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by mercer 7y ago
I'd say it makes a very slight difference to me, but you're probably right.
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by mercer 7y ago
My life is one long string of latching-ons, it sometimes feels like. Often at the expense of everything else. I can't give any recommendations as far as medication goes, but for me personally this has helped: 1. therapy (or perhaps a c
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by mercer 7y ago
Treating it as a 'unique political failing' might be silly, but highlighting the problems of our JIT economies, and criticizing our governments about that, is in itself a good thing. From cursory reading it seems many experts have
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by mercer 7y ago
While true, there can be a possibility to bend your thinking to treat it as if it is voluntary. Maybe difficult or impossible for some, but it's worked for me, at times. I was in semi-voluntary seclusion since the end of last year, and
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by mercer 7y ago
For some reason it didn't even occur to me that the title might've been taken literally, but in hindsight that seems odd. I suppose if this is odd, the title can be considered clickbait.
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by mercer 7y ago
> There are days I take a break from it all, but overall I feel like I want to bear witness to the events as much as possible. I've been an information junkie for most of my life, and over time I've taken the approach of taken
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by mercer 7y ago
I'm from The Netherlands, and while I'd expect people here to expect or hope for more, millennials and under are generally pessimistic too. As a self-employed programmer with a decent breadth of experience and as an autodidact wit
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by mercer 7y ago
I'm also interested to hear more, but FWIW as an EU-resident and millennial with a bunch of millennial and lots of 'zoomer' friends: 1) out of everyone I know, working- to middle-class, only three people 'own' a hou
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by mercer 7y ago
While I agree it's a core element of Metroid, and I completely understand how it would bother many fans, but for me this is one of the less-essential aspects of Metroid. But it's possible that much of my initial enjoyment was beca
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by mercer 7y ago
I didn't realize Zero Mission was already 16 years old, but I'd say that was a pretty good, albeit short Metroid game.
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by mercer 7y ago
It's easy to dismiss fandom as just for the sake of it. I've heard it about Apple and Nintendo and in both cases it just seems like a lazy way to dismiss other people valuing things differently. Mostly, anyways. I'm a huge Ni
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by mercer 7y ago
It's noteworthy precisely because it's relatively unusual for Nintendo. I mean, I'm one of the ones complaining about stuff like this, but I also have a NES, SNES, GC, and their peripherals working like a charm. Meanwhile my
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by mercer 7y ago
I've played most of those and BotW ranks right along with them. For an initial experience, I'd say few of those topped that of BotW (Bioshock and Doom 2016 maybe, Morrowind and Kotor 1 Definitely). Longer-term I'd say BotW en
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by mercer 7y ago
I suspect 'professional AirBnB hosts' and 'being a shit human' correlate strongly, is why.
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by mercer 7y ago
What's different, I suppose, is that certain types of people have a huge platform in the US via Fox News and the like. In my country, The Netherlands, for the most part people didn't really seem to take things seriously, even when
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by mercer 7y ago
Is Reddit leaking again?
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by mercer 7y ago
> Pretend that you're Andrew Cuomo on April 4, 2020. You're aware of what stage China is in. What would you do differently? I would not make cuts to Medicaid, for one.
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by mercer 7y ago
Well then go write or link to a blog post to provide us with an actual counter-point maybe?
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by mercer 7y ago
How does this compare to https://studylib.net/coronavirus-growth ?
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by mercer 7y ago
> Like the Guardian, they never deserved their reputation and have gotten tremendously worse in the last decades. Thanks for the comment. As someone from outside the UK I know very little about the BBC. Could you elaborate on your views
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by mercer 7y ago
It remains to be seen whether such gestures are just PR though.
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by mercer 7y ago
> The current administration speaks for the country right now, but doesn't set an eternal policy that determines the United States' thinking towards its partners or erases the decades of strong alliances from the past. I'm
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by mercer 7y ago
I suppose the good part of the experience is that it taught me, once again, that as soon as I run into issues I should probably go read the docs until I properly understand things, rather than tweak things for a while until they magically w
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by mercer 7y ago
> Phoenix view/layout things still confuse me. When I worked through the Programming Phoenix book, for some reason the view/layout thing was what I struggled with most, and even in the years since its only been recently that I
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by mercer 7y ago
Definitely better than calling it Coronabury or Coronapalooza.
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by mercer 7y ago
> I once started learning some chinese martial arts, and the instructor was a true believer in more than the fighting techniques, but the spirituality that comes with it. Very easily debunked by modern fact based science. What kind of sp
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by mercer 7y ago
Not OP, but for me what made it work, initially, was the Headspace app. Some people aren't a fan of the voice, but for me it was so much more pleasant than the usual breathy deep-oice I find in other apps/audio. I'd say more
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by mercer 7y ago
I registered a .dev for my company, but because it's a company of one I imagine this won't affect me then. Good to know though. I do recall using .dev for local/internal development years ago... EDIT: so would this mean that
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by mercer 7y ago
Something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii ?
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by mercer 7y ago
This one stood out to me too. One of the few things that has kept me going as a software engineer, both professionally and as an 'enthusiast', has been exactly this 'reinventing the wheel'. Just building stuff. Intention

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