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by vacri 9y ago
The stories are somewhat similar to SG in UK, France, Can, Aus, and NZ. I wouldn't tar the rest of the western world with the US's experience. David Sedaris talked nearly two decades ago of having a treatment at a French hospital,
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by vacri 9y ago
The comment I was responding to was "if you could move ". And in my first paragraph, I gave you two clear examples of where someone can speak the same language and still have their origins be identifiable.
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by vacri 9y ago
> If the Mozilla CEO wants to do that, then fine, we'll find another organization to support and to look up to. Which organisation would this be? Mozilla is pretty unique.
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by vacri 9y ago
People lose their phones, wallets, and keys all the time, and these are things that they constantly use and check for. What chance does a "little device the government gave me that I don't use very often" have?
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by vacri 9y ago
In the time period we're talking about, what you're saying is not trivial. Hell, it's not even trivial today - look at the stereotypical 'poor white trash' guy. Scrub him up and put him in a suit, and the way he tal
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by vacri 9y ago
> So pestilential was their touch considered that it was a crime for them to walk the common road barefooted or to drink from the same cup as non-Cagots. The Cagots were often restricted to the trades of carpenter, butcher, and rope-mak
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by vacri 9y ago
> YC is also a startup itself, and (what’s more difficult) must remain one. ... YC has to be fast, cheap, informal, and focused on essentials. It's always interesting seeing how different people define 'startups'. Genera
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by vacri 9y ago
I don't have a source for it, sorry. I was chatting to someone involved in car safety research around 10 years ago, so it'll have to be listed as 'anecdata'.
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by vacri 9y ago
> Nobody on this planet can produce positive value in the 112th hour worked in a week There are a few people who do this, for whom "being awake" is basically the same as "working". Generally these few people are not
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by vacri 9y ago
Doing studies on those things you think are stupid is the right thing to do. Counter-intuitive stuff is found all the time in science. Occasionally those alternative medicines get tested and turn out to work, in which case they become regul
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by vacri 9y ago
I thought healthcare and pensions weren't included in that $600B, but farmed out to other parts of the budget?
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by vacri 9y ago
> Of course, computers can't be creative, so it is just imitation. I take it that you've never worked in IT support :)
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by vacri 9y ago
Apple clearly think that the segment of the 'pro' market that desires upgradability is smaller than the reach they get from having 'all-in-one'.
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by vacri 9y ago
Macs fail often. It's just annoying to hear this myth perpetuated that they never fail. They might fail less than other vendors' laptops, but 'macs never fail' is clearly not true - one simple example is 'staingate&
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by vacri 9y ago
Ends on a bit of a fizzer. "Cool stuff, cool stuff, cool stuff, and the keyboard is gray and has a numpad now".
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by vacri 9y ago
Another thing you can do is just use 'logger' and the syslog. You kinda have to be comfortable with viewing system logging, though; it's not for everyone - for example, I'm using sudo below just because I haven't s
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by vacri 9y ago
Combination of your improvements and the first commentor's in the link - 'notes' by itself views the file (interactive shell only) - 'notes' with args, the args are appended to file (original function) - 'notes
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by vacri 9y ago
High-mounted brake lights had an effect for the first 5-10 years or so, while they were still a novelty. After that, the benefit disappeared.
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by vacri 9y ago
How is having an online discussion different if it's on Facebook or HN?
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by vacri 9y ago
> about 10-20% of even First World populations don't use social media Does your number include old people? I imagine a border guard would be more willing to accept a retiree not using social media than a college-age student.
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by vacri 9y ago
> Because it's even worse in this regard. Do you have some stories of conference speakers or attendees being treated this way in Australia?
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by vacri 9y ago
Social media accounts have plenty of private messages going on. The Library of Congress doesn't store a copy of every citizen's mail.
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by vacri 9y ago
From your own link: "So I don't really have a problem with people misusing the quotation, but I also think it's worth remembering what it was really about."
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by vacri 9y ago
I get the feeling that it's more satisfying when it's on your own keyboard, but it's definitely annoying on another person's.
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by vacri 9y ago
> As one commenter writes, “What moral lesson are kids supposed to learn from this? Do as you’re told or you will be entombed forever in the darkness to die?” Geez, don't let that commentator see a Warner Bros cartoon...
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by vacri 9y ago
Look at it a different way, re: empathy. 90+% of voters 65+ cared enough about the society they live in to show up to that vote. Only 64% of 18-24 and 66% of 25-39s did. How much empathy is there really, if you can't even be bothered t
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by vacri 9y ago
> How long have you been waiting to use that in a sentence? One of my best mates is a speech pathologist with a love of language. She throws out that word with a casual flair... :)
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by vacri 9y ago
A year is definitely too early - I'm a middling student at it (and weak at text), and would be lucky to get 100 characters by sight. As you say though, it's all about practice, and I need to apply some "bum glue" (to quo
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by vacri 9y ago
Maybe it's because Manhattan is always the part of America that's under attack in all the end-of-the-world movies? :)
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by vacri 9y ago
Which works out to about 80% of a Tashkent.

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