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by sellyme 5y ago
The American equivalent identifier is including punctuation (full stops, periods, sometimes even question marks) inside quotations, even when that punctuation was never part of the quote. Although that seems to be much less common online th
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by sellyme 5y ago
You're under the impression that anyone on RW actually takes Roko's Basilisk seriously? It's a mildly amusing thought experiment, precisely zero people have ever changed their behaviour because of it.
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by sellyme 5y ago
Typically the couch of a friend in the area.
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by sellyme 5y ago
You think incorrectly. I've never been able to afford a hotel when travelling, much less an expensive one. Much like I'll never be able to afford a house because of people who think that housing is an investment and not somewhere
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by sellyme 5y ago
> may turn out to be great in practice, like Airbnb As someone who thinks that affordable housing is a human right, I wouldn't describe Airbnb as "great in practice".
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by sellyme 5y ago
> It isn't really Amazon that does it though, it's the sellers on Amazon. If Amazon doesn't want the responsibility of having to make sure stuff on their website is actually legal, then maybe they shouldn't have made
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by sellyme 5y ago
#109, #18, and #52 respectively. The website provides extremely extensive breakdowns of the exact index contributors for each country, presumably those will illuminate why the rankings are what they are.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Can I reproduce this comment Sure.
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by sellyme 5y ago
The trick for that is to realise that what actually happened millennia ago isn't really too important most of the time, and that yarns and fables reveal extremely important cultural information beyond what could be gleaned from a dry
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by sellyme 5y ago
I could be generously described as a fabulist when talking amongst friends and I definitely just view it as mental practice. Being forced to think on your feet on a regular basis is a great way to improve your public speaking ability, your
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by sellyme 5y ago
This is common in achievement-hunting communities - when a game is uploaded with bugs that prevent achievements from being possible and the developer/publisher can't be bothered to actually fix it, community members will decompile
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by sellyme 5y ago
I could not agree more with this. If software companies want to pretend that I agreed to licensing agreements, they can change their advertisements to "Rent our software for $60!". Most of them seem unwilling to do that, so I will
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by sellyme 5y ago
> How's it bad? Because there's absolutely no protection against fraud. This is somewhat of a problem when there's such a gigantic amount of fraud going on. > You have to accept responsibility when making transactions Y
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by sellyme 5y ago
> no way to reverse the transaction It boggles my mind that people genuinely believe this is a good thing, especially in an ecosystem so rife with scammers. I get that it's rather integral to the primary use cases of bitcoin, but
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by sellyme 5y ago
"missed the boat" somewhat implies that blockchain technology is already being used for anything except the backing for pump-and-dump schemes and the punchline for jokes. Unless you mean specifically "missed the opportunity t
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by sellyme 5y ago
> Doesn't Bitcoin provide a more convenient/less expensive way to send money between countries The current bitcoin transaction fee is more than 100x what my bank charges, so no, not really.
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by sellyme 5y ago
The worst part about that ad is that it even shows up when the product isn't available in your region!
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by sellyme 5y ago
Almost all of my favourite browser extensions come to Chrome years later (or not at all), Firefox handles extremely high tab counts very well, it provides more access to "here be dragons" configuration options, session restoration
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I want to work for the campaign and it must pay me the same! Yes. That's rather the point of the concept of minimum wage.
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I would even say, you are not working for the campaign, you are working for yourself! And you would be wrong.
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by sellyme 5y ago
There's definitely some "politics" where that's an extremely wise move. For example, people who regularly post in a subreddit dedicated to holocaust denial don't really deserve benefit of the doubt when they've
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by sellyme 5y ago
> I mean, what's the point of long term held assets then? Mainly as a hobby project, as far as I can tell. The overwhelming majority of categories of "long term investment" are either completely mathematically impossible t
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by sellyme 5y ago
> it was an asset, a long-term investment. it's just supposed to be able to sit there growing in value Did the promise of free money for doing nothing not seem slightly too good to be true to you?
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by sellyme 5y ago
> it's not people coming to hn specifically to read about fb being down You know you're replying to the person who runs the site, right? I reckon they know more about what's causing it than you do.
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by sellyme 5y ago
The lives of the people who aren't trying to get their peers killed, hopefully. If someone is so hell-bent on dying that they'll ignore every single qualified doctor telling them that they're wrong, we can't really do mu
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by sellyme 5y ago
> the mocking It's perfectly reasonable to have a distaste for this, but I am curious as to if you take issue with this because the person in question is deceased, or if you just take issue with mocking someone under all circumstanc
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by sellyme 5y ago
Sanger has been working on various different iterations of that for twenty years and has failed every time because, shockingly, an encyclopaedia that cites academic research is more useful than an encyclopaedia that cites The Daily Mail .
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by sellyme 5y ago
> De-platforming is always going to fail because your opponents are hydras. The strongest evidence against this is that the groups being deplatformed seem really, really upset by it. Seems like they wouldn't be so concerned if it
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by sellyme 5y ago
When someone's actively trying to get those around them killed, I find it difficult to criticise anyone for not being too distressed by their passing.
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by sellyme 5y ago
Why on earth is it their job to explain the reason behind a large file in a completely different piece of software?

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