jangliss

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by jangliss 1y ago
Thought this was Clickhole.com and was waiting for the payoff to the joke
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by jangliss 2y ago
This is cool! I'd be interested to see it include more jurisdictions (I'm from Guernsey which is low tax but high rent, and I wonder how that evens out.)
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by jangliss 2y ago
I couldn't find any locations on the Channel Islands. Where did you get your place list?
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by jangliss 2y ago
I read the Paul Graham article mentioned here immediately before reading the Neil Gaiman exposé, and it left a sour taste in my mouth. PG is an incredible writer and contributor to this community, but that doesn't mean he isn't hu
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by jangliss 2y ago
I did a degree in Politics and then an MSc in International Relations, which are not subjects where there are definitive "canons". To put it another way, you can go very far down the tech tree of one set of ideas without necessari
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by jangliss 2y ago
The only time I've heard of negotiating net is in certain Gulf countries where employers will pay all your taxes for you. Not a thing in the US or Europe though.
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by jangliss 2y ago
> Bu şehirdeki polis teşkilatı faaliyetlerini arttırdı. Interestingly the -ki suffix here was borrowed from Persian (another Indo-European language like English), and effectively highlights a unique instance - "the one which" -
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by jangliss 2y ago
Surely it is AWKward?
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by jangliss 2y ago
This initially sounded impossible, but in reality the results are unsurprising and the interpretation is the strange part. All the children depicted were 9 years old while the adult pictures were presumably from a wider range of age/cl
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by jangliss 3y ago
"I think it's something that’s aged sitting there because it’s a number, so we have to understand how that number got there because the number was so big that the control panel didn’t know what to do with it and kicked into shutdo
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Gas company shuts down due to overflow error(bailiwickexpress.com)
3 points by jangliss 3y ago|1 comments
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by jangliss 3y ago
A Dutch friend once said that the one word from his language that has had universal reach was "apartheid"... I'm sure that if there are any truly global words they are probably ones like that (initially) attached to a specifi
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by jangliss 3y ago
In Turkish those are "anne" (an-ney) and "baba"... And "mama" means baby food!
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by jangliss 3y ago
Given that this is a place with a disproportionate number of "internet randos" who have experienced the same problem, I'd say that it's worth asking - and then weighting responses by level of experience.
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by jangliss 4y ago
Sounds like a real concern until you consider that the Suez canal is the only waterway from the Mediterranean to Asia and that cables can also be sited on land.
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by jangliss 7y ago
You likely have your own reasons for submitting the news, but it does echo China's official position on the protests - Chinese embassies and news sites have been running stuff claiming the protesters are a violent mob for weeks.
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by jangliss 7y ago
It didn't, but I ended up finding it in the settings. Cheers!
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by jangliss 7y ago
Great work - there needs to be a good place to write for free without the site then trying to sell the writing on. I've signed up to your newsletter but it took me a little scrabbling about to figure out how.