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by vacri 9y ago
Brexit happened after a long period of political stability in a country with a long, mature history at the forefront of international politics. Communism in China came to the fore during the tumult of the second world war, which had foreign
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by vacri 9y ago
I used to work with a Thai office manager, who'd speak bilingually on the phone to her parents. I noticed that she'd switch to English when the comment was about something negative. Not necessarily severe, but things like "oh
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by vacri 9y ago
To be fair, the original term lingua franca didn't refer to the actual language of the Franks either...
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by vacri 9y ago
while English has germanic grammar, 40% of its words come from romance/french origins, so it really is a mongrel language. Word origins in english are roughly 30/30/25/15 french/latin/germanic/other, with
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by vacri 9y ago
Well, you can't literally have no accent. I think that the GP means that there is no 'tell' that the people are eastern european when they speak. In the UK itself, it's estimated that there's a different regional
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by vacri 9y ago
No, it's like having 1000 radio/tv channels available at once, which you can tune to any one of in a mere moment.
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by vacri 9y ago
Well, until they git rid of XUL add-ons in November/FF57, I live and die by the Tab Groups extension. I have a group of tabs for various things in AWS, a group for various things in my build system, a group for the various Jira and Con
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by vacri 9y ago
My favourite Sherlockian inference was determining that a woman was a typist because 'she had spatulate fingers'...
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by vacri 9y ago
Do they count SteamBoxes in the linux share?
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by vacri 9y ago
Steam has plenty of games for linux... but few of them are the kind of AAA titles that benefit from chunky GPUs. I use steam both on windows and linux, so see the store listing for each; linux 'is there' for gaming, but just doesn
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by vacri 9y ago
35C is bad for physical labour, but it's certainly tolerable for things like retail.
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by vacri 9y ago
> Arizona is in the car-centric USA. You walk straight from your car with AC into a shop with AC via the shortest path possible. Melbourne has summers that are nearly as hot as Phoenix. AC isn't so prevalent here, yet the shops do
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by vacri 9y ago
Yes. It's not normally called that, but it's a break. A 5-minute break is a break. A 3-month sabbatical is a break. Rephrase the original comment for a brief rest when working: "if you make up that 5 minutes later, then it&#x
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by vacri 9y ago
There is also a thread of idealism in many research circles that the researchers would like to continue working on a liveable wage. Having some public work helps that. It's pretty obscene that you equate any desire for recognition of
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by vacri 9y ago
> Well, here is the proof that it is not. For people with top-rated skills in heavy, heavy demand. If you're the unicorn that everyone's after, you've always been able to dictate your terms.
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by vacri 9y ago
I remember reading an article by an African bloke in healthcare (can't recall the actual role) who was saying that the West's obsession with malaria is patronising. He said that malaria is like the flu - you get it, you're si
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by vacri 9y ago
Also in cryptography, in things like CSPRNG (cryptographically secure pseudo-RNG)
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by vacri 9y ago
When your battleship is destroyed by a peasant with a pitchfork, there's not a lot of perceived fairness...
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by vacri 9y ago
On a related note, a colleague once worked at a place where they did this for on-call: Everyone has an on-call score. Every week, the person on-call had their score set to zero, and everyone else incremented by one. You could plan out the n
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by vacri 9y ago
Interesting that in the photos, the priest is the least 'dressed-up' of all of them.
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by vacri 9y ago
> And a good salesperson is worth their weight in gold. Yes, they absolutely are, for both the client and the company. But you have no way of knowing if $randomNewSaas you're looking at has good sales staff or not. A bad sales guy
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by vacri 9y ago
> as much Ah, so they're the privacy option because they only collect a lot of data, not gobs and gobs of data?
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by vacri 9y ago
As someone who used to give away hundreds when he was on the average wage, no, it didn't really cost me life experiences. When I was on less than the average wage, I never had hundreds to give away, but on the average wage (with no kid
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by vacri 9y ago
> except for not helping the issue you're seeking to remedy ... which is harm. If you've applied appropriate medication to deal with the issue, but that medication has gone bad, then you're in a position where you think
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by vacri 9y ago
> Although sounds like you already have a headstart by knowing Mandarin I'm currently learning Mandarin, mostly for fun, but I do have this fantasy that it will make me more employable in future (currently an anglo-australian mono
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by vacri 9y ago
> three ton(U.S) tons and tonnes/'metric tons' are roughly interchangeable, like yards and meters. :)
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by vacri 9y ago
Cutting power = you know that the arms will go slack. Freezing = you hope that whatever the problem is, maintaining power doesn't make it worse.
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by vacri 9y ago
Since when is an $8/hour professional job 'run-of-the-mill'? Are you seriously saying that that is a typical example of a professional?
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by vacri 9y ago
People shouldn't be doing perverted stuff in the bedroom, y'see. It should be in the invitation-only high-class clubs!
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by vacri 9y ago
The ABC is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay underfunded compared to the BBC. And conservative governments hate it and throttle it wherever they can. Despite being shown time and time again to be even-handed by both internal and external reviews, the conser

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