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by iiv 9y ago
It's like a loan with no interest! How has no one done this before?
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by iiv 9y ago
>Then there's also a lot of gadgets or software that come with the untranslated "ok" The word has been used a long time before gadgets and software became common here in Sweden. I would guess it comes from films and tv-pro
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by iiv 9y ago
We can be even less specific: humans do this a lot.
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by iiv 9y ago
That he rambled over the only woman does not mean that he rambled over her because she is a woman.
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by iiv 9y ago
I usually like satire, but this felt too obvious. Subtlety is in my opinion a key part of good satire. Otherwise it feels too forced or too in-your-face. But as the specialist external reader said: "Stross can clearly write workmanlike
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by iiv 9y ago
But EULA _are_ (generally) not enforcable. It obviously depends, sometimes it is and sometimes not. I know for example in Sweden EUla are not enforcable at all.
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by iiv 9y ago
I have been aware of this since I tried to use Let's Encrypt with an IDN domain name. Back then, IDN-certificates were not allowed because of security concerns, but this has apparantly changed since then.[1] I hope this will get fixed,
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by iiv 9y ago
When purchasing electronics haggling isn't really very common. The haggling comes when you buy in bulk. But you're right, if you buy things on a market in Asia; haggle!
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by iiv 10y ago
Where I live (eastern Sweden) we all say "trådlös", so almost "trådfri". But IKEA have many names that either sound like gibberish or are just strange.
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by iiv 10y ago
But what about the inventor of the transistor? I already don't know that name. (But on the other hand, I don't know many names)
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by iiv 10y ago
I can confirm that it's not just you. There is a copy on googlecache[1] [1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
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by iiv 10y ago
That was fun, easy to understand and informative. He shows how he debugs real errors and builds a decent product pretty quickly. The only complaint is that his voice was drowned in music in the intro.
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by iiv 10y ago
I think the word you're looking for is "satire".
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by iiv 10y ago
> what about all the millions people in those countries that proudly claim to be "socialists" What about them? I think it is widely spread that socialism is like, if not the same as communism.