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by vanderreeah 10y ago
The parent post speaks of his/her starvation and a partner dying. You make a pedantic comment on his/her paraphrase. You are both insensitive, and you do not know what "paraphrase" means. Also, being a fan of a racist im
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
While there is no way I'd use this service - I value my privacy to an abnormal degree and am not interested in a hard copy of my journal - I'm baffled by the negative feedback so far. This service clearly is not for me. But to say
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
Thanks for the helpful reply to my rather pissy comment.
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
Isn't that implicit in every comment in an online forum?
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
Thanks, but you seem not to have read the title, or my search results are different from yours. Specifically Windows laptops do not feature highly in recent search results. It's also untrue that the majority of Windows laptops are SSD-
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Ask HN: Is there a recommended SSD-only Windows laptop on the market?
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
To slightly modulate the subject: I'd be interested in answers to the same question when the workplace is a home office in a home with wife and children.
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
Still, impressive typing skills for your age.
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
Disagree. His rhetoric is a necessary antidote to the rhetoric of the real snake-oil salesmen who speak from an assumed position of authority and present their entrepreneurship as a matter of blind will and charisma, when in fact - as he op
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
Bisby, I just can't understand how you go from a - very clearly to me - thought-through understanding of the nuances of response to targeted banter, to your apparent mind-reading of your colleague's motivations. I'm not sayin
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
I have to agree with the perhaps inappropriately named logicallee. And I'd go further - it's not just a matter of age, nor (as others in this thread have said) of inability or stupidity, if someone works for a salary under market
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
Pedantry alert: small typo - "if you can effort it" should be "if you can afford it".
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
You'd have to have been hiding under a rock the past few decades not to know that "could care less" has been linguistic currency for a long time now.
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
My point was precisely that neither of us has done this kind of investigation (in a clause you clearly didn't parse, I actually said that I hadn't either), and that in the absence of such large-scale evidence remarks as vague as y
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
I can only say that when you say "in practise" you sound dogmatic, defensive and vague. I am going on the assumption that you have not (as I have not) performed any kind of scientific / sociological investigation into this an
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
The problem here is that we don't have a fixed definition of this relatively new concept. Your description here of safe spaces as places devoid of controversy does not match up with my experience of encountering the concept in the worl
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
If by safe spaces you mean places where people of colour aren't subjected to racism, gay people aren't subjected to homophobia and women aren't subjected to misogyny, then I fail to see how any of these types of attack would
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
At the risk of making a redundant post, this is surely one of the most pertinent questions in the thread.
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
That's what "This article is outdated" means.
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
You couch your arguments in the language of logic, but are in fact utterly incoherent. Your references to "people" (even if supplemented by "a huge number") mask the fact that your only available real reference is to you
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
Logically speaking, hundchenkatze's riposte seems best: that hiding and privacy are two different things. Practically speaking, I believe it's impossible to convince most people, including myself, to change their behaviour online.
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
It's one of the chief causes of the country's economic success. I don't have time to look up the references now. You're right about the recent rise in minimum wage though.
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
This is an admirably clear statement of a position I find almost impossible to relate to. I'm not sure I can be as lucid as Mithaldu, but I'll try to put it two ways: 1) The notion that one is "doing something wrong" by
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
A footnote: Germany is notorious for its policy of keeping workers' wages down. This obviously doesn't apply to programmers, but it's worth at least adding parenthetically to your statement that workers "enjoy a lot more
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
I would like to know this too - how do you ensure you only pull old-geek-appropriate jobs from SO?
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
That kind of assumes that trees can't be resources for other kinds of value than tooling. For example, aesthetic appreciation, healing contact with nature, etc. These things are subjective - I certainly don't necessarily seek fore
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
A couple of points that don't seem to have been mentioned (hopefully because you're all better-adjusted than I am): 1) Fear: I am scared of mess, of failure, of feeling incompetent or overwhelmed. I will therefore avoid tackling a
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
Yes - but I wasn't quite a beginner. The usual recommendation for adult books for beginners is Schlink's The Reader, though I found it dim-witted. I'd stick with Harry Potter and get a dictionary for an ebook reader.
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
I'd love something like that in Windows 8.1.
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by vanderreeah 10y ago
I'm surprised to see no mention of Kindles / ebook readers. I tried reading novels to improve my German, but the physical effort of switching to a dictionary (either physical or web-based) was enough to make reading a chore. With

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