samastur

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by samastur 11y ago
I don't think this comment is fair to them. Computers are less widespread than phones because latter are cheaper and you can also take them where (cheaper or free) connection is. They are not just an entertainment device although they
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by samastur 11y ago
There's more to world than your little corner. Last year I worked on development project with youth in Bolivia. It was common for them to use Facebook's website instead of app because it saved battery and data, both of which are e
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by samastur 11y ago
That's the spirit. Award asshole customers at the expense of those who can wait. </sarcasm>
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by samastur 11y ago
Sure they are, but that was not the argument I was half-jokingly making. What I was saying was that you can't hide meaningful amount of difference in tax rates between then and now in business lunches (which to the best of my knowledge
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by samastur 11y ago
You are welcome to try to eat and drink through tens of millions of dollars, but I doubt you can do it. Even if you can, there will be a lot of happy waiters and cooks serving you ;)
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by samastur 11y ago
Depends on what you mean by properly. Yes, in a sense that your market value seems to be higher than what you were making. However you might have been earning appropriately considering your current environment (based on your work, compared
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by samastur 11y ago
I agree. I'd prefer a smaller, but Z3 Compact was the best Android phone at the time that had tolerable size and was locally available. Anything bigger is what I would call a "winter" phone.
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by samastur 11y ago
I have Sony Z3 Compact for that very reason. I am much more attached to size than to platform so if next time iPhones end up being smallest of the bunch, then that's where I will go.
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by samastur 11y ago
I actually have studied Japanese for a while and have no clue what you are describing as extremely long. In hiragana you have 48 letters for sounds which in most cases are a consonant + vowel. Hence Japanese written in Hiragana or Katakana
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by samastur 11y ago
I suspect you might be taking about a different thing. The way I read that line is that if you assume each of those chances is correct (which you have to since they are obviously made up), then they are equivalent in economic sense. It is
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by samastur 11y ago
Where do you live?
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by samastur 11y ago
Problem with Crashplan is the limited pipe they have. If you have few T of data like I do it will literally take you months to back it up or restore.
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by samastur 11y ago
However you can do it in many other places in the world and won't get shot by police even if your skin happens to be of different colour. There's a lot USA has going for it, but saying any country has the most civil liberties is a
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by samastur 11y ago
Neither ethical values of a society nor its laws are static entities. They both change over time. One cause (of many) for change are eventually persuasive parts of society not happy with current agreements. Most of us probably do not comple
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by samastur 11y ago
OK, let's take the third paragraph of your link as an example, where it basically describes how Natural law forms a philosophical bedrock of US society. Why were documents resulting from it accepted by society (eventually, more or less
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by samastur 11y ago
I agree with the last sentence, but I wasn't making a legalistic argument. Correct me if I am wrong, but I think the difference between us is that you see ethics as something that "lives" outside of society and I don't
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by samastur 11y ago
Nope, that's pretty much all it takes. Society decides itself what rights its members have which is why they are not the same everywhere. Or can you suggest a better authority to define them?
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by samastur 11y ago
No, it is an adaptation, but time will show how successful. Just as it does for every other. Adaptations are not only changes that succeed or that conform to the way you would like to see society evolve.
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by samastur 11y ago
Mind you Italy bordered Yugoslavia which was not part of Warshaw block (it was non-aligned) and did not have Soviet troops either. Agree with everything else you said.
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by samastur 11y ago
Borneo used to be covered in forest that was home to one of richest habitats in the world. If you fly over Malaysian part of Borneo now (don't know about Indonesia since I wasn't there, but apparently it is following Malaysian lea
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by samastur 11y ago
Agreed, but it is not the same thing as saying there is no security issue.
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by samastur 12y ago
Good point :) But in Kaliningrad's case it used to be attached just fine to the rest of Soviet Union from which Russia "inherited" it. No part of former Yugoslavia was ever close to bordering Russia. At least not yet :P
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by samastur 12y ago
Russia? It's not even close to any of Russia's borders.
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by samastur 12y ago
I guess I must be too dense, but I simply do not know how to use grasswire. I'm stuck with live feed on left which shows me exactly the kind of useless "breaking" stuff I want to avoid and popular feed on the right which I do
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by samastur 12y ago
The problem here is that hacking, gardening or whatever else people do is not "owned" by those who practice it currently or did before others and neither should it be. If they wanted to start their own Abrasive gardening club, whe
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by samastur 12y ago
But then git blame or bisect don't really work anymore.
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by samastur 12y ago
So why ask what the candidate what they were paid before if it does not influence negotiations? What it actually does is give you a strong hint on where to start an offer and how hard to push since most people will be unlikely to decline an
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by samastur 12y ago
Not true because it focuses on options job seekers have instead of conditions companies could provide. The cost of labor in product prices is usually so small that in most cases you could offer better conditions without noticeably higher pr
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by samastur 12y ago
Do you find watching images of women taken against her wish respectful? Pictures shown are not the one that were stolen. Those were the one she took later to reclaim feeling of control. Might not be the way I would cope, but certainly is no
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by samastur 12y ago
I agree. Another way of looking at it is if title is not defining scope of something, then what is its purpose?

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