karmacoda

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by karmacoda 9y ago
I tried contacts twice, a few years apart. On both occasions, a few weeks in, I ended up sitting in front of an opthalmologist having had what seems to have been a corneal abrasion from the contact lens. The opthalmologist couldn't f
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BBC's Brexit coverage pessimistic and skewed, say MPs(bbc.co.uk)
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by karmacoda 10y ago
Agreed. I don't even know any europeans talking about leaving.
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by karmacoda 10y ago
That is interesting, ta, although more work for the author.
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by karmacoda 10y ago
I think the striking point is that you're forced to use a throwaway to have an opinion.
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by karmacoda 10y ago
I've given up on my dev dept. I'm sitting in the finance dept.
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by karmacoda 10y ago
Battery chickens.
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by karmacoda 10y ago
Avoid success at all costs. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12056169
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by karmacoda 10y ago
An overloaded shortcut is a trap.
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by karmacoda 10y ago
So you're saying it's only self defence? In that case what's the fuss?
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by karmacoda 10y ago
What is NK's goal? They know perfectly well that to launch a nuke against another country, especially the US, could result in NK being entirely obliterated. ~30 mostly little cites: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by karmacoda 10y ago
There your result: https://www.google.com/maps/@50.8132986,-2.4755472,263m/data...
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by karmacoda 10y ago
Ah, but the two Italian Lamborghinis were donated. Otherwise I would've been very unimpressed.
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by karmacoda 10y ago
This might help you see that view is simplistic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37786467
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by karmacoda 10y ago
"Owing to Britain's recent Brexit-related problems.." -- I'm not aware of any Brexit-related economic problems. On the contrary, all news I've seen since has been positive, to the surprise, and disappointment, of
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by karmacoda 10y ago
I can't even begin to grasp how this is HN front page. No offence, but in the world of tech is this really in the top 30 most interesting things?
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by karmacoda 10y ago
Use an umbrella.
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by karmacoda 10y ago
Agreed. I used to use the app religiously, I'm now using News Republic more often. I don't watch on the TV at all anymore, it makes me feel foul. I remember watching a BBC journalist throw bottles of water for a group of desper
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by karmacoda 10y ago
The UK is as corrupt as everyone claims Russia is, starting with the BBC. Theresa May has turned out to be a tyrant. As a Brit, I don't know if I'm more disgusted by the arrogance of the ruling class, or the apathy of the subser
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by karmacoda 10y ago
Yes. These companies have teams of people spewing out a list of values for PR, and thinking that they have Jedi mind trick powers over the employees (on some people it actually works!). It's the company image, not how the company ope
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by karmacoda 10y ago
As a non-physicist I was thinking the molecules become jammed, immobilised upon expansion; for want of a better analogy a swollen foot in a shoe, no more wiggle room. But the article says that the solid water does melt at even higher tempe
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by karmacoda 10y ago
What are the estimated costs for (something like) this?
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by karmacoda 10y ago
I've had similar, but not with skydiving. I've only done one dive, and it was pleasant, lovely view, but did absolutely nothing for me in terms of adrenaline, at all. What did work for me was commuting by cycle in London, flat o
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by karmacoda 10y ago
The BBC is dodgy. That might sound like blasphemy, but year after year I'm increasingly aware of blatant bias, omissions, misrepresentations. The BBC is not to be trusted.
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by karmacoda 10y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veil_of_ignorance
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by karmacoda 10y ago
What is zot: https://ucirvinegradinterconnect.wordpress.com/2015/09/24/zo...
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by karmacoda 10y ago
Re. Farage - George Costanza: "Leave on a high note."
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by karmacoda 10y ago
* The pound plummeting like a rock. - Expected period of adjustment. * Xenophobia, bordering on fascism, being advocated by the press. - BBC is nothing but a continuous charity appeal. * The gradual, quiet, handing of the NHS to private com
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by karmacoda 10y ago
Confidence underlies the economic outlook - the remainers being negative are now the UK's biggest problem.