james-redwood

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by james-redwood 5y ago
Can snap get any worse? It’s a comedy of errors at this point.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
I think anyone with knowledge of how badly Iran has been hit by sanctions would understand that they have a very punitive effect.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
Tradition doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good. I agree though, olive oil may not be the best oil to fry with but I don’t think it’s harmful. If you’re cooking Indian cuisine it’s probably a bit of a waste though.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
How has no one on HN called out the Anonymous drivel yet. Even bringing 4chan supposedly into it. No one has any idea what they’re talking about.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
It’s nowhere near that big.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
This is almost exactly how I’ve set up my Anki (well, now as of late Mochi.cards). It’s exactly what I need and you certainly seized a gap in the market. Well done.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
He’s the youngest to do so.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
This has been known for a long time. I can’t even begin to describe the rot at the NHS, but I can point you to an article I just read on how whistleblowers are treated in the system [1]. Adam Kay also wrote an achingly funny book on how tou
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by james-redwood 5y ago
You can live very well in all of those countries. Furthermore, the quality of life can vary greatly between subregions. It all depends on what you value in life, and without that we’re left with a very broad and vague question. If I had the
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by james-redwood 5y ago
If your worldview was derived from Reddit there was never much hope for you in the first place.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
Exactly Wikipedia’s flaw: it only holds a mirror to the sources, and even then, a distorted one at that to the whims of an anonymous editor who very well could have an inflammatory agenda and in cohort with other similar actors.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
I would have also recommended the Economist until I experienced a Gell-Mann amnesiac effect [1] with regards to an article they wrote about South Africa, a country where I lived much of my life in, in which they so horrifically butchered th
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by james-redwood 5y ago
It’s infuriating how little anyone cares about the Tigray. It’s genuinely a horrific human rights crisis - far more than most today - and yet there’s sparse MSM coverage as well as a lack of general awareness or care about it in the Western
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by james-redwood 5y ago
Exactly. Marks said that a crash is often inaccurately thought to be caused by a valuation excess; except in reality, they're caused by credit excesses and a failure to meet obligations on said credit on a large scale.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
I use it all the time: it’s a criminally underused feature.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
That’s an incredible verse: we underestimate the wisdom of the ancients sometimes.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
It's hilarious
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by james-redwood 5y ago
Wikipedia is a gigantic hit and miss. I often loathe to see it linked as gospel truth.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
I feel that this is a rather poor question, and comes off as a little immature and naive. If I had to give it a bash however, I'd reckon that a phone would be completely unecessary. Reducing your technological devices down to solely yo
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by james-redwood 5y ago
Tor generally doesn't work on Google services.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
An Iranian colleague of mine ran into a similar conundrum. The solution is to never give away more information than strictly necessary.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
It’s an international tournament? Diversity is inevitable in that situation. I get what you mean though. I grew up in then Rhodesia, followed by stints in South Africa as effectively a refugee followed by the UK, and honestly I miss having
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by james-redwood 5y ago
The PinePhone in its current iteration is unfortunately unusable. It's a shame because while I do wholeheartedly believe in the mission of the project it's simply just not quite there yet. Nevertheless, a much better alternative i
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by james-redwood 5y ago
I don’t mind a subscription model provided it’s a very useful application with few competitors in terms of features. $5 each month is nothing in the grander scheme of things.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
While somewhat unrelated, anecdotally, the road quality in Boston is terrible in comparison to big cities in South Africa or the UK. There’s a big disconnect in local management and the communities they serve.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
It’s only been up for a couple of hours. It’ll happen soon enough.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
As well as point them to a self hosted Invidious instance.
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by james-redwood 5y ago
Coming from a person who lived for a while in South Africa as a refugee as well as worked in Israel, Israel is simply not an apartheid state. It’s more arguable that the situation in the West Bank bears some similarity, but it lacks the cri
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by james-redwood 5y ago
The space lasers were real /s (in reference to the Republican congresswoman who blamed the California wildfires on Jewish space lasers: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/marjorie-taylor-gree... )
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by james-redwood 5y ago
They derive nearly 90% of their revenue from allowing Google to be the default search engine. Default uBlock is an impossibility. If you’d like Firefox with that feature, try the LibreWolf fork.

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