nostalgk

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by nostalgk 7y ago
For you, the day my Hawaiian shirt graced our workplace was the most important day of your life. For me, it was Friday. (I wear mine on Tuesdays.)
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Personally, for me, it dipped pretty far into uncanny valley from its execution. I'll concede the notion is pretty funny though, having experienced the same from my stint in IT.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
From what I can gather, it appears that a large amount of industry in Japan relies (or did at some time) on the long flowering cycle causing continual growth of the bamboo stalks, only further complicated by the cloning process that likely
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by nostalgk 7y ago
It's just like power in any other form; legitimate power comes from the ability to influence others, but exercising that power to coerce others is a trade. If Google wants that power back, they need to earn it.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
There was one episode where Sheldon spends a considerable amount of time ranting about Windows 8 with no relevance to the plot at hand, laugh tracks abound. I haven't watched since. It genuinely made me uncomfortable; not because I lik
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by nostalgk 7y ago
I'm still an oddity among my friends for playing Nethack, Dwarf Fortress, and various MUDs over the current graphical offerings. Something about those games and the level of detail afforded to being purely in text, without the graphica
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by nostalgk 7y ago
I'd imagine the fee would need to be at least a bit more rewarding than the current punishment is punishing.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Ah, I see. You mean to say that the governing body concerned with money laundering would pay the financial institution. I was under the impression the finder's fee would be attributed to the employee, by the financial institution (a si
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Why would lobbyists work towards rewarding those who flag money laundering transactions when, presumably as presented by the parent comment, they make money off of these transactions? If anything, they would be lobbying against a finder&#
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by nostalgk 7y ago
I'd also add it will probably put some pressure on the United States to legitimize them again as well
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Volunteering is what got me into this business in the first place. As a youth that really didn't know where I was going, I volunteered at a community garden to stay busy, and the person running it was a software engineer. Volunteering
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Interesting. I guess I was fooled then when I took a cursory look at the specs (months ago), and only really noticed the first part. Definitely won't be buying into the trend myself. Any ethical alternatives out there?
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Thanks, somehow never noticed this article. For the record, my parent comment isn't rhetorical or sarcastic, I've just entirely avoided the trend and am not the target market.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
It does appear that a lot of employers are dependent on younger employees interning before hiring them. A few of my peers are working for the same company; the ones that interned have quickly advanced in pay and position, and the ones that
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Is there evidence that the big name home devices like Google Home and Amazon Echo actually collect your speech? I was under the impression it was just a small ARM board that uses recognition to execute commands. My mom has a Dot, but I am c
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by nostalgk 7y ago
It's not really a matter of scrolling and seeing their content so much as that there are people I'd just rather not be associated with. I've been contacted numerous times about people committing crimes or getting involved wit
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by nostalgk 7y ago
My experience is that I have hundreds of people to snooze, and would rather just have a fresh start and let those people trickle back in if they want to. Maybe I should just make a new account.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
My distinction is that, for many, being poor isn't starting from the bottom, but rather being in the hole. While they both have nothing to lose, someone starting from the bottom has a lot more to gain given they aren't paying into
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by nostalgk 7y ago
At this point, while I carry a Medium account, I refuse to log into it out of principle.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Agreed. Currently, the only way seems to be to go to each page and click the button.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
At least in my sphere of influence, the word "poor" has changed from "has nothing to lose" to "is in a position in which they have already lost quite a bit". For example, I and many of my colleagues are battlin
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to delete Facebook friends or unlike pages/leave groups? I really want to clean out my Facebook since I've had it for a very long time and much of it doesn't appeal to me anymore, bu
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Well, Uber uses the Internet to communicate. I know which one would be more useful overall to me. I think not using a few websites who use scummy ad practices (of which there are sometimes ethically reasonable alternatives, like this site)
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Ugh, Medium is the only site I've had to consistently break out the "Block Element" button with. I don't even mind ads and I'm happy to leave them on sites that I want to support, but Medium is an ugly beast with al
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Not sure I quite understand the mechanics behind it as well, but I've been through a similar training program and it appears to be effective.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
I can confirm that I want this to be true, at the least.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Even if it doesn't (and it does, see in same chain), it almost certainly is the progenitor of the prevailing culture found on 4chan. Maybe not the current trend as of recent, but definitely at it's peak.
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by nostalgk 7y ago
This is especially striking and a huge step in the right direction, in my opinion. Oftentimes these days I've turned to emulation to older games due to the resolution on, say, PSX games being very low, but often easily scalable through
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by nostalgk 7y ago
Anecdotal, but I have never found SD cards to be a resilient form of storage. I frequently back up any important data from SD cards, which is a nightmare considering the sluggish read and write speeds, because I have encountered many instan
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by nostalgk 7y ago
SA truly had a massive effect on Internet culture as a whole, something I rarely see attributed to them. Spent quite a lot of time on that site as an adolescent.

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