v-erne

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by v-erne 3y ago
I have one and for me it really was worth the money. I like to switch the way I sit often so having the ability to adjust it to different chairs (office, saddle, ball) with touch of a button was the real enabler here (without it I would be
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by v-erne 3y ago
Nice, has really soothing, ala late 90's web vibe to it. I like it.
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by v-erne 3y ago
I did not know this is possible - can You give an example of blockchain with this property?
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> Refutes most of the claims made by Harari in Sapiens Can You elaborate on this? - I quite liked Harraris book, especially his ideas about stories driving human cooperation and expansion. Does this false claims invalidates the main
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by v-erne 3y ago
Thanks to some extended vacations I finally got around to read "Masters of Doom" - which I got as Christmas gift. And I loved it - despite the topic (few young guys eating pizza and staring at screens) it reads like Clive Cusslers
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> The world population is collapsing at a rapid pace. Maybe the second derivative of world popultion is collapsing but not the "world" population (at least if you mean world as a whole and not "developed world" on
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> pseudo-intellectual con artists (like Harari) That seems a little bit harsh - he is just master storyteller that happen to write about intellectual stuff. Its a bit weird to read his books as science papers. I just finished sapiens
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> Tons of Total Babes: This game will have lots of babes that make the player go “wow.” >> There will be fiendish babes, human babes, angelic babes, asian babes, and even undead babes. Well, I did not expected this level of
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> Now I work in a 3-men company where the CEO is mostly absent and it's me and another developer, that's it. We manage 5 different products. A single team in big corp would've not been able to handle even one of those
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by v-erne 3y ago
Depnends on the item I suppose - half of my small board game collection (100+ titles) is used games bought from local eBay equivalent. And almost all of them were in perfect condition but half the price.
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> One girl in her class doesn't have phone at all! The girl gets complaints from her parents because she reads too much book I would not beat myselfe up too much in this situation. I happen to have two children who were risen al
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by v-erne 3y ago
BlackBerry - that brings back some memories. 8700 was my first real smartphone - I got it on one of my first work projects because I was tasked to create mobile client for some CRM. I distinctly remeber that the UI API was quite complicated
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by v-erne 3y ago
I was wondering more about why he put newspeak in 1984 as a way for party to controll people minds and eliminate "though crimes". I do not know history of Basic English and Esperanto but it seems very improbable that their creator
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> The organization predates George Orwell by around 20 years... so I guess nope ;D I do not understand - OP was mentioning that the organization worked through second world war and was event at Nurimberg trials. An Orwell written 198
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by v-erne 3y ago
I'm rereading Orwell's 1984 and this all seems a bit like Ministry of Truth and its whole newspeak ordeal (of course MT was a bit more absurd - they wanted to get rid of all ambiguity in language also). I wonder if this was maybe
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> I can't wait to get a 500 KWH battery backup At first it sounded amazing but then when gazing at this number it struck me suddenly - isn't this like an energetic equivalent of 0,5 ton of TNT ? So if I rephraze this state
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by v-erne 3y ago
This should not be interpreted as a history about bad parenting - our father meant well. He wanted to give fighting chance to my brother in our brutal society the only way he known how and my brother really did not had any idea what to do w
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by v-erne 3y ago
That's interesting, I'm not much of an english speaker, so I always interpreted this text as a cool way to disagree without getting into conflict (and I shortened this a bit because I believe the whole quote does not look good whe
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by v-erne 3y ago
I have rahther limited knowledge on why this occupation is so regulated here - but the regulation is rather brutal and encoded into law. Here you can see law (bill?) on court bailiffs applicants: https://sip.lex.pl/akty-praw
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by v-erne 3y ago
As usual life is more complex than any idealistic simplification - I do not believe thath you can sum up his situation in one sentence. But it would be probably a lot easier on him if he did it becesue it kept him fed (that would at least g
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by v-erne 3y ago
>> All jobs provide purpose As some dude said: that's just, like, your opinion. You should get out more and meet people from different venues of life. Try telling this banality to my brother who used to be reposesion man and see
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by v-erne 3y ago
Great example - my Moccamaster since I bought it few months ago is used ten times more than capsule machine that stands next to it. And I'm not sure if the coffe is really better - but it does not matter because the morning ritual make
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by v-erne 4y ago
Im not much of english speaker so I wonder if my intuition is right here but its sounds like non sequitor. Why do You think there are no other possible scenarios which explains Silicon Valley existence? Like people herd mentality (even the
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by v-erne 4y ago
That's a great point about what bible or rather any holy book actually is - just a collection of stories that were passed from person to person (and we all know that we always tell the stories the same way, without mistake here and the
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> having to do with the Jewish priesthood I do not remember this part of old testament. Care to elaborate? >> fundamental break between humanity and God This is not the first time when I heard this put this way but it is first
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by v-erne 4y ago
He is just incorporating the most practical and useful aspects of Jesus teachings - the other aspects are too meaningless in context of day to day life to be useful to a nontheist.
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by v-erne 4y ago
Yeah, I unrecommend it also, even as party gimmic - it has flavour typical for extract based sauces, mostly bitter, but not in satisfactionary way. I have since tasted so mamy better local super hot sauses that da bomb is standing glaringl
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> the battle for equality rages on Lets call it for what it really is - battle for power and "freedom" to dominante others (those being husbands, wifes, coworkers - other humans in general). There seems to exists this gener
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by v-erne 4y ago
I recommend external filtration (with lots of overprovisioning), keeping fish count down and razor blade scrapper once in blue moon and the tank will take care of itself.
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by v-erne 4y ago
>> My biggest daily struggle is with those who want to verbally discuss every single issue, or worse, chat over informal DMs. That's interesting - I tend to have mixed feeling about this. Sometimes I wish I had all communication

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