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by sersi 9y ago
Not really tech but I thought that was an interesting article about cultures that most people here don't necessarily know or understand well..
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'I want to explain arranged marriage to white people'(bbc.com)
13 points by sersi 9y ago|16 comments
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by sersi 9y ago
This, especially the case of the grandfather who wanted to see his grandchild before dying reminds me of the game "To The Moon". Creating new memories, new reality because the one people are living is just not good enough....
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by sersi 9y ago
Between this article and the article on people too poor to retire, I sometimes think we should have classes on financial planning in high school. A lot of the mistakes he did came down to poor financial planning. He even gave a raise to his
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by sersi 9y ago
I bought an Xbox because of the kinect (and two of my friends did the same). I tend to play on my computer otherwise but the kinect was fun and something different. Just wished there had been more games using the kinect better. Having games
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by sersi 9y ago
Sure, but I doubt it would be easy to find my identity from my hn account name.
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by sersi 9y ago
I've had to use security answers because I was locked out by systems that detected I was using an ip from a different country and so refused my correct password and were using the security questions as a kind of extra authentication. T
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by sersi 9y ago
And this is also why I almost never give my real birth date when registering on websites (except on financial websites or websites where I'm legally obligated to) and I never ever give real answers to the security question.. My typical
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by sersi 9y ago
That depends, I recently booked a "round the world" trip in first class with miles (total distance traveled 19500 miles and 5 different cities visited so not really round the world) and in total I only paid 400 usd in taxes and fe
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by sersi 9y ago
If flying business class, I prefer direct since, yes, it is very comfortable. If flying premium economy, it's a wash between direct or having a short layover. In economy, I definitely prefer having a layover closer to the middle. Flyin
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by sersi 9y ago
Exactly my reaction. That's corruption.
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by sersi 9y ago
Exactly my point of view. I'm pretty much aligned with the left when it comes to moral values but political correctness drives me crazy. If talking about something is considered intimidation or harassment then people will not talk abou
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by sersi 9y ago
Ok, where is the intimidation or harassment? He expressed unpopular opinion and unenlightened points of view but is there harassment? In another comment, you say it's the mention that women tend to have on average more neuroticism alth
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by sersi 9y ago
Yes, that part about his cooking experiment was rather ridiculous. It marries very well with vanilla and chocolate. By itself it has a bit of a sweet nutty flavor that is rather complex. To be slighlty flippant, it's kind of the shitak
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by sersi 9y ago
Tonka beans are quite popular in Europe and there are a lot of deserts or even jam using them. The thing though is that it tastes awful in large dose, so you're unlikely to encounter a large dose of it... It's a bit like nutmeg wh
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by sersi 9y ago
The main problem I see with that is that poll that says that a third of the employees didn't disagree with the memo. If there's such a large percentage that agree with it then it's time for discussion. It's not a minorit
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by sersi 9y ago
I do not agree with a lot of points of that diversity memo but that means that it's a topic that needs to be discussed instead of being censored and the author fired. Discussion is how people change their opinion. It's by being fr
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by sersi 9y ago
Oh that'd be a treasure trove for security researchers. I think we should work on an opensource gem or plugin for cakephp that does this and hope a website uses it. It would be very good data for research into the psychology of choosin
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by sersi 9y ago
> I know they do. I just don't see what that gets me if I already know their email address. They most likely use another email address for their anonymous internet account but even if they do, they're likely to be logged in in
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by sersi 9y ago
This. I recently redeemed a great trip with a round the world award on cathay pacific (a oneworld multipartner award). It's a really great value and it does save me a lot of money (compared to what I would have been willing to pay for
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by sersi 9y ago
Wish a country had both polygamy and polyandry to allow for those situations. Although the tax code might become a tad complicated.
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by sersi 9y ago
2 business class tickets is definitely not $18k in value. There are regularly sales with various airlines when you can get a business class to Japan for around $2k per ticket. And since availabilities for rewards vary and are sometimes hard
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by sersi 9y ago
4 wives and a lover?
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by sersi 9y ago
> I've rarely found people that strayed very far from their family in personality, hobbies, and life outlook. In my experience, that's generally true except for people who moved to a different country at a relatively young age
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by sersi 9y ago
Thanks, that's a very detailed and interesting reply. Yes, a lot of those factors are most likely to have an effect. I hadn't thought about the equipment surplus coming from the Middle East wars. It's very unfortunate and it&
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by sersi 9y ago
Sometimes I genuinely feel that common sense is lacking when it comes to law enforcement in the US. Arresting people and violence is the first response when it should be the last response. I wonder why the US, as a country that defines itse
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by sersi 10y ago
Now the next step is for rogue editors to edit Wikipedia and write critical informations about Burger King in the Wikipedia entry.. Joking apart, I would be infuriated if I had such a device and saw that spot but then again, I don't ha
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by sersi 10y ago
It's been this way for a long time. It's often cheaper to book directly from the airline than through an aggregator so it always pay to check (and use a tool like http://matrix.itasoftware.com to also look for fare pri
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by sersi 10y ago
Thanks! Yes, if I ever really need general anesthesia, I would really discuss it with the care team and I would still be very anxious. I do think it was the clinic that didn't a good job then since they knew I had asthma and should hav
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by sersi 10y ago
I'm extremely scared of general anesthesia ever since, as a kid, I woke up after a general anesthesia and couldn't breathe because I had a full blown asthma attack. So, I've had my wisdom teeth removed under local anesthetic

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