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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Does someone here own this site or something? It's simply a WP blog with a .net and a sweary name that copies/scrapes and reposts articles (and images) from other sources. This one for example is a direct copy from the Independent
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
He didn't use "sarcasm" to mean the opposite of what it actually means. Because his post could be read as sincere (unjustified) criticism of Google, he used the well-known internet convention of "/sarcasm" to a
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> Call me old fashioned, but I think it's important to know what words actually mean [...] To quote Thomas Stoppard It's also important, when pretentiously namedropping a writer and bragging about how you actually read them (al
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
+4 karma so far (within 25 minutes of the account creation) for objectively stupid, offensive garbage like this. Unreal.
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What do you mean by a "money guy" on the street?
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AIUI, it's because the expensive part is not basically updating an internal database when money changes hands (no sending of BTC required), the expensive part is, to take WU as an example, operating half a million brick and mortar loca
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Since Indiehackers has now changed the URL of the Ministry of Testing logo, breaking it in the parent post (it's still on the Indiehackers page, with a new URL), here it is on Imgur, alongside the Ministry of Sound logo: http:/&#
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
1. They used the same state emblems to create a completely different design. 2. Doesn't mean other people can use their "old" logo (which they're currently still using). FWIW, I'm no fan of MOS (one of the reasons I
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> they are both derivatives of governmental logos used in the UK No they aren't. The MOS logo uses emblems of the British state (crown and portcullis) to create a design that's completely different from that of any British stat
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Interesting post, but I would suggest coming up with an original logo, rather than using another company's world famous logo and slapping a ninja icon on it. Ministry of Sound logo: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Or "Latin American" or simply "Latin", if gender-specificness is the issue.
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
What am I missing here? I paste a Youtube link into one of the hundreds of Google results for "Youtube downloader" and I get a bunch of clear Google video download links in various formats. I paste a URL into "PWN Youtube&quo
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Out of curiosity, what happens when you go to this page in a private window: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!forum/en Note the "en" in the URL and "English" in the language selector in
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
> Does anyone else feel that the "we're paying 4 gold coins but are receiving only 2 platinum bracelets" style arguments are _extremely_ petty? Send me four gold coins; I'll give you two platinum bracelets. Deal?
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> Lucid is CHINA-born... not Chinese-born. What is it you think "Chinese-born" means? > She's not ethnically Chinese. Yes, that's why I said Chinese-born and not Chinese.
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Obligatory nitpick: > Yang Liwei became the first Chinese person to go to space Should probably be the first Chinese national to go into space. The first ethnically Chinese person in space was Chinese-born Taylor Wang. Interestingly, i
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Oops. Thanks. I had a fear I was just missing a joke, but I have seen bots used on forums for no immediately obvious/spammy reason and I've also seen people genuinely imagine strange motives for relatively explicable things.
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What would be the point of that? What he's describing is something that also happened (with far greater, more rage-inducing frequency) on tech forums before SO existed.
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Well Monsanto is one of the companies that produced the chemical weapon Agent Orange, causing birth defects and death in Vietnam to this day, and the last time Bayer, a producer of poison gas in WWI, had a merger, the result was IG Farben,
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by quirkafleeg 10y ago
Ostracism is used as a method of bullying, so the title does match the content.
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I know we're not supposed to suggest someone didn't read the article and apparently just read the subject, but this isn't about violent bullying, it's about a specific kind of psychological bullying. Your solution of lan
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>What he exposed are policies of the United States by people put in power in a democracy and free country. Voting politicians into office does not legitimize any and all potentially illegal and/or un-Constitutional activities they o
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You're surprised to see Chomsky there?
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> Russia was unfortunate that communism had a successful revolution, so they are currently some 30 years behind culturally :-/ That "unfortunate" revolution took Russia from the feudal age into the nuclear age in a single
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> I've seen stuff built with spaghetti PHP code, yet it was marketed well and more people were paying money to use it than my own. Yet when I looked at it, the first thing I saw was an SQL injection vulnerability that would allow me
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Or, for that matter, in record keeping in any other country in any era.