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by mathieuh 6y ago
Oganesson was named after a physicist called Oganessian, it’s no different from curium or seaborgium or einsteinium.
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I assumed they meant anglicise their whole name to avoid persecution rather than just adopting a common American name for ease of pronunciation.
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Are you suggesting that we should just let people die in all cases where left alone they would die naturally? Where do you draw the line?
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by mathieuh 6y ago
We all have to live in this system, it's unrealistic to think all anarchists should be ideologically pure and live in the woods off the land like Kaczynski. I believe thinking and writing and getting these ideas into the mainstream ca
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I think it’s dangerous to be friends with bosses, it can cause you to lose perspective on what the relationship between you and your work actually is: you sell your labour, usually for far less than it is worth to the company. I believe it
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Who's being passive-aggressive? The Iranian guy added commits to the PR, it seems he was going to merge it and realised he probably shouldn't
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I haven't actually had a single video-conference since lockdown started. Plenty of audio-conferences with 50+ people for show and tells, and if two people turn their cameras on it's suprising. Personally I'm very happy with t
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Same with me, in the UK we have a scheme where you can buy a bike tax-free which I availed of in December, having not cycled in years. Since lockdown I've been cycling 40 km almost every day, and I managed to do a 120 km ride the other
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I am not a linguist, but I do speak BrE natively and to me "-t" and "-ed" are used in different context. The "-t" ending is used for adjectives ("dinner is burnt", "that child is spoilt", &q
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Not sure that’s true, I used to work with a right-handed Pakistani person who was fully bilingual in Urdu and English and they claimed their handwriting was neater in Urdu than English. I couldn’t tell because I can’t read Perso-Arabic. Alt
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Isn't it expected that the government is acting in society's interest though? Whether or not that is the case in reality, bringing up the fact that the government has greater resources than citizens like this feels like it's
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Big problems in Ireland at the moment with American tourists. I realise it's hearsay and Reddit isn't a great source, but lots of people are complaining that they've seen Americans out and about, who when asked "aren&#x2
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Microsoft didn't force people to buy Windows, "all" they did was install IE by default and they got done for that. Precedent disagrees with you.
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I have the same ones and yes it is, you adjust it through the app. They have big cups, I would consider myself to have average-sized ears and I can move them around on my head without my ears touching.
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I think it’s important to get black people’s opinions on this, it’s easy to sit here as a white person and say “it’s just a word! PC gone mad!”. Speaking for myself, I don’t know if you’re black or whatever. Words are very important, I’m su
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by mathieuh 6y ago
GitHub are changing master to main, lots of big and small open source projects have already done so/are planning to do so https://www.theregister.com/2020/06/15/github_replaces_maste...
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by mathieuh 6y ago
You could buy a standalone GPS device, I know Garmin make ones for hiking, I'm sure there are other probably cheaper options out there.
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Yes but they said 50% of their income comes from tips and a $1 delivery fee. I assume tips are generally more than $1 (I may be wrong). Maybe it’s just not productive to compare different countries’ eating habits in the end, but it seems to
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by mathieuh 6y ago
What about in countries where tipping is not normal? I live in the UK and lots of small family-run fish and chip shops and takeaways offer delivery, along with the bigger chains like Dominos.
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by mathieuh 6y ago
The most relevant industry to this board (IT) usually provide private healthcare though. I’ve had BUPA from work since I graduated. Granted this is across only two jobs but when I’ve been applying for jobs in the past private health has alw
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Ah, got confused sorry
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I didn't make any claims, I informed that the PM has a report into Russian influence and is refusing to release it. I didn't make any implications at all.
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I think you're getting downvoted by people who don't have the contextual information Boris has been sitting on a report into Russian influence and he is refusing to release it because apparently there's nothing in there. Dido
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I usually buy smoothies and drink them for some calories and to feel full. Luckily I don't get too much body load, it's just the idea of chewing and eating that weirds me out
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I've never been able to even contemplate eating while tripping and the idea of drinking alcohol while tripping turns my stomach, I find it much easier to just take some alprazolam or diazepam if things start getting out of hand. That&#
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Presumably they mean that if you use your web cam with zoom they would be able to construct a 3D model of your face from the camera feed as you move your head around.
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Yeah for me it was just the easiest way to get a job. Didn't really ever go to lectures, was in the students' union maybe twice, got a flatshare in final year with people I had met doing my year's industrial placement.
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by mathieuh 6y ago
Isn't this literally describing the noble savage? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noble_savage
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I'm not 100% sure, I saw him talk about it in a YouTube video a while ago, the name of which I can't recall. I typed some keywords into Google and found the full quotation here: https://www.lacan.com/essays/?p
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by mathieuh 6y ago
I like Zizek's take on postmodernism and how it relates to authority. > Instead of bringing freedom, the fall of the oppressive authority thus gives rise to new and more severe prohibitions. How are we to account for this paradox? T

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