recon517

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by recon517 4y ago
Personal anecdote: Bought a Bumble Premium with a one time payment of ~120 EUR. In three months got only one match which led to a date. But what a date! We are in love now and I am quitting all dating apps I have used before. My match was O
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by recon517 5y ago
You can not really compare Chinese and Russian censorship as of 2022. They are still on a completely different scale.
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by recon517 5y ago
> Perhaps, but the way the last cold war ended was by economic collapse. The warrior cultists needed somebody feeding and arming them, so they needed an economy, and their economy wasn't up to the task. I'm pretty sure the folk
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by recon517 5y ago
> North Korea has been in the status of pariah state for decades and hasn't bent an inch. There are sanctions on the NK leadership and you have to convert them and their children into the Western way of thinking before they can even
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by recon517 5y ago
So many commentators did not live through post-USSR 90s to completely miss the mentality and culture which shapes Putin's decisions. First, you need to understand values of a person, then their goals, then their methods to achieve the
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by recon517 8y ago
Easy to understand if you are cheating by automating your job and spending now freed time for leisure: if your contract says that you are paid by an hour or for fixed number of hours a week/month then you are cheating. Of course, not p
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by recon517 8y ago
> What Russia is trying to do is ensure it has a strategic buffer zone between it and the West and friendly rulers and states on its borders, much like any state with Russia's military history would be interested in doing. Combined
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by recon517 9y ago
When a grown up man picks a fight with another grown up man, it is ok. But if a grown up man picks a fight with a child, this is just sick. That is why some people are appalled by what is happening with humans vs other animals.
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by recon517 9y ago
Except nobody is being asked - we force a decision on them. Another interesting hypothetical situation: You are a stray cat, happily living on a street, feeding on garbage and screwing your cat-girlfriends in the free time. One day you are
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by recon517 9y ago
It does not have to be only one or another: one can both stop holding wild animals in captivity and also stop farming domestic animals for food. Just do your part in this (significantly lower your meat/dairy consumption and never go to
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by recon517 10y ago
You can study from 3 to 8 years depending on how much free time you have. There are only three deadlines each year - two for coursework assignments and one for exams. It takes me at most 5 days of study per course before each coursework and
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by recon517 10y ago
You can study from 3 to 8 years depending on how much free time you have. There are only three deadlines each year - two for coursework assignments and one for exams. It takes me at most 5 days of study per course before each coursework and
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by recon517 10y ago
Current BSc Computing and Information Systems student here. Program structure, flexibility and exam structure are really great. But there were some truly horrific quality control and student support issues, so cannot advise this program to
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by recon517 13y ago
Collision detector uses CSS hover effect. If you don't move your mouse, hover is not triggered.
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by recon517 13y ago
It cannot be a HN clone, as HH appeared in 2006 and HN in 2007.
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by recon517 14y ago
You are right, my solution is not really working. But I still believe that there might be a working solution of encoding deltas. Thank you for your reply!
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by recon517 14y ago
Store each number as a delta from a previous one, first number as a delta from 0. Each number starts with a code describing its length: 0 (duplicate), 7, 9 or 27 bits. For storing a code use values '1', '01', '001' and '0001'. Calculate sta