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by hrktb 6y ago
This article in particular seems to be about better use of church space to not let empty rooms stays unused, albeit in a somewhat aggressive way. But more generally, I think an angle to the whole question would be to apply either or both: -
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by hrktb 6y ago
During the lockdown people were paying close attention to news and gov. got all the attention it wanted. In particular for France, regulations were passed to allow or deny activities, set curfew etc. with hefty fines associated, all of that
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by hrktb 6y ago
I agree with your take as what the article is really meaning. I think what trips me is that the article is not expliciting these caveats either. I fail to find a good analogy, perhaps it would be like explaining how sitting around is bad fo
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by hrktb 6y ago
To me the article is not far from parent's reading. For instance these quotes: > We wanted to understand what specific coping strategies would be helpful in reducing rates of depression, anxiety and panic attacks. > Our findings
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by hrktb 6y ago
True (political pro tip: don't send your army on "vacations" in bordering countries) At the extreme, this is the base for civil disobedience: it is a disruptive breaking of the rules, but in a morally conscious and thought th
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by hrktb 6y ago
I meant that someone could be "sheep"ly following rules and ignoring others when it comes to games, but "naughty" when it's about business or fiscality, and "tattletales" when it comes to religion. That wo
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As for most attempts to classify people, it should be strongly stated that any single human would fits several quadrants depending on the subject, the phase in their life they are in, or even the mood of the day. I read this two dimensional
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by hrktb 6y ago
> worst to use if you are not French Even then, plenty french programmers use a qwerty layout of some sort. I saw people using the Canadian layout, and the international layout is I think the most efficient for IT stuff, even if it requi
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by hrktb 6y ago
This is the same gap between being seen face to face in a public square and having a high resolution 3D scan of your body. We're ok with the former since the dawn of times, we're not happy with the later being digitally shared aro
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by hrktb 6y ago
I think it comes down to how extreme the relation is. In the article there ia a large portion about abusive relationships and other cases warranting a therapist's intervention. In these situations, sure parents behavior will leave a st
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Developpers opinion doesn't matter much, but developpment cost and reliability does. If a project takes 6 months vs 3 weeks, it's a completely different game. Even for big B2B corps, it's the difference between a project you
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It depends how you built that network. If it’s mostly the people You met at smoke/coffee breaks or going to lunch with you that network won’t grow much remotely, stagnate at best. If it’s mostly people directly working with you, having
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by hrktb 6y ago
At this point brand names seem to be very weak indicators of value, except a few exceptions in a specific niches with exclusive technology. Most brands that get any traction seem to abuse that halo to also shove mediocre product to the midd
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by hrktb 6y ago
The EU by design is not a single unit with governing power that would counteract the US or China. It’s not a federation but a union, each member has to manage their own international relations. France for instance is about to take the same
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by hrktb 6y ago
This is not some neutral decision, but a move forced by the fallout of US sanctions, that the UK can’t do anything about. They’re giving up a partnership they entered after independently reviewing the equipment, I can’t see how it is a good
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From a EU/UK perspective there’s no good coming from it. It’s like being caught in a fight between your drunk uncle and your berserk cousin.
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Money quote: > Personally, I've long idolized Steve Jobs and Elon Musk. But most of our heroes got to where they are by being unlikeable, not likable. I fundamentally disagree with that view of being an asshole as an important part
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by hrktb 6y ago
That’s still a lot to unpack. Seasonal workers coming in for harvest have a tough job, but it has nothing to do with kids occupation. For a comparison point, french wineyards use a flock of workers coming from everywhere around europe (in
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by hrktb 6y ago
The efficient for whom par is clearly stated all along, with even a direct mention: > and (for the business) efficient Otherwise on the bigger point about competition: it doesn’t seem to me the landscapes are that tight, except when you’
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Is it the immigrants harvesting corn you are thinking about: https://www.crushpixel.com/stock-photo/harvesting-machine-fi...
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by hrktb 6y ago
I get the logic, yes. Now, Sony has banking, internet provider, insurance, camera sensor, NFC payment companies as well. Would we also boycott all of these, as well as smartphones that feature a Sony sensor for instance, if the goal is to
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by hrktb 6y ago
> So, after boycotting a certain manufacturer for more than a decade on account of their root kit debacle TBF It’s not even the same company. Part of the same group, but the entertainment companies are separated from music hardware, have
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by hrktb 6y ago
Good point. I had in mind greek/roman slaves while writing the comment, while as you say the word slave itself comes from a later period, when slavs where conquered and traded as goods. Goes to show how different a word can look depend
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by hrktb 6y ago
We have a ton of these connotations: - left/sinister is negative compared to right - low is negative compared to high (“moral highground”) - south is negative compared to north (“things going south lately”) Regardless of neutral usages
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Similar things happen all the time [0] An interesting thinking angle to this often “why was it fine before ?” Was it because nobody knew about that name/word in the first place ? Was there always incoming requests for change but those
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> nothing to do with it It never has to do with race until il does. The same way slave/master wasn’t about race in different contexts, being free or not would just a lineage or economic status. But the moment it takes a specific cul
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We should acknowledge it's not a widely studied field, especially as exposing minors to hardcode pornography is not legal in most places. Having any evidence of studied effect is already pretty good in my book. Outside of this specific
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> 1. If we have time to enter something into a knowledge base of any kind - then we have time to just jot it on a piece of paper. There is a kind of generation gap here I think. I have 3 devices at arms reach while writing this, but it w
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There’s a lot of grandiosity here. Just before going deeper, what is your position on bookstore that don’t sell porn magazines, night clubs that refuse smelly people, and school fairs that don’t showcase student’s penis drawings.
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We are in agreement that there needs to be explanation on what's going on, and not just "we'll set some price yon won't know why". In my experience, the most fluctuations were on international shipping by small vend

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