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by koralatov 10y ago
I know for sure that if I underdeclare the value of my holdings or my income, I'll be punished when caught, and I don't consider that unfair. I might disagree with the amount I'm taxed, but I don't disagree that I sho
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“Terminal Velocity is looking for a new maintainer”(github.com)
1 points by koralatov 10y ago|0 comments
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by koralatov 10y ago
I agree with you: the majority of genuinely fitness-obsessed, or even fitness-interested, people could run 10K. I wonder if parent means the people who give the appearance of being fitness-obsessed, rather than those who genuinely are fi
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by koralatov 10y ago
I couldn't agree more. I'd kill for some useful, thoughtful feedback. That said, I'd kill for even a form rejection most of the time; nowadays, it seems never letting you know is the new form rejection.
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“Let's not stop at Brexit. It's time London declared independence”(telegraph.co.uk)
4 points by koralatov 10y ago|4 comments
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by koralatov 10y ago
> this may be good news for the EU, even when we > sacrifice a generation of UK citizens for our benefit. As a British citizen, I'm appalled by the sentiment expressed here. It flies in the face of the ideas and va
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by koralatov 10y ago
We can only hope that he did.
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by koralatov 10y ago
That's not really what we're talking about when we're talking about 'transparency' her. Just because it's known that something happens doesn't mean it happens in a transparent fashion. Transparency of p
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by koralatov 10y ago
> Partly it's also because of the transparency of it all. What's transparent about it? The process is totally opaque -- some executive evaluates whether they feel you're meeting their standards, which may or may not be ob
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by koralatov 10y ago
(What follows is my own opinion, based on my own experience. It's not an intended as an attack on any one group, and shouldn't be construed as such. I'm making no value judgements, simply reporting what I saw and learned.)
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by koralatov 10y ago
Not the author, but I'm guessing what he means is that he wants a simple text editor that covers his required features and not much else .
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Apple Might Let Developers Pay to Have Their Apps Promoted in the App Store(theguardian.com)
2 points by koralatov 11y ago|0 comments
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by koralatov 11y ago
Usual caveats apply: U.S. sales tax is still to be added to that £204 figure, so it's not actually £204 for an American buying it. Adding vat to your £204 figure takes us to about £245, so even if we assume that an American does pay
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by koralatov 11y ago
Really? I don't drink coffee, but do drink tea, and I'm pretty sure that people drink them for reasons other than the raw caffeine content per ml.
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by koralatov 11y ago
In a sad turn of events in Scotland, Barr moved away from reuse of bottles for Irn Bru and its other drinks at the end of last year: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-33985022 As a kid, I collected b
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by koralatov 11y ago
Comparing the revenue from ad-supported streaming to the revenue from vinyl album sales seems disingenuous. A more accurate comparison would be ad-supported streams against radio plays, but I suspect that, on a `per listen' basis, stre
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by koralatov 11y ago
This `article' is terrible, and looks like it hasn't even been proof-read. The first paragraph tails off with an ellipsis on a half-finished sentence (below verbatim): The first thing you should know is that the key o
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‘Dune’ Can’t Capture the Novel’s Incalculable Brilliance(avclub.com)
4 points by koralatov 11y ago|0 comments
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by koralatov 11y ago
The Meths differ from the modern-day superrich only in that they live on to continue concentrating wealth, rather than passing it on to their offspring to continue as has been the case throughout human history. I quite enjoyed the book, a
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by koralatov 11y ago
Highlander here, now living in Aberdeen. The usage you linked to is prevalent only in the Central Belt; up here, it still carries a derogatory implication unless it's being used by close friends. Also worth noting that I've nev
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by koralatov 11y ago
I've never read the book, but I'm curious: did he do both at once, or independently then decide that both in combination gave the best result? If he stayed off his phone and took cold showers, without testing them separately, ho
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by koralatov 11y ago
My 800W microwave is shielded and sitting on the countertop at least several feet away from me; my phone is in my left side pocket for probably 10+ hours a day. I'm not arguing that there's any danger (I'm also not arguing
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by koralatov 11y ago
I live in Aberdeen, and you can definitely add Aberdeen and the surrouding -shire to that list. With the ongoing and very deep cutbacks happening in the oil industry, the prices have stabilised a little, but don't appear to have dropp
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by koralatov 11y ago
I'm a big fan of EPUB because it's a pretty neat example of the Unix philosophy "worse is better". A proprietary or custom format might have been more suited to creating e-books (drop-caps, for example, would probably ha
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by koralatov 11y ago
It never occurred to me to use either, so I used the spacebar and backspace to move forward and backward.
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by koralatov 11y ago
It doesn't seem to parse links correctly in the body of the comment, but I appreciate what works so far. It's pretty much exactly what I want, and fills one of the few missing points of Hacker News. https://imgur.com&#
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by koralatov 11y ago
What does the plain-text notification look like? I'd guess that Hacker News probably has a pretty high proportion of users whose MUA of choice is mutt or Emacs+something.
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by koralatov 11y ago
I've written and rewritten a comment for this thread several times now, but every time I get close to posting it, I feel obliged to go back and revise it. The simple truth is that, given how toxic and charged a lot of the activism is a
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by koralatov 11y ago
I don't have a particular issue with any of the iOS stuff ported over, but it's a lament I hear quite frequently from other Mac users. You're right that there's a certain amount of rose-tinting with regards to Snow Leopa
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by koralatov 11y ago
It's sad that so many people, myself very much included, now stick with OS X merely because ``it's not quite shitty enough to switch''. When I switched to the Mac initially, I switched because it was vastly better optio

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