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by yakireev 3y ago
I owned an ipaq hx4700 in 2004, two years before the first iPhone came out. Take a look, that device was actually better than early iPhones. The screen was better, the specs were better. It even supported 3rd-party apps (and there were many
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by yakireev 3y ago
Oh these poor poor NYC landlords, hardly evading the bankruptcy under the unfair and unjust pressure of the evil renters. /s
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by yakireev 3y ago
Would you take that job for 50k/year? I wouldn't. Would you take it for 500k/year? I would. So, it is a question of money at the end of the day.
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by yakireev 3y ago
> Imagine if you bought a car from somebody, and they secretly kept a spare key and periodically used your car to run their personal errand. This is happening already. Teslas can be controlled remotely, and it does not have to be the o
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by yakireev 3y ago
> Spanish, French, written Chinese, etc. all had a monarchy/dictatorship of some sort to mandate the change and enforce its use. There is no central authority over the Spanish language since the days of Bolivar and San Martin (181
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by yakireev 3y ago
Ironically enough, floors of the seven-story building were painted in the colours of rainbow, and there was a Starbucks downstairs.
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by yakireev 3y ago
Cyprus is not a cheap place to live. Some people went there, but many more ended up in Georgia, Armenia, Serbia, Montenegro, Turkey and Kazakhstan. Why there? Well, these are the countries which let Russian citizens stay...
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by yakireev 3y ago
TIL that Yandex campus where I used to work for so many years was a gulag. Okay.
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by yakireev 3y ago
> "Most of the time" is an exaggeration. "Most" like "cost", or like "ghost?" Also, only now I checked the transcription for "exaggeration", and "gg" is not "g", lik
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by yakireev 3y ago
> the language you're reading this post in allows you to guess the sound of the words by the spelling It is "a guess" at best, and that guess won't be correct most of the time, unless you know the word already. And
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by yakireev 3y ago
> Was Bell hiring Soviet nationals in the heyday of UNIX? I doubt it Could they? Soviet Union did not let its citizens leave easily. It's different nowadays, and you'll be surprised to learn: - that Google an likes have more
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by yakireev 3y ago
Irish trad scene is unique in this regard. There are Irish trad sessions everywhere in the world (I was able to visit some in quite faraway places like Moscow, Istanbul or Santiago de Chile), and in Ireland there are a few in every village,
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by yakireev 4y ago
In many countries with a single-payer health system all or some of the hospitals providing care are private. One could imagine a similar single-payer education system where some of institutions providing education are private too.
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by yakireev 4y ago
Never been in Panama, but my experience in Colombia was similar: in warmer areas hot water just was not a thing - homes, hostels, hotels just did not have it, without special notice. "Yeah, the temperature outside is above 30C all year
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by yakireev 4y ago
Put a "do not disturb" sign on your door, every hotel room has one. I too don't like it when room service touches my stuff (it is a mess, but it is my mess!) - putting a DND sign on the doorknob and not removing it for the
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by yakireev 4y ago
> If you lose donations, then costs go up for everyone else. Aren't costs going up for everyone else anyway? Hot take: instead of hoping that rich alumni would donate to universities, the nation could tax these folks properly inst
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by yakireev 4y ago
> How are we going to trust historical records when they can be changed on the fly to support whatever is en vogue? This is a good question, and more practical than it might look like: there have been instances of major media outlets b
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by yakireev 4y ago
> I think you're misrepresenting (or misunderstanding) the matter. The matter here is that the commenter I was responding to says I don't exist. My experience is that folks with that attitude also treat me as if I don't
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by yakireev 4y ago
Hello there, nice to meet you. Life without Whatsapp is not easy in the Netherlands, but is possible. The "super bubble" exists though, and it sucks. Most problems come from the "literally everyone has whatshapp" crowd l
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by yakireev 4y ago
Unitedstatians from Google pay Unitedstatians from Apple to make Google default search engine for all of the world, without asking anyone, do you consider this a problem too?
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by yakireev 4y ago
> this is what git was designed for Well here we are, prophecy fulfilled: tech people who see no difference between GitHub and git.
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by yakireev 4y ago
> the stats for China are simply stated as “read and write” One could argue that being able to read and write in Chinese is quite an accomplishment. For alphabet-based writing systems, kids as young as 6 y.o. can read pretty much any w
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by yakireev 4y ago
> We want to pay them more because they keep saying that if we do they'll teach better. Given a choice, would you prefer the teacher of your kid paid 30k or 60k? I'd prefer the second option even if it would be the same perso
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by yakireev 4y ago
> The most common reason is that they were intentionally destabilizing their country and/or governments The most common cited reason, you probably wanted to say. Compare: "the most common reason for content removal in Chine
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by yakireev 4y ago
Being rather varied in nature, the U.S. is still just one country. It is culturally more diverse than some places, but that's still mostly one culture, one way of living, one way of thinking about things. Since you can't leave, yo
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by yakireev 4y ago
> I will not contribute my money to a government that does not allow me my rights, and will also not disarm myself Out of curiosity, do you ever travel out of your country? If yes, how do you deal with the gun issue? If no, how do you fe
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by yakireev 4y ago
> What is the moral or legal base for attacking these companies? Honest question. If an employee leaves Google, Google loses 1/140k = 0.0007% of its workforce, a negligible amount. If Google fires an employee, employee typically los
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by yakireev 4y ago
Heard about the first one, but not about FADE, thanks for the link. If anything, this demonstrates how unpopular this idea is. Of dozens games released and cracked every year, after 40 years of PC gaming, how many tried this strategy? A han
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by yakireev 4y ago
> Make sure this version breaks after 10 days (so user doesn't suspect) and inserts garbage into whatever it produces after this time. "That software of yours? Yeah, I tried it once and it was garbage, couldn't even save i
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by yakireev 4y ago
> How are manufacturers forcing anything? Could you point me to AAA-battery powered noise cancelling headphones? No bluetooth necessary. I have a pair from 2014, and I love that as long as I have some spare batteries, I'm never stuc

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