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by rocketbop 3y ago
The corollary of this is that at least in Berlin you can’t survive without cash as many bars, restaurants and even shops will not accept any other form of payment.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
That’s a long read and I’ll have to reread the first sections to understand the differences between the tests in book and film. Author certainly knows a lot about the Blade Runner universe. Surprised that they think the second film is bette
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Thanks, I should have mentioned that. A couple of features are hidden in the show comment view.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
You can favourite HN comments if you just want to come back to them.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
It is clickbaity because it gives a little information while teasing a bigger revelation if you click through.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Regarding your mention of rhyming dictionaries, it's perhaps not widely known, but they are not considered cheats by most songwriters, but rather essential tools of the trade, like code editors or inline docs for programmers. If you po
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I don't know why it hadn't occurred to me before now, that using ChatGPT is quite to similar to playing Zork and Infocom games from the 1980s, with less trial and error needed to get something out of it. The point and click advent
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Jerry Springer, Host of Unapologetically Brash Talk Show, Dies at 79(nytimes.com)
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by rocketbop 3y ago
> Germany doesn't really have permanent residency - it's more like 'indefinite' residency that is revoked when you leave the country for too long. That's the same as the US green card, and Australian permanent re
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by rocketbop 3y ago
> If two native Irish people were in a hostage situation, held by English speakers who didn't know any Irish, and had to communicate without being understood, most would probably manage to do so. Perhaps, so long as what they needed
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by rocketbop 3y ago
It might be simply putting a book quote as a response came across as passive aggressive. The reference is to the Virgin Suicides. The doctor can’t believe that Cecilia would slash her wrists because he can’t comprehend that she would have e
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by rocketbop 3y ago
It may be that there are only so many basic stories. It makes sense that very old books would contain them. All the archetypal story types can be found in Greek literature. I suppose it isn’t a limit of creativity that stops us creating utt
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Obviously doctor, you’ve never been a thirteen year old girl.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I think you can understand how for example an engine works, in a way which couldn’t be described as subjective or artificial. You might have a shallow or deep understanding of this depending on your profession. People who are religious tend
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by rocketbop 3y ago
> Just like the "close door" button in elevators doesn't make the doors close any sooner than they normally would. I had never thought about this. In Thailand they definitely do close the door sooner, or straight away, and
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I don’t live in the US but I’ve also never heard of this or really come across it. Is it about going to someone’s home? Or meeting at a bar? I can’t quite visualise what you’re talking about.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Having something (but not everything) in common is the root of most friendships. The common thing can be club membership, location, interest in weed, some hobby, or almost anything. Without something to connect over it’s hard to get past sm
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by rocketbop 3y ago
It’s definitely harder after a certain age. Friends come ready made when you’re in school or college and to an extent when you’re young and in your first jobs. The idea of safe spaces implies that the existence of unsafe spaces. If you’ll e
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I’ve read quite a few times that more girls take higher level maths as well as sciences at second level than boys, but this reverses when it comes to third level. My anecdotal school experience was that higher maths as well as chemistry and
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by rocketbop 3y ago
The second key takeaway is that you probably don’t want to cook your fish in the dishwasher at all.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
What we call justice has generally always involved a mix of deterrence, prevention and punishment for its own sake, ie to be seen as some sort of balancing of the wrong that’s been done. One might not like that idea but judges certainly thi
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by rocketbop 3y ago
I don’t think it’s about the news horrifying us as much as too much consumption making us numb and hypnotised. I used to watch the news once a day on TV and read the newspaper two or three times a week and the experience of news to that cad
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by rocketbop 3y ago
Sounds a bit like dropshipping.
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by rocketbop 3y ago
It likely is your heartbeat. I had a similar thing for a long time. Advice would be to try and forget about it, and it will go away. The more attention. You give it the more prominent it will become. I think the brain tends to filter the bo
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by rocketbop 4y ago
Slightly off topic but your reference to being accentless reminds me of a time as a 14 year old visiting my American cousins for Ireland. My slightly younger cousin’s friend found the way I pronounced things as well as some of my vocabulary
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by rocketbop 4y ago
We thought it would be lucrative.
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by rocketbop 4y ago
> YouTube needs an option to disable shorts. It’s just not healthy. I have disabled them along with suggestions with a browser extension, but the temp station is always there to enable again even briefly. Shorts are particularly addictiv
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by rocketbop 4y ago
The ban is on rental scooters only, so more aimed at discouraging carefree casual users and tourists than people who really want to use escooters as part of a commute etc
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by rocketbop 4y ago
Clearly most programmers do produce code, although I’ve worked with a few who seem to do so only once all other options have been exhausted.
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by rocketbop 4y ago
Sure. I don’t agree with OP that they can be sold at 300. Something that does less for cheaper might be an easier sell though then more for more.

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