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by nineplay 4y ago
> And I do have faith that sunlight is the best disinfectant, and that truth will prevail over lies. I wish I had that faith but I think the Holocaust stands as a pretty big counter-argument. I'm genuinely curious about your faith
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by nineplay 4y ago
> Most humans just don't care and aren't capable of parsing the truth value of the questions raised, they're just interested in their status within those structures rather than the nature of them. Good job, you've suc
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by nineplay 4y ago
I'm not a flat-earther, but I'll daresay you couldn't prove that everyone who claims to have proof of a round earth is lying or deceived. It's like some (alleged) variations of the young-earth creationist theory which po
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by nineplay 4y ago
That's an interesting way of looking at it. The theory you highlight was not of course the 'original' theory which may have been something more like. > Why did something bad happen? I must have done something wrong. >
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Ask HN: How do you find out about language and framework updates?
2 points by nineplay 4y ago|0 comments
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How's that working out for her? If she has a functioning uterus than I hope she has backup plan for what to do when the government dictates her gynecological care. > I suspect that many Republicans are in this camp. They are delus
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by nineplay 4y ago
I had a bad experience with a similar service. It led me to a dealership which claimed to have the car I wanted at a < MSRP price. I called the dealership ahead of time and they confirmed they had that car at that price. I got there an
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by nineplay 4y ago
It feels a bit patronizing frankly, like it defies otherwise low expectations of indigenous Americans to find out that they know how to feed themselves under difficult circumstances. The comparison to the colonizers boils down to "peo
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by nineplay 4y ago
Almost every book has interesting reference that the reader can choose to follow up on. I'm reading a mystery set in the 30s and took a happy diversion into colonial British officers. I'm a science fiction fan and I like to appro
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by nineplay 4y ago
YMMV :) Moby Dick didn't do anything for me despite people telling me it's their favorite book. Even stripped of the diversions into the history of whaling I felt like it just went on and on.
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by nineplay 4y ago
One of my nits is implications that Great Works require some sort of extra mental exertion. I've read many Great Works and it's not just that Crime and Punishment is better than As the Crawdads Sing <ugh> but it is also mor
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by nineplay 4y ago
I'm going to challenge this because I think it suggests that reading the Russian classics is an intellectual challenge with a perquisite of studying Russian history and culture. Dostoyevsky's works are amazing without any backgrou
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by nineplay 4y ago
Sigh? Thank goodness we're forgotten. Few things are more tiresome and pointless than these generational spats.
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by nineplay 4y ago
50 years ago Silicon Valley was not Silicon Valley. We called it San Jose and it was one of the most boring places imaginable. The highlights were the Winchester mystery house and the 3 story Chuck E Cheese. I'm still mildly astonish
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by nineplay 4y ago
I don't know why you're getting downvoted unless it doesn't fit what some posters want to hear. People don't like sharing walls, they don't like sharing sewer systems, they don't like having to negotiate paint
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by nineplay 4y ago
I just finished recent Clark nominee Skyward Inn and it was such a disappointment that I've gone back to golden-age mysteries to read something I know I'll enjoy - The Eight of Spades by John Dickson Carr. I'm in a bit of a l
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by nineplay 4y ago
I live in a higher COL area than Colorado and their salary ranges help me in only that I expect to get paid more. I'm not sure if that's what Colorado wants.
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by nineplay 4y ago
> The stupid friend of the detective, the Watson, Watson was not stupid and I wouldn't trust an author who read him that way. Matched with > Thou shalt strive to create a detective who has flaws. it suggests audiences who must b
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by nineplay 4y ago
There was a fair amount of complaint about the tacked-on Poriot backstory in the recent Death on the Nile movie. IMO, filling in every blank makes characters less interesting, not more. https://www.pajiba.com/film_reviews&#
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by nineplay 4y ago
> whatever you do dont make it a leftist multiculti gender bs I see this as exhibit #1 "why we need diversity". Let us hope to see a day when it will be so common for a game to have characters in any variety of races, cultures,
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Ask HN: How can a US SW engineer to get a working visa in Europe?
20 points by nineplay 4y ago|40 comments
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by nineplay 4y ago
That may be true but it's a good example of the kind of negativity they face. I suppose it surprises me how much the front page of reddit relies on either wanna-be hall monitors with egos of steel or paid astroturfers who are official
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by nineplay 4y ago
I've never quite understood why anyone would want to mod the front page subreddits, r/pics, r/funny, r/askreddit etc. It must be a lot of work and your reward for your efforts you get a non-stop stream of abuse from pos
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by nineplay 4y ago
> Yes, it will be expensive, but then I'll just buy fewer pairs This is key though, it presupposes everyone can buy fewer pairs. There are probably a lot of people who get by on one pair of sneakers - particularly children, who ar
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by nineplay 4y ago
'conclusively proven' is a high bar, particularly when paired with 'commonly'. If it has been conclusively proven false then why is it still commonly believed? It's pretty easy to say 'because I'm smar
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by nineplay 4y ago
My feminine instincts should have kept me out of here. Turns out that despite all my achievements and failures, despite all my joys and pains, despite all my loves and losses, despite everything in my mind and body that makes me 'me&#x
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by nineplay 4y ago
"her sobs in the night - every night, every night - the moment I feigned sleep" Just a reminder that this is not a book 'glorifying sexual relationships'. This is not a book about a seductress. This is not a book that
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by nineplay 4y ago
Based on some recent experiences I've been thinking that police forces need something that is almost like a JIRA taskboard. Incidence type, officer name, data, upload picture/videos etc. It wouldn't just be for police posit
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by nineplay 4y ago
IME great literature has to connect at an emotional level. Dostoevsky is a great writer because he understands what it is to be human at a level that no one else can match. I wonder if a savant-level writer could write in a way that res
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by nineplay 4y ago
Do you also want a city that borders the ocean and is also a 5 hour drive to one of the most beautiful national parks in the country? I think you might be out of luck.

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