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by goblin89 5y ago
> You can get a cheaper ticket with an agent than with an airline but this would be a ticket attached to certain conditions (for example, it can only be sold together with a hotel room) Ticket pricing is unpredictable and really depends
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We’re Urging Ukrainians to Die(realclearpolitics.com)
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by goblin89 5y ago
The first argument is theoretical and controversial. The second point is not.
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by goblin89 5y ago
There is an argument that stereotypical ethnic Russians are Finno-Ugric people. Moreover, if you go almost anywhere in Siberia, 50% or more of the locals will be of ethnic minorities native to the area (you may describe their appearance as
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by goblin89 5y ago
Let’s be stark: to equate military to this is to treat military service as exploitation for someone’s financial gain and pleasure. It could be a valid position, but not necessarily the one I would consider mainstream. Addendum: ah, and va
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by goblin89 5y ago
Imagine you are compelled by a few seasoned guys to enter a contract when you are at the youngest age that is allowed by law (which is how they like it). You are half intimidated, half curious and you don’t have a lawyer you can ask for leg
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by goblin89 5y ago
Security codes is a special case of fraud ruining things for everyone. I recently gave up on becoming a Hetzner customer (to set up a Minecraft server for friends). After going through all the security checks it declined to provision the s
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by goblin89 5y ago
Let’s not balk at prices when a newcomer stands up to Big Social. Their true customers are the advertisers, and no honest business can compete with ad-driven “free” products on price. I imagine Facebook already sells Quest at a loss, and ma
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by goblin89 5y ago
If your friends don’t care but you do, educate them. The good old “I’ve got nothing to hide” is de-facto a synonym of self-censorship or recklessness due to lack of awareness.
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by goblin89 5y ago
Not sure I get your point. Imagine store A is a platform like Booking.com, and store B is seller’s site. There is a complaint every day to store A that store B sells cheaper. Store A charges the customer less but pays the seller the same, t
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by goblin89 5y ago
How do friend groups deal with members who might want to drop a potentially controversial in future viewpoint, let alone a politically charged opinion? Any use of a non-e2e service as a replacement for an e2e service basically means either
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by goblin89 5y ago
Wouldn’t this open such a platform to scams where a friend of the seller gets discounts by pointing to seller’s site with super-low prices? I’m not saying they do not take a cut voluntarily, but they must take measures if this happens too
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by goblin89 5y ago
> A store cannot dictate how much you charge for a product at a different retailer Isn’t this exactly what is happening everywhere you see “we price match!” or “low price guarantee”? Platforms can and do require sellers to provide the
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by goblin89 5y ago
People who don’t “build and show” in their free time do not necessarily have harder time getting hired, nor are they necessarily worse as hires. Some people have circumstances or attitude where they prefer to get paid to build things. One c
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by goblin89 5y ago
To those who, like me, have current Darktable crash randomly when you start working on your DNGs, I recommend RawTherapee (but get the latest build for your system, if you search discuss.pixls.us or GitHub issues you will see a link to one
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by goblin89 5y ago
As a photography enthusiast myself, I recommend one treasure trove of information—the Photography StackExchange[0]—and to not be too averse to googling things around in general. [0] https://photo.stackexchange.com/q/608
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by goblin89 5y ago
And here’re some fresh examples with lists just encountered in the wild: https://developer.matomo.org/guides/tracking-javascript-guid...
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by goblin89 5y ago
You might not have been writing JavaScript. For objects, spacing properties from curly brackets is pretty much the norm, Prettier does that by default. For lists I see it rarer but I personally use it instinctively for consistency with obj
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by goblin89 5y ago
Pixelated blurring is I’m sure prettier than black rectangles, but it carries the potential to cause major legal pain to whomever implements it as a way to “hide” sensitive information.
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by goblin89 5y ago
First time I saw a mall-and-apartment-complex in Seoul a few years back[0], it seemed simultaneously weird that someone would choose to live where you literally exit into a shopping center every day, and for those who did—surprising to not
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by goblin89 5y ago
Free speech is never unconditional free speech. The reality is more along the lines “allowed speech = everything except set X” construct, where X tends to grow indefinitely as more and more unacceptable things come in focus. As an example,
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by goblin89 5y ago
The source of smoke should be irrelevant. Either it’s an actual fire, or it’s something that prevents you from noticing an actual fire. (Or at least that’s what I, as a passenger, would hope pilot’s attitude would be. Airplane smokers shoul
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by goblin89 5y ago
Maybe I failed to communicate the point. I believe noticing smoke (from an actual fire) is the reason you can’t smoke (a cigarette) on a flight. The same reason makes it dangerous to filter out smoke. You smell the smoke ASAP, you have a ch
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by goblin89 5y ago
Why 80s? I follow airline incidents (ATC comms, investigations, etc.), fires and/or smoke come up every now and then. Sometimes cargo, sometimes passenger flights. Fires tend to start in cargo compartments. In case of passenger flights
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by goblin89 5y ago
The main hurdle with smoking on a plane is, actually, safety. Not in the sense that a smoker literally lights up the plane, but in the sense that the pilots would have a much harder way of telling when there is a real fire since the smell
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by goblin89 5y ago
When I have trouble juggling a complicated system in my head, I like to visualize it as documentation. Thanks to automated documentation generators it’s possible to document various units directly in the code, but it doesn’t replace tying i
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by goblin89 5y ago
A philosophical idea may not have meaningful implications within the scope of physics, but that doesn’t make it useless. Rietdijk–Putnam argument, for example, appears to sort of elevate the idea of differing planes of simultaneity, taken f
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by goblin89 5y ago
IMO exempting from tax is qualitatively different from just giving an artist money to live off of, which is what surprised me in those French/Swiss programs. One must either already be successful and business-savvy enough to earn money
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by goblin89 5y ago
I see. Makes my comment rather meaningless. > which already has a bunch of other artists' grants and supports I imagine most governments do it to some degree, but the question is how straightforward those grants are to get by someon
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by goblin89 5y ago
A few times in the past 3–5 years I came across Europeans who would travel and do stuff like photography or filmmaking while being compensated by the government. I was told that those are programs where basically all you need is to be an un

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