious and poor advice to me. Summary of all those words could be: Don't challenge yourself, only do things that you already find easy because winning is the most important thing. Of course, this depends on your defin
582.
by ghusto 3y ago
That's the frustrating stage with learning a language; the part where you don't know enough to pick up the gist of a sentence, but learning more requires you to first pick up the gist of the sentence. I'm not sure what the so
583.
by ghusto 3y ago
That actually sounds great. If it were particularly smart, it could even take apart the bits of the language you were having problems with — and unbeknownst to you — concentrate on developing those with you.
584.
by ghusto 3y ago
Tip: To be taken more seriously, don't use such childish language. I was reading the first part and nearly switched off without checking the comments here. I'm glad I did, because I see now how serious (and maybe _illegal?_) this
585.
by ghusto 3y ago
Agreed, no app, website, methodology or anything else is going to gain you fluency. The sole way of gaining fluency is speaking the language, and all that goes along with that (mostly it's integrating into the culture, because language
586.
by ghusto 3y ago
I don't know about that. I remember back in the nineties we were all using SMS in England. Pretty much all my friends had a mobile, and we treated SMS like social media DMs.
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by ghusto 3y ago
Makes sense. Another thing that occurred to me a while ago was that iPhones have a 61% market share in the U.S.A., whereas Android dominates in Europe (65%). So it could well be that people in Europe with iPhones don't bother trying to
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by ghusto 3y ago
In the U.S.A., people use iMessage by default, because they use text messaging. People don't use texts in Europe (we use WhatsApp and similar, but WhatsApp by a long margin). The reason people still use texts in the U.S.A. is up for de
589.
by ghusto 3y ago
> The convenience of PayPal is unmatched Every time I see PayPal, I hit the 'nah, just let me fill in my card details'. I think you're overestimating their worth, and underestimating both your customers and the competition
590.
by ghusto 3y ago
Sometimes people put a nominal fee on something solely so it has worth in the eyes of others. Most people do not value things they don't pay for, whether in money, effort, time, etc.
591.
by ghusto 3y ago
The Netherlands has the 17th highest population density in the world, and most of our land is still dotted with water here and there (all very cleverly, but it's still there). There are vast areas of nature reserves, with no building a
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by ghusto 3y ago
It's not a co-incidence that so many people come here to raise their children, but close-by countries like France, Germany, and Spain aren't much different. And yeah, complaining is the national pass-time, until you visit certain
593.
by ghusto 3y ago
Agreed, but with a different conclusion to you. Since you have children, I think you'd agree with me that it's changed you in a way that you can't explain to someone who doesn't have any? Wouldn't you rather everyon
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by ghusto 3y ago
On the one hand, I'm happy to see people being responsible. So many people who shouldn't have had children don't change, and think they can "have it all". You can not. Your life as you know it is over, and if that o
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by ghusto 3y ago
Gandhi and Mandela are interesting cases, that I think serve my point. Both highlighted the injustice of current laws with _relative_ civil disobedience. Think how differently their message would have been taken were they to conduct unrelat
596.
by ghusto 3y ago
The same way any out of context attention seeking hurts your cause; by showing arrogance, and a disregard for others. People generally stop listening to whatever you have to say when you treat them with disregard. When a law doesn't wo
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by ghusto 3y ago
This seems like the obvious and sensible thing to do. If this is too much for people, the next best thing is to just stick to one. For me this is Netflix, but the day they start showing ads at the price I'm paying, is the day my subscr
598.
by ghusto 3y ago
I've often wondered about this chicken and egg problem. It seems that IPv6 is only really useful once we aren't forced to also provide IPv4.
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by ghusto 3y ago
It's such a strange report. What they're actually saying is "Tens of Thousands Protest Reality". It's like going out in a flood, and complaining that you got wet. The reality is that many people in Germany have been
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by ghusto 3y ago
Thank you for this. Finally, some vindication for Luddites. I hear the term used here in a derogatory way a lot, by people who think no further than "more == good".

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