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secondaryacct
5y ago
Im at an age when people talk of my age group like that, and my age group talk of young adults like that. I started working at 14 carrying furnitures on the weekend and im a pampered millenial :D In fact, I read a little essay wrote during
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secondaryacct
5y ago
Did the cavemen finally rewind all of history to finally rediscover while we organized around justice, legislation and law enforcement or we're still waiting for a few more fortunes lost ?
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secondaryacct
5y ago
You also maybe navigate a larger web with different needs. What knowledge cant be found with appending "wiki" to any keyword, what person cant you find with linkedin, what movie cant you find on a private bt tracker, what news can
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secondaryacct
5y ago
Singapore is as much of a tax heaven as Hong Kong is. When you live there, it's not. Now if you re a chronically over spending under budgeted country and look at Singapore you're like "how can they be so rich with so little t
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5y ago
Instead he rotted as an actor of change, represented his citizens, protected his country and solved sudokus. I dont know if he's good for Singapore but I mean, he did one of the most noble thing a human can do so I wouldnt blame him. I
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5y ago
We have no category given by nature that's for sure. What s important is not to look beyond our category, it s waking up to the fact there is none. It s very american, for some reason, anyway. They were so hung on not mixing up with th
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5y ago
Nothing... it means nothing and your inability to define it precisely beyond vague concepts proves it. Races have a precise meaning in domestic animal breeding, there is a rule book, you cull the offspring that mutates too far away and aim
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5y ago
I put Mix: Normando-French in the "Other" category when Im asked at the census in Hong Kong giggling at their expected confused looks. What the fuck is a race, I look a bit different from a guy in Marseille and a lot different fro
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His compliment of Ariane 5 tingles my French pride. So annoyed when watching the launch live to see all the ameritards in youtube chat saying "what why is it not spacex" grrr. And we did it for free to boot. Elon "Electric Je
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5y ago
I learned it myself while at Uni because we only did C and Java. I d say it s important to learn a bit just for the C with classes aspect. Sometimes you want to do a moderately complex C program that Java dev will have to help with, and it
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5y ago
Very interesting "article", so good in fact the author couldnt pay for hosting and used a free service to split his discourse in multiple mini messages. Science on SMS. These guys are desperate for our money, I suppose when finall
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secondaryacct
5y ago
I always use the 2FA and whatever happens it seems to allow me back in. I would think this happens with a phone number too.
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5y ago
Yes MTR here in Hong Kong is quite respectable: the subway works well, the price is cheap, the company redevelop a lot around stations, it's a model of proper corporate management of public infrastructure. The only snag they faced in m
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5y ago
I did a prenup with my wife. Wasnt easy because im an immigrant in China and she s Chinese, so when I proclaimed that a good mariage prepares for divorce, like we do now in France where separation of wealth is a trivial matter my family did
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It s always been a bit fun, I think people at the market 400 years ago liked the bartering and choosing and spending as much the chicken they ended up with. There's nothing wrong with mercantile pleasure per se. It's probably an i
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secondaryacct
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Being insured by the gov for up to a certain amount will not solve the default issue (this is what crypto.com is pretending with their eerily similar worldwide protection thing), it was made to save poor people from complete ruin, not prote
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5y ago
Easy: imagine one of the poor sobs decides to withdraw, hop a bit of creative accounting and your money is borrowed to pay for the withdrawal. It s not each of the user individually seeing their balance go down, it s the company lying even
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secondaryacct
5y ago
I have an ex colleague working there as lead dev: knowing him, no, they re not at the apex lol
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secondaryacct
5y ago
It's like if you were bemoaning children were taught by teachers rather than figure it out on their own. A bad teacher is better than no teacher, a bad censor is better than your grandma telling my kid virii dont exist :p
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5y ago
No it's a higher level english word meaning "branch" or "group", we use an equivalent in French too. If you had read the first two paragraphs it would have been obvious: Findings In this systematic review and meta-
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5y ago
How do I get a pdf out for my Sony A4 ereader ? Libgen?
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secondaryacct
5y ago
Cant you just not log in ? I do that now and only get irrelevant stuff
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5y ago
Im in China, yes. It s not Asian, it's not African, those people seem to live in the chistriano-muslim vector on the west of China, anyone here would say they're western.
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5y ago
This is as coherent as talking of "black culture". There is no west, people who use it are chinese to dismiss everything not chinese (so Japan is western) and the US uses it to force us to join their stuff.
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5y ago
No because he wanted to take revenge on the "banks" after the 2008 crisis. He must be incredibly proud of the gigantic pyramid he built, knowing if he move just one btc out of his wallet he'll cause so much ruin people will s
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Yes dont you dare complain of your x2 rate, ours in France was 6.55957 (rmb it fondly, didnt even need to google it), so right in the middle of an integer multiplier, and go multiply everything by 6 and 7 and cut in the middle. We had lots
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You're right if juniors take over, but with experience I've learned to understand that things are done a certain way for a reason. Sometimes they didnt see a bigger pictures but many time they did and something blocked them from s
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Dont worry too much we've all been there. If you want it easy, work at a junior farm first (badly funded startup), that will both lower expectations from the top (you re cheap, nobody is experienced), and create contrast if you work a
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You're hitting at the only source of happiness/sadness for humans: success relative to their neighbour. You either have to really accept other ways which I think is hard or get better than them which is probably harder. I grew up
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I loved it then I grew to love even more low effect, dark-style simple UIs as a result of the constant slowdowns, uselessness, desktop crashes that came with compiz. But god was it cool to brag.
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