thraway-burnout

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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
This is a bit like the "Islam is a religion of peace" discourse. I'm sure it is, but: OOP as actually implemented and found in the wild isn't about Smalltalk or message passing. It's about transforming functions int
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
Is this article using Violet to refer to Indigo?
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
So there are no gay flight attendants? There isn't an overrepresentation of gay people within flight service? I didn't say all flight attendants are gay – this is obviously not the case. But some are, and I've met quite a few
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
But it isn't "just a voice", isn't it? It's part of a socio-cultural Zeitgeist which actively combats values which I think are worth defending.
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
> Bengaluru is now the official name in the English language. Who made it official? On what authority? The name in English is the name people use in English. Maybe Bengaluru is now the name in Indian Official English ? Until today, if I
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
Or maybe because it kinda does sound like a gay flight attendant. Sometimes a pipe is just a pipe.
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
I rather a female assistant voice, because mothers in human societies are women, and we're hard-wired to find motherly voices more soothing. This is getting out of hand, it's unnatural, fits strictly in the uncanny valley, and is
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
> There's no reason to jump down a new user's throat. If you are annoyed by a question, move on, let others deal with it if they so want. Or improve it. But then you're keeping them ignorant. Letting them know they're
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
As far as I know it has to do with documentation, easier scheduling of the interviews for people who live far away from the consulate, as well as some queueing thing. Clearly I know very little.
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
> It would also be completely unrealistic as millions of Brazilians would just go to the US and stay there. Millions? I don't think so. Maybe a few thousands? I think you overestimate the amount of people in Brazil who fancy a life
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
> whereas the U.S. consulates abroad don't allow this option. I wouldn't know whether this is allowed or not, as I never had use for such a service, but I know a few people myself who used an expediter in Brazil ("despacha
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
Brazil doesn't belong to Bolsonaro. Also, presuming you're also not a fan of Trump, would you then advocate for all tourism to the USA to cease? I don't think that's a rational position.
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
Exactly like the reverse case. What would be better for Brazil is to waive requirements both ways. This just puts Brazil in a clear position of inferiority.
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
> I visited Brazil with an American passport a few years ago and ended up spending a bunch of time gathering documents and visiting the embassy back and forth. It was pretty discouraging and draining and I thought about not going. That i
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
> money-sink international projects with African dictatorships. You mean like those projects that China funds to successfully increase their international relevance and financial prosperity? Like all the ports and plants and railways?
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
That's because it only requires a 50% remapping of finger muscle-memory ;-D
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
Yeah, I'm actually a closet self-hating racist who built a family with someone I despise. Plus took the time to learn their culture, values, and language; and live my life accordingly. What a bunch of nonsense...
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
Disclaimer: I'm married to a Chinese person, I speak (some) Chinese, I've been to China. I love Chinese food. There's no racism in claiming that quite a lot of the "Chinese" food one finds available in Europe is ind
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
I guess I did grow up in relative poverty, though not in a housing project. The area I grew up in, at the time, had lots of Crack but no Meth/Heroin etc. Still, never heard of it. I'm quite sure it's an urban myth :-)
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
"throwaway-burnout" was taken IIRC
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
I quite often do drugs, multiple types, though admittedly not cocaine. I've never had the luck of getting this seemingly-common "freebie" everyone mentions
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
Peeps, downvoting is easy. Anyone has counter-arguments?
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
There's no such thing as piracy. If your business model doesn't work in a post-physical-scarcity world, you need to change your business model.
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
Please congratulate that person on my behalf. Even though it may be the result of an epiphany, self-restraint is still hard to achieve and a noble goal in itself :-)
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
> Now regressive left activists are okay when other gender identify as the opposite sex. FTFY. Coming from a progressive socialist who doesn't like to stick his head in the sand
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
True! China has never directly impacted my life or the life of those I love. The US on the other hand has replaced a bunch of democratically-elected governments in South America with dictatorships, taught torture classes to the people who t
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
> 'Je sais' may look very different to 'yo sé', but (in some spanish-speaking regions at least) they're pronounced almost identically. I speak French natively and Spanish fluently. I also listen to a fair amount
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
You're right. I was stressed yesterday. There are filthy people of all backgrounds. I just happen to live in an area where people are both dirtier than average and not German. If I lived somewhere more German, I'd probably have mo
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
Locals or "locals"? My experience in Berlin from approaching people littering is that they're mostly not German. And what's fascinating, they're actually proud of their littering.
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by thraway-burnout 8y ago
1. Sports 2. In a given team, never be the person who cares the most. Lots of power come from simply not caring so much. Only care deeply about things you're in a position to change. 3. Weed

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